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Top stories
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
1237
2
Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service
1068
3
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
956
4
GitHub commit search: “remove password”
861
5
Python moved to GitHub
820
6
Google Spreadsheets and Python
811
7
Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
709
8
India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
671
9
Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]
670
10
Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
667
Top Ask HN
1
What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
813
2
Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?
307
3
I’ve been applying to a million jobs
274
4
How should I teach code to kids?
236
5
What is a problem you face at work?
117
6
Are there 'dumb' ways to make money as a developer in your spare time?
110
7
Laid off. Now what?
73
8
How can I get investor intros in Berlin?
72
9
What is your best passive income in 2017?
64
10
Best conferences in Europe 2017?
60
Top Show HN
1
A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
728
2
Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes
405
3
Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker
367
4
Ipyvolume: 3D plotting library for the Jupyter/IPython notebook
210
5
Illustrated Quicksort algorithm
187
6
DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach to programming
186
7
s3-lambda – Lambda functions over S3 objects: each, map, reduce, filter
177
8
Clozemaster – Learn language in context
145
9
A Directory of Tech Companies, Events, News, Tweets etc in Scotland
131
10
WebSocket-first development
120
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
956
2
Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
667
3
Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy
503
4
What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
445
5
40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
416
6
Co-founder Conflict
366
7
Have you looked at your windshield wipers lately?
262
8
Microsoft lets you crash drones and robots in its new real world simulator
228
9
What happens when you dump the App Store?
183
10
Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country
143
News [?]
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Dole Food Had Too Many Shares
418
2
Samsung chief Lee arrested as S.Korean corruption probe deepens
402
3
Raymond Smullyan has died
363
4
Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
294
5
Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock
279
6
Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill
255
7
Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs?
231
8
How ‘Weird Al’ eclipsed most stars he parodied
231
9
The world's deepest ocean trenches are packed with pollution
220
10
GM to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018
216
Scientific publications [?]
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What can Rust do for astrophysics?
130
2
PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks
60
3
Biologists find cave life that may be 50k years old
56
4
Quest to settle riddle over Einstein's theory may soon be over
47
5
Measures of entropy and complexity in altered states of consciousness
38
6
Text Understanding from Scratch (2015)
10
7
India puts record 104 satellites into orbit from a single rocket
7
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India's ISRO to break own record, will put 103 Satellite into Space
6
9
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
5
10
Theory for Galactic Rotation Predicts EM Drive Thrust Effect
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples
308
2
Firefox 57 as the first release where only WebExtensions will be supported
209
3
A discussion of Fedora’s legal state
198
4
A rift in the NTP world
173
5
Simple Made Easy (2011)
168
6
Apple Worldwide Dev Conference 2017 announced
144
7
How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation
95
8
PICO-8 Lighting: Part 2 – Stitching Lines Together
82
9
12 signs you're working in a feature factory
44
10
If we build it, why would anyone care?
37
Tech blogs [?]
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San Diego Police Targets African American Children for Unlawful DNA Collection
30
2
Publishers Still Fighting to Bury Libraries in Fees for Making Fair Use
9
3
The Case Apple Uses to Conceal iPhone Prototypes During Transport
6
4
FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of the FM Radio Chip Built into Your iPhone
4
5
Not Okay: Professor Smeared After Advocating for Election Integrity
4
6
Congress Must Protect Americans’ Location Privacy
3
7
“Smart Cities,” Surveillance, and New Streetlights in San Jose
3
8
PAL-V flying car company accepting orders
3
9
BlackBerry Hits '0%' Market Share Nearly Ten Years After iPhone Launched
2
10
iOS 10.3 CarPlay Update Introduces Quicker and Safer Way to Launch Recent Apps
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Everything
133
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Amazon EBS Enables Live Volume Modifications with Elastic Volumes
38
3
Amazon Chime: Online meetings with exceptional audio and video quality
3
4
The AWS Deep Learning AMI, Now with Ubuntu
2
5
Inclusive – Microsoft Design
2
6
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Returns to San Jose June 5-9, 2017
2
7
iOS Security
1
8
Amazon Chime – Unified Communications Service
1
9
Microsoft HoloLens – Official Site
1
10
Fusion research in the cloud
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se
204
2
Found: A Drug Catapult at the U.S.-Mexico Border
154
3
Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire
84
4
Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?
79
5
How did Europe become the richest part of the world?
75
6
Trust: the inside story of the rise and fall of Ethereum
59
7
When Heart Transplant Patients Were Celebrities
22
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Electric buses are now cheaper than diesel/CNG
17
9
Snap’s Apple Strategy
9
10
How Europe became so rich
8
Science News [?]
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I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014)
262
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Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
234
3
It’s Easy to Make Enemies of People We Only Read About
232
4
The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps
194
5
Raising the American Weakling
185
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Bias in the ER
119
7
MIT files amicus brief concerning executive order restricting travel to US
94
8
The Anatomy of Charisma
79
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A chat with the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment
60
10
A Fight to Fix Symplectic Geometry
60
Social [?]
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Big Picture of Calculus (2010) [video]
393
2
Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video]
355
3
USPS confirms Byuu’s PAL SNES package has been lost
118
4
Live ISRO: Launch of PSLV C37 Carrying 104 Satellites
107
5
Sheaf Theory: The Mathematics of Data Fusion (audio starts at 10:44) [video]
85
6
Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots
71
7
Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
71
8
Zuck: “Building Global Community”
65
9
ISRO PSLV-C37 onboard camera showing 104 satellite separation
57
10
Machine Learning Recipes by Google Developers (YouTube)
45
Github repos and gists [?]
1
GitHub commit search: “remove password”
861
2
Python moved to GitHub
820
3
The most cited deep learning papers
452
4
Awesome OS X Command Line
383
5
Realtime Analysis of the Oroville Dam Disaster
310
6
Design Patterns – A comprehensible guide
268
7
List of falsehoods programmers believe in
255
8
Announcing Open Source Guides
254
9
Don't remove the $(nop) command below
249
10
Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
212
Wikipedia [?]
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Yoda Conditions
76
2
Incident Pit
68
3
Mellified man
35
4
Acoustic Kitty
12
5
Al Jarreau
7
6
Alan Smithee
6
7
Tsundoku
4
8
CMB Cold Spot
4
9
Computus
4
10
Maximal Entropy Random Walk: from network and image analysis to quantum mechanics
4
Blogs [?]
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What no one talks about when running and selling a business
288
2
Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
198
3
I used LAMP to make a SaaS app with $3700/month profit
152
4
Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners
129
5
Our company’s remote work system failed
128
6
The Alien Style of Deep Learning Generative Design
76
7
Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (2015)
56
8
Zuckerberg Gives Public an Indication How He Lives in an Alternative Reality
52
9
A Malware Scam on Upwork
48
10
The African Union passport: A waste of time
39
Stackoverflow [?]
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Android userspace filesystem driver on non-rooted device?
2
2
Workaround for inspecting the self deleting source of samy.pl
2
3
New Interface on Stackoverflow
2
4
How use async / await to run code in parallel in JavaScript
2
5
Strange behaviour of CPU balance in t2.2xlarge AWS EC2 instance
2
6
Given the circumstances can I park after 4?
1
7
Access both back and front cameras simultaneously
1
Substack [?]