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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

1503

2

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

1382

3

RethinkDB Postmortem

948

4

Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

937

5

Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

880

6

843

7

NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction

808

8

Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0

720

9

Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy

673

10

Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)

655

Top Ask HN

1

What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

670

2

Are we overcomplicating software development?

639

3

What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?

448

4

Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

306

5

The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?

208

6

How to effectively learn PowerShell?

196

7

Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice?

148

8

How to start a career as a generalist?

145

9

Ultrabook for programming?

137

10

Recommended guides for learning filesystems?

131

Top Show HN

1

Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

1183

2

Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages

423

3

GitHub trending alternative that ranks repos by contribution rate

142

4

JSON Browse – Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser

138

5

An app for your older relatives, helping them find the right cables

113

6

CloudBoost – Open-Source Parse, Firebase and Algolia Combined into One

113

7

ChatSecure iOS v4.0 – OMEMO and Signal Protocol

107

8

Kur by Deepgram (YC S16) – Deep Learning Made Easy

103

9

A software solution to ultrasound blood flow monitoring

85

10

Parrot – Self-Hosted Localization Management Platform

74

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction

808

2

Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering

325

3

Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls

290

4

Security researchers call for Guardian to retract false WhatsApp backdoor story

254

5

Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers

200

6

How a robot got Super Mario 64 and Portal “running” on an SNES

172

7

Kristen Stewart co-authors AI paper

129

8

Facebook to Open Startup Garage at Station F in Paris

126

9

FCC to be led by Ajit Pai, staunch opponent of consumer protection rules

115

10

Apple’s UK App Store prices will rise 25% following Brexit currency fluctuations

110

News [?]

1

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

1503

2

U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination

479

3

How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World

420

4

China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

257

5

Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures

241

6

Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History

238

7

How Deutsche Bank Made a $462M Loss Disappear

238

8

High-Speed Traders Are Taking Over Bitcoin

237

9

Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60

188

10

Artificial intelligence predicts when heart will fail

167

Scientific publications [?]

1

Gene Cernan has died

409

2

Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning

116

3

The importance of neutral null for understanding evolution

95

4

Solving a math problem to create art [pdf]

60

5

RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)

50

6

Fast exact summation using small and large superaccumulators

31

7

On the arXiv: dolphin echolocation algorithm for automatic knot adjustment

18

8

NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

11

9

Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim

8

10

A tale of two pulsars' tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

348

2

Mozilla launches new brand identity

292

3

Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

269

4

An Explainer on Unix’s Most Notorious Code Comment

173

5

PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault

161

6

We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps

154

7

Who Is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?

137

8

Supercharge your Sublime Text 3 to increase your productivity

105

9

WhatsApp Security Vulnerability

100

10

RedHat Ansible High-Risk Vulnerability

39

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF's 100-Day Plan

218

2

YouTube no longer supports 4K video playback in Safari

67

3

15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class RAM, Later This Year

35

4

The Microsoft Surface Studio Review

33

5

Copyright Shouldn't Be a Tool of Censorship

7

6

Google Launches Key Transparency While a WhatsApp Trade-Off Is Called Backdoor

7

7

Turning an IBM Selectric into a Printer (2012)

5

8

EFF's 100-Day Plan

4

9

Apple's Stock Reaches Highest Price Since 2015

4

10

Street Level Surveillance

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway

254

2

96

3

Introducing the AWS IoT Button Enterprise Program

3

4

Optimizing resource efficiency in Microsoft Azure

3

5

Test your keyboard for N-Key Rollover/Ghosting

3

6

New Intel NUC with Windows 10 pre-installed only $215

2

7

Microsoft Pelican: using archival hard drives for cold storage racks [pdf]

2

8

Police Report Details Darpa Remote Neural Monitoring Harassment by Army PSYOP

2

9

Linux Usage Throughout AWS Marketplace

1

10

Amazon Surprise Sweets Dash Button

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]

415

2

80,000 Hours career plan worksheet

230

3

139

4

Stop Paying Executives for Performance (2016)

73

5

Five Architectural Easter Eggs Hiding on Gothic Cathedrals

58

6

The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech

57

7

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

22

8

What the World Would Look Like If All the Ice Melted

20

9

Transcript of POTUS remarks to CIA, as delivered

15

10

What the World Would Look Like If All the Ice Melted (2013)

12

Science News [?]

1

Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

327

2

Gates Foundation research can’t be published in top journals

302

3

Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

272

4

The Mind of an Octopus

185

5

Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone

167

6

Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus

123

7

Woman Killed by a Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic

78

8

Dispute at Harvard leads to a restraining order against a prominent scientist

70

9

The Strange Persistence of First Languages (2015)

51

10

Food-grade TiO2 impairs intestinal and systemic immune homeostasis in rats

42

Social [?]

1

And that, kids, is why we call it a “Patch”

331

2

Computer Architecture Essentials [video]

149

3

MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars

144

4

2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography

141

5

Shopify now on Rails 5.0. started 12 years ago on 0.5, the First version released

126

6

How to Land the Space Shuttle from Space [video]

116

7

Go 1.8 Performance Improvements on ARM (RasPi)

67

8

Performance: SIMD, Vectorization and Performance Tuning [video]

51

9

Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE

43

10

Libtls: Rethinking the TLS/SSL API [video]

32

Github repos and gists [?]

1

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn

1382

2

RethinkDB Postmortem

948

3

Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

937

4

Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0

720

5

Mo.js: motion graphics toolbelt for the web

406

6

Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine

225

7

Intel Management Engine cleaner

223

8

FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage

191

9

WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

188

10

Go vs. Swift [pdf]

166

Wikipedia [?]

1

Nicaraguan Sign Language

74

2

7

3

Conflict-free replicated data type

6

4

Deschooling Society

6

5

4

6

Rosenhan experiment: pseudopatients in psychiatric hospitals (1973)

4

7

Secure multi-party computation

4

8

Tupper's Self Referential Formula

4

9

First 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

How much does employee turnover really cost?

541

2

Coinbase and the IRS

276

3

Game Theory Reveals the Future of Deep Learning

200

4

How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization (2016)

71

5

How to intercept all Wire voice and video calls

58

6

Webpack v2 is officially released

35

7

Saving obsolete jobs

32

8

Charisma / Power

29

9

Gestures Glamour: Setting Up a Touch Menu – Step by Step Tutorial

25

10

A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media

21

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is there still any reason to learn AWK?

11

2

Valid, but worthless syntax in switch-case?

3

3

Socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT, how do they differ?

3

4

Makefile vs. makefile

3

Substack [?]