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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Did I just win?
950
2
Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
823
3
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
755
4
Chrome removes Backspace to go back
690
5
Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
631
6
Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
606
7
Reason: A new interface to OCaml
603
8
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
592
9
Google Home
577
10
Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
573

Top Ask HN

1
What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
331
2
Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
233
3
Who productively writes code on their smartphone? How?
97
4
What are some rite-of-passage style projects for programmers?
87
5
Do you spend more time coding or debugging?
84
6
How do you use Amazon Echo?
80
7
Is there a reasonable, actually integrated Web IDE out there?
49
8
Why does a pizza app know my location and 911 doesn't?
45
9
How long did it take you to get your first dev job?
41
10
What good books have you read in 2016?
38

Top Show HN

1
Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks
217
2
I built an AI that recognizes food
202
3
Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine
113
4
Neural Network Evolution Playground with Backprop NEAT
73
5
Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux
64
6
Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)
53
7
See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries
46
8
keysniffer – Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs
40
9
Tellform – An Open-Source Form Builder
29
10
LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers
25

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
Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
338
2
The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them
258
3
Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
252
4
Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
251
5
A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare
228
6
Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago
202
7
Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform
183
8
Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks
136
9
Bots Are Hot (1996)
121
10
Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries
120

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
Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
401
2
Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
386
3
A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant
382
4
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple
358
5
Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing
300
6
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results
299
7
Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo
288
8
Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show
251
9
The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)
229
10
An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death
212

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
Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam
160
2
IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough
121
3
TrackMania is NP-complete
77
4
Darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis
55
5
Europa's Ocean May Have an Earthlike Chemical Balance
47
6
Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks
43
7
Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
36
8
Software search is not a science, even among scientists
16
9
Bejeweled, Candy Crush and Other Match-Three Games Are (NP-)Hard (2014)
14
10
New method of producing random numbers could improve cybersecurity
7

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
Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation
389
2
Linux 4.6 is out
228
3
Google Container-VM Image: A Container-Optimized OS Image Based on Chromium OS
92
4
OpenAI Gym
76
5
Supergiant.io – Container Platform for Stateful Applications
61
6
Google BigQuery Crushes Amazon AWS EMR and Presto in Performance Comparisons
16
7
Open sourcing our NGINX HTTP/2 and SPDY code
15
8
FFmpeg Lands VA-API H.264 / H.265 / MJPEG Encoder Support
13
9
The Sleepy User Agent
10
10
LEDE and OpenWrt
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
EFF Fights for Answers About Massive Government Phone Database
92
2
Upgrading a 20 Year Old PDA
76
3
A BeagleBone on a Chip
60
4
Inside the IBM FlashSystem 900 All-Flash Array
34
5
Apple Confirms Music Deletion Glitch, Says Fix Incoming in Future iTunes Update
10
6
Why Kickstarter Products Fail
6
7
Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates
3
8
AnandTech iPhone SE review
3
9
Star Trek Material Science Is Finally Real: Transparent Wood
3
10
California's Legislature Wants to Copyright All Government Works
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
340
2
I love my Amazon Workspace
135
3
NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released
97
4
Service Discovery: An Amazon ECS Reference Architecture
55
5
X1 Instances for EC2 – Ready for Memory-Intensive Workloads
13
6
New AWS Community Heroes Announced
11
7
AWS Certificate Manager now available in more regions
3
8
I Love My Amazon WorkSpace
2
9
Apple Announces New iOS App Design and Development Accelerator in Bengaluru
2
10
Net Core RC2 shipped
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
A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes
232
2
The brain is not a computer
131
3
Why Big Companies Can't Innovate
93
4
Why Your Late Twenties Is the Worst Time of Your Life
68
5
HTML5 by Default – Draft Proposal
66
6
The huge profits and profound suffering of the Manila Galleons
39
7
Brooklyn's Internet Bonsai Kingpin
33
8
Decriminalising sex work is better for everyone
26
9
How England's First Feline Show Countered Victorian Snobbery About Cats
25
10
I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy (2007)
21

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
Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial
223
2
Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable
219
3
Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
206
4
The creation of stainless steel
120
5
New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness
93
6
Evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age
83
7
Study: Speaking Multiple Languages Staves Off Dementia
79
8
Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)
69
9
Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age
48
10
Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
32

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Did I just win?
950
2
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
755
3
Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore
276
4
“I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there”
261
5
Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online
210
6
42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
59
7
[video] 4 Cold Email Subject Lines That Got InspireBeats to $4m in Revenue
30
8
I wrote a script that listens to meetings I'm supposed to be paying attention to
27
9
Paul Graham on Uber and Lift Ban in Austin
25
10
Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore
23

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
517
2
A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
392
3
Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch
324
4
More contributions on your profile
240
5
Visual profiler for Python
213
6
Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications
122
7
React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition
112
8
GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development
111
9
Git Reflow
109
10
Pillow-SIMD: improving the performance of image processing
108

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Qanat
186
2
Shamir's Secret Sharing
66
3
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
63
4
Linguistic purism in English
43
5
IBM 5100
24
6
Curse of dimensionality
4
7
Equestrian Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow
3
8
Pick chart by Lockheed-Martin
3
9
The Southern Television broadcast interruption
3
10
Vantablack
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
That'll do, pig, that'll do
409
2
Keep your identity small (2009)
184
3
Regular expressions you can read: a visual syntax and UI
172
4
Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls
159
5
Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press
144
6
The Road to Artificial Intelligence
116
7
Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces
103
8
Pittsburgh as a Startup
99
9
10 thousand times faster Swift
92
10
The death of the web design agency
62

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Reordering of reads in Java
8
2
Selenium Automation: Accessing Elements in the Shadow DOM
4
3
Why is the standard session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)?
3
4
Automatically created variables from ids in JS? (2015)
2
5
Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords in Java?
2
6
What does “0 but true” mean in Perl?
2
7
How Random is System.Guid.NewGuid()? (2009)
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com