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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

834

2

659

3

f.lux has been updated to a new version

582

4

How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage

493

5

Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year

439

6

Why we revert to original titles

414

7

Introducing government.github.com

414

8

408

9

Interactive Resume

402

10

Googles iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

398

Top Ask HN

1

Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?

113

2

I'm afraid I will always be a mediocre developer

84

3

Do you see the future in Go?

56

4

Should I go to Sweden for work?

45

5

How many of you contribute to Wikipedia?

32

6

How do you store and organize your startup ideas?

26

7

My father is so obese he'll likely die from a heart attack this year

24

8

Thoughts on our MVP that helps people find a better career?

19

9

Pay Rent With Micro Equity?

18

10

Best Text Adventure games?

18

Top Show HN

1

My x86 emulator written in JavaScript

740

2

174

3

WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary

145

4

YinYang, a usable live programming language

132

5

My Turbo Pascal compiler in JavaScript

98

6

Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

77

7

Food News - HN Clone Built With Django and Drum, Uses Persona for Auth

75

8

Find members of Congress with similar voting records

67

9

A Dashboard for External Monitors

64

10

hr.js - Build large client-side applications in a structured way

61

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Googles iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary

398

2

Youre infectedif you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

365

3

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts

231

4

The Navys newest warship is powered by Linux

181

5

New effort to fully audit TrueCrypt raises $16,000+ in a few short weeks

158

6

Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages

132

7

GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

131

8

India to launch its first mission to Mars [video]

130

9

Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop App for Android and iOS

127

10

Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system

108

News [?]

1

The Russia Left Behind

355

2

Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

303

3

Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

253

4

To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting

246

5

Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain

242

6

Only a few countries are teaching children how to think

216

7

Cockroach farms multiplying in China

143

8

France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report

141

9

Kids Were Terrified of Getting MRIs. Then One Man Figured Out a Better Way

139

10

Maam, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

136

Scientific publications [?]

1

Laundering Money Online: A review of cybercriminals methods

47

2

Top Websites Secretly Track Your Device Fingerprint

6

3

Astronomers say asteroid might collide with Earth in 2032

2

4

Physicists prove Heisenberg's intuition correct

2

5

A grand unified theory of exotic superconductivity?

2

6

Feynman wasn't joking: Modeling quantum dynamics with ground state wavefunctions

2

7

New particle might make quantum condensation at room temperature possible

2

8

Robo Raven Flies on Solar Power

1

9

Chaos-on-a-chip model shows market bubbles may be predictable, controllable

1

10

Willow Garage spin-off Unbounded Robotics unveils $35k robot

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service

298

2

196

3

Google Cloud Datastore

75

4

Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

65

5

Challenges in Distributed Systems (Andy Gross, Basho)

40

6

Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

13

7

Stripe site redesigned

10

8

Saint John's is the first Catholic church to accept Bitcoin donations

9

9

The Trajectories of Government and Corporate Surveillance

8

10

NSA Harvesting Contact Lists

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Nvidia's G-Sync: Attempting to Revolutionize Gaming via Smoothness

179

2

HP Chromebook 11 Review

55

3

EFF Files Challenge With Patent Office Against Troll's Podcasting Patent

2

4

Hollywood, Take Note: New Website Shows Movie Watchers Can't Get What They Want

2

5

Anandtech's Surface Pro 2 Review

2

6

Anandtech's Surface 2 Review

2

7

Another Year, Another Electronic Privacy Veto for California Governor Brown

1

8

Facebook advertisers see 1,790% higher returns on iOS than Android

1

9

California man sues Apple CEO Tim Cook over automatic iOS 7 update

1

10

Touch ID possibly coming to the new iPads

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

93

2

Amazon CloudFront Support for POST, PUT and other HTTP Methods

5

3

Announcing AWS Activate

3

4

Second edition of the OpenStack Cookbook released

3

5

Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as SVP of Retail and Online Stores

2

6

Amazon introduces startup program

2

7

AWS Activate - resources for startups

1

8

Visual Studio 2013 is Released

1

9

Matt Lieberman's Social: Why our brains are wired to connect

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Making HTTP realtime with HTTP 2.0

135

2

Startup School 2013 Notes

103

3

IsoHunt Shuts Down Early to Block Backup Plan

6

4

Pirate Bays Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 1,000,000 Downloads

4

5

Game Devs Abuse Copyright to Censor Negative YouTube Review

4

6

Making Money from Movie Streaming Sites, an Insiders Story

4

7

Y Combinators Startup School lecture notes .

3

8

ArchiveTeam Works Hard to Avert isoHunt Data Massacre

3

9

Megaupload Raid ‘Destroyed’ (Way) More Than 10,000,000 Legal Files

3

10

IPad Predictions, Revisited. Will Apple go for market share?

2

Science News [?]

1

How Science Figured Out the Age of the Earth

26

2

Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes

7

3

Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime

6

4

The Artist of the Unbreakable Code

5

5

Beyond antibiotics: 'PPMOs' offer new approach to bacterial infection

4

6

New botox super-toxin has its details censored

4

7

Matterhorn (a mountain in the Alps) mapped by fleet of drones in just 6 hours

3

8

Shutdown Ends, But US Antarctic Research Still on Thin Ice

2

9

Googles terms and conditions are less readable than Beowulf

2

10

Reprogrammed bacterium speaks new language of life

2

Social [?]

1

What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs

49

2

New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage

32

3

The True Story of How Amazon Went from Bedlam to Behemoth

21

4

Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?

17

5

Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?

12

6

Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?

12

7

MacBook Air 2013 display lag

11

8

Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization

7

9

SpaceX Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)

7

10

Creating iOS 7 in Microsoft Word

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing government.github.com

414

2

Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish

353

3

PredictionIO – A machine learning server

198

4

Unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email in one click

173

5

Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

140

6

Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

139

7

Potion 0.1 released

72

8

Modeling your App's User Session

62

9

Startup School notes on GitHub

53

10

Jor1k – OpenRISC 1000 Platform Emulator in JS, Launches Linux with X or Wayland

47

Wikipedia [?]

1

Illegal Prime Numbers

172

2

The Two Cultures

144

3

61

4

38

5

In 1897, an Indiana bill was going to redefine Pi

31

6

5

7

Tsar Bomba: Largest weapon ever used.

5

8

God's algorithm

3

9

South Sea Company

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Y Combinator applicant advice

81

2

How to Meet the Rich, Famous, and Powerful While Sitting on the Toilet (YC S12)

10

3

The 5 AM principle - 4 hrs of uninterrupted work

10

4

Postmortem of a Venture-Backed, Acquired Startup

9

5

Emoticons are the future of communication

8

6

Remote Working Policy At Trak.io

8

7

The abundance of slowness

4

8

How to Meet the Rich, Famous and Powerful While Sitting on the Toilet

4

9

Y Combinator Combinator 2014

4

10

How Letting Go of Money Made me More of it

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (2009)

133

2

Map Tiling Algorithm HTML5 and JavaScript RPG

85

3

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

29

4

How can Square Cash rely on the authenticity of the email sender?

3

5

How to Reverse a String in Place in C?

2

6

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

2

7

Static Race Condition Detection

2

8

Python: How to work with CSV like having a two-dimensional array?

2

9

Why we don't use iOS Storyboards and you shouldn't either

2

10

Various techniques to implement internal DSLs in Java

2

Substack [?]