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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Amazon Prime Air

1356

2

1318

3

What I Didn't Say

1289

4

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

1100

5

Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review

1010

6

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

873

7

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

860

8

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

803

9

Google Acquires Boston Dynamics

770

10

Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa

723

Top Ask HN

1

How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?

328

2

Who is hiring? (December 2013)

247

3

What book changed your life in 2013?

198

4

Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?

185

5

I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

150

6

Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

135

7

Making extra income with books

117

8

How to fire your co-founder?

99

9

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)

96

10

Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

94

Top Show HN

1

I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

459

2

I made an HN for the financial industry

411

3

Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

333

4

Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online

270

5

Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life

260

6

I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15

187

7

169

8

Bitrated – Bitcoin m-of-n arbitrated transactions

155

9

Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing

131

10

I made 22 apps and games this year mostly by myself – here they are

125

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

570

2

Valve joins the Linux Foundation

567

3

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality

527

4

Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

338

5

“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

332

6

New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus

275

7

Oculus VR raises $75M

274

8

Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT

254

9

Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner

228

10

Don't want your laptop tampered with? Just add glitter nail polish

215

News [?]

1

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

1100

2

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

873

3

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

860

4

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

803

5

Google Acquires Boston Dynamics

770

6

NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

709

7

672

8

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

556

9

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

551

10

News is bad for you

485

Scientific publications [?]

1

Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics

231

2

Bodily maps of emotions

64

3

China's 1st Moon Rover Mission to Attempt Lunar Landing

54

4

42

5

First flight of Lunar plant growth experiment

30

6

Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real?

28

7

23

8

Capitalist Science

23

9

How William Shockley’s Robot Dream Helped Launch Silicon Valley

18

10

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon (2008) [pdf]

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target

228

2

Evading Airport Security

174

3

Mozilla in 2013

174

4

The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (1998)

155

5

First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js

153

6

Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop

148

7

Apple Tells Gliph to Remove App's Bitcoin Transfer Function

117

8

Best Firefox Add-ons of 2013

108

9

Deconstructing Functional Programming [video]

95

10

Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets

88

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental

392

2

The Mac Pro Review

172

3

Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor

112

4

The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights

69

5

EFF's Reading List: Books of 2013

47

6

Mac Pro Build-to-Order Upgrade Pricing Revealed

21

7

Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 Per Day

19

8

Google Nexus 5 Review

18

9

Building the worst linux PC ever

8

10

Newsstand Shotgun Hack Poised to Further Ruin Air Travel

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Prime Air

1356

2

1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming'

100

3

Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers

62

4

China Mobile and Apple Bring iPhone to China Mobile’s 4G & 3G Networks

50

5

All New Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow

49

6

Surface Music Kit features

47

7

Apple Honors Mandela on Home Page

43

8

Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003

23

9

"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is free for the next 3 days

21

10

Announcing Support for Impala with Amazon Elastic MapReduce

18

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014

276

2

Go 1.3+ Compiler Overhaul

197

3

MAME 0.151 ROMs

126

4

Taboo Your Words (2008)

121

5

How Netflix Reinvented HR

117

6

Web Domain White Elephant Exchange

106

7

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

98

8

David Deutsch On Artificial Intelligence

93

9

Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules

79

10

100 Days of Meditation

71

Science News [?]

1

Water seems to flow freely on Mars

263

2

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

236

3

A Solar Boom So Successful, It's Been Halted

183

4

There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections

85

5

First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa

85

6

Boys and Girls may get different breast milk

71

7

Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans

46

8

Fungus threatens top banana

35

9

Offshore fresh groundwater reserves as a global phenomenon

21

10

People who mattered in science this year

17

Social [?]

1

President Obama calls on every American to learn code

331

2

Facebook's AI lab

217

3

Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [video]

131

4

A Patent From 2004 Describes Dual EC As Key Escrow

103

5

John Cleese on creative thinking

63

6

We scanned this from a computing magazine from 1970

49

7

The new YC batch is from 23 countries

32

8

Why are all the 'cool' jobs no longer using .NET?

25

9

Startup Advisor Alice Zhang on SF Homeless: \"Put them all in labor camps\"

22

10

Samsung galaxy s4 catches on fire, samsung wants silence

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

511

2

DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs

374

3

Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server

311

4

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

307

5

I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

241

6

FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller

238

7

Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive site

221

8

How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++

212

9

DissidentX – Censorship resistance tool by Bram Cohen

212

10

Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec

176

Wikipedia [?]

1

457

2

Doom released 20 years ago today

243

3

Inverted totalitarianism

229

4

171

5

List of cognitive biases

160

6

The SOLID principles of object-oriented design

56

7

48

8

Kerckhoffs's principle

34

9

Hinged dissection

33

10

Inverted Totalitarianism

19

Blogs [?]

1

What I Didn't Say

1289

2

After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key

244

3

Steve Jobs Danced To My Song

231

4

On programming without malloc

166

5

Questions I'm asking in technical interviews

139

6

I now have Rust code for executing executables

130

7

What languages fix

91

8

Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms

80

9

Something is erasing my program while it's running (oh wait oops)

72

10

Understanding how killall works using strace

59

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?

305

2

Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?

82

3

What and where are the stack and heap?

79

4

Plain English explanation of Big O

69

5

The purpose of .PHONY in a Makefile

27

6

Ex-Victoria's Secret top-model has a StackOverflow profile

13

7

Hellо, I am a compiler.

11

8

Trailing slash in URLs - which style is preferred?

7

9

Lisp In the Real World

6

10

SQL: Select only rows with Max Value on a Column

6

Substack [?]