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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used
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Coin
1320
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Started a stupid company. Failed.
1291
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Sprite Lamp
1286
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Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
1179
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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
1036
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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
907
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What 4chan thinks of HN
898
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How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
871
10
Pencil
842
Top Ask HN
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Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?
335
2
I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?
234
3
Who is hiring? (November 2013)
225
4
What are some good alternatives to HN?
170
5
To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do you solve?
143
6
What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?
128
7
Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
121
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Where do you find interesting papers to read?
120
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Open Source alternatives to Disqus?
116
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Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)
114
Top Show HN
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Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
644
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I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
366
3
Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5
364
4
Gitter Chat for GitHub
226
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Real-time file sharing site
205
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DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net
202
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My new project - ask.io
198
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Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
193
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MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript
170
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A game I've been working on for the last year is out today
155
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned Rockstar sues Google
766
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Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
524
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Microsoft does away with stack ranking
463
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Nonplussed
462
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Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
415
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Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help
376
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Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
316
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Everpix was great. This is how it died
294
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Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch
271
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When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too
259
News [?]
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End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
529
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Software patent reform just died in the House
498
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Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
388
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Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs'
340
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Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak
328
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Silk Road 2.0 Launches
296
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Typhoon Haiyan kills 10,000 in Philippines
293
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English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
284
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NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you
280
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The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation
268
Scientific publications [?]
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Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?
216
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Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
192
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Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time
53
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Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military
31
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World's tiniest FM transmitter made from graphene
31
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Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation
14
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San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
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U.K. town to deploy driverless pods to replace busses
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The Unreasonable Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining
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Five ways the Raspberry Pi is making life a little sweeter
4
Dev Blogs [?]
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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
268
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Two years of production Go at CloudFlare
168
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$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes
167
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Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web
148
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Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
127
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The 3.12 kernel is out
102
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Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked, up to 4,000 user wallets emptied
99
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Tor Appliance
88
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Mozilla Circus 0.10 released
80
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Why China is leading the global rise of Bitcoin
79
Tech blogs [?]
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TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
442
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How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read?
287
3
Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard
212
4
NSA's Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism
136
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Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum
112
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life
68
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The Raspberry Pi Becomes a Form Factor
50
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Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What
43
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Henri Lamiraux, iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves Apple after 23 years
36
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What's Wrong With the Latest Beastie Boys Lawsuit
26
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
559
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Amazon WorkSpaces
464
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The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
371
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MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography
241
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Many PS4 units dead on arrival
185
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The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down
148
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Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Intro To Modern C Programming
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Amazon AppStream
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Amazon is selling Cars
40
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What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon
23
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features
196
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AngularJS from an Ember.js perspective
188
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Clojure: The JFDI language
185
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How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
138
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Go 1.3 Linker Overhaul
97
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Archive.org: Play Castle Wolfenstein in your browser
44
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IDE and Editor survey
20
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Nameless: A Graph-based programming language
15
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RIAA and BPI Use Pirated Code on Their Websites
14
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Warner Bros: Our False DMCA Takedowns Are Not a Crime
10
Science News [?]
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Fourier Transforms The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpsons Face
340
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New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms
220
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To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation
114
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23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks
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Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted
50
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First sign that humanity is slowing its carbon surge
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A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality (2010)
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'Rare' Atom Finding May Advance Quantum Computers
10
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HPV: Sex, cancer and a virus
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Black Holes in Globular Star Clusters, Upsetting 40 Years of Theory
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Social [?]
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Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
503
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Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook
306
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My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1
195
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The Mature Optimization Handbook
192
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Few successful entrepreneurs blog
175
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Facebook Publications
170
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YouTube is down
49
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Facebook's robots.txt
39
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Facebook Messenger 3.0
38
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An understated job advertisement
23
Github repos and gists [?]
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“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
323
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33 Questions
272
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Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed
238
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A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
216
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GitHub's Explore Email
214
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Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font
198
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Weak passwords brute forced
193
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Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell
185
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Ansible 1.4 released
175
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Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source
155
Wikipedia [?]
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Shaft passer
195
2
Hawala
189
3
Preferred number
136
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ISO 1
87
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Ulam spiral
83
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Cicada 3301
55
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Ant On A Rubber Rope
55
8
PLATO (computer system)
51
9
List of important publications in philosophy
44
10
The Wikipedia Adventure
43
Blogs [?]
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Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code
153
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Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge
136
3
History of T
126
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From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop
107
5
Why Hardware Development is Hard, Part 2: The Physical World is Unforgiving
88
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Why Hardware Development Is Hard, Part 1: Verilog Is Weird
79
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What happens when you run \"Hello, world\"
51
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My first buffer overflow exploit: pretty easy
43
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Mechanical Turk is Insecure
42
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Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy
34
Stackoverflow [?]
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How to design a class
204
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Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color? (2011)
179
3
How JavaScript closures are garbage collected
86
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A day in the life of a stackoverflow moderator...
71
5
We have an employee whose last name is Null (2010)
67
6
What is a y-combinator? (2008)
57
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What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections? (2010)
42
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Why does subtracting these two times give a strange result? (2011)
41
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What does `return function *(){}` mean in JavaScript?
40
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Why processing a sorted array is faster than an processing an unsorted array
7
Substack [?]