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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Be Kind
2475
2
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
1493
3
Shame on Y Combinator
1280
4
Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
1071
5
Programming books you might want to consider reading
1019
6
Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
942
7
Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
846
8
Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
782
9
Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline
621
10
Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
593

Top Ask HN

1
How to get started with machine learning?
950
2
$1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?
494
3
Good books or articles on UI design?
363
4
To those who became fluent in a second language, what did you do?
195
5
What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?
154
6
How to ask companies about problems they are facing?
145
7
A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
126
8
What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/directory UI/UX you've seen?
96
9
How to handle a workaholic colleague?
91
10
Why is the Peter Thiel Trump donation story buried by HN?
83

Top Show HN

1
I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
277
2
Get encrypted data from people that don’t know how to encrypt
275
3
CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS
250
4
Swip.js, a library to create multi device experiments
152
5
TrueJob 1.0 – Pandora for jobs and data for everyone
140
6
hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting
109
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Nuage – Domain names with no hassle
79
8
Tdo – keyboard driven, hackable todo list
78
9
Skeletal Animation in Your Browser via Dual Quaternion Linear Blending
75
10
Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day
65

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
“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
483
2
Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
435
3
WTF is a container?
366
4
T-Mobile will pay a $48M fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plans
231
5
Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
192
6
Revenue from self-driving Teslas only allowed through the Tesla Network
173
7
Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
170
8
Fujifilm X-T2 review: for the love of photography
157
9
A Kickstarter idea could be on sale in China before fundraising has finished
142
10
Chipotle Eats Itself
111

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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Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
782
2
The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
426
3
The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play
394
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Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)
378
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I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
305
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“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present”
304
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Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died
290
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Italy’s rarest pasta
284
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I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be
275
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Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds
273

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
A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web
212
2
Discovery of peculiar modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars
108
3
Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)
77
4
Curious tilt of the sun traced to undiscovered planet
77
5
Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians?
58
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Ugly Year for Tech Layoffs, and It’s Going to Get Worse
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Analyst: Ugly Year for Tech Layoffs, and It’s Going to Get Worse
5
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A Novel Approach for Estimating Truck Factors
4
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SRI Demonstrates Abacus, the First New Rotary Transmission Design in 50 Years
4
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NASA's Centennial Challenges: Vascular Tissue Challenge
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
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Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud
293
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Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web
197
3
How to speed up the Rust compiler
185
4
OpenSSL after Heartbleed
113
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Nearly there
109
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The Next Wave of Deep Learning Hardware Architectures
84
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It Looks Like Ethereum Is Going to Fork Again
76
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How to Destroy the Myth of the Proper Solution
53
9
Memory is the Next Platform
38
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Labeling fact-check articles in Google News
38

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake
284
2
Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought
194
3
OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
133
4
A cheap 555-based Geiger counter
127
5
Germans React to UK’s micro:bit
126
6
Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production
90
7
Uncovering depression's web in the brain
85
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Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official
76
9
Where WhatsApp Went Wrong: EFF's Four Biggest Security Concerns
17
10
Where WhatsApp Went Wrong: EFF's Four Biggest Security Concerns
6

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region
98
2
AWS announces launch of us-east-2 (Ohio)
13
3
Data Center Operations: A Guide to Effective Planning, Processing and Performance
6
4
Run Windows Server 2016 on Amazon EC2
3
5
The Curse of Cash
2
6
Amazon Aurora New Features: Lambda and S3 Integration
2
7
Amazon Aurora – Call Lambda Functions from Stored Procedures; Load Data from S3
2
8
VMware Cloud on AWS
1
9
VMWare cloud on AWS
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
London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
223
2
4os – An operating system written completely in Forth
141
3
Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation
93
4
Guns, empires and Indians: Imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race
24
5
Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling
17
6
Tesla announces all production cars now have fully self-driving hardware
7
7
GitLab prohibits employees to carry out any personal work (14. Additional work)
5
8
RethinkDB short-term goals
5
9
Boon and Gable (A Better Way to Shop for Clothes) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers
4
10
London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
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
Europe and Russia prepare for historic landing on Mars
130
2
There is a blind spot in AI research
98
3
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015)
80
4
The power of prediction markets
74
5
80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again
52
6
How Schrödinger’s Cat Became Such a Violent Fable
49
7
How Can We Tell Which Election Forecasts Are True?
37
8
New record for fusion
27
9
Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected
27
10
Herbal, dietary supplements cause one-fifth of liver injuries
25

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”
231
2
1000W LED on a Drone [video]
185
3
Sam Altman: “YC not going to fire someone over support of a candidate”
168
4
Elm 1+2: can't download X
54
5
Reddit links Assange attacks to "Center for American Progress"
51
6
HTTP/2 core features and how they relate to real-world conditions [video]
46
7
We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT
44
8
Jakarta's Aeromovel – mass transit powered by pressurized air [video]
40
9
Wikileaks releases pre-commitment hashes after Assange's Internet has been cut
37
10
Kill “Microservices” Before Its Too Late by Chad Fowler
37

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database
399
2
Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons
384
3
Sanic – Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast
227
4
Awesome .NET – A collection of .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software
198
5
Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware
171
6
A curated list of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Crytocurrency resources
163
7
Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS
144
8
What should go into JSX 2.0?
122
9
SWAPDB Redis command
121
10
LightGBM – A fast, distributed, gradient boosting framework
104

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Bitmessage: a decentralized, encrypted, trustless communications protocol
70
2
Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster
40
3
Apportionment paradox – Wikipedia
7
4
Project A119
3
5
Clean (programming language) – Wikipedia
3
6
NEET
3
7
Internet background noise
2
8
Deutsche Physik
2
9
Kerckhoffs's principle
2
10
The Birthday Paradox
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Programming books you might want to consider reading
1019
2
Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
450
3
Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
387
4
Operations for software developers for beginners
154
5
Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
134
6
Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to patent trolls
128
7
New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable”
81
8
From Mac to Linux: Web Development with Linux
81
9
Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
59
10
Peter Thiel, YC, and Hard Decisions
58

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Stackoverflow needs redesign
18
2
The new features in C++17
3
3
What are the new features in C++17
2
4
Performance cost using std::move vs. using a pointer to the thread in c++?
2
5
Strategies for re-deploying an older version of your application's database
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com