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Top stories
1
Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse
1371
2
US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
1273
3
DevDocs API Documentation
1239
4
Documenting the Web together
1210
5
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
950
6
AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
923
7
75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
901
8
New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
835
9
Keyboard latency
747
10
Robert Scoble and Me
733
Top Ask HN
1
Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
181
2
How do I find meaningful work?
141
3
Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into Steam and Reddit?
129
4
What is your yearly passive income?
108
5
Why did delicious.com fail?
107
6
How do you measure performance of your client-side application?
94
7
What changes in your life did you make to become more productive?
78
8
What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
75
9
Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?
74
10
Who has turned a side project to full time gig? And at what revenue?
49
Top Show HN
1
Metaballs
673
2
Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable
241
3
Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots
195
4
Send a fax to 50 countries, no signup, account or subscription required
152
5
BOOLR – A digital logic simulator
136
6
Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)
133
7
Node.js port of WhisperSystem's libsignal
88
8
Tello, a simple way to manage TV shows – built with React/Redux
78
9
Pg_blkchain – Postgres blockchain extension
75
10
UnderExpress – A free, ready to use website UI kit for hustlers
62
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
550
2
The war to sell you a mattress
432
3
It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads
292
4
UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance
207
5
Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger jets
190
6
Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run
189
7
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to turn 800 acres of Toronto into an “internet city”
187
8
Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
180
9
The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to show cocoa is good
178
10
Ophelia became a major hurricane where no storm had before
141
News [?]
1
Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
697
2
Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public
409
3
Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says
393
4
Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens
386
5
MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO
384
6
In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legalization
256
7
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Is Worth a Shot
238
8
My Google job was tedious and pointless
231
9
Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
227
10
“How Amazon Took Seattle's Soul”
217
Scientific publications [?]
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Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged
242
2
Edward – A Turing-Complete Language for Deep Probabilistic Programming
206
3
Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges – The Aliens Are All Asleep
139
4
Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]
126
5
Turning the Optical Fiber Network into a Giant Earthquake Sensor
103
6
A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms
95
7
Pure Operation-Based Replicated Data Types
86
8
A Robotics Startup Wants to Be the Boston Dynamics of China
60
9
Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots (2016) [video]
57
10
NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot Man-Made Barrier Shrouding Earth
52
Dev Blogs [?]
1
HolyJit: A New Hope
627
2
Planets in Google Maps
195
3
The trouble with text-only email
191
4
The new Google Calendar for web
174
5
Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor
172
6
A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules
137
7
Are you built to be an employee?
61
8
IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron
58
9
Helping to make LuaJIT faster
32
10
The Only Person I’ll Pair Program with Is My Cat
23
Tech blogs [?]
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Practical Public Key Cryptography
153
2
DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad
110
3
Intel Shipping Nervana Neural Network Processor First Silicon Before Year End
103
4
Cali Police, Civil Liberties Groups Agreed on Transparency, Gov Brown Vetoed It
96
5
Theremin's Bug: How the Soviet Union Spied on the US Embassy for Seven Years
79
6
Courtroom “Feud” Leaves Accurate Speech About Celebrities Unprotected
52
7
Apple's Mac Mini Is Now Three Years Old, No Refresh Date in Sight
37
8
Supercon Badge Hacking Quick-Start
34
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Tim Cook: Mac Mini Will Be 'Important Part' of Future Product Lineup
14
10
KRACK Vulnerability: What You Need to Know
6
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Redshift announces Dense Compute (DC2) nodes with 2x the performance
5
2
Introducing the new Surface Book 2
4
3
Snapchat owner branches out with dancing hot dog Halloween costume
4
4
AWS WAF Now Supports Regular Expressions (Regex)
2
5
Amazon Lightsail Support for Windows VPS
2
6
Predict Billboard Top Hits Using RStudio, H2O and Amazon Athena
2
7
AWS WAF Now Supports Regular Expressions
2
8
Amazon Redshift Announces Dense Compute (DC2) Nodes
2
9
Introducing Cost Allocation Tags for Amazon SQS – AWS Blog
2
10
Front End devs, how hard is it 4 a small team to recreate iPhone X page
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Sugar alters hormones and metabolism, sets stage for obesity and diabetes
299
2
Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office
249
3
Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective test of guilt
131
4
For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map
121
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Blockchain Could Help Us Reclaim Control of Our Personal Data
46
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
35
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“Democracy means people exerting power, not choosing from a menu made by elites”
20
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Kids? Just Say No
18
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World's Largest Floating Wind Turbine Goes Live in Scotland
10
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Improving battery tech is enabling electric vehicles like hoverbikes
6
Science News [?]
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30k medical studies may be invalid due to contaminated cell cultures
145
2
Scientists narrow down the mechanism whereby cancer cells metabolise sugar
105
3
In Fermat’s Library, No Margin Is Too Narrow
93
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Stellar collision confirms theoretical predictions about the periodic table
92
5
Nearly half of US medical visits are at emergency rooms
63
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Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty in Chaco Canyon
56
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Give researchers a lifetime word limit
52
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Dementia through the lens of epidemiology
42
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Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s
42
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Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own
37
Social [?]
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Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
223
2
Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video]
86
3
Linotype Typesetting (1960) [video]
76
4
Bitcoin has crossed $6,000 USD for the first time
75
5
Robert Scoble: “I apologize.”
64
6
Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects
61
7
Jeremy Corbyn: Imagine an Uber run co-operatively by their drivers
47
8
Henry Feinberg Demonstrates Using Light to Transmit Sound Waves (1978) [video]
43
9
Stephen Fry: “The future of humanity and technology” [video]
38
10
15 Years of Chess Engine Development
37
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
419
2
A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
388
3
Enabling Rust on Embedded Platforms – Linux, RTOS, Bare Metal
235
4
Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID
194
5
Front-End Checklist
193
6
Bounter: A Python counter that uses limited memory regardless of data size
156
7
The Source Code for NYC's Forensic DNA Statistical Analysis Tool
134
8
Grafana: Postgres Data Source
128
9
Calamine: Excel file reader, written in Rust
120
10
Thank You GitHub
92
Wikipedia [?]
1
Loulan Kingdom
44
2
Jury Nullification
4
3
Friendly Artificial Intelligence
3
4
Afrofuturism
3
5
Hilbert's problems
2
6
Jevons Paradox
2
7
Nicolas Bourbaki
2
8
Malbolge Programming Language
2
9
Dark silicon
2
10
Skeuomorph
2
Blogs [?]
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US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
1273
2
Keyboard latency
747
3
Robert Scoble and Me
733
4
You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
460
5
Mastodon 2.0
408
6
Uber is charging drivers to work
185
7
Avoiding Startup Tarpits
184
8
Most sushi fish isn't fresh
150
9
Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite
133
10
Cognitive Biases in Programming
109
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stackoverflow salary calculator
4
2
Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
2
3
Accessing Shadow DOM Tree with Selenium
2
4
Stack Overflow Salary Calculator – Compare Your Salary
1
Substack [?]