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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The PyCon Incident

1101

2

Diamonds Are Bullshit

1060

3

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

1005

4

You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?

787

5

What really happened at PyCon 2013

734

6

722

7

I Bought A Firetruck

696

8

Goodbye, Malcolm

648

9

A Difficult Situation

565

10

How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

550

Top Ask HN

1

Have you ever been sued by your startup?

188

2

Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

168

3

Why are certain submissions being deleted?

68

4

Have you been in a company with transparent salaries? Good?

35

5

Govt Request – Entrepreneur/Engineer Immigration Horror Stories?

32

6

Do you have READMEs or docs in your company?

23

7

Do Zuckerberg, Page, Musk, etc, etc post here in HN?

19

8

What chrome/Firefox extensions/devtools do you use for web development?

17

9

I received a DMCA claim against a Tweet, advice sought

15

10

How can DigitalOcean be so cheap?

15

Top Show HN

1

Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

492

2

Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything

330

3

My side project Do I need a visa for...?

243

4

Framebase.io, Video for Developers

195

5

Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on

163

6

Use your phone to present slides on any screen

106

7

Optimized trading algorithms using IPython parallel and ec2

96

8

My weekend Project - Almost Flat UI Theme

94

9

My First iOS Game - Lumio

86

10

Announcing 10x Management

75

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry

322

2

Bitcoin interest spikes in Spain as Cyprus financial crisis grows

146

3

How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future

129

4

Posthaven Launches In Public Beta

104

5

Apples Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For Flat Design

101

6

Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks

98

7

Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for outting developers

96

8

Stripe partners with Parse to ease accepting payments in mobile apps

94

9

Ex-Googlers Launch Sift Science (YC S11), a Fraud-Fighting System For Websites

93

10

How I became a password cracker

89

News [?]

1

220

2

Nasty Gal, an Online Start-Up, Is a Fast-Growing Retailer

165

3

Children should be allowed to get bored

96

4

Testing a New Class of Speedy Computer

83

5

The Tunnels of NYC's East Side Access Project

83

6

Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem

81

7

Revamped Cyprus deal to close bank, force losses

79

8

John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented

75

9

Armenia is the first country in the world to make chess mandatory in school

64

10

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

53

Scientific publications [?]

1

Ancient stone tools show technological enhancements over time

7

2

CMU Snake Robots Can Now Strangle Things on Contact

3

3

Carnegie Mellon roboticist suggests humans brace themselves for robo-innovation

2

4

Study shows how easy it is to determine someone's identity with cell phone data

2

5

Papers link top China university to army 'hacking' unit

2

6

The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph

2

7

Glasses-Free 3-D From Almost Any Angle

2

8

Video Friday: Robots That Fold, Robots That Drive, Robots That Drink

1

9

Would You Buy a Telenoid from Outer Space?

1

10

Dual Pivot Quicksort (better expected constants) [pdf]

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

281

2

Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies

212

3

Changes to the Blog

187

4

Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles

113

5

iOS developers: Say goodbye to UDIDs

83

6

Stripe: new mobile libraries and Parse integration

51

7

Linux Kernel 3.2.41 Released

49

8

GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks (fixed)

43

9

Firefox: Why we wont enable Do-Not-Track by default

28

10

The DDoS That Knocked Spamhaus Offline (And How We Mitigated It)

17

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's Data Centers Now Running on 100% Renewable Energy

207

2

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

10

3

Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards

8

4

Apple adds two-step verification for Apple ID

4

5

Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip

4

6

Two-step verification for Apple IDs now live

2

7

Inside Apple Anonymous: The Secret Society of Apple's Retail Army

2

8

Under CISPA, Who Can Get Your Data?

2

9

Google's Wi-Fi Snooping Settlement is Really Awful

2

10

Linux can read optical discs, Windows can't

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Hardware Keylogger

2

2

Microsoft aquires Swiss Startup Netbreeze

1

3

Read the Startup Field Guide

1

4

Build breakthrough apps with in-house app development

1

5

Whispersync for Voice: switch between reading and listening

1

6

Software Development Engineer - AWS New Initiative (iOS/Android)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

When TED Lost Control of Its Crowd

139

2

Free Access To Dozens of Anonymous VPNs Via New University Project

7

3

Websites Can Legally Pirate Porn Movies, Prosecutors Rule

4

4

UK ISPs Start Blocking KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy

3

5

Fresh Calls to Congress to Make Movie and Music Streaming a Felony

3

6

MPAA: BitTorrent is the Best Way to Pirate Movies and TV-Shows

3

7

Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013)

2

8

Soylent Online Shopping List

2

9

Google Further Highlights Wrongful DMCA Takedowns

2

10

Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall (2012)

2

Science News [?]

1

Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else

161

2

Long-term research: Slow science

49

3

Rockets that sent people to moon pulled from ocean, thanks to Jeff Bezos

5

4

Pierre Deligne wins Abel Prize for contributions to algebraic geometry

3

5

Depression linked to miscommunication in brain, not lack of seratonin

2

6

Some of What You Think You Know About Grammar Is Wrong

2

7

Planck telescope delivers the most detailed picture ever of the early Universe

2

8

Mummies reveal that clogged arteries plagued the ancient world

2

9

Whole brain cellular-level activity mapping in a second (video)

2

10

Let's Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music

2

Social [?]

1

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards?

193

2

Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

81

3

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

48

4

Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards

45

5

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards?

29

6

LinkedIn's Down

11

7

The BACON conference's "Convince my boss" scheme tries to convince Remy Sharp

11

8

Best SQL injection attempt ... (image)

11

9

Malcolm Tredinnick (malcolmt) has passed of a burst aneurysm

8

10

Message to Adria Richards

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming

386

2

Today's Email Incident

248

3

Checkout github pull requests locally

170

4

JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated

153

5

Zero-downtime restarts in Go

135

6

An Open Source Author's Lament

121

7

GoIRC - Event-based stateful IRC client framework for Go

82

8

Flat-UI repository is available again

81

9

FlyLatex: a free, open-source real-time collaborative latex editor

56

10

My Style: Custom CSS for unappealing sites you visit

45

Wikipedia [?]

1

Expect automates programs that expose a text terminal interface

63

2

IBM Selectric Typewriter

31

3

Project Daedalus - 50 years to another star

8

4

Today is International Day of Happiness (established by the UN last year)

2

5

Autovivification

2

6

Pitch drop experiment

2

7

2

8

2

9

Loevinger's 9 stages of ego development

1

10

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)

1

Blogs [?]

1

'Play by your own rules' - How Gowalla lost the race against Foursquare

19

2

Im leaving academia

6

3

What You Can't Say (2004)

5

4

Why Startup Hubs Work

3

5

The Future of Local News: Why We Shouldn't Settle For Ad-Covered Wire Copy

3

6

Moving Back to Portland

3

7

Weight loss and habit forming Lets not pretend we have it all figured out

3

8

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

3

9

The Hardware Renaissance

3

10

A Word to the Resourceful

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest language feature

64

2

Epic Answer - Avoiding If statements

8

3

How to pass parameters correctly?

3

4

Python yield keyword explained

2

5

Python: x += 1 vs x = x + 1

2

6

How localStorage is implemented

2

7

Difference between Z3 and coq

2

8

How far can memory leaks go?

2

9

Alan Kay: Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

2

10

What is difference between memoization and dynamic programming?

1

Substack [?]