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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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SteamOS
1370
2
Google Web Designer
1071
3
Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?
1038
4
Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
946
5
I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
905
6
World
898
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N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
885
8
Nokia acquired by Microsoft
831
9
My Friends and I Bought an Island
804
10
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
755
Top Ask HN
1
How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
431
2
Who is hiring? (September 2013)
272
3
How to best acquire theoretical computer science knowledge?
160
4
How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?
99
5
Is it time for a public GPG audit?
89
6
Running a hackathon and someone's laptop got stolen, what should we do?
87
7
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)
85
8
How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?
64
9
Best paid VPN?
51
10
Ask HN Googlers: would you invite a fellow geek to visit the Googleplex?
48
Top Show HN
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Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
723
2
UI Concept Focus Transition
375
3
Wit Natural language for your app
307
4
Drawingboard.js
223
5
My Isometric GPU-Powered Voxel Engine
194
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goworker a faster, Resque-compatible background worker
166
7
A free collection of maps for every country in the world, in 11 sizes
148
8
Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere
143
9
Very basic Unix-like operating system built when I was younger
143
10
Signal Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
142
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
646
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Google is defragging Android
436
3
Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
392
4
Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
373
5
PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M
308
6
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
296
7
Apples iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices
284
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NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard
278
9
Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
274
10
Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver
266
News [?]
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N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
885
2
NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel
637
3
Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap
565
4
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
460
5
Left with Nothing
453
6
Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
415
7
Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia
374
8
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.s
322
9
Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples
289
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Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
280
Scientific publications [?]
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Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars
315
2
UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out
174
3
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
169
4
Japan's maglev train runs test at over 310 mph (with video)
94
5
Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool
67
6
Stanford engineers build computer using carbon nanotube technology
64
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Are STEM Workers Overpaid?
52
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New connection between stacked solar cells can handle energy of 70,000 suns
42
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Gdel's Proof of God's Existence
37
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Water found to be an ideal lubricant for nanomachines
29
Dev Blogs [?]
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New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
631
2
Our Newfound Fear of Risk
330
3
Metadata Equals Surveillance
307
4
How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It?
201
5
The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet
192
6
FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
140
7
Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11
128
8
Rethinking the guest operating system
114
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A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
106
10
Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
104
Tech blogs [?]
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NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit
324
2
UTF-8 "The most elegant hack"
306
3
The iPhone 5s Review
256
4
Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer
249
5
iOS App Store now allows legacy downloads to support older OSes
75
6
The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance
67
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The iOS 7 review
49
8
Asus' Transformer Book T100
36
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Government Releases NSA Surveillance Docs and Secret FISA Court Opinions
20
10
The iPhone 5s Review
9
FAANG+ [?]
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Kindle MatchBook
403
2
Microsoft to acquire Nokia
379
3
iPhone 5c
106
4
Apple Updates iMac
100
5
All-New Kindle Paperwhite
85
6
Steve Ballmer email to Microsoft employees on Nokia acquisition
67
7
Funniest Reviews
46
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First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record
39
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Microsoft announces quarterly dividend increase and share repurchase program
33
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Apple iPhone 5S
23
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Future of AngularJS
266
2
The Deal That Makes No Sense
195
3
What Clayton Christensen got wrong
57
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17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner
33
5
Offset: Goroutines ported to Python
26
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Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy
21
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At What Point Will the Next Generation Kill the Copyright Monopoly Altogether?
11
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Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Sentence Slashed in Half on Appeal
9
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Open letter to Glenn Greenwald asking for names to be named
8
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Copyright Was Created as a Censorship Instrument and is Still Used as One
7
Science News [?]
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Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction
230
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World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report
57
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Universe may be curved, not flat
36
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Orangutans plan their future route and communicate it to others
27
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University of Bristol makes quantum chip programming available over the net
24
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The Myth of Executive Stress
11
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Did a hyper-black hole spawn the universe?
10
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Kindergarten coders can program before they can read
5
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Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code
5
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How to Understand the Deep Structures of Language
4
Social [?]
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3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo [video]
342
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Twitter confirms IPO plans via Twitter
116
3
Hacker News Onion
99
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2
92
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The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week
85
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Why Companies Founded By College Dropouts Rarely Hire College Dropouts
66
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How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood [video]
57
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Fox News attempts to explain what Github is
56
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Facebook is doomed
35
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3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
35
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
418
2
The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
410
3
Rainyday.js
351
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Mozilla's New Fira Typeface
317
5
Favicon Cheatsheet
289
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Cocktails for programmers
248
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Two-factor Authentication
245
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A simple git branching model
210
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A negative captcha
202
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Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails
199
Wikipedia [?]
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Black Perl
316
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Shot tower
260
3
Starlite
236
4
Happy Programmers' Day
234
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How to get bias into a Wikipedia article
223
6
One-electron universe
182
7
Happy Petrov day
133
8
Wikipedia links to HN
116
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Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs
114
10
Norman Borlaug
91
Blogs [?]
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How to Raise Money
514
2
CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
347
3
A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea
345
4
How we tripled our revenue by adding one button
237
5
Confusing UI in iOS7
236
6
10x Engineer
215
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Stop making me sign up
194
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Act As If
185
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Web development in C: Crazy?
175
10
Stealing Traction: How Youtube, Paypal, AirBnB grew through piggybacking
134
Stackoverflow [?]
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How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
308
2
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)
145
3
If PyPy is 6.3 times faster than CPython, why not just use it?
133
4
Which is better? Performing calculations in sql or in your application?
49
5
How can the Linux kernel compile itself?
30
6
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
5
7
A Positive Lambda: '+[]{}' What Sourcery Is This?
4
8
How To Do: Form based website authentication
4
9
WinSCP Bug on Windows?
3
10
The best source code comments found on stackoverflow
2
Substack [?]