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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Web Designer

1071

2

Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?

1038

3

Steam Controller

753

4

Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

611

5

Tessel: The end of web development as we know it

584

6

JetBrains releases open-source Python IDE

549

7

NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover I am setting them free

544

8

491

9

Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private

490

10

The shittiest project I ever worked on

487

Top Ask HN

1

How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?

99

2

How much savings did you have before quitting your industry job?

64

3

Have you made a profit mining Bitcoin?

34

4

What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

28

5

I am 33. Is there still time to make a career in web development?

18

6

what would you do with $750k that you just inherited?

17

7

My attempt at empowering companies to make better product decisions

16

8

Did your side project become your main source of income in 2013?

14

9

How to be Profitable in the App Store?

13

10

Are there still Lisp and Scheme jobs?

13

Top Show HN

1

Drawingboard.js

223

2

A free collection of maps for every country in the world, in 11 sizes

148

3

An app for developing great habits

85

4

Multiparty WebRTC video chat

75

5

Nightcode, the Clojure IDE, just hit 0.1.0

64

6

StartHQ - Chrome New Tab extension like the old tab page, but better

43

7

A search engine based on social signals

41

8

Escape from Bookmark Hell

39

9

Simple Bootstrap 3 Form Builder

36

10

Simplifying 401(k) Advice - Feedback?

32

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

373

2

PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M

308

3

Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver

266

4

Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the front page of the Internet

251

5

Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients

218

6

Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012)

199

7

Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, Hummingbird

185

8

Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage

165

9

Who rooted kernel.org servers two years ago?

141

10

Spain's new piracy penalty: Six years in jail

91

News [?]

1

Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples

289

2

Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens

280

3

N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens

258

4

At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

240

5

Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

206

6

NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show

198

7

We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better

175

8

Record Label Picks Copyright Fight With The Wrong Guy

161

9

A Prion Love Story

141

10

Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. Thats a good sign

132

Scientific publications [?]

1

World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

169

2

Stanford engineers build computer using carbon nanotube technology

64

3

Scientists Create New Form Of Matter

23

4

High resolution global climate mapping

18

5

London police use super recognizers to fight crime

5

6

"Eraser law will let California kids scrub online past"

4

7

'Accelerator on a chip' demonstrated

3

8

First Computer Made From Carbon Nanotubes Debuts

2

9

Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a 'Wow Moment

2

10

Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone

104

2

iOS 7 Tech Talks

96

3

Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service

77

4

An attempt to backdoor the kernel (2003)

26

5

Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service

22

6

Twitter handling 140K+ tweets/sec spike with fewer servers o_O

5

7

Gnome looks ready to remove middle-click paste

3

8

Firefox brings per-site Plugin activation

3

9

Natively Compiled Tables in SQL Server 2014

3

10

HTTP Performance Is a Solved Problem

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

UTF-8 "The most elegant hack"

306

2

Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer

249

3

Time to Speak Up Against the NSAs Mass Spying

7

4

After NSA Court Hearing, Government Must Unseal Documents by December 20

5

5

Apple announces Tech Talks for 2013, focus on iOS 7

4

6

AMD's Mantle - a low-level graphics api

3

7

Trusted Computing (2005)

2

8

Understanding AMDs Mantle: A Low-Level Graphics API For GCN

2

9

Carmack: AMD's Mantle API could help Steam Machines a lot

2

10

The Law Belongs To Everyone, We Tell Standards Organizations

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Updates iMac

100

2

Funniest Reviews

46

3

Microsoft Surface preorders are open with more info

2

4

Amazon introduces the Kindle Fire HDX

2

5

Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace

2

6

What do you think of the new Kindle Fire?

2

7

Power of 60: Get Started with Amazon Web Services

2

8

New Kindle Fire Tablets

2

9

Kindle Fire HDX Tablet - Personal Movie Tablet, Best College Tablet

1

10

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Future of AngularJS

266

2

Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Sentence Slashed in Half on Appeal

9

3

Today is Petrov Day

5

4

Google Removes BitTorrent From Piracy Search Filter

5

5

Proxy.sh VPN Provider Sniffed Server Traffic to Catch Hacker

5

6

Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Sentence Slashed in Half on Appeal

4

7

Warner Bros. DMCA Fraud and Abuse Case Goes to Jury

3

8

A map of Bay Area memespace

3

9

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

2

10

Can you trust your VPN provider?

2

Science News [?]

1

World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report

57

2

The Myth of Executive Stress

11

3

Kindergarten coders can program before they can read

5

4

Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code

5

5

Phantom authors publish real research paper

4

6

The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics

4

7

World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

3

8

Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter

3

9

How to see quantum gravity in Big Bang traces

3

10

Simulation reveals bureaucracies and religion arise from war

2

Social [?]

1

Microsoft Surface Pro 2

92

2

The Great Venture Capital Rotation

21

3

Aphyr Puts ZooKeeper, NuuDB, Kafka, & Cassandra To The Test [video]

7

4

Introducing PlayCanvas: Google Docs for Games

6

5

Bill Gates, full Harvard interview [2013]

5

6

Asana Co-Founder: How I Hire

5

7

TED: What will future jobs look like?

4

8

Video from Camera on Back of Eagle

4

9

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had his Top Execs Read these Three Books

4

10

IPhone 5S VS 5C VS 5 VS 4S VS 4 VS 3Gs VS 3G VS 2G

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mozilla's New Fira Typeface

317

2

A simple git branching model

210

3

A negative captcha

202

4

Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails

199

5

The proper way to contribute on Github

136

6

AFNetworking 2.0

126

7

Alfred 2 Workflows

114

8

Processing 6 billion records in 4 seconds on a home PC

91

9

Strangeloop 2013 slides

79

10

Symbolic Exploit Assistant (SEA)

68

Wikipedia [?]

1

How to get bias into a Wikipedia article

223

2

One-electron universe

182

3

Happy Petrov day

133

4

76

5

Cold Boot Attack

30

6

Linux kernel oops

8

7

8

8

Washington Monument Syndrome

7

9

Wikipedia exhaustively documents 'Have a nice day'

4

10

Principalagent problem

3

Blogs [?]

1

A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea

345

2

How we tripled our revenue by adding one button

237

3

Confusing UI in iOS7

236

4

It's time to take into account the dates on the Android app average rating

118

5

The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree

116

6

Mac apps are harder than iOS apps

79

7

Production Quality MongoDB Setup with Docker

34

8

Unapologetically Plastic, Artisanal Buns

34

9

On dashes, hyphens, and other important aspects of life.

30

10

De-Optimized Content

23

Stackoverflow [?]

1

A Positive Lambda: '+[]{}' What Sourcery Is This?

4

2

The best source code comments found on stackoverflow

2

3

Why shouldn't I use PyPy over CPython if PyPy is 6.3 times faster?

2

4

Merge multiple lines (two blocks) in Vim - daft punk style

2

5

Static-analysis with custom rules for JavaScript?

1

6

Python syntax highlighting under Vim Windows vs MacVim

1

7

Implementing Web Hooks for your application

1

8

IOS 7 Web App Bug - Broken links, Alerts & More

1

9

Excel: How can I add custom gridline to a chart?

1

10

Unable to login using curl (https+cookie+javascript authentication)

1

Substack [?]