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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Don't Fly During Ramadan
2617
2
Hyperloop
2549
3
Lavabit abruptly shuts down
1747
4
Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
1417
5
Forced Exposure
1352
6
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
1183
7
Skeuocard
1033
8
I will not do a tech interview
1004
9
John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
961
10
Hi Im Hank, and I bought a bus
921
Top Ask HN
1
I'm a chronic procrastinator how do I break it?
325
2
How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
284
3
Who is hiring? (August 2013)
267
4
What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")
187
5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)
129
6
What do you want to see in Rails 4.1?
56
7
The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers
48
8
Why aren't there HTTP style standards for invoicing things?
46
9
What will entertain us in 20 years?
39
10
Share your projects and the stories behind them
38
Top Show HN
1
TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python
295
2
noteZilla - Interactive sheet music
268
3
Virtual Machines in the Browser
267
4
Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor
264
5
Run iOS apps in the browser
247
6
TextIt Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world
211
7
Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python
204
8
We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices
165
9
Python library to read and manage your Gmail
151
10
Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News
143
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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New Zealand bans some software patents
865
2
Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic
615
3
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead
555
4
Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second
448
5
Map of America's Racial Segregation
286
6
Edward Snowdens Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle
277
7
7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners
249
8
Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Cant
248
9
Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
231
10
New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages
222
News [?]
1
Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
1417
2
Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping
683
3
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face
662
4
Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
615
5
Why I Changed My Mind On Weed
573
6
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
571
7
Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies
493
8
Taken
448
9
The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldnt have happened without Snowden
412
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NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
396
Scientific publications [?]
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The STEM Crisis is a Myth
135
2
Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf]
84
3
Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground
70
4
NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
57
5
Fastest rotating man-made object created
52
6
New 'Nova' Star Explosion Spotted in Night Sky: How to See It
37
7
Why cooperators always win in the long run
34
8
Scott Hassan on Willow Garage and the Future of Suitable Technologies
6
9
Georgia Tech uncovers iOS security weaknesses
5
10
Quantum inverted pendulum maintains unstable quantum system
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Introducing Stripe UK
352
2
In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (2004)
314
3
The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
242
4
Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
237
5
More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
211
6
Firefox now only has one HTML parser
191
7
Stripe launches German beta
187
8
Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
186
9
Design, Composition and Performance [video]
172
10
Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native
155
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering
372
2
Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process
229
3
Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning Servers
221
4
Obama to release FISA court opinion that ruled NSA surveillance unconstitutional
207
5
Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
189
6
Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released
158
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Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance
129
8
October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
126
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EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras
96
10
Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments and selling online
52
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
1183
2
Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace
148
3
Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000)
146
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Funniest reviews
116
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Amazon was down
84
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Windows Phone, Latin Americas second most widely used mobile platform
32
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Amazon.com is down
14
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Amazon is down
11
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Amazon is Down
10
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AWS management console is down
9
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The White Hat's Dilemma
243
2
A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think
123
3
Pirate Bay Releases Pirate Browser to Thwart Censorship
113
4
2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart
96
5
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple
82
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It is Now Less Risky to Download Pirated Ebooks Than to Purchase Them
17
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U.S. "backed plan to launch chemical attack on Syria and blame it on Assad"
15
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Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System (1956)
12
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Kim Dotcom Will Move Mega Privacy Services to Iceland to Avoid Spying
11
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2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart
9
Science News [?]
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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits
211
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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability
178
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Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive
164
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Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom
149
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Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic
125
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1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology.
118
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3D printing tiny human livers
64
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Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint
57
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Genetically modified crops pass benefits to weeds
50
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Lasers boost space communications
48
Social [?]
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Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews
369
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Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files
174
3
Things in Haskell which don't exist elsewhere at all
164
4
Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..."
145
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Global Government Requests Report
102
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Carmack talks practical use of Haskell, Lisp in game prog at Quakecon keynote
81
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Help, I'm Too Smart For My Job
59
8
In Tough Times, Abandon Your Employees
47
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Facebook is looking for an ARM SoC server hardware engineer
34
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Recent reports on our whitehat program
34
Github repos and gists [?]
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Schema migrations merged into Django master
373
2
Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5
255
3
Ungit Git UI that makes you understand git
233
4
Sovereign Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud
209
5
Github now supports rendering tabular data
188
6
Open Source Google App Engine Clone
186
7
Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON
178
8
Coursera-dl A script for downloading course material from coursera.org
177
9
D3 3.3 Released
157
10
SQL Injection Galore
152
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Raising of Chicago
213
2
Vasili Arkhipov
190
3
Grace Hopper
180
4
Micromort
166
5
Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer
139
6
Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page
109
7
Wikipedia: Size in volumes
106
8
Digital physics
58
9
Quipu
46
10
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
35
Blogs [?]
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I will not do a tech interview
1004
2
Founders' Accents
508
3
Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my
496
4
How to Convince Investors
477
5
Why I left Google
281
6
How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction
254
7
I cannot afford to go back to engineering school
248
8
How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the Worlds Worst New Warplane
229
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From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
222
10
Investor Herd Dynamics
210
Stackoverflow [?]
1
We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
628
2
How does Trello access the user's clipboard?
177
3
List of freely available programming books
150
4
Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't?
113
5
Sum of 1 to 1000000000 in different programming languages
60
6
My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation
58
7
What is a magic number, and why is it bad?
29
8
Stackoverflow is down. All programming has stopped.
14
9
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
6
10
Lists of freely available programming books in all languages
5
Substack [?]