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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
1457
2
Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
990
3
Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
905
4
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
804
5
How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
631
6
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
570
7
AWS mistakes to avoid
538
8
Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015
501
9
Best things and stuff of 2015
451
10
Do the math on your stock options
445

Top Ask HN

1
Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?
251
2
What are your predictions in technology for 2016?
99
3
How to avoid being arrogant?
74
4
What was your biggest life lesson in 2015?
66
5
Why has nobody gone to the Moon since 1972?
60
6
In a difficult situation at work. Need advice
56
7
Whats your favorite HN thread from 2015?
47
8
Why is the software ecosystem of single-board computers so ugly?
44
9
What system do you use for tracking and annotating academic papers?
34
10
The Struggles of Poverty and Trying to become a programmer from 0
27

Top Show HN

1
CodeUpStart – Learn Python/Flask by Cloning Kickstarter
95
2
CodeHalf – Write Code Everyday, new design and new features
87
3
Scaffold App for Node.js, Express, Jade, Passport, MongoDB, Bootstrap
63
4
Image-triangulation – Delaunay and Voronoi from scratch
63
5
Netflix Party – Synchronize Netflix Video Playback
58
6
GitHub Hovercard v0.3.3
40
7
VoxelCamera – 3D scanning with a mobile phone (YC Fellowship 2015)
37
8
Primrose - WebVR Framework
35
9
HN Reads – the books of hacker news
33
10
Photish, a simple multithreaded static photo portfolio generator
29

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
Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
367
2
How I Created a $350M Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software
287
3
Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs
256
4
The Amazon Whisperer (2013)
212
5
2015: The year that Microsoft started getting the benefit of the doubt
166
6
I worked at Amazon to see if anything's changed
163
7
Twitter’s updated Mac app wasn’t made by Twitter
155
8
New York is installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi
146
9
30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships
121
10
Theranos Wellness Centers Aren’t Using “Nanotainers” at This Time
91

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
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
570
2
Dear Architects: Sound Matters
363
3
Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage
321
4
Judge: Drinking tea, shopping at garden store probable cause for SWAT raid
254
5
When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together
247
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Companies to face criminal offence if they tip off U.K. users about snooping
190
7
Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money
186
8
To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This
172
9
Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key
165
10
How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops
145

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 Moves Closer to Building a 3-D Printed Rocket Engine
42
2
SWIM: Synthesizing What I Mean
35
3
How to download the complete genome for an organism
32
4
The normalization of deviance in healthcare delivery (2010)
31
5
Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: a representative community survey
16
6
How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs
6
7
Giant comets may threaten Earth: astronomers (Update)
4
8
Germany gives green light to bicycle highways
4
9
Norway Pioneers the Digital Radio Future, Abandoning FM
4
10
Physicists continue to investigate why the universe did not collapse
3

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
Lazy Authentication Still the Norm
71
2
Using Law Against Technology
63
3
Apple developer intermediate certificates are expiring Feb 14, 2016
61
4
“Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it” (2000)
51
5
Computers Get Busy for National Novel-Generating Month
29
6
Postponing the Retirement of SHA-1
25
7
How to Talk to Your Parents About Encryption
12
8
Intel Gives the Etcd Key-Value Store a Needed Boost
5
9
DMCA and the Internet of Things
5
10
Google Cloud Platform for AWS Professionals
5

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
320
2
What Is EFF Reading? Books, Movies, and TV Shows of 2015
53
3
Human Research Loopholes: Alive and Well
17
4
Reforms Abound for Cross-Border Data Requests
6
5
Esoteric Actuators
2
6
V8 JavaScript Fixes (Horrible) Random Number Generator
2
7
Kevin Lynch says Steve Jobs tried recruiting him to Apple after Flash debate
2
8
V8 JavaScript Fixes (Horrible) Random Number Generator
2
9
EFF Joins ACLU in Amicus Brief Supporting Warrant Reqs for Cell-Site Simulators
2
10
Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years Under the DMCA (2010)
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Prime Photos
79
2
Ingenious Mechanisms (Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors)
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
"Free Basics" - Myths and Facts
119
2
How Hollywood Caught the UK's Most Prolific Movie Pirates
67
3
In the 1960s, Adult Coloring Books Were Radical Texts
60
4
Optimizing C++ Const Objects in LLVM
57
5
What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky?
53
6
Pirate Bay founder's new project shows the absurdity of giving value to copies
50
7
Roland the Farter and How the Internet Killed Professional Flatulence
15
8
Joint Statement Rejecting Facebook’s 'Free Basics’ Proposal in India
7
9
Elon Musk: we must put a million people on Mars to ensure humanity has a future
6
10
Why ISIS has the potential to be a world-altering revolution
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
Tardigrades turn into glass when they dry out
194
2
What I Learned from Losing $200M
153
3
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
115
4
A math quartet's breakthrough bridges number theory and geometry
75
5
Eye Contact: How Long Is Too Long?
60
6
How we broke the world record in high-temperature superconductors
46
7
Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas (2012)
43
8
Putting meditation to the test (2011)
39
9
Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible, Briefly (2008)
36
10
New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches
18

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
804
2
Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]
342
3
Musk: Model Xmas Show
48
4
I Trained a Deep Q Network Built in TensorFlow to Play Atari Pong
39
5
Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector (2014) [video]
32
6
Perl6 is released
30
7
Computational Meta-Psychology [video]
21
8
Sesame Credit – The True Danger of Gamification
18
9
Forget your wallet? Here's one way to fly without ID
14
10
Donald Trump is coming after my domain name
12

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Free Springer math books
322
2
HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
255
3
Rbenv 1.0.0
170
4
React-boilerplate: setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps
154
5
AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI
153
6
Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
138
7
Data Notes: Collection of IPython Notebooks for Data Science
129
8
React Router 2.0.0
119
9
Perl 6.0 released
112
10
Py-Videocore: Python Library for GPGPU on Raspberry Pi
105

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Oberon System, an OS Written in Oberon
104
2
Virtual queue
73
3
Hotelling's law
57
4
Toba catastrophe theory
46
5
SNAP-10A was an experimental nuclear reactor launched into space in 1965
30
6
Music Macro Language
25
7
Lumpers and Splitters
25
8
The Anamorphic Skull in Holbein's “The Ambassadors”
23
9
Eternal September
12
10
Pascal's calculator
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
631
2
Do the math on your stock options
445
3
Introducing d3-scale
328
4
OLEOutlook: Bypass Almost Every Corporate Security Control with a GUI
256
5
Conceptual Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
191
6
React/JavaScript fatigue
174
7
Feeding Graph databases – a third use-case for modern log management platforms
101
8
JavaScript Fatigue
94
9
So long Sidecar and thanks
93
10
Block ads on home devices using a Raspberry Pi
81

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
JavaScript inheritance without using prototype
2
2
Any method to predict the n° of examples for good performance in deep learning
2
3
Emacs, org-mode and tables
1
4
When do you change your code version, after the tag or when the tag is finished?
1
5
Problems with Angular2 Beta
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com