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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation

1417

2

People simply empty out

707

3

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face

662

4

Grasshopper 100m Lateral Divert Test

637

5

Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement

596

6

Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

555

7

Startup lessons

528

8

Ask PG: Why are submission titles manipulated without notification?

528

9

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

528

10

515

Top Ask HN

1

What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")

187

2

I can't seem to finish anything. Can I get some advice?

21

3

Ask HN to review: app to save files from web directly to your Dropbox

20

4

What are important topics for new programmers?

19

5

What quote most inspires you?

19

6

Where to find programming challenges for sharpening algorithmic skills?

18

7

What are some of your favorite documentaries?

17

8

How does Google measure programmer productivity?

14

9

My Nursing Reference App is Helping Poor Clinics, Losing Money

14

10

Why aren't you working on a startup?

14

Top Show HN

1

noteZilla - Interactive sheet music

268

2

Virtual Machines in the Browser

267

3

TextIt Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world

211

4

We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices

165

5

Xpressive - CSS3 Live Design Tool for Mac OSX

81

6

Create unlimited one-off Invoices (Built with AngularJS)

50

7

Redistats - Web stats using Redis

27

8

Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling

21

9

Sell tickets to your events or services for Bitcoins

20

10

Using 3D CSS transform to make a "live screenshot"

19

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

555

2

The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam

184

3

The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (2011)

146

4

AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television

124

5

Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in Bitcoin heist

122

6

First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File Released

117

7

AnsibleWorks Raises $6M

115

8

Fitbit Raises $43 Million

101

9

Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet

83

10

No, Google did not say that there is no privacy in Gmail

82

News [?]

1

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation

1417

2

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face

662

3

NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds

396

4

Reshaping New York

323

5

Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road

264

6

Obama said the NSA wasnt actually abusing its powers. He was wrong

238

7

NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it and end wrongheaded war on pot

215

8

Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass

205

9

Bottle light inventor proud to be poor

198

10

Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand

181

Scientific publications [?]

1

New 'Nova' Star Explosion Spotted in Night Sky: How to See It

37

2

Researchers optically levitate a glowing, nanoscale diamond (w/ Video)

2

3

Mysterious magnetar boasts one of strongest magnetic fields in Universe

2

4

A Summer Science-Fiction Reading List

2

5

Knuth's Dancing Links Algorithm

2

6

SpaceX Crew Design Review

2

7

New approach assembles big structures from small interlocking pieces

2

8

Expert advises caution in online sharing

2

9

Personal jetpack gets flight permit for manned test

2

10

Lockheed Martin Developing Flying Robotic Car Carrier

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Introducing Stripe UK

352

2

The NSA is Commandeering the Internet

242

3

Firefox now only has one HTML parser

191

4

Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

186

5

Introducing FuzzDB

131

6

The Cryptopocalypse

75

7

New Tweets per second record, and how

62

8

XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON

31

9

Valgrind Finds Thousands Of Potential Issues With Mesa [Phoronix]

11

10

The NSA is Commandeering the Internet

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process

229

2

Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance

129

3

Intel's 12-Core Xeon With 30 MB Of L3: The New Mac Pro's CPU?

28

4

The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen

17

5

Congress' Copyright Cowards: the Members Who Could Betray Internet Users

17

6

NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen

9

7

New App Store guidelines

4

8

Apple Begins Allowing 200 Test Devices Per Developer Account

3

9

Amazon Introduces iOS-Compatible Cross-Platform Notification Sending Service

2

10

Key Takeaways From the Washington Post Report on Privacy Violations by the NSA

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Funniest reviews

116

2

Amazon was down

84

3

Amazon.com is down

14

4

11

5

10

6

AWS management console is down

9

7

One of the costliest product on Amazon.com

6

8

Free this weekend - Growth Hacking Guide

6

9

Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard For Business

4

10

Amazon.com: Funniest Reviews

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

It is Now Less Risky to Download Pirated Ebooks Than to Purchase Them

17

2

Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System (1956)

12

3

Copyright Troll Ran Pirate Bay Honeypot, Comcast Confirms

7

4

Pirate Bays Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 100,000 Downloads

4

5

Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links

3

6

U.S. Army kick-starts cyberwar machine (2000)

2

7

Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links

2

8

4Shared Uses Unique Fingerprinting Tech to Scan For Pirated Files

2

9

How Should Artists Get Paid? Isnt a Question, its an Insult

2

10

Zoe Keating's Q1 & Q2 2013 Streaming Revenue

1

Science News [?]

1

Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits

211

2

Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive

164

3

Genetically modified crops pass benefits to weeds

50

4

Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits

4

5

1st Time in 35Years A New Carnivorous Mammal is Discovered in American Continent

4

6

First successful attempt to eradicate cancer using a virus-derived agent

3

7

The Science of the Great Molasses Flood

2

8

Deterministic quantum teleportation of photonic quantum bits

2

9

Did Neanderthals Teach Modern Humans How to Make Tools?

2

10

How High Debt is Bad for your Health

2

Social [?]

1

Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews

369

2

Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files

174

3

RIP Microsoft Tag

34

4

"We're building a domestic army" -Marine Corps Colonel speaks out

11

5

A Harvard Economist's Surprisingly Simple Productivity Secret

11

6

Bored Elon Musk (BoredElonMusk) on Twitter

9

7

JavaScript on hardware? This came out a year ago

8

8

If Windows releases were houses ...

8

9

Matz: I'm a Mormon, Ruby Author, and a World-changer

7

10

Prank Startup Pitch To A Real Investor (VIDEO)

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5

255

2

Open Source Google App Engine Clone

186

3

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

150

4

IronPigeon - Decentralized communication protocol for sending secure messages

112

5

110

6

frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions

96

7

Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool written in Go

94

8

Explore what is Trending on GitHub

93

9

49

10

Paranoid Browsing

49

Wikipedia [?]

1

46

2

20

3

6

4

5

5

4

6

2

7

Digital dark age

2

8

2

9

Common Heritage of Mankind

2

10

Criminal investigation of PGP

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why I left Google

281

2

How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the Worlds Worst New Warplane

229

3

From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months

222

4

Programmer's Dilemma

129

5

Do I Really Want All This Stuff?

97

6

What you need to know about employee stock options

90

7

Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem

83

8

Knowing When Its Time to Move On

61

9

Tools used by influential developers and designers

44

10

False premises common in anti-A/B-testing arguments

32

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't?

113

2

My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation

58

3

What does Docker add to just plain LXC?

2

4

Incorrect Pluralizing of "Cow" Model in Rails

2

5

After a chain of events I lost $12 million of equipment

2

6

Fastest way to create a new element in jquery

2

7

Autofilling forms in Firefox with random data

2

8

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

2

9

Can a Java class add a method to itself at runtime?

1

10

Why aren't and valid JavaScript variable names

1

Substack [?]