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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
886
2
The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
878
3
Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
866
4
Saying Goodbye to Firebug
805
5
I have no side code projects to show you
771
6
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect
670
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If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools
631
8
“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
625
9
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
623
10
How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
603
Top Ask HN
1
What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?
180
2
Learning Lisp, and I have some questions
94
3
Why is software quality an afterthought for many people/companies?
80
4
Does a good desk setup make you more productive?
78
5
What steps do you take to plan a new project?
60
6
Are there drawing tool plugins to be used within forums?
55
7
What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
51
8
Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
50
9
Have you relocated from the Bay Area to another tech hub?
45
10
YC W2018 invites/rejections?
42
Top Show HN
1
Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
721
2
US Stock Screener
173
3
Baby Buddy
172
4
Ruby static type checker – proof of concept
115
5
4chan on the Ethereum blockchain
103
6
Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing
103
7
Playing music with your voice and machine learning
92
8
Audiovisual sequencer for tweet-sized JavaScript animations
83
9
A site to look up DNS records
82
10
JSRobot – A platform game you play by coding in JavaScript
79
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
After the end of the startup era
418
2
The geometry of Islamic art becomes a game
301
3
Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps
262
4
Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
223
5
CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s More Precise
190
6
Why Snapchat Spectacles failed
189
7
China’s AI Awakening
186
8
Most US jobs created since 2005 are not conventional full-time work
186
9
Blue Origin has hot fired its BE-4 rocket engine for the first time
160
10
Returning to Second Life
157
News [?]
1
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller
623
2
Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
557
3
New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
450
4
A newly discovered moon tunnel
416
5
Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
370
6
Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores
354
7
The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons
341
8
U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits
306
9
Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
292
10
Insects Are in Serious Trouble
292
Scientific publications [?]
1
Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
866
2
First possible interstellar object detected in our solar system
247
3
Maker of In-Wheel Electric Car Motors Goes to China
68
4
Neutron Star Collision Data Falsifies Dark Matter Emulators
22
5
Spacewalking astronaut copes with frayed tether, bad jetpack
17
6
Why Human-Controlled, Force-Multiplying Robots Are the Future of Work on Earth
11
7
Deep Voice 3: 2000-Speaker Neural Text-To-Speech
5
8
Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality
5
9
Superaccurate GPS Coming to Smartphones in 2018
4
10
Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
598
2
Gmail Launches Add-ons
416
3
Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising
180
4
Why does one Nginx worker take all the load?
164
5
C++17 Is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter
148
6
Can Vector Supercomputing Be Revived?
49
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Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector with NERF
48
8
How Cucumber Open Source Maintainers Do Mob Programming
45
9
Larry Wall's quest for a 100-year programming language
35
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Meetings – A culture of excess that hurts our productivity and morale
27
Tech blogs [?]
1
Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
247
2
Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials
196
3
The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280G Review
40
4
The USA Rights Act Protects Us from NSA Spying
39
5
Intel Optane SSD 900P Review
39
6
Twitter’s Ban on Russia Today Ads Is Dangerous to Free Expression
20
7
Twitter’s Ban on Russia Today Ads Is Dangerous to Free Expression
16
8
Ryzen Mobile Is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
13
9
It's Time for Congress to Pass an Open Access Law
5
10
Ryzen Mobile Is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
214
2
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
118
3
Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS
86
4
Amazon Cloud Cam Indoor Security Camera
42
5
Amazon EC2 Instances with Up to 8 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs (P3)
18
6
Microsoft Edge Preview for iOS and Android
17
7
Amazon HQ2: 238 proposals from 54 states, provinces, districts and territories
6
8
Microsoft Cloud Continues to Grow, Powers First Quarter Results
6
9
Amazon Key
3
10
An Open Operating System for a Single-User Machine [pdf]
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
315
2
How Retailers Use Personalized Prices
257
3
Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s
52
4
In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage
21
5
Tesla unveils ‘first of many solar+storage projects’ at hospital in Puerto Rico
21
6
Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Thb
7
7
Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh
7
8
A FORTRAN Coloring Book
6
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What constitutes an individual organism in biology?
6
10
Dark Leviathan: what the Silk Road shows us about libertarianism and the state
6
Science News [?]
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Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects
430
2
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
128
3
To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics (2013)
122
4
The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics
113
5
Photons pair up like superconducting electrons
82
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A technique for alleviating pain may help disable nerves that spread cancer
79
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China Bans Foreign Waste – What Will Happen to the World's Recycling?
73
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The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism
63
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An ambitious project to map all the cells in the human body
53
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The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism
44
Social [?]
1
Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
886
2
“Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen
625
3
Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%
357
4
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, Variation [video]
220
5
Could cryptocurrency mining kill online advertising?
79
6
Let's build a blockchain – A mini-cryptocurrency in Ruby [video]
62
7
Remote Maintenance of Molten Salt Reactors [video]
45
8
I have to move back to PR, what should I bring?
42
9
The Two Economies: The Top 40% and the Bottom 60%
40
10
Ray Dalio: The Two US Economies: The Top 40% and the Bottom 60%
34
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
478
2
ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver
265
3
Riot – Full-text search engine in Go
221
4
A README maturity model
178
5
Absinthe – GraphQL implementation for Elixir
177
6
Google NetStack: IPv4 and IPv6 userland network stack in Go
122
7
An embeddable dumb heartbeat daemon in 260 bytes of RAM and 350 bytes of code
121
8
Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016)
119
9
h2: HTTP 2.0 client and server implementation for Rust
111
10
Lemon – An embeddable, lightweight programming language in ANSI C
94
Wikipedia [?]
1
Secretary Problem
145
2
Sloyd
131
3
Boustrophedon
82
4
Myanmar units of measurement
17
5
Multi-armed bandit problem
8
6
Esperanto
8
7
Submarine aircraft carrier
8
8
Kessler Syndrome
4
9
Rai stones
4
10
; – Greek question mark
3
Blogs [?]
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Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen
231
2
How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
170
3
Filesystem error handling
158
4
Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”
156
5
Why we’re closing Walnut
133
6
I practiced Ben Franklin's 13 virtue system for 3 years
131
7
Every Google Cloud Platform product described in 4 words or less
98
8
Capital-As-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing
87
9
The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces
86
10
Debunking the Java Performance Myth
82
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What is the difference between Type and Class?
2
2
JavaScript keywords poem
2
3
James Gosling's explanation of why Java's byte is signed
1
4
Why do I not get any response from Telegram DC?
1
5
IMAP (gmail?) returning incorrect UIDs to FETCH request
1
Substack [?]