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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

1879

2

Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem

772

3

Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud

752

4

Exa, a modern replacement for ls

740

5

App sizes are out of control

729

6

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

728

7

Deep Learning for Coders – Launching Deep Learning Part 2

716

8

Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community

664

9

Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest

655

10

Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python

625

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2017)

439

2

Have you regretted making something open-source?

352

3

How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?

239

4

What is your content discovery daily routine?

235

5

What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

211

6

Starting blogging when you're not an expert?

185

7

Experiences going part time?

110

8

Resources for learning advanced JavaScript and React

109

9

Just made Director, now what?

98

10

Who wants to be hired? (August 2017)

97

Top Show HN

1

564

2

Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8

254

3

Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14

175

4

RESTful Doom – HTTP+JSON API inside Doom

136

5

Failory – Learn from other entrepreneurs' mistakes

108

6

Anonymous interview evals of strong software/ML engineering candidates

95

7

A perceptron with stochastic gradient descent in Go

94

8

Telegram VoIP library

79

9

Cron Syntax Cheatsheet

73

10

Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)

72

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another

598

2

Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

400

3

Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

386

4

LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission

374

5

The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

353

6

Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards

263

7

Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers

261

8

Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair

231

9

FCC says its cybersecurity measures to prevent DDoS attacks must remain secret

210

10

Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

208

News [?]

1

Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud

752

2

Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community

664

3

Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins

620

4

How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe

594

5

NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

455

6

Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue

317

7

Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer

317

8

A Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Looks Like a Statue

310

9

Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary

308

10

Scientists Edge Closer To Lab Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

284

Scientific publications [?]

1

Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms

194

2

Race to discover Planet Nine using astronomy and new computational techniques

166

3

NASA Graphics Standards Manual

53

4

Fingerprint Extraction Using Smartphone Camera

40

5

Teenage Whiz Kid Invents an AI System to Diagnose Her Grandfather's Eye Disease

6

6

Transforming Drone Uses Wings and Rotors to Fly Efficiently

3

7

World's smallest neutrino detector observes elusive interactions of particles

3

8

Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction

3

9

Earth's 2017 resource 'budget' spent by August 2

3

10

New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Languages Which Almost Became CSS

301

2

Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster

160

3

Waiting for Apache Open Office

119

4

50+ Segmentation Faults per Hour: Continuing to Stress Ryzen

93

5

Zilla Slab: A common language through a shared font

67

6

Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next?

56

7

New Bill Seeks Basic IoT Security Standards

48

8

Stratis Is Red Hat's Plan for Next-Gen Linux Storage Without Btrfs

35

9

Red Hat Appears to Be Abandoning Their Btrfs Hopes

23

10

Ryzen-Test and Stress-Run Make It Easy to Cause Segmentation Faults on Zen CPUs

20

Tech blogs [?]

1

3D metal printing is about to go mainstream

391

2

Dell XPS 15 9560 Review

174

3

AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture

139

4

Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)

130

5

Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

82

6

Broadpwn – All Your Mobiles Are Belong to Us – Hackaday

75

7

AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Vega

49

8

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Unboxing

49

9

AMD unveils Radeon RX Vega GPUs for high-end gaming PCs

26

10

Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation

20

FAANG+ [?]

1

Implementing Algebraic Effects in C

150

2

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

113

3

76

4

New – Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex Integration

5

5

How I Made $290,000 Selling Books

4

6

Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3% precision

3

7

Pro-Git (first edition, kindle) is free right now

2

8

How to simply use object detection for complex image classification scenarios

2

9

Open and click tracking now available in Amazon SES

2

10

Sales Tax Holiday

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?

294

2

A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days

160

3

What Sets Successful CEOs Apart

157

4

Mercedes kills their only electric car

120

5

Tesla's Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry

105

6

The ctenophore’s brain and the evolution of intelligence

81

7

Tesla announces Q2 2017 earnings

73

8

The sea was never blue

60

9

Tesla Model 3 is equipped with a driver-facing camera

33

10

The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable (2016)

17

Science News [?]

1

Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

269

2

The digital native is a myth

189

3

Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite

102

4

Why nature prefers hexagons

101

5

An 1814 Beer Flood that Killed Eight People

85

6

The scientific reason you don’t like LED bulbs – and the simple way to fix them

80

7

A New Explanation for Ball Lightning

75

8

Emergence of Original Music Through Algorithms

67

9

The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

66

10

Cold War espionage paid off–until it backfired, East German spy records reveal

13

Social [?]

1

Malicious crossenv package on npm

578

2

ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator [video]

248

3

Slack using React Dev Build in Production

181

4

Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video]

164

5

Germany's biggest Bitcoin exchange surrenders user data to the police

98

6

“Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 will both ditch the headphone jack.”

46

7

Time Lapse Building the Lego Tower Bridge in Front of the Real Tower Bridge

37

8

Reports of AT&T intercepting and re-signing TLS

31

9

Professor who refused to use other genders pronouns, was banned by Google

22

10

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality [Anil Seth – Ted Talk]

16

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Postage – A fast replacement for pgAdmin

247

2

Black Book of Graphics Programming, Special Edition (1997)

229

3

TypeScripts Type System Is Turing Complete

221

4

Learn GraphQL with GitHub

191

5

What happens when you type Google.com into the address box and press enter

172

6

Rust RFC 2094: non-lexical lifetimes

156

7

Node.js: Initial experimental implementation of HTTP/2

146

8

Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

143

9

Rezoom.SQL: Statically typed SQL for F#

138

10

Mailit: A Tiny Drop-In REST API to Send Emails

133

Wikipedia [?]

1

225

2

Name-letter Effect

165

3

69

4

Andon Cord (vehicle manufacturing)

6

5

Queen bee syndrome

5

6

Solar updraft tower

3

7

Nokia Branded Footwear

3

8

Brand top-level domains

2

9

The CST Project – Fully Automated Underground Cargo Tunnel System in Switzerland

2

10

Tree of Knowledge System

2

Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ‘Tether’

224

2

Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM

162

3

RAM Is the New Disk

162

4

The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

156

5

Image Classification using Deep NN: beginner-friendly approach using TensorFlow

136

6

Developer UX at Google

117

7

From zero to Production Elixir in 1 month

78

8

The Best DevOps Is NoOps

52

9

Three areas where self-driving cars will bring new opportunities

48

10

Persistent XSS for Medium accounts

45

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How secure is using Maven?

2

2

Huge number of files generated for every Angular project

1

Substack [?]