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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
A Message to Our Customers
5771
2
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
2011
3
Stripe Atlas
1659
4
Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
1302
5
Apple’s declining software quality
1282
6
Introducing the Keybase filesystem
1252
7
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
1126
8
LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
1012
9
Vulkan is Here
903
10
Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
888

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (February 2016)
455
2
How happy are you working as a programmer?
349
3
Your Passive Income Suggestions?
327
4
Is Python dying?
240
5
Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?
156
6
Is it possible to live off technical writing?
148
7
Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?
139
8
How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak)
137
9
What's going on at IBM?
128
10
Best curated newsletters?
127

Top Show HN

1
I've been writing daily TILs for a year
819
2
Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform
613
3
3D Vector Graphics
441
4
Windows 98 in browser
356
5
Find the best recipe for any two foods, based on over 600k recipes
337
6
Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing
322
7
Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync
301
8
how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal
272
9
The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency
269
10
Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes
255

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
Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
720
2
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
501
3
Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal
467
4
Google is banning Flash from its display ads
446
5
Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
444
6
Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53
400
7
Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
325
8
AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from using its utility poles
296
9
Snowden lawyer: Bill of Rights was meant to make government’s job more difficult
284
10
SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience
264

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
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
2011
2
LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
1012
3
Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
888
4
GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart
808
5
What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
667
6
Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
641
7
Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones
636
8
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
620
9
Umberto Eco has died
546
10
German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens
520

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
ZeroDB white paper: An end-to-end encrypted database
171
2
Principal Component Projection Without Principal Component Analysis
117
3
Plasma physicist discusses the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
99
4
Practical Attacks against Deep Learning Systems using Adversarial Examples
98
5
Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (2006)
98
6
Drones learn to search forest trails for lost people
92
7
Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior
91
8
Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
77
9
Gradient-Based Hyperparameter Optimization Through Reversible Learning
58
10
Website-Targeted False Content Injection by Network Operators
46

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
Stripe Atlas
1659
2
Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised
472
3
Why I No Longer Use MVC Frameworks
461
4
This is why people fear the Internet of Things
404
5
The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)
381
6
Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
229
7
History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google
204
8
Encryption is a necessity
196
9
LLVM Patches Confirm Google Has Its Own In-House Processor
165
10
Twitter's new timeline feature
162

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything
301
2
How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)
299
3
A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
176
4
Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties
157
5
The UK's Proposed Spy Law Would Force Apple to Secretly Hack its Phones Too
132
6
Trade Officials Sign the TPP but It's Still Up to Lawmakers to Reject It
88
7
Revisiting the Google Pixel C – Better, but Not There Yet
79
8
Content ID and the Rise of the Machines
78
9
EFF to Apple Shareholders: Your Company Is Fighting for All of Us
73
10
How an Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder
67

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
A Message to Our Customers
5771
2
Answers to your questions about Apple and security
545
3
Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
441
4
Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49
281
5
AWS and Zombies
122
6
Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
114
7
Amazon introduces a new free game engine – Amazon Lumberyard
36
8
Access Resources in a VPC from Your AWS Lambda Functions
10
9
FirefoxOS GSM factory unlocked Fx0 for ~$60
9
10
Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS
7

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
The Malware Museum
472
2
PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services
296
3
Building a business, not just an app
170
4
James Burke: Connections, Episodes 1-10 (1978) [video]
159
5
The Reality of Missing Out
147
6
The NASA Rocket Countdown Came from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film
114
7
The Windows 3.x Showcase
101
8
What I’ve learned so far from living in a Mars simulation dome
85
9
Galaxy Magazine (1950-80)
78
10
Forward error correction in QUIC
62

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
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
258
2
Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
205
3
Amgen publishes failures to replicate high-profile science
193
4
Destroying worn-out cells makes mice live longer
186
5
Love Resembles Addiction
177
6
Wild gorillas compose songs that they hum during meals
163
7
She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not
143
8
Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster
143
9
What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
137
10
CRISPR-like ‘immune’ system discovered in giant virus
131

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case
643
2
Atlas, the Next Generation [video]
509
3
Changing Date to Jan 1, 1970 disables 64-bit iOS devices
337
4
What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable
313
5
Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”
255
6
React.js Conf live stream [video]
167
7
J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]
154
8
Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device
148
9
Sundar Pichai Responds to Apple and the FBI Hacking Request
146
10
Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?
139

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
763
2
Issue and Pull Request templates
520
3
Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it
515
4
Investigate switching away from GitHub
498
5
January 28th Incident Report
451
6
Dragula: Drag and drop so simple it hurts
307
7
PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network
288
8
React Makes You Sad?
288
9
Upload files to your repositories
276
10
Adblock via /etc/hosts
273

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
52-hertz whale
299
2
EURion constellation
155
3
List of failed and over-budget custom software projects
154
4
Old Tjikko, the oldest living clonal Norway Spruce
98
5
Phantom Time Hypothesis
54
6
Breeding back
49
7
BBC Domesday Project
47
8
Atbash – Ancient Hebrew Cryptography
43
9
Senet: board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt
33
10
Negative income tax
31

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
I no longer understand my PhD dissertation
682
2
Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory
365
3
What’s Next in Computing?
300
4
An introduction to IPFS
279
5
Internet Access Is Finally Permanently Tax Free in the U.S.
266
6
Dead Men Write No Code
260
7
Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
221
8
Parse 2.0
217
9
Just Landed Is Shutting Down
215
10
LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it
211

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Bash command line tricks
3
2
Why does the statement “2i;” Not cause a compiler error?
2
3
Twitter image encoding challenge
2
4
Disturbing Job Ad (Wanted: PHP Wiz with Photoshop Skills Who Lives Online ())
2
5
Zalgo bug
1
6
Angular2: extract array element form http.get response
1
7
What does a Ajax call response like 'for (;;); { json data }' mean?
1
8
Java String.split pass in precompiled regex for performance reasons
1
9
2½ steps towards accurate project estimates
1
10
Message Queue vs. Web Services?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com