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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
1466
2
Polaroid Cube
573
3
They're Made out of Meat
556
4
How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids
492
5
Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess
438
6
Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years
430
7
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
408
8
OpenStreetMap Then and Now
406
9
Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
401
10
The Matasano Crypto Challenges
401

Top Ask HN

1
I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
364
2
Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
155
3
What info do you web scrape for?
126
4
Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?
94
5
Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?
81
6
How much should a bootstrapped startup ask for an acquihire?
68
7
Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?
57
8
Why doesn't your team ship?
43
9
Object you'd like to see connected to the internet?
35
10
What helped you leave your day job and start on your own?
24

Top Show HN

1
Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line
219
2
EDI – An editor in Go
93
3
HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage
91
4
Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript
88
5
Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone
82
6
GoLearn
81
7
PojoViz – Visualize the structure of any JavaScript library, framework
73
8
BemTV – Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts
71
9
Aerobatic – Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps
68
10
Stellar Jackpot
56

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
304
2
Questions about Nasa's space drive answered
285
3
With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides
224
4
Bikanta’s (YC S14) Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads
179
5
Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins
171
6
IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does
169
7
How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century
169
8
Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US
122
9
How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
112
10
An App Store for Algorithms
101

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
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Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63
293
2
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring
278
3
White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm
275
4
Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P
234
5
Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles
231
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Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
215
7
Russia extends Snowden residency by three years
207
8
Prostitution and the internet
205
9
Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
201
10
Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America
192

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
Security of OS-level virtualization technologies [pdf]
27
2
Non-Blocking Doubly-Linked Lists with Good Amortized Complexity
25
3
Savioke Unveils Its Delivery Robot
24
4
Self-Folding Origami Robot Goes From Flat to Walking in Four Minutes
19
5
Black Hat 2014: How to Hack the Cloud to Mine Crypto Currency
10
6
'Trojan horse' gold nanoparticles treatment could beat brain tumors
9
7
Hummingbirds vs. Micro UAVs: Who's the Best Flyer?
4
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Photo editing algorithm changes weather, seasons automatically
4
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Identification of individuals using palatal rugae: Computerized method (2010)
3
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Homo floresiensis specimen may be just H. sapiens individual with Down Syndrome
3

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
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Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
355
2
New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware
278
3
The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker
204
4
CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets
171
5
CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October
153
6
Performance Analysis Methodology
36
7
Functional Examples from Category Theory [video]
36
8
Q&A on the Reported Theft of 1.2B Email Accounts
34
9
Improved email receipts
23
10
Google Now Factoring HTTPS Into Ranking; CloudFlare On Track to Make it Free
20

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail
160
2
Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
115
3
OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, and More
50
4
NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook
44
5
Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014
38
6
Hardware “Security” and a DMCA Takedown Notice
3
7
Google Boosts Secure Sites in Search Results
3
8
Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014
3
9
Apple releases promised diversity data: 55% white in US, 7 out 10 male
3
10
Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple releases diversity numbers
58
2
20 years old: Microsofts first website recreated
46
3
Amazon.com: Same-Day Delivery
20
4
Free Book – Coding for Speed – A Hacker's Guide to a Faster Web
18
5
All Data Are Belong to AWS: Streaming upload via Fluentd
6
6
Amazon discounts “Guardians of the Galaxy” (Kindle graphic novel)
4
7
AWS SDK for Python (Boto) Now Supports Python 3
3
8
AWS SDK for Python (Boto) Now Supports Python 3
3
9
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates (The RAND Corporation)
3
10
Amazon Changed Their Design
2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
War in the womb
267
2
“A Communications Primer” by Charles and Ray Eames (1953) [video]
36
3
The Evolution of Emotion
35
4
If you develop in a *nix environment, fill out my survey for science
19
5
UK Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns
5
6
Compelling story of life in a WWII concentration camp by someone who was there
5
7
Apple approves BitTorrent app in App Store
4
8
How should looks perfect visual editor for Bootstrap?
2
9
The AA is out of step with research on addiction
2
10
The iPhone in India (versus iPhone in China)
2

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous
116
2
Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem
100
3
Computer Games Better Than Medication in Treating Elderly Depression
70
4
Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced implicit learning
57
5
The Bridge From Nowhere
35
6
Organic synthesis: The robo-chemist
34
7
Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows (2013)
15
8
Astronomers are using new tools in their search for cosmic voids
5
9
The 20 Deadliest Events in Human History
5
10
“Molecular Still Lives” Show the Science in Our Food in Us
4

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Microsoft has joined Khronos, WebGL working group
134
2
Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip
120
3
Tegra K1 Glass Fracture Demo [video]
37
4
Raya – Real-time sound simulation library for games [video]
30
5
Gamma International Leaked
13
6
Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed (2009)
10
7
John Carmack SMU Talk
8
8
Linux vs bsd network stack
8
9
A Spacecraft for All: The ISEE-3 Live Lunar Flyby
7
10
How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb and Groupon acquired their first users
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies
132
2
StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
88
3
Clojure Style Guide
75
4
Angular Restmod – Rails-inspired REST ORM
71
5
The U.S. Digital Services Playbook
67
6
Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library
60
7
18F API Standards
57
8
S3Proxy allows applications using the S3 API to access other object stores
47
9
Best GitHub repositories
33
10
Sherlog.js – JavaScript error and event tracker application
22

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Sweden Solar System
224
2
Doomsday rule: calculate the day for any date
125
3
Vacuum airship
56
4
LOLCODE
47
5
IBM Simon
43
6
Zoopharmacognosy
32
7
List of Java virtual machines
25
8
List of people who have petitioned for the right to be forgotten
18
9
Maryam Mirzakhani
9
10
N Rays
6

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
408
2
Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
384
3
What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
154
4
How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me
87
5
47% of applications for our Hacker Retreat were women. Here is how we did it
76
6
Building mindfulness into the Asana culture
53
7
You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do?
27
8
I'm A Thinker, Not a Do-er
22
9
Low skills causes procrastination
10
10
Stop Talking about Inner Beauty
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
[SO C/C++] Operator “untill”
3
2
Most tricky/useful commands for gdb debugger
3
3
Erlang's 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability
2
4
Was the misspelling of the HTTP field name Referer intentional?
1
5
Loading pages without letting screen go white
1
6
Dealing With Not 100% Sum Percentage
1
7
Generalized Threading Macro in Clojure
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com