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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

This is a web page

1301

2

Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

765

3

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

724

4

Abandoned island in the middle of NYC

647

5

A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter

620

6

Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

578

7

Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims

560

8

An Apology to my European IT Team

517

9

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

479

10

Foundations of Computer Science

424

Top Ask HN

1

Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?

361

2

Passive income ideas?

182

3

What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?

44

4

I'm in NYC, any one wanna grab coffee / beer?

38

5

Who is working on a Saturday?

21

6

Our government is spying on us. What are we going to do?

18

7

Non-US citizen. Why should I care about NSA/PRISM?

17

8

What do startups do with millions of funding?

15

9

Most effective web launch strategy to gain fast traffic from no budget?

14

10

anyone hiring a designer in Brisbane AU (or remote)

13

Top Show HN

1

Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

154

2

We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music

143

3

Blynde A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

113

4

Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

102

5

Upboat, idea validation with a twist

71

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67

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Building an HTML5 Desktop environment with a minimal server component

65

8

Responding to NSA spying with a simple consumer VPN service

64

9

Radio - My first Mac app

60

10

Serial communication using the WebAudio API

46

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant

274

2

The most telling part of 1984 is the appendix

202

3

Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System

191

4

Aarons Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress

188

5

Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin

171

6

In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteers Gmail

159

7

The Technical Interview Is Dead

157

8

Obama Cant Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests

156

9

Paris Air Shows Slowest Plane Could Have Biggest Impact

148

10

Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data

140

News [?]

1

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

724

2

Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims

560

3

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

479

4

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment

393

5

Maybe buses should be free

379

6

Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow

310

7

Americas Shameful Human Rights Record (2012)

292

8

Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data

278

9

Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California

271

10

Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant

255

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

46

2

4 mics and a computer to produce 3-D model of room

7

3

Robots Hallucinate Humans to Aid in Object Recognition

4

4

Pi Versus Information Theory

3

5

Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed

3

6

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

3

7

The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine

3

8

First entanglement between light and optical atomic coherence

3

9

Natural Light Cloaking

3

10

Smallest Galaxy

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata

274

2

Blowback from the NSA surveillance.

182

3

Finding Sociopaths on Facebook

138

4

Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak

73

5

Apple now shows iOS usage share on App Store

49

6

Auth, Capture, and two-step payment flows

36

7

Sony's PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9

6

8

Bruce Schneier's SSL has gone bad

5

9

Libcrunch and CRUSH Maps

5

10

Java Garbage Collection Distilled

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video

207

2

EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents

160

3

How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)

117

4

Apple's New Mac Pro Begins Showing Up in Benchmarks

53

5

How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks

8

6

Apple seeds iOS 7 beta 2 to developers

5

7

German Parliament Says No More Software Patents

4

8

In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on

4

9

Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 2 to Developers with iPad and iPad Mini Support

3

10

Trailer for Jobs the movie

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

103

2

Apples Commitment to Customer Privacy

13

3

HBO GO & WatchESPN Come to Apple TV

2

4

Amazon Birthday gifts

1

5

Death March and Software Failure

1

6

Require.js Book

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

111

2

Estimated Cost to Store All US Phone Calls Made in a Year

86

3

MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With Precision Takedown

44

4

Some Dark Corners Of C

15

5

Russias SOPA Passed By Lawmakers, Site Blocking Begins "In Weeks"

7

6

Papering over app store problems. Unsustainability of the app store.

6

7

JDownloader Court Ruling Worries Open Source Software Developers

5

8

Papering Over App Store Problems: 53's Series A Should Concern Apple

4

9

Microsoft Sued Over Mafia-Like Anti-Piracy Raid

4

10

Warner Bros: Pirates Show Us What Consumers Want

4

Science News [?]

1

Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective

165

2

How to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

141

3

Whole human brain mapped in 3D

95

4

Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico

84

5

Particle Accelerator That Can Fit On a Tabletop

18

6

D-Wave's Quantum Computer Courts Controversy

7

7

Naked mole rats reveal why they are immune to cancer

4

8

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox

3

9

Molecule that makes naked mole rats be immune to cancer

2

10

Prickly Painkiller

2

Social [?]

1

NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY

233

2

Leaseweb has wiped all Megaupload servers

180

3

John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus

157

4

Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information

130

5

Snowden touches down in Moscow ... tweeted by Wikileaks

82

6

Tesla announces 90 sec battery swap

81

7

Woz compares today's US to the USSR of 30-40 years ago

81

8

Snowden's flight from Moscow to Havana passes over US airspace.

62

9

Snowden with WikiLeaks legal advisers over Russian Airspace

61

10

Michael Hastings told Wikileaks FBI investigating him hours before death.

57

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A list of front end development resources

365

2

103

3

A List of Useful Backend Architectures

94

4

Convert Twitter Boostrap to a "flat" design

87

5

DjangoAdmin 2.0 - rewrite of django.contrib.admin

86

6

NeDB, a pure Javascript database for Node.js and Node Webkit

78

7

A LaTeX-Package that comes up with synonyms for 'Therefore,'

78

8

Celery - Distributed Task Queue

65

9

Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released

62

10

LevelDB for Ruby

33

Wikipedia [?]

1

206

2

The Dreyfus affair

12

3

GEOS 8-bit operating system

11

4

"Five Eyes" Alliance Between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

11

5

9

6

6

7

Comparison table of VoIP software

4

8

NSA Surveillance Programs Come Out in Court Years Earlier

3

9

Curry Howard correspondence

3

10

Defense Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse

225

2

Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer

206

3

Pay No Attention to the Bloody Corpse in the Bathroom

187

4

The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

155

5

What is Happening in Brazil

134

6

Creative People Say No

94

7

The Little, Big Idea

90

8

Impending National Distraction, aka Public Relations 101

58

9

The Happy Startup Canvas

49

10

On the Tenth Anniversary of Quitting

41

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Vim and Ctags tips and tricks

35

2

Why is the C++ STL so heavily based on templates and not interfaces?

7

3

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

3

4

Solr or Elastic search?

2

5

Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python?

2

6

What is cache-friendly code?

2

7

JavaScript: var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName(){}

1

8

Why does the MongoDB Java driver use a random number generator in a conditional?

1

9

The definitive guide to website authentication

1

10

IntelliJ is Broken on Shared Network Drives

1

Substack [?]