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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1558

2

LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft

1275

3

GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

1162

4

Ventusky – Weather data visualization

849

5

An Email Thread Between a Developer and Gigster

821

6

Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

805

7

Blockchain Demo [video]

723

8

Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO

685

9

Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

675

10

Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order

664

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2017)

690

2

Which developers do you closely follow?

551

3

What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?

369

4

Which book have you re-read recently?

198

5

Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?

197

6

Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?

174

7

What are your favorite algorithms?

163

8

What are your profitable side projects?

160

9

What is a good source of news for Fintech related stuff?

137

10

Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?

135

Top Show HN

1

Arrived – Stack Overflow for US Immigration

244

2

Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

235

3

Code Cards – Anki for code

152

4

Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming

107

5

Thaum, a simple boilerplate and templating command line utility

79

6

A voxel design tool built on the top of CSS transformations

78

7

AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper

75

8

Making Your Music Choose Your Desktop Wallpaper

75

9

Stranded by Trump

64

10

A Lispy, embedded Forth

61

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO

685

2

Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign

675

3

Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

514

4

Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure

341

5

The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

338

6

Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc

214

7

Vancouver house prices are falling

183

8

Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50

147

9

Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise

138

10

What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use?

138

News [?]

1

Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order

664

2

Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

424

3

Secret docs reveal: an FBI with vast hidden powers

397

4

Masaya Nakamura, Japanese arcade pioneer, has died

372

5

FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees

351

6

Reuters' position on covering Trump

328

7

The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say

307

8

Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech

303

9

Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

302

10

Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide

274

Scientific publications [?]

1

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer

200

2

NASA Twins Study: How stressful will a trip to Mars be on the human body?

151

3

Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

131

4

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

112

5

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, for Process and Bad for Software Product

92

6

Using rational numbers to key nested sets [pdf]

70

7

NLP2Code: Code Snippet Content Assist via Natural Language Tasks

32

8

Pixel Recursive Super Resolution

19

9

Harmony Explained – A Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

3

10

Memory Augmented Neural Networks with Wormhole Connections

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Online migrations at scale

268

2

Designing for failure

97

3

The trouble with FreeBSD

84

4

Statement from Mozilla on US Immigration Ban

73

5

Java 9 Enters First Bug Fixing Round

61

6

Design for Non-Designers: Part 1

13

7

Building a TV remote for iOS in Python

10

8

Multiple plans and previews for subscriptions

9

9

JavaScript Will Finally Get Proper Asynchronous Programming

8

10

Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Fifty Shades of Gray Code

127

2

We Want a Copyright Office That Serves the Public

15

3

Hacker Leaks Cellebrite's iOS Bypassing Tools

10

4

Creating a PCB in Everything: Upverter

5

5

Apple Removes Tool to Check If an iPhone or iPad Is Activation Locked

3

6

Super Mario Run Updated with 'Easy Mode' Has Made $53M Over 78M Downloads So Far

3

7

California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance

3

8

North Carolina Law Students Must Disable MacBook Pro Touch Bar for 2017 Bar Exam

3

9

Texas’ Overbroad Cyberbullying Bill Could Silence Unpopular Speech

3

10

GSM sniffing on a budget with multi-rtl

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

369

2

Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js

119

3

Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Educators

13

4

Bot Business 101

2

5

Project Premonition: detect pathogens before they cause outbreaks

2

6

Free GitPro Kindle version

2

7

1TB Micro SD Memory Card [Fraud]

2

8

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond

1

9

Microsoft Research and the industrial research cycle

1

10

Amazon WorkSpaces Update – SSD Volumes and Cost Optimizer

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

1162

2

The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films

255

3

How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free

122

4

‘Nerd Judge’ Questions Evidence in KickassTorrents Case

18

5

Is a mission to Mars morally defensible?

13

6

Think Strategically About Your Career Development

8

7

You might be in a medical experiment and not even know it

5

8

BitChute Is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube Alternative

4

9

Indiana introduces a new bill to ban Tesla’s sales in the most unsubtle way

4

10

Elon Musk appears to release first picture of his new tunnel boring machine

4

Science News [?]

1

To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

538

2

New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code

275

3

Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know

231

4

Scott Kelly's DNA shows unexpected telomere lengthening after year in space

218

5

“Health benefits” of moderate drinking disappear when controlling for wealth

197

6

During WWII, U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security

149

7

Against Willpower

93

8

The dipole repeller

78

9

Why We Hear Voices in Random Noise

76

10

Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant

25

Social [?]

1

John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

505

2

Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

359

3

Don't Mess with Texas – TI-99/4A Megademo [video]

119

4

The prototype that was banned from Halfbrick (2013) [video]

101

5

The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems [video]

87

6

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video]

85

7

Alan Kay Interview (1990) [video]

75

8

The Truth About the Useless F-35 (2015) [video]

25

9

GitLab Live Stream of fixing the issues

17

10

Gitlab accidentally deleted production data

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Node v7.5.0 Released

281

2

Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go

279

3

More than one million requests per second in Node.js

255

4

XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350

223

5

210

6

Games of Coding – A curated list of games that teach you a programming language

206

7

Introducing Topics

205

8

CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim

142

9

“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”

133

10

Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go

122

Wikipedia [?]

1

WGA screenwriting credit system

32

2

Amusing Ourselves to Death

6

3

First they came

4

4

Hash table data structure

3

5

3

6

Synthesis of mirror-chiral version of organism – incompatible with our pathogens

3

7

Systemantics: How Not to Design Systems

3

8

Principle of least interest

3

9

3

10

John von Neumann

3

Blogs [?]

1

1558

2

Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps

643

3

Facebook is terrifying

468

4

Million requests per second with Python

452

5

How to use Deep Learning when you have Limited Data

252

6

Lossless Web Navigation with Trails

173

7

Twitter Activist Security

166

8

Living on the Edge – Story of an Iranian Student in US

152

9

The Immigration Ban Is a Headfake, and We’re Falling for It

108

10

Trial Balloon for a Coup?

70

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How would Git handle a SHA-1 collision on a blob?

33

2

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

2

3

CONSTANTS in python

1

4

Best way to handle dependencies between components of a PHP framework?

1

Substack [?]