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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

1734

2

Why I'm switching back to Firefox

911

3

Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

691

4

608

5

Hacker News Parody Thread

576

6

Why I created Comic Sans

477

7

LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

397

8

EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban

386

9

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM

377

10

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

374

Top Ask HN

1

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

457

2

How do blind people code and work with terminals?

49

3

What made SQL databases so popular?

25

4

how did you learn the command line?

24

5

What is your personal website setup?

20

6

How does a beginner navigate the JavaScript MVC jungle?

20

7

Scala web devs, describe your stack

20

8

Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? It's broken

19

9

Is anyone using Amazon DynamoDB?

18

10

What kind of small programs can I develop for small income?

18

Top Show HN

1

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

840

2

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

416

3

Increase your productivity with ambient noise

328

4

Save Memory in Google Chrome

306

5

QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written

249

6

sachet handcraft your Vim environment online

176

7

My weekend project, Remojbo: a remote job board for web nerds

145

8

Make your iPhone app look beautiful

114

9

Adult Cat Finder

84

10

CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______

75

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

355

2

Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Meteorite Fragments

243

3

Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers

231

4

Men who spy on women through their webcams

214

5

Coding Cloud Heroku May Face Lawsuit Over Bait-and-Switch Claims

170

6

Marvel Comics makes 700 first issues available for free download

83

7

Attorney General: Aaron Swartz Case Was a Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion

80

8

The Steam Box era begins with the Piston, a $1,000 PC-in-a-console

58

9

Revenge porn site founder loses $250k defamation suit

54

10

Did PayPal Just Clone Stripes API Documentation?

42

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

The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation

255

4

Rejecting industry dogma, Costco backs calls to lift minimum wage

183

5

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf

133

6

Rigging the IPO game

118

7

The Country That Stopped Reading

105

8

EA Employee Chastises Company Over SimCity in Public Letter

89

9

When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets

86

10

'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck?

85

Scientific publications [?]

1

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

25

2

Galactic Neutrino Communication

2

3

The Personal Genome Machine and you

2

4

Why you can't predict elections with Twitter

2

5

HERB Learns to Separate Oreos, Probably Thinks Humans are Crazy

2

6

Kinect Fusion Lets You Build 3-D Models of Anything

2

7

Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life

2

8

Steve Mann: What Ive learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear

2

9

Russia finds 'new bacteria' in Antarctic lake

2

10

Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The ways of Wayland

123

2

Load Balancing without Load Balancers

92

3

Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)

41

4

Crowding out OpenBSD

35

5

Technologies of Surveillance

5

6

Google and MPEG LA End All Disputes on VP8

5

7

David Nolen on Logic and Constraint Programming, Core.logic, Mozart/Oz

3

8

How Facebook Prepared to Be Hacked

3

9

Ubuntu Plans To Move To Systemd's Logind

3

10

Ubuntu Announces Mir, A X.Org/Wayland Replacement

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

70

2

DRM Chair only works 8 times

10

3

Printed machine does nothing until the heat death of the Universe

5

4

How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity

2

5

Truly Ergonomic Computer Keyboard Review

2

6

Senate Demands Answers About Aaron Swartz, But More Must Be Done

2

7

Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents

1

8

Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents

1

9

Apple Patent Applications Address User-to-User Resale/Lending of Content

1

10

Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues

691

2

AWS Case Study: Parse (YC S11)

61

3

Amazon has re-decided to sell Sim City V again

5

4

Not the kind of customer satisfaction you want to see.

3

5

I don't know whats funnier, the review or the fact it was voted the most helpful

2

6

Sim City has bad reviews on Amazon

2

7

Announcing New Lower Pricing for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

1

8

New Lower Pricing for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

1

9

Startup Field Guide

1

10

Without Their Permission [book] by Alexis Ohanian

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Some dark corners of C

344

2

Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics IP Addresses

143

3

Pirate Bay Advert Appears on Hacked Billboard

63

4

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

12

5

Ruby and Javascript hourly rate survey

4

6

Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Digital Movie Revenues

4

7

MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare

3

8

HBO Plans to Combat Game of Thrones Piracy, Sort Of

3

9

Big-Bang Disruption

2

10

A very cool engineering assignment from Tel Aviv University

2

Science News [?]

1

Retinal vascular biomarkers for Alzheimers detection [pdf]

16

2

The father of all men is 340,000 years old

11

3

China's next-generation Internet is a world-beater

7

4

Controversial quantum computer aces entanglement tests

4

5

Google Glass app identifies you by your fashion sense

2

6

How to Make Impossible Wallpaper

2

7

First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power

2

8

Salt linked to autoimmune diseases

2

9

Zapping brain to improve learning comes at a cost

1

10

Global temperatures are close to 11,000-year peak

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook's New Feed

237

2

Programming is terribleLessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012

27

3

McDipper: A key-value cache for Flash storage

26

4

An anonymous EA employee's letter regarding Sim City

13

5

Paypal responds to Stripe, by cloning Stripe's website CSS by CSS.

12

6

Why are engineers treated like peons in the startup world?

10

7

How the Tesla Model S is made

8

8

/r/ReadableCode

7

9

The SimCity Experience

7

10

How Guys Will Use Google Glasses

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

397

2

363

3

Flat UI DMCA Takedown

251

4

Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients

237

5

Flat UI, mirrored

174

6

Addition of 1 and 1 in PHP

151

7

SimCity UI Code + DRM

110

8

Introducing Passion Projects

83

9

Linux cheat sheet

77

10

New Series Seed legal forms now in Markdown on Github

66

Wikipedia [?]

1

Tarski's high school algebra problem

70

2

Amoeba (operating system)

34

3

Oxford Electric Bell

3

4

2

5

The Sega TeraDrive IBM PC with built-in Genesis Console

2

6

In Japan, Sleeping on the Job Demonstrates Commitment to Your Work

2

7

Two envelopes paradox

2

8

Michael Carroll (lottery winner)

1

9

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

1

10

Panspermia's hypothesis still under investigation/undetermined

1

Blogs [?]

1

Play by Your Own Rules

235

2

A New Ideas Machine

68

3

Data, Tips, and Success Rates for Meditation

3

4

Cost-Aware Architectures

2

5

"Design Over Style": An Exploration of Design Philosophy

2

6

Chime: A look back

2

7

From Wayfinding to Interaction Design

2

8

On dashes, hyphens, and other important aspects of life.

1

9

The Facebook Conspiracy Theories are Wrong

1

10

Mark Zuckerberg doesnt get newspapers

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow Moderator Election

27

2

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

14

3

How to do REST Authentication in Python

5

4

Bomb dropping algorithm

4

5

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

2

6

Does MODE_MULTI_PROCESS make Android shared prefs thread safe?

2

7

The right way to handle CrLf in Git

2

8

How to cut a part of div?

2

9

Hidden features of C

2

10

Cycles in family tree software

1

Substack [?]