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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1094

2

Deep Photo Style Transfer

1088

3

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things

959

4

The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

901

5

I’m a freelance copywriter

788

6

775

7

Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs

714

8

Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

712

9

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

667

10

632

Top Ask HN

1

What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

1374

2

Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?

375

3

Has attracting a blog audience become harder?

276

4

Is there a powerful open-source Google Calendar replacement?

219

5

How do you make money from your side projects?

149

6

Is there room for another search engine?

149

7

Is Accidental Complexity Growing Faster Than Essential Complexity?

147

8

What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?

143

9

Hacker News users reading habits

94

10

How do you evaluate a job offer and the company offering it?

84

Top Show HN

1

Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

553

2

Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

399

3

A Vim distribution inspired by Spacemacs

175

4

Redux Offline – Build Offline-First Apps for Web and React Native

174

5

SpreadsheetDB – A database that you can query with spreadsheets

144

6

My Interactive ClojureScript book

133

7

Construct 3 – Make games in the browser

122

8

Fly – A global load balancer with middleware

112

9

Sawtooth – Online audio workspace

109

10

Polished – A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript

106

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tencent buys 5% of Tesla

606

2

A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

570

3

SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket

425

4

Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce

316

5

Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

315

6

Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook

213

7

Office365 users shared hundreds of sensitive docs publicly through docs.com

193

8

I Built a Bot to Apply to Thousands of Jobs at Once

186

9

If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose

167

10

Twitch to start selling video games this week

165

News [?]

1

The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

901

2

Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

712

3

UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable

493

4

How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)

423

5

Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

416

6

Uber’s Anthony Levandowski Invokes Fifth Amendment Rights in Waymo Suit

374

7

Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results

368

8

New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year

341

9

SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

339

10

An Accident No One Talked About

320

Scientific publications [?]

1

Gravitational waves eject black hole from galaxy

209

2

Syringe injectable electronics (2015)

106

3

Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out of Galactic Core

69

4

A Chemical Bond Neural-Network which makes human intuition rigorous

6

5

Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Puzzles Astronomers

5

6

Deep Compositional Framework for Human-Like Language Acquisition

4

7

April Fool: A Neural Networks Approach to Predicting a Prom Date

3

8

Intel Now Packs 100M Transistors in Each Square Millimeter

3

9

How graphene could cool smartphone, computer and other electronics chips

3

10

Mastering Sketching: Adversarial Augmentation for Structured Prediction

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Fuchsia: a new operating system

503

2

Scaling your API with rate limiters

351

3

The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban

198

4

When Will AWS Move Up the Stack to Real Applications?

98

5

How I made a SaaS webservice earning $1000/month

69

6

Why I Always Tug on the ATM

57

7

In Defence of the Monolith, Part 2

41

8

Beyond Bash: Microsoft Refines the Windows Subsystem for Linux

35

9

Unconventional way of learning a new programming language

28

10

Neuromorphic, Quantum, Supercomputing Mesh for Deep Learning

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules

370

2

Verizon announces plans to install a download-tracking app on its Android phones

177

3

House Schedules Vote on Eliminating Consumer Online Privacy Rights Next Week

157

4

Apple releases iOS 10.3

154

5

Apple Releases MacOS 10.12.4 with Night Shift

66

6

Verizon Announces Plans to Install Spyware on All Its Android Phones

40

7

NAFTA Renegotiation Will Resurrect Failed TPP Proposals

28

8

A Wireless Oscilloscope Isn't as Dumb as It Sounds

24

9

House Votes to Repeal Broadband Privacy Rules

15

10

What Information Is Revealed When Using Tor and/or HTTPS

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Connect – Simple to use, cloud-based contact center

214

2

Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud

24

3

New – Tag EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes on Creation

4

4

New – AWS Resource Tagging API

4

5

Amazon In-App Purchase API

3

6

Amazon Connect: A self-service, cloud-based call center

3

7

Supplier Responsibility (Apple)

2

8

Amazon Fresh Pickup

2

9

Amazon Launches AmazonFresh Pickup grocery service (employees only)

2

10

PC2: Punched Card Cloud (2013)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things

959

2

The Arrival of AI

162

3

Sovetskoe Foto (Soviet Photography)

149

4

Corporations in the Age of Inequality

89

5

A Sloppy Land Surveyor Almost Caused a War Between Missouri and Iowa

48

6

How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope?

37

7

Startup Announces Plan for 150-Seat Battery-Powered Plane

34

8

The Rise of AI Makes Emotional Intelligence More Important

14

9

Why So Many People Are Named Nguyen

12

10

The Strange Way Mosquitoes Fly

6

Science News [?]

1

Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours

603

2

Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality

316

3

Photos Reveal More Than 200 Arctic Lakes Have Started Bubbling with Methane Gas

133

4

War by any means: The story of DARPA

121

5

How Quantum Theory Is Inspiring New Math

118

6

Bigger brains are not always better

92

7

Five world map styles

67

8

Planet-sized 'waves' spotted in the Sun's atmosphere

52

9

A New Yorker's Quest for the Perfect Amount of Noise

25

10

Octopus tentacle serves as inspiration for gripper

18

Social [?]

1

Python Helped Me Write Again

117

2

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper [video]

116

3

Ed Logg's plan form for Atari Asteroids

97

4

Tavis Ormandy finds another major hole in Lastpass

48

5

7 Algorithms That Rule the World

42

6

A giant group canvas from Reddit

42

7

Folding a Circle into a Julia Set [video]

31

8

Iron Man-like flight suit by a British entrepreneur

31

9

Skype currently serving infected ads

26

10

SpaceX historic Falcon 9 rocket liftoff and landed for the second time

23

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Deep Photo Style Transfer

1088

2

LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack

392

3

Python for Android

340

4

Mega Man for TempleOS

327

5

A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach”

310

6

Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017

261

7

CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines

223

8

Make your own Lisp

187

9

PostgREST – A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database

179

10

Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework

171

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wolfram blocked publication of a mathematical proof with a court order

186

2

128

3

Norden bombsight

77

4

19

5

7

6

3

7

Tree That Owns Itself

3

8

Catastrophic Interference (forgetting in neural networks)

3

9

Dōjima Rice Exchange

2

10

Oh My God Particle

2

Blogs [?]

1

A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI

216

2

The Mandelwat Set

187

3

There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout

155

4

76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important

132

5

Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors

116

6

Earth is a ‘dwarf planet’ because it has not cleared its orbit

104

7

8 CSS gotchas to start your morning off right (satire)

92

8

Algorithms in Life: Find the perfect partner, apartment and job

69

9

Gnirehtet – Reverse-tethering tool for Android

64

10

Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip

51

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is there a standard naming convention for Git tags?

6

2

Determine the type of an object? (Python)

1

3

How and when to align to cache line size

1

4

Which Poll Script is the best for my situation

1

Substack [?]