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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes

1032

2

728

3

RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years

721

4

Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

667

5

Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states

655

6

Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin in the same voice

574

7

How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading

535

8

"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"

505

9

Ghost rethinking WordPress

494

10

Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes

455

Top Ask HN

1

Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately

582

2

What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?

88

3

Why don't people talk specifics about money and salaries?

84

4

Percent of time spent developing internal tools?

74

5

Tell us about your side projects.

45

6

Soundproof headsets?

31

7

What have you done after a failed startup?

22

8

What packages does everyone use for Sublime Text?

18

9

Which startups with traction eventually lost out to slower behemoths?

16

10

HN popular algorithm

10

Top Show HN

1

Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI

435

2

garlic.js - don't let your users lose their form data

207

3

Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

178

4

155

5

an alternative to AdSense

111

6

HTTPretty, an easy way to mock http requests in python

94

7

liffect CSS3 animation effects for lists

84

8

hackathon for introverts

65

9

A status dashboard for the NYC power grid

52

10

First WebGL app. Uses NOAA data to visualize storm paths back to 1848.

52

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes

1032

2

Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin in the same voice

574

3

Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties

296

4

Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

239

5

Inside Team Romneys whale of an IT meltdown

213

6

Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more

175

7

Obama Wins The Election. Here’s His Technology Agenda.

170

8

The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing

160

9

Tesla reports great Q3 results, expects to be cash flow positive by Q4

145

10

For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change

143

News [?]

1

Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

452

2

Inventing a Soccer Ball for Poor Countries

197

3

Dolphins deserve same rights as humans, say scientists

121

4

Why Is the Surface So Bad?

112

5

How Zara Grew Into the Worlds Largest Fashion Retailer

106

6

When You're Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm

100

7

Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico

96

8

The Nuclear Scientist Who Skipped College

92

9

NBC calls it for Barack Obama

89

10

Why David Petraeuss Gmail account is a national security issue

85

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon

158

2

Jewish Problems

111

3

Tiny Clever Quadrotors Now on Kickstarter

62

4

Somehow, an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now on Indiegogo

34

5

Algorithms Allow MAVs to Avoid Obstacles with Camera and Neuromorphic Hardware

3

6

Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific

2

7

Extreme Voting: How Astronauts Cast Ballots from Space

2

8

Nasa FREE e-book:"Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space"

2

9

Plasmonic Nanolasers Shrink Down to Size of a Virus

2

10

Creatine supplementation improves brain performance

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works

667

2

Eight Years of Firefox

151

3

Debian Switches Back To GNOME From Xfce

11

4

Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter [video]

6

5

CloudFlare buying beers for people in London tonight

3

6

Qt 5.0 Is Getting Into Shape On Android

2

7

Eight Years of Firefox

2

8

Behind the Mirror

2

9

Google Cloud SQL

2

10

Build Mobile Apps on Google App Engine

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Jony Ive is Now Playing the Steve Jobs Role

7

2

For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines

3

3

For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines

3

4

Govt releases surveillance info & then demands it back

3

5

Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Full Disk Encryption

3

6

EFF Urges No Vote on California Proposition 35

2

7

Apple UK Publishes Samsung correction on homepage, forces it below the fold

2

8

Intel's 3rd Generation SSD Controller Analyzed

2

9

Lots of LED fun with the Python-based pyMCU

1

10

Is Apple moving away from Intel?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days

64

2

Surface disk space FAQ

40

3

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby (Passenger applications)

2

4

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Ruby applications

2

5

TCO Comparison Calculator for Web Applications

2

6

Hurricane Sandy donation sign on Apple home page

1

7

Announcing 2,000 IOPS per Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume

1

8

What's the hidden secret of the review for ASIN B0069IY63Y?

1

9

Great review of Slicing Pie

1

10

Clever use of Amazon wedding registry to help Sandy victims directly

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

147

2

10,000 Artists Sign Up for Pirate Bay Promotion

57

3

Me.ga Hackers: Were Real Pirates and Well Sell Dotcoms Domain To Universal

47

4

OMNI Magazine Collection: Complete Archive from 1978-1998

12

5

UK Government To Inspect Googles Failed Downranking of Pirate Sites

5

6

Paul Graham's Hacker News Launch Page from 2007

4

7

BitTorrent Traffic Increases 40% in Half a Year

3

8

Checklist for Rationality Habits

2

9

10,000 Artists Sign Up for Pirate Bay Promotion

2

10

How Webkit Works

2

Science News [?]

1

NASA rover yet to find methane on Mars

55

2

Destroying drug cartels, the mathematical way

52

3

Genetically Modified Tomatoes Counteract Heart Disease in Mice

7

4

Synthetic magnetism used to control light

4

5

Humans, chimpanzees and monkeys share DNA but not gene regulatory mechanisms

2

6

Researchers design proteins from scratch with predictable structures

2

7

10-Year Documentary about the Mission to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain

2

8

Single-Molecule "Engine" Vibrates Macro Object

2

9

In-sync brain waves hold memory of objects just seen

1

10

How Astronauts Cast Ballots from Space

1

Social [?]

1

It's fine to get an MBA but don't be an MBA

55

2

Under the Hood: Scheduling MapReduce jobs more efficiently with Corona

33

3

13

4

Reddit is not profitable

11

5

2012 voting machine altering votes - [0:18]

10

6

2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes

10

7

Obama quickly dropping by on Reddit on election day

9

8

Software Engineer records 2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes

7

9

2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes

6

10

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

World.db - A Free Open World Database and Schema

49

2

Notset: A Do-Not-Care value for Python

28

3

Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

25

4

How to get a free (not self-signed) SSL Cert

11

5

NeoTabs: Accessible-Tabs jQuery Plugin revamped

7

6

4

7

Novus closing NVD3, author forking to open source

4

8

A gem for fetching addresses from Brazilian zip codes

3

9

Skewer: live Emacs JavaScript interaction

3

10

Chrome extension for displaying GitHub notifications

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958

48

2

Wikipedia enhanced with Augmented 3D models

27

3

4

4

2

5

Black-Scholes trading algorithm

2

6

Terraforming of Mars

2

7

2

8

Planned obsolescence

2

9

Conditional random field

2

10

Vivek Wadhwa is a joke

1

Blogs [?]

1

Evan Williams: What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

49

2

What I learned building readability - Rich Ziade

3

3

Were rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch.

3

4

What Im tracking now, and why

2

5

The importance of selling your vision.

1

6

A Metaphor. Daily. Medium

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The definitive guide to forms based website authentication

323

2

Is it Java best practice to store dates as longs in the database?

3

3

What is a sensible algorithm to generate the letters in Letterpress iOS game?

2

4

One of the frustrations with Android Development

2

5

Capitalize the first letter of each word

1

6

[Javascript] Why is i-- faster than i++ in loops ?

1

7

Generate a list of 2,000 users with realistic information

1

8

Impress.js : texts and images look blurry

1

9

Is there a way to shortcut "android:xmlns" in Android like does in HTML 5?

1

Substack [?]