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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
1519
2
We’re dropping Google Ads
1477
3
How We Built r/Place
1152
4
A Competitive Programmer's Handbook
1117
5
IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe
1000
6
PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
854
7
Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
847
8
Bob Taylor Has Died
841
9
Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
834
10
Semantic UI
768
Top Ask HN
1
Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?
320
2
How much of your time at work do you spend not working?
200
3
What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?
186
4
What credit card does your US startup use?
136
5
What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?
134
6
How was this ad targeted to me?
122
7
What's the Hacker News of hardware?
110
8
What are your impressions of the HoloLens so far?
101
9
Best budget Linux laptop for a developer?
84
10
Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems programming language?
82
Top Show HN
1
A directory of the best free resources for remote workers and nomads
214
2
UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
180
3
Kim – A Python serialization and marshaling framework
136
4
LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua
136
5
A simple way to get options prices for free
96
6
Positive News Reader based on sentiment analysis
84
7
WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a WordPress site is using
76
8
Glua, a Full-Featured Lua VM for Nodejs and the Browser
70
9
Txtpen – web highlights and in-text comments
65
10
A REST API for Calculating VAT in the EU
59
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
433
2
Programmers are most likely to work from home
427
3
Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
330
4
Uber's head of communications is leaving the company
319
5
New research says starting university classes at 11am would improve learning
231
6
Mimicking an impact on Earth’s early atmosphere yields all 4 RNA bases
230
7
Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
206
8
More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and bike to office jobs
192
9
Sony’s e-paper tablet is a great example of Weird Sony
184
10
Uber reportedly tracked Lyft drivers using a program named ‘Hell’
179
News [?]
1
Bob Taylor Has Died
841
2
The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
563
3
United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
538
4
Saturn moon 'able to support life'
491
5
A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
479
6
Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks
428
7
Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents
405
8
Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
397
9
Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'
352
10
When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged
343
Scientific publications [?]
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How real are real numbers? (2004)
218
2
A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)
202
3
NASA Unveils Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library
102
4
Towards a Universal Code Formatter through Machine Learning (2016)
74
5
Factorization tricks for LSTM networks
69
6
AppLP: A Dialogue on Applications of Logic Programming
58
7
Archaeologist explains innovation of 'fluting' ancient stone weaponry
45
8
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
35
9
Machine Learning Gender and Racial Biases from Language
32
10
Transition Watchpoints: Teaching Old Debuggers New Tricks [pdf]
19
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
732
2
Introducing Increment
574
3
WebVR Experiments
185
4
DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning
180
5
Building a Bank with Go [video]
131
6
ARM Pioneer Sophie Wilson Also Thinks Moore’s Law is Coming to an End
115
7
Connecting Kubernetes services with linkerd
67
8
Stanford Brainstorm Chip to Hints at Neuromorphic Computing Future
59
9
Honeycomb: Full Stack Observability, No *Really*
34
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Blessed Are the “Boring,” for They Create the Billion Dollar Startups
28
Tech blogs [?]
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AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review
226
2
EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection
189
3
What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
79
4
EFF Urges Court to Roll Back Ruling Allowing Remote-Control Spying
66
5
AMD Ryzen AMA
52
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Apple drops to fifth place in laptop brand survey
49
7
Ninth Circuit Sends a Message to Platforms: Use a Moderator, Go to Trial
8
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Hackaday Trims Its Own Resistors
6
9
Chess AI old school
5
10
Qualcomm Countersues Apple, Says iPhone Wouldn't Be Possible Without Its Tech
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Has Amazon been hacked (wrong author attributions)
30
2
2016 Letter to Shareholders
4
3
AWS IoT on Mongoose OS, for ESP8266 and ESP32
4
4
Principles of Neural Design (2015)
3
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Pollexy – Special Needs Voice Assistant with Amazon Polly and Raspberry Pi
3
6
Electron Visual Object Tagging Tool Enables End to End Object Detection in a Box
3
7
Windows 10 Creators Update released
2
8
Who Is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure 2nd Edition
2
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Kindle Finally Gets Ragged Right Alignment
2
10
MIT Press Publishes Communism for Kids Book
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ solar panel made by Panasonic
181
2
The relationship between social media use and well-being
176
3
Humble People Make the Best Leaders
102
4
Magnetico: A Personal Torrent Search Engine That Can’t Be Shut Down
76
5
How Cars Get Named
74
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Watchers of the earth
67
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Solar breaks 50% of California electricity for first time
52
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A Face-To-Face Request Is 34 Times More Successful Than an Email
22
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With Archaeoacoustics, Researchers Listen for Clues to the Prehistoric Past
20
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Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi
11
Science News [?]
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Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)
417
2
The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries
223
3
Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?
156
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What Do Animals See in a Mirror? (2014)
74
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Colonizing the galaxy would be good
63
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A New Path to Equal-Angle Lines
49
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Why people prefer unequal societies
20
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‘Young poo’ makes aged fish live longer
19
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Unique Canadian ice core collection suffers catastrophic meltdown
11
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Mutation in clock gene explains why some night owls stay up late
10
Social [?]
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How I Made My Own iPhone in China [video]
397
2
How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]
218
3
Richard Stallman on Lunduke Hour [video]
111
4
Ruby vs Elixir – Panel discussion at Wroc_love.rb [video]
75
5
Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September
65
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How I Made My Own iPhone – In China [video]
40
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Google turns off ads for blog after writing about Russia's anti-gay policies
34
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Robot sorting system helps Chinese company sort 200,000 packages a day
22
9
United Airlines forcefully removes customer to accommodate United crew
20
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Magnus Effect – KFC Paper Bucket Airplane
18
Github repos and gists [?]
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Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming a low-level programmer
438
2
Intel Haskell Research Compiler
290
3
Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine
240
4
Ponzu – An open-source HTTP server framework and CMS in Go
204
5
Dale – A Lisp-flavoured C
192
6
Programming ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers with Rust
179
7
Neural Complete – A neural network that autocompletes neural network code
170
8
OcherBook: Open-source replacement Kobo firmware
167
9
Tiny Social Icons – Miniscule SVG versions of social app logos
145
10
Spring vs. Java EE
140
Wikipedia [?]
1
Gay concentration camps in Chechnya (April 2017)
40
2
Abductive Logic Programming
19
3
Secure Remote Password protocol
17
4
Tennis racket theorem – Wikipedia
14
5
Parallax Propeller
6
6
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
3
7
Star Wars the Last Jedi
3
8
Museum of Jurassic Technology
3
9
FLIP the ship
3
10
Rete Algorithm
3
Blogs [?]
1
ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
296
2
An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
226
3
Glimmer.js: What’s the Deal with TypeScript?
148
4
United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon
100
5
Ops in the serverless world: monitoring, logging, config management
95
6
Why We switched from Python To Go
78
7
Mastodon Sustainability – hosting costs, scaling concerns, and problem users
42
8
Somebody is just paying $5000 for you to work on any project of your choice
37
9
Why I like Golang's interfaces
32
10
Why I left my job to teach you how to code
16
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
51
2
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
3
3
The term “branch”, in Git, is ambiguous
2
4
What's the difference between variable-blocked format and fixed-blocked format?
1
5
Can anybody tell me what language is this?
1
6
Can a single .swift file in Xcode contain entire source code of an iOS app?
1
7
Docker pull numbers are just like site visit counters from the old days
1
Substack [?]