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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2549

2

Lavabit abruptly shuts down

1747

3

John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO

961

4

Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

593

5

Why I Changed My Mind On Weed

573

6

CSS Absolute Centering

518

7

The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery

494

8

Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies

493

9

Hyperloop Alpha [pdf]

486

10

How to Convince Investors

477

Top Ask HN

1

What do you want to see in Rails 4.1?

56

2

do you trust your "secure email" now?

26

3

19

4

Where can I find freelance work?

17

5

which jobs are accessible to very introverted devs?

17

6

Themeforest let another author steal my design. Any advice?

16

7

Unlimited vacation policy does your company have it? How is it?

16

8

Key employee probably going to prison. How do we best tell investors?

15

9

What are you working on right now?

14

10

How to find problems worth solving?

14

Top Show HN

1

TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python

295

2

Run iOS apps in the browser

247

3

Python library to read and manage your Gmail

151

4

Do you read on the toilet? This web app is for you.

114

5

An open-source media hosting site that's anonymous and fast

91

6

My new domain search tool

90

7

Kraken.io image optimization service

87

8

I'm writing an ebook about adventure and giving it away for free

45

9

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe on Angular and Firebase

42

10

Raw Image Storage for photographers using S3 and Glacier

40

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Edward Snowdens Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle

277

2

Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Cant

248

3

DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round

198

4

Twitters New Two-Factor Solution Kicks SMS to the Curb

185

5

Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox

161

6

Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip

160

7

SimpleLegal (YC S13) Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning

132

8

Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling bins are stalking your smartphone

123

9

Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones

120

10

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)

119

News [?]

1

Why I Changed My Mind On Weed

573

2

Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies

493

3

The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldnt have happened without Snowden

412

4

Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

372

5

356

6

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there wont be another Hacker News

322

7

Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid'

319

8

Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators

309

9

NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls

283

10

SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police

227

Scientific publications [?]

1

Perseid Meteor Shower is Peaking Now

4

2

Theorist helps sharpen tests of fundamental theory in high energy experiments

2

3

The Making of Facebooks Graph Search

2

4

Pulling off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever

2

5

White House to Host Robotics Hangout on Friday

2

6

Be happy, be healthy: A functional genomic perspective on human well-being

2

7

The Making of Facebooks Graph Search

2

8

An infallible quantum measurement

1

9

The world's most powerful computers lack the common sense of a toddler

1

10

How China Is Blocking Tor (Winter & Lindskog 2012)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet

237

2

Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native

155

3

CloudFlare and Free Speech

113

4

Why Bitcoins are more expensive in Argentina than in the US

57

5

ZTE Will Soon Start Sales of Firefox OS Phones on eBay

49

6

Apple Developer Center is Fully Restored

43

7

What's the story behind the names of CloudFlare's name servers?

39

8

Stripe's list of prohibited businesses

30

9

NSA Surveillance and Mission Creep

15

10

Login verification on Twitter for iPhone and Android

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering

372

2

Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning Servers

221

3

Obama to release FISA court opinion that ruled NSA surveillance unconstitutional

207

4

Full auto Gauss gun

5

5

What It Means to Be An NSA "Target"

4

6

IPhone 5S Announcement on September 10 Confirmed

2

7

A look at what an iOS 7-inspired OS X could look like [Gallery]

2

8

Obama Promises Reform of NSA Spying, But

2

9

Lodsys Agrees to Dismiss Case Against Small Developer for Charitable Donation

2

10

IPhone Patent Wars: Xerox PARC & the Apple, Inc.

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon launches Amazon Art marketplace

148

2

USB Power Adapter Takeback Program

3

3

Multiple Apple Systems offline

3

4

Apple starts 3rd party USB power adapter takeback program

2

5

Stay healthy & Keep coding

1

6

The best sleeping pillow in the world?

1

7

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition): Andrew S. Tanenbaum

1

8

Amazon Now Selling Fine Art

1

9

Become a Trillionaire for $0.45 (+$3.56 S&H)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Releases Pirate Browser to Thwart Censorship

113

2

Kim Dotcom Will Move Mega Privacy Services to Iceland to Avoid Spying

11

3

Rebuilding the world technology destroyed

5

4

Hollywood Keeps Censoring Pirate Bay Documentary, Director Outraged

5

5

Sky's Court Ordered Piracy Filter Blocks TorrentFreak

4

6

The Pirate Bay Turns 10 Years Old: The History

4

7

Comcast Wants to Monitor and Convert Pirating Subscribers

3

8

Amazon's Dominant Strategy

2

9

Pirate Party Reports IT Minister to the Police for Copyright Infringement

2

10

CBS Blackout Triggers Surge in TV-Show Piracy

2

Science News [?]

1

3D printing tiny human livers

64

2

Lasers boost space communications

48

3

Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch

38

4

Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch

8

5

Giant viruses open Pandora's box

6

6

No, youre not entitled to your opinion

6

7

Chain reaction shattered huge Antarctica ice shelf

5

8

Space station poised to launch open-source satellites

5

9

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact

3

10

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

3

Social [?]

1

Things in Haskell which don't exist elsewhere at all

164

2

Carmack talks practical use of Haskell, Lisp in game prog at Quakecon keynote

81

3

In Tough Times, Abandon Your Employees

47

4

Elon Musk will unveil Hyperloop alpha design at 1:30 PDT

17

5

3 million pc botnet owner AMA on reddit

16

6

Stop the Presses: A New Press Lord Appears

12

7

NSA comment on Reddit

12

8

Richard Stallman: Snowden & Assange besieged by empire

9

9

John Carmack's Quakecon 2013 Keynote

6

10

Edward Snowden's Dad, Lon Fires Back At Obama

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

111

2

Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system

110

3

Rails 4 startup template

85

4

Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation

82

5

Code documentation written as code

72

6

Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private

67

7

IJulia: iPython Notebook for Julia

63

8

Rediscala: Non-blocking Redis driver for Scala

59

9

On Hiring Developers

46

10

fs - the data-free filesystem

42

Wikipedia [?]

1

Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page

109

2

Digital physics

58

3

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

35

4

23

5

Goinia radiation accident

14

6

IBM and the Holocaust

5

7

Someone from the Senate edited Snowdens's wikipedia entry

3

8

Suggested relationship of infrasound to ghost sightings

2

9

Tumbler (Project Xanadu)

2

10

Glasgow ice cream wars

2

Blogs [?]

1

How to Convince Investors

477

2

I cannot afford to go back to engineering school

248

3

Investor Herd Dynamics

210

4

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

203

5

Happy third birthday, Horse_ebooks

66

6

The Powerball Jackpot is $425M. Should you play?

60

7

Bridging Economics and Data Science

49

8

Hyper Social is Dying

42

9

Yahoo's new killer app

37

10

Results of May's HN unix command survey (spoiler: lots of Rails)

22

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow is down. All programming has stopped.

14

2

Daylight saving time and Timezone best practices

3

3

Python having trouble w/ USB mic via Gst + Pocketsphinx on RaspberryPi

2

4

ASP.NET Response.Redirect to open a new browser window?

2

5

HTTP 1.0 vs HTTP 2.0

2

6

Why does the month argument range from 0 to 11 in JavaScript's Date constructor?

2

7

Computing California Sales Tax

2

8

Splitting a Clojure namespace over multiple files

2

9

Emma instrumenting classes incorrectly

1

10

Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard

1

Substack [?]