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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1356

2

Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award

1272

3

Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf]

797

4

The DROWN Attack

791

5

Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries

683

6

Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale

677

7

Free React.js Fundamentals Course

676

8

TiltBrush by Google

665

9

Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs

654

10

Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology

599

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (March 2016)

488

2

Is it possible to live off technical writing?

148

3

Who wants to be hired? (March 2016)

84

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2016)

53

5

Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

48

6

What would happen if Apple removed Uber from its App Store?

42

7

How do you hire good developers?

41

8

teaching basic coding and web design offline, solely via iOS devices?

32

9

What's your next career move?

25

10

Where do you save your ideas?

25

Top Show HN

1

Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game

243

2

Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC

239

3

Flat – Music notation software: Web-based and Real-time collaboration

207

4

Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults

173

5

500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

153

6

Cracking passwords with a simple genetic algorithm

149

7

Pass a URL, get summarized content

126

8

Restdb.io – a plug and play database service

101

9

Collapse Comments on Hacker News

93

10

Initial release of the distributed TensorFlow runtime

85

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal

467

2

Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley

444

3

AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles

296

4

SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience

264

5

After the Gold Rush

236

6

Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat

221

7

San Bernardino survivor’s husband backs Apple in battle with FBI

187

8

Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: the system update

184

9

UK government pushing ahead with surveillance powers bill

139

10

Zenefits confirms 250 layoffs, 17% of company workforce

132

News [?]

1

Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award

1272

2

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people

522

3

Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption

366

4

Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash

344

5

Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts

329

6

Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board

293

7

FBI’s Comey Concedes Mistake Was Made Over iPhone in San Bernardino Case

293

8

Why you probably don't need an MBA

228

9

Ground control bids farewell to Philae comet lander

182

10

Decline of Species That Pollinate Poses a Threat to Global Food Supply

136

Scientific publications [?]

1

Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.

333

2

How to Kill a Supercomputer: Dirty Power, Cosmic Rays, and Bad Solder

25

3

Harnessing Cosmic Rays to Peer into Fukushima’s Deadly Reactors

23

4

The Singularity May Never Be Near

15

5

An Electric Car Battery That Will Get You from Paris to Brussels and Back

8

6

Reports Coming in of Mass IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S

6

7

Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries

6

8

The case of the disappearing teaspoons

4

9

Terrestrial Planets Across Space and Time

3

10

5G Coming Sooner, Not Later

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

This is why people fear the Internet of Things

404

2

Etsy CTO: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers

196

3

Microservices Ending Up as a Distributed Monolith

154

4

Block-layer I/O polling merged into Linux kernel

109

5

A tale of a DNS exploit: CVE-2015-7547

107

6

Systemd vs. Docker

99

7

Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward

83

8

Simultaneous Discovery of Vulnerabilities

32

9

Intelligent Networks: A New Co-Processor Emerges

16

10

Vision API – Image Content Analysis – Google Cloud Platform

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too

132

2

Apple Fight Could Lead to “Virtually Limitless” Surveillance Powers, Judge Warns

101

3

Content ID and the Rise of the Machines

78

4

EFF to Apple Shareholders: Your Company Is Fighting for All of Us

73

5

Google is building a 100kW radio transmitter at a spaceport and no one knows why

10

6

Government Can't Force Apple to Bypass iPhone Lock Screen, New York Judge Rules

10

7

Oculus Rift Won't Support Mac Until Apple Releases a 'Good Computer'

8

8

Security Update Breaks Ethernet Port on iMacs and MacBook Pros

5

9

FCC Locks Down Router Firmware

4

10

Introducing the Raspberry Pi 3

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Echo Dot

351

2

Amicus Briefs in Support of Apple

28

3

AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for Amazon VPC NAT Gateway and More

3

4

Amicus Briefs in Support of Apple

3

5

I wrote an ebook about my failed startup detailing some good but many more bads

2

6

Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

2

7

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Book)

2

8

AWS Import/Export Snowball Update – Export Now Available

2

9

“Inequality for All” Free on Amazon Prime

1

10

Amazon Tap: Alexa-Enabled Portable Bluetooth Speaker

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Play: A P2P distributed torrent site that's impossible to shut down

120

2

What I’ve learned so far from living in a Mars simulation dome

85

3

The Voters Decide

81

4

Galaxy Magazine (1950-80)

78

5

Forward error correction in QUIC

62

6

Are coders worth it? (2013)

59

7

55

8

Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet?

37

9

The Continuing Silence of Bourbaki (1997)

32

10

The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991

32

Science News [?]

1

The Utah Teapot: Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History

165

2

Wild gorillas compose songs that they hum during meals

163

3

CRISPR-like ‘immune’ system discovered in giant virus

131

4

Mysterious Martian “Cauliflower” May Be the Latest Hint of Alien Life

128

5

Different parts of the brain work best at different ages

95

6

Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?

93

7

Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming

56

8

Confusion reigns as UK scientists face government 'gagging' clause

50

9

Cosmic void dwarfs pose interesting questions

49

10

Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals

38

Social [?]

1

Why is Google allowing this popular app to violate so many Google Play rules?

211

2

Slava Akhmechet – What's coming up for RethinkDB in 2016 [video]

69

3

React.js Conf 2016 [videos]

52

4

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem [video]

48

5

The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

43

6

Several Horror Stories about the Encrypted Web [video]

29

7

Developer's Amazon account (incl. AWS) permanently closed after login from Japan

28

8

Amazon removes encryption as option from FireOS 5

24

9

BMW refusing to abide by terms of GNU Public License

21

10

SpaceX SES-9 Mission Webcast

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License

534

2

System Bus Radio

499

3

Visual Studio Code for Go

468

4

React Makes You Sad?

288

5

Rqlite: Replicated SQLite using the Raft consensus protocol

267

6

Introduction to Autonomous Robots

173

7

Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7

150

8

Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip

115

9

ZeroNet – Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

115

10

Mobx: Simple, scalable state management

93

Wikipedia [?]

1

299

2

70

3

Role of chance in scientific discoveries

8

4

7

5

Hot chocolate effect

5

6

4

7

3

8

Long-Term Capital Management

3

9

Paterson's Worms

3

10

List of common misconceptions

3

Blogs [?]

1

What is “the stack”?

225

2

1Password sends your password in clear text across the loopback interface

197

3

Erlang: Pi2 ARM Cluster vs. Xeon VM

189

4

Interview with Robert Virding, Creator of Lisp Flavored Erlang

179

5

Yelp Fired a Single Mother Today: Me

155

6

Step by Step Guide to Building React Redux Apps

133

7

My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface

114

8

Codex: A Legal Scripting Language for Ethereum

109

9

Unfundable Slack bots

104

10

Why energy storage sucks

91

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Disturbing Job Ad (Wanted: PHP Wiz with Photoshop Skills Who Lives Online ())

2

2

Plain English explanation of Big O

2

Substack [?]