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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
1735
2
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
1519
3
What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
1494
4
We’re dropping Google Ads
1477
5
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
1401
6
Build Your Own Text Editor
1275
7
How We Built r/Place
1152
8
Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
1124
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A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
1117
10
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
1080
Top Ask HN
1
Best business advice for software developers
847
2
Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
602
3
Who is hiring? (April 2017)
513
4
How did you acquire your first 100 users?
486
5
Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
451
6
Do you still use browser bookmarks?
441
7
What are you working on?
374
8
Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?
320
9
How do you keep improving?
301
10
How to actually “talk to your customers”?
291
Top Show HN
1
Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
1264
2
React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component
345
3
Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere
339
4
An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
305
5
Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera
293
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Audioshop – Audio image editing
285
7
'Hack' the user cursor
267
8
Timestrap – Self-hosted online time tracking
264
9
My RIP Goodbye to my Co-Founder Carlos Icaza
261
10
Visual Studio Code for ARM, submitted to core
236
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
851
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Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
680
3
Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device
512
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Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
450
5
Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
433
6
Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
430
7
Programmers are most likely to work from home
427
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Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers
426
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Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight
397
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Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers
343
News [?]
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Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US
1124
2
Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
846
3
Bob Taylor Has Died
841
4
Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
831
5
Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
824
6
Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
769
7
Robert M. Pirsig has died
655
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The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
563
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Uber CEO Plays with Fire
559
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For First Time Since 1800s, Britain Goes a Day Without Burning Coal for Power
558
Scientific publications [?]
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Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
597
2
Best Practices for Applying Deep Learning to Novel Applications
300
3
NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn
272
4
Enhancement of human color vision by breaking the binocular redundancy
229
5
How real are real numbers? (2004)
218
6
El Salvador bans metal mining in world first
205
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A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)
202
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Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar
189
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Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber
185
10
How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
144
Dev Blogs [?]
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Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
732
2
Introducing Increment
574
3
How to talk about yourself in a developer interview
441
4
What programming languages are used late at night?
424
5
An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
380
6
Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
327
7
Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
302
8
Introducing Twitter Lite
280
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Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
251
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Setting Up HTTP(S) Load Balancing – WebSocket proxy support
224
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review
226
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Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled
219
3
You think you can't be phished?
192
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EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection
189
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Access Now and EFF Condemn the Arrest of Tor Node Operator Dmitry Bogatov
154
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Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
145
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The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance
134
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The Intel Optane Memory (SSD) Preview: 32GB of Kaby Lake Caching
87
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What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
79
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The FCC Wants to Eliminate Net Neutrality Protections. We Can't Let That Happen
68
FAANG+ [?]
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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
572
2
Amazon Cash
267
3
Amazon Echo Look
252
4
Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden
188
5
Support for tagging of Lambda functions and for the Python 3.6 runtime
183
6
Redshift Spectrum – Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data
157
7
Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (1999) [pdf]
131
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AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer
103
9
Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]
68
10
Amazon Cash
49
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
959
2
Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
304
3
I Joined Airbnb at 52, Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and Tech Industry
228
4
Bent horizon photos
198
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UCLA CS88S: Safety in the Cloud – Introduction to Cybersecurity
186
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Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ solar panel made by Panasonic
181
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The relationship between social media use and well-being
176
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Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Hardware Notes
163
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The Embarrassing History of Crap Thrown into Yellowstone’s Geysers
151
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Philosophy tool kit
121
Science News [?]
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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
1735
2
Teller Reveals His Secrets (2012)
470
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Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)
417
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The Grim Biology of Being Poor
302
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We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2
255
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The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries
223
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A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
217
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NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published
177
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Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?
159
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Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?
156
Social [?]
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Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
657
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How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
397
3
How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]
218
4
Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
201
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Is it really “Complex”? Or did we make it “Complicated”? (2014) [video]
185
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NESticle, a classic NES emulator for DOS, is 20 years old today
120
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Python Helped Me Write Again
117
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Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper [video]
116
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Richard Stallman on Lunduke Hour [video]
111
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John Carmack reviews VR app “Just Relax”
107
Github repos and gists [?]
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Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
715
2
A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components
571
3
Python coding interview challenges
451
4
Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming a low-level programmer
438
5
Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor
421
6
The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM
336
7
File Format Posters
320
8
Intel Haskell Research Compiler
290
9
The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command
287
10
Serde 1.0.0 for Rust released
273
Wikipedia [?]
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Nontransitive dice
194
2
Limits of computation
121
3
Curse of knowledge
92
4
FRACTRAN
82
5
Scunthorpe Problem
71
6
Gay concentration camps in Chechnya (April 2017)
40
7
Fairfax, California B-17 Crash in 1946
28
8
Information cascade
22
9
Abductive Logic Programming
19
10
Secure Remote Password protocol
17
Blogs [?]
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If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
762
2
A critique of trends in tech
473
3
Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options
361
4
Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
308
5
Education of a Programmer
307
6
Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)
300
7
ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
296
8
Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)
276
9
How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex
265
10
An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
226
Stackoverflow [?]
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Creating a memory leak with Java
174
2
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
51
3
What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?
10
4
What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?
3
5
Shared Libraries: Windows vs. Linux
3
6
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
3
7
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
2
8
How does Python's super() work with multiple inheritance?
2
9
Why are emoji characters treated so strangely in Swift strings?
2
10
Is there a way to find out which Python method can raise which Exception
2
Substack [?]