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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Get started making music
2106
2
Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
1981
3
CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
1455
4
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
1450
5
My Family’s Slave
1419
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Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
1248
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Fireflies
1243
8
Wikimedia Foundation spending
1054
9
The largest Git repo
1053
10
Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
1015
Top Ask HN
1
How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
699
2
What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
685
3
Who is hiring? (May 2017)
589
4
I don't want to be a founder anymore
565
5
Google Doc email virus?
481
6
How can I do social good through programming?
461
7
Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
383
8
What's your working day like?
377
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For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
360
10
How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
340
Top Show HN
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My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
418
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ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux
369
3
FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
341
4
Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key
338
5
100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book
289
6
Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor
280
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Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity
257
8
A WebAssembly game demo
251
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Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
239
10
VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself
228
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
853
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Android now supports Kotlin
620
3
How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
597
4
Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
483
5
Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb
442
6
Why Amazon is eating the world
417
7
Thieves drain 2FA-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol
375
8
Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane
349
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Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says
342
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Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
341
News [?]
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My Family’s Slave
1419
2
Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities
883
3
U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
746
4
Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
719
5
Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
662
6
How to Sleep
649
7
Chelsea Manning released from prison
629
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Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
619
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Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
611
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President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
594
Scientific publications [?]
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Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
462
2
Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
351
3
Computer Games That Teach Assembly Language
306
4
22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough
280
5
Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
251
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Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans
215
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Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats
209
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Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time
197
9
How does Docker affect energy consumption?
174
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SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite
174
Dev Blogs [?]
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Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
928
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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
775
3
CPU Utilization is Wrong
624
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One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
542
5
How Stripe teaches employees to code
539
6
Thunderbird’s Future Home
298
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Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP
266
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A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab
228
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What Comes After SaaS?
216
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
194
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers
261
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AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up to DDR4-4000
236
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All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes
196
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Apple has started production of iPhone SE in India
99
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How to Opt Out of Twitter's New Privacy Settings
88
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Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55
67
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Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, users need a way to disable it
56
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Supreme Court Ends Texas’ Grip on Patent Cases
51
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Aquantia Launch AQtion 5G/2.5G/1G Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Cards for PCIe
49
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Humans may have accidentally created a radiation shield around earth
31
FAANG+ [?]
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New Surface Pro
405
2
Amazon Echo Show
390
3
How to shoot on iPhone 7
376
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Transform Data by Example [video]
363
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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
266
6
Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week
236
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Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
204
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AWS Training and Certification Portal
130
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
55
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Holographic Near-Eye Displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality
38
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
479
2
The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
348
3
Gallery of programming UIs
316
4
Ways to Read More Books
302
5
Authentication Techniques for APIs
257
6
Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
206
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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
190
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The Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins
155
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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs
147
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ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
146
Science News [?]
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CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
1455
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Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
280
3
The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online
210
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Self-Interruption and Distraction
201
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Lake Michigan Is So Clear Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air
193
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Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to
177
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Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
177
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Biology needs more staff scientists
169
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A Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
162
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Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Lead to Strokes
153
Social [?]
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A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
1450
2
Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
467
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Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
295
4
SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]
289
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Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++
282
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Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]
250
7
Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthquake disaster [video]
234
8
Linear Algebra Done Right Video Series
196
9
How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
185
10
Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video]
185
Github repos and gists [?]
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Build yourself a Linux
497
2
MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console
389
3
International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
381
4
GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
377
5
Writing correct lock-free and distributed stateful systems in Rust, with TLA+
374
6
Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux
325
7
Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist
321
8
OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall
319
9
NeoVim 0.2.0 released
319
10
WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP
317
Wikipedia [?]
1
Wikimedia Foundation spending
1054
2
Kkrieger – A 96KB first person shooter
227
3
Chicken tax
75
4
Today Is Norwegian Constitution Day
19
5
“Bush hid the facts” bug
12
6
Raising of Chicago
10
7
Boeing X-37
9
8
Indiana Pi Bill
8
9
Tulip Mania
7
10
The 3x and 1 problem
7
Blogs [?]
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A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
952
2
Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
405
3
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)
252
4
Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
236
5
Quotes
225
6
Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected
224
7
Distributed Consensus – How Shared Data Is Stored
204
8
Browse Against the Machine
190
9
Banning exploration in my infovis class
165
10
Thoughts on Tokens
160
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
598
2
What does “my other car is a cdr” mean?
98
3
What could go wrong? “Perl cgi html uploading linux kernel”
22
4
Firebase bandwidth usage growing rapidly even when the database is not in use
6
5
What are vdso and vsyscall?
4
6
Efficient unsigned-to-signed cast avoiding implementation-defined behavior
3
7
How to transform black into any given color using only CSS filters
3
8
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
2
9
Why QWERTY keyboard built this way?
2
10
Nginx “server” directive with multiple “server_name” entries
2
Substack [?]