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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

1624

2

1033

3

We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

628

4

Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic

615

5

608

6

The Future of Programming

595

7

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

571

8

Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

558

9

U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

542

10

Mailpile: Lets take email back

507

Top Ask HN

1

I'm a chronic procrastinator how do I break it?

325

2

Who is hiring? (August 2013)

267

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)

129

4

What's the oldest piece of software still in use?

52

5

India == bad devs?

34

6

What would you tell your 16-year-old self?

27

7

Why is .NET often avoided in the startup world?

24

8

What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?

22

9

Flag != Downvote, Right?

20

10

What kind of programming do you do and what tools do you use every day?

20

Top Show HN

1

CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers

397

2

Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

193

3

Distributed Homomorphic Encryption Adder (Weekend Project)

99

4

FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml

79

5

Bitcast.io A marketplace for web development tutorials

75

6

For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app

64

7

Rails Performance Help Tracer Bullets

62

8

Track customer happiness across all aspects of your business

47

9

Minisync gives your web app its own relational backend-as-a-service

44

10

Journal Your Life as Data with Thyself.io

43

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic

615

2

Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second

448

3

Now That Its in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

349

4

7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners

249

5

New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages

222

6

Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not Google

180

7

Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity

172

8

YouTube adds Play icon to page titles so you can see which tabs are making noise

168

9

Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

167

10

After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS

161

News [?]

1

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

1624

2

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

571

3

448

4

Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA

329

5

NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference

328

6

How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet

286

7

Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

245

8

Bradley Manning case stretches credibility of US computer fraud law

228

9

Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted of multiple other counts

225

10

Jeff Bezos on Post purchase

206

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why cooperators always win in the long run

34

2

Georgia Tech uncovers iOS security weaknesses

5

3

Team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel

5

4

New algorithm solves major problem with homomorphic encryption

5

5

Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software

4

6

Pennsylvania Wont Renew IBM's Contract for Botched Project (42 months late)

2

7

Robotic helicopter team sets sights on impossible mission

2

8

Unclean at Any Speed - Electric cars dont solve cars' environmental problems

2

9

Using cellphone metadata for good: identifying emergency situations

1

10

Engineers discover unique fingerprint for cell phones

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground

133

2

Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode

58

3

The World Has No Room For Cowards

49

4

Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet

44

5

Microsoft's C# and VB Compilers Now Freely Available

19

6

ECMAScript 6 Modules: What Are They and How to Use Them Today

13

7

Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground

11

8

Brian Krebs Harassed

7

9

JavaScript and Timing Attacks Used to Steal Browser Data

6

10

Introducing Minion

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4

201

2

Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments and selling online

52

3

Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S4

15

4

Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance

8

5

EFF and others launch site to fight patent trolls

7

6

August 4th Rallies Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance

6

7

August 4th Rallies Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance

4

8

Update on GPU Optimizations in Galaxy S4

4

9

Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance this Sunday

3

10

New Moto X from Motorola

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000)

146

2

Amazon AWS Training Self-Paced Labs

3

3

Peter Norvig's review of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

2

4

Amazon Collections

2

5

Surface Pro Price Lowered by $100

2

6

Microsoft slashes Surface Pro price down to $799

2

7

Free book today: App Marketing and How to Make Money with iPhone Apps

1

8

LinkedIn Revealed - 15 Steps to A Job Worthy Profile

1

9

An Amazon review from 2001

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The White Hat's Dilemma

243

2

A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think

123

3

2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart

96

4

2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart

9

5

The Greatest Speed Runs of All Time

3

6

Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That's Great News

2

7

BitTorrent Inc. Escapes Disaster as Source Code and Financials Leak

2

8

The White Hat's Dilemma

2

9

Pirates Form Church to Battle Copyright Law That Insults Their Beliefs

1

10

Go Remote Package - opportunities and challenges

1

Science News [?]

1

Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic

125

2

Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint

57

3

How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business

25

4

Hidden magnetic waves discovered in high-temperature superconductors

12

5

How one genetic mutation first let Europeans drink milk-and changed the world

10

6

NSF cancels political-science grant cycle

8

7

Photons May Emit Faster-Than-Light Particles, Physicists Suggest

4

8

A trip to the gym alters DNA(2012

4

9

How Hollywood is Encouraging Online Piracy

2

10

Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint

2

Social [?]

1

Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..."

145

2

Co-founder of Wordpress would rewrite it today in Go

14

3

Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, most serious of 21 charges

13

4

15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes

10

5

Pro-surveillance voting data for the US Congress

8

6

Daniel Ellsberg Speaking At San Francisco Anti-Surveillance Rally This Sunday

6

7

What It's Like To Drop 150,000 Feet Straight Down[use headphones]

6

8

IAmA Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress (18% of web) and Automattic

6

9

Docker at MailGun

6

10

Black Hat USA 2013: General Keith Alexander Keynote

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

SQL Injection Galore

152

2

Wraith A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC

149

3

A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python

136

4

Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download, list, delete from Dropbox

119

5

Huxley, an app that helps fight CSS and UI regression

84

6

NYTimes ObjectiveC Style Guide

74

7

42

8

Open Pixel-art Platformer

31

9

Host your own social counter servers

30

10

Ruby 2.0 is now supported in the OS X window manager for hackers, Zephyros

28

Wikipedia [?]

1

Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer

139

2

34

3

Change in Wikipedia article of Edward Snowden coming from IP of US Senate

14

4

Base rate fallacy

5

5

Inverted totalitarianism

3

6

The Mother of All Demos

3

7

List of common misconceptions

3

8

Interesting number paradox

2

9

Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor: avg 100kW for 100,000 years

2

10

Death of Michael Hastings journalist under FBI surveillance (June 2013)

2

Blogs [?]

1

Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my

496

2

The Ecuadorian Library

109

3

GitHub and my open source life

80

4

The world is socialist

79

5

Node.js Deployments with Docker, Dokku, and Digital Ocean

73

6

Why current social technologies might be keeping us from truly connecting

36

7

I need terrible female engineers

35

8

The Ecuadorian Library: Or Three Years After 'The Blast Shack' by Bruce Sterling

21

9

Automatic Summarization in Reddit

12

10

Efficiency Is Not Our Goal

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

628

2

How does Trello access the user's clipboard?

177

3

What git branching models actually work?

65

4

Sum of 1 to 1000000000 in different programming languages

60

5

Increasing a number by 1 using jQuery

2

6

What is "lifting" in Scala?

2

7

Q: When should I use Java EventQueue? A: I've never used it in 14 years of Java

2

8

Sum of numbers 1 to 1000000000

2

9

How Android Phone Update Deployment process work

1

10

Native Crash in Android 4.3 when calling Picture.writeToStream()

1

Substack [?]