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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
1725
2
We only hire the trendiest
1615
3
I've Just Liberated My Modules
1573
4
Andy Grove has died
1333
5
That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
1078
6
Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
958
7
Left-pad as a service
943
8
Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
904
9
I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
841
10
Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes
787

Top Ask HN

1
How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
1213
2
How much do you make at Google?
193
3
Why is there a black bar added on top?
149
4
Best payment processor?
83
5
Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoughts?
77
6
Why are London devs paid so much less than SF/NY?
60
7
Best ultrabook for Linux?
60
8
What's it like to work at Adobe?
43
9
How do I get started with Algo trading?
42
10
What makes a Senior Dev
42

Top Show HN

1
Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
314
2
Teleport – SSH for Clusters and Teams
183
3
Localkube – zero to Kubernetes 1.2 in one command
173
4
Quantum suicide in Python
151
5
English syntax highlighter using part-of-speech tagging
147
6
Watch movies with the freedom to filter
125
7
Micro – a microservice toolkit
101
8
Advanced Swift
93
9
Rhine – A typed Elixir-inspired language on LLVM
81
10
Datasets.co – Share and discover new machine learning datasets
81

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
Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total
428
2
Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
378
3
Microsoft won't stop forcing companies to pay for its bogus Android patents
279
4
​Red Hat becomes first open-source company to make $2B
264
5
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD geometry so you can mod it
215
6
In foam-arrow patent fracas, Newegg swoops in to aid LARPer defendant
205
7
All 60 startups that launched at Y Combinator Winter 2016 Demo Day 1
175
8
Apple introduces the iPhone SE
164
9
Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer”
142
10
The mobile games industry is kept afloat by less than 1% of users
136

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
Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
462
2
U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone
408
3
Study: People Want Power Because They Want Autonomy
317
4
Why we should fear a cashless world
292
5
Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
263
6
Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate
242
7
Challenger Engineer Who Warned of Shuttle Disaster Dies
221
8
Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
210
9
Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks
204
10
I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing
201

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
SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls
100
2
Celebrating Claude Shannon
100
3
Caught for the First Time: The Early Flash of an Exploding Star
99
4
What Prominent Roboticists Think Google Should Do with Its Robots
83
5
Higher-Order Symbolic Execution
76
6
XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
74
7
Cracking Go (2007)
58
8
The Prophylactic Extraction of Third Molars: A Public Health Hazard
45
9
NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1976) [pdf]
44
10
Analyzing HTTPS Traffic to Identify User Operating System, Browser, Application
40

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
Atlas and Cuba
141
2
Ethereum Blockchain Project Launches First Production Release
83
3
Safari 9.1
56
4
Does Running Java on Docker Containers Violate Agreements?
36
5
Spammers Abusing Trust in US .Gov Domains
22
6
TLS Cert Optimization: The Technical Details Behind “No Browser Left Behind”
21
7
Google Cloud Speech API
20
8
TensorFlow as a Service
12
9
Stripe Atlas launches in Cuba
9
10
Hospital Declares ‘Internal State of Emergency’ After Ransomware Infection
8

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Report: Apple building its own servers to prevent snooping
231
2
Arguments Supporting Warrantless Surveillance Wither When Exposed to Sunlight
144
3
Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Double That
141
4
More developers now use OS X than Linux
50
5
After Withholding Mail, Army Allows Chelsea Manning to Read EFF Writing
40
6
Intel’s ‘Tick-Tock’ Seemingly Dead, Becomes ‘Process-Architecture-Optimization’
10
7
Dancing Baby Trial Back On? Another Mixed Ruling in Lenz V. Universal
4
8
Intel's Skull Canyon NUC Is Official: $650, Shipping in May
4
9
An Open Letter to President Obama: This Is About Math, Not Politics
4
10
Ban Rate Regulation or Attack on Net Neutrality Protections?
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
iPhone SE
567
2
iPad Pro – 9.7-inch
120
3
Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT
81
4
Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers
72
5
Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers
17
6
Apple Watch Gallery
4
7
Windows Phone 10 rollout drops suppport for many 8.1 devices
3
8
Apple Recycling Program
3
9
Essential Ruby Kindle Book
3
10
New 4 inch Iphone
2

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 not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
663
2
GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
203
3
Andy Grove and the iPhone SE
166
4
Napster Founder's Movie Plan Will Fuel Torrent Sites, Theaters Say
63
5
Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap
16
6
Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2016 Edition
14
7
Forensic evidence gives credence to mythic life and death of Erik the Lawgiver
7
8
Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
5
9
“Why I hate Microsoft” by F.W. van Wensveen
4
10
What Does Your Reaction to a Robotic Trash Can Say About You?
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
South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'
254
2
‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life
146
3
How Do You Say “Life” in Physics?
87
4
If You Drive the Right Speed, This Musical Highway Will Play You a Song
45
5
The circular economy
35
6
We’ve Been Measuring Inequality Wrong
22
7
Kuwait has become the first country to make DNA testing mandatory for residents
18
8
Physicists Unleash AI to Devise Unthinkable Experiments
13
9
Northern hemisphere temperature breaches a terrifying milestone
8
10
Can Life Ever Be Perfectly Adapted to Its Environment?
6

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Julie Rubicon
784
2
Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos [video]
160
3
WikiLeaks: “Hillary Emails: Google Tried to Boost Assad Defections”
148
4
Safety Check for Brussels
129
5
Uber Bug Bounty Program – It's a Sham
98
6
Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example [video]
81
7
Scala.js for large and complex front end apps [video]
70
8
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on startups
37
9
Heading into YC demo day and there's an elephant in the room
36
10
What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits? Nope. It's not 999
30

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Require-from-Twitter
701
2
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
548
3
Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
247
4
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers
236
5
A guide on how to be a Programmer (2002)
207
6
Non-nullable types for TypeScript
185
7
Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
178
8
CoreUtils implemented in pure JavaScript
177
9
A Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design and more
162
10
Using Google Cloud Vision OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents
128

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
CueCat
64
2
Wirth's law
10
3
Hofstadter's Law
10
4
Politician's syllogism (a.k.a. politician's fallacy)
6
5
Natural (systems of) units
4
6
Planetary protection
4
7
Happy Nowrus
3
8
Right to quote
3
9
Halbach array: how your fridge magnets work
3
10
Yakhchal
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
We only hire the trendiest
1615
2
I've Just Liberated My Modules
1573
3
D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
380
4
Silicon Valley’s Unchecked Arrogance
164
5
A discussion about the breaking of the Internet
157
6
How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
151
7
How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
116
8
Machine Learning: An In-Depth, Non-Technical Guide – Part 5
92
9
CSVJSON – Self Rise of an Online Tool
75
10
Stop calling it poaching
63

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why Is Node.js Single Threaded? (2013)
3
2
Swift 2.2 cannot infer type of Optional T .None
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com