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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
3384
2
Firefox is on a slippery slope
2023
3
Google Maps' Moat
1960
4
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
1656
5
Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time
1214
6
Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
1209
7
We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
1195
8
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
1186
9
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
1176
10
AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
1126
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (December 2017)
592
2
What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
558
3
Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code
513
4
What did you work on in 2017?
350
5
Any recommended books on developing mental models?
350
6
What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?
284
7
Writing cover letters for tech jobs
265
8
Time Management Tricks and Tips
219
9
Has working remotely harmed your career growth?
214
10
CS and programming books of 2017
205
Top Show HN
1
Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
1535
2
Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview
572
3
An educational blockchain implementation in Python
412
4
Enlight – Learn to code by building projects
322
5
Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents
285
6
Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music
273
7
Data Prism – Weekly newsletter about data science, ML, AI and analytics
233
8
Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
215
9
LibreRead 1.0 – Self-Hosted Free Ebook Reader
210
10
Work at a Startup – Find a Job at a YC Company
210
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
740
2
Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
555
3
India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year
495
4
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike
429
5
MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bug Patch
426
6
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say
419
7
AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012
410
8
Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons
410
9
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO
374
10
Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband
346
News [?]
1
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
3384
2
WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities
795
3
Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
572
4
Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
556
5
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
527
6
Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won
518
7
France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
505
8
Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
485
9
I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
478
10
120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak
465
Scientific publications [?]
1
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
756
2
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
539
3
A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits
400
4
The Case for Learned Index Structures
398
5
Game Theory: Open Access textbook
271
6
Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
220
7
Evidence of exponential speed-up in the solution of hard optimization problems?
141
8
Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs
125
9
Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
124
10
Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications
119
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
574
2
New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
432
3
Update: Looking Glass Add-On
393
4
Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
357
5
“Username or password is incorrect” is bullshit
244
6
Web Assembly now supported across all browsers
240
7
Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath
239
8
AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
216
9
Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet
190
10
Encryption in Transit in Google Cloud
182
Tech blogs [?]
1
Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
726
2
We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
412
3
Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
374
4
Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets
213
5
Nvidia Announces “Titan V” Video Card: GV100 for $3000
154
6
Accident Forgiveness Comes to GPLv2
91
7
Congress Shouldn't Turn the Copyright Office into a Copyright Court
81
8
Western Digital to Use RISC-V for Controllers, Processors
78
9
MediaTek Launches 6-in-1 Biosensor for Smartphones
78
10
The FCC Still Doesn’t Know How the Internet Works
73
FAANG+ [?]
1
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
1176
2
AWS Single Sign-On
212
3
Amazon Macie: A machine learning service to discover and protect sensitive data
117
4
iMac Pro Available Now
92
5
Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management/Discovery
88
6
Introducing Amazon Linux 2
71
7
Announcing New AWS Deep Learning AMI for Microsoft Windows
58
8
Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion [pdf]
32
9
Amazon Prime Video arrives on Apple TV in over 100 countries
27
10
Build a Serverless Web Application
26
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
1656
2
How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
701
3
A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet
356
4
Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games
346
5
Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines?
294
6
Does Life End at 35? (2013)
207
7
A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
196
8
Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
163
9
Shenzhen Electrifies Entire Public Transit Bus Fleet
134
10
Before the Iron Age, Most Iron Came from Space
132
Science News [?]
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Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
624
2
Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively
468
3
Overcoming Us vs. Them
350
4
Nations agree to ban fishing in Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years
293
5
Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
255
6
On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything
253
7
Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations
240
8
Advances in number theory inspired by physics
214
9
Fast desktop-scale extrusion 3D printing
185
10
New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
184
Social [?]
1
Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
701
2
A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
580
3
macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
424
4
If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
405
5
LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
259
6
Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications
248
7
Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people [video]
235
8
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]
227
9
More than half of all private wealth has been inherited in most of Europe
213
10
Ex-FB exec: The dopamine-driven feedback loops are destroying how society works
207
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Effective Engineer – Notes
751
2
Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me
504
3
Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps
500
4
ESP 8266 Wi-Fi Repeater with Mesh Networking
491
5
Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine
393
6
Learn Anything White Paper
300
7
Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage
298
8
A computer science study plan
270
9
Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
264
10
A decentralised Universal Basic Income platform based on personal currencies
258
Wikipedia [?]
1
IKEA Effect
256
2
Micromouse
131
3
Kowloon Walled City
90
4
Parsons code
85
5
Toyetic
73
6
Hockney–Falco thesis
70
7
AlphaSmart
67
8
Karnaugh map
66
9
Program slicing
59
10
Modelica
57
Blogs [?]
1
Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle
660
2
I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty
624
3
Computer latency: 1977-2017
588
4
REST is the new SOAP
581
5
Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California
457
6
Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
341
7
How I learned to program
322
8
Statistics, we have a problem
295
9
A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
282
10
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
270
Stackoverflow [?]
1
StackOverflow breaks 15M questions
11
2
Is there a way to change the environment variables of another process in Unix?
3
3
How many HTML elements can “modern” browsers “handle” at once?
3
4
Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos
3
5
Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly
2
6
What is the best way to set a register to zero in x86 assembly: xor, mov or and?
2
7
Extending Array with ES6 classes
2
8
W3C vs. WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative HTML spec?
2
9
How should I ethically approach user password storage for plaintext retrieval?
2
10
What is the most impressive Lisp application?
2
Substack [?]