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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

1056

2

Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM

874

3

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

626

4

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

617

5

After 180 Websites, Im Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

602

6

Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords

587

7

567

8

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

562

9

W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards

500

10

Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

486

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (October 2013)

359

2

Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?

144

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)

102

4

Going back to programming

70

5

In 2016, will Rails & Django be competitive against newer technologies?

59

6

How do you manage passwords in teams?

55

7

Would you hire a coder just by looking at GitHub contributions?

43

8

Source of extra income, no programming involved?

43

9

Is C# suitable for creating a modern OS like Windows 7?

36

10

Should I get mentored by this guy?

32

Top Show HN

1

"Who is hiring" mapped

277

2

260

3

Introducing Harp A static web server with built in preprocessing

217

4

Hiro Fast and responsive notetaking meets semantic search

149

5

Native apps for the browser

139

6

102

7

UI improvements for Jenkins

89

8

Mummify Preserve web content, fight link rot

86

9

Upbeat, HN for music - Node + Redis + Angular + Soundcloud

74

10

Pix.pe Easily sharable pixel art

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

562

2

Lavabit founder turned over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout

231

3

Feds: Silk Road boss paid $80,000 for snitchs torture and murder

139

4

French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux

135

5

Windows Phone doubles share in Europe, trails iPhone by only 1% in Germany

99

6

Note 3s benchmarking adjustments inflate scores by up to 20%

98

7

Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

94

8

SimplyInsured (YC W13) raises $750K to simplify health insurance

87

9

How To Lose Your Best Employees

83

10

Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete With Google Now

78

News [?]

1

FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

1056

2

Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

626

3

Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

617

4

Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation

460

5

Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab

452

6

And Then Steve Said, Let There Be an iPhone

359

7

Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years

320

8

'Tor Stinks' presentation read the full document

281

9

MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation

233

10

How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font

206

Scientific publications [?]

1

How do Nobel laureates spend their prize money?

29

2

Scientists who share data publicly receive more citations

8

3

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.

5

4

Boston Dynamics Announces New WildCat Quadruped Robot

4

5

NASA website down to due to lack of Govt funding

4

6

A new form of encryption could make practically unhackable code

4

7

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, nasa.gov is not available.

3

8

These Robots Will Stop the Jellyfish Invasion

3

9

Physicists use blind quantum computing to verify results of quantum computer

2

10

Computer scientists develop new approach to sort cells up to 38 times faster

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

425

2

Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf]

254

3

AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation

116

4

OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers

108

5

NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody

90

6

Core.Typed Adds an Optional Type System to Clojure

84

7

Ensuring Randomness with Linux's Random Number Generator

17

8

How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID

14

9

Why reports of Bitcoins death are greatly exaggerated

13

10

Adobe To Announce Source Code, Customer Data Breach

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial

259

2

Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows

216

3

Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word

128

4

A Retro, Not Steampunk, Media Center

78

5

The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks

42

6

Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C

23

7

The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe

8

8

They're (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks

7

9

NSA Tracked US Cell Phone Locations For Two Years

6

10

47 Prominent Technologists to NSA: We Need Better Technical Oversight

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

"One Move Too Many". The $3750 rock-climbing book.

4

2

Steve Ballmer's final shareholder letter

3

3

Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed

1

4

Amazon Web Services Spotathon

1

5

FREE DOWNLOAD - Growth Hacking Case Studies

1

6

4 Steps to The Epiphany on Kindle

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go 1.1 Function Calls

111

2

"Seventy-Two Letters", by Ted Chiang

3

3

On 'brainwashing' and cults

2

4

Lock-in or Change any Airfare without Penalty. Would you use our product?

2

5

Facial Hair in the tech world

2

6

Why did I leave IBM Research? (2006)

2

7

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome

1

8

StopFileLockers Anti-Piracy Outfit Announces Imminent Shutdown

1

9

Which ICANN domain name registrar have you registered your domain?

1

10

MQTT vs CoAP, which protocol is best for Internet of Things devices?

1

Science News [?]

1

Archaeology: The milk revolution

113

2

First physical evidence of why you're an owl or a lark

76

3

Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years

45

4

Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

37

5

Ancient supervolcanoes revealed on Mars

5

6

Deadly lake turns animals into statues

4

7

Ethics: Taboo genetics

4

8

Formula predicts research papers' future citations

3

9

Deadly lake turns animals into statues

3

10

'Higgsogenesis' proposed to explain dark matter

3

Social [?]

1

Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement

395

2

Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls, Hang Up

53

3

I'm Glenn Greenwald - Ask Me Anything

26

4

US Capitol is on lockdown. Shots heard.

17

5

Noam Chomsky: The Singularity is Science Fiction [video]

16

6

Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online

9

7

Robot solving a rubik's cube in 1 second

9

8

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

7

9

Silk Road founder arrested

6

10

Massive iPhone activation errors

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Lmctfy: Google's Linux application container stack

287

2

Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace

209

3

GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala

119

4

Bluebird A full-featured, fast promises library for JavaScript

87

5

Source Code for the book Machine Learning Systems with Python

87

6

Launched my iOS game as Open Source

78

7

Jester, a Sinatra-like web framework for Nimrod

67

8

Warden: CloudFoundry's Linux container library

46

9

Draft for an AngularJS style guide

44

10

Iglo - transform your markdown-based API spec into interactive web documentation

32

Wikipedia [?]

1

Illegal number - Wikipedia

13

2

High beta fusion reactor

5

3

World Vegetarian Day

3

4

Albert Einstein's brain

3

5

Unreported employment

3

6

Tizard Mission: WW2 Transfer of all R&D work completed by UK to USA

3

7

United States federal government shutdown of 2013

3

8

Secure Remote Password protocol

2

9

Impact of the US government shutdown

2

10

List of U.S. Government shutdowns

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms

86

2

The size of the shadow banking system estimated according to power law

53

3

Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valleys Cognitive Dissonance

42

4

Argh Theres an asshole on my internet

32

5

From disgruntled developer, to founder, to burnout

29

6

How Dread Pirate Roberts got caught

22

7

How to sink an Aircraft Carrier

15

8

Why I am working on Artificial General Intelligence

14

9

Lifestyles of the Rich, Young and Homeless

13

10

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?

10

2

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

6

3

Dread Pirate Roberts' questions on StackOverflow

4

4

How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?

2

5

Silk Road Downfall: How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?

2

6

How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?

2

7

Writing a C# version of haskell infinite fibonacci series function

1

8

Why is the compiler too stupid to see the difference

1

9

Cross-platform tools for feature phones - options?

1

10

Minidom:Get all the attributes of a selected node?

1

Substack [?]