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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
674
2
What I've been up to for the past year
598
3
Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
519
4
Ghost Launches to The Public
452
5
The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
442
6
A list of free programming books
435
7
Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked
405
8
Why Microsoft Word must die
403
9
What I learned from getting my side project acquired
378
10
T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts
372
Top Ask HN
1
Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?
73
2
Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
56
3
I found documents on the backseat of a taxi. Can I legally use them?
38
4
Inbox for everything?
27
5
What SSL certificate provider are you using and why?
20
6
Why are POS systems all POSes?
17
7
Which JavaScript framework is worth investing time in?
17
8
What do you think of my MVP for a simple expense tracking web app?
16
9
How can I become a better programmer?
15
10
I want to write a Sci-fi book. Where do I start?
14
Top Show HN
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I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility
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NSString + Ruby
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3
FriendCode Reinventing coding with the cloud
36
4
BandHub - The Internet Recording Studio
35
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Reportr - Your life's personal dashboard
33
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Encrypted end-to-end file transfer
30
7
Check out our new 'Open Company' page
28
8
Proof-of-concept Node.JS-like interface with iOS 7 JavaScriptCore
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9
Exposure, a way to build photo narratives
12
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DesignerBoard - Behance, Dribbble and DesignerNews, all in one
10
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Formula 1s Leading Team Has a Big Secret
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If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
257
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Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name
240
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Mozillas Firefox OS Gets First Update, Heads for Second Phase of Launches
121
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DoJ: If we can track one American, we can track all Americans
104
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SpaceXs Grasshopper rocket hover to a new high of 2,441 feet before relanding
96
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Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads
89
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TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden internet
87
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Xero Raises Another $150M to Do Battle With Intuit in Online Accounting Software
80
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Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In SF
71
News [?]
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Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started
320
2
How Lavabit Melted Down
279
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Demands on Lavabit violated Fourth Amendment, lawyers say
191
4
What is the Higgs?
133
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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
133
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Londons Great Exodus
128
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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
122
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Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise
116
9
How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?
101
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Why Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy?
101
Scientific publications [?]
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A strange lonely planet found without a star
146
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Arizona solar plant achieves six hours after sun goes down
121
3
Personal Drones Fly Above Burning Man
42
4
Emotional and persuasive perception of fonts
31
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Scientists take a quieter step closer to first practical quantum computer
18
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Scientists create first computer-designed superconductor
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Hiding Data in a Heartbeat
3
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High Quality Graphene Could Soon Be Produced in Bulk
2
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Launching Drones Off the Summit of the Matterhorn
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Bending world's thinnest glass shows atoms' dance for first time (w/video)
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Dev Blogs [?]
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Air Gaps
329
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Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random
123
3
Firefox OS Update Adds New Features, Performance Improvements
106
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Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers
95
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Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements
72
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The Functional Database [video]
72
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Feds Arrest Alleged Top Silk Road Drug Seller
51
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AMD Intentionally Crippled Their HDMI Adapters
49
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Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street
19
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Firefox OS 1.1 Adds New Features, Performance Improvements and Language Support
13
Tech blogs [?]
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Dear Google, Commit Your Broad Patents to a Defensive License
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IPhone app turns your iPhone 5c and case into Connect Four board
27
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EFF Explains: How The NSA Deploys Malware
8
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EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative
7
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A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs
5
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New Report Finds Obamas Policies Threaten an Independent Press
5
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EFF Submits Comments to National Intelligence's Review Group
5
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The Gov Shutdown is Great News For Those Who Don’t Want NSA Accountability
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Supreme Court of India - Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails Must Be Used
3
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EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative
2
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Activate
77
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Amazon.com is selling Uranium Ore
19
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Apple store down. Product refresh coming?
2
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Amazon Now Shipping Chromecast Internationally
2
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USB 3.0 Flash Drive: LaCie Xtreme Key - Not as tough as it looks
2
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Write Good or Die [Kindle Edition] for free
1
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Microsoft Ebook: SQL/NoSQL/Polyglot, C#-based examples
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Backdoor found in D-Link Routers
10
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UK Police Orders Registrars to Suspend Domains of Major Torrent Sites
7
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The Copyright Monopoly Can Only Be Enforced With Mass Wiretapping
5
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Seized Torrent Domains Must Be Released Says Domain Registrar
4
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Google-Backed File-Sharing Service Spreads Malware
3
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BitTorrent Mastermind Behind Controversial NSA Billboard Campaign
3
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Spotify: Labels Thought We Were No Better Than The Pirate Bay
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Comcast Begins the Crack Down on Internet Pirates
2
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A Practical Introduction to Data Science Skills
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BitTorrent Inc. Doesnt Care About Your Privacy, Not Always
2
Science News [?]
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Two-laser boron fusion lights the way to radiation-free energy
76
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Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease
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Open access: The true cost of science publishing
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Fish oils don't slow mental decline
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The missing piece to changing the university culture
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Long-lived Salamanders Offer Clues to Aging
10
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Mathematics links Quantum Encryption and Black Holes
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Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Shrug over the NSA Hacking
4
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Did you have a good time? We know where you'll store the memory of it
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New Magic Number inside Atoms Discovered
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Social [?]
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SpaceX Grasshopper 744m test flight [video]
164
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Startup School 2013 - Facebook's Group
62
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FlashCache at Facebook from 2010 to 2013 and beyond
40
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15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
16
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Writing a Spotify Client in Emacs in 16 Minutes
15
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Emacs Rocks Live at WebRebels (2012)
9
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Facebook for Android has over 1 million beta testers, starts alpha program
7
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Steam Controller Demonstration
7
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Interview with Theo De Raadt about the OpenBSD project
7
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Flashcache at Facebook: 2010 to 2013 and beyond
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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A list of free programming books
435
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Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
303
3
Ggplot2 for python
178
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TextTeaser An automatic summarization algorithm
177
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Healthcare.gov has disappeared from CMSGov's GitHub account
107
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Web-mode.el an Emacs major mode for editing HTML templates
105
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GitHub: "BUG: Government occasionally shuts down"
76
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Payphone Project
63
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QML support for the Go language
48
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Yeoman Generator for WordPress + Vagrant + Multi-env
45
Wikipedia [?]
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Space roar
107
2
X32 ABI
62
3
Jewish Nobel Laureates
45
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Soyuz 11
45
5
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
35
6
Year 2038 Problem
12
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Chekhov's gun
10
8
Homo floresiensis
10
9
Pythagorean cup
6
10
APT-RPM
2
Blogs [?]
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Okay, Feminism, Its Time We Had a Talk About Empathy
28
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Is This What It’s Like For Women At Every Conference?
13
3
Where are the numbers? Grace Hopper 2013
12
4
WTF is a Hackathon?
12
5
Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code
12
6
Does Your Startup Use Google Apps? When People Send You Emails, They Bounce
10
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Tab: Startup To Shutdown
10
8
Why Genomics now? Advent of opportunities for people in tech
10
9
Sleeping with My Cofounder & Crashing Weddings
10
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Fuck You, I Got Mine
9
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word linux as the constant 1?
260
2
Naming conventions: State versus Status
4
3
Hidden features of Python
3
4
Submodules in Objective-C in iOS 7 SDK
2
5
Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp
2
6
What is your best programmer joke?
2
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Write a program to find 100 largest numbers from array of 1 billion numbers.
2
8
Why use .h1 instead of actual h1?
2
9
Stackoverflow: What is node.js?
2
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Any benefit in using ServiceStack over ASP.NET WebAPI, still?
1
Substack [?]