Go dark

Top HN Stories

[from Jan 01, 2017 to Jan 01, 2018)

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52

Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
4107
2
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
3384
3
Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
3238
4
Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
3030
5
macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
3001
6
W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
2735
7
CIA malware and hacking tools
2699
8
Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
2280
9
Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
2256
10
How Firefox Got Fast Again
2180

Top Ask HN

1
Is S3 down?
2589
2
What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
1374
3
What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
927
4
What are some good technology blogs to follow?
893
5
Best business advice for software developers
847
6
What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
813
7
Successful one-person online businesses?
800
8
What is your favorite CS paper?
793
9
Best way to get started with AI?
709
10
How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
699

Top Show HN

1
Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
1535
2
Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
1264
3
Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
1183
4
Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
1170
5
Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
1100
6
Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
1097
7
A stop-motion video of an engine
845
8
Is the stock market going to crash?
813
9
A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
728
10
Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
721

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
Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
1857
2
GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources
1841
3
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
1674
4
Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
1126
5
Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
1120
6
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
956
7
Google collects cell tower info even if location services are disabled
953
8
GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
948
9
A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
853
10
Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework
851

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
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
3384
2
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
2119
3
Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
1720
4
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
1697
5
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
1687
6
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
1503
7
My Family’s Slave
1419
8
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
1345
9
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
1332
10
FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
1330

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
Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics
866
2
The Big Vitamin D Mistake
756
3
A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
662
4
LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
630
5
Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
597
6
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
539
7
NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere
475
8
Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
462
9
Software Engineering at Google
442
10
Gene Cernan has died
409

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
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
1664
2
Mozilla Acquires Pocket
1187
3
Do you need a VPN?
969
4
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
928
5
Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
896
6
Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
881
7
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
857
8
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
850
9
API Design Guide
824
10
Integrating GTA V into Universe
805

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
726
2
DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
660
3
Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent
645
4
AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
590
5
Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
589
6
List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots
586
7
EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
549
8
iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
543
9
Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased
433
10
We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
412

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
1246
2
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
1176
3
iPhone X
995
4
Seeing AI for iOS
835
5
Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data
663
6
CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
572
7
MacOS High Sierra
551
8
AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
533
9
Privacy
446
10
New Surface Pro
405

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
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
1656
2
GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
1162
3
Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
959
4
Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?
821
5
Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise
756
6
How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
701
7
The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
699
8
110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
479
9
Still locked out of my AWS account
463
10
A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years
461

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
Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
2256
2
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
1735
3
CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
1455
4
European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
756
5
Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
729
6
Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed
632
7
Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
624
8
Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
603
9
Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)
571
10
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
538

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
3001
2
A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
1450
3
“Let her speak please”
995
4
Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator
886
5
How is GNU `yes` so fast?
872
6
“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
760
7
“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
753
8
Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
701
9
Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
684
10
The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack
667

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn
1382
2
Deep Photo Style Transfer
1088
3
RethinkDB Postmortem
948
4
Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
937
5
Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data
937
6
List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
914
7
VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
899
8
GitHub commit search: “remove password”
861
9
Python moved to GitHub
820
10
Browser auto-fill phishing
802

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Wikimedia Foundation spending
1054
2
Tamil Bell
374
3
Area code 710
356
4
Jerry Pournelle has died
322
5
Crown shyness
307
6
IKEA Effect
256
7
Knolling
249
8
FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface
227
9
Kkrieger – A 96KB first person shooter
227
10
Lindy effect
225

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
I am an Uber survivor
2168
2
Welcome, ACLU
1558
3
US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
1273
4
The web sucks if you have a slow connection
1269
5
Using SVG as image placeholders
983
6
A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
952
7
We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
910
8
An Open Letter to the FCC
849
9
I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
791
10
If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
762

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
598
2
Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)
431
3
Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
342
4
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
329
5
How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)?
176
6
Creating a memory leak with Java
174
7
What happened to clockless computer chips?
123
8
StackOverflow for private teams in beta
113
9
What does “my other car is a cdr” mean?
98
10
How can you program if you're blind? (2013)
58

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com