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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Induction powered LED lit engagement ring
760
2
Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
665
3
Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early
650
4
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits
596
5
42
523
6
Leaving Googles silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
496
7
The Girl Who Turned to Bone
488
8
Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
483
9
Hacker News is depressing
451
10
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
445
Top Ask HN
1
and now what?
163
2
What Freelancer site do you recommend?
149
3
I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?
84
4
How to contribute to open source projects?
79
5
What's the most creative use of IFTTT you've seen?
77
6
Is NodeJS stable enough to build the next Twitter?
48
7
Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?
37
8
What to do next in my career?
17
9
How do you focus?
15
10
leaving a company in silicon valley.
15
Top Show HN
1
WideArea – an expandable textarea
181
2
Raspberry Pi Laptop
120
3
Like Airbnb but for food
108
4
I've used Go to build a daemon for the Raspberry Pi
96
5
Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today
96
6
My new homepage
94
7
log-shuttle log delivery over HTTPs written in Go
62
8
A site for teaming up designers and developers on short projects
61
9
Find the email address of any GitHub user
59
10
Nuesbyte v2
42
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
483
2
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
445
3
I was struck by lightning yesterdayand boy am I sore
433
4
Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
323
5
This Is What Winning Looks Like Afghanistan War Diary
242
6
Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
198
7
Memcached turns 10 years old today
146
8
Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
133
9
Google Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines
127
10
Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge
109
News [?]
1
The Girl Who Turned to Bone
488
2
Chinese DIY Inventions
227
3
The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur
144
4
Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?
143
5
Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off
123
6
BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That
90
7
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010)
75
8
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
72
9
In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots
71
10
Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?
67
Scientific publications [?]
1
Researchers turn cement into metal
79
2
IBMs Watson Tries to Learn Everything
20
3
Category theory for scientists
4
4
Conductive paint lands in pens and pots for creatives
3
5
Making quantum encryption practical
3
6
Credit Union: Bitcoin's New Best Friends?
2
7
Scientists build record-setting metamaterial flat lens
2
8
Robot Octopus Shows Off New Sculls
2
9
The ternary Goldbach conjecture. QED.
2
10
Here's Microsoft's New Kinect Sensor
2
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Surveillance and the Internet of Things
142
2
Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered
107
3
Clojure in the Field [video]
69
4
Getting started with login verification
56
5
KTAP: A New Scripting Dynamic Tracing Tool For Linux
27
6
Brewing our first IPA patent, and new adopters
6
7
GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance Three-Way
6
8
(Nearly) full tickless operation in Linux 3.10
5
9
Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
5
10
Major compatibility changes coming for Firefox 25
3
Tech blogs [?]
1
Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
665
2
The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications
124
3
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
97
4
Jony Ives new look for iOS 7: black, white, and flat all over
32
5
Twitter Launches Innovators Patent Agreement
19
6
AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: powering the PS4 and XBOX One, Kabini & Temash
5
7
Excerpts of Apple Executives' Senate Committee Testimony on Tax Policy
3
8
Laptop vs Thermite - Hard Drive Self Destruct
2
9
EFFSupport Open Access
2
10
HP expands Mac-cloning design approach across all of its latest notebooks
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple releases ad for Google Glass
3
2
NuoDB on AWS marketplace
2
3
Amazon to allow e-book fan fiction sales in US
2
4
The Story about Ping
2
5
Advance Copy of Apple CEO Tim Cook's Testimony to US Senate
1
6
Greatest programming book review
1
7
Tim Cook's Opening Statement
1
8
Kinect for Windows
1
9
Get Maturity in Pure Mathematics for Grad School
1
10
AWS Achieves FedRAMP Compliance
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
130
2
Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me
66
3
Brainfilling Curves - a Fractal Bestiary (online book)
17
4
Someones Trying to Nail the RIAA for Downloading Porn
13
5
RIAA: 20 Million Piracy Takedowns Sent to Google, Still No End in Sight
9
6
How to Give a Killer Presentation
6
7
Pirate Bay User Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation
5
8
Three years attacking web crypto
5
9
UTorrent Serves Over 5 Billion Ads Per Month
2
10
Pirate Bay Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation
2
Science News [?]
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Baby's life saved with 3-D printed device that restored his breathing
178
2
You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think
132
3
Advanced biological computer developed
6
4
An Interview with a Dead Man
4
5
Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected?
4
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We Are All Princes, Paupers, and Part of the Human Family
3
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New immune system discovered
2
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Discovery of viruses in the gut that protect from infection
2
9
Tiny Human liver created by 3D tissue printer
2
10
Never Underestimate the Power of a Paint Tube
2
Social [?]
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37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million
115
2
The $6,600 Master's Degree.
63
3
Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page
39
4
Warren Buffett: Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ
38
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Elon Musk: thinking of producing sequel to Thank You for Smoking; for the planet
32
6
What was inside Peter Molyneux's Curiosity
11
7
SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview
10
8
AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes
9
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Paul Graham Talk - Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas [video]
7
10
Screen vs. tmux faceoff
6
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github
278
2
Free private Github repos for students and edu people
209
3
Rustboot: a 32 bit kernel written in Rust
190
4
VNC over gif
190
5
My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint
178
6
Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phantomjs
162
7
Zero.rs: runtime-less Rust programs
123
8
Store files in your Flickr account
96
9
Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability
77
10
Dictdiffer: Diff and Patch Python dictionaries
58
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of unsolved problems in computer science
99
2
List of probability distributions
43
3
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
43
4
Stigler diet - an early rigorous approach to nutrition
7
5
Yahoo Meme was a microblogging site launched by Yahoo Inc. in August 2009.
5
6
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
4
7
TIL SQLite was created to be used on guided missile destroyers
4
8
Secretary problem
2
9
Fork Bomb
2
10
Yes (Unix)
2
Blogs [?]
1
Always Be Coding How to Land an Engineering Job
432
2
The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
347
3
Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree
213
4
Too scared to write a line of code
211
5
Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age
185
6
The People of Postgres: Tom Lane
136
7
Dear Dumb VC
115
8
Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009)
98
9
Star Trek, tech companies, and the death of futurism in cinema
81
10
The Weakest Link Is You
74
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What does O(log n) mean, exactly?
139
2
What's the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?
37
3
What is the correct JSON content type?
15
4
Hidden features of Python
3
5
Why not port Linux kernel to Common Lisp
2
6
Faye vs. Socket.IO (and Juggernaut)
2
7
How to undo the last Git commit?
2
8
Checking for IE9 in JS
2
9
What is a monad?
2
10
Hidden features of Clojure
2
Substack [?]