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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
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Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
838
3
Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
732
4
You know, Google, the web already had this feature
656
5
News is bad for you and giving up reading it will make you happier
502
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Hummingbird A fresh take on music notation
460
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Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
451
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How can we get Google Support?
439
9
Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll
422
10
We used to sleep twice each night
408
Top Ask HN
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Why would a government have created bitcoin?
448
2
How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?
104
3
How can I make an extra 30-50k a year?
72
4
for those who successfuly launched on HN, how many attempts did it take?
61
5
Those with intense focus, how do you do it?
60
6
How do hackers make friends?
32
7
What is your favorite movie? And why do you like it?
20
8
Is anyone making money from garbage?
17
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How do I obtain part-time development work?
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How come hardware engineer's salary is declining?
13
Top Show HN
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I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system
290
2
vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection
186
3
Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor
154
4
Rappad - Write better lyrics
126
5
Star Trek-like computer with voice interface
93
6
Hospice.io Vagrant configurations generator
88
7
The Found a Business Book Interviews with Entrepreneurs
73
8
TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)
52
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We manage your code duplication. We want your bugs to stay fixed
42
10
Analytics / CRM hybrid
40
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
390
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Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbons Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature
134
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Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet
114
4
FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Details Revealed in Court
106
5
Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links
96
6
FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire
91
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Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
85
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Treehouse gets $7M to bring learn-to-code programs to high schools
84
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Backlift (YC W12) Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers
77
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Foursquare raises $41 million Series D round
76
News [?]
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
2
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment
222
3
Why Did Yahoo Buy Summly?
171
4
Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India
154
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I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed
147
6
Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)
136
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Tech group representing Google, Yahoo backs CISPA
125
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US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'
108
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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down
105
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Eighteen and Abandoned
75
Scientific publications [?]
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Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run
164
2
NASA plans to capture asteroid and bring it to Earth orbit
9
3
The Wow signal of the terrestrial genetic code [pdf]
8
4
The appearance of new phantom fingers post-amputation in a phocomelus
3
5
VR team presents infinite walking in virtual environments (w/ video)
3
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Pregnancy in a hermaphrodite with a male-predominant mosaic karyotype.
2
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Does the Brain Work Logarithmically?
2
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Influence of repressive legislation on the structure of a social media network
2
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Interview with Warren Wiscombe on scientific programing
2
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Autonomous Balloon Destruction Wins Stanford Drone Games
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
153
2
Go at Google [video]
134
3
Schrdinger's and outside-the-box naming
119
4
Nice Security Mindset Example
104
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IT for Oppression
80
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Sails 0.8.9: A Rails-Inspired Real-Time Node MVC Framework
48
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Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War
10
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Patching the Internet in Realtime: Fixing a Current WordPress Brute Force Attack
8
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Joe Duffy on Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism
6
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Nvidia Has Major New Linux Driver: Optimus, RandR 1.4
4
Tech blogs [?]
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The Crucial/Micron M500 Review – 960GB SSD for $600
85
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EFF Joins Andrew Auernheimer Case on Appeal
24
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The EFF's New HQ
8
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Exxon Hates Your Free Speech, Tries to Censor Satirical Ad
4
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EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications
4
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Intel releases OpenCL 1.2 driver and tools update for Ivy Bridge and Haswell
2
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Sends a camera through mail to record the process
2
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California Court Rules Anti-Texting Laws Apply to Checking Maps While Driving
1
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Valve's Lessons Learned: Porting Source Engine to Linux
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Rumor has Google close to buying WhatsApp for $1B
1
FAANG+ [?]
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
161
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Visual Studio SP2 (Official) is out
2
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Kindle edition on sale for $1.99
2
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Apple remains committed to the Open Source development model
2
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Pointers on C (Book by Kenneth Reek)
1
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Geoflow 3D for Excel 2013 (preview)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf]
71
2
Problems in Education
60
3
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway
7
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The Copyright Monopoly Was Always Intended To Prevent Freedom Of Expression
6
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Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway
4
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Google Relaxes DMCA Takedown Restrictions, Eyes Abuse
3
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IMAGiNE Piracy Group Founder Jailed For 23 Months
2
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Summary of MtGox Reddit AMA Q&A from this morning
2
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Go 1.1 Function Calls
2
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The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure
2
Science News [?]
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Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee
75
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California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
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Stone tools helped shape human hands
40
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Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria
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Researcher's trick transforms conservatives into liberals ahead of election
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Chemical treatment turns whole organs, including brain, transparent
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Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
3
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Crick's DNA Nobel medal gets $2 million at auction
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What "Psychopath" Means -- It is not quite what you may think
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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
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Social [?]
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We are Mt. Gox: AMA
46
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Browser cookies influence ticket prices
34
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When terrible things happen to people I can't help...
15
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High-tech sex workers in Silicon Valley
10
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23 generations of a Roxette song on VHS, with attendant signal degredation
9
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Brainwash (1/7) - The Gender Equality Paradox
8
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Apple is about to pull my app from the App Store, so it's free until its gone
7
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The admin of bitcoin24 doesn't know what database transactions are
6
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Pg on exploding accelerator offers
6
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Explosion at Boston Marathon finish line
5
Github repos and gists [?]
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Github turns five
352
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Quake 3 engine in Rust
176
3
STL File Viewing
144
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Yummy cookies across domains
133
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A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2
102
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The Payphone Project
99
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Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean
83
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Balancer Battle Load testing HAproxy, Nginx and HTTP-Proxy's WebSocket support
74
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Anonymous Open Letter to the Ember.js Core Team
45
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Akka design patterns Scala actors
44
Wikipedia [?]
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Esquivalience
93
2
Zero Knowledge Proofs
57
3
Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox
48
4
Prince Rupert's Drop
40
5
Hebrew: the only language to revive from absolute 0 native speakers to Millions
9
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident
2
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Google Bubble
2
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Champernowne constant
2
9
Metro-2
2
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ASMR That pleasurable feeling you can't explain
2
Blogs [?]
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Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst
144
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Designing Open Source
85
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Coffee meetings
49
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Oh, Im not a Medium
46
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Transitional Interfaces
22
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The DOM is still a mess
20
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Women in Technology, Rise of the Anti-Movement
18
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Dating with Graph Search
18
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Go Big by Going Home
12
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An Open Letter To Women In Technology
10
Stackoverflow [?]
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Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c
222
2
How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
144
3
What is your best programmer joke?
7
4
BitCoin-24 Founder Learning About SQL Transactions
5
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Java equivalent to Python's zip() - StackOverflow
2
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Nginx redirect Http Requests to Https. Any Ideas?
2
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Syntax highlight for json in 18 lines of plain JavaScript
1
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What is the cost of many TIME_WAIT on the server side?
1
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What paradigm shifts should a Rails developer make when beginning Ember.js?
1
10
How to best represent dynamic game actions in a REST API?
1
Substack [?]