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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

907

2

842

3

High Frequency Dating

678

4

Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel

664

5

Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

609

6

Id Software founder John Carmack resigns

572

7

This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan

529

8

Software patent reform just died in the House

498

9

How Money Moves Around The Banking System

496

10

My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug

493

Top Ask HN

1

Have you had trouble getting a job after a failed startup?

76

2

What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?

60

3

My first attempt at passive income. Where do I take it now?

56

4

Where do you spend Bitcoins?

51

5

Best isolating headphones for hacking?

44

6

I actually need a job now

44

7

Review my startup - tripstamp.com

39

8

Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

38

9

Why does being in an accelerator pre-YC lessen your YC chances?

38

10

What is with all these 'X in 30/35 lines of Javascript' posts?

22

Top Show HN

1

DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net

202

2

MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript

170

3

Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

147

4

Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot

124

5

Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript

108

6

Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation

106

7

Bit of News – Intelligent news summaries

87

8

CodePair - etherpad + codechecker + analytics for interviews

71

9

66

10

Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity

415

2

Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2

316

3

Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch

271

4

When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too

259

5

India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously

213

6

US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful

212

7

Sudden Progress on Prime Number Problem Has Mathematicians Buzzing

193

8

Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords

170

9

Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You

149

10

A history of the Amiga, part 1: Genesis

149

News [?]

1

Software patent reform just died in the House

498

2

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

284

3

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

184

4

TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It

170

5

Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction

157

6

Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays

146

7

Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin [video]

143

8

The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

139

9

Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving

123

10

You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video]

116

Scientific publications [?]

1

Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military

31

2

World's tiniest FM transmitter made from graphene

31

3

Self-Driving Cars Gain Backing of U.S. Regulators

3

4

Electric two-seater Volocopter is tested in Germany (w/ Video)

2

5

Could Tin be the Two-Dimensional Material of the Future?

2

6

Should I Attend a Conference Via a Telepresence Robot?

2

7

We’re Being Driven to Distraction by Clamorous Computing

2

8

EnerJ, the Language of Good-enough Computing for smartphones to supercomputers

2

9

Nanoparticle Both Kills Cancer Cells and Helps Image the Killing Process

2

10

IROS 2013: Robots That Pay Attention To You

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin Payment Processor BIPS Attacked, Over $1M Stolen

55

2

Safari Push Notifications

51

3

Surveillance as a Business Model

50

4

Open Source Implementation of the Two-Man Rule in Go

44

5

Clojure core.async [video]

43

6

Forward Secrecy at Twitter

31

7

Forward Secrecy at Twitter

14

8

Red October: CloudFlares Open Source Implementation of the Two-Man Rule

12

9

Rich Hickey: Design, Composition, and Performance

11

10

42M plaintext passwords stolen from Australian dating site

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard

212

2

Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What

43

3

EFF's Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What

17

4

Adobe giving EVERYONE PhotoshopCC/Lightroom5/Behance +20GB storage for $10/m

7

5

Secret TPP Negotiations Resume in Salt Lake City

6

6

Early XBox 360 demos were run on Mac Pro G5s

5

7

Winamp Petition Emerges as Microsoft Considers Purchase

3

8

Introducing a Compendium of the Released NSA Spying Documents

3

9

An ARM Powered Business Card, Part Two

3

10

Civil Society Groups Demand Transparency and User Protections in TPP

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Third Party JavaScript

2

2

Bitcoin Beginner: A Step By Step Guide To Buying, Selling, Investing In Bitcoins

2

3

Plugin USB BitCoin Miner

2

4

BitCoin: Beginner's Step By Step Manual

2

5

ASUS is selling a $229 Ubuntu notebook on Amazon

2

6

History of Programming Languages: Volume 2

2

7

Amazon makes Prime Giftable

2

8

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

2

9

Free Kindle Book - Bitcoin Revolution: Ending Tyranny For Fun & Profit

2

10

NASA NEX Public Data Sets

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

AngularJS from an Ember.js perspective

188

2

How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

138

3

IDE and Editor survey

20

4

Ng-embereño: Angular.js from the perspective of Ember.js

8

5

5

6

Ng-embereo - AngularJS from an Ember.js perspective

4

7

Pirate Party Gets Observer Status at World Trade Organization

4

8

Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 08 - Smalltalk (1981)

3

9

You May Not Need Big Data After All

2

10

Kim Dotcom Links €20,000 Wikileaks Donation to Megaupload Raid

2

Science News [?]

1

HPV: Sex, cancer and a virus

7

2

A Basic Rule of Chemistry Can Be Broken, Calculations Show

6

3

Bitcoin moves beyond mere money

4

4

Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ rampant sex lives

3

5

Electrode recreates all four tastes on your tongue

3

6

Policy: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims

2

7

Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing

2

8

Cockpit computers are sapping pilots' ability to fly

2

9

Did Cars Save Our Cities From Horses?

2

10

Electron Appears Spherical, Squashing Hopes for New Physics Theories

1

Social [?]

1

The Mature Optimization Handbook

192

2

Hacker News was down

8

3

Under the Hood: Building and open-sourcing RocksDB

7

4

/r/shutdown - Startup graveyard

6

5

Bruce Schneier reddit AMA

6

6

Startup is giving out free Bitcoin today

5

7

The Pirate Bay is now a rouge torrent site. Tell your friends to stop using it.

5

8

PennApps Spring 2014 is on February 14th

5

9

Newegg on Bitcoin: \"It is a possibility, stay tuned\"

5

10

ASCII fluid dynamics

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

272

2

Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font

198

3

Weak passwords brute forced

193

4

Ansible 1.4 released

175

5

MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

149

6

Building an invalid string in Python 2.x

127

7

Hell: A Haskell Shell

111

8

Web app for interviewing technical candidates in the browser

109

9

Lua Fun: A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT

98

10

How to share data with a statistician

65

Wikipedia [?]

1

35

2

9

3

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

6

4

Keynesian Beauty Contest

5

5

Frederick Mayer (spy)

3

6

3

7

Ultimate fate of the universe

3

8

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

3

9

Alien abduction insurance

3

10

Indian mathematics

2

Blogs [?]

1

Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code

153

2

126

3

From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop

107

4

The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon

33

5

An Alternative Theory of Unions [2007]

31

6

The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon

17

7

How I Launched ‘Learn Ruby on Rails’ on Kickstarter

10

8

The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon

9

9

Bitcoin Target Price: $23,809.52

8

10

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to design a class

204

2

A day in the life of a stackoverflow moderator...

71

3

Apparently learning Ruby on Rails is easier as mastering keyboard

6

4

Html5 - Static-analysis with custom rules for JavaScript? - Stack Overflow

2

5

Why there is a Thread.Sleep(1) in .NET internal Hashtable?

2

6

How does Array.prototype.slice.call() work?

2

7

The correct steps to learning Node.

2

8

IE11: IE Conditional comments do not work

2

9

Multiple schemas on multiple machines in postgres

1

10

Ways to scale a multi tenant application with per schema per tenant approach

1

Substack [?]