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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book

1276

2

Doug Engelbart has died

1128

3

Restore the Fourth

753

4

597

5

Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use

555

6

Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade

515

7

494

8

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

478

9

Releases a workflow for shipping software to end users

463

10

Final Term - Terminal Emulator

461

Top Ask HN

1

How does one create a fake identity?

151

2

Intermediate Python learning resources?

105

3

Why don't companies open-source the source code of their old products?

69

4

What makes you go for it?

56

5

European Linode / DigitalOcean alternatives

36

6

Review my app Sbscribe, a social RSS feed reader (Google Reader alt)

31

7

Which CAs can you trust?

28

8

Founders, how much equity did you give up in your first funding round?

28

9

CS Student - Need Help.

25

10

Combating thoughts of suicide/depression

19

Top Show HN

1

Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)

157

2

I made an HN job board

143

3

92

4

REST API for Global Address Verification

76

5

Learn about a new country every day (my side project)

70

6

7min Workout with Rdio

67

7

Show HN:OAuth.io released with 70+ providers

61

8

Spread bitcoins by lending to friends

59

9

Terminal-based group chat with end-to-end encryption

55

10

Haquery jQuery for Haskell

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File

407

2

EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements

373

3

German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying

224

4

First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a Little Brother future

149

5

France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements

137

6

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal

131

7

Tools For Treason

122

8

Boxee Acquired By Samsung For Around$30M

108

9

Pebble Smartwatch Is Coming To Best Buy On July 7 For $149.95

107

10

Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work

98

News [?]

1

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

478

2

Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and fathers attorney

436

3

Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden

398

4

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.

315

5

Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?

288

6

Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash

287

7

Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSAs surveillance state?

239

8

Reddit, Mozilla to stage Fourth of July protest against NSA spying

233

9

Google Reader Founder: I Never Would Have Founded Reader Inside Today's Google

225

10

Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88

192

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Brief History of the Internet (1999)

21

2

Plasma Ring Experiment Offers New Path for Fusion Power

5

3

MIT researchers build an all-optical transistor

5

4

Unclean at Any Speed

4

5

Darpa Robotics Challenge Follow-Up: Competition Videos, Bloopers

4

6

An Introduction to Quantum Programming in Quipper

4

7

Hardening and termination of gamma rays prior to lightning

2

8

Best Supercomputers Still Not Best for Big Data

2

9

Quantum Will: Determinism meets Quantum Mechanics

2

10

Google Glass app lets Tesla owners check on cars from afar

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG suspected NSA backdoor (2007)

218

2

NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping

97

3

Protecting E-Mail from Eavesdropping

40

4

DNI James Clapper Admits He Lied To Congress About NSA Surveillance

26

5

Is cryptography engineering or science?

20

6

Privacy Protests

7

7

Is Cryptography Engineering or Science?

6

8

Kuhn: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change and Debian

5

9

New Twitter Ad Targeting Strategy

3

10

The ODNI Defends NSA Surveillance Programs - Schneier on Security

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment

270

2

Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance

260

3

Hackaday.com is looking for a new Home

10

4

Twitter will honor your browser's Do Not Track

5

5

Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy

4

6

Appeal Filed to Free Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer

2

7

Customs & Border Protection Considered Weaponizing Drones

2

8

HackaDay for sale; look at the candid numbers

2

9

Https://eff.org/ is not available

2

10

Apple looking into self-adjusting earbud headphones with noise cancellation tech

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

IWork for iCloud beta now available

4

2

Amazon Web Services SDK for Node.js

2

3

Amazon RDS now Supports MySQL 5.6 with Memcached and Binary Log Access

1

4

FREE BOOK: Get the #1 HIGH TECH AMAZON BESTSELLER "App Escape Plan" now

1

5

IWork for iCloud

1

6

PHP Array Filtering - The Use Cases [ebook]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

257

2

An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works

162

3

Of mice, men and machines (1998)

32

4

Mastercard and Visa start banning VPN providers

24

5

Engineering Wonders of the World (1909)

7

6

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

4

7

Reader's Dead and Google doesn't want us to remember that.

4

8

MasterCard and Visa have started banning VPN providers

3

9

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

3

10

DMCA Abuses: The Middle Finger, MPAA and EFF in Court

3

Science News [?]

1

Italian stem-cell trial based on flawed data

20

2

A New Cyber Concern: Hack Attacks on Medical Devices

19

3

Mysterious radio flashes may be from stars collapsing into black holes

15

4

New Scientist Special Edition on Quantum Computing

4

5

Mystery radio bursts from outside the Milky Way may help locate missing baryons

4

6

Tissue engineering: How to build a heart

3

7

Martyr myth: Suicide bombers are really suicidal and exhibit signs of depression

3

8

New language helps quantum coders build killer apps

2

9

Stem-cell transplants purge HIV

2

10

How The Higgs Boson Was Found - Just One Year Ago

2

Social [?]

1

Stay-at-home dad

287

2

SpaceX's Grasshopper Successfully Flew 325 Metres

151

3

Don't talk to the police [video]

118

4

Elon Musk tweeted new Grasshopper test

21

5

SpaceX Grasshopper 325m Test

12

6

/r/pyongwashington

7

7

Proton-M rocket with 3 Glonass (GPS) satellites on board crashes

7

8

Mark Zuckerberg liked HackerNews on Facebook

7

9

Fourth of July Illegal Search at Checkpoint

7

10

Twelve Tones - Vi Hart Video

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Releases a workflow for shipping software to end users

463

2

Alternative Internet

347

3

A Dark Room game open-sourced

203

4

Rust 0.7 Released

162

5

Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night

134

6

Dockerlite: Lightweight Linux virtualization with BTRFS and LXC

80

7

Apple TV for Torrent Streaming in JS

80

8

Saltstack: Changing RSA public exponent from 1 to 65537

74

9

CHP - Clojure Web Framework

61

10

Puma vs Phusion Passenger

50

Wikipedia [?]

1

298

2

The Mother of All Demos

62

3

Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy (2009)

7

4

Wikipedia: Terminal Event Management Policy

5

5

IP Traffic over Avian Carriers

3

6

Perfect Dark (Japanese anonymous-P2P network)

3

7

Definition of "statelessness" cc: Snowden

3

8

Quantum suicide and immortality

3

9

Hedonic treadmill

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Distributed Everything

282

2

How I have lost over 100 pounds and dont know how

145

3

CSS filters, GIFs, and performance

68

4

How to Hack LinkedIn

16

5

Working at an Open Company

10

6

Stop writing meaningful things on Facebook

10

7

The 5 Minute Guide to Living a Healthy Lifestyle

8

8

Don't Ask Users to Bring the Beer

6

9

Business Lessons From Jeff Bezos

5

10

Product management hacks for when youre strapped for resources

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How the algorithm for coloring the iTunes song list works

97

2

How to design a multi-user ajax web application to be concurrently safe

73

3

How to build a model to distinguish tweets about Apple and apples

69

4

What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed?

12

5

Best comments in source code

5

6

CSS Styles for developers?

3

7

How do emulators work

1

8

Java Main Pattern

1

9

List of pure WebRTC client libs?

1

10

Heroku Latancy Issues

1

Substack [?]