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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

1485

2

Forgotten Employee (2002)

747

3

Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat

663

4

Obama Promises Disappear from Web

637

5

A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

580

6

Google Chromecast

558

7

The slippery slope

509

8

Why I cancelled my TechEd talks

476

9

Practical Typography

457

10

Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans

452

Top Ask HN

1

HN Political News Overload?

198

2

Securely store sensitive data in the DB?

72

3

What happened to Steve Yegge after 'quitting'

67

4

How do you motivate yourself?

51

5

I can't think straight, my life is in limbo, and I want to end it now

43

6

Mobile app devs making $1,000+/month on your app(s), how did you do it?

38

7

Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

30

8

Developer laptop under $1500?

24

9

Best ways to accept donations?

23

10

Solo Founder SaaS or App Success Stories?

20

Top Show HN

1

This page will disappear in 10,000 views

134

2

Easy-to-configure Web Server in Go

97

3

HN Special A visual theme and Chrome extension for Hacker News

82

4

better software deployment with Git

60

5

A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers

59

6

I built color search for iTunes

50

7

Responsive page designer no grid/CSS frameworks

47

8

Nobody wants to listen to my problems so I made this

47

9

My First iPhone Game can you beat it?

45

10

An NSFW Tumblr Search

43

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video

297

2

Amashs Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217

278

3

NASDAQ is owned. Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

274

4

Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet

234

5

White House Seems Afraid NSA Defunding Law Could Actually Pass Today

173

6

Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room

167

7

The Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal

130

8

Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash

116

9

Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light

111

10

Twitter caught faking users tweets

105

News [?]

1

Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

371

2

Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance

252

3

Hacker Barnaby Jack has died

225

4

My hell as a 911 operator

213

5

GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt

208

6

Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (2011)

205

7

Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

145

8

Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?

143

9

The Financial Times on Edward Tufte

106

10

A Universe Full of Planets

105

Scientific publications [?]

1

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t

110

2

UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell

59

3

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf]

58

4

How fast can we make interpreted Python?

51

5

Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer

43

6

The creator of USB hasnt stopped inventing: conversation with with Ajay Bhatt

5

7

Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols

4

8

3D-Printed Rocket Parts Excel in NASA Tests

3

9

A chimp-pig hybrid origin for humans?

2

10

Technology could bring high-end solar to the masses

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple Developer System Status

91

2

Details on NSA/FBI Eavesdropping

57

3

Michael Hayden on the Effects of Snowden's Whistleblowing

34

4

The Internet Is a Surveillance State

15

5

Profile In the CLoud Crypto Review

5

6

A User Personalization Proposal for Firefox

3

7

Apple's Developer Center is back

2

8

Bitcoin activists propose "Bitcoin 2", a currency that encourages anonymity

2

9

iOS7 beta4 released

2

10

Long-Range RFID Hacking Tool to be Released at Black Hat

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Display

53

2

State AGs Ask Congress to Gut Critical CDA 230 Online Speech Protections

52

3

Congress Defeats Amendment That Sought to Curtail NSA Surveillance

6

4

Nexus 7 - Mini Review

5

5

9th circuit upholds denial of preliminary injunction against dish's hopper

4

6

New iPhone with biometric fingerprint sensor seemingly confirmed by iOS leak

4

7

Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review

3

8

Google News Doesn't Index HTTPS Sites: Bad News For Ready Privacy

2

9

IOS 7 beta points to fingerprint sensor in iPhone 5S

2

10

Home audio and lighting taken over by the Raspberry Pi

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7

39

2

Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page

39

3

iWork for iCloud beta

35

4

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

9

5

AWS Opsworks finally supports Chef 11 and custom AMIs

4

6

Maybe It's Time For Your Synth-DIY Phase?

2

7

Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 Add India Edge Locations in Chennai and Mumbai

2

8

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

1

9

No,Samsung has not passed Apple in Profitability

1

10

Amazon ChromeCast Link (Google Play Sold Out)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

342

2

Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Camerons Porn Filter With Immunicity

71

3

Representatives that rejected limits on NSA data collection and funding sources

58

4

Byte magazine archives

56

5

Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers

31

6

Microsoft Wants Google to Censor Microsoft.com

13

7

Understanding Google

7

8

The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ

4

9

Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter

3

10

PayPal Cuts Off Pirate Bay VPN iPredator, Freezes Assets

3

Science News [?]

1

Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute

235

2

Antibiotic resistance: The last resort

196

3

Kindergarten coders can program before they can read

82

4

The Kopp-Etchells effect

43

5

50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution

36

6

Quantum Physics Leads To Perfect Mirror

31

7

Can We Trust Monsanto with Our Food?

30

8

How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business

26

9

North Pole Now a Lake

23

10

Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion

8

Social [?]

1

Jimmy Wales: This is super cool. "I started to learn python..."

93

2

The Unexpectedly High Cost of a Bad Hire

44

3

Mark Shuttleworth AMA

26

4

Virgin Media - Your plain text passwords are safe with us

21

5

AK-47 Underwater at 27,450 frames per second

10

6

Most academic papers are useless: Elon Musk

9

7

Google Event Live Stream

8

8

Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation

7

9

Watch DARPA hack a prius

6

10

Quizlet: How it really works

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go

330

2

Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber

193

3

Why would useless MOV instructions speed up a tight loop in x86_64 assembly?

112

4

Golang Resources

68

5

Oauthd: OAuth.io open sourced

51

6

Things that broke with the Opera 15 release due to the switch to Blink/Chromium

38

7

Whack: Compile and run path-independent Linux programs

34

8

The OS X window manager for hackers

15

9

Bone.io: real-time HTML5 apps using websockets

13

10

Groupcache (memcached replacement in Go)

11

Wikipedia [?]

1

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

6

2

4

3

Keynesian beauty contest

3

4

Smith-Waterman algorithm

2

5

HTTP 2.0 Development Milestones

2

6

Iowa gambling task (experiment)

2

7

European Train Control System

2

8

Imperial to Metric system conversion error - Gimli Glider

2

9

Possible origin of the mythological griffin

2

10

List of Countries by Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index

2

Blogs [?]

1

Lean Startups fail for these 3 reasons, but they didnt tell you in the book

105

2

MBA builds app in less than 2 months

44

3

Is the NSA Blinded by Big Data?

24

4

Reasons Not to Pitch Your Startup to Techcrunch

20

5

Good products have features, Great products have stories.

10

6

8

7

The (Not-So) Secret Society Of those who refuse to be average.

7

8

FCC Orders Google to Respond to Net Neutrality Complaint

6

9

Don't pollute your github with forks

5

10

Size Matters: why universal 'mobile-first' is a bad strategy

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?

275

2

Advantages of web applications over desktop applications

6

3

Best practices for management of a developer system on Mac OS X

2

4

When is assembler faster than C?

2

5

Is ActiveRecord's order method vulnerable to SQL injection?

2

6

How do I determine if a number is prime with a regex?

2

7

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

2

8

Comment Everywhere. Awarded at: 50 reputation

2

9

Named parameters in Javascript

1

10

Find out who's going to buy the croissants

1

Substack [?]