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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used

1396

2

1320

3

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

1036

4

What 4chan thinks of HN

898

5

What It's Like to Fail

808

6

Dear Googles: Stop asking

724

7

A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?

639

8

Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

626

9

Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me

606

10

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

559

Top Ask HN

1

Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?

335

2

I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?

234

3

What are some good alternatives to HN?

170

4

Where can I find a software job that helps society?

93

5

CS Degree, felony conviction, need not apply?

73

6

Thoughts on Meteor.js?

67

7

Most successful startup that applied but never got into YC?

62

8

How do you back up your data?

43

9

Do you know of any startups working on wildlife/habitat conservation?

35

10

How do you get clients as a one-man dev shop?

23

Top Show HN

1

Gitter Chat for GitHub

226

2

My new project - ask.io

198

3

A game I've been working on for the last year is out today

155

4

A search engine that lets you 'add' words as vectors

142

5

We built our startup in 100 days

136

6

Voting Relationships in the US Senate

90

7

Hadoop in Excel

75

8

Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

51

9

50

10

Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson

49

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft does away with stack ranking

463

2

Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help

376

3

Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000

245

4

Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A Premium Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked

183

5

Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid

179

6

Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

175

7

You can't beat politics with new technology all the time

149

8

Internet architects propose encrypting all the world's web traffic

137

9

Time to abandon Gmail?

121

10

Google launches Portable Native Client

116

News [?]

1

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt

388

2

Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak

328

3

Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets

183

4

Europe approves use of in-flight electronics during take-off and landing

182

5

Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births

174

6

Alcohol without the hangover?

162

7

Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published

159

8

Switzerlands Proposal to Pay People

149

9

The plot against France

139

10

Qubit survives record 39 minutes at room temperature

138

Scientific publications [?]

1

Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?

216

2

Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries

2

3

Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia

2

4

Superconducting Video Camera Sees the Universe in Living Color

2

5

Watch the MAVEN launch live - 80 mins (or so) and counting ...

2

6

Robo-Stox: Investing in the Robotics Revolution

2

7

Ten Incredibly Dangerous Software Ideas [2006]

2

8

Flexible Mobile Devices Get a Flexible Battery Made From Nanotubes

2

9

A storage power plant on the seabed

2

10

Robots That Pay Attention To You

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

268

2

$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes

167

3

Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked, up to 4,000 user wallets emptied

99

4

Why China is leading the global rise of Bitcoin

79

5

Windows and Line of Business Applications: No Good Options

50

6

Microsoft ditches the stack ranking system. Yahoo lays off 600 because of it

29

7

24

8

13 Reasons Linux 3.13 Is Going To Be Very Exciting

12

9

Peter Thiel claims bitcoin has the potential to change the world

5

10

Anti-Theft Bitcoin Tracking Proposals Divide Bitcoin Community

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms

442

2

Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum

112

3

Reverse Engineering the Z80s 16-bit Increment/Decrement Circuit

17

4

Trademark Law Does Not Require Companies To Tirelessly Censor the Internet

9

5

MacRumors breached in smilar manner to Ubuntu forums

8

6

Apple iPad mini with Retina Display Reviewed

6

7

Interview: New Mill CPU Architecture Explanation for Humans

5

8

Retina iPad Mini Now Available

4

9

Apple Under Investigation for $1.3 Billion Italian Tax Fraud

4

10

EFF and Other Groups to NSA: Are You Spying on Our TPP Work?

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

559

2

Amazon WorkSpaces

464

3

Many PS4 units dead on arrival

185

4

Amazon AppStream

67

5

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

20

6

11

7

Amazon Kinesis: real-time processing of streaming data

8

8

96 tablets under $100

7

9

7

10

Microsoft infographic encouraging working while on vacation

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Warner Bros: Our False DMCA Takedowns Are Not a Crime

10

2

Bram Cohen Understands Why Pirates Prefer BitTorrent Over Netflix

4

3

20 Questions to help us save lives

2

4

We Must Start Punishing Copyright Monopoly Abuse To At Least Symmetry

2

5

My experience with Kubuntu 13.10 + Intel Haswell CPU.

2

6

Making games in Scala.Js

2

7

Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

2

8

Introduction to Hypercard (1987 video)

2

9

The Australian Government is funding a BitTorrent Released Sci-Fi series.

2

10

On Learning Difficult Things

1

Science News [?]

1

A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality (2010)

32

2

'Rare' Atom Finding May Advance Quantum Computers

10

3

How To Waste Time Properly

5

4

Robotic Advances Promise Artificial Legs That Emulate Healthy Limbs

4

5

Who votes for a mayor like Rob Ford?

4

6

Single photons of visible light detected without damaging information content

3

7

Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility

3

8

Toward new quantum possibilities: Seeing a photon without absorbing it

3

9

Artificial intelligence uses biggest disease database to fight cancer

3

10

Weak statistical standards implicated in scientific irreproducibility

2

Social [?]

1

YouTube is down

49

2

Facebook Messenger 3.0

38

3

YouTube Feather Beta

12

4

YouTube is down

10

5

Facebook Open Academy: Bringing open source to CS curricula

9

6

[video] DHTMLConf

9

7

Torvalds father says his son was asked by the NSA to add a backdoor into linux

9

8

Go to http://healthcare.gov, type a semicolon into search, wait for autocomplete

8

9

The User is Drunk

8

10

500 Startups' Dave McClure has been hacked (badly)...bounty issued

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

142

2

Julia 0.2 released

96

3

"Future of JavaScript" doc from our internal "JavaScript Summit" (2010)

88

4

Three.js ported to C++

22

5

Develop Wordpress plugins, themes with Docker

22

6

PayPal releases Node.js framework, Kraken

10

7

rocksdb: Embedded key-value store for fast storage

7

8

AirBNB JavaScript Style Guide

4

9

"Because YOLO" Oriented Programming

4

10

Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Countries by Incarceration Rate

38

2

Toilet paper orientation

6

3

5

4

Alaska was sold to USA for just 7.2 million USD ($116 million in 2012 dollars)

3

5

32-bit microprocessor made by Russian students in 1984

2

6

Bystander Effect

2

7

Capacitance Electronic Disc

2

8

The Greatest Salesman In The World

2

9

Instantaneous long-distance communication, via snails

2

10

Bring your own device

2

Blogs [?]

1

Insights from 6 hours of YC Mock Interviews

16

2

Thoughts on creativity

11

3

How We Rode 167 Customer Interviews to a Validated Launch

11

4

Google ad for promoting “Search” in India where it has over 97% market share

8

5

Justin Bieber Just Shot My Startup in the Face

8

6

The Gendering of Technology

8

7

Seethe and Grin: My Life Going to Tech Events

7

8

MOOCs have not failed, Udacity is pivoting for no reason

6

9

How An Israeli Sees The Recent NSA Controversy

6

10

Things I learned wandering around Europe for 7 months

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How JavaScript closures are garbage collected

86

2

We have an employee whose last name is Null (2010)

67

3

Why processing a sorted array is faster than an processing an unsorted array

7

4

Python in the enterprise: Pros and cons

5

5

We have an employee whose last name is Null

4

6

Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?

3

7

We have an employee whose last name is Null

2

8

How can I locally cancel all the changes made in a commit?

2

9

Does Facebook's personal ranking algorithm leak external profile data?

2

10

What is std::promise?

2

Substack [?]