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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1370

2

Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID

946

3

I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

905

4

Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big

684

5

Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being

558

6

How to Raise Money

514

7

A beginner's cheat sheet for web development

433

8

GitHub announces 3D File Diffs

418

9

Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

415

10

405

Top Ask HN

1

How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

431

2

How to become smarter?

48

3

Nepal's ccTLD registrar won't let devs update nameservers. What to do?

48

4

What should I learn next?

35

5

Why does evil succeed so well in our world?

18

6

Help? Despite years of trying, I cannot learn to program.

17

7

Tips for or mistakes to avoid when posting to Show HN

15

8

What email client do you use?

14

9

What forums/communities do you frequent aside from HN?

14

10

Breaking into Scientific Programming?

10

Top Show HN

1

UI Concept Focus Transition

375

2

Signal Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

142

3

Send Secret Messages over Twitter as Public Tweets

120

4

Lekh Diagram for Android A sketch recognition diagramming app

80

5

Solid, a scripting language with a tiny VM

60

6

Onions.io secure and open-source text storage in the cloud

36

7

Mr. Poole - A butler for Jekyll

20

8

BackerBook - a gallery of self-hosted crowdfunding campaigns

17

9

Self-signed certs as a service

16

10

UX Archive - The best way to compare iOS 6 and iOS 7 user flows

15

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apples iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices

284

2

Microsofts Hardware, Round 2: Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2

205

3

LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts

204

4

Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android

195

5

Diablo 3 to permanently remove its auction houses in March 2014

175

6

US Military Scientists Solve a Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing

159

7

CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’

153

8

The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions

145

9

Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving on Bitcoins

141

10

NASAs Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration

137

News [?]

1

Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

415

2

My Daughters Homework Is Killing Me

259

3

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

250

4

This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone

189

5

Obama administration urges FCC to require carriers to unlock mobile devices

174

6

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961

171

7

BlackBerry to cut 4,500 jobs, predicts 2nd quarter loss of $950M

151

8

Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet

143

9

Was This Whistle-Blower Muzzled?

136

10

WikiLeaks Leaks 'Fifth Estate' Screenplay

129

Scientific publications [?]

1

Orbital Sciences Space launch at 10:55am Eastern Time [video]

22

2

Anger is More Influential Than Joy: Sentiment Correlation in Weibo [pdf]

13

3

Tesla Working Towards 90 Percent Autonomous Car Within Three Years

6

4

Soldiers Can Get Emotionally Attached to Robots

6

5

The Interrupted Power Law and The Size of Shadow Banking

6

6

Math explains history: Simulation captures evolution of ancient societies

5

7

Time's quantum arrow has a preferred direction: confirm asymmetry (2012)

5

8

Coolhunting for the World's Thought Leaders

5

9

UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out

2

10

The Hidden Dangers of Chop-Shop Electronics

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Metadata Equals Surveillance

307

2

Rethinking the guest operating system

114

3

The Limitations of Intelligence

66

4

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

60

5

BEAST Cryptographic Attack Mitigations Overturned

35

6

OpenSUSE Looks To Switch To Btrfs For Next Release

7

7

Twitter Welcoming iOS 7

4

8

Game developer Bigpoints 330m users can now buy virtual goods with bitcoins

3

9

NSA Secrets Kill Our Trust

3

10

Tim Berglund on Product Owners, Product Development at GitHub [video]

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

The iPhone 5s Review

256

2

iOS App Store now allows legacy downloads to support older OSes

75

3

The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance

67

4

The iOS 7 review

49

5

The iPhone 5s Review

9

6

IOS 7 now blocking third-party Lightning cables

5

7

When Startups Seek Patent Trolls as Saviors, the System Has Failed

4

8

IOS7 first to support multipath TCP, simultaneous Wi-Fi and cell network

3

9

Why Touch ID is bigger news than any of us appreciated

3

10

The Analytical iPhone 5s Review - Comparative load time testing

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

39

2

Microsoft announces quarterly dividend increase and share repurchase program

33

3

3

4

The LaunchPad: Inside Y Combinator

2

5

IOS7, now available for the public

2

6

Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2

7

Apple's iOS7 now available to Public

1

8

1

9

Join the Amazon Marketplace Mobile team

1

10

Chromecast Back In Stock at Amazon

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

What Clayton Christensen got wrong

57

2

432 Million Internet Pirates Transfer 9,567 Petabytes of Data a Month

6

3

Pirate Party Crashes Spy Drone in Front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

5

4

MPAA and RIAA Teach Copyright at Kindergartens

3

5

Twitter Bug Requires Users to Torrent its Tweet Button

2

6

Alien-Level Tech Required To Crack New VPN Encryption Setup, Makers Say

2

7

Solving the two envelopes problem

2

8

What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong

2

9

How to Avoid the 29 Biggest Computer Mistakes (1993)

2

10

College Pirates? U.S. Universities Ranked by BitTorrent Usage

2

Science News [?]

1

Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction

230

2

Universe may be curved, not flat

36

3

How to Understand the Deep Structures of Language

4

4

Standing up for GMOs

4

5

The Emerging Ecology of Competitive Machines

3

6

Why We Should Choose Science over Beliefs (Michael Shermer)

3

7

Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently

3

8

Russian Academy of Sciences becomes property of Putin government

2

9

Earth's days are numbered

2

10

Vote Seals the Fate of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2

Social [?]

1

How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood [video]

57

2

Facebook is doomed

35

3

Tim Cook is on Twitter

11

4

LinkedIn Founder:"All these concerns about privacy tend to be old people issues"

10

5

Facebook is Doomed

8

6

A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity

7

7

We are SpaceX Software Engineers - We Launch Rockets into Space - AMA

7

8

NYPD is encouraging citizens to upgrade to iOS 7

5

9

Why Rails is hard (2012)

5

10

Tesla is working on self-driving cars

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub announces 3D File Diffs

418

2

351

3

RedScript like CoffeeScript, in Ruby

142

4

135

5

Git-cal - GitHub Activity Calendar for your Terminal

77

6

Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file

66

7

Tny: A simple data serializer in C

57

8

Most detailed Github issue ever

38

9

Introducing Syngr, my attempt at an Standard Library for PHP

34

10

Example Project Using Chicken Scheme on Android

34

Wikipedia [?]

1

236

2

Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome

47

3

Invention Secrecy Act

6

4

Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements (1974)

3

5

3

6

Stratospheric sulfate aerosols (geoengineering)

3

7

Homebrew (video games)

3

8

Helium: Modern extraction and distribution

2

9

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

How to Raise Money

514

2

CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret

347

3

215

4

Web development in C: Crazy?

175

5

133

6

No One Reads Kafka At Gitmo

120

7

Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of Sonar

61

8

The Commodore 64 Spike: A Freakonomics-ish Theory of CS Education

46

9

How I learned to Code

42

10

Science Breaks Free Startup Portrait #1: Microryza

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)

145

2

If PyPy is 6.3 times faster than CPython, why not just use it?

133

3

How can the Linux kernel compile itself?

30

4

WinSCP Bug on Windows?

3

5

Flash CS4 refuses to let go.

2

6

Use a Faraday cage to simulate low signal

2

7

Creating range in JS - strange syntax

2

8

Readdir() does not guarantee an order

1

9

Flash CS4 refuses to let go

1

10

Are Apple Mail plugin bundles sandboxed?

1

Substack [?]