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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Message to Our Customers

5771

2

903

3

3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time

839

4

GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

763

5

Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science

760

6

Too many people have peed in the pool

694

7

Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone

685

8

I no longer understand my PhD dissertation

682

9

We Need a Better PC

659

10

Choose GitLab for your next open source project

645

Top Ask HN

1

Is Python dying?

240

2

Why are comment trees not collapsible yet?

59

3

When should you quit?

56

4

What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

53

5

Your thoughts about online developer recruitment tools like HackerRank?

52

6

Why is Quora popular all of a sudden?

40

7

What's it like for software engineers on Wall Street?

33

8

Modern software development is killing my passion. What do I do?

30

9

Would you walk away or push onwards?

22

10

How and where do you find remote consulting jobs?

21

Top Show HN

1

Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes

337

2

Sense2vec model trained on all 2015 Reddit comments

225

3

Laboratory, a Python port of GitHub's Scientist library for refactoring

153

4

Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go

114

5

The Top Fives – now with Dark Mode

106

6

Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with one click

103

7

Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites

80

8

Kneden – Transpile ES7 Async/await to ES6 Promise Chains (Babel Plugin)

76

9

Clubhouse – project management built for software teams

72

10

Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UTF8 and Windows (BSD)

63

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53

400

2

Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

252

3

The kids are all right

138

4

Moore’s law really is dead this time

115

5

Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point

112

6

The fall and rise and rise of chat networks

86

7

Neutrinos continue run of odd behavior at Daya Bay

83

8

Senator drafting bill to criminalize Apple’s refusal to aid decryption

81

9

What the diamond industry is really selling

78

10

How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into speedy Chromebooks

70

News [?]

1

We're hearing about troubles at Nest

369

2

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died

327

3

SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’

305

4

Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether

301

5

China's Subprime Crisis Is Here

258

6

Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'

257

7

Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever

243

8

A visit with Apple’s chief chipmaker

217

9

Zenefits Scandal Highlights Perils of Hypergrowth at Startups

211

10

Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response

202

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood

19

2

FlatCam: Thin, Bare-Sensor Cameras Using Coded Aperture and Computation

4

3

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone

4

4

Checking in with Andrew Ng at Baidu’s Blooming Silicon Valley Research Lab

3

5

The Athens Affair - historical cell networking hack (2007)

3

6

Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014)

3

7

This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We've Ever Seen

3

8

Different Types of Features Learned by Each Neuron in Deep Neural Networks

3

9

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind

2

10

Machine Learning that Matters (2012)

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks

461

2

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

204

3

Introducing GIF search on Twitter

134

4

A Linux-powered microwave oven

100

5

Padding oracles and the decline of CBC-mode cipher suites

63

6

Qualcomm Maps Out ARM Datacenter Battle Plan

19

7

Apple Pay Has Expanded to China

6

8

The scarcity of college graduates with FOSS experience

6

9

AMD Sends Out Patches for New AMDGPU DAL Display Driver, Adds 93k Lines of Code

6

10

Google Challenges AWS Lambda with Cloud Functions

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything

301

2

Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties

157

3

Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It

88

4

Revisiting the Google Pixel C – Better, but Not There Yet

79

5

About Those Gravitational Waves

27

6

To Annoy or Not to Annoy: That Was the Question

22

7

This iOS date trick will brick any device

6

8

EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle

6

9

Carl Icahn sells 7M (out of ~53M) shares AAPL

5

10

Zero Rating: What It Is and Why You Should Care

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Message to Our Customers

5771

2

Access Resources in a VPC from Your AWS Lambda Functions

10

3

AWS to acquire NICE

5

4

AWS Lambda Can Finally Access VPC Resources

4

5

We can’t see it. “They” can’t see it. Not even you can see it

4

6

AWS: Access Resources in a VPC from Your Lambda Functions

3

7

Amazon AWS Zombie Apocalypse Clause (57.10)

2

8

Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Clojure

2

9

Amazon Web Services largely unaffected by cve-2015-7547

2

10

iOS Security Guide [pdf]

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Hire the Best People, and Let Them Work from Wherever They Are

30

2

How Catherine de Medici Made Perfumed Gloves Fashionable

29

3

U.S. Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia to Remove “Public Domain” Anne Frank Diary

14

4

YouTube Copyright Complaint Kills Harvard Professor’s Copyright Lecture

9

5

Apple vs. The FBI, Understanding iPhone Encryption, the Risks for Apple

8

6

Tesla Model S is disrupting the luxury car market in the US

6

7

Doing more with less: the economic lesson of Peak Paper

5

8

Your Company Is Not a Family (2014)

4

9

Fantasy North: What explains the icy northern grip on our imagination?

4

10

Zenefits and Regulation

3

Science News [?]

1

New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors

258

2

She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

143

3

Did the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America?

66

4

'Lost' Roads of Ancient Rome Discovered with 3D Laser Scanners

61

5

Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps students who need it most

48

6

Algorithm lets planning systems generate backup plans efficiently

35

7

Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online-ScienceAlert

35

8

Using physics to describe social phenomena can work, if it’s the right physics

16

9

Physicists have broken the record for the most accurate clock

14

10

How to Check Whether Spacetime Is Foamy

12

Social [?]

1

Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”

255

2

Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device

148

3

Sundar Pichai Responds to Apple and the FBI Hacking Request

146

4

Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?

139

5

Leap Motion: Orion [video]

135

6

Silicon Valley: Season 3 Tease (HBO)

124

7

Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]

119

8

Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]

112

9

What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (2013)

101

10

No more 300ms tap delay: touch-action now supported in all major mobile browsers

81

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter

763

2

Issue and Pull Request templates

520

3

Upload files to your repositories

276

4

Adblock via /etc/hosts

273

5

Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced

207

6

A list of PostgreSQL libraries, tools and resources

184

7

Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads

170

8

165

9

A safe, comprehensible and efficient PID 1/init replacement written in OCaml

131

10

Mu: making programs easier to understand in the large

122

Wikipedia [?]

1

EURion constellation

155

2

BBC Domesday Project

47

3

Senet: board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt

33

4

Negative income tax

31

5

Physical Unclonable Function

29

6

List of discontinued Google products, by year

4

7

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

3

8

Crisis of the Third Century

3

9

Drone strikes in Pakistan

3

10

Telescript: the General Magic Programming Language

3

Blogs [?]

1

I no longer understand my PhD dissertation

682

2

So you want to write a package manager

173

3

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

128

4

People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads

127

5

True Micropayments with Bitcoin

104

6

VCs, don't compare me to your wife

102

7

Reasons to consider a cartogram

85

8

Mental health in startups

82

9

How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by closing one tab in Chrome

79

10

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (2014)

79

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]