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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

1184

2

Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up

548

3

Light Table 0.4 released

533

4

Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet

519

5

What a stupid idea

505

6

This page is anonymous

441

7

How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

439

8

I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

436

9

The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

434

10

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released

419

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (May 2013)

315

2

Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?

145

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

134

4

How did you make your first $10,000?

77

5

How to run anonymous services?

48

6

Modern stacks and frameworks for fast web app development?

46

7

How many hours of sleep are you getting?

26

8

Is there a Hacker News for investors?

18

9

untapped SaaS niches

12

10

Have startups traditionally skimped on web security?

12

Top Show HN

1

Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

731

2

Weekend project - Magnific Popup

188

3

Felt Personal, handwritten cards mailed from your iPad

148

4

Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs

134

5

Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM

112

6

we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

73

7

HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux

66

8

Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans

64

9

Resumonk a year after it was launched here

64

10

Java 7 Features Backported to Android

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud

155

2

Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? Thats a Federal Hacking Case

132

3

Time Crystals Could Upend Physicists Theory of Time

121

4

Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

115

5

Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years

108

6

Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source

108

7

Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine

97

8

Google and Adobe team up to improve fonts on iOS and Linux

92

9

Yahoo Acquires Astrid

78

10

AMDs heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access coming this year in Kaveri

77

News [?]

1

Y Combinator, Silicon Valleys Start-Up Machine

247

2

'The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web'

140

3

The cost of hand-to-mouth living

137

4

Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses

134

5

Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine'

132

6

How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison

127

7

How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

118

8

Entrepreneurs are the New Labor

109

9

The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley

104

10

Craigslist's Allegations Of "Copyright" Violations Thrown Out

104

Scientific publications [?]

1

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

81

2

Water Planets in the Habitable Zone

36

3

The probabilities of failure for withdrawal and the condom are similar

3

4

New kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen: Birth of a black hole

3

5

The Bitcoin Arms Race Is On

3

6

Bug's eye inspires hemispherical digital camera

2

7

Russian researchers find more evidence that lightning is caused by cosmic rays

2

8

Winter is Coming

2

9

Microsoft job ads for engineers show body-double plans

2

10

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes History with 1st Rocket-Powered Flight

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Portal Released For Steam On Linux

293

2

Introducing Heka

286

3

Go and Rust – objects without class

138

4

Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]

110

5

NoBackend: Front-End First Web Development

35

6

The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership

35

7

Managing Technical Debt

9

8

Building Highly Available Systems in Erlang [video]

5

9

Go and Rust objects without class

4

10

Elaborate Hack robs Hospital of $1.03 Million

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Who Has Your Back? 2013

16

2

CISPA Passes Out of the House Without Any Fixes to Core Concerns

7

3

Now You Can Take Google Glass Photos Just by Winking

5

4

Intels Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile

3

5

Is Your Printer Spying On You?

3

6

Who has your back? (2013)

2

7

Twitter, Sonic.net earn top stars in 2013 EFF privacy report, Verizon none

2

8

Here Is the New Face of TPP and ACTA in the US

2

9

TPP: Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA

2

10

Intels Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Web Services Certification Program

5

2

Apple to reach 50 billion app downloads today

4

3

How does Amazon's Whispersync for Voice work?

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer

185

2

U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case

98

3

Netflix Says Its Killing BitTorrent Traffic

7

4

How to Beat Procrastination

7

5

The Pirate Bay Moves to .SX as Prosecutor Files Motion to Seize Domains

6

6

[Intel] need[s] to accept and embrace their destiny.

3

7

Using the Bank (1947)

3

8

This Is What It Looks Like When You Lose All of Your Startup Money

3

9

Alleged BitTorrent Pirate Sued Three Times For The Same Download

2

10

Blasting Cap Danger

2

Science News [?]

1

The Woman Who Can't Recognize Her Face

37

2

Need a shot of creative juices? Call the crowd

9

3

Math as Myth: What looks like the golden ratio is sometimes just fool's gold

7

4

Airplane to Fly across U.S. Powered by Sunshine

4

5

Where Uniqueness Lies

3

6

NIST issues major revision of core computer security guide: SP 800-53

2

7

Molecules in the brain trigger ageing

2

8

Before There Was Photoshop, These Photographers Knew How to Manipulate an Image

2

9

Psychiatry needs its Higgs boson moment

2

10

How Lego Is Constructing the Next Generation of Engineers

2

Social [?]

1

Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec

125

2

Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

75

3

Dick Costolo commencement speech

25

4

Facebook product engineer says don't learn web development

12

5

Sal Khan (Khan Academy) interviews Elon Musk

7

6

Twitter job posting: Head of News and Journalism

7

7

Coinlab (Y Combinator funded) sues MtGox

6

8

Introducing Trusted Contacts

5

9

I Can't Code and You Can't Sell Crap [video]

5

10

ISS Solar Panel Punctured by Small Stone

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays

176

2

Pdf2htmlEX Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

153

3

ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend

138

4

An open-source fully homomorphic encryption library

122

5

Docker 0.3 released: public index, data volumes and open-source registry

104

6

100

7

Bitcoin will soon block small transaction outputs

92

8

Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

80

9

Manage.py, a human friendly CLI builder for python apps

71

10

Repository Search on all Repositories

36

Wikipedia [?]

1

Year 2038 problem

184

2

Fundamental Attribution Error

40

3

3

4

Downfall of Internet anonymity (Penet anonymous remailer, 1996)

2

5

The hard problem of consciousness

2

6

IPod like system in 1979

2

7

Dunbar's Number

2

8

What the sticky bits of a sticky note look like to an SEM

2

9

2

10

Boeing X-51 - Hypersonic Aircraft

2

Blogs [?]

1

The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

434

2

132

3

Turning Down TechCrunch

111

4

Don’t build. Compose

54

5

The Trouble with CodeSchool

46

6

How to retire in 10 years

36

7

How to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-Old

30

8

Josh Williams on why Gowalla lost to Foursquare

26

9

How to invite users to your app

25

10

How a 17 year old girl won a hackathon

23

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?

77

2

Hidden Features of JavaScript

2

3

What tools are available in Python standard library

2

4

Once again, why can't you use RegExp to parse HTML

2

5

What is the closest thing to Slime for Scheme?

2

6

Python question

1

7

How can I auto share a web page to Facebook account?

1

8

1

9

How does a given CSS becomes a circle. Good explanation.

1

10

What are the differences between C and C++?

1

Substack [?]