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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

1525

2

Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned Rockstar sues Google

766

3

Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

708

4

I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb

550

5

Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

548

6

Does life end after 35?

505

7

433

8

It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?

422

9

Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

397

10

Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

395

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (November 2013)

225

2

Where do you find interesting papers to read?

120

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)

114

4

Getting paid to work on open source full-time?

105

5

Your best passive income sources?

83

6

Why is PGP not used widely?

83

7

What do you think of job hopping?

81

8

How does the US manage to have no bribery at lower levels?

71

9

how do cold calls/emails work for you?

36

10

Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

34

Top Show HN

1

Real-time file sharing site

205

2

Gmelius No Ads and Better User Interface for Gmail

153

3

RinohType A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python

145

4

Game where you write Python robots to fight other players

139

5

Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people within 1 mile

118

6

Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16

118

7

I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust

110

8

Backtick – A console for bookmarklets and scripts

93

9

See where in the world the F-bomb is being dropped

58

10

An open-source mobile RPG engine in CoffeeScript

50

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned Rockstar sues Google

766

2

Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

395

3

MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete

286

4

Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information

264

5

The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android

240

6

Microsoft Research uses Kinect to translate between spoken and sign languages

151

7

NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Heres Why You Should Learn to Code

149

8

Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups

139

9

New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use

116

10

HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data

108

News [?]

1

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

1525

2

Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

377

3

NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you

280

4

All around the world, labour is losing out to capital

202

5

Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S.

194

6

An interview with Bill Gates

152

7

25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees

149

8

Stalin's Rope Roads

148

9

Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service

146

10

Is The Economist left- or right-wing?

114

Scientific publications [?]

1

Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable

192

2

Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time

53

3

Scientists identify a mathematical 'crystal ball' that may predict calamities

28

4

Quantum reality more complex than previously thought

6

5

The Unreasonable Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining

5

6

Future Internet aims to sever links with servers

3

7

The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated

3

8

Huge Martian Landforms' Detail Revealed By European Probe [video]

3

9

Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI

2

10

Relational Databases and Quantum Mechanics

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Battle for Power on the Internet

226

2

The 3.12 kernel is out

102

3

Adobe Breach Impacted at Least 38 Million Users

92

4

Stripe adds metadata to API

46

5

Western Union: Bitcoin isnt ready for international money transfer yet

33

6

New Stripe Design

11

7

NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks

9

8

Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride

8

9

RedFury 2.6GH USB bitcoin miner now available

4

10

The Trouble With Types

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues

267

2

iPad Air Review

113

3

Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life

68

4

Trolls, Watch Out: Senator Hatch Introduces New Patent Legislation

64

5

Henri Lamiraux, iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves Apple after 23 years

36

6

Sen. Dianne Feinsteins New NSA Bill Will Codify and Extend Mass Surveillance

6

7

Online Anonymity Is Not Only for Trolls and Political Dissidents

4

8

EFF Asks Court to Review California's Warrantless DNA Collection Anew

4

9

Google Announces The Nexus 5: AnandTech

2

10

Congress Must Not Fast Track TPP to Ratification

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998

371

2

Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max

96

3

Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live

72

4

Apple Products and EU-wide Consumer Laws

35

5

What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon

23

6

MacKenzie Bezos posts Amazon review of book about [her husband] Jeff Bezos

4

7

Amazon's Kindle Matchbook is now Live

4

8

The Circle - Dave Eggers

4

9

Kindle MatchBook

3

10

MacKenzie Bezos reviews the new book on Amazon - The Everything Store

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features

196

2

Archive.org: Play Castle Wolfenstein in your browser

44

3

RIAA and BPI Use Pirated Code on Their Websites

14

4

Too Much Cash Causes Pirate Admin to Quit

5

5

RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations

5

6

RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations

2

7

Intel seizes their opportunity

2

8

IsoHunt Resurrected Less Than Two Weeks After $110 Million MPAA Deal

2

9

Daily Goals Calendar [Google Spreadsheet]

2

10

Archived Copy of Missing Healthcare.gov Repo

1

Science News [?]

1

The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes

69

2

Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials

48

3

Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer

22

4

Genome hacker uncovers largest-ever family tree

6

5

Mini space shuttle crash-lands after free-flight test

4

6

Yellowstone magma reservoir two and a half times larger than previously thought

4

7

Root of maths genius sought

4

8

Surprising Variation Among Genomes of Individual Neurons from Same Brain

4

9

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens

2

10

Neuroscientists Discover New 'Mini-Neural Computer' in the Brain

2

Social [?]

1

My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

195

2

Few successful entrepreneurs blog

175

3

Uber CEO responds to concern that Uber's SF service is decreasing in quality

107

4

What are the hottest startups in The Valley right now?

15

5

How one schizophrenic discriminates between hallucinations and true perceptions

12

6

Python is the only programming language in LinkedIn's 2013 Most Demanded Skills.

10

7

Living in a Surveillance State: Mikko Hypponen at TEDxBrussels

10

8

I can't stop looking at this cat

6

9

15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes

6

10

Edward Snowden AMA

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js

270

2

Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source

155

3

Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself

103

4

Hylas-Lisp - A JIT-compiled Lisp targeting LLVM

94

5

Facebook Perl source code from 2005

85

6

Clojure RethinkDB client library released

79

7

Wisp: Small-but-featureful embeddable Lisp interpreter written in Haskell

69

8

59

9

Note to recruiters

57

10

Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

53

Wikipedia [?]

1

189

2

Ant On A Rubber Rope

55

3

PLATO (computer system)

51

4

Manhole cover thought to be propelled into space

21

5

Highly Sensitive Person

8

6

Powered exoskeleton suit HAL 5 (driven by nerve impulses)

6

7

Quantum Mechanics

4

8

Shakuntala Devi's 84th Birthday

3

9

2

10

List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible

88

2

My first buffer overflow exploit: pretty easy

43

3

Mechanical Turk is Insecure

42

4

Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy

34

5

Scammed by Amazon's "A-to-Z Guarantee"

24

6

Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect

16

7

My employees reviewed me, and I kind of suck

16

8

What it's like to be a male in tech, and then a female

13

9

The real cost of outsourcing work to the cheapest bidder

12

10

Payments by Apple is Coming

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color? (2011)

179

2

Why does subtracting these two times give a strange result? (2011)

41

3

Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance

18

4

StackOverflow down

5

5

What is your single most favorite command-line trick using Bash

2

6

Python: Recommended way to walk complex dictionary?

2

7

How do sleep() functions work?

2

8

Cosmic Rays: what is the probability they will affect a program?

2

9

Stackoverflow is down

2

10

How to replicate Google "Hangouts On Air" stream combining functionality?

2

Substack [?]