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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
1687
2
Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
881
3
How is GNU `yes` so fast?
872
4
Reverse engineering guide for beginners: Methodology and tools
801
5
#c0ffee is the color
783
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Chess.com stopped working on 32bit iPads because 2^31 games have been played
757
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European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
756
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Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
744
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Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption
654
10
Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
650
Top Ask HN
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How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
308
2
My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?
263
3
Alternatives to Yubikey?
157
4
Why TensorFlow instead of Theano for deep learning?
138
5
Do you plan your next day ahead?
129
6
Tired founders facing acquihire – please advise
106
7
What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
90
8
Tech-cofounder feeling lost/burned-out. What to do?
90
9
How can one learn to build API gateways?
87
10
Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary reviews
84
Top Show HN
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Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
1100
2
Snips is a AI Voice Assistant platform 100% on-device and private
372
3
Password-protect a static HTML page
348
4
Vexlio – Create precise, beautiful diagrams
309
5
Version Control for Microsoft Word
220
6
Keygen – A dead-simple software licensing API built for developers
190
7
5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular
184
8
Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell
155
9
Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books
145
10
uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1
92
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
744
2
Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely
533
3
Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
383
4
Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms
327
5
Air Force budget reveals how much SpaceX undercuts launch prices
198
6
Justin Kan Raises $10M for New Legal Startup
161
7
Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin
149
8
History by lawsuit: the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt
145
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Uber rape victim sues Uber, says execs got her medical records
126
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Bankrupt Mt. Gox may soon be able to pay its creditors
104
News [?]
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Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
1687
2
Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
650
3
I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
399
4
The Konami exodus
391
5
Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
348
6
The Old Are Eating the Young
338
7
The Holder Report on Uber
294
8
American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem, Then They Outsourced It
288
9
A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees
276
10
Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer
268
Scientific publications [?]
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The relationship between telomere length and diet (2016)
121
2
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014)
98
3
By the end of 2017, Google hopes to prove quantum computers can beat classical
83
4
Solving systems of linear equations with quantum mechanics
64
5
Deep Neural Networks – Attention is all you need (No recurrence or convolutions)
12
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Attention Is All You Need (Neural Networks)
8
7
The Effects of Exercise on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
8
8
Talking to E.T.? Why Math May Be the Best Language
6
9
Creating Virtual Universes Using Generative Adversarial Networks
4
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Forward Thinking: Building and Training Neural Networks One Layer at a Time
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
881
2
For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
330
3
Instagram Makes a Smooth Move to Python 3
218
4
2017 Python Language Summit: Lightning Talks
92
5
New Kids on the Block: Understanding Developers Entering the Workforce Today
49
6
Clever RDMA Technique Delivers Distributed Memory Pooling
36
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Making Python faster
28
8
Faster Firefox: It’s Better Now
25
9
Don't use Blockchain
22
10
Twitter Product Design Refresh
14
Tech blogs [?]
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16nm ARMv8 SoC for servers and workstations
99
2
One Hundred Years of the Espionage Act
40
3
ISP Fought a Secret Surveillance Order, Court Denied It Access to Relevant Law
24
4
Hints of iPhone 8 Showing Up in Web Analytics
12
5
Spotify Continues to Grow Faster Than Apple Music Thanks to Free Tier
12
6
What's New in MacOS High Sierra: APFS, Metal 2, Photos Improvements, Safari Auto
9
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European Parliament Committee Recommends End-To-End Encryption
7
8
Apple updates iWork apps for Mac with new shape library and more
3
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‘tipping’ controversy in China highlights gap in Apple’s cultural understanding
3
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Bad Broadband Market Begs for Net Neutrality Protections
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? (2012) [pdf]
75
2
New – Auto Scaling for Amazon DynamoDB
5
3
Amazon Restaurants
3
4
Introducing Echo Look
2
5
Hardware is the new software [pdf]
2
6
Amazon Dash Wand – Alexa and Dash Button for the Kitchen
2
7
Amazon Aurora Introduces Database Cloning Capabilities
2
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Habitual Happiness
2
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Latency Distribution Graph in AWS X-Ray
1
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AWS GovCloud (US) Heads East – New Region in the Works for 2018
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books
379
2
Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads
193
3
C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)
180
4
Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start
157
5
The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
109
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The Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget
100
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Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool
66
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GM announces completed production of 130 autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs
44
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Man's Search for Meaning
42
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1903 Parrot Academy That Taught Birds to Speak Using Phonographs
34
Science News [?]
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European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
756
2
Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)
190
3
Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars
155
4
Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
140
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Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance
138
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The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated
133
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The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (2009)
90
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Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales
78
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Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that
71
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Overexposure to insecticides has bred resistance in lice
68
Social [?]
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How is GNU `yes` so fast?
872
2
“Someone was typing in a URL and WhatsApp was fetching it off my server”
174
3
Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act
120
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Pavel Durov: “last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies”
76
5
Air France requires account password to be between 4 and 6 characters
38
6
Where in the world it is easiest to get rich (Ted talk)
29
7
Jeff Bezos: Request for ideas
28
8
FreeWallet.org scam – millions stolen
25
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Adobe support tells teacher to “get a better job”
25
10
C++Now 2017 Videos
17
Github repos and gists [?]
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Open source deep learning models that programmers can download and run first try
181
2
Tensorflow v1.2 released
174
3
Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go
172
4
Bingrep: Like grep, but for binaries
145
5
GitHub adds support for nested organization teams
143
6
GUN 0.7.9 – 15M read/sec, 15K write/sec, 2K sync/sec MIT Licensed Graph Database
142
7
Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
141
8
Ante: a compile-time language
122
9
Generating executable files from scratch
114
10
Daisy: A private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, in Go
105
Wikipedia [?]
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Computational sociology
97
2
Subutai – Primary military strategist of Genghis Khan
84
3
IP over Avian Carriers
44
4
Wikipedia:Unusual articles
27
5
Feynman sprinkler
27
6
Hashlife
10
7
Oh-My-God particle
4
8
TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool
4
9
CLU (programming language)
3
10
Unconference
3
Blogs [?]
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Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
157
2
10x engineers take long naps
85
3
Cross-platform email client with React and CoffeeScript
71
4
Bitcoin Is for Drugs
49
5
Log-structured storage
39
6
Visualizing Uber and Lyft trips in San Francisco: more than 200K trips a day
38
7
Why we should teach kids actual programming, not Scratch, etc.
18
8
Reduce your JavaScript bundle size by 77%
17
9
Libraries.io Releases Data on Over 25m Software Repositories
17
10
Why Uber's Anthony Levandowski has (almost) nothing to lose
15
Stackoverflow [?]
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Weird sorting behaviour in Firefox
2
2
Why I am not able to get stock price value in powershell?
2
3
YouTube subtitles not showing for embedded video – even the button is missing
2
4
How to forget head(GC'd) for lazy-sequences in Clojure?
2
5
Ul element can never be a child of p element
1
Substack [?]