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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
What Is Code?
1384
2
Philae comet lander wakes up
922
3
From Asm.js to WebAssembly
897
4
DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
636
5
Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission
580
6
Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob
550
7
LastPass Security Notice
544
8
How to receive a million packets per second
542
9
Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X
501
10
How to Make Almost Anything
477

Top Ask HN

1
I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?
327
2
Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?”
218
3
What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
217
4
Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive
165
5
Algorithms for text fingerprinting?
92
6
What are the best tools for analyzing large bodies of text?
83
7
How do you version control your microservices?
75
8
How do you deal with overly confident people?
73
9
How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
66
10
If we are in a VC bubble, how would the bust play out?
52

Top Show HN

1
Retroospect – How was your work week?
221
2
Readlang – Learn a language while you surf the web
178
3
Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps
159
4
A Repo of JavaScript Coding Challenges
127
5
A DOM text-selection highlight renderer
93
6
Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powered web content
84
7
CandyJS – transparent bridge between Go and JavaScript
72
8
Tota11y – visualize and diagnose the accessibility issues on the web
72
9
'git inject' – amend commits other than HEAD
71
10
An experimental Web Browser
59

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
Uber Drivers Deemed Employees by California Labor Commission
580
2
Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
413
3
Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
244
4
Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership and Internal Structure
155
5
Inside Obama's stealth startup
121
6
Why did crime plummet in the US?
93
7
Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010)
75
8
The average American woman now weighs 166 pounds – as much as a 1960s man
66
9
Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users
59
10
Why men on earth outnumber women by 60M
51

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
What Is Code?
1384
2
Philae comet lander wakes up
922
3
AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
367
4
Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93
274
5
U.S. Bans Trans Fat
259
6
Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
177
7
19 days to build a 57-storey tower
168
8
When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me
161
9
Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network
156
10
The 100-year-old scientist who pushed the FDA to ban artificial trans fat
154

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 Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking
112
2
Fermented foods, neuroticism, and social anxiety: An interaction model
105
3
Solving Verbal Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding [pdf]
80
4
Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on Mac OS X and iOS
78
5
Men in committed, romantic relationships have lower testosterone
73
6
MX3D is to 3D-print a steel bridge over water in Amsterdam
26
7
A naturalist account of the reasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics [pdf]
21
8
Spectral Representations for Convolutional Neural Networks [pdf]
15
9
Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks [pdf]
13
10
Researchers discover first sensor of Earth's magnetic field in an animal
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
1
How to receive a million packets per second
542
2
UI Design Dos and Don'ts
188
3
Reassessing Airport Security
106
4
Introducing the San Francisco system font
98
5
Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
86
6
US Navy Soliciting Zero Days
82
7
WebAssembly
26
8
TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (2013)
7
9
Protocol Oriented Programming (in Swift) – WWDC
7
10
Blockchain Tech Can Save Banks $20B a Year
6

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2015
153
2
EFF and Eight Other Privacy Orgs Back Out of NTIA Face Recognition Talks
131
3
Nantero Exits Stealth: Using Carbon Nanotubes for Non-Volatile Memory
35
4
XCode 7 allows anyone to download, build and ‘sideload’ iOS apps for free
10
5
Mystery Show Debunks License Plate Privacy “Myth”
3
6
DuckDuckGo has grown 600% since Apple made it a search option
3
7
Australian Pols Rush Copyright Censorship Bill That Won't Work, Will Do Harm
3
8
Instacast podcast app shutting down
2
9
Crowdfunding Follies: Proof That Ohm’s Law Is Arcane Knowledge
2
10
Zero day iOS and OS X exploit allows theft of keychain and app passwords
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Lambda: Run Java Code in Response to Events
169
2
Amazon Allowance
126
3
The New M4 Instance Type
62
4
Kindle Paperwhite
54
5
“Microsoft security software (...) removes this unwanted software” (AskToolbar)
9
6
Amazon RDS – Aurora Preview: MySql Compatable, 5x Faster
6
7
AWS Lambda – Run Java Code in Response to Events
5
8
Amazon home services
4
9
Introducing M4 Instances and Lower Amazon EC2 Instance Prices
3
10
AWS Lambda support for Scala
3

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
What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
155
2
An Inside Look at Facebook’s Approach to Automation and Human Work
93
3
Unicorns
55
4
Hotel melancholia
49
5
Atomic Veggies: The Other Type of GMO
34
6
Technology You Didn't Know Still Existed: The Telegram
32
7
The Play Deficit (2013)
26
8
How textiles revolutionised technology
26
9
Libraries and Cities Are Terrible at Keeping Track of Art
10
10
Robots Seem to Be Improving Productivity, Not Costing Jobs
7

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
Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S
129
2
Things We Still Don’t Know About Water
103
3
How Soil Microbes Affect the Environment
21
4
To Predict Turbulence, Count the Puffs
21
5
Water Creates the Land We Walk On
11
6
Where Did the Universe Come From?
11
7
The Chemistry and Psychology of Turning Water into Wine
8
8
Mathematicians think they've worked out what happened to Flight MH370
8
9
Richard Saykally: The chemist tells us why water is wet
5
10
Does Measurement Theory Impact Project Performance?
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
A reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel [video]
153
2
MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games
152
3
I've been scrubbed
152
4
Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks
148
5
Clasp: Common Lisp Using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming [video]
137
6
Haiku OS Action – From BeOS compatible to Desktop [video]
21
7
"Most smart people I know have decided to just not discuss anything sensitive"
17
8
Why you should share your “secret” startup idea with anyone who will listen
13
9
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down July 1
13
10
MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games
12

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
The Art of Command Line
466
2
Favicon bug
310
3
PurifyCSS – Remove unused CSS
231
4
Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
216
5
Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery
215
6
Software engineering blogs
192
7
Trine – A utility library for functional programming in JavaScript
159
8
Read-only deploy keys
144
9
Hackpad released as opensource, then nothing
117
10
Node9: Inferno kernel with LuaJIT instead of the Dis virtual machine
116

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Gabriel's Horn
98
2
The General Crisis of the 17th Century
89
3
Feynman sprinkler
42
4
Atmos Clock
37
5
Congreve rocket
7
6
5 Whys
7
7
Ice-Nine
5
8
Gumption trap
5
9
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
5
10
HTTP 451
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
What's the third most common element?
206
2
Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans
161
3
Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus
104
4
The Curious Phenomenon of Stochastic Resonance
72
5
The Internet of Tweets
48
6
Cassandra from a Relational World
45
7
How hacking helped me become Obama's CTO
28
8
From Damocles to Socrates: The Classics In/of Hip-Hop
27
9
What it's really like to work for a tech giant
24
10
Monoid: A coding font with ligatures
16

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Context switches slower in new Linux kernels
29
2
Why is executing Java code in comments allowed?
7
3
Why you can't parse HTML with regex
5
4
StackOverflow (stack exchange) outage?
4
5
How to move models between apps and keep data and FK tutorial Django 1.8
2
6
Why is executing Java code in comments allowed?
2
7
SOA – Latency SLA Calculation
1
8
When answering a SO question is not enough
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com