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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1159

2

Victory Lap for Ask Patents

1037

3

The Drone that Killed my Grandson

683

4

The Forbidden Island

582

5

Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks

540

6

Riding the New Silk Road

475

7

Linus on "acting professionally"

473

8

466

9

EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance

466

10

Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case

462

Top Ask HN

1

I'm quadriplegic can you help me with my security?

471

2

Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?

183

3

Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?

127

4

How do you apply for a tech job?

112

5

Anyone use Search HN before submitting articles to prevent duplicates?

28

6

What exception tracking service do you use?

28

7

How many internet-connected microphones are near you at this moment?

25

8

Recommendations for mobile analytics product at scale?

21

9

Any startups working to capitalize on the coming privacy boom?

21

10

How do you manage your Twitter timeline?

18

Top Show HN

1

Floobits – Remote pair programming done right

363

2

I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup

148

3

Audobox Android Voice Recorder

72

4

Marketplace to sell and buy side projects

53

5

Angles.js - Chart.js charts in Angular

46

6

HireMyFriend Get your friends to help you find a new job

42

7

GoInstant - A full dev stack for building real-time collaborative apps

42

8

Introducing Q.js, a library for modern web apps

40

9

39

10

An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

36

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File

281

2

NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

235

3

Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers

188

4

VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced

172

5

3D printing will explode in 2014 thanks to the expiration of key patents

148

6

Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory [video]

119

7

The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft are sending Congress

113

8

Has Ubuntu lost it?

109

9

Rocket Engine Pulled From the Ocean Definitely Belonged to Apollo 11

87

10

StatusPage (YC S13) Lets Anyone Communicate With Customers About Outages

86

News [?]

1

The Drone that Killed my Grandson

683

2

Riding the New Silk Road

475

3

A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent

323

4

The 2005 screenwriting book thats taken over Hollywood

264

5

Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism

263

6

The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements

253

7

SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, and the Flaw Could Affect Millions of Phones

253

8

Faster Than the Speed of Light?

173

9

American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)

163

10

Welcome to the Sharing Economy

156

Scientific publications [?]

1

Jaron Lanier: We're Being Enslaved by Free Information

47

2

NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class

32

3

Self-replicating alien probes could already be here

30

4

Impossible material with world record breaking surface area made by researchers

2

5

Disney Rapid Design Tool Creates Mechatronic Characters

2

6

Making big 'Schroedinger cats': Quantum research pushes boundaries

2

7

Using pulsars to define space-time coordinates

2

8

Five Dimensions Store More Data Than Three

2

9

Video: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Revealed

2

10

Japan prepares to restart nuclear plants

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple Dev Center outage

217

2

A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers

186

3

Snowden's Dead Man's Switch

149

4

Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library

85

5

Card management API

72

6

Razor and LXDE-Qt Desktop Projects To Merge

58

7

Domain-Driven Design with Clojure

47

8

The Internet Sector calls for Greater Transparency in Requests for User Data

20

9

Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks (1997)

13

10

Does CloudFlare's Railgun really work? (Metrics)

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance

466

2

Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping?

54

3

EFF: Technology to Protect Against Mass Surveillance (Part 1)

8

4

The ARM Diaries, Part 2: Understanding the Cortex A12

5

5

Battery Life of Haswell ULT vs Modern ARM Tablets

4

6

Unitarian Church, Gun Groups Join EFF to Sue NSA Over Illegal Surveillance

3

7

VLC For iPhone and iPad Returns With Wi-Fi Upload, Dropbox Sync and More

2

8

Apple purchases Canadian mapping company Locationary

2

9

Apple Acquires Transit Service HopStop to Further Improve its Maps App

2

10

IWatchs novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and fitness experts

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

227

2

Apple unveils Logic Pro X and Mainstage 3

2

3

2

4

"the Constitution itself is suffering" Microsoft Letter to AG[pdf]

2

5

Bitcoin Author Accused of Plans to Overthrow Government in Amazon Review

2

6

Amazon Testing New Clean Retina Look

2

7

Apple Releases Logic Pro X

1

8

LinkedIn Revealed - The Professional Network Your Career Can't Afford To Ignore

1

9

Rover 2.0 App-Controlled Wireless Spy Tank

1

10

Microsoft Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunts Failing Piracy Filter

65

2

Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law

15

3

Apple and the Innovators Dilemma

5

4

Why Microsoft's reorganisation is a bad idea

5

5

Test HN: interested in finding partners to learn stuff?

3

6

The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization

3

7

Annie Cushing's SEO Audit Checklist

2

8

Did that really just happen? a behind the scenes look at IOI 2013

2

9

Online Piracy Surges After Music Festivals, Spotify Reveals

2

10

Mega Gets Unofficial Video Streaming Portal

2

Science News [?]

1

Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems

157

2

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?

149

3

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding

54

4

Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics

46

5

Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics

22

6

The Vegas Hotspot That Broke All the Rules

18

7

Stem cells reprogrammed using chemicals alone

4

8

Early Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Creativity and Innovation

4

9

Chronic Boredom May Be a Sign of Poor Health

3

10

AI System Takes IQ Test, Smart as a 4 Year Old

2

Social [?]

1

Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

341

2

Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]

236

3

r/SideProject: A subreddit for sharing your side project

73

4

OVH CEO forbids publishing patches to keep his developers

65

5

Twitter / paulg: We installed Nest thermostats ...

58

6

Josef Desimone, Facebook's executive chef, has died

52

7

Unicorn: A System for Searching the Social Graph [pdf]

47

8

How to Decide if a New Hire Will Be a Team Player in the Interview

35

9

GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

22

10

"Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network Partitions" [video]

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ideas for Computing

320

2

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

169

3

Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?

99

4

Code Search API

77

5

Isla: a programming language for young children

76

6

Gistblog a blogging platform for Github users

71

7

MultiLevel: Expose a levelDB over the network to be used by multiple processes

17

8

Bitcoin-qt-i2p: A Bitcoin wallet for the I2P network

12

9

Alike: light kNN library for Node

10

10

Verbal Expressions

10

Wikipedia [?]

1

466

2

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

51

3

Blind faith (computer programming)

23

4

9

5

5

6

Crossword panic of 1944

4

7

3

8

Magical thinking

3

9

Best opening paragraph of any Wikipedia biography ever.

2

10

Dancing Plague of 1518

2

Blogs [?]

1

How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups

82

2

Automatic Summarization in Medium

71

3

Red Bull and Business Strategy

47

4

Facebook Premium

25

5

Living the lonely solopreneur life? Why not try co-working?

18

6

The 75 — 20 — 5 Rule

14

7

Microaggression and Management

13

8

Meet HireMyFriend, a new product from Makeshift

12

9

Facebook Premium

9

10

What Philz Coffee Can Teach Us About Product Design

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What regular expression does Facebook use to parse the 'fields' parameter?

1

2

Using iPad with 11 Fingers Extending Android's limit in Code

1

3

HN Tip: Displaying the build date in your C# application

1

4

File containing its own checksum

1

5

How do I tell Git to ignore .gitignore?

1

6

GNU+Linux Build Framework in Emacs Lisp?

1

Substack [?]