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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Depression Part Two

958

2

Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS

641

3

Software will not be patentable in New Zealand

576

4

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?

573

5

I Don't Want Your Fucking App

547

6

The Onion releases fartscroll.js

490

7

487

8

479

9

A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA

477

10

Go 1.1 is released

466

Top Ask HN

1

Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?

187

2

AsK HN: Why can't the US change to the metric system?

42

3

How do you book hotels?

40

4

Thinking of mentoring? looking for a mentor?

31

5

Does versioning an encrypted file in a git repo make it less secure?

26

6

What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

24

7

What are some books that changed how you think?

19

8

NDAs, do you sign them?

18

9

How would you invest in yourself with $10,000

17

10

What are some good books?

15

Top Show HN

1

Remove backgrounds from images online

550

2

I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

348

3

Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby

265

4

Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF

231

5

I learned to code to launch my new startup

164

6

My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

141

7

Launching Hoverboard beautiful, responsive portfolios

138

8

the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader

104

9

Spark Inspector, a run-time debugging tool for iOS apps

70

10

Find profitable niche in App Store and Google Play Market

59

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Most data isnt big, and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

387

2

Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Googles Secret Weapon

164

3

Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI

141

4

Beyond Unlocking: Dont Let Them Kill the First Reasonable Copyright Reform Bill

103

5

Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform

98

6

Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys

97

7

Why Zuckerbergs Lobby Is Collapsing Outside Of DC

86

8

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware

80

9

State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints BeRemoved

80

10

Whats in store for Google I/O?

75

News [?]

1

Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

375

2

U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

358

3

Our Solar System Isn't Normal

293

4

In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

174

5

Children of parents classified as tiger have worse grades, are more depressed

173

6

Tesla: a little bit Apple, a little bit Google, and about to be huge

150

7

Angry young Indians: What a waste

124

8

The Food-Truck Business Stinks

112

9

Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ultraconserved words

105

10

Obama May Back FBI Plan to Expand Wiretap Laws

103

Scientific publications [?]

1

ISS emergency spacewalk to repair ammonia leak [live video]

55

2

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

43

3

Do-it-yourself invisibility with 3D printing?

13

4

Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

8

5

This Crawling Inchworm Robot Can Be Printed Out and Folds Itself

2

6

The physics of custody arrangemnents (paper)

2

7

WATCH LIVE THURSDAY 5:30 pm(EDT): 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Darkens Sky

2

8

Cars will be seen as noxious as tobacco is today

2

9

Why Teaching a Robot to Fetch a Cup of Coffee Matters

1

10

Finally: Robots Learn What 'Squishy' Really Means

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Nearly full tickless operation in Linux 3.10

282

2

121

3

A proposal for an always-releasable Debian

99

4

Why IBM Now Views LLVM As Being Critical Software

82

5

Ubuntu To Get Its Own Package Format, App Installer

6

6

LMAX Getting Up To 50% Improvement in Latency From Azul's Zing JVM

2

7

BGPlay video of Syrian reconnecting to the world

2

8

Architectural Changes in JSON.NET 5

2

9

Tux3 File-System Claims To Be Faster Than Tmpfs

2

10

Data Modeling for NoSQL (recorded presentation + slides)

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?

573

2

Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy

110

3

9th Circuit: No Relief for Copyright Troll Righthaven

65

4

Surveillance Is Not The Answer To Terrorism

12

5

Intel i7-4770k overclocked to 8.0 GHz

10

6

Syrian Internet Goes Dark, Leaving Questions and Uncertainty

1

7

Sharp to reportedly start 'iPhone 5S' LCD production in June

1

8

Surge in Apple's iOS 7 Usage Revealed in Web Traffic Stats

1

9

Apple's Lightning Connector Detailed in Newly-Published Patent Applications

1

10

Amazon launches, gives away millions in Amazon Coins to spur app downloads

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon was down

62

2

Amazon Announced "4000 IOPS" Elastic Block Store (EBS)

3

3

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) now supports S3 Server Side Encryption

2

4

Secrets of the Big Data Revolution(book) - Free Today

2

5

Amazon Coins: purchase apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore

1

6

1

7

Microsoft releases Webmatrix 3

1

8

Amazon Launches Amazon Coins

1

9

MongoDB with EBS RAID discontinued in August 2013

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

69

2

Worst File-Sharing Pirates Spend 300% More on Content Than Honest Consumers

29

3

Megaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption

28

4

Sign up for the SICP Blitz in London happening in June

19

5

New Demonoid D2.vu Quickly Shutdown For Hosting Malware

17

6

Jail Terms for Unlocking Cellphones Shows the Heart of the Copyright Monopoly

14

7

The Facebook Flop

8

8

Adobe's Subscription Model and Why Platform Owners Should Care

6

9

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

4

10

Yet Another Text Editor Survey

3

Science News [?]

1

Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible

284

2

Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust

52

3

Were the Victorians cleverer than us?

13

4

New font "Dyslexie" helps people with dyslexia read

9

5

Benefit Vs. Risk of Facial Recognition Technology

8

6

City life is a math problem

2

7

Cutting Down Amazon for Agriculture Could Cut Yields

2

8

Quantifying Wikipedia Usage Patterns Before Stock Market Moves

2

9

Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research

2

10

Sickly mosquitoes stymie malarias spread

2

Social [?]

1

John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell

321

2

Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video]

78

3

Why employees shouldn't have hours

47

4

People who use Bang with Friends

46

5

Commander Chris Hadfield's final post from 236 miles above us

15

6

Facebook Seems to be Down

12

7

Ender's game trailer is out

12

8

Ex-AWS engineer does an AMA

9

9

DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli

8

10

IBM Created Google Glass in 2000 (video)

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Macros in Python

291

2

Boris: A tiny but robust REPL for PHP

116

3

Sniffing tool for capturing WiFi location data disclosed by iOS devices

89

4

Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby

83

5

Hacker News apps

65

6

AngularJS powered mobile boilerplate app that also does offline out of the box

61

7

scala-zeromq - thread-safe ZeroMQ sockets for Scala

51

8

Debugging and Profiling Node.js Applications

48

9

Equate - Clojure fact management library

24

10

Yes, that's indeed how it is.

24

Wikipedia [?]

1

270

2

GNOME co-founder deemed not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article

6

3

Van Eck phreaking

3

4

Photic Sneeze Reflex (e.g. sneezing in the sun)

2

5

Catatumbo lightning

2

6

Hollywood accounting

2

7

Is this an example of Betteridge's law of headlines?

2

8

Programming language - In Simple English

1

9

Creative visualization

1

10

Known sites blocked by the Russian blacklist

1

Blogs [?]

1

On Citizenship in open-source software development

198

2

An Incomprehensible Retirement

40

3

Quit worrying about attracting a crowd

19

4

Why Does Your Startup Sound Like a Startup?

18

5

The Web We Lost

13

6

2001: A School Odyssey

7

7

What to do if you're hacked (advice for startups)

7

8

How to Do What You Love

6

9

A Woman's Place

5

10

The future of iOS design?

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Cheat for the "Atari Breakout" Google easter egg

5

2

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

4

3

Generalizing folds to types other than lists.

2

4

Where is Erlang used?

2

5

Difference between Actor Model and Kahn Process Network

2

6

Data Structuresso how do I understand them?

2

7

Understanding Randomness

1

8

How to avoid TopoJSON memory errors

1

9

What constitutes a fold for types other than list?

1

10

Programming Jokes

1

Substack [?]