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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

898

2

My Friends and I Bought an Island

804

3

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

755

4

To my daughter's high school programming teacher

702

5

How to Advertise on a Porn Website

668

6

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

646

7

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel

637

8

Fucking Sue Me (2011)

637

9

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

631

10

First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature

626

Top Ask HN

1

Is it time for a public GPG audit?

89

2

What is the best technology to learn right now?

48

3

Why is Google purging all search results for Syrian Arab News Agency?

46

4

What literature do you read?

40

5

What will happen when everybody uses an ad blocker?

38

6

What is the stupidest startup idea you ever had/heard?

35

7

Is there a way I can make $10,000 before the end of December?

32

8

Can someone please write a Chrome Extension to kill new Gmail Compose?

23

9

I have $1200 to spend on gadgets, what should I buy?

21

10

Career advice for a developer with 10+ years experience

19

Top Show HN

1

Wit Natural language for your app

307

2

My Isometric GPU-Powered Voxel Engine

194

3

goworker a faster, Resque-compatible background worker

166

4

1,053,713 buildings in New York City, shaded by year of construction

90

5

70

6

Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and Vimeo with your phone

53

7

Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

48

8

GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

43

9

Send Your Favorite Articles to the Future

38

10

pure client-side Connect Four AI with Web Workers, AngularJS, Firebase

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

646

2

Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

392

3

Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit

296

4

NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard

278

5

Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

274

6

Apples Fingerprint ID May Mean You Cant Take the Fifth

169

7

Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups

136

8

Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors

128

9

AutoDesk Releases An Electronics Simulator Called 123D Circuits

124

10

Audio pioneer Ray Dolby passes away

113

News [?]

1

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel

637

2

Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap

565

3

Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia

374

4

E-ZPasses Get Read All Over New York (Not Just At Toll Booths)

258

5

Being poor changes your thinking about everything

208

6

How Chris McCandless Died

199

7

Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal

194

8

The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator

173

9

Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'

159

10

List of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for the financial crisis

141

Scientific publications [?]

1

Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars

315

2

UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out

174

3

Google unleashes Coder for Raspberry Pi as kid-friendly tool

67

4

Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving

7

5

What Ever Happened to STEM Job Security?

3

6

Solar-Powered ATMs Bring Clean Water to India's Slums

2

7

Graphene could yield cheaper optical chips

2

8

Quantum entanglement only dependent upon area

2

9

Time fluctuations in isolated quantum systems of interacting particles

2

10

Brazil's President wants Web servers to be housed in Brazil

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

631

2

FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default

140

3

Why secure systems require random numbers

78

4

Surreptitiously Tampering with Computer Chips

63

5

Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments

61

6

Crypto-Gram Newsletter September 15, 2013

41

7

Take Back the Internet

40

8

How to Remain Secure Against the NSA

39

9

Reforming the NSA

17

10

Dremel made simple with Parquet from Twitter

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Asus' Transformer Book T100

36

2

Government Releases NSA Surveillance Docs and Secret FISA Court Opinions

20

3

Intel Announces Quark SoC Family: Tiny SoCs For Tiny Devices

7

4

Gems Mined from the NSA Documents and FISA Court Opinions Released Today

7

5

EFF's Cheat Sheet to Congress' NSA Spying Bills

5

6

Tell the U.S. Government What You Really Think About NSA Surveillance

2

7

Nearly two years after launch, Siri seems to exit beta with iOS 7

2

8

Some Thoughts about the iPhone 5S Camera Improvements

2

9

List of Companies that Protect Data from the Government

2

10

Federal Courts Still Scaremongering About RECAP & Spooky "Open Source" Software

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

106

2

Apple iPhone 5S

23

3

Photos Taken With iPhone 5S

21

4

Apple keynote livestream

6

5

Apple iPhone 5C

4

6

Apple Store is offline.....

2

7

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

2

8

Amazon Appstore DRM is anti-customer and nearly bricked my device

2

9

AWS Civic Apps Challenge

2

10

Apple's Amazing Parallax Iphone 5C Homepage

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Offset: Goroutines ported to Python

26

2

Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy

21

3

At What Point Will the Next Generation Kill the Copyright Monopoly Altogether?

11

4

Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy

6

5

Twitter, Inc. (2007)

3

6

Two minutes, fifty-six seconds: Apple doubles down on iPhone Value, not Price

2

7

Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy

2

8

There are two Twitters; Only one is worth investing in.

2

9

Anti-Piracy Strike Schemes Are Not Effective, Research Shows

1

10

How Google Helps Copyright Holders to Fight Piracy

1

Science News [?]

1

Orangutans plan their future route and communicate it to others

27

2

University of Bristol makes quantum chip programming available over the net

24

3

Did a hyper-black hole spawn the universe?

10

4

Strength of gravity shifts

4

5

Quantum chip connected to Internet is yours to command

3

6

Some fractals take a really long time

3

7

Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time

3

8

Touchscreen knows it's you from taps and swipes

2

9

Computer scientists design proteins to bind to small druglike molecules

2

10

Voyager 1 has reached interstellar space

2

Social [?]

1

3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo [video]

342

2

Twitter confirms IPO plans via Twitter

116

3

The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week

85

4

Why Companies Founded By College Dropouts Rarely Hire College Dropouts

66

5

Fox News attempts to explain what Github is

56

6

Phonebloks: A Phone Worth Keeping

30

7

Extract Editable 3D Objects from a Single Photo

30

8

Tit Stare We wish to apologise

16

9

Fox News on Github...

14

10

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Cocktails for programmers

248

2

How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive

188

3

Masscan: scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, 10 million packets/second

123

4

Go Concurrency Patterns ported to Clojure

69

5

Shown HN: texit - Embed LaTeX anywhere on the web

64

6

58

7

Python API for Hacker News

48

8

Exploiting Lua 5.1 on 32-bit Windows

37

9

Gittip's YC application

33

10

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

26

Wikipedia [?]

1

316

2

260

3

Happy Programmers' Day

234

4

Wikipedia links to HN

116

5

Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs

114

6

The Conversation (1974)

54

7

Two envelopes problem

39

8

Wikipedia page for each emoji

17

9

13

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

Stop making me sign up

194

2

185

3

Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost

99

4

How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll

95

5

Teach kids programming A collection of resources

75

6

Why are there so few male programmers?

53

7

What Women Dont Want

47

8

What Women Dont Want

45

9

Identify with email: no need for passwords

43

10

A startup accelerator for the worlds poorest

43

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?

308

2

How To Do: Form based website authentication

4

3

Happy Programmer Day Here Is Some Funny Jokes

2

4

What does Docker add to just plain LXC?

2

5

How javascript World works?

2

6

List of Big-Os for php functions

1

7

C++ - What is the name of this operator: --> ?

1

8

`def` vs `val` vs `lazy val` evaluation in Scala

1

9

Websites that are particularly challenging to crawl and scrape?

1

10

Scala Persistence Frameworks (SOF)

1

Substack [?]