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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Textmate2 Goes Open Source

762

2

Design Tip: Never Use Black

749

3

An Unexpected Ass Kicking

732

4

ToS;DR TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

609

5

Mars Curiosity's first images

581

6

Great work Visa, now I hate you

542

7

Wikipedia Redefined

537

8

A Man Walks into a Bank

467

9

Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker

452

10

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

438

Top Ask HN

1

Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?

167

2

How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?

100

3

Good iOS Tutorials?

52

4

Why does this site use center and table tags?

35

5

Anyone raised money and wish you didn't?

30

6

Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why?

28

7

What are you working on (elevator pitch)?

24

8

How do you Backup your Personal Files?

23

9

Review my startup, SupportFu.com

19

10

How to get positive again?

16

Top Show HN

1

Burner, for temporary phone numbers

314

2

Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

215

3

We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

192

4

See Kickstarter successes and failures

183

5

App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

177

6

A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness

169

7

Tweetsheets Twitter directly from within Google Docs

155

8

Statwing is statistical analysis, simplified

131

9

Choose Photo. Make Ascii

114

10

Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd

104

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

438

2

Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident

282

3

Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

243

4

Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age

184

5

First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop F*cking Around

151

6

Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets

128

7

Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10

126

8

Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalists Devastating Hack

116

9

Android and iOS continue to carve up the world

111

10

How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos

103

News [?]

1

A Man Walks into a Bank

467

2

Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade

281

3

A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr

231

4

Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack

219

5

Photo shows Mars rover descent

182

6

The power of intermittent fasting

140

7

Tunneling Below Second Avenue (for New Subway)

136

8

Raising Successful Children

125

9

The Power of Negative Thinking

93

10

Beware the Nocebo Effect

85

Scientific publications [?]

1

First full-resolution images of the Martian surface

423

2

NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

263

3

Mars rover Curiosity lands today

120

4

Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight

97

5

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Will Spend First Weekend Installing New Software

66

6

Swiss sheep to warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS

41

7

Curiosity Sends 1st Color Panorama of Gale Crater

10

8

What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures

8

9

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

5

10

Watch the Mars Curiosity Rover landing in HD at 10:31 PDT

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

182

2

Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions

60

3

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 are ready to go

54

4

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

49

5

Philip Wadler: Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages

44

6

Google Open Sources Leak Finder, a JavaScript Tool for Detecting Memory Leaks

38

7

Always Online v.2: How CloudFlare Keeps Sites Online

14

8

How Valve Made L4D2 Faster On Linux Than Windows

9

9

Everytime you order pizza, you're handing over your entire digital life

7

10

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account

307

2

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

130

3

Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results

95

4

War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Googleties

78

5

9th Circuit Dismisses Al Haramain (Warantless Wiretapping) Case

57

6

IOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display

37

7

Woz Buys $2 Bills in Sheets from the Treasury

25

8

iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640x1136 iPhone display

7

9

Giant 3D Printer Builds Homes in 20 Hours

7

10

Senate Anti-Leaks Bill Threatens the Rights of the Press and the Public

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator

103

2

NASA Tells the World About Mars with AWS

4

3

1

4

Easily DKIM-Sign Your Emails with Amazon SES

1

5

Spotify now available on Kindle Fire

1

6

AWS Multi-Factor Authentication

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

New York Underground

278

2

Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents

200

3

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government

136

4

MPAA Recruits Surrogates to Support Extradition of UK Student

9

5

FBI Monitored Dotcom Raid Via Live Video Link, Secret Govt Group Involved

4

6

Google Starts Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results

4

7

Kim Dotcom Was Assaulted By Police During Raid, Court Hears

3

8

Video: Police Raid On The Mansion Of Megauploads Kim Dotcom

3

9

Demonoid Raid Credited To IFPI, Multiple Arrests In Mexico Reported

3

10

Demonoid busted by Ukrainian authorities.

2

Science News [?]

1

How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

177

2

U.S. Should Adopt Higher Standards for Science Education

36

3

Dyslexia caused by faulty signal processing in brain

16

4

How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve?

3

5

Nature's Chief Editor said sorry for the accusations of Ye Shiwen

3

6

Jim Thorpe, the greatest olympian of all time but hated by the IOC

3

7

First gliders navigate ever-changing Penrose universe

2

8

Sticky polymer based on beatle's ability to walk underwater

2

9

For Speediest Athletes, It's All in the Center of Gravity

2

10

Custom chemical reactions with 3d printing

2

Social [?]

1

Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support

75

2

Hippie physics student saved Apollo 13, cut out of history cos he had long hair

24

3

12 Hour Timelapse of a Developer's Screen from Hackathon

10

4

NASA MSL Curiosity: 'Touchdown confirmed'

10

5

Can your shell console do this?

9

6

If this was real, would you?

9

7

The coming war on general computation

6

8

How to Launch on Hacker News

6

9

How to Launch on Hacker News

5

10

The Matrix remade in Source Filmmaker

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Textmate2 Goes Open Source

762

2

Some performance tweaks

339

3

Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked

320

4

Github: Notifications & Stars

245

5

Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python

175

6

Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv

126

7

D3.js 2.10 Unleashed.

113

8

Parser combinator library in C

89

9

Tardis--Haskell package for sending state backwards and forwards through time

54

10

Chrome extension lets you read Quora without logging in

53

Wikipedia [?]

1

Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks

90

2

The Art of Being Right

12

3

2

4

Dilbert principle

2

5

The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015

2

6

2

7

CurryHoward correspondence

2

8

Today is Dirac's birthday

2

9

Comparison of Web Browser Engines

1

10

Why MIME-Version will forever be "1.0"

1

Blogs [?]

1

Persuade xor Discover

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The problem with Objective C

7

2

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

2

3

Legal identifiers in Java

2

4

Great overview of function aliasing in JS

2

5

Are APIs precious?

1

6

C hackers, do your thing.

1

Substack [?]