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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
645
2
Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted
632
3
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
593
4
Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
556
5
MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
541
6
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0
532
7
The Yale Problem Begins in High School
525
8
First Timers Only
510
9
What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
476
10
ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor
471

Top Ask HN

1
“If you build it, they will come” doesn't work. How do we market our app?
85
2
How do you track issues, todos, features?
75
3
How did you get to your current job/startup?
72
4
Is it possible to find remote job on C/C++?
61
5
Is it possible to start a successful tech non-profit?
59
6
What have the USDS and 18F accomplished so far?
30
7
Am I the only one outraged by Twitter shutting down share counts?
28
8
How do you motivate yourself?
21
9
If Evernote goes out of business, what happens to all our notes?
20
10
How can I leverage my Open-Source contributions to further my career?
15

Top Show HN

1
BestRuby – Ruby Tricks, Idioms, Refactorings and Best Practices
92
2
Commandcar – a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API
82
3
Simulacra.js – one-way data binding for web applications
82
4
HtmlPy – HTML5-CSS3-JavaScript Based GUI Library in Python
79
5
Bot that mentions potential reviewers on pull requests
72
6
Wox – an open source launcher for windows inspired by Alfred and Launchy
54
7
Gitnonymous – Contribute anonymously to Git repositories over Tor
46
8
Microm – JavaScript library to convert microphone to mp3 in the browser
46
9
1Post – HN-like site with markdown and syntax highlighting
43
10
First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project
42

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
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0
532
2
Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave
248
3
Square Prices Its IPO at $9, giving it a $2.7B valuation
175
4
I Want to Run Stateful Containers, Too
152
5
Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool in California
144
6
Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
142
7
Baffling Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online
131
8
I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died
99
9
Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again
95
10
I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week
94

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
Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It
333
2
New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight
333
3
File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance Program
216
4
Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy
190
5
A blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see
190
6
We know the city where HIV first emerged
185
7
Tesla recalling 90,000 Model S sedans to check seat belts
182
8
Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business
175
9
I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse, until now
165
10
Why it’s so hard to keep up with how the U.S. gov't is spying on its own people
160

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 Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
593
2
Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides
193
3
Post-human mathematics
175
4
Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter
149
5
Sense2vec – A Fast and Accurate Method for Word Sense Disambiguation
131
6
DRAM chip failures reveal surprising hardware vulnerabilities
91
7
Recurrent Neural Networks Hardware Implementation on FPGA
54
8
Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in semiconductor wafers
42
9
Master of Puppets: Analyzing and Attacking a Botnet for Fun and Profit
32
10
Researchers Study Motivations of Open-Source Programmers
30

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
If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice
230
2
C11 atomic variables and the Linux kernel (2014)
120
3
What every programmer should know about memory (2007)
119
4
Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone
94
5
Broken Performance Tools [pdf]
74
6
Java: Missing Features
35
7
Convergence Coming for Supercomputing, Machine Learning
33
8
A New Age in Cluster Interconnects Is Dawning
22
9
Paris Terrorists Used Double ROT-13 Encryption
14
10
The story of one latency spike
10

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
375
2
Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynical Pattern
18
3
Wall-O-Tron, the Interactive Rock Climbing Wall
11
4
Stronger Locks, Better Security
9
5
Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook and Twitter
7
6
Suspension Bridges of Disbelief
4
7
Building the Infinite Matrix of Tamagotchis
3
8
Has the TPP Ended the Crypto Wars? Hardly
3
9
EFF Joins Broad Coalition of Groups to Protest the TPP in Washington D.C
2
10
Building the Infinite Matrix of Tamagotchis
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
402
2
EC2 Dedicated Hosts
176
3
The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0
142
4
WDC Re-releases Classic 1986 6502/65816 manual “Programming the 65816”
17
5
The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS
3
6
Q for Mortals Version 3 released
2
7
Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer
2
8
Google Launches ASUS OnHub Router with "Hand Wave"
2
9
The Eternaut (Argentine Science Fiction Comic in English)
1
10
AWS Device Farm adds support for web apps – Test against real devices
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
React vs. Angular 2
160
2
Selling Feelings
47
3
The Telharmonium Was the Spotify of 1906
44
4
If the internet is addictive, why we don't regulate it?
41
5
There is no language instinct (2014)
37
6
The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom
32
7
Better babies: The long and peculiar history of the designer human
24
8
Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994) [video]
23
9
Steel In The Field: A Farmer’s Guide to Weed Management Tools (1997)
15
10
Hellerstein's Progressive Systems Project Ideas
14

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
Einstein was no lone genius
118
2
‘Outsiders’ who cracked the 50-Year-Old Kadison-Singer Problem
108
3
What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?
79
4
Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost
70
5
Topology looks for the patterns inside big data
66
6
The Information Theory of Life
62
7
Benefits of Sarcasm
55
8
Astronomers Indirectly Spot Neutrinos Released 1 Second After the Big Bang
47
9
Leap-second decision delayed by eight years
40
10
Pigeons taught to diagnose breast cancer on X-rays
35

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
How to succeed in language design without really trying [video]
110
2
My car was damaged with FlightCar and they don't care – here's the 3-month story
78
3
Slow Deployment Causes Meetings
62
4
Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (2014) [video]
34
5
Dell ships laptops with a rogue root CA
31
6
1000W (90,000 Lumens) LED Flashlight
28
7
new ArrayBuffer(3*1024*1024*1024) crashes the page in Google Chrome
14
8
Making music with a C compiler (2013) [video]
13
9
Elon Musk hiring team to make Teslas fully autonomous
13
10
Twitter.com is down: 503 OK
12

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
645
2
MagSpoof – wireless credit card/magstripe spoofer
541
3
Webtorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
362
4
LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB
244
5
A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques
218
6
Web login using SSH
203
7
Hacker Scripts
140
8
Hugo v0.15 releasedL Higher performance, Jekyll import, template improvements
122
9
Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
115
10
IonDB: A key-value store for microcontroller and IoT applications
104

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Garden path sentence
185
2
Non-photo blue
138
3
The Fixed Price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959
103
4
M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service
70
5
Gyrocar
62
6
General purpose analog computer
41
7
Capacitance Electronic Disc
20
8
Wikipedia and open source contributor Bassel Khartabil sentenced to death by Syria
18
9
Electro Gyro-Cator (1981)
9
10
Theory Z of Ouchi
8

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
First Timers Only
510
2
The End of the Internet Dream
356
3
Math.random in V8 is broken
310
4
How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential
299
5
My bank has an API so I built online banking
164
6
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps
153
7
How I’m Handling My Depression Using an App
145
8
What's Worked in Computer Science
135
9
What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
134
10
The Dribbblisation of Design
122

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Weird table's data in SQL server
2
2
The definitive guide to form-based website authentication
1
3
The characters “U+” are an ASCIIfied version of the MULTISET UNION “⊎” character
1
4
Relation of Prolog and SQL [Stackoverflow Question](2010)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com