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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
The largest Git repo
1053
2
1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
1004
3
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
866
4
Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
775
5
U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
746
6
Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
674
7
Little Things I Like to Do with Git
656
8
Get your loved ones off Facebook
641
9
MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud
610
10
Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)
598

Top Ask HN

1
How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
699
2
I don't want to be a founder anymore
565
3
How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
296
4
What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?
244
5
How did you move from IT/software to something unrelated?
222
6
Favorite HN comment(s)
197
7
How liquid is Bitcoin?
192
8
Does anyone use Nim language in production?
182
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What is your most impressive hackathon project?
115
10
How do you close your side projects?
98

Top Show HN

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ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux
369
2
Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity
257
3
A WebAssembly game demo
251
4
15-question programming quiz with answers
227
5
Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework
129
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Choosing font combinations with deep learning
121
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Wireworld written in Nim
115
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µTT – A new faster MQTT broker
115
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Using city permits to map Sonic.net fiber
103
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C to Go Assembly
98

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
How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
597
2
NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1
288
3
How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
265
4
45000 years ago in Ethiopia humans built a paint workshop; used it for millennia
194
5
We Need More Alternatives to Facebook
185
6
New SMB Worm Uses Seven NSA Hacking Tools, whilst WannaCry Used Just Two
167
7
How Social Media is Built for Addiction
164
8
UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health
162
9
Sprig is shutting down
147
10
Google in, Google out
142

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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U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
746
2
Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
506
3
Video Analysis of Erdogan's security detail brawl in Washington
373
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Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence
372
5
Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
369
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Too many prisons make people worse
365
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Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchanging NYC Drivers
342
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We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment
303
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Apple Is Working on a Dedicated Chip to Power AI on Devices
299
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British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash
276

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
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22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough
280
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Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans
215
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Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (2012)
160
4
First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission
109
5
Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation
66
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When Will Machines Exceed Human Performance? Survey of ML Researchers.
45
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Researchers find computer code that VW used to cheat
29
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First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission
5
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When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts
5
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Analysis of architectural features in 4 generations of Intel server processors
5

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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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
775
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If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native
156
3
Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
132
4
Under the Hood of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters
127
5
Jamboard is now available
116
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Value_ptr – The Missing C++ Smart-pointer
72
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What's new in gnuplot 5.2
71
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Improving Connect to enable more platforms
60
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Facebook – cancer of our generation
57
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Statistics of amplification DDoS attacks over last six months
41

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
AMD Announces Ryzen Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up to DDR4-4000
236
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Supreme Court Ends Texas’ Grip on Patent Cases
51
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Humans may have accidentally created a radiation shield around earth
31
4
Intel's Vision for Single Board Computers Is to Have Better Vision
19
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Judge Orders Government to Provide Evidence About Internet Surveillance
5
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No Evidence That “Stronger” Patents Will Mean More Innovation
5
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Illinois Advances “Right to Know” Digital Privacy Bills
4
8
Arduino Cinque – The RISC-V, ESP32, WiFi, Bluetooth Arduino
4
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Apple Working on Dedicated ‘Apple Neural Engine’ AI Processor
3
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WD Adds Helium-Filled 10 TB NAS HDDs to WD Red, WD Red Pro Lineups
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
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New Surface Pro
405
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AWS Training and Certification Portal
130
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Holographic Near-Eye Displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality
38
4
Apple launches app development curriculum for HS and community college students
12
5
Apple debuts 'Switch'
4
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WWDC: Watch the keynote live 6/5 at 10 a.m. PDT
4
7
Apple's new “switch” campaign
2
8
A book entirely illustrated with MS Paint
1
9
Switch from Android to iPhone
1
10
AmazonFresh Pickup: free grocery pickup for Prime members
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
Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies
206
2
The Illusion of Competence
45
3
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference
30
4
RIAA Says Artists Don't Need “Moral Rights,” Artists Disagree – TorrentFreak
10
5
The CTO made me sick
7
6
The CTO made me sick – why I left Unity
6
7
OpenAI makes humanity less safe
4
8
Boring Google
4
9
How Our Company Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything
3
10
The Best GPUs for ML Work
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
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (2014)
91
2
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
59
3
The Energy Expansions of Evolution
53
4
Neuromechanics of flamingos’ amazing feats of balance
40
5
Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain, study suggests
38
6
Earliest evidence for life on land found on 3.4 billion year old rocks
23
7
Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve cities
19
8
The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation
18
9
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
5
10
Workout suit vents lined with live microbial cells open/close to athlete’s sweat
4

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
467
2
Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++
282
3
Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir
175
4
PyCon 2017 – Talk videos
138
5
Comcast taking action against Comcastroturf.com for trademark infringement
131
6
AlphaGo wins game 1
117
7
Nightline Interview with Steve Jobs (1981) [video]
87
8
I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev
83
9
Google Tango – Research Update May 2017
40
10
AMD drivers do listen to public tcp port
39

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
377
2
Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux
325
3
Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot
290
4
TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability
281
5
Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning
229
6
Grenade: Deep Learning in Haskell
199
7
Viper: a new programming language from Ethereum
192
8
Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python
170
9
Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016)
160
10
A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically
125

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Kkrieger – A 96KB first person shooter
227
2
Tulip Mania
7
3
Differential privacy
3
4
Ice cream headache
2
5
Sparse Matrix
2
6
EEL Telescope vs. Colosseum (EEL construction starts today)
2
7
Worker-Priest
2
8
North American F-82 Twin Mustang
2
9
First principle
2
10
Sleeping Beauty problem
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Distributed Consensus – How Shared Data Is Stored
204
2
Writing a second video game for the Micro:bit in Rust
106
3
What I learned from my startup’s failure
99
4
Android in Cloud – An Open Source Android cloud emulator
92
5
Securing Node.js Applications
55
6
Image Uploads with AWS S3, Elixir and Phoenix
53
7
Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives
45
8
Improving GCE boot times with custom images
39
9
Ruby values: ruby-the-tribe vs. ruby the language
35
10
I want my family back – practical protection from damage caused by Facebook
24

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What does “my other car is a cdr” mean?
98
2
What could go wrong? “Perl cgi html uploading linux kernel”
22
3
This is Sparta, or is it?
2
4
Cdn.polyfill.io SSL certificate fishing attack?
2
5
Floating point math: Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com