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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
New Zealand bans some software patents
865
2
He got 1%, we can't hire him
811
3
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)
547
4
Founders' Accents
508
5
Why Youve Never Read I Have A Dream
481
6
What happens when you use a standing desk for two years
454
7
Google is defragging Android
436
8
9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction
416
9
English has been my pain for 15 years
412
10
The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
410
Top Ask HN
1
How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
284
2
Who is hiring? (September 2013)
272
3
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)
85
4
The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers
48
5
Why does "Who is hiring" always drop so quickly from top ranks?
40
6
Share your projects and the stories behind them
38
7
Interview as a Service Any interest?
38
8
Just got sued by patent troll what should I do?
30
9
What did you want to be when you were younger? And what are you now?
14
10
Gmail's new Compose ruined my e-mail writing. What's a good client?
14
Top Show HN
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Help programmers from Syria get jobs elsewhere
143
2
Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News
143
3
We built a fast substring search engine in Go
139
4
Gingko, a tree-document editor
134
5
UIBox A Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library
113
6
Spotify for Independent Music
107
7
30-second Slideshows for Hackers
80
8
Curated Who's Hiring
69
9
Mobile feedback your users will love
68
10
Ready-made, Modular Landing Pages for Startups
50
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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New Zealand bans some software patents
865
2
Google is defragging Android
436
3
New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking
193
4
Welcome to the United States: Discriminated, detained, searched, interrogated
175
5
It's a Dumbphone, But It's the Nicest Dumbphone You Can Buy
167
6
Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why
157
7
Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
156
8
Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA
122
9
The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
91
10
Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Surveillance
90
News [?]
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Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.s
322
2
How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash
319
3
Isaac Asimov's predictions for what the world will be like in 2014
252
4
Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco
244
5
Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests
231
6
Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests faces prison
225
7
Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments
155
8
Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley
147
9
Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets
144
10
CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by Edward Snowden
142
Scientific publications [?]
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The STEM Crisis is a Myth
135
2
Japan's maglev train runs test at over 310 mph (with video)
94
3
Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground
70
4
NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
57
5
Fastest rotating man-made object created
52
6
Water found to be an ideal lubricant for nanomachines
29
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Scott Hassan on Willow Garage and the Future of Suitable Technologies
6
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Quantum inverted pendulum maintains unstable quantum system
5
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Butterfly inspires new nanotechnology
4
10
NASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (2004)
314
2
More on the NSA Commandeering the Internet
211
3
Stripe launches German beta
187
4
Design, Composition and Performance [video]
172
5
Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks
134
6
Detaining David Miranda
133
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Protecting Against Leakers
62
8
The return of nftables
62
9
The story of a little DNS easter egg
57
10
The vi editor causes brain damage [2007]
6
Tech blogs [?]
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What Oversight? Three Flawed "Investigations" into NSA Spying
4
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An Illustration of How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying
4
3
Crowd sourced ergonomic keyboard sold by crowd buying platform gets reviewed
3
4
Pushing for Perfect Forward Secrecy, an Important Web Privacy Protection
3
5
Spoofing WiFi AP based geolocation
2
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Threats Against Service Provider Private Encryption Keys
2
7
Google News Doesn't Index HTTPS Sites
2
8
Hawaiian Airlines testing iPad mini for entertainment system
2
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Apple's September 10 iPhone Media Event Said to Also Include New iPads
1
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Apple confirms Apple Store iPhone trade-in program has launched today
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Rich Hickey's bookshelf: 40 books that influenced Clojure
5
2
Managing Startups - Best Blog Posts
1
3
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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U.S. "backed plan to launch chemical attack on Syria and blame it on Assad"
15
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Jeff Bezos on the Founding of Amazon (1998)
7
3
Copyright Was Created as a Censorship Instrument and is Still Used as One
7
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Movie Piracy Hurts Health Research and Patient Care, UCSF Claims
5
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The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
4
6
The Business Model Innovation That Could Sink Apple
4
7
Journalists Face Criminal Complaint For Mentioning Name of Pirate Site
2
8
That Alien Message
2
9
PirateBrowser Hits 500,000 Downloads, Tor Traffic Surges
2
10
On Assignment with the Nokia Lumia 1020
1
Science News [?]
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US behavioural research studies skew positive
43
2
Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world
3
3
Interface between atoms and superconductors
3
4
Why physics needs to get stranger
3
5
Poverty causes a 13-point drop in IQ (due to stress)
3
6
Scientists succeed in growing human brain tissue in 'test tubes'
3
7
Syria: Drop medicines, not bombs
3
8
Remote detection of magmatic water in Bullialdus Crater on the Moon
2
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NASA is turning science fiction into fact
2
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Archaeology: The milk revolution
2
Social [?]
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Global Government Requests Report
102
2
Most dangerous code I've ever seen on Reddit
18
3
HP laptop leaks/transmits its built-in mic audio somewhere around 24Mhz
10
4
Less than perfect PHP Code
10
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Syrian Electronic Army Takes Over Twitter's Domain (NYTimes too)
9
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Announcing GHC cross-compilation for iOS
7
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Syrian Electronic Army now hosting NYT & Twitter domains on their IP (tweet)
6
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Writer Frederik Pohl has died
6
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Proposed Updates to our Governing Documents
5
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4% of US Internet user are now on IPV6
5
Github repos and gists [?]
1
The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
410
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Favicon Cheatsheet
289
3
Sparkey Key/value storage by Spotify
102
4
Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing cd ../../..
81
5
Nphysics 2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine in pure Rust
72
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The Haxl Project at Facebook [pdf]
69
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Web Browser based control system for the RaspberryPi
61
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Map Vectorizer Map polygon and feature extractor
61
9
Glass.py: Create Python web applications for Google Glass
56
10
Pydown An HTML5 presentation builder written in Python
51
Wikipedia [?]
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The Raising of Chicago
213
2
Grace Hopper
180
3
Non-English-based programming languages
75
4
PGPfone (1995)
31
5
Sinclair C5 Electric Car (1985)
16
6
Groupthink
13
7
Door to Hell
13
8
St. Petersburg paradox
12
9
Leonardo da Vinci's robot
6
10
Toilet paper orientation
4
Blogs [?]
1
Founders' Accents
508
2
Why we dropped our free plan
97
3
Boarding Pass Redesign
82
4
Why I'm not going to sign an NDA
77
5
Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogos campaigns
73
6
Privacy is not dead
71
7
Do whatever makes you happy is a lie
47
8
Algorithmic Interviewing Optimizing to Hire the Wrong Developer
43
9
The Selfies are Coming. The Selfies are Here (Part 2)
31
10
I'm an Entrepreneur, Now Give Me a Job
23
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is a magic number, and why is it bad?
29
2
Funniest Source code comments
2
3
How do JavaScript closures work? - explaining to a 6th year old
2
4
What is the point of a private pure virtual function?
2
5
How is std::function implemented?
2
6
What is the minimum valid JSON?
1
7
How Closures Work ?
1
8
D vs Go comparison
1
9
Soft tabs or Hard tabs?
1
10
Updating listbox from list of custom objects
1
Substack [?]