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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
A Message to Our Customers
5771
2
UK votes to leave EU
3125
3
Pardon Snowden
2553
4
Be Kind
2475
5
Tell HN: New features and a moderator
2381
6
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
2123
7
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
2049
8
Ubuntu on Windows
2049
9
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
2011
10
Request For Research: Basic Income
1876

Top Ask HN

1
How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
1213
2
Who is firing?
1087
3
What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
1081
4
What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
1036
5
How to get started with machine learning?
950
6
Pick startups for YC to fund
867
7
What's your favorite tech talk?
848
8
Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
822
9
What was your best passive income in 2016?
779
10
Who is hiring? (November 2016)
711

Top Show HN

1
Web Design in 4 minutes
1624
2
Wave function collapse algorithm
1226
3
A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
1117
4
Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
1004
5
Your Social Media Fingerprint (maybe NSFW)
911
6
Primitive Pictures
894
7
I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
847
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New calendar app idea
825
9
I've been writing daily TILs for a year
819
10
Primitive for macOS
798

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
SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed
1111
2
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
986
3
Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced
944
4
A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case
795
5
Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World
720
6
Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
710
7
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
710
8
Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud
671
9
AngelList acquires Product Hunt
656
10
Not OK, Google
651

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
UK votes to leave EU
3125
2
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right
2011
3
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
1817
4
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
1373
5
Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award
1272
6
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
1259
7
Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
1207
8
Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
1195
9
LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
1012
10
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
972

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
SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch
814
2
The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
644
3
Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
333
4
Metal foam obliterates bullets
327
5
Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
304
6
There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
294
7
Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
281
8
A Wait-Free Stack
281
9
ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency
273
10
Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats
269

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
Apple File System
1094
3
The Cuban CDN
832
4
BYOT: Bring your own team
826
5
How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
578
6
The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
556
7
Contextual Identities on the Web
555
8
Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
535
9
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
499
10
Update on Multi-Process Firefox
498

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available
1106
2
Save Netflix
813
3
Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
735
4
Save Firefox
702
5
With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
465
6
The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
457
7
Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
443
8
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
408
9
A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid
351
10
Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
331

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
A Message to Our Customers
5771
2
Amazon Go
1247
3
MacBook Pro
861
4
iPhone 7
756
5
Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
643
6
iPhone SE
567
7
Answers to your questions about Apple and security
545
8
Microsoft Pix
514
9
Amazon Vehicles
472
10
Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
441

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 price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
756
2
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
680
3
Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
663
4
WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
608
5
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
563
6
What Great Listeners Actually Do
521
7
Coursera courses preserved by Archive Team
513
8
VPN Comparison Chart
510
9
Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night
472
10
The Malware Museum
472

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
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
1085
2
We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
910
3
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers
794
4
The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
704
5
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
586
6
In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
550
7
Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
543
8
Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
490
9
Antarctic CO2 Hit 400 PPM for First Time in 4M Years
462
10
New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity
422

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
1832
2
Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]
1565
3
I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
1361
4
Building Jarvis
1164
5
Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
1126
6
AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches
1085
7
Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop
1054
8
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
957
9
Did I just win?
950
10
Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report
941

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Dear GitHub
1678
2
Introducing unlimited private repositories
1576
3
Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
1362
4
Announcing new tools, forums, and features
1142
5
A practical security guide for web developers
894
6
Spaceship Generator
850
7
CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs
826
8
GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
763
9
Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments
736
10
Pastejacking
722

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Lenin was a mushroom
574
2
Peter Naur has died
570
3
Wikipedia Turns 15
441
4
Gimli Glider
385
5
52-hertz whale
299
6
The pirate game
298
7
Wireworld
290
8
Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative
264
9
Dyatlov Pass Incident
259
10
Zenzizenzizenzic
258

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
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
1612
3
I've Just Liberated My Modules
1573
4
Amazon's customer service backdoor
1447
5
Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
1311
6
Why you should never use Upwork
1175
7
Programming books you might want to consider reading
1019
8
Life is Short
970
9
The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
961
10
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
929

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)
652
2
Compiling an application for use in highly radio-active environments
507
3
Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
324
4
2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
318
5
What is “:-!!” in C code?
242
6
Deoptimizing a C++ program
151
7
Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
112
8
Huge no. of files for Angular 2
110
9
SVG changes color when rotated in Safari 10
102
10
Elixir vs. Erlang, is Elixir safe bet for my time investment?
91

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com