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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Time to Take a Stand
1131
2
First they came for the Iranians
1000
3
I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
951
4
Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
947
5
Wine 2.0 released
896
6
Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
873
7
Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
859
8
George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
830
9
Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
811
10
Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
756
Top Ask HN
1
What inspires you to persevere through adversity?
401
2
What are good software architecture interview questions?
259
3
How to best teach a group of children how to code?
257
4
YC please talk about Immigration Order
223
5
Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?
207
6
Why aren't there middle class cars shaped like Ferraris?
198
7
What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
198
8
What's happening in agricultural technology?
194
9
Is there really a market for deep learning skills without a Ph.D?
171
10
Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
159
Top Show HN
1
Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out
419
2
Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
403
3
A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
377
4
Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle
334
5
Math Attack – My side project of 3 years
292
6
Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues
233
7
Command Line Challenge
205
8
Bitesnap – Deep Learning Meets Food Logging
174
9
Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning
138
10
Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ
130
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them
440
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Two Infants Treated with Universal Immune Cells Have Their Cancer Vanish
318
3
Create systems that make it easy for you to succeed
225
4
Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content
213
5
Trump order strips privacy rights from non-U.S. citizens
201
6
Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (2016)
185
7
Apollo 1
168
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After a century failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines
141
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Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary info, poaching employees
134
10
US pulls out of Trans-Pacific Partnership
123
News [?]
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Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M
494
2
Paper is the real 'killer app'
459
3
Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
389
4
Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
335
5
China tightens Great Firewall by declaring unauthorised VPN services illegal
292
6
US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
282
7
How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains
269
8
The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
268
9
Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street
258
10
Google planning to bring AI and ML tools to Raspberry Pi
249
Scientific publications [?]
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Why Does It Take So Long to Connect to a WiFi Access Point?
218
2
Toyota's Gill Pratt on Self-Driving Cars and the Reality of Full Autonomy
190
3
Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (2013)
163
4
New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts
145
5
Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record
103
6
Velodyne Plans a Lidar Megafactory
88
7
The spreading of misinformation online (2015)
66
8
NASA Studies Cosmic Radiation to Protect High-Altitude Travelers
50
9
Placebo effects in cognitive training [pdf]
39
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Designing Neural Network Architectures Using Reinforcement Learning
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.
720
2
Twitter discloses national security letters
549
3
Linux Performance
536
4
Updates to our Google Voice apps
457
5
iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews
440
6
What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe
230
7
Safari 10.1
183
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Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
175
9
Python 2.8?
73
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“How” ages faster than “why”
66
Tech blogs [?]
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Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground
278
2
Forth: The Hacker’s Language
216
3
Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
185
4
EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices
129
5
Night Shift Mode in macOS Sierra 10.12.4
114
6
Data shows 85% of humans live under a corrupt government
81
7
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Immigration Executive Order
34
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A personal fight against the modern laptop
29
9
iOS 10.3 Switches to APFS
16
10
Attorney General Nominee Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors
12
FAANG+ [?]
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
230
2
Deep Learning Book (2016)
35
3
Announcing IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances – Regional Expansion
10
4
Amazon Cloud Directory for Hierarchical Data
4
5
Running MXNet on AWS Lambda
3
6
Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
3
7
AWS CodeDeploy introduces blue/green deployments
3
8
Apple wants you to learn swift
3
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Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down [pdf]
2
10
Microsoft: Azure usage doubled
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
756
2
TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
306
3
Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills
139
4
Open-RethinkDB meeting notes #4
137
5
ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet on Abrams Tank Is a Sign of What’s to Come
124
6
Five-month-old babies know what’s funny
116
7
Tesla brings online its 80 MWh Powerpack station with SoCal Edison
106
8
Is atomic theory the most important idea in human history?
70
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Solar power cost down 25% in five months
28
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Tesla to Transition to ‘Fully Self-Driving’ Features in ‘3 to 6 months’
26
Science News [?]
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Scientists must fight for the facts
302
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Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals
200
3
Should gifted students go to a separate school?
175
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Researchers are beginning to disentangle pain relief from addiction and overdose
154
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Geneticist Michael Eisen Launches Bid for US Senate
114
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Information Theory and the Foundation of Life
100
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Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
97
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He wrote the future: On Arthur C. Clarke's centenary
96
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Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma
90
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Big science has a buzzword problem
29
Social [?]
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Standing up for what's right
402
2
Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video]
174
3
Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality
173
4
How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016)
156
5
Security Key for safer logins with a touch
121
6
My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]
103
7
Public appeal to backup Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory's FTP repo
85
8
John Carmack on the Government
62
9
How to Bullet Journal
44
10
Robot beats “I am not a Robot” Captcha
33
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with Node.js and React Native
349
2
Resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists
183
3
Jupyter-themes – Custom Jupyter Notebook Themes
131
4
TensorFlow 1.0.0-rc0
103
5
What a good commit message looks like (2011)
96
6
Homebrew, but with Docker images
95
7
SIP-Pi: SIP Answering Machine on Raspberry Pi
90
8
PunyForth: Forth inspired programming language for the ESP8266
88
9
MEGA source code
87
10
IPFS – The Permanent Web
67
Wikipedia [?]
1
Fast inverse square root
17
2
HTTP 451: Unavailable for Legal Reasons
10
3
Dorothy Vaughan
6
4
U2F: open standard for hardware 2FA
5
5
VxWorks
4
6
John G. Trump
4
7
ReBoot (1994)
4
8
African military intervention forces Gambian dictator to accept election results
4
9
Internet Water Army
3
10
Bass diffusion model: differential equation for predicting tech adoption rates
3
Blogs [?]
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Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5
309
2
How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more
164
3
A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four years (2016)
86
4
Apple Inc: A Pre-Mortem
66
5
Why Nerds Are Unpopular (2003)
61
6
Rails developers should learn React
56
7
Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is
49
8
Speed Reading is Bullshit
31
9
Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again
31
10
Why am I leaving the American Dream?
20
Stackoverflow [?]
1
StackOverflow is down
16
2
Access control in Datomic
1
3
Google Chrome's JavaScript Developer Console Bug
1
4
C++ Double Address Operator (&&)
1
Substack [?]