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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
We are under attack
839
2
Replacing Photoshop with NSString
680
3
I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
634
4
Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone
625
5
Fear of Apple
558
6
Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
528
7
“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”
516
8
Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
495
9
All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two
488
10
Apple Acquires FoundationDB
483

Top Ask HN

1
Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?
282
2
How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?
160
3
Do you take nootropics?
155
4
What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?
155
5
How do you read Academic Papers?
140
6
Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?
97
7
RapGenius for code?
96
8
I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to
84
9
Static site generator with web UI?
75
10
Good books on debugging?
67

Top Show HN

1
Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed
256
2
Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe
129
3
Madeon's Adventure Machine
85
4
Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
58
5
Stripe Customer Info inside Gmail
56
6
Performance-focused pure CSS loading animations
49
7
Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP
46
8
Create a papercraft book from any ISBN – experiment with React and Node
46
9
WakaTime and Slack live demo
45
10
Figure out when you closed your MacBook lid
45

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
Apple Acquires FoundationDB
483
2
Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC
324
3
We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans
305
4
Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?
234
5
Google warns of unauthorized TLS certificates trusted by almost all OSes
205
6
Razorpay (YC W15) offers Stripe-style payment experience in India
153
7
The Terrible Technical Interview
133
8
Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2
110
9
Companies That Presented at Y Combinator Demo Day 1
108
10
New DNA construct can set off a “mutagenic chain reaction”
100

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
Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
495
2
Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving
422
3
Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer
365
4
Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated
267
5
China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
230
6
“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”
223
7
In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas
222
8
How doctors choose to die (2012)
161
9
Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91
154
10
After Jobs Dry Up, What Then?
145

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
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars
109
2
Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem
97
3
Researchers Demonstrate Heat and Sound Are Magnetic
47
4
Novel polynomial basis and its application to Reed-Solomon erasure codes
39
5
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm [pdf]
31
6
The Race to Build a Search Engine for Your DNA
18
7
Quantum experiment verifies Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'
14
8
A QoS-Aware Novel Probabilistic Strategy for Dynamic Resource Allocation [pdf]
10
9
Exploring Non-Homogeneity and Dynamicity of High Scale Cloud [pdf]
9
10
Entropy-scaling search of massive biological data
9

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
All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two
488
2
Stripe Connect v2
332
3
LibOS – A library operating system for Linux
160
4
Ten Years of Kubuntu
130
5
Deprecating the DNS ANY meta-query type
47
6
Equation APT Group Attack Platform – A Study in Stealth
22
7
BiOS Hacking
9
8
Cisco Shipping Equipment to Fake Addresses to Foil NSA Interception
9
9
Mozilla Makes Yandex the Default Search Engine for Firefox in Turkey
8
10
The new Stripe Connect
8

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance
224
2
The Need for Care with “Thoughtcrime”
83
3
The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review
80
4
The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review
54
5
White House Confirms: If Section 215 Expires, So Does Bulk Phone Records
8
6
Ads sending users to App Store app without user interaction from Safari on iOS
3
7
Coalition Launches Manila Principles to Protect Freedom of Expression Worldwide
3
8
Congress Must Pass FOIA Reform Legislation
2
9
Senate Intelligence Committee Advances Terrible Surveillance Bill in Secret
2
10
Apple cracking down on iOS antivirus apps
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1
131
2
Start Using Landsat on AWS
115
3
16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes
84
4
Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3
80
5
“The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” Now for Free on Amazon Prime Instant Video
10
6
Now Available: Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03
6
7
Amazon s3 introduces cross region replication
5
8
Minecraft Modding for Dummies: Making coding more accessible for kids
4
9
EBS 16 TB
1
10
Amazon RDS adds Postgres 9.4 support
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
Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version
153
2
BYTE Magazine: The C Language (1983)
141
3
Landing the Nostromo (1981)
92
4
What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong (2013)
70
5
Bacteria kill us by accident (2014)
58
6
Registration – BugMeNot.com
45
7
Cockroach Design Document
34
8
The Facebook Reckoning
20
9
Byte Magazine - LISP (1979)
5
10
Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time
4

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
Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
129
2
Did Neurons Evolve Twice?
75
3
The PhD Factory (2011)
58
4
The Gravekeeper’s Paradox: People want permanent tombstones that also show decay
46
5
‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles
31
6
Costa Rica powered with 100% renewable energy for 75 straight days
24
7
Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the Portland Airport’s Carpet?
23
8
Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets
22
9
The Greatest Animal War
14
10
New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
12

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Proving Things About Biology with F#
77
2
“Reasons you shouldn't join us: if you're looking for work-life balance.”
59
3
Airbus A380 Emergency Evacuation Test (2007) [video]
36
4
“Your password should be committed to memory rather than using a password mgr”
26
5
A Drupal Developer is going to die on March 24
20
6
Graal Tutorial at CGO 2015 [video]
14
7
Computer Color is Broken
14
8
Magic Leap Demo: Just Another Day in the Office at Magic Leap
14
9
What is Rust bad at?
9
10
When Impostor Syndrome Is Real
9

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Vim is moving to GitHub
462
2
A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React
352
3
httpdiff – diff responses to two HTTP/HTTPS requests
197
4
Proving false in Coq using an implementation bug
125
5
Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field
109
6
Nes emulator written in go
108
7
Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds
107
8
A General Theory of Reactivity
103
9
Mozilla MASCHE – Memory Forensic Library
99
10
BitTorrent client package and utilities in Go
90

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Sabbath mode
93
2
Mode X
87
3
Development of Doom
74
4
Desertec
70
5
Dempster–Shafer theory
42
6
Hypothetical types of biochemistry
42
7
PreScheme – Scheme for systems programming
37
8
The knowledge argument
31
9
Vinča symbols
27
10
Trolley problem
22

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Shut-In Economy
447
2
JavaScript's world domination
295
3
Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
177
4
The Ugliest Sign in America
125
5
The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca
123
6
We Actually Built a Remote Team, and It Rocks
96
7
High performance services using coroutines
69
8
Hijacking is Buffer Overflow (2001)
48
9
Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons
45
10
Efficient Nested React Components
31

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
The Definitive C Book Guide and List
4
2
Why Skype using HTTP or HTTPS ports 80 and 443?
1
3
Best comments in source code
1
4
Table Naming Dilemma: Singular vs. Plural Names
1
5
Both Authors Reply to Comparing Haskell's Snap and Yesod Web Frameworks
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com