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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
872
2
Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
830
3
When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
767
4
What Happens Next Will Amaze You
753
5
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
641
6
Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
561
7
Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
543
8
Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy
470
9
Just doesn’t feel good
449
10
Chris Poole
441

Top Ask HN

1
Best books or videos to get better at sales?
147
2
How do you manage and structure a team?
136
3
First time working remote, what do I need to know?
74
4
What is your best side project / passive income in 2015?
70
5
Any good Angular open source projects for looking at their code?
64
6
How do you remember syntax?
61
7
Share an industry secret
50
8
Do companies need commercial support for open source software?
33
9
How to read faster
33
10
What are your opinions and experiences coding on a 13“ or 15” laptop?
26

Top Show HN

1
%%30%30: A Game
608
2
Hacker News Simulator
572
3
Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API
357
4
Kiddo Paint
162
5
Build, run and share React Native apps in your browser
124
6
Live Simple – Tiny homes
80
7
A stack-based pure functional language for touch devices
77
8
Sshync – Auto-sync files over SSH
65
9
Eslisp – Minimal JavaScript S-expression syntax and macro system
51
10
MIDI.space – WebMIDI and Audio Mashup for Finger Drumming
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
Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations in 7 Countries
337
2
“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
302
3
AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers
260
4
The world's fastest human-powered vehicle tops 85 mph
218
5
One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs
198
6
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible
159
7
Tower purifies a million cubic feet of air per hour
87
8
Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot
80
9
Encryption might be the reason why we haven't heard from aliens
77
10
Telegram Now Seeing 12B Daily Messages, Up from 1B in February
75

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
'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
872
2
Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
830
3
Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over Emissions Software
353
4
Hit Charade
312
5
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator
296
6
How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
259
7
How Norway Created Salmon Sushi
244
8
Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare
223
9
Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six-hour working day
177
10
Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
176

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
Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
543
2
A Critique of the CAP Theorem
100
3
The Erdos discrepancy problem
83
4
Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals
80
5
First draft of the “tree of life” for the 2.3M named organisms released [pdf]
76
6
On the Expressive Power of Deep Learning: A Tensor Analysis
59
7
Testing for common sense violation in airline pricing
47
8
Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
46
9
Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013)
31
10
Repairing Reed-Solomon Codes
25

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
Bcc: Taming Linux 4.3+ Tracing Superpowers
122
2
Validating Your Version of Xcode
87
3
Swift 2 Apps in the App Store
80
4
Realtime KVM
79
5
Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data
52
6
How Debian managed the systemd transition
51
7
Child Arrested Because Adults Are Stupid
27
8
A status update on Debian's reproducible builds
27
9
The Timeless Way of Building Erlang Apps
21
10
Steam Crosses 1,500 Games Natively Available for Linux
16

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
641
2
Nothing Is Agreed Yet – We Can Still Stop the TPP's Copyright Trap
143
3
EFF Urges State Appeals Court to Protect Twitter Parodies
16
4
New Surveillance Self-Defense Playlist for Academic Researchers
7
5
What You Need to Know About iOS Malware XcodeGhost
5
6
With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)–Part 1
4
7
Hardware Virtualization in Microcontrollers
3
8
Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app gets blasted with 2700 1-star reviews by Android users
3
9
With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs (Yet Again)–Part 2
3
10
New Letter calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand Up This Week for User Safeguards
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption
190
2
Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction
170
3
Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition
37
4
Amazon's New $50 Fire Tablet
35
5
iOS 9 installed on over 50% of users' devices
13
6
Amazon release new Fire TV with 4K support
9
7
Pebble Time Round
4
8
AWS Grants for Research and Education
2
9
3000 Rice genomes are publicly available on AWS
2
10
Hacker's Delight
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
Why is light so fast?
66
2
French thought once dazzled the world. Where did it go wrong?
39
3
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)
25
4
When Treasure Hunting is the Family Business
19
5
A theory of jerks
18
6
The logic of Buddhist philosophy (2014)
13
7
The Perpetually Dying Art of the Small-Town Obituary
10
8
Pirate Bay: What Raid? Police Never Got Our Servers
9
9
Setting the Record Straight on Switching Jobs
3
10
In the Age of Loneliness, Connections at Work Matter
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
Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back
110
2
Happiness May Lie in Our Relationships
103
3
Unhackable Kernel?
57
4
Chinese scientists row over long-sought protein that senses magnetism
49
5
Researchers wrestle with a privacy problem
44
6
The Search for Eclipses as Perfect as Earth’s (2013)
24
7
Global number of trees is order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate
22
8
For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs
22
9
Work to make suspended animation into a life-saving medical procedure
21
10
The Chemistry and Psychology of Turning Water into Wine
20

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Cable Robot Simulator [video]
261
2
Imgur is being used to create a botnet and DDOS 8Chan
47
3
The Martin Shkreli $750 pill story is a setup to short sell biotech stocks
27
4
Bitcoins from Feb 3, 2009 just moved for the first time
18
5
Firefox 42’s Tracking Protection, before/after screenshot
14
6
AMD will release Vulkan Open Source graphic driver for Linux
14
7
Go Will Dominate the Next Decade
13
8
Introducing Gnome 3.18
13
9
Collaborative live coding in VR with three.js
11
10
Snowlife: Playing with cellular automata B3/S1237
11

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
C++ Core Guidelines
268
2
Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java
202
3
Goto in Python
170
4
Making Cython as easy as Python
141
5
Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]
121
6
PeachPy: Assembly Code Generation in High-Level Python
116
7
Introduction to getting started with Linux kernel development
115
8
OpenRTS: A 3D Real-Time Strategy Game Engine
112
9
Reddit shell
103
10
The seL4 microkernel
102

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Pugachev's Cobra
36
2
Windows 3.1 beta crashed on 3rd-party DOS
11
3
List of music considered the worst
10
4
Lucky Imaging
9
5
Showscan
9
6
The oldest recognizable recording of a human voice in existence
7
7
Eugène François Vidocq
7
8
Zveno project
6
9
Canny edge detector
4
10
List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
767
2
Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
561
3
“We don’t do autism”
177
4
Ben Horowitz’s Best Startup Advice
139
5
The 21 Bitcoin Computer
129
6
Runtime.js – JavaScript library OS
116
7
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests
111
8
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my career
95
9
Building a better WordPress
92
10
A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
79

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How are Software License Keys generated?
6
2
How to count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer?
3
3
Some approaches to hard instances of set partition problem
1
4
File locking in android. How to?
1
5
Stackoverflow 404
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com