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Top stories
1
Don't Fly During Ramadan
2617
2
Forced Exposure
1352
3
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
1183
4
I will not do a tech interview
1004
5
Hi Im Hank, and I bought a bus
921
6
Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested
796
7
Defeated
731
8
Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping
683
9
Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
615
10
NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars
569
Top Ask HN
1
Why aren't there HTTP style standards for invoicing things?
46
2
What will entertain us in 20 years?
39
3
Where to go for max profit? High coder salary, low cost of living
38
4
What has the NSA changed about your daily life?
24
5
Do any netbooks still exist?
22
6
What is the most annoying part about finding a new job in tech?
20
7
I am giving my first talk to 200 people at my job. Any tips?
17
8
How to get major websites to cover your startup?
16
9
How do you create high quality how-to videos?
12
10
How do you 'Music' (discovery, acquisition, consumption, ...)?
12
Top Show HN
1
Tridiv - CSS 3D Editor
264
2
Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python
204
3
ngProgress - slim, site-wide progressbar for AngularJS, without jQuery
134
4
AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework
109
5
I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp
96
6
Popped At, my many, many weekends realtime photo project
79
7
Contacts finds email addresses
38
8
Help test out swarm robot control
27
9
Rustic Citrus
27
10
Instagram and Facebook Photos Delivered Monthly
26
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Map of America's Racial Segregation
286
2
Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
231
3
Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet
206
4
Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig
182
5
Censorship Doesnt Just Stifle Speech It Can Spread Disease
138
6
New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom
136
7
Hong Kongs Massive High-Rise Neighborhoods
135
8
US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law
134
9
Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage
123
10
Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
123
News [?]
1
Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping
683
2
Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
615
3
'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do
391
4
Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
359
5
The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act
289
6
Im Thinking. Please. Be Quiet.
285
7
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches
270
8
The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsofts Decline
265
9
In California, a Champion for Police Cameras
253
10
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
249
Scientific publications [?]
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Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf]
84
2
Unclean at Any Speed
5
3
Is Spiri the Programmable Quadrotor You've Always Wanted?
4
4
An elementary illustrated introduction to simplicial sets
4
5
Theoretical Warp Drive Concept
4
6
Robots Hallucinate Humans to Aid in Object Recognition
4
7
Teleportation just got easier—but not for you, unfortunately
3
8
Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates
3
9
Can an AI Get Into the University of Tokyo?
2
10
Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Recycling memory buffers in Go
143
2
Compiling to Lua
104
3
How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer
92
4
X.Org Foundation Loses Its 501(c)(3) Status
86
5
Clojure-scheme: Compiling Clojure to Native Code via Scheme [video]
80
6
Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption
62
7
The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act
17
8
Simplified Multiple Provider Authorization
4
9
Java 7 Sockets Direct Protocol – Write Once, Run Everywhere
3
10
Linux and OpenBSD Pondering 2038
2
Tech blogs [?]
1
Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
189
2
Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released
158
3
October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
126
4
EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras
96
5
AnandTech - The Nexus 7 (2013) Review
2
6
AnandTech | Moto X Review
2
7
Apple testing 64-bit A7 chips for iPhone 5S, 31% speed increase
2
8
October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional
2
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Growing Problem of Suspicionless Border Surveillance
2
10
Apple Developer Center Outage Fixed 'Remote Code Execution' Flaw
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
1183
2
Windows Phone, Latin Americas second most widely used mobile platform
32
3
Apple Ergnonomics
3
4
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
3
5
Moving forward
3
6
Funny Amazon reviews
2
7
There's a new edition of APUE
2
8
Amazon Mom
1
9
Free Shipping to India and Singapore
1
10
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire Within 12 Months
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple
82
2
Hive: A BitTorrent-Enabled Unlimited Cloud Storage Sharing Network
6
3
Comcast Threatens to Sue TorrentFreak for Copyright Infringement
4
4
Comcast Threatens to Sue TorrentFreak for Copyright Infringement
2
5
Censoring The Pirate Bay Is Futile, Research Shows
2
6
Cloud Platforms Comparison matrix
2
7
Collated fundraising experience of global entrepreneurs: Open survey, results
2
8
Finnish Court Censors Website That Criticizes Censorship
2
9
The Power of Pomodoros
2
10
Inside Ingress - a postmortem
1
Science News [?]
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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability
178
2
Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom
149
3
1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology.
118
4
Predictors of suicidal behaviour found in blood
4
5
Fossil treasures from UK's museums showcased in 3D
3
6
Half of 2011 papers now free to read
3
7
Study shows language can cause the invisible to be seen
2
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This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers
2
9
Top Ways to Destroy Earth
2
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Overshoot Day: Living too Large on a Finite Planet (Op-Ed)
2
Social [?]
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Help, I'm Too Smart For My Job
59
2
Facebook is looking for an ARM SoC server hardware engineer
34
3
Recent reports on our whitehat program
34
4
Marissa Mayer teaching at Stanford University
27
5
Is Connectivity A Human Right?
22
6
12 Year Old Boy Programs Robots (VIDEO)
14
7
Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
11
8
I Forgot My Phone
11
9
Elon Musk to present video of hand gesture-controlled rocket part designing
8
10
Ungit - a new UI approach for newbies learning git.
8
Github repos and gists [?]
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Schema migrations merged into Django master
373
2
Ungit Git UI that makes you understand git
233
3
Sovereign Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud
209
4
Github now supports rendering tabular data
188
5
Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON
178
6
Coursera-dl A script for downloading course material from coursera.org
177
7
D3 3.3 Released
157
8
Servo A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla
120
9
Chess written in sed
107
10
Rust on the Arduino Due
96
Wikipedia [?]
1
Vasili Arkhipov
190
2
Micromort
166
3
Wikipedia: Size in volumes
106
4
Polyphasic Sleep
29
5
Metrecal
21
6
First they came for the communists ...
16
7
Semantic sanitation
3
8
Stanislav Petrov
2
9
Dataflow: An Alternative to Von Neumann Architecture
2
10
Nick Herbert (physicist)
2
Blogs [?]
1
I will not do a tech interview
1004
2
How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction
254
3
Giant Robotic Mining Trucks in the Australian Desert
116
4
On Lisp
116
5
Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket
85
6
I'm 23, An Entrepreneur, and Fucking Terrified.
52
7
Dear Miss Disruption
41
8
UI Anti-Pattern: Website Loading Bars
29
9
Netflix should buy the NFL Sunday Ticket rights, not Google
26
10
Finding the unjustly homeless and teaching them to code
15
Stackoverflow [?]
1
List of freely available programming books
150
2
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
6
3
Lists of freely available programming books in all languages
5
4
What is the purpose of this hidden string on Facebook?
4
5
Simon Marlow on lightweight threads vs. events (2010)
4
6
how should I chain function call in coffeescript
4
7
Freely available programming books
2
8
Trigger animation on element click in pure CSS3 (no HTML hacks, no JS)
2
9
Weird comments in source code
2
10
Calling function from one language to other
2
Substack [?]