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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
1455
2
Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
1015
3
Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities
883
4
Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient
836
5
The Horror in the Standard Library
830
6
Getting Started with Headless Chrome
657
7
Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
619
8
Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
598
9
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
598
10
SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today
588
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (May 2017)
589
2
Google Doc email virus?
481
3
Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
383
4
What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?
205
5
Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?
182
6
Did your life as a parent affected your life as a developer?
159
7
Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?
158
8
Do you regret taking investment?
141
9
Who is firing?
127
10
Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)
122
Top Show HN
1
My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
418
2
Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key
338
3
VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS by yourself
228
4
Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine
217
5
MStream – A personal music streaming server
162
6
Interface Lovers – Interviews with designers
155
7
Automatic Speech Recognition in TensorFlow
131
8
Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app
128
9
An expense manager built using Google Sheets
107
10
K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript
101
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Thieves drain 2FA-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol
375
2
Coinbase adds support for Litecoin
341
3
Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
341
4
FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
294
5
The psychological importance of wasting time
294
6
Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surveillance
286
7
With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019
272
8
Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself
231
9
Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably just build a Mac tower
197
10
There’s a good chance wildlife photos weren’t shot in the wild
196
News [?]
1
Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities
883
2
Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
619
3
SCOTUS Rejects Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Can't Keep Money from the Innocent
437
4
Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014)
407
5
Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech
356
6
My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year
303
7
Long-dormant bacteria and viruses in ice are reviving as climate warms
296
8
Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
285
9
How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
257
10
Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S
240
Scientific publications [?]
1
Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
251
2
How does Docker affect energy consumption?
174
3
Deep learning with convolutional neural networks for brain mapping from EEG
119
4
A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (2009)
94
5
Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-body orbits
89
6
Generating Music Using GANs and Deep Learning
84
7
Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships
73
8
Deriving Quests from Open World Mechanics
69
9
Chasing diagrams in cryptography (2016)
63
10
Want to Know What's Happening in a Building? Listen in at the Breaker Box
56
Dev Blogs [?]
1
How Stripe teaches employees to code
539
2
Why Is the TSA Scanning Paper?
173
3
IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw)
117
4
IoT Security Anti-Patterns
47
5
Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level
40
6
Bitcoin is eating itself
39
7
Early Patches For Kernel Lockdown Mode Set For Linux 4.12
33
8
Why I’m Moving on to Web Components and Not Looking Back
23
9
The Impatient Programmer’s Guide to Learning
15
10
IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw)
8
Tech blogs [?]
1
Actually, Congress Did Undermine Our Internet Privacy RIghts
29
2
Merriam-Webster Adds 'Sheeple' to Dictionary and Lists Apple Users as Example
20
3
EFF, Sen. Anderson Sponsor California License Plate Privacy Legislation
7
4
EFF Argues Against Massive Government Hacking in ‘Playpen’ Case
6
5
Stupid Patents of the Month: Taxi Dispatch Tech
5
6
AMD Ryzen: Good for Enthusiasts, Bad for Investors
5
7
California: Let’s End Unchecked Police Surveillance
4
8
Google Maps, Amazon, and EBay Drop Apple Watch Support
3
9
Intel Unveils the Xeon Scalable Processor Family: Skylake-SP
3
10
The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Would Be a Body Blow for Online Video
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
55
2
EC2 Price Reductions – Reserved Instances and M4 Instances – AWS Blog
35
3
Amazon Echo Look – Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant
19
4
Surface Laptop
4
5
The AWS Deep Learning AMI for Amazon Linux Now Supports Caffe2
3
6
Introducing Windows 10 S
3
7
Fast CNN Tuning with AWS GPU Instances and SigOpt
3
8
AWS and Ionic team up to build the ultimate full-stack starter
2
9
CoreOS and Ticketmaster Collaborate on AWS Kubernetes App Load Balancer
2
10
AWS Marketplace: the first FPGA Image is available
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Ways to Read More Books
302
2
Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs
147
3
Apple’s China Problem
124
4
A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia
112
5
Salt Ponds of the San Francisco Bay
92
6
The Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste
66
7
The 17th-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground
61
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One of the Earliest Industrial Spies Was a French Missionary Stationed in China
43
9
How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy
43
10
The Cosmology of Poe
42
Science News [?]
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CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
1455
2
Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
280
3
Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
177
4
Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?
127
5
How ZIP codes nearly masked the lead problem in Flint (2016)
113
6
Detecting walking speed with wireless signals
99
7
Major Report Prompts Warnings That the Arctic Is Unraveling
97
8
A Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their IQ
84
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Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
74
10
A Theory of Consciousness Can Help Build a Theory of Everything
64
Social [?]
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Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
295
2
SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has landed at LZ-1 [video]
289
3
Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to improve moderation
159
4
Windows non-LAN, wormable RCE 0-day discovered
99
5
[WTF] Go Unicode Hack to Get Pseudo-Generics
74
6
Why I like Vim so much [video]
70
7
The Culture of Scheme Programming [video]
40
8
Try out a fresh look for YouTube
38
9
3Blue1Brown – Essence of Calculus
28
10
Amazonians, has the work culture changed much since the 2015 NYT article?
23
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Build yourself a Linux
497
2
MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console
389
3
International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
381
4
NeoVim 0.2.0 released
319
5
OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall
319
6
Basecamp Employee Handbook
274
7
Vimflowy – A productivity tool drawing inspiration from Workflowy and Vim
204
8
Pilosa: open source, distributed bitmap index in Go
183
9
Black Screen – Both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell
163
10
LMDB – First version of Redis written in Tcl
149
Wikipedia [?]
1
“Bush hid the facts” bug
12
2
Indiana Pi Bill
8
3
Flow-based programming
5
4
Missing square puzzle
4
5
Automatic Differentiation
3
6
Joymaker
3
7
Automatic differentiation
3
8
List of unsolved problems in computer science
3
9
Parkinson's Law
2
10
Paraprodoskian
2
Blogs [?]
1
Banning exploration in my infovis class
165
2
What does $100 Ether mean?
102
3
Why Security Backdoors are Bad (2016)
101
4
Some Notes on Haskell Pedagogy
70
5
No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction
60
6
What will happen when we run out of names for JavaScript frameworks?
59
7
My shitty AirBnB experience
46
8
Speedtest engineer on optimizing your home internet
40
9
Put your Electron app on a diet with Electrino
34
10
Alt-right attacks Macron in last ditch effort to sway French Election
34
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
598
2
Efficient unsigned-to-signed cast avoiding implementation-defined behavior
3
3
Why are emoji characters like treated so strangely in Swift strings?
1
4
HTML5 video – video.currentTime breaks the player
1
Substack [?]