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Top stories
1
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
1664
2
Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
1404
3
Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
1277
4
Battle for the Internet
1275
5
“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
1213
6
Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets
1074
7
How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community
1014
8
24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
1011
9
The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
984
10
153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
943
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (July 2017)
635
2
What habits make a programmer great?
518
3
What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
503
4
What programming blogs do you follow?
407
5
What tasks do you automate?
389
6
How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?
383
7
Have you regretted making something open-source?
352
8
Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?
351
9
What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?
332
10
Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?
331
Top Show HN
1
A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)
620
2
TensorFire
564
3
The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch
545
4
A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
523
5
$200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing
491
6
Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda
385
7
Quilt – manage data like code
367
8
Cinc – GitHub for recipes
363
9
Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time
356
10
Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server
340
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game
723
2
Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno
545
3
Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
529
4
SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices
462
5
First Human Embryos Edited in U.S
444
6
Invisible unicorns: Big companies that started with little or no money
442
7
Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
434
8
OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot
409
9
EU Prepares "Right to Repair" Legislation to Fight Short Product Lifespans
387
10
LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission
374
News [?]
1
Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
708
2
Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
501
3
Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
462
4
Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship
433
5
SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies
423
6
'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer by Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle
423
7
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
399
8
Regex Puzzle
388
9
Soti – A $1B firm built in a basement
385
10
Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm
373
Scientific publications [?]
1
Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web
352
2
Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
221
3
New studies of ancient concrete could teach us to do as the Romans did
213
4
Buying time promotes happiness
188
5
42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S
167
6
Signatures of extra dimensions in gravitational waves
155
7
Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons
148
8
The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else
144
9
Exercise as a Preventive or Disease-Modifying Treatment for Dementia Brain Aging
140
10
Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
139
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
1664
2
Emacs and Magit
274
3
How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet
250
4
How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox
235
5
Roland McGrath bows out as glibc maintainer
198
6
Bitcoin Cash: Why It's Forking the Blockchain and What That Means
170
7
Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
165
8
Memory use in CPython and MicroPython
164
9
Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster
160
10
A quick guide to Stripe’s culture
146
Tech blogs [?]
1
3D metal printing is about to go mainstream
391
2
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPUs Announced
377
3
Saved by Alice
322
4
The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market
256
5
Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban
222
6
Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor
207
7
Dell XPS 15 9560 Review
174
8
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review
154
9
Measuring the Progress of AI Research
154
10
Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent
151
FAANG+ [?]
1
Seeing AI for iOS
835
2
Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Kops
164
3
Build a Serverless Web Applicaion
153
4
Implementing Algebraic Effects in C
150
5
Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
142
6
Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET
126
7
Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System [pdf]
122
8
A Bot Is Posting Bizarre Cell Phone Covers on Amazon
95
9
What is a file? (2011)
89
10
Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
88
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Still locked out of my AWS account
463
2
Hire a former SoundClouder
325
3
Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?
294
4
The quitting economy
274
5
$4k Renault compared to Tesla Model 3
265
6
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
203
7
Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians
186
8
Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover
149
9
The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s Competitor (2016)
148
10
The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016)
143
Science News [?]
1
Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
729
2
Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
632
3
Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom
425
4
What Is Space?
325
5
Patient Number One in a new cancer treatment
265
6
How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
243
7
Sperm Count Dropping in Western World
232
8
Impossibly Hungry Judges
226
9
How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015)
202
10
More Millennials Are Having Strokes
200
Social [?]
1
I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program
550
2
Mastering Programming (2016)
452
3
Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
305
4
How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users
251
5
AMD has no plans to release PSP code
244
6
Dev Bootcamp Shutting Down
206
7
The Hard Thing About Software Development
197
8
Facebook with Adblocker makes 2000+ requests
169
9
Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video]
164
10
Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles [video]
159
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs
574
2
Petition to open source Flash
560
3
Elixir 1.5 released
479
4
Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
475
5
Sandsifter: find undocumented instructions and bugs on x86 CPU
447
6
API Security Checklist for developers
321
7
Pell – A simple and small rich-text editor for the web
309
8
Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
300
9
100 days of algorithms
294
10
LeoCAD – A CAD program for creating virtual Lego models
281
Wikipedia [?]
1
Lindy effect
225
2
Petoskey stone
113
3
Sea Peoples
69
4
Bored of the Rings
55
5
The Colditz Glider
47
6
Northeast blackout of 2003
28
7
Chester Carlson – Inventor of Xerography
23
8
Object-relational impedance mismatch
17
9
Survivorship bias – Wikipedia
14
10
Sesame Credit
13
Blogs [?]
1
Mental health is still an issue in the workplace
659
2
How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
577
3
Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
449
4
Terminal and shell performance
404
5
US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows
381
6
Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web
370
7
Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
362
8
Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects
353
9
Successful Solo Founders
302
10
Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
275
Stackoverflow [?]
1
StackOverflow for private teams in beta
113
2
How can you program if you're blind? (2013)
58
3
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
52
4
Parsing HTML Using Regular Expressions
22
5
Getting Started with Node.js
8
6
How We Assess Skill Level
3
7
Stack Overflow Channels
3
8
Why does Rust check array bounds at runtime, not compile time?
3
9
Efficient database query for ancestors on an acyclic directed graph
2
10
Pass URL Params with Firebase Rewrites? [50pts Bounty]
2
Substack [?]