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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
2123
2
Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
740
3
UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
688
4
Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
658
5
Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany
658
6
Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
628
7
WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
608
8
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
573
9
Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
568
10
PostgreSQL 9.6 Released
553

Top Ask HN

1
What are the best practises for using SSH keys?
306
2
What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?
259
3
When are you considered a “senior” programmer?
218
4
What do you wish someone would build?
186
5
How much do you make in London?
126
6
What do you use for remote access?
57
7
How do you get the initial traction for your web side-project?
52
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What to do with 3K visitors a month?
47
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Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
46
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What TLD do you use for local development?
45

Top Show HN

1
InstaPart – Build circuit boards faster with instant parts
309
2
G9.js – Automatically Interactive Differentiable Graphics
237
3
An Open Retro RPG Game Maker in Python
215
4
Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Free Material Design UI KIT
164
5
How many days until?
156
6
Live visualization of Kafka streams
144
7
Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL
137
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Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG
122
9
Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX
114
10
I built a MySQL storage engine which is InnoDB compatible
106

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
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
573
2
How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City
163
3
BlackBerry confirms it will end in-house hardware development
141
4
Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink
139
5
Uber-owned Otto to offer freight hauling services using autonomous trucks
127
6
People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them
119
7
Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)
117
8
SpaceX is testing new powerful engines for its mission to Mars
114
9
The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]
110
10
A third of the homeless people in America are over 50 and I’m one of them
108

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
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Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
658
2
Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany
658
3
Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say
357
4
Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles
333
5
Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx
296
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U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians
277
7
Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
267
8
What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle
248
9
Am I Introverted, or Just Rude?
237
10
What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)
225

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
Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
236
2
Mercury found to be tectonically active
134
3
A novel brewing process via controlled hydrodynamic cavitation
116
4
Nasa to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon Europa
92
5
D-Wave Founder's New Startup Combines AI, Robots, and Monkeys in Exo-Suits
86
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NASA To Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa
42
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Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter
27
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Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging
12
9
Full Resolution Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks
12
10
Computer Program for Simulating Time Travel and a Solution to Grandfather Paradox
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
The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)
322
2
The Democratization of Censorship
182
3
A Rare Tour of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters
153
4
Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge
104
5
Google, Red Hat Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker
96
6
The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google
86
7
Windows Server 2016: End of One Era, Start of Another
58
8
Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimental Features
45
9
Are we there yet by Rich Hickey
23
10
The Rules of Optimization: Why So Many Performance Efforts Fail
23

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers
230
2
European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Secured
157
3
How Police and Courts are Misusing Unreliable IP Address Information [pdf]
105
4
Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners
86
5
Don't Hide DRM in a Security Update
10
6
Five EFF Tools to Help You Protect Yourself Online
7
7
Web Bluetooth: The New Hotness and Its Dangers
6
8
NSA’s Failure to Report Leaked Vulnerabilities Underscores Need for Oversight
5
9
Nvidia Teases Xavier – ARM for HPC
5
10
HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Project Springfield – Microsoft’s service for finding security-critical bugs
68
2
EC2 Reserved Instance Update – Convertible RIs and Regional Benefit
9
3
AWS Expanding the M4 Instance Type – New M4.16xlarge
5
4
Now Available – Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09
4
5
First Annual Alexa Prize – $2.5M to Advance Conversational AI
4
6
AWS Introducing new M4 instance sizes
3
7
How to give a great research talk
3
8
Coming in 2017 – New AWS Region in France
3
9
Introducing OpenType Font Variations
1
10
Amazon Prints
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
WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
608
2
Nature’s libraries are the fountains of biological innovation
100
3
Y Combinator W17 Blank Application
68
4
America’s Short, Violent Love Affair with Indoor Track Cycling
58
5
The Strange Victorian Computer That Generated Latin Verse
55
6
How Beige Took Over American Homes
52
7
Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos, But Its Star Is Fading
47
8
You Don't Have to Be Stupid but It Helps
40
9
Plotting the Geocoordinates You May Have Accidentally Left Behind in Photos
23
10
Latvian government approves innovative new startup tax
10

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
The Limits of Machine Learning
129
2
Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers
118
3
Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists
94
4
The price of connection: 'surveillance capitalism'
90
5
Telephoto Camera Lens Assists Dark Matter Find
65
6
Watching Evolution Happen in Two Lifetimes
52
7
Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria with nanoengineered peptide polymers
47
8
Life “not as we know it” might be possible on Titan
40
9
The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein (2014)
39
10
Two more classic psychology studies just failed the reproducibility test
24

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
502
2
Yandex Mail Success Story [video]
110
3
Talking to C Programmers about C++ [video]
86
4
Palmer Luckey secretly funding meme army on Twitter, Reddit
36
5
SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
30
6
Presenting the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
15
7
2600 offers $10,000 for first access to Donald Trump's tax return
13
8
I am deeply sorry - Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey
12
9
Cypherpunks, Bitcoin, hackers and changing the world through tech -Ulterior States
9
10
WDC test engineer describes some fascinating details of modern HDD
9

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
688
2
Neural Photo Editor
337
3
V86 – An x86-compatible CPU and hardware emulator
221
4
Teleport – Modern SSH server for clusters and teams
218
5
iGAN – Deep learning software that generates images with a few brushstrokes
194
6
Rebase and merge pull requests
181
7
John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)
153
8
How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
133
9
Uvloop – Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv
127
10
Gosl – Go scientific library
125

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Burning Ship Fractal
252
2
Bogdanov affair
131
3
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
24
4
Dihydrogen monoxide hoax
13
5
Space Travel (the video game that led to creation of Unix)
8
6
PC LOAD LETTER
7
7
Portland International Airport carpet
4
8
Minced oath
4
9
What products and services Google killed
4
10
Burning Ship fractal
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
568
2
Two years spent spamming spammers back
457
3
Pixels and voxels, the long answer
435
4
On Phone Numbers and Identity
301
5
Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
271
6
It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin
206
7
Software Development at 1 Hz
180
8
A Letter to the Berlin Startup Scene
100
9
Tensorflow Ruby API
90
10
Functional programming in C++
65

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Simple caret (^) at end of Windows batch file consumes all memory
14
2
JavaScript Conditional Comments for IE
2
3
Is there a PgHero equivalent for MongoDB?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com