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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Swift is Open Source
1824
2
Entering Public Beta
1249
3
Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
852
4
Who Y Combinator Companies Want
667
5
Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
624
6
The Best Books I Read in 2015
596
7
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
529
8
We ditched Google Analytics
490
9
Open source software for developing world hospitals
458
10
After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6
451

Top Ask HN

1
Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?
154
2
Do you find reading increasingly challenging?
56
3
How to be a great Junior Engineer?
29
4
What programming blogs should I be reading?
29
5
What are the best books on creating a programming language?
20
6
Database Design Templates (or Best Practice Examples)
19
7
C, C++, or Rust which language to learn next?
15
8
Best front-end framework to use with React to make a web app?
15
9
A holiday favor, please?
13
10
How do you know you're getting paid enough?
11

Top Show HN

1
Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
410
2
Acme-tiny, a tiny 200-line Let's Encrypt client
280
3
Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel
211
4
Nchan – a pub/sub server as an Nginx module
149
5
Adblock to Bitcoin
128
6
Lego – A Let's Encrypt Library and CLI in Go
93
7
Braindump, a simple note platform to organize your life
91
8
ACME Let's Encrypt client – binary releases, works like 'make'
83
9
StoryGraph.js – Define a world and generate random stories
82
10
Autocompletion for Swift on Emacs
79

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
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
529
2
Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?
395
3
Most violence in the world is motivated by moral sentiments
383
4
Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber
325
5
Magic Leap raises $827M in Series C
212
6
French Uber drivers have created their own Uber
211
7
Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S
167
8
NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from low-Earth orbit
149
9
Open-source license plate reader
147
10
Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect
119

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
Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
328
2
Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi
324
3
Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
290
4
Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to terror
167
5
Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World's Exit from Fossil Fuels
157
6
After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet
149
7
1984 – When women stopped coding
145
8
The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class
140
9
‘No-drill’ techniques can treat tooth decay just as well, study finds
139
10
How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage
137

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
New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto
124
2
Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (2014)
117
3
Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
105
4
The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? (2013)
88
5
The First Sodium-Ion Rechargeable Battery
52
6
How Supercomputing Can Survive Beyond Moore's Law
27
7
Metformin as a Geroprotector (2011)
26
8
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans
19
9
Coffee consumption reduces background DNA strand breaks in humans
10
10
NASA Graphic Standards Manual (1976) [pdf]
8

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
Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
446
2
HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
267
3
Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
225
4
When Undercover Credit Card Buys Go Bad
161
5
Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2
101
6
Apple: Open Source
50
7
Automata Memory Processor Points to Future Systems
40
8
GPU Platforms Set to Lengthen Deep Learning Reach
34
9
Open-Source Retreat 2016 grantees
33
10
Stream Processing in Uber
29

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
293
2
The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires
191
3
How AMD Won, Then Lost
144
4
TPP Threatens Security and Safety by Locking Down US Policy on Source Code Audit
137
5
Copyfail: Why WIPO Can't Fix Copyright
57
6
How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights
13
7
Let's Encrypt Enters Public Beta
9
8
How to Be the Hardware Engineer at a Startup
8
9
The Death of Surplus
5
10
Apple Launches Official Battery Life Enhancing Case for the iPhone 6s
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Announces Microsoft Active Directory Single Sign On Services
16
2
iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case
6
3
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow, Global Traffic Management in the Cloud
2
4
iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case
2
5
MS Announce Azure IoT 'Predictive Maintenance' Solution
1
6
Announcing Managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud
1
7
Apple changes open-source page copy
1
8
All New Amazon Fire HD8 Reader's Edition
1
9
100s of copies of app dominate 'puzzle games' on Amazon Appstore
1
10
iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case
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
C.S. Lewis' Greatest Fiction: Convincing Kids That They'd Like Turkish Delight
117
2
Men at work
103
3
The genetic code now has a workable text editor
83
4
BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic
62
5
How Microsoft Created a Revolution in Soviet Computing
50
6
Object Oriented Programming Oversold (2001)
40
7
What if? On the value of counterfactual history
31
8
JavaScript Developer Survey 2015
16
9
Beyond Disruption
8
10
If governments fail on climate change, extremists will step in
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
Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
403
2
Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before European arrival
180
3
Social media encourages us to follow those we envy
179
4
How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)
131
5
An Unexpected Effect of Ultra-Marathons: Temporary Brain Shrinkage
61
6
Humans Are Draining Even More of Earth's Freshwater Than We Thought
55
7
Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time
50
8
The Bugs in Our Mindware
44
9
The Microbes in Your Gut May Be Making You Fat (2013)
39
10
Driverless cars aren't a fix for our transport woes
35

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change
367
2
Pricing Programmers
162
3
MongoDB 3.2: Now powered by Postgres
120
4
Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Universal Commafree Codes [video]
97
5
Uninstall Notepad++ if you have voted for FN
82
6
Abstract Algebra: The Definition of a Group [video]
74
7
Mark Zuckerberg responds to critics of his $45B pledge
44
8
Internet of Shit
30
9
How to Get a Job in the Tech Industry
26
10
WOOT: an Algorithm for Concurrrent and Collaborative Authoring (2013) [video]
22

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks
355
2
Vuvuzela – Private messaging system that hides metadata
243
3
Remove the ++ and –- operators
171
4
Structor – a user interface builder for React
123
5
Phan by Etsy – A Static Analyzer for PHP 7+
113
6
Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release
111
7
ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator
80
8
Ritchie language: power of C and convenience of a high-level language
79
9
0AD Pathfinder Design [pdf]
78
10
Rcon: a lightweight resource virtualization tool for Linux processes
73

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
221
2
The "Bush hid the facts" bug
139
3
Capability Based Security
44
4
Van Eck Phreaking
39
5
Reversible computing
26
6
Atari Punk Console
24
7
Casting out nines
24
8
Chicago Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
14
9
Prime Gap
4
10
8k resolution
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Introducing d3-shape
218
2
Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet streaming
164
3
Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool
135
4
I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook
125
5
Unexplored Areas in Data Compression
124
6
Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014)
108
7
Building a professional design tool on the web using C++ and Emscripten
105
8
The Curious Case of Linux Containers
101
9
What’s in a web browser
76
10
Hot code reloading with Erlang
73

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
5
2
'Just stop it' profiling
2
3
How can I dynamically connect LightTable to an external browser from console?
2
4
How can I dynamically connect LightTable to an external browser from console
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com