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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Stripe Atlas
1659
2
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
1302
3
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
1126
4
Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
888
5
Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
827
6
AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
744
7
Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud
715
8
What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
667
9
Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS
646
10
Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
643
Top Ask HN
1
Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?
139
2
How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak)
137
3
How does your team write documentation? What tools do you use?
77
4
What are the best practices for web authorization at the moment?
75
5
Does HN move too fast for 'Ask HN'?
51
6
Where are 150k to 200k salary job in Silicon Valley?
43
7
AI is going to be big. How should we learn?
43
8
Do you still read RSS feeds?
34
9
How much equity should I ask for?
30
10
What companies have/had good engineering blogs?
29
Top Show HN
1
Windows 98 in browser
356
2
how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal
272
3
Import Docker in Python and Run Anything
142
4
GitHub project structure visualizer
141
5
Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby
137
6
CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction
129
7
Redspread (YC W16) – CLI to deploy Docker to Kubernetes in one command
118
8
I'm looking for science fiction writers
103
9
Bonsai (YC W16) – bulletproof contracts and payments for freelancers
102
10
Locent – Mailchimp for SMS
90
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
501
2
Snowden lawyer: Bill of Rights was meant to make government’s job more difficult
284
3
LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
203
4
LinkedIn Problems Run Deeper Than Valuation
199
5
Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
191
6
Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers
165
7
Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before – Gilded age in SF compared to today
150
8
Apple Has Not Unlocked 70 iPhones for Law Enforcement
137
9
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
136
10
NASA proposes new propulsion to cut Mars voyage to 3 days
128
News [?]
1
Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
888
2
What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
667
3
Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
636
4
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
620
5
Umberto Eco has died
546
6
German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
520
7
Harper Lee has died
461
8
The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
436
9
Why Apple Is Right to Challenge an Order to Help the F.B.I
418
10
Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone
402
Scientific publications [?]
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ZeroDB white paper: An end-to-end encrypted database
171
2
Principal Component Projection Without Principal Component Analysis
117
3
Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
98
4
Website-Targeted False Content Injection by Network Operators
46
5
Learning to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Networks [pdf]
44
6
Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand
26
7
Bitcoin Mints New Words
19
8
How to Kill a Supercomputer: Dirty Power, Cosmic Rays, and Bad Solder
11
9
The 2015 Top Ten Programming Languages
10
10
Boston Dynamics' New ATLAS Robot Is Quiet, Robust, and Tether Free
8
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe Atlas
1659
2
Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
472
3
Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
229
4
Encryption is a necessity
196
5
Payment Processors Still Using Weak Crypto
23
6
Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
11
7
Systemd vs. Docker
9
8
This Is Why People Fear the ‘Internet of Things’
9
9
Practical TEMPEST Attack
8
10
Practical TEMPEST Attack
8
Tech blogs [?]
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A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
176
2
EFF Urges Appeals Court to Allow Wikimedia and Others to Fight NSA Surveillance
61
3
The Kafkaesque Battle of Soulseek and PayPal
47
4
Military Prison Blocks Chelsea Manning from Reading EFF Blog Posts
29
5
Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone for FBI
14
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Let's Unlock the Set-Top Box--For Real
5
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Apple Files Motion to Vacate , Says FBI Seeks 'Dangerous Power'
4
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Big Victory: Judge Pushes Jewel V. NSA Forward
4
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Big Victory: Judge Pushes Jewel V. NSA Forward
4
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Big Victory: Judge Pushes Jewel V. NSA Forward
4
FAANG+ [?]
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Answers to your questions about Apple and security
545
2
Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49
281
3
Apple Answers Questions about Apple and security
7
4
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues: Extended to 31 Dec 2016
3
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“Elegant Objects”, a new book about OOP
3
6
Apple's iOS security whitepaper (2015) [pdf]
2
7
Amazon RDS supports MySQL 5.7
2
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Amazon.com reviews is broken?
1
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Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 5.7
1
10
“The Industries of the Future” – a must read book for any tech enthusiast
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The lost hope of self-help
53
2
The Superfluid Universe
33
3
ShmooCon Keynote – Neil Gershenfeld [video]
17
4
The Blind Botanist Who Brought Poetry to Plant Description
10
5
Losing the Thread: How textiles repeatedly revolutionised human technology
9
6
Introducing Go 1.6 by Brad Fitzpatrick – GopherconIndia
7
7
The Unsettling Mystery of the Creepiest Channel on YouTube
5
8
Research suggests software piracy hurts adoption of Linux as a desktop OS
5
9
Introducing Go 1.6: asymptotically approaching boring (GopherconIndia keynote)
4
10
The Rave Tapes
4
Science News [?]
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Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know
125
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Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
111
3
What sparked the Cambrian explosion?
97
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Half the world to be short-sighted by 2050
85
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Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual?
82
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Chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function
79
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Number of species on Earth estimated at 8.7M (2011)
43
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The Neuroscience of Wine
28
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Mega-Magnet Reveals Superconductor Secret
20
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Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging
19
Social [?]
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Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
643
2
Atlas, the Next Generation [video]
509
3
React.js Conf live stream [video]
167
4
Julius Caesar's Greatest Military Victory [video]
106
5
Making Charcoal [video]
82
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Dave Needle and the Story of the Amiga Computer [video]
75
7
APL Demonstration – Professor Bob Spence, Imperial College London (1975) [video]
19
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Coraline Ada Ehmke Joins GitHub to Fight Epidemic of Harassment
17
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Very cruel marketing scam from Ziptask.com
10
10
Haskell Is Not for Production and Other Tales by FB's Katie Miller [video]
10
Github repos and gists [?]
1
PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network
288
2
KeeWeb: Unofficial KeePass web and desktop client
265
3
Swift Ported to Android
252
4
New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework
234
5
Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift
200
6
Paperwork: A Personal Document Manager for Scanned Documents
191
7
Cash: a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands in JavaScript
173
8
A band you can book via GitHub pull request
122
9
What happened to Eric Douglas?
102
10
Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift
98
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of failed and over-budget custom software projects
154
2
The Messinian Salinity Crisis
17
3
“Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write”–filling Wikipedia's gender gap
4
4
Open-source religion
3
5
Retrograde analysis
3
6
Heisenbug
3
7
Rongorongo: The Ancient Easter Island Alphabet That Has Never Been Deciphered
2
8
Deepest Hand Dug hole in world
2
9
Comparison between U.S. states and countries by GDP (nominal)
2
10
Viktor Schauberger
2
Blogs [?]
1
Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory
365
2
What’s Next in Computing?
300
3
An introduction to IPFS
279
4
Just Landed Is Shutting Down
215
5
“Me”: The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches
160
6
An Open Letter to My CEO
138
7
Lessons Learned Launching a Side Project in 48 Hours
117
8
Why Building Apps the Wrong Way Can Be the Right Way
91
9
How to lead by first principles
87
10
How a matchmaking algorithm saved lives
85
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Bash command line tricks
3
2
Twitter image encoding challenge
2
3
What does a Ajax call response like 'for (;;); { json data }' mean?
1
4
Java String.split pass in precompiled regex for performance reasons
1
5
2½ steps towards accurate project estimates
1
6
Message Queue vs. Web Services?
1
7
JavaScript Typecast Paradox
1
Substack [?]