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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
1735
2
Build Your Own Text Editor
1275
3
An off-grid social network
1031
4
The Mac Pro Lives
877
5
Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
846
6
Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
831
7
A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
786
8
Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
769
9
Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
756
10
New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary
718
Top Ask HN
1
Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
602
2
Who is hiring? (April 2017)
513
3
Do you still use browser bookmarks?
441
4
What are you working on?
374
5
What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
248
6
What medical datasets do you need?
223
7
Current Crypto Best Practices
198
8
What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?
159
9
Other communities like HN?
100
10
What makes a good place to work?
90
Top Show HN
1
React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component
345
2
Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera
293
3
Resumegen – A single-page LaTeX resume generator
227
4
Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
222
5
Fake SMTP server as a service
149
6
Robotopia – Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots
133
7
AcrossTabs – Easy communication between cross-origin browser tabs
107
8
Dnote – Instantly Capture Your Coding Wisdom
100
9
Magnetico – self-hosted BitTorrent DHT search engine suite
95
10
A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
95
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
680
2
Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file on an employee’s personal device
512
3
Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
430
4
Uber said to use “sophisticated” software to defraud drivers, passengers
343
5
Dolphins' elaborate octopus-hunting strategy
301
6
IoT garage door opener maker disables customer’s service after bad review
291
7
Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
282
8
Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?
263
9
The company behind Adblock Plus is acquiring micropayment service Flattr
233
10
Microsoft opens up on Windows telemetry, tells us most of what data it collects
207
News [?]
1
Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value
846
2
Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
831
3
Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
769
4
Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
509
5
UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater
369
6
A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest
365
7
Uber's experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice drivers
322
8
Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space
310
9
For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her
289
10
High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials
237
Scientific publications [?]
1
Best Practices for Applying Deep Learning to Novel Applications
300
2
A Las Vegas algorithm to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem [pdf]
90
3
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
44
4
Increasing RNN performance with no computational overhead
9
5
Multiagent Bidirectionally-Coordinated Nets for Learning to Play StarCraft
4
6
Nonnegative/binary matrix factorization with a D-Wave quantum annealer
4
7
Nanogrids, Microgrids, and Big Data: The Future of the Power Grid
4
8
TorontoCity: Seeing the World with a Million Eyes
3
9
Easy 4G/LTE IMSI Catchers for Non-Programmers
3
10
Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks: A Tutorial and Survey
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
380
2
Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
327
3
Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
302
4
Introducing Twitter Lite
280
5
Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
251
6
On mutex performance and WTF::Lock
208
7
Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel
112
8
New APIs to power customer engagement in Direct Messages
112
9
Nvidia's “Open-Source Guy” Has Left the Company
110
10
Ubuntu to Abandon Unity 8, Switch Back to Gnome
88
Tech blogs [?]
1
WikiLeaks Docs Reveal How the CIA Targets Windows Users
52
2
Border Search Bill Would Rein in CBP
6
3
Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy from Your Internet Service Provider
4
4
Apple, Google, Amazon Enter Race to Buy Toshiba NAND Flash Unit
4
5
Apple in bidding war to acquire Toshiba’s storage business
4
6
Apple to Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs from SoCs
4
7
IoT Startup Bricks Customers Garage Door Intentionally
4
8
Apple’s rare change of mind is great news for Mac users, pro and non-pro alike
4
9
Twitter Fights Effort by Customs to Identify Administration Critic
3
10
Microsoft’s Project Scorpio
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Cash
267
2
Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden
188
3
Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (1999) [pdf]
131
4
AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer
103
5
Amazon Cash
49
6
AWS Aurora MySQL adds fast DDL operations
23
7
NET Architecture Guidance
5
8
.NET Architecture Guidance (Common Application Patterns)
4
9
Amazon Aurora Under the Hood: Fast DDL
4
10
Meet the dogs of Amazon
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Bent horizon photos
198
2
UCLA CS88S: Safety in the Cloud – Introduction to Cybersecurity
186
3
Philosophy tool kit
121
4
Tesla delivers a record number of vehicles during the first quarter 2017 ~25,000
53
5
A Gigantic Nazi City That Was Never Built
37
6
We're thinking about organizational culture all wrong
26
7
How the Organisation of the Roman Army Made It Always Ready for War
9
8
California breaks 50% solar – electricity pricing negative
7
9
Tesla’s new patent explains how its energy storage stations can go up to 1 GWh
6
10
HN Side Project Partner Search
6
Science News [?]
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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
1735
2
Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?
159
3
Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness
132
4
Physicists attempt to prove the Riemann hypothesis
124
5
What My Stroke Taught Me
114
6
Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others
112
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The Case for More Intellectual Humility
91
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Acute Effects of LSD on Amygdala Activity During Processing of Fearful Stimuli
84
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Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
73
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Can Many-Worlds Theory Rescue Us From Boltzmann Brains?
60
Social [?]
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Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
657
2
Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
201
3
NESticle, a classic NES emulator for DOS, is 20 years old today
120
4
“Let’s have some fun I’m offering two grants of $5,000 for whatever you want”
59
5
The WSJ may have used doctored images in their anti-YouTube story [video]
44
6
TED organizers cancel ZeroNet talk
44
7
Dallas tornado sirens hacked last night turning on all of them
41
8
Twitter sues U.S. government over demand for records of anti-Trump account
19
9
11 Ways to Invoke a Function in JavaScript
17
10
USCIS Raids in SV – can anyone corroborate?
13
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Python coding interview challenges
451
2
The BEAM Book – A Description of the Erlang RTS and the Virtual Machine BEAM
336
3
File Format Posters
320
4
Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library
245
5
Wire messenger server code open-sourced
211
6
Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aurelia
206
7
Cayley – An open-source graph database
203
8
How to rickroll Spotify for Android
193
9
Common Algo Problem Solutions
113
10
PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python
55
Wikipedia [?]
1
Scunthorpe Problem
71
2
Area code 710
9
3
Wallpaper group
7
4
The Geek Code
5
5
Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar
3
6
Minkowski space
3
7
UK telephone code misconceptions
2
8
15 Puzzle
2
9
Nominative determinism
2
10
Sheepskin effect
2
Blogs [?]
1
Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options
361
2
Education of a Programmer
307
3
How I legally got scammed for $250 by an upscale apartment complex
265
4
Webserver Back End with Orleans Actor System, Dotnet Core and Server-Side Redux
129
5
Everything Is Broken (2014)
91
6
Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
84
7
Why I’m selling some Twitter shares
78
8
Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Screenwriting
78
9
I’m starting an internet company and detailing the entire process
64
10
The End of the Past
63
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?
10
2
What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?
3
3
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
2
4
What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?
2
5
Stack Overflow Documentation – Reference material for developer tools
1
Substack [?]