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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
1200
2
Chrome breaks the Web
1187
3
Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
1126
4
Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
1120
5
An Open Letter to Intel
996
6
Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1
929
7
Does anyone remember websites?
895
8
Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
789
9
“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
760
10
The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
699
Top Ask HN
1
What is your favorite place to find work?
334
2
Is there something wrong with internet right now?
166
3
How do you manage multiple learning projects?
161
4
Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better?
158
5
Is Comcast having internet problems?
129
6
What are your favorite books of all time, and why?
123
7
How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
119
8
How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user content?
117
9
How does your team handle knowledge documentation?
111
10
Is my career doomed if I don’t become an AI/ML Developer?
100
Top Show HN
1
Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework
271
2
Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go
226
3
SpeechBoard – Edit Podcasts from the Transcript
190
4
OSX-ISO – Create a bootable ISO of macOS from the installation app file
135
5
Impostor Roster – Suffering from Impostor Syndrome? You're not alone
117
6
PageDash, Your Personal Web Archive
116
7
Keratin AuthN – Accounts and Auth Microservice in Go
104
8
GAN Playground – Play with Generative Adversarial Neural Nets In-Browser
97
9
PySchemes – A library for validating data structures in Python
94
10
UltraEd – A level editor/game engine for the Nintendo 64
90
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
1126
2
Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
1120
3
Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
789
4
BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia
504
5
YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
486
6
DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable”
306
7
Is it time to stop trusting Google search?
287
8
MINIX: Intel's hidden in-chip operating system
286
9
Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address
239
10
Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally stored audio recordings
193
News [?]
1
The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
699
2
Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology
603
3
28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon
392
4
Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments
386
5
Justice Department moves to end routine gag orders on tech firms
375
6
How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices
372
7
How slot machines are designed to be addictive
364
8
Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes
355
9
Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia
348
10
America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning
334
Scientific publications [?]
1
'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite
184
2
Shut up and calculate: an extreme mathematical universe
159
3
Rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior
156
4
Theoretical quark fusion found to be more powerful than hydrogen fusion
65
5
The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access (2016)
43
6
Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes
16
7
Astronomers complete first international asteroid tracking exercise
15
8
Laser Weapon to Go in Fighter Jet in 2021
10
9
Study bolsters theory of heat source under Antarctica
9
10
Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The rise and fall of Limux
146
2
Tweeting Made Easier
142
3
Julia: A Modern Language for Modern ML [video]
98
4
Using React 16 to open new window with shared state
89
5
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm ARM vs. Intel CPU Comparison
77
6
Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard
75
7
Stripe is down
55
8
Resonance Audio: Multi-platform spatial audio at scale
41
9
Cloudflare Wants to Buy Your Meetup Group Pizza
31
10
The rise and fall of Limux
28
Tech blogs [?]
1
Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect
408
2
How Pure Is This Cup of Joe?
140
3
Google Working to Remove MINIX-Based Management Engine from Intel Platforms
46
4
iPhone X Named 'Most Breakable iPhone Ever'
26
5
MantisTek GK2's Keylogger Is a Warning Against Cheap Gadgets
25
6
Qualcomm Launches 48-core Centriq for $1995
17
7
Raja Koduri, AMD’s Radeon Tech Group Leader, Resigns
7
8
Trump’s Blocking People from Twitter Violates First Amendment, EFF Tells Court
6
9
MantisTek GK2's Keylogger Is a Warning Against Cheap Gadgets
6
10
How HTTPS and Tor work together to protect your Anonymity and Privacy
5
FAANG+ [?]
1
Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data
663
2
C5 Instances for EC2 Now Available
63
3
New S3 Security and Encryption Features
19
4
Apple statement on tax payments
5
5
Introducing AWS PrivateLink for AWS Services
5
6
AWS PrivateLink for AWS Services
4
7
CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks
3
8
Introducing AWS PrivateLink for AWS Services
3
9
Apple statement on tax payments
2
10
Tensor calculus book with YouTube videos
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
221
2
Apple at Its Best
143
3
One Year After India Killed Off Cash, What Other Countries Should Learn
115
4
How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Great Solar Observers
61
5
Competitive Programming Training Sheet
23
6
At a rescue facility in Costa Rica, stray dogs roam free
12
7
Science is broken
9
8
The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017
9
9
Science is a public good in peril
8
10
Free office space for a startup in Bangalore
5
Science News [?]
1
Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat
140
2
Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Anyone to Hack DNA
135
3
How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015)
109
4
Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (2014)
98
5
Gut Microbes Can Shape Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy
84
6
Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016)
79
7
US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease
77
8
How to tell if you are a supertaster
71
9
Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction
64
10
Fact or Fiction?: An Opera Singer's Piercing Voice Can Shatter Glass
46
Social [?]
1
“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
760
2
Plain Functional Programming by Martin Odersky [video]
103
3
Using Face ID to unlock brother’s iPhone X after entering PIN
99
4
Cody'sLab channel suspended [video]
88
5
Mark Zuckerberg Sued Native Hawaiians for Their Own Land [video]
82
6
Some Thoughts About Concurrency by Ivan Sutherland (2010) [video]
71
7
Information Theory [video]
55
8
MariFlow – Self-Driving Mario Kart With Recurrent Neural Network [YouTube]
25
9
Game Over! Fully functional JTAG access to Intel ME achieved over USB DCI
19
10
The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure
16
Github repos and gists [?]
1
NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal
402
2
Functional Programming Jargon
359
3
Neovim v0.2.1 released
301
4
A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)
290
5
SpaCy 2.0 released
231
6
Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks
175
7
A look at inner workings of Joycon and Nintendo Switch
146
8
Jinja 2.10
134
9
Archiving repositories
121
10
Chalktalk – A digital presentation and communication language
112
Wikipedia [?]
1
Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir
221
2
High Arctic relocation
68
3
Capacitor plague – Wikipedia
65
4
List of people and companies named in the Paradise Papers
36
5
Han unification
12
6
The Decline of the West
6
7
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah
4
8
Bean machine
4
9
Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
4
10
A lady got us to and back from the moon, and also coined “software engineering”
3
Blogs [?]
1
Skyrim rendered in text
459
2
All about whiteboard markers
459
3
Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies
415
4
Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet
336
5
Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme
209
6
How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play
195
7
You’re working in the wrong place if you’re working in an open office
126
8
Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year
118
9
Interesting features from various modern programming languages
95
10
Why and how the Cryptobubble will burst
89
Stackoverflow [?]
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Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments
3
2
Promise vs. Observable
2
3
SO lists exactly 3 open positions in Germany that pay more than $100k/a
2
4
Replacing 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit introduces performance deviations
2
5
How to Parse YAML Object in Salesforce Apex
1
6
Sort JSON nodes by field values with JsonPath
1
Substack [?]