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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave
1332
2
The web sucks if you have a slow connection
1269
3
Introducing Keybase Chat
990
4
What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
888
5
Hans Rosling has died
846
6
RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
822
7
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
782
8
RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
733
9
RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0
686
10
The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
644

Top Ask HN

1
What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
657
2
What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
516
3
What are some 'must watch' talks?
267
4
Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?
203
5
Who's firing?
166
6
Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?
139
7
What device do you use to read academic papers with?
135
8
Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?
130
9
Why do companies outside the US pay so much less?
122
10
Does anyone dream of code?
104

Top Show HN

1
Beehive – An open source IFTTT powered by Go's templating engine
247
2
How to write a tiny compiler
224
3
Aragon – Everything you need to run your company on Ethereum
191
4
Simple image resizing/optimization service
171
5
Bdash – A simple business intelligence application
100
6
Milanote – A notes app for creative work
99
7
OneView Calendar – My zoomable calendar app just got a big facelift
96
8
A React components library for building interactive maps
88
9
Easy to understand intro to Python
82
10
We Freelance, a community where freelancers share stories and resources
78

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
Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix
391
2
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle Class
286
3
Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle
281
4
A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth
277
5
Google fixes a problem with AMP, lets you view and share publisher’s own links
263
6
Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers
261
7
FBI will no longer accept FOIA requests by email
250
8
Why is this job not handled by a machine yet?
192
9
Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse
164
10
Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers
163

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
Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules
562
2
H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
456
3
The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free
396
4
Microsoft Allowed to Sue U.S. Government Over E-mail Surveillance
348
5
The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
348
6
Facebook Has No First Amendment Right to Send Unauthorized Texts, Says Court
292
7
Double life as a KGB agent
286
8
London’s Lonely Unicorn: Two Frugal Expats and Their Billion-Dollar Startup
276
9
India floats the idea of a universal basic income
268
10
Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program
263

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
Software Engineering at Google
442
2
Jupiter From Below
125
3
Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
107
4
From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)
75
5
Deep Successor Reinforcement Learning (2016)
69
6
New ammonia production process: generates electricity instead of consuming
50
7
San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
31
8
Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come to Regulate Them Both
27
9
Physics explains why rock musicians prefer valve amps
13
10
Japanese Cargo Craft Falls to Earth After Failed Space-Junk Experiment
10

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
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
782
2
Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8
290
3
Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems
249
4
Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
149
5
The Case for IBM Buying Nvidia, Mellanox, and Xilinx
76
6
Two of China's Biggest Exchanges Stop Bitcoin Withdrawals
74
7
Why You Shouldn’t Use ReactJS for Complex Projects
43
8
Angular vs. React
21
9
Cryptkeeper Bug
10
10
What Programming Languages Are Used Most on Weekends?
7

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Violating Terms of Use Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Court
297
2
Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls
286
3
10GHz at under 1V by 2005 - The future of Intel’s manufacturing processes [2000]
278
4
Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to New Nodes
130
5
EFF seeks stories about digital border searches
24
6
Border Security Overreach Continues: DHS Wants Social Media Login Information
12
7
Healthy Domains Initiative Isn't Healthy for the Internet
12
8
Apple Plans Ultra Accessory Connector for Made-For-iPhone Accessories
5
9
New EU rules will remove ‘geoblocking’
5
10
Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
The Dogs of Amazon
3
2
Microsoft Password Guidance[pdf]
2
3
A crazy $15 experiment kit
2
4
Attach an AWS IAM Role to an Existing Amazon EC2 Instance
2
5
Amazon Rekognition Update – Estimated Age Range for Faces
2
6
AWS now lets you change machines' IAM roles after they're created
2
7
Public Preview Release: Custom Speech Service (Microsoft Cognitive Services)
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
Structured Procrastination: Do Less and Deceive Yourself
388
2
How an obscure cult grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world
155
3
How to play mathematics
109
4
Our 9000-Year Love Affair With Booze
83
5
Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?
51
6
25% of CEOs’ Time Is Spent on Tasks Machines Could Do
47
7
The Mystery of the World's Least American Cactus
41
8
Elon Musk claims employee pushing to unionize is a paid agitator, UAW denies
19
9
A Few Unicorns Are No Substitute for a Competitive, Innovative Economy
17
10
Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other “Pirate” Sites
14

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
Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant
232
2
New wheat disease threatens Europe’s crops
126
3
Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of overall cancer in Japanese
82
4
Astronomers explore uses for AI-generated images
54
5
The Tangled History of Big Bang Science
32
6
Physicists have found a metal that conducts electricity but not heat
23
7
How to stop brain cancer–with rabies
11
8
Injection could permanently lower cholesterol by changing DNA
7
9
A Fight to Fix Geometry’s Foundations
6
10
Is it possible to be too ‘nice’ for your own good?
5

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
The Essence of Linear Algebra [video]
440
2
Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]
215
3
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware [video] (2016)
123
4
Tesla Model S P100DL Motor Trend all-time world record 60mph in 2.27s
81
5
All Twitter Mobile Traffic Is Now Powered by Node.js
75
6
Twitter is down
19
7
Apple: stop routing idiots over a closed mountain pass [reddit]
13
8
Richard Stallman Explains Everything [video]
13
9
MIT Lecture: Gödel Escher Bach; an Eternal Golden Braid
9
10
Stop playing startup and start building shit
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
601
2
Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
515
3
Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
463
4
Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
380
5
HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
152
6
Signal-cli: command-line and dbus interface to Signal
120
7
Facebook releases ResNeXt for image classification and object detection
118
8
Wal-E: Continuous Archiving for Postgres
110
9
Step-by-step development of a Scheme-to-x86 compiler
108
10
A GNU-Readline-like library for .NET
95

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
36
2
2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance
9
3
Peter Mansfield has died
5
4
Hexspeak
4
5
Raymond Merrill Smullyan, the paradoxical logician, leaves us
4
6
White Rabbit, fully deterministic Ethernet-based network
3
7
Theory of hyper-random phenomena
3
8
Logotherapy
3
9
Toys to life: a video game genre using action figures to interact with the game
3
10
Confused Deputy Problem
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The web sucks if you have a slow connection
1269
2
JavaScript Start-up Performance
304
3
The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
223
4
PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line
197
5
Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed
144
6
Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”
123
7
Networking Zine [pdf]
114
8
In Support of Free Speech
90
9
Elixir deployments on AWS
87
10
Mathematical genius is fragile
86

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Lowell Heddings Is Very Bad at Coding. Your Job Is to Replace Him
2
2
HTML5 best practices; section/header/aside/article elements
2
3
What are the pitfalls in implementing binary search
1
4
Warning of Google Play Developer Policy Violation: Action Required
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com