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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

913

2

Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors

736

3

Making the web fun again

685

4

HTML5 Genetic Cars

664

5

The Strange Case of Barrett Brown

632

6

Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays

578

7

Rails 4.0: Final version released

569

8

Tell-all telephone Six months of phone metadata visualized

555

9

The Criminal N.S.A.

552

10

A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game

525

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (July 2013)

284

2

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

105

3

Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months?

102

4

Google Chrome heuristic warnings pose threat to our business

87

5

What is your experience making a free service completely paid?

80

6

I am 35 years old with no degree – can I still program?

54

7

Is Facebook secretly keeping accounts open?

35

8

Career trajectory for software developers

29

9

Never worked in a startup before, not sure if this is normal

29

10

Entrepreneurship is ________.

28

Top Show HN

1

Nightweb, the anonymous P2P social network, now runs on the desktop

177

2

Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken programming language

138

3

Show HN Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

116

4

Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds

90

5

Google Glass + Tesla Model S = GlassTesla

86

6

ngrok secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

61

7

Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice

50

8

an API to extract text from a PDF

47

9

kouio, the Reader you've always wanted

45

10

Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular

41

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data

390

2

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI

329

3

Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world

241

4

Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

238

5

Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11

208

6

Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System

198

7

Der Spiegel says US bugged EU offices in Washington

195

8

Army restricts access to The Guardian in the wake of NSA leaks

159

9

Theres a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (2011)

131

10

Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About InternetJournalism

126

News [?]

1

The Criminal N.S.A.

552

2

Two Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information

425

3

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

318

4

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

311

5

U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks

307

6

Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

286

7

In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?

272

8

Germans Loved Obama. Now We Dont Trust Him

222

9

U.S. Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for World Democracy

218

10

The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business

209

Scientific publications [?]

1

Physicists create tabletop antimatter gun

3

2

New scheme for quantum computing

3

3

'Password fatigue' haunts Internet masses

2

4

Gaming the Attention Economy

2

5

Inside the Worlds First Braille Cellphone

2

6

NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

2

7

NASA Thruster Achieves World-Record 5+ Years of Operation

2

8

A $40 Software-Defined Radio

2

9

Kinect 2.0 Developer Kit Preorder Applications Now Open

2

10

At the solar system's edge, more surprises from Voyager

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

254

2

Carberp Source Code Leaked

68

3

A Debian GNU/Hurd snapshot

62

4

My Talk at Google

51

5

Memory and Native Code Performance

39

6

Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones

19

7

Asm.js: now in the release version of Firefox.

11

8

IOS 7 Beta 2 Released

5

9

New Details on Skype Eavesdropping

5

10

Clojure in the Large

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors

736

2

EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records

173

3

Chrome 27, Firefox 22, IE10, And Opera Next, Benchmarked

142

4

How ARMs Business Model Works

6

5

GoPro panning time-lapse with Ikea egg timer

5

6

Demo of Safaris new native push notifications feature

4

7

Gaymer.org Creator Censors Self But Holds On To Bogus Trademark (For Now)

3

8

AnandTech | The 2013 MacBook Air Review (13-inch)

3

9

EFF Throttles Notorious Patent Used to Threaten Public Transit Systems

3

10

The ARM Diaries, Part 1: How ARMs Business Model Works

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

C# Language Specification 5.0

92

2

Steve Ballmer email to employees on Don Mattrick transition

4

3

SQL Server 2014

2

4

Designed By Apple

2

5

3D Printers now have a dedicated department page on Amazon.com

2

6

IWork for iCloud, office suite in the cloud

2

7

Make it So - A study on the future UI design taken from science fiction films

1

8

Announcing Kindle Worlds: sell licensed fanfic to Kindle users

1

9

3D printers in amazon

1

10

Amazon Birthday Gift

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Porn Films Dont Get Copyright Protection in Germany, Court Rules

14

2

Quick UDP Internet Connections

3

3

Web-based RSS Readers

3

4

Is molecular nanotechnology science?

2

5

Keep Up With Your Quants

2

6

Pirate Bay Docks in Stockholm for Massive 10th Anniversary Party

2

7

Youth entrepreneurship in Singapore: it's not happening

2

8

Comparison of RSS reader alternatives to Google Reader

1

9

Loan a Google Street View Trekker

1

10

File-Sharers Have Right to Anonymous Speech, Court Hears

1

Science News [?]

1

Father’s genetic quest pays off

68

2

Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star -- Gliese 667c

21

3

The Child Prodigies Who Became 20th-Century Celebrities

3

4

Is missing 'partial' neutrino a boson in disguise?

3

5

Proof mooted for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

3

6

Death by desk job

2

7

Can orbital angular momentum increase throughput of fibre optics cables?

2

8

Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing

2

9

How Humans Evolved to Throw So Well

2

10

Dear Harvard Arts & Science professors, it is not MOOCs you have to fear

2

Social [?]

1

TAO: The power of the graph

100

2

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings

65

3

Greenwald's partner's laptop was stolen from their Rio home. Nothing else taken.

14

4

Stormpulse Raises $1.3m Series Seed

11

5

Google suspends game developer's account after inquiry over payment.

10

6

Lobbyists wanted NSA-like spying for reasons unrelated to terrorism

9

7

Steve Wozniak on Google Glass: "Oh my gosh, I want one already"

9

8

O'Reilly: Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering

8

9

Snowden to make statement imminently, from Moscow.

8

10

Whats the most intellectual joke you know?

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools

113

2

PivotTable.js: a JavaScript Pivot Table implementation

97

3

Write Android apps in Google Go

92

4

Automatically encrypt your Gmail account

84

5

Tiedot - Your NoSQL document database engine powered by Go

81

6

Source SDK 2013

79

7

GeoJSON rendering improvements

41

8

Dependency Injection for Python

33

9

Open source style checker for Objective C

31

10

django-yarr open source self-hosted Django RSS Reader

28

Wikipedia [?]

1

Free Speech Zone

65

2

Jimmy Wales outing Snowden on Wikipedia

11

3

For Edward Snowden: How to live in an airport

10

4

Inconsistency-tolerant logics

7

5

1993: White house announces NSA-backed 'clipper chip' as an encryption device

4

6

Kepler-70b (most hot known planet, also made of metal)

4

7

History: Two NSA cryptographers defect (1960)

3

8

Wikipedia once argued whether the List of lists of lists should include itself

3

9

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

2

10

Cargo Cult Programming

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us

400

2

Startup Investing Trends

367

3

I Knew Snowden. And Hes Not The Story

234

4

Is it too late to be awesome?

137

5

Dont go to art school

131

6

I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist

124

7

I’m taking a break from my wife and kids

67

8

Rarely Asked Questions

65

9

What it really means to be a junior developer.

64

10

Sell everything

36

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Unsure if I understand TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

73

2

[Stack Overflow]Design a function f, such that f(f(n)) == -n

44

3

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

34

4

How does database indexing work?

19

5

C# ternary operator is twice as slow as an if-else block?

8

6

What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?

6

7

Unsure if I understand TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

6

8

Ternary operator slower than if/else (C#)

2

9

Is double hashing a password less secure than just hashing it once?

2

10

Tricks to speed up Eclipse

2

Substack [?]