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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

1857

2

1558

3

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

1503

4

Grumpy: Go running Python

1411

5

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

1382

6

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

1332

7

LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft

1275

8

Time to Take a Stand

1131

9

There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'

1018

10

1008

Top Ask HN

1

Successful one-person online businesses?

800

2

What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

670

3

Are we overcomplicating software development?

639

4

Who is hiring? (January 2017)

612

5

Which developers do you closely follow?

551

6

What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?

448

7

If you were to switch career, what would you do?

444

8

What inspires you to persevere through adversity?

401

9

Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?

339

10

Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

306

Top Show HN

1

Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

1183

2

Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

1170

3

Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today

546

4

Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages

423

5

Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out

419

6

Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir

403

7

A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

377

8

Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle

334

9

Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

331

10

Math Attack – My side project of 3 years

292

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

1857

2

NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction

808

3

Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO

685

4

Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

675

5

Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

514

6

If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them

440

7

Paper Centrifuge

412

8

Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner

333

9

Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering

325

10

Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish

318

News [?]

1

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

1503

2

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

1332

3

Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order

664

4

SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch

621

5

Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M

494

6

U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination

479

7

Open offices are bad for us

464

8

Paper is the real 'killer app'

459

9

Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory

446

10

Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

424

Scientific publications [?]

1

LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

630

2

Gene Cernan has died

409

3

Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'

260

4

Basic Category Theory

248

5

Why Does It Take So Long to Connect to a WiFi Access Point?

218

6

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer

200

7

Toyota's Gill Pratt on Self-Driving Cars and the Reality of Full Autonomy

190

8

Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (2013)

163

9

What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

158

10

NASA Twins Study: How stressful will a trip to Mars be on the human body?

151

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Integrating GTA V into Universe

805

2

Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

720

3

Twitter discloses national security letters

549

4

Linux Performance

536

5

Updates to our Google Voice apps

457

6

iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews

440

7

The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

348

8

Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview

317

9

Mozilla launches new brand identity

292

10

Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

269

Tech blogs [?]

1

Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out

589

2

Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground

278

3

HDMI 2.1 Announced: 10Kp120, Dynamic HDR, New Color Spaces, New 48G Cable

238

4

Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xcode lead Chris Lattner

234

5

EFF's 100-Day Plan

218

6

Forth: The Hacker’s Language

216

7

Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights

185

8

New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter

164

9

Hands on with the First Open Source Microcontroller

138

10

EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices

129

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

369

2

Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway

254

3

IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions

230

4

How to Partition a Billion-Node Graph [pdf]

125

5

Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js

119

6

96

7

iPhone at ten: the revolution continues

92

8

Deep Learning Book (2016)

35

9

Announcing IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances – Regional Expansion

10

10

New book about Tensorflow

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise

756

2

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

415

3

TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

306

4

Alexa: Amazon's Operating System

278

5

The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films

255

6

80,000 Hours career plan worksheet

230

7

High-Speed ES2015

161

8

139

9

Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

139

10

Open-RethinkDB meeting notes #4

137

Science News [?]

1

Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container

511

2

Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players

495

3

Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

327

4

Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals

302

5

Scientists must fight for the facts

302

6

New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code

275

7

Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

272

8

Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

244

9

Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know

231

10

Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (2009)

208

Social [?]

1

The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack

667

2

Standing up for what's right

402

3

Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

359

4

And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”

331

5

Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (2006)

281

6

Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video]

174

7

Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality

173

8

How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016)

156

9

Computer Architecture Essentials [video]

149

10

SpaceX Iridium-1 Webcast [video]

145

Github repos and gists [?]

1

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

1382

2

RethinkDB Postmortem

948

3

Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

937

4

Browser auto-fill phishing

802

5

Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0

720

6

Mo.js: motion graphics toolbelt for the web

406

7

Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library

374

8

OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4

362

9

Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native

349

10

“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

319

Wikipedia [?]

1

Braess’ paradox

136

2

The Price of Anarchy

120

3

Nicaraguan Sign Language

74

4

WGA screenwriting credit system

32

5

Fast inverse square root

17

6

HTTP status code 418 (I'm a teapot)

16

7

16

8

HTTP 451: Unavailable for Legal Reasons

10

9

Design rule for Camera File system

10

10

7

Blogs [?]

1

1558

2

How much does employee turnover really cost?

541

3

The Risk of Discovery

537

4

Lessons learned as a React contractor

310

5

Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5

309

6

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

309

7

Compiling Rust to Web Assembly

289

8

Coinbase and the IRS

276

9

Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees

257

10

Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks

219

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow is down

16

2

Is there still any reason to learn AWK?

11

3

Purpose of Trigraph sequences in C++

3

4

Developer Survey Results – 2016

3

5

Makefile vs. makefile

3

6

Socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT, how do they differ?

3

7

Valid, but worthless syntax in switch-case?

3

8

Is it possible to disable the network in iOS Simulator?

2

9

Java program runs slower when code that is never executed is commented out

2

10

Why does the JVM have a maximum inline depth?

2

Substack [?]