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Top stories
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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
1857
2
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
1332
3
There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
1018
4
VR
1008
5
I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial
899
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Welcome Chris Lattner
879
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Integrating GTA V into Universe
805
8
Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
753
9
Affordable Care
720
10
Ian's Shoelace Site
695
Top Ask HN
1
Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?
158
2
Laid off today for the first time, anything to be wary of? Advice?
112
3
What a 2nd tier college student must do to be at par with the best?
92
4
Bootstrapped US founders, who do you use for health insurance?
82
5
What's a good developer's resume look like?
76
6
How often is hardware at the big tech companies refreshed?
73
7
Do you carry a backpack? Which one?
69
8
Why do coding bootcamps teach Ruby on Rails and JavaScript?
69
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Favorite subreddit?
68
10
How do I get up to date as a frontend developer in 2017?
65
Top Show HN
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Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders
331
2
An audio only social network
211
3
Use Ansible to Run a “friends and Family” OpenVPN Server on Digital Ocean
206
4
Q8, an In-Browser VM for Learning and Visualizing Bytecode Programming
145
5
Hypergolix, “programmable Dropbox” with client-side encryption
130
6
The Bus Stop Bus
125
7
Skeletal Animation System – a WebGL animation blender
120
8
Larry Wildman – Send free, anonymous postcards to horrible bosses
88
9
Data visualization news
76
10
Fluor a macOS app to switch Fn keys depending on active application
71
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
1857
2
Paper Centrifuge
412
3
Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner
333
4
Adobe angers Chrome users by bundling browser plugin with security update
224
5
CVS just announced a cheap generic alternative to the EpiPen
222
6
Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022
164
7
Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
160
8
Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy
124
9
FCC Commissioner Vows to Ignore Staff's 'Serious Concerns' About Net Neutrality
107
10
The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of Google’s most revolutionary phone
101
News [?]
1
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
1332
2
SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch
621
3
Open offices are bad for us
464
4
'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
410
5
Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems
380
6
Just how smart is an octopus?
348
7
Alphabet’s Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%
311
8
China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level
292
9
I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life
253
10
Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus
251
Scientific publications [?]
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Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'
260
2
Numbers 0 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9 (2014)
116
3
DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in No-Limit Poker
102
4
Simplified Gating in Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks
49
5
Simulations suggest Planet Nine may have been a rogue
39
6
Females seeking partner can tell if males experienced stress during adolescence
20
7
Searching for fast radio bursts from the Milky Way with low-cost radio receivers
18
8
Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Wings by 600 Days in Orbit
7
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Towards End-To-End Speech Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
5
10
Hubble Captures ‘Shadow Play’ Caused by Possible Planet
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Integrating GTA V into Universe
805
2
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview
317
3
On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (2016)
246
4
Cloudflare’s Transparency Report for Second Half 2016 and a Disclosure for 2013
159
5
HPE Powers Up The Machine Architecture with ARM
62
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It's Now Possible to Disable and Strip Down Intel's ME Blob
37
7
Attributing the DNC Hacks to Russia – Bruce Schneier
24
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Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?
19
9
Mathematics without history is soulless
19
10
Git in 2016
18
Tech blogs [?]
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Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
589
2
Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xcode lead Chris Lattner
234
3
New technique stores summer heat until it's needed in winter
164
4
Seagate to Shut Down One of Its Largest HDD Assembly Plants
106
5
Consumer Reports Retesting MacBook Pro Battery, Apple Says Safari Bug to Blame
55
6
Scientists claim to have tied the most tightly knotted physical structure known
53
7
Cloudflare Has Been Fighting NSL for Years
40
8
EFF Is Proud to Stand Beside Techdirt in Its First Amendment Fight for Its Life
39
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iPhone market share grows 6.4% in USA, takes share from Android in most markets
19
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EFF: Cloudflare Has Been Fighting NSL for Years
14
FAANG+ [?]
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iPhone at ten: the revolution continues
92
2
Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
4
3
AWS Batch Now Generally Available (US East)
3
4
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
3
5
Microsoft is having some serious issues
3
6
Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone (2007)
2
7
AmazonBasics Portable Photo Studio
2
8
GridDB is now available on the AWS Marketplace
2
9
1 cent avocados
2
10
Vectr ranked #1 free graphics editor on Windows Store
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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High-Speed ES2015
161
2
How can existentialist philosophy help with the anxiety and dread of fatherhood?
90
3
For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided into Three Separate Cities
79
4
Chomsky, Wolfe and me
78
5
Artificial Addition (2007)
76
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I estimate human population to peak in 2065
67
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Bell's Theorem: No EPR “Reality”
49
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The Elaborate Wig-Snatching Schemes of the 18th Century
39
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The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally Intelligent
33
10
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
21
Science News [?]
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Five big mysteries about CRISPR’s origins
204
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How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games
169
3
Lasers activate killer instinct in mice
98
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Recommending information by relevance inferred from human brain signals
87
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Porous, 3D forms of graphene can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter
78
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How the brain perceives rhythm
72
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The discovery of medieval Trellech and the plucky amateurs of archaeology
63
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Neuroscientists find long-sought bat sat-nav neurons
44
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Promotion of natural tooth repair by small molecule GSK3 antagonists
6
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Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals
5
Social [?]
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The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack
667
2
SpaceX Iridium-1 Webcast [video]
145
3
No, Palantir. Your internships are not worth 5 months, 8 interviews,...
124
4
Differences between Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, and Death Metal
75
5
WhatsApp Backdoor/Vulnerability demonstration [video]
49
6
First stage of Falcon 9 has landed on Just Read the Instructions
45
7
Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017
43
8
$682 Hackintosh Mac Mini vs. $1,300 Apple Mac Mini
35
9
Apple's first iPhone ad – Hello (2007) [video]
29
10
Introducing Our Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
21
Github repos and gists [?]
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Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library
374
2
Rasa: Extremely modular text editor built in Haskell
189
3
OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
133
4
Glance, a visualizer for Haskell code
128
5
Rax – A universal React-compatible render engine
119
6
Lambdascript – A new pure functional language built on top of Python
116
7
GitHub is down
105
8
Chisel – A fast TCP tunnel over HTTP
101
9
Guetzli JPEG encoder
81
10
Tox Handshake Vulnerable to KCI
79
Wikipedia [?]
1
Braess’ paradox
136
2
The Price of Anarchy
120
3
Gay Bomb
16
4
HTTP status code 418 (I'm a teapot)
16
5
Design rule for Camera File system
10
6
Goiânia accident
5
7
Mark Fisher has died
5
8
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
5
9
John von Neumann's Amazing Life – The Martians from Hungary
5
10
Oliver Smithies has died
5
Blogs [?]
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The Risk of Discovery
537
2
Working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code
215
3
Master web development with over 9000 tricks
197
4
“Side Hustle” as a Sign of the Apocalypse
185
5
Why I’m staying at 18F
124
6
How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men
76
7
Caddy – a modern web server (vs. Nginx)
62
8
I bought some call options and they appreciated 3309%
47
9
PHP Frameworks Code Complexity Comparison
33
10
Making Magic with WebSockets and CSS3
29
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Developer Survey Results – 2016
3
2
Purpose of Trigraph sequences in C++
3
3
Why does the JVM have a maximum inline depth?
2
4
Is it possible to disable the network in iOS Simulator?
2
Substack [?]