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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Project Fi by Google
1107
2
How to Center in CSS
1036
3
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
970
4
Call Me Maybe: MongoDB Stale Reads
605
5
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
578
6
NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
500
7
Four days of Go
496
8
OS X Reviewed
461
9
Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
442
10
Elevator.js
438

Top Ask HN

1
When do you know your startup has failed?
325
2
What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
325
3
Please stop making infinite scrolling websites
197
4
How do I learn how to become a good sysadmin?
151
5
How do I find a mentor?
121
6
What startups were refused from YC but became successful?
112
7
Being harassed by Odesk client, What should I do?
87
8
Could developers use the licensing model professional photographers use?
59
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Ok to ask retainer fee for being avail during office hours?
57
10
What is your one-person sideproject that makes over $1k/month?
45

Top Show HN

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I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
430
2
Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images
231
3
Infinite Monkeys – Pooling the Wisdom of Hacker News Comments
93
4
Emacs Theme Creator
91
5
Linkurious, the first data visualization platform for graph databases
86
6
Credstash – A tiny python utility for managing secrets in EC2
69
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Dependency-based prioritization makes HTTP/2 much faster than SPDY
67
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A Guide to TDD'ing React Components
67
9
SeriesF – The Onion for Startup News
63
10
Density – The Heartbeat of a City
57

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
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
578
2
This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition
236
3
You Have to Hack This Massively Multiplayer Game to Beat It
212
4
To Reduce VR Sickness, Add a Virtual Nose
181
5
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
140
6
Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor
129
7
Microsoft's partnership with Cyanogen Inc.
116
8
An Analysis of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash Landing
99
9
This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector
95
10
Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
88

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
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000
338
2
1.5 Million Missing Black Men
291
3
Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims
199
4
Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
191
5
DARPA Has Open-Sourced 'Dark Web' Search Tech
188
6
AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court
187
7
Japan maglev train breaks world speed record again
187
8
The Man Who Broke the Music Business
182
9
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
165
10
A New ‘Wrinkle in Time’
165

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
The Effect of Physical Exercise on the Concentration of Individuals with ADHD
150
2
Student creates powerful catalyst from potassium
86
3
How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid
83
4
An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists (2000) [pdf]
74
5
New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip
69
6
Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities [pdf]
49
7
World-record electric motor for aircraft
48
8
Baidu's Boffin Describes Beijing's Homegrown Self-Driving Car
27
9
How Much Did Early Transistors Cost?
18
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Blade: A Data Center Garbage Collector [pdf]
12

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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Google Container Registry
106
2
VMware just created its first Linux OS and it's rubbish
79
3
Host-key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8
35
4
Twitter now allows anyone to send you a direct message
15
5
Another Look at MySQL at Twitter and Incubating Mysos
10
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Counting the US Intelligence Community Leakers
9
7
AMD Releases New “AMDGPU” Linux Kernel Driver and Mesa Support
8
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Nvidia's New Hardware Is “Very Open-Source Unfriendly”
8
9
Contributing back to the security community
7
10
Google Cloud Dataflow
7

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
442
2
EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Bills
279
3
United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security
229
4
Intel's 14nm technology in detail (2014)
116
5
Police Must Respect the Right of Citizens to Record Them
105
6
Dice Loaded Against Public in Canada's Copyright Term Extension
96
7
AMD Exits Dense Microserver Business, Ends SeaMicro Brand
90
8
Bill Would Legitimize White House Secrecy and Clear the Way for Anti-User Deals
87
9
Remembering the Case that Established Code as Speech
67
10
Break the Hardware/Software Developer Divide at TC Disrupt NYC Hackathon
8

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda
45
2
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Introduction to Modern C Programming
37
3
New GPU Optimized EC2 G2 Instance, the G2.8xlarge
7
4
New AWS G2 GPU Instances
5
5
Apple – Environmental Responsibility
4
6
Wolfram Alpha on Android free today
3
7
Atlassian Stash on AWS
3
8
Introducing a New Amazon EC2 G2 Instance Size, the G2.8xlarge
3
9
Hire a Goat Grazer: Amazon Home Services
2
10
Apple Watch Accessibility
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
The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
284
2
How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
69
3
Tough, Cheap, and Real: Detroit
69
4
Film made in 1967 about 1999
55
5
Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?
49
6
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Extinction
28
7
What Facebook looked like in 2006
21
8
HBO cracks down on paying VPN “pirates”
20
9
We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other
14
10
TV Companies Will Sue VPN Providers “In Days”
10

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
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
297
2
Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Fact
79
3
Myths of the American Revolution (2010)
67
4
PTSD: The Wound That Never Heals
62
5
Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100,000 Nearby Galaxies
35
6
The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon
33
7
Why we have chins
27
8
The Disease That Turned Us into Genetic-Information Junkies
17
9
A blueprint for clearing the skies of space debris
17
10
What happens to our bodies when the bonds of love are breached
16

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
The design and implementation of the Meteor platform [video]
91
2
This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage (1967) [video]
86
3
Bruce Eckel: Rethinking Scala
61
4
About Internet.org and net neutrality
58
5
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Patents [video]
46
6
DEF CON 13 – Paul Graham, Inequality and Risk (2005) [video]
37
7
Music from very short programs [video]
31
8
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2
22
9
“The top story on HN is how to center text in CSS...”
17
10
Elon Musk Announces Plan for Internet Satellite Network
13

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
The Fuck – Correct your previous console command
438
2
Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP
257
3
Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil
227
4
GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report
181
5
A proof of concept MongoDB clone built on Postgres
142
6
Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for modern browsers
138
7
Rails API is coming to Rails 5
126
8
SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs
115
9
Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript
115
10
An Experiment in Purely Functional IO for Clojure
72

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Tupper's formula
92
2
Golden hat
87
3
List of screw drives
73
4
One instruction set computer
63
5
Chandra–Toueg consensus algorithm
13
6
BB84 – A quantum key distribution scheme
12
7
Waffle House Index
9
8
Cockney rhyming slang
8
9
Heisenbug
8
10
Aaron Swartz: People I've met with Wikipedia entries (or will have one):
5

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Postmortem of Venture-Backed Startup, Sonar
180
2
Why Young Men Go to War
152
3
Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882
152
4
The school that hates rules
120
5
A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management
117
6
Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice
113
7
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting
93
8
I found Einstein's Brain
66
9
Implementing Hello Triangle with Mantle
35
10
Mistaking Authentication for Identification
25

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Bytecode features not available in the Java language
50
2
An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases
31
3
What does the C ??!??! operator do?
6
4
Why don't I get any errors when I execute my Python script with Perl?
2
5
A complex wpf problem resolved easily with dynamic data and Rx
2
6
Why does /bin/sh behave differently to /bin/bash?
2
7
Why are NULL pointers defined differently in C and C++?
2
8
Is responsiveness a functional or non-functional requirement?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com