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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Reader shutting down

1926

2

Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

1734

3

The PyCon Incident

1101

4

Diamonds Are Bullshit

1060

5

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

1005

6

How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

960

7

Why I'm switching back to Firefox

911

8

Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit

857

9

The DDoS that almost broke the Internet

805

10

You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?

787

Top Ask HN

1

Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?

457

2

Who is hiring? (March 2013)

266

3

Have you ever been sued by your startup?

188

4

Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

168

5

Business Dying. Please Help.

152

6

How did you find your early adopters?

101

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013)

81

8

My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app store, what do I do next?

76

9

How much of your time is spent on classical algorithmic problems?

72

10

How to deal with someone ripping off your design?

69

Top Show HN

1

XKCD-inspired StackSort

923

2

6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game

840

3

Weekend project, Intro.js

699

4

Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

492

5

Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)

416

6

Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything

330

7

Tiled Text a Different Approach to Editing Text

329

8

Increase your productivity with ambient noise

328

9

Save Memory in Google Chrome

306

10

An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

251

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

644

2

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

634

3

Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Cant Be Patented

397

4

Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario

355

5

Google removes AdBlock for Android from Google Play

353

6

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry

322

7

Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads

287

8

Stripe launches beta in the UK

248

9

Google: Do what you want with Reader, but don't kill CalDAV

245

10

Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Meteorite Fragments

243

News [?]

1

Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa

374

2

The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

349

3

Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms

335

4

The Internet is a surveillance state

312

5

Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson

263

6

HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs

262

7

Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'

256

8

The Ivy League Was Another Planet

256

9

The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation

255

10

Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack

223

Scientific publications [?]

1

What Ive learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear

398

2

Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion

179

3

SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to Space Station

126

4

Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says

75

5

The Velocity of Censorship: High-Fidelity Detection of Microblog Post Deletions

25

6

Steve Mann: My Augmediated Life [lessons learned before Google Glass]

9

7

The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light

8

8

Ancient stone tools show technological enhancements over time

7

9

The Extraordinary SVD

7

10

Better Eyes for Flying Robots

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The DDoS that almost broke the Internet

805

2

Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web

485

3

Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

281

4

Phishing Has Gotten Very Good

223

5

Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies

212

6

Today's Outage Post Mortem

211

7

Changes to the Blog

187

8

Linux Gamers Make Up ~2% Of Valve's Steam Users

130

9

The ways of Wayland

123

10

Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles

113

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy

207

2

Civil Liberties Groups Speak Out Against CISPA in Lead Up to Hearings

195

3

Secretive Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks

70

4

Apple TV Short Review: Analysis of a New A5

34

5

Core i7-4770K: Haswell's Performance, Previewed

13

6

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

10

7

DRM Chair only works 8 times

10

8

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

8

9

EFFs Fight for Open 3D Printing Continues at Ask Patents

5

10

Printed machine does nothing until the heat death of the Universe

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

691

2

Announcing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js

84

3

AWS Case Study: Parse (YC S11)

61

4

Announcing AMI Copy for Amazon EC2

45

5

AWS CloudHSM: Secure Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations

34

6

Share Your Amazon Prime Benefits

22

7

Amazon.com was down

14

8

Amazon search was down

10

9

Only iPhone has the Retina Display

9

10

Amazon "Add to cart" button redesigned

9

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Some dark corners of C

344

2

VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously

158

3

Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics IP Addresses

143

4

When TED Lost Control of Its Crowd

139

5

BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol

131

6

Don't Get Offended

78

7

Pirate Bay Advert Appears on Hacked Billboard

63

8

Why Its Important For Us To Keep Explaining The Net And Its Civil Liberties

46

9

Copyright Trolls to Judge: Nope Were Not Coming to Scary Hearing

12

10

The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse

9

Science News [?]

1

More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

174

2

Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else

161

3

Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth

75

4

Open access: The true cost of science publishing

64

5

Long-term research: Slow science

49

6

Mars trip to use astronaut poo as radiation shield

40

7

Obama to announce $2 billion plan to get US cars off gasoline

36

8

Retinal vascular biomarkers for Alzheimers detection [pdf]

16

9

The father of all men is 340,000 years old

11

10

Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend

8

Social [?]

1

What I Learned from a Sex-Crazed Short-Order Cook

259

2

Facebook's New Feed

237

3

Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android

221

4

How Ink Is Made

195

5

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards?

193

6

Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

133

7

Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out

132

8

Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

81

9

Startup Australia

66

10

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

48

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Heroku Fucking Console

460

2

LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

397

3

Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Python

391

4

PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming

386

5

363

6

Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

362

7

What do grad students in math do all day?

356

8

Fizz Buzz: Enterprise Edition

309

9

Flat UI DMCA Takedown

251

10

Today's Email Incident

248

Wikipedia [?]

1

James while John had had had ... had had had a better effect on the teacher

111

2

110

3

Millennium Challenge 2002 - military simulation

96

4

Tarski's high school algebra problem

70

5

Expect automates programs that expose a text terminal interface

63

6

57

7

Amoeba (operating system)

34

8

IBM Selectric Typewriter

31

9

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

12

10

Project Daedalus - 50 years to another star

8

Blogs [?]

1

We'll Be Circling Back

413

2

What Coke Contains

280

3

Play by Your Own Rules

235

4

2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future

80

5

I've become what I wasn't supposed to be

79

6

A New Ideas Machine

68

7

Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

53

8

The Best Conference Hack

44

9

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux

29

10

'Play by your own rules' - How Gowalla lost the race against Foursquare

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The language of Vim

263

2

Strangest language feature

64

3

JavaScript closures vs. anonymous functions

52

4

Stack Overflow Moderator Election

27

5

How to fork the whole Android operating system's code?

14

6

Epic Answer - Avoiding If statements

8

7

Why does this code print hello world?

6

8

Why does C++ compilation take so long?

6

9

How to do REST Authentication in Python

5

10

Beware of North Korea's New Weapon of Influence: The Strong Tag

4

Substack [?]