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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Depression Part Two

958

2

Induction powered LED lit engagement ring

760

3

Send money with Gmail

749

4

Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

716

5

Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed

670

6

Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging

665

7

Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early

650

8

The One-Person Product

645

9

Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS

641

10

Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

623

Top Ask HN

1

I'm lost. Please help

324

2

Who is hiring? (May 2013)

315

3

Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?

187

4

163

5

What Freelancer site do you recommend?

149

6

Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?

145

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

134

8

I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?

84

9

How to contribute to open source projects?

79

10

What's the most creative use of IFTTT you've seen?

77

Top Show HN

1

My seven minute workout timer evening project

737

2

Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

731

3

Remove backgrounds from images online

550

4

I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

348

5

Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days

344

6

Learn English with movies and TV Shows

274

7

Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby

265

8

See what the best startups in the world are using

250

9

Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF

231

10

Weekend project - Magnific Popup

188

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation

483

2

Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick

445

3

I was struck by lightning yesterdayand boy am I sore

433

4

Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

429

5

Most data isnt big, and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

387

6

Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web

323

7

Evolution of Hacker News

317

8

Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box

296

9

How crackers ransack passwords like qeadzcwrsfxv1331

248

10

This Is What Winning Looks Like Afghanistan War Diary

242

News [?]

1

The New Yorker Strongbox

565

2

The Girl Who Turned to Bone

488

3

Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

375

4

U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

358

5

Our Solar System Isn't Normal

293

6

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

258

7

Y Combinator, Silicon Valleys Start-Up Machine

247

8

Chinese DIY Inventions

227

9

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz

225

10

We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is

218

Scientific publications [?]

1

High-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds

167

2

Is Data Science Your Next Career?

91

3

Researchers turn cement into metal

79

4

Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says

60

5

ISS emergency spacewalk to repair ammonia leak [live video]

55

6

Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC

53

7

Russian researchers find more evidence that lightning is caused by cosmic rays

43

8

P might be NP: A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Hamilton Circuit Problem

41

9

Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem

41

10

Water Planets in the Habitable Zone

36

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Portal Released For Steam On Linux

293

2

Nearly full tickless operation in Linux 3.10

282

3

Firefox, Heal Thyself

145

4

Surveillance and the Internet of Things

142

5

Go and Rust – objects without class

138

6

121

7

Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]

110

8

Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered

107

9

A proposal for an always-releasable Debian

99

10

PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more

90

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging

665

2

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?

573

3

EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5

353

4

Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case

156

5

The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications

124

6

Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy

110

7

The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

97

8

EFF now accepting Bitcoin again

93

9

Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower

81

10

9th Circuit: No Relief for Copyright Troll Righthaven

65

FAANG+ [?]

1

The new Python Cookbook is out

103

2

Apple using moving letters as captcha

83

3

Amazon was down

62

4

Amazon Elastic Transcoder now supports WebM, HLS, VP8 and several new features

7

5

Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003

7

6

Amazon Web Services Certification Program

5

7

Apple to reach 50 billion app downloads today

4

8

Amazon Announced "4000 IOPS" Elastic Block Store (EBS)

3

9

Apple releases ad for Google Glass

3

10

Lego Castle Set #852293 GIANT Chess Set

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer

185

2

Canadian anti-piracy outfit pirates photos for its website

181

3

Your top 100 unix commands, for science

151

4

The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

130

5

U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case

98

6

Kim Dotcom Granted New Zealand Supreme Court Appeal Over U.S. Evidence

81

7

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

69

8

Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me

66

9

The Tragic Beauty of Google+

33

10

Worst File-Sharing Pirates Spend 300% More on Content Than Honest Consumers

29

Science News [?]

1

Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible

284

2

Baby's life saved with 3-D printed device that restored his breathing

178

3

You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think

132

4

Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust

52

5

Driving students into science is a fool's errand

52

6

The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face

37

7

Were the Victorians cleverer than us?

13

8

Reservoir deep under Ontario holds billion-year-old water

12

9

We're getting slower... and more dumberer.

11

10

Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd

9

Social [?]

1

Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]

433

2

John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell

321

3

The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

193

4

This week marks the beginning of my 4th year at Facebook

172

5

Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ

121

6

37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million

115

7

Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem

94

8

Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video]

78

9

Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

75

10

Stripe launches beta in Ireland

73

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11

318

2

Macros in Python

291

3

Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github

278

4

Docker - Way better than a VM

246

5

Free private Github repos for students and edu people

209

6

Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode

207

7

Rustboot: a 32 bit kernel written in Rust

190

8

190

9

My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint

178

10

Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays

176

Wikipedia [?]

1

270

2

Year 2038 problem

184

3

Capacitor plague

130

4

List of unsolved problems in computer science

99

5

List of probability distributions

43

6

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion

43

7

Fundamental Attribution Error

40

8

Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License

34

9

W. T. Tutte - mathematician and code breaker

24

10

21

Blogs [?]

1

Choosing Minecraft over Disney

495

2

Always Be Coding How to Land an Engineering Job

432

3

The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down

347

4

Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree

213

5

Too scared to write a line of code

211

6

On Citizenship in open-source software development

198

7

Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age

185

8

Facebooks New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS

167

9

The Next Facebook — Musings About Text Boxes

139

10

The People of Postgres: Tom Lane

136

Stackoverflow [?]

1

\\d less efficient than [0-9]

245

2

Plain English explanation of Big O? (2009)

151

3

What does O(log n) mean, exactly?

139

4

What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?

77

5

What's the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?

37

6

What is the correct JSON content type?

15

7

Unexpected underscore in git log --graph output

8

8

Cheat for the "Atari Breakout" Google easter egg

5

9

Java += operator

5

10

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

4

Substack [?]