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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Sir Terry Pratchett has died
1019
2
Bidding farewell to Google Code
880
3
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
792
4
Why Spotify Pays So Little
613
5
I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
610
6
Reasons not to use Facebook
605
7
Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
523
8
MSBuild is now open source on GitHub
520
9
Carbon3D – 3D Printing via Continuous Liquid Interface Production
517
10
Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
495

Top Ask HN

1
The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
251
2
Favorite podcasts?
239
3
What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?
145
4
Mobile site
97
5
How Do You Maintain Security When Working Remotely?
63
6
Digital nomad taxes – which country to pay in?
55
7
Which problems can we build an MVP for in a week?
48
8
I just got my Stackoverflow Python gold badge - is it worth anything?
47
9
Your lead developer got bored. What to do?
44
10
Review my startup, www.getmustapp.com
38

Top Show HN

1
Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization
404
2
GraphQL for Postgres
195
3
Wget-finder
130
4
New IDE and GUI for R language
122
5
RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve
122
6
Moltin – eCommerce Back End as a Service
116
7
Custom New Tab page for Firefox
73
8
WIP C compiler in Go, inspired by 8cc
60
9
JedLang, my first attempt at a language
59
10
SpendTree – A tool to analyze income properties
50

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
How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else
233
2
Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access
177
3
App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings
149
4
The best interface is no interface
143
5
The Dark Web’s Top Drug Market, Evolution, Just Vanished
134
6
Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina
127
7
Dell’s Linux PC sequel still just works, but adds 4K screen and rough edges
120
8
ReadMe (YC W15) Creates Crisp Documentation for Developers Using Your APIs
115
9
Pinterest Raises $367M at $11B valuation
109
10
Google will eventually open the Google Now API to app developers
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
1
Sir Terry Pratchett has died
1019
2
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty
472
3
California has about one year of water left
320
4
Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant
257
5
The Church of TED
236
6
Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space
227
7
Julian Assange case: Sweden offers to question him in UK
217
8
Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
200
9
Fuzzy Math That's Creating Many Billion-Dollar Tech Valuations
157
10
Housing markets: The spectre haunting San Francisco
155

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
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
129
2
The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript
85
3
Geotagging 100M Twitter accounts, independent of location-sharing preferences [pdf]
79
4
Text Understanding from Scratch [pdf]
53
5
Can recursive neural tensor networks learn logical reasoning? [pdf]
38
6
RAPTOR: Routing Attacks on Privacy in Tor
38
7
Detection of black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes
31
8
Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise with Machine Learning
26
9
First Manganese-Based Superconductor Discovered
23
10
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (2009)
22

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
1
Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets
173
2
How the CIA Might Target Apple's XCode
52
3
Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
18
4
The Desks of Mozilla WebDev
13
5
What Do We Know about Software Development in Startups?
9
6
FreeBSD Off-CPU Flame Graphs
8
7
Most GitHub repositories are not open source
6
8
Door Skimmer and Hidden Camera = Profit
6
9
Introducing Masche: memory scanning for server security
6
10
The Modern JavaScript Developer’s Toolbox
5

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Will the U.S. Senate Allow Big Media to Hold Blind People for Ransom?
58
2
The Blurred Lines Copyright Verdict Is Bad News for Music
24
3
EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents
17
4
John Gruber: Apple Invented USB Type C
14
5
EFF Asks PTO to Stop Issuing Abstract Software Patents
4
6
Rowhammer Explained: fast RAM writes are a vulnerability
4
7
More on Arduino LLC vs. Arduino SRL
4
8
Nvidia is all in on Deep Learning
4
9
Apple Planning to Launch Streaming TV Service
3
10
EFF, ACLU in Court to Fight for Release of Los Angeles License Plate Reader Data
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon RDS PostgreSQL 9.4.1 support
13
2
Apple Watch App Store Apps
8
3
A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann
2
4
An Entrepreneur's Tale: The Last Days in Monaco
1
5
Microsoft Content Moderator
1
6
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
1
7
Recombinant Human GDF-11 Protein, 5ug
1

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
Web Development as a career – the realities
97
2
BitTorrent-Style Updates Revealed in Windows 10
67
3
U.S. Net Neutrality Has a Massive Copyright Loophole
39
4
GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company
21
5
How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate
18
6
What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power
15
7
Improving SSL Warnings
6
8
Turn Google Drive into a DAM System for Organization
6
9
Granny pirate busted
3
10
Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team
3

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
The myopia boom
311
2
A self-fueled liquid metal motor
80
3
The war between the city of Los Angeles and its mountains
38
4
British Isles mapped out by genetic ancestry
36
5
Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either
28
6
Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'
21
7
Saharan 'carpet of tools' is earliest known human-made landscape
21
8
Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
12
9
Steven Weinberg on the History of Physics
10
10
New Urbanist: Off-World Colonies of the Canadian Arctic
10

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
491
2
John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”
402
3
Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
230
4
UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue
137
5
What Satoshi Didn't Know [video]
71
6
I have moved to naming global singletons with a The* prefix
56
7
The Enigma Machine Explained (2013) [video]
31
8
Let's Make a Song in SunVox [video]
13
9
$50M Transacted for 6 cents with Bitcoin
11
10
The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook/Google
11

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
792
2
Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification
523
3
Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
409
4
Resume in C
291
5
Jvm.go: A JVM written in Go
284
6
Drop millions of allocations by using a linked list
223
7
PDF Viewing
192
8
Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant
165
9
GitHub's Game Off is back
157
10
Best Linux server backup system?
152

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Pi Day
67
2
Naming law in Sweden
30
3
Graham Island (Sicily)
14
4
Aerospike engine
7
5
The Night Battles
3
6
Dyatlov Pass incident
3
7
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
2
8
Natural nuclear fission reactor
2
9
Zero stroke
2
10
Motivated forgetting
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years
298
2
Programmer Passion Considered Harmful
224
3
Five Years’ Time
212
4
Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota)
118
5
Dear Packaging, I Hate You
87
6
Please stop breaking the build
72
7
Enterprise software vendors have no taste
70
8
Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture-Funded Media Startup
61
9
Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions and Pastes Them onto Other Faces
59
10
An Infinite Regress. Of Dumb: More Reflections on “Market Efficiency”
54

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How do BitTorrent magnet links work?
9
2
Reserved Keywords in JavaScript
4
3
“Least Astonishment” in Python: The Mutable Default Argument
2
4
JavaScript parseInt() with leading zeros
2
5
Rendering a SceneKit scene to video output
2
6
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
2
7
Ruby on Rails Server options
2
8
A poem made out of reserved JavaScript keywords
2
9
The reason why a module level return statement works in Node.js
1
10
Upgrade to pg v0.18.1 If Using Ruby v2.2
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com