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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Teach Yourself Computer Science

1308

2

Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page

1274

3

The Uber Bombshell About to Drop

1089

4

Keep the Internet Open

1032

5

GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

948

6

Acing the technical interview

825

7

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

787

8

Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?

733

9

Scala Native v0.1

642

10

Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

635

Top Ask HN

1

What are some good technology blogs to follow?

893

2

Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

512

3

What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

379

4

Best books on AI?

375

5

What are some examples of good code?

321

6

Cheap, hackable e-reader?

161

7

Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?

124

8

Should I quit Uber?

122

9

What are the best resources for learning about algorithmic trading?

104

10

Fatigued by the complexity of ES6 tooling. What to do?

79

Top Show HN

1

An HTML/CSS/JS toggle switch with happy and sad emojis

202

2

A Go Library for Better Access Control

158

3

Every Day Is Pi Day

147

4

FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database

131

5

Experimental chat written in Common Lisp

114

6

LogDNA – Set up Kubernetes logging with 2 kubectl commands

76

7

Bit – A fast and easy Python Bitcoin library

72

8

Miki: Makefile Wiki, Minimal makefile-based personal wiki

62

9

SpreadServe – Cloud automation for Excel spreadsheets

55

10

A general-purpose encoder-decoder framework for Tensorflow

54

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

948

2

Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest

403

3

Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

260

4

The CIA uses board games to train officers

226

5

Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech

225

6

Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers

215

7

Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda

194

8

No privacy rules needed: ISPs say Web browsing isn’t “sensitive” data

192

9

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams on simulating most complex magic system ever

183

10

Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow

124

News [?]

1

Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

542

2

Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use

456

3

I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it

385

4

New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

380

5

An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016)

369

6

How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness

328

7

Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

318

8

Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturing industry

305

9

Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer

302

10

Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console

293

Scientific publications [?]

1

Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)

249

2

Silk Road evolved as 'grass-routes' movement

84

3

Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensive model of city life

75

4

Training Differentiable Models by Constraining Their Explanations

36

5

Deep Learning Networks on High Performance, Neuromorphic, and Quantum Computers

34

6

Evolving Deep Neural Networks

26

7

Discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery

7

8

Baidu's new paper on deep learning based small-footprint keyword spotting

5

9

It's Amazing! Boston Dynamics Unveils Its Wheel-Leg Robot

4

10

Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The CIA's “Development Tradecraft Do's and Dont's”

219

2

Training agents to invent a language

163

3

Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer

137

4

Why companies don't do GPL enforcement

98

5

The Firebase Story

97

6

McDonalds India is leaking 2.2M users data

59

7

Appreciating Art with Algorithms

56

8

58% of high-performance employees say they need more quiet work spaces

42

9

Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)

29

10

Building a facial recognition web app in under an hour

18

Tech blogs [?]

1

Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD

191

2

EFF Applauds Amazon for Pushing Back on Request for Echo Data

109

3

AMD Announces Ryzen 5 Lineup: Hex-Core from $219, Available April 11th

36

4

AMD Announces Ryzen 5 Processors; $169 Four-Cores and $219 Six-Cores

31

5

Court Issues Dangerous Decision: Ethiopia Is Free to Spy on Americans

11

6

Raspberry Pi hitches ride inside vintage terminal

5

7

One Step Closer to Reclaiming University Innovation from Trolls

4

8

California Youth in Detention and Foster Care Deserve Internet Access

4

9

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

3

10

One Step Closer to Reclaiming University Innovation from Trolls

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances now offer instance size flexibility

63

2

Retrofitting Linear Types in Haskell [pdf]

3

3

AWS Week in Review – March 6, 2017

3

4

Amazon GameLift Now Supports All C++ and C# Game Engines

3

5

Terms and Conditions as a graphic novel

3

6

Amazon WorkMail

3

7

Elon Musk Kindle book $1.99 on Amazon today 3/12/17 only

2

8

Creators Update: Coming Soon to Windows 10

2

9

New Amazon CloudFront Edge in Zurich, Switzerland

2

10

Accessories that are compatible with HomeKit and your Apple devices

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style

323

2

Foucault’s work on power

83

3

London’s Big Dig Reveals Layers of History

63

4

From backwards boards to king-flipping, Hollywood can’t get chess right

36

5

The problem with p-values

30

6

Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness

20

7

A Brief History of Blockchain

19

8

Intel, Mobileye, and Smiling Curves

15

9

Tesla Model 3 ‘release candidates’ are currently being built

11

10

The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time

8

Science News [?]

1

Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

248

2

Astronomers Have Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1% the Speed of Light

232

3

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones (2015)

117

4

A Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics

105

5

An efficient power converter design reduces resting power consumption by 50%

86

6

Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Failed to Confirm (2015)

77

7

As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy

74

8

Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Impossible

58

9

Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas

56

10

The Fifth Force of Physics Is Hanging by a Thread

20

Social [?]

1

Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation

185

2

What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE-2016-4657 walk-through

119

3

Lisping on the GPU [video]

111

4

Recreating the “Asteroids” graphics with a single-beam laser projector [video]

97

5

Deep Learning on Title and Content Features to Tackle Clickbait

88

6

Building Tic-Tac-Toe in a Google spreadsheet [video]

80

7

Linux Sucks ... For the last time [video]

19

8

BMW cars running PHP

15

9

Ex-Apple snr. engineer with 13 years experience gets rejected in 12 hours

14

10

Begin Kernel Hacking[video]

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hiring without whiteboards

423

2

Simple example of machine learning in TensorFlow

334

3

πfs – A data-free filesystem

285

4

Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook

242

5

Free resources for learning full-stack web development

237

6

A proof-of-concept of a vulnerability in custom shell prompt scripts

195

7

The BSD family tree

184

8

Lua VM running in a WASM environment

180

9

Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go

144

10

C++ value category cheat-sheet [pdf]

138

Wikipedia [?]

1

Iron law of prohibition

143

2

Imperial Airship Scheme

40

3

Pick operating system

11

4

Malbolge – The programming languge from Hell

7

5

Multiple comparisons problem

4

6

TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool

4

7

Censorship of GitHub

4

8

Gopher (protocol)

3

9

Homelessness in the United States

3

10

Earliest known de Bruijn sequence, in Sanskrit

3

Blogs [?]

1

Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

358

2

When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are

240

3

Cold email tips I used to get 60K signups

202

4

Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb

175

5

Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free

103

6

Simplifying Parallel Applications for C++: An Example using RaftLib (2016)

56

7

How I lost 100lbs in 6 months

56

8

Debugging a Docker Heisenbug in production

53

9

Hacker News on BigQuery: Now with daily updates. Top domains and time to post?

52

10

Welcome to Glitch

52

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Logic programming: what are the main differences between Prolog and miniKanren?

3

2

Comparison of Prolog and miniKanren (2015)

3

3

How can I use transpilation or a VM to safely run code in the browser?

2

4

Female founder jobs – Stack Overflow

2

Substack [?]