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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1286

2

Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"

1179

3

We Work Remotely New Job Board from 37 Signals

578

4

564

5

Why You Should Never Use MongoDB

561

6

Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

503

7

462

8

Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe

429

9

Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket

386

10

384

Top Ask HN

1

To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do you solve?

143

2

What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?

128

3

Remote workers, tell us how you got started

78

4

What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

75

5

Is Java still worth learning?

53

6

Best companies to work for in the US which don't have media coverage?

53

7

How to safely switch to programming?

49

8

Is C++ still worth learning?

37

9

why are my 'show HN' posts ignored every single time?

33

10

YC rejected. Now an acquisition scenario came up. Help?

31

Top Show HN

1

I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement

366

2

Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

364

3

No YC interview, but here's my application

135

4

Built a 'Kayak for courier services'

91

5

Left Buzzfeed to launch this

90

6

75

7

Resize images using the FFT

58

8

Open-sourcing my rejected iOS app, In-Stock

54

9

WebMenu, a platform to discover new web apps

51

10

I built a Chrome extension to donate to charities while on Amazon

47

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

462

2

Everpix was great. This is how it died

294

3

Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses

146

4

Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the Surveillance Internet

134

5

Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent

123

6

UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages

121

7

Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire

113

8

How Minecraft Was Born

106

9

The American Who Designed the PlayStation 4 and Remade Sony

95

10

Microsoft Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps

80

News [?]

1

Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs'

340

2

Silk Road 2.0 Launches

296

3

Typhoon Haiyan kills 10,000 in Philippines

293

4

The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation

268

5

Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death

174

6

The Curious Case of Polywater

158

7

South Korea is stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping

151

8

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

130

9

Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties?

129

10

The NY Times endorsed a secretive trade agreement that the public cant read

119

Scientific publications [?]

1

U.K. town to deploy driverless pods to replace busses

6

2

Quadrotor Wheel Can Fly, Float, and Roll

4

3

Marc Raibert: What's New Since BigDog? (IROS 2013 Keynote)

2

4

NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroid Spouting Six Comet-Like Tails

2

5

First study results of Russian Chelyabinsk meteor published

2

6

Wireless device converts 'lost' energy into electric power

2

7

IROS 2013: Quadrotor Wheel Can Fly, Float, and Roll

2

8

Robot Cars Get Hyper-Maneuverable With Actuated Tails

2

9

Self-correcting crystal may lead to next generation communication tech

1

10

How do I track where GOCE will fall?

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Two years of production Go at CloudFlare

168

2

Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web

148

3

Mozilla Circus 0.10 released

80

4

Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach

39

5

Efficient float32 arithmetic in JavaScript

24

6

Debian Trying Out Xfce Over GNOME By Default

8

7

Why the Government Should Help Leakers

8

8

Radeon graphics performance improves dramatically in Linux 3.12

4

9

Firefox now preinstalled on some Android devices

4

10

"Functional Reactive Programming in Elm" by Evan Czaplicki

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read?

287

2

NSA's Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism

136

3

The Raspberry Pi Becomes a Form Factor

50

4

Can An 8-Node Raspberry Pi Cluster Web Server Survive Hackaday?

18

5

Executive Order 12333

8

6

EFF Files 22 Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association

6

7

Apple Issues First Transparency Report, Includes "

3

8

San Diego Gets in Your Face With New Mobile Identification System

2

9

Aaron Swartz Hackathons This Weekend to Continue his Work

2

10

Steve Wozniak Says Jobs Movie Got Lots of Things Wrong

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography

241

2

The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down

148

3

Amazon is selling Cars

40

4

Amazon's First Employee Reviews The Everything Store

7

5

Report on Government Information Requests

6

6

Why are lightweight fonts considered "modern?"

5

7

How Mac Pro is built

2

8

Send to Kindle Button for Websites

2

9

Elastic Load Balancing Announces Cross-Zone Load Balancing

2

10

STYLESHEETS ARRIVE. The Microsoft guide to CSS c. 1997 still live.

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Nameless: A Graph-based programming language

15

2

European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing

6

3

Mega Exits Beta With 5 Million Users and Big Plans

5

4

BitTorrent Sync Hits 1 Million Users, 30 Petabytes Transfered

4

5

Piracy Release Group Has Been Spying on Downloaders For 9 Months

4

6

No Ordinary Bootcamp: HBR Review of Trilogy's Corporate Training

2

7

European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing

2

8

An Open Mind: The Modern Gospel of Wealth

1

9

Hotfile Wants MPAA to Stop Using Piracy, Theft and Stealing Terms in Court

1

10

Krugman - Why most economists' predictions are wrong (1998)

1

Science News [?]

1

Fourier Transforms The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpsons Face

340

2

First sign that humanity is slowing its carbon surge

45

3

Black Holes in Globular Star Clusters, Upsetting 40 Years of Theory

6

4

NSA was snooping Tech companies' Fiber Optic network

3

5

Republican proposal puts 'national interest' requirement on US science agency

3

6

Fountain-of-youth gene unleashes healing power

2

7

"Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema"

2

8

An oil crash is on its way and we should be ready

2

9

Neuroscientist reflects on his life with Parkinson's disease

2

10

The Psychological Power of Satan

2

Social [?]

1

Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

503

2

Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook

306

3

Facebook Publications

170

4

Twitter just priced its IPO

13

5

The Four Rule Plan To Have a Better and More Productive Life

11

6

Reddit user describes IBM's work culture

10

7

I just lost 301BTC ($70,000+) on blockchain.info. USE 2FA / Cold wallets

10

8

Redditor explains difference between interning at Google and Microsoft

9

9

A 5 year old genius turns down a Sony tablet on Jimmy Kimmel

7

10

Nudge: an IDE in your browser

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub's Explore Email

214

2

Frege: A JVM pure functional programming language in the spirit of Haskell

185

3

Android Bootstrap

137

4

Flaskr: Intro to Flask, Test-Driven Development, and jQuery

95

5

OpenNote an open web-based alternative to Microsoft OneNote and EverNote

87

6

100% Compression Using Pi

86

7

Lans.py: capture usernames, passwords, messages and inject arbitrary HTML

62

8

Domain-Specific VPN Router

51

9

Ruining the diversity of JavaScript community with a coding style guide

45

10

Isowall: Mini-firewall that completely isolates a device from the local network

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

Preferred number

136

2

87

3

83

4

The Wikipedia Adventure

43

5

List of mathematical symbols

39

6

Two envelopes problem

11

7

9

8

Worse is Better

8

9

CryptoLocker malware encrypts your files and demands a Bitcoin ransom

4

10

4

Blogs [?]

1

Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge

136

2

Why Hardware Development is Hard, Part 2: The Physical World is Unforgiving

88

3

Why Hardware Development Is Hard, Part 1: Verilog Is Weird

79

4

Why I’m Not a TEDx Speaker

16

5

RubyConf;Why You Should Go Next Year and How to Convince Your Boss

13

6

Drinkups Are Rape Culture

12

7

Its not always about tech

10

8

Recruiting Advice No One Tells You

9

9

Why I Still Use an iPhone 4

8

10

Rails may be the wrong choice for your startup.

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is a y-combinator? (2008)

57

2

What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections? (2010)

42

3

What does `return function *(){}` mean in JavaScript?

40

4

How to save the output of a console.log(object) to a file?

3

5

Twitter Image Encoding Challenge

2

6

Emacs keybinding hall of fame/shame

2

7

Run JSLint on a .js file from debugging console in chrome or Firefox

1

8

Set non-conflicting toplevel path with show action in Rails 4

1

9

Javascript error messages, Custom object representation

1

10

How can I use goto in Javascript?

1

Substack [?]