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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Grumpy: Go running Python

1411

2

Browser auto-fill phishing

802

3

The moving sofa problem

690

4

TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow

631

5

LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

630

6

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017

602

7

I've removed all ad network code from my blog

591

8

Ticketmaster is a horrible company

589

9

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

511

10

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

495

Top Ask HN

1

Successful one-person online businesses?

800

2

Who is hiring? (January 2017)

612

3

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

444

4

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

339

5

What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?

289

6

Does anyone here have an art degree?

226

7

How to learn new things better?

222

8

What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?

212

9

What current companies have the best software engineering culture?

204

10

What manual processes would you automate in your company?

184

Top Show HN

1

Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust

1170

2

Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today

546

3

Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

248

4

PDFlower – Reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading

216

5

Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

192

6

Mastodon, a federated microblogging network

172

7

Castor, a live dashboard for your projects

133

8

News from Reddit

124

9

Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

111

10

103

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?

247

2

HP made a laptop slightly thicker to add 3 hours of battery life

237

3

Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020

215

4

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)

211

5

Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment

208

6

Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

168

7

NYC's brand new subway is the most expensive in the world

147

8

Diesel cars produce more toxic emissions than trucks and buses, EU study says

145

9

Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

111

10

Chilean officials can’t identify a strange IR signal seen by its Navy

107

News [?]

1

Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory

446

2

Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio

294

3

A Month Without Sugar

285

4

New evidence that Nixon sabotaged 1968 Vietnam peace deal

284

5

Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)

263

6

Sweden reveals results from pilot of 30-hour work week

231

7

How to Become a ‘Superager’

228

8

105-Year-Old Cyclist Rides 14 Miles in an Hour En Route to a World Record

214

9

Finland launches trial program to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income

202

10

Apple Removes New York Times Apps from iTunes Store in China

198

Scientific publications [?]

1

LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance

630

2

Basic Category Theory

248

3

What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

158

4

Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning

92

5

Why does unsupervised deep learning work?

90

6

HPE's New Chip Marks a Milestone in Optical Computing

58

7

Intel Finds Moore’s Law’s Next Step at 10 Nanometers

19

8

Squishy Clockwork Biobot Could Dose You with Drugs from the Inside

13

9

[1612.09375] Basic Category Theory [pdf]

6

10

Physicists detect exotic looped trajectories of light in three-slit experiment

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps

214

2

Symbolic mathematics on Linux

209

3

189

4

The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High

127

5

How I converted my React app to VanillaJS

116

6

Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading

95

7

How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS

61

8

Linux kernel design patterns

53

9

The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane

26

10

How studying law helped me with programming

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

238

2

Hands on with the First Open Source Microcontroller

138

3

Scar-free wound healing could be on its way

53

4

Dell Releases the XPS 13 2-in-1 Convertible Ultrabook

7

5

The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Teaser

4

6

Ditch OpenSCAD for C++

3

7

A MacBook Pro Saved My Life

3

8

Apple Pulls LinkedIn from Russian App Store

3

9

GeForce Now (game streaming) goes to Mac and PC for $1.25 per hour

3

10

Visualization of a Phased Array Antenna System

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

How to Partition a Billion-Node Graph [pdf]

125

2

New book about Tensorflow

4

3

Get 100PB transfer speed

3

4

AWS Business Builder

3

5

Spending Moore's Dividend (2008) [pdf]

2

6

Thoughts on Flash (2010)

1

7

USB Type-C cables tested and reviewed by the Google Pixel team

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Alexa: Amazon's Operating System

278

2

Being Unpredictable Is a Bad Strategy

73

3

67

4

How a photographer landed an iconic shot of 1975 performance piece “Media Burn”

51

5

The Truth About Blockchain

11

6

Tesla announces Q4 deliveries; full year delivery slightly below expectations

10

7

Popcorn Time launches new torrent tracker to fight copyright monopolies

6

8

We live in a one track world but anyone can become a Polymath

5

9

Cheat Sheet: Authentication Techniques

5

10

If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work

5

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

Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs

244

4

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

208

5

Graph Isomorphism Strikes Back

183

6

Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017

171

7

A new human organ has been classified

120

8

Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals

98

9

3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems

84

10

The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae

80

Social [?]

1

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

281

2

Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily

69

3

The Distorted News Epidemic and Bridgewater's Recent Experience With The WSJ

54

4

Julian Assange Reddit AMA on Thursday Morning (1/5/17 9am EST)

42

5

PHP 7 – What changed internally? – Nikita Popov(2015)

41

6

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg (2005) [video]

31

7

Why is Google working so hard to cripple Picture-in-Picture on iPads and macOS?

26

8

Leap Second in a graph

24

9

Excited to share an update on #AlphaGo

21

10

Facebook Is Tracking What Apps Were Just Installed on an Android Phone

21

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Browser auto-fill phishing

802

2

OpenStreetMap plugin for Unreal Engine 4

362

3

“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

319

4

Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax

292

5

Learning to Learn in TensorFlow

266

6

Elixir v1.4.0 released

229

7

Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

189

8

TiDB – A distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol

130

9

Yaft – Yet another framebuffer terminal

130

10

OSX Chrome 55 Blocking non-store extensions without dev mode

124

Wikipedia [?]

1

5

2

List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita

4

3

Smaller Plate Study

3

4

Chicken Hypnotism

3

5

3

6

The Royal Dutch Cocaine Factory

3

7

Fredkin's paradox

3

8

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome

3

9

The Internet Archive Wikipedia Bot

3

10

Supersingular isogeny Diffie–Hellman key exchange

3

Blogs [?]

1

Lessons learned as a React contractor

310

2

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

309

3

Compiling Rust to Web Assembly

289

4

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

257

5

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

219

6

What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer

187

7

Daily Sketches in 2016

158

8

Working remotely with 150+ people

130

9

When Node.js is the wrong tool for the job

85

10

Introducing Inferno 1.0

84

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

2

2

How do SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT differ?

2

3

What are the main technical differences between Prolog and miniKanren?

2

4

Why are empty strings returned in split() results?

2

5

Thai line breaking: how to break Thai text effectively

1

6

ASCII spinners in console applications

1

7

Pointer-based Binary Heaps

1

Substack [?]