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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2076

2

Prosecutor as bully

1182

3

Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

1065

4

The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"

829

5

I want the world to scroll this way

810

6

Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office

801

7

Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz

673

8

If I get hit by a truck...

643

9

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

623

10

An Advanced Guide to HTML and CSS

622

Top Ask HN

1

Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?

105

2

How can I make Hacker Newsletter better?

42

3

Why was Aaron Swartz so special?

34

4

What about the others like Aaron Swartz?

30

5

Solo startups? What have you built all on your own?

28

6

What web hosting do you use for your personal sites/blogs?

22

7

Could we crowdfund a therapist who is available to depressed hackers?

16

8

How would you invest 1K, 2K and 5K?

14

9

Do you register on your competitor's site...

14

10

How long would it take you to build instagram?

13

Top Show HN

1

API for detecting people, cars, and everyday objects in images

174

2

FileRock, a Secure Dropbox Clone, goes Open Source

92

3

One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit

83

4

Teoria.js - Music theory for JavaScript

73

5

My first python web app - What do you want to do this year?

66

6

Analytics.js for Node

61

7

Visualizing the iOS App Store via D3.js

57

8

Search through Photoshop layers easily

43

9

Type Zebra - Test your fonts in a web browser

41

10

Java Mini Profiler

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

623

2

Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012)

247

3

Why Are Lego Sets Expensive?

149

4

Instacart adds Trader Joe's

136

5

New Zero Day Java Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

124

6

Meet the Man Behind Americas Most Dangerous Mail-Order Kits

124

7

Microsoft Researchs IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

118

8

101

9

CryptoSeal (YC S11) Offers VPN As A Service

92

10

Adobe almost does something amazing by accident

84

News [?]

1

IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

372

2

Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26

350

3

Aaron Swartz, American hero

304

4

Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man

230

5

On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijings Air Quality Tops Crazy Bad at 755

185

6

177

7

Can filming one second of every day change your life? [video]

118

8

The Nightmare That Keeps Microsoft Awake: Android On The Desktop

113

9

A Data Crusader, a Defendant and Now, a Cause

108

10

The High Price of Being Single in America

102

Scientific publications [?]

1

Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, Japan scientists report

108

2

Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Is Smooth, Not Foamy

82

3

Google's ultrafast Internet draws startups to KC

2

4

Toyota's Semi-Autonomous Car Will Keep You Safe

1

5

How RCA Lost the LCD

1

6

NASA deal may allow inflatable private module on space station

1

7

Robot Baby Diego-San Shows Its Expressive Face on Video

1

8

Artificial molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing

1

9

'Mass Equals Time' Redefines Weight Standards

1

10

What's Next For NASA?

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Results of Bruce Schneier's experiment in trust

49

2

CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS Period

2

3

Updating Screenshots in iTunes Connect

2

4

Protecting (Firefox) Users Against Java Vulnerability

2

5

Improving ticket spinlocks in Linux kernel

2

6

Police Arrest Alleged ZeuS Botmaster bx1

2

7

Monads for Normal People

2

8

12 Best Firefox Add-ons of 2012

2

9

Wiki.python.org compromised

2

10

Portable OpenCL 0.7 Improves On OpenCL 1.2

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law

442

2

Farewell to Aaron Swartz

161

3

Apple blocks Java 7 Mac plugin in OS X

46

4

Phil Schiller seems to deny talk of cheapiPhone

6

5

EFF on the secret interpretation of FISA

3

6

Patent troll sues iTunes top podcaster Adam Carollas Ace Broadcasting

3

7

Report: Fifth-gen iPad, second-gen iPad mini to debut in March

2

8

Apple Now Locking Screenshots for Apps, Shutting Down Scam Tactic

2

9

WSJ: Apple cuts iPhone 5 component orders in half due to weak demand

2

10

Zero-day flaw prompts Apple to block Java 7 from OS X

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free

158

2

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

2

3

How to get Amazon bombed with bad publishing decision

1

4

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

1

5

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja

1

6

New book on reaching product-market fit. Advice from 68 founders

1

7

Sass and Compass in Action

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Remember Aaron Swartz (1986 2013)

149

2

Censoring Pirate Sites Doesnt Work, Researchers Find

15

3

Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TV

13

4

ArsDigita Prize 2000 - featuring Aaron Swartz as a finalist

9

5

Verizons Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Measures Unveiled

9

6

5

7

First Pirate Bay Server on Permanent Display in Computer Museum

3

8

Quinn Norton testimony

3

9

Archive.org: Aaron Swartz Digital Archive

3

10

PayPal Demands Invites to Private BitTorrent Trackers

3

Science News [?]

1

Nearby star is almost as old as the Universe

69

2

Atomic clock measures time on the basis of an atom's mass

30

3

Iran is top of the world in science growth (2011)

9

4

Hot Chocolate Better in Orange Cups

4

5

The Tolkien Nerds Guide to The Hobbit

3

6

The science of Sherlock Holmes

2

7

Earth-like planets closer and more numerous than was thought

2

8

Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages

2

9

Sensory hair cells regenerated, hearing restored in mammal ear

2

10

Catastrophes from the past will strike again we just do not know when.

2

Social [?]

1

DHH calls HN a cesspool. What do you think? :)

17

2

Why is there nothing about Aaron on Reddit?

10

3

Aaron Swartz's talk at MIT Startup Bootcamp 2009

9

4

Aaron Swartz: What Kind of Startup Are You?

8

5

The most insane keynote ever: Qualcomm at CES 2013

8

6

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Documentary

7

7

Aaron Swartz: How We Stopped SOPA (Video)

6

8

Usain Bolt vs 116 years of Olympic sprinters

6

9

Design for a Self Stirring Pot [video]

6

10

Aaron Swartz keynote: "How we stopped SOPA"

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Howdoi Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line

232

2

Create and delete branches

114

3

Ruby inline assembler

60

4

Gooo - The anti-magic Go lang web framework

58

5

Parody a PHP testing library

45

6

Task Lists in GitHub Flavored Markdown

43

7

MultiXml gem has same vulnerability as Rails' CVE-2013-0156 patch now

42

8

Please fork repo and contribute to Aaron's memorial website

28

9

Restore Tidied Pull Requests

15

10

Yaml.rb patch to block the rails exploit and most similar classes of exploits

15

Wikipedia [?]

1

360

2

134

3

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

81

4

Judy arrays are patented

39

5

28

6

Wikipedia entry for Aaron Swartz-founded PAC was deleted the day he died

25

7

Chances of being found not guilty

7

8

Curta a small, hand-cranked mechanical calculator

5

9

Programmers who committed suicide

3

10

Nth digit of pi: BaileyBorweinPlouffe formula

2

Blogs [?]

1

Kippt collects pretty useful links

67

2

Designer Eats Engineer

43

3

Gmail and the GC Joys of JavaScript

24

4

End-user computing

7

5

Learning the true value of content from Aaron Swartz

4

6

The Fountain of Creative Juices

3

7

On Falling Over

2

8

The Rise of the Single Page Application

2

9

Career paths: Silicon Valley vs. traditional technology companies

1

10

How to find the best people to work with (be one)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?

105

2

Why is the C++ STL so heavily based on templates?

55

3

Advice on the implementation of a real-time trading system [closed]

36

4

9

5

How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?

3

6

Stackoverflow is down

3

7

How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?

2

8

Does codegolf make a better programmer - or is it even useful?

2

9

When, if ever, is number of lines of code a useful metric?

2

10

Javascript - Web services API Keys and Ajax - Securing the Key

2

Substack [?]