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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
1277
2
The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
984
3
153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack
943
4
The Limitations of Deep Learning
794
5
Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
708
6
Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers
611
7
The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
609
8
Things I wish someone had told me before I started angel investing
602
9
Why Should I Start a Startup?
569
10
Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
563
Top Ask HN
1
What tasks do you automate?
389
2
Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps
188
3
How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
152
4
When has switching the language/framework made an important difference?
140
5
Coping with Loneliness
138
6
Does success in work bring you happiness?
122
7
What are some good tools for keeping a software project on track?
99
8
What's the worst thing your code has done?
89
9
What questions did you ask (or wish you asked) your cofounder?
88
10
What problems does blockchain solve?
76
Top Show HN
1
A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
523
2
$200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing
491
3
Cinc – GitHub for recipes
363
4
An API for scraping recipe web pages
208
5
Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet
199
6
End-to-end deep learning experimentation platform for Tensorflow
151
7
Open Source Search Engine to Learn Anything
145
8
Unix-like personal webpage
133
9
Find Remote Work
114
10
PDF Otter – Fill in PDFs Online and API
109
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit
529
2
Yandex open sources CatBoost, a gradient boosting ML library
202
3
How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)
182
4
Plenty, Indoor Farming Startup, Raises $200M
157
5
I hacked my body for a future that never came
157
6
Google launches new security features to protect users from unverified apps
155
7
Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil
151
8
Elon Musk says he has a green light to build a NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC hyperloop
138
9
Net neutrality is dying with a whimper
129
10
Desktop Metal gets $115M in funding to deliver metal 3D printing
128
News [?]
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Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
708
2
Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
501
3
Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month
371
4
In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete
312
5
How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US
285
6
Norway, where no salaries are secret
253
7
Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (2015)
235
8
Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return
211
9
How an ex-FBI profiler helped put an innocent man behind bars
210
10
San Francisco's VC Boom Is Over
197
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA’s New Horizons Team Strikes Gold in Argentina
133
2
The Security Behind the Birth of Zcash
129
3
Probability quantum world obeys local realism is less than one in a billion
70
4
IEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages
57
5
2017 Top Programming Languages
55
6
Bodily maps of emotions [pdf]
7
7
Sunscreen creams break down into dangerous chemical compounds under the sunlight
7
8
New breakthrough discovery – every quantum particle travels backwards
6
9
Elon Musk Calls for Moon Base
5
10
NASA Video Soars Over Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Emacs and Magit
274
2
How Google Wants to Rewire the Internet
250
3
A quick guide to Stripe’s culture
146
4
The System Bottleneck Shifts to PCI-Express
131
5
Cryptoeconomics: Paving the Future of Blockchain Technology
114
6
Daydream Labs: Teaching Skills in VR
92
7
The New Server Economies of Scale for AMD
72
8
Explore ISS in Google Street View
65
9
Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’
30
10
When Feature Flags Go Wrong (2016)
25
Tech blogs [?]
1
Dell 38 inch UltraSharp monitor
207
2
Librarians Call on W3C to Rethink Its Support for DRM
16
3
Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick: Deep Learning and AI on a $79 USB Stick
7
4
Intel Launches Neural Compute Stick: Deep Learning and AI on a $79 USB Stick
6
5
Why the Ninth Circuit Got It Wrong on National Security Letters
6
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European Copyright Votes Show Publishers Have Captured European Politics
4
7
PLC vs. Arduino Show Down
4
8
Viking Ships UHC-Silo SSDs: 25 – 50 TB Capacity, Custom EMLC, SAS, $0.4 per GB
3
9
Movidius Neural Compute Stick: Deep Learning and AI on a $79 USB Stick
3
10
Conventional Current vs. Electron Current
3
FAANG+ [?]
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The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
15
2
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $23.3B, up 13% YoY, with net income of $6.5B
5
3
LambdaEdge – Intelligent Processing of HTTP Requests at the Edge
4
4
Amazon Redshift Spectrum Extends Data Warehousing to Exabytes
4
5
Koka: a functional programming language with effect inference
3
6
Lambda@Edge Now Generally Available
3
7
New: Server-Side Encryption for Amazon Kinesis Streams
3
8
The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware Platforms (2013)
2
9
Sockeye – Amazon Neural Machine Translation with MXNet
2
10
Apple previews new emoji coming later this year
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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$4k Renault compared to Tesla Model 3
265
2
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
203
3
The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016)
143
4
A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s
107
5
19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their Language
75
6
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
69
7
The ages of distraction
57
8
Mondo 2000 Issue 2 (1990)
55
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Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy
44
10
Salacious Convent Exposés Were the Most Popular Books in Antebellum America
21
Science News [?]
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Patient Number One in a new cancer treatment
265
2
Time Is Contagious
131
3
The rise of passive investors
116
4
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses
116
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The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
99
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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium
97
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Buried tools and pigments tell a history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years
91
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Dreaming of prime numbers in short intervals
77
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The Stars Are a Comforting Constant
64
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How Life and Death Spring from Disorder
59
Social [?]
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AMD has no plans to release PSP code
244
2
Microsoft is Hiring Go engineers to work on Kubernetes
143
3
ARKit + CoreLocation [video]
101
4
What if the Web was filesystem-accessible?
41
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My Father-In-Law Won't Become a Coder, No Matter What Economists Say
33
6
Tensors Explained Intuitively: Covariant, Contravariant, Rank
27
7
The standard keyboard (Gboard) on HTC 10 has begun displaying ads
20
8
Parity wallet critical vulnerability. $32M (153k $ETH) Stolen
20
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A demonstration of Schlieren photography, allowing us to see air that is moving
19
10
Critical bug in Ethereum multisig wallet. At least $32M worth of ethers stolen
19
Github repos and gists [?]
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Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
300
2
LeoCAD – A CAD program for creating virtual Lego models
281
3
A decentralized Bitcoin exchange
272
4
Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform
246
5
Anyprint: use any language's print statements in Python
113
6
Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of APIs
108
7
An FPGA-friendly 32-bit RISC-V CPU implementation
102
8
$100k donation to the Internet Bug Bounty
99
9
GitHub updates Terms of Service
94
10
Minimap plugin for Atom implements ads, refuses to revert, resulting in a fork
70
Wikipedia [?]
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Object-relational impedance mismatch
17
2
Lojban: a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language
12
3
Ice Stupa, used in deserts to slowly release water
8
4
Clever Hans
6
5
You probably don't know who invented neon lighting, the reason is politics
4
6
Function-level programming
3
7
Liberty Reserve
3
8
Wikipedia pages have overlay in the text area: GNAA Notice – over Bumble app
3
9
Along the River During the Qingming Festival (painting, circa A.D. 1120)
3
10
Stability–instability paradox
3
Blogs [?]
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Terminal and shell performance
404
2
Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
362
3
Building a tiny blockchain
187
4
I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years
156
5
How misaligning data can increase performance by reducing cache misses (2014)
94
6
Training a neural net to generate British placenames
90
7
First Czechoslovak radiotelephone networks: AMR
74
8
A Look into NASA’s Coding Philosophy
70
9
Overengineering the Deployment of Static HTML with CI/CD Docker and Kubernetes
52
10
Pentagon study declares American Empire is 'collapsing'
43
Stackoverflow [?]
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StackOverflow for private teams in beta
113
2
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
52
3
Getting Started with Node.js
8
4
Magic numbers of the Linux reboot() system call
2
5
How to make Git pull use rebase by default for all my repositories
2
6
Pass URL Params with Firebase Rewrites? [50pts Bounty]
2
7
Abusing the algebra of algebraic data types – why does this work?
1
8
“1…1” – How to explain weird PHP echo results
1
9
2017 Moderator Election
1
10
JPG vs. JPEG image formats
1
Substack [?]