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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

1624

2

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

1485

3

Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book

1276

4

Do Things that Don't Scale

1235

5

1159

6

Doug Engelbart has died

1128

7

Victory Lap for Ask Patents

1037

8

983

9

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

913

10

Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online

843

Top Ask HN

1

I'm quadriplegic can you help me with my security?

471

2

Who is hiring? (July 2013)

284

3

HN Political News Overload?

198

4

Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?

183

5

When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?

162

6

How does one create a fake identity?

151

7

Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?

127

8

How do you apply for a tech job?

112

9

Intermediate Python learning resources?

105

10

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

105

Top Show HN

1

I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi

407

2

CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers

397

3

Floobits – Remote pair programming done right

363

4

Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

193

5

Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)

157

6

Minified.js a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools

151

7

I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup

148

8

I made an HN job board

143

9

Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken programming language

138

10

This page will disappear in 10,000 views

134

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I understood gender discrimination once I added Mr. to my resume

629

2

Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File

407

3

EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements

373

4

Now That Its in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

349

5

Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video

297

6

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File

281

7

Amashs Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217

278

8

Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%

278

9

NASDAQ is owned. Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

274

10

$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android

236

News [?]

1

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

1624

2

The Drone that Killed my Grandson

683

3

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

478

4

Riding the New Silk Road

475

5

Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and fathers attorney

436

6

The NSA slide you havent seen

419

7

Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden

398

8

Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

371

9

Secret government: America against democracy

360

10

NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference

328

Scientific publications [?]

1

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t

110

2

UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell

59

3

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf]

58

4

NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet

53

5

The Memristors Fundamental Secrets Revealed

52

6

How fast can we make interpreted Python?

51

7

Jaron Lanier: We're Being Enslaved by Free Information

47

8

Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer

43

9

NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class

32

10

Self-replicating alien probes could already be here

30

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

254

2

The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG suspected NSA backdoor (2007)

218

3

Apple Dev Center outage

217

4

A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers

186

5

Snowden's Dead Man's Switch

149

6

Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground

133

7

Philosophy and "for" loops more from Go and Rust

133

8

Bruce Schneier awarded fellowship at Harvard's Berkman Center

115

9

NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping

97

10

Apple Developer System Status

91

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance

466

2

Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF

424

3

EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment

270

4

Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance

260

5

Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4

201

6

Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying

156

7

Chrome 27, Firefox 22, IE10, And Opera Next, Benchmarked

142

8

ASUS PQ321Q 4k 32" Monitor first look

64

9

Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping?

54

10

ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Display

53

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft reorganizes

253

2

227

3

Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page

39

4

Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7

39

5

Amazon AWS introduces resource levels for EC2

39

6

iWork for iCloud beta

35

7

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

9

8

Statement from Microsoft About Response to Government Demands for Customer Data

7

9

IWork for iCloud beta now available

4

10

Steve Ballmer email to employees on Don Mattrick transition

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

342

2

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

257

3

An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works

162

4

Pirate Bay Founder: Future copy fights will need something better

79

5

Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Camerons Porn Filter With Immunicity

71

6

MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunts Failing Piracy Filter

65

7

Representatives that rejected limits on NSA data collection and funding sources

58

8

Byte magazine archives

56

9

HBO Asks Google to Take Down Infringing VLC Media Player

52

10

Of mice, men and machines (1998)

32

Science News [?]

1

Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute

235

2

Antibiotic resistance: The last resort

196

3

Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems

157

4

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?

149

5

Kindergarten coders can program before they can read

82

6

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding

54

7

Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics

46

8

The Kopp-Etchells effect

43

9

Solar System Has a Tail, Just Like a Comet

40

10

50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution

36

Social [?]

1

Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

341

2

Stay-at-home dad

287

3

Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August

282

4

Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]

236

5

How to permanently delete a Facebook account

199

6

SpaceX's Grasshopper Successfully Flew 325 Metres

151

7

Don't talk to the police [video]

118

8

Jimmy Wales: This is super cool. "I started to learn python..."

93

9

r/SideProject: A subreddit for sharing your side project

73

10

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings

65

Github repos and gists [?]

1

983

2

Releases a workflow for shipping software to end users

463

3

Alternative Internet

347

4

Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go

330

5

Ideas for Computing

320

6

GitHub's on your phone

265

7

A Dark Room game open-sourced

203

8

Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber

193

9

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

169

10

Rust 0.7 Released

162

Wikipedia [?]

1

466

2

298

3

72

4

The Mother of All Demos

62

5

Qwest Refusal of NSA surveillance requests

60

6

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

51

7

Blind faith (computer programming)

23

8

Toilet paper orientation

9

9

9

10

Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy (2009)

7

Blogs [?]

1

Do Things that Don't Scale

1235

2

Distributed Everything

282

3

How I have lost over 100 pounds and dont know how

145

4

Discovering Sketch

128

5

A Shiny Content Farm is Still a Content Farm

112

6

Lean Startups fail for these 3 reasons, but they didnt tell you in the book

105

7

Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation

87

8

How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups

82

9

In times of change, make tires

77

10

Automatic Summarization in Medium

71

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?

275

2

How the algorithm for coloring the iTunes song list works

97

3

How to design a multi-user ajax web application to be concurrently safe

73

4

How to build a model to distinguish tweets about Apple and apples

69

5

What git branching models actually work?

65

6

Why would you not want to use Cloud Computing? (2009)

13

7

What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed?

12

8

Advantages of web applications over desktop applications

6

9

Answers for bad questions on Stack Overflow

6

10

Best comments in source code

5

Substack [?]