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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

1525

2

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

1056

3

Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM

874

4

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

834

5

Here's how I deal with users who steal

744

6

Scott Adams: How to Be Successful

674

7

Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: Weve Reached The End of Antibiotics, Period

670

8

659

9

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

626

10

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

617

Top Ask HN

1

Why the Microsoft hate?

737

2

What are you working on and why is it cool?

413

3

Who is hiring? (October 2013)

359

4

Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?

159

5

Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?

144

6

Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?

113

7

Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?

110

8

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

102

9

I'm afraid I will always be a mediocre developer

84

10

Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?

73

Top Show HN

1

My x86 emulator written in JavaScript

740

2

"Who is hiring" mapped

277

3

260

4

Introducing Harp A static web server with built in preprocessing

217

5

208

6

174

7

A Github for writers?

170

8

Gmelius No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail

153

9

Hiro Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search

149

10

WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary

145

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

562

2

Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling

432

3

Googles iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

398

4

Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

395

5

OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review

379

6

Youre infectedif you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

365

7

MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete

286

8

Formula 1s Leading Team Has a Big Secret

277

9

Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information

264

10

New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen

257

News [?]

1

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

1525

2

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

1056

3

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

626

4

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

617

5

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders

480

6

Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation

460

7

Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab

452

8

Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

377

9

And Then Steve Said, Let There Be an iPhone

359

10

The Russia Left Behind

355

Scientific publications [?]

1

A strange lonely planet found without a star

146

2

NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmissions to and from Moon

138

3

Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down

121

4

Laundering Money Online: A review of cybercriminals methods

47

5

Personal Drones Fly Above Burning Man

42

6

For Sale: Balloon Rides to Near-Space for $75,000 a Seat

39

7

Emotional and persuasive perception of fonts

31

8

How do Nobel laureates spend their prize money?

29

9

Scientists identify a mathematical 'crystal ball' that may predict calamities

28

10

A Bouncing Ball To Make Danger Zones Safer

23

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

425

2

329

3

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

298

4

Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]

254

5

The Battle for Power on the Internet

226

6

196

7

Can I Be Trusted?

139

8

Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random

123

9

AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation

116

10

OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers

108

Tech blogs [?]

1

USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source

294

2

Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues

267

3

Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial

259

4

EFF Has Lavabits Back in Contempt of Court Appeal

232

5

Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows

216

6

Nvidia's G-Sync: Attempting to Revolutionize Gaming via Smoothness

179

7

Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word

128

8

Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

120

9

Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License

115

10

iPad Air Review

113

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

233

2

Amazon's minimum order size for free shipping is now $35

206

3

Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max

96

4

Apple Special Event October 2013 Live Stream

93

5

MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

93

6

77

7

Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live

72

8

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

56

9

Apple Products and EU-wide Consumer Laws

35

10

23

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Making HTTP realtime with HTTP 2.0

135

2

Go 1.1 Function Calls

111

3

Startup School 2013 Notes

103

4

Women in Software Engineering stats

24

5

Backdoor found in D-Link Routers

10

6

UK Police Orders Registrars to Suspend Domains of Major Torrent Sites

7

7

The Historical Software Collection

7

8

The iPad launch lacked a story. Does Apple still have vision?

6

9

IsoHunt Shuts Down Early to Block Backup Plan

6

10

The Copyright Monopoly Can Only Be Enforced With Mass Wiretapping

5

Science News [?]

1

Archaeology: The milk revolution

113

2

Two-laser boron fusion lights the way to radiation-free energy

76

3

First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark

76

4

Entangled toy universe shows time may be an illusion

71

5

The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes

69

6

Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

67

7

Saturated Fat is not the major issue

65

8

UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid

65

9

United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan

55

10

Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials

48

Social [?]

1

Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement

395

2

SpaceX Grasshopper 744m test flight [video]

164

3

Uber CEO responds to concern that Uber's SF service is decreasing in quality

107

4

Startup School 2013 - Facebook's Group

62

5

Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls, Hang Up

53

6

What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs

49

7

Buffer app hacked

49

8

FlashCache at Facebook from 2010 to 2013 and beyond

40

9

New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage

32

10

I'm Glenn Greenwald - Ask Me Anything

26

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Lime Experimental Sublime Text clone

532

2

A list of free programming books

435

3

Introducing government.github.com

414

4

Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish

353

5

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

303

6

Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack

287

7

Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js

270

8

Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace

209

9

A Haskell kernel for IPython

203

10

PredictionIO – A machine learning server

198

Wikipedia [?]

1

Illegal Prime Numbers

172

2

The Two Cultures

144

3

107

4

62

5

61

6

Jewish Nobel Laureates

45

7

45

8

38

9

36

10

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

35

Blogs [?]

1

Gzip + poetry = awesome

362

2

The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible

88

3

Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms

86

4

Y Combinator applicant advice

81

5

The size of the shadow banking system estimated according to power law

53

6

Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valleys Cognitive Dissonance

42

7

Argh Theres an asshole on my internet

32

8

From disgruntled developer, to founder, to burnout

29

9

Okay, Feminism, Its Time We Had a Talk About Empathy

28

10

How Dread Pirate Roberts got caught

22

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word linux as the constant 1?

260

2

What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (2009)

133

3

Map Tiling Algorithm HTML5 and JavaScript RPG

85

4

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

29

5

Why not port the Linux kernel to Common Lisp? (2009)

27

6

Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

18

7

How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?

10

8

C# versus C++ performance

10

9

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

6

10

StackOverflow down

5

Substack [?]