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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets

1074

2

I'm not a Woman in Tech

876

3

Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018

857

4

What Is Ethereum?

837

5

It is as if you were doing work

752

6

Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees

729

7

Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub

711

8

Mental health is still an issue in the workplace

659

9

Defending a website with Zip bombs

631

10

I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors

587

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (July 2017)

635

2

What habits make a programmer great?

518

3

What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

503

4

Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

331

5

What ways have worked for you to overcome 'imposter syndrome'?

323

6

How to prepare for an Engineering Manager interview?

315

7

What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?

300

8

What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

203

9

How do you backup your linux system?

92

10

Name good examples of Modern C++ usage

82

Top Show HN

1

A virtual machine made with Google Sheets formulas (no script)

620

2

Under the hood ReactJS

266

3

Globe visualizations in Golang

258

4

A notebook-style Common Lisp environment

180

5

An online interactive Kubernetes playground

164

6

Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

154

7

Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

142

8

OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.

127

9

Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox

115

10

Miso – A Haskell implementation of Elm

114

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

462

2

OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot

409

3

The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax

355

4

An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

248

5

Real estate site Redfin files for IPO

246

6

Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related health startup

227

7

Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz

191

8

Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories

189

9

Tesla drops 7% after Goldman Sachs says the stock is worth $180

173

10

More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel about the site

166

News [?]

1

388

2

Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

340

3

How to See What the Internet Knows About You

310

4

Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO

224

5

Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusual address

219

6

What the brain's wiring looks like

214

7

Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viability of renewables

208

8

NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars

204

9

Amazon engineer will let strangers manage his $50,000 stock portfolio 'forever'

202

10

Cameras are about to get a lot smaller

193

Scientific publications [?]

1

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web

352

2

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot

221

3

New studies of ancient concrete could teach us to do as the Romans did

213

4

Signatures of extra dimensions in gravitational waves

155

5

The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else

144

6

Exercise as a Preventive or Disease-Modifying Treatment for Dementia Brain Aging

140

7

Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory

84

8

Space Junk Solution? Tiny Cubesat to Test New De-Orbiting Thruster

58

9

Index Search Algorithms for Databases and Modern CPUs (2010) [pdf]

58

10

Under the Hood of Luminar's Long-Reach Lidar

58

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How we made compiler warnings fatal in Firefox

235

2

Roland McGrath bows out as glibc maintainer

198

3

Memory use in CPython and MicroPython

164

4

A rift in the NTP world

22

5

Now It's Easier Than Ever to Steal Someone's Keys

18

6

Oracle Releases an OCI-Based Container Runtime Written in Rust

17

7

U.S. Military Sees Future in Neuromorphic Computing

17

8

Write Down Your Password – Schneier on Security

15

9

Glibc Enables a Per-Thread Cache for Malloc – Big Performance Win

12

10

How to Make a Simple Twitter Clone with React Native

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

Measuring the Progress of AI Research

154

2

Amid Unprecedented Controversy, W3C Greenlights DRM for the Web

25

3

McMansion Hell Controversy Illustrates Why Supreme Court Should Limit the CFAA

4

4

Security Researchers Don't Think Apple Pays Enough for Bug Bounties

4

5

Court Orders Prolific Patent Troll to Pay Defendant’s Legal Bill

4

6

Free as in beer, or the story of Windows viruses

4

7

EFF Condemns Detentions at Turkish Digital Security Meeting

4

8

Demand a Vote on Broadband Privacy Before the Telecom Lobby Runs Out the Clock

3

9

Trump’s FBI Pick Has a Troubling History on Digital Liberties

3

10

Qualcomm’s New Lawsuit Cites Six Patents, Seeks US Sales Ban of Apple Products

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Manage Kubernetes Clusters on AWS Using Kops

164

2

Melford: Using Neural Networks to Find Spreadsheet Errors [pdf]

35

3

New – API and CloudFormation Support for Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards

5

4

Microsoft Testaetataaaasdfasdf

4

5

Application Architecture Guidance for .NET

3

6

Implementing Algebraic Effects in C

3

7

Fast CNN Tuning with AWS GPU Instances and SigOpt

3

8

Amazon Is Ready with Prime Day Deals

2

9

AWS Online Tech Talks – July 2017

2

10

One-Click Check-In/Check-Out and More for Airbnb Guests Using an AWS IoT Button

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Still locked out of my AWS account

463

2

Hire a former SoundClouder

325

3

Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians

186

4

Horrors of ‘Kodi Boxes’ Shock The UK

36

5

A manually curated list of 240+ popular programming podcast episodes

34

6

Tesla Model S Rated 'Acceptable' in IIHS Crash Test, Tesla Lashes Back

34

7

The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time

32

8

Fear of radiation is more dangerous than radiation itself

25

9

The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite

16

10

Hire a former SoundClouder

7

Science News [?]

1

Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees

729

2

325

3

How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

243

4

Impossibly Hungry Judges

226

5

How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015)

202

6

More Millennials Are Having Strokes

200

7

‘Anumeric’ people: when a language has no words for numbers

85

8

Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles

79

9

An obsession with eminence warps research

72

10

How the Oil Pipeline Began

70

Social [?]

1

I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program

550

2

Mastering Programming (2016)

452

3

What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees?

105

4

Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]

71

5

Telescope Building with John Dobson (2014) [video]

54

6

Why can't you guys comment your fucking code?

48

7

Amazon closed my account without providing recourse

40

8

How Bitcoin Works [video] 3b1b

36

9

Useless Ethereum Token ICO raises over $5,000 in the first twelve hours

30

10

The origin of the ’80s aesthetic

20

Github repos and gists [?]

1

API Security Checklist for developers

321

2

100 days of algorithms

294

3

A set of best practices for JavaScript projects

265

4

Block-breaking game in vim 8.0

223

5

RFC: Evolving Rust Through Epochs

127

6

An R package which converts markdown files into mindmaps

126

7

Experimental UI framework running .NET in the browser via WebAssembly

121

8

Introducing code owners

121

9

Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command

118

10

RailCar: Rust implementation of oci-runtime

99

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bored of the Rings

55

2

Northeast blackout of 2003

28

3

Chester Carlson – Inventor of Xerography

23

4

The Year 2038 Problem

12

5

Chinese room argument

11

6

6

7

Yale Conic Sections Rebellion

3

8

Wikipedia vandalism detection bot algorithm

3

9

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Mental health is still an issue in the workplace

659

2

Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

449

3

US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows

381

4

Linux tracing systems and how they fit together

256

5

How ‘Critical User Journeys’ can help a product take off

194

6

How I got banned from Codewars

178

7

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?

177

8

Why I’m leaving 18F

165

9

The story of the Slovak national top-level domain

124

10

An Adversarial Review of “Adversarial Generation of Natural Language”

119

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can you program if you're blind? (2013)

58

2

Derived account balance vs. stored account balance for a simple bank account?

2

3

StackOverflow: Performance difference between pattern matching and if-else

2

4

Kotlin's equivalent of Java Streams are succinct and beautiful

2

5

Truth value of Python sets

1

6

Efficiently calculating mathematical formulas with exponents using Python

1

7

DDD – the rule that Entities can't access Repositories directly

1

Substack [?]