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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Amazon Prime Air
1356
2
Explain Shell
1318
3
Started a stupid company. Failed.
1291
4
How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
871
5
Jolla
734
6
Web GL Ocean Simulation
673
7
Dear Spike Lee
627
8
End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
529
9
Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
524
10
Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
495
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (December 2013)
247
2
Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
185
3
Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
121
4
Open Source alternatives to Disqus?
116
5
What kind of side projects are you working on?
103
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)
96
7
How do you come back from a failed acquisition?
82
8
Hacker News Person Of the Year
65
9
Why does Facebook respect my data more than HN?
58
10
How do I stay \"on\" all the time?
49
Top Show HN
1
Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
644
2
Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life
260
3
Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
193
4
GuessHub, our Github Game off entry. Guess a commit's repository
122
5
Headline Smasher
93
6
Hacker News in your system tray
86
7
WebRTC Poker
66
8
I built a live Bitcoin price aggregator with multiple indexes
49
9
Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Payments
45
10
Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL
31
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
524
2
Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
183
3
Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone
167
4
How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views
143
5
Newegg on trial: Mystery company TQP rewrites the history of encryption
109
6
Quantum Light Harvesting Hints at Entirely New Form of Computing
82
7
Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound
76
8
An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's computational paradigm
70
9
YouTube Addresses Massive Spam Problem Following Rollout of Google+ Commenting
67
10
'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)
65
News [?]
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End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
529
2
Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Massachusetts Legal System In Turmoil
164
3
Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype
163
4
Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
149
5
Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money
137
6
Britain targets Guardian paper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden
117
7
Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
117
8
Why are there so many tunnels under London?
106
9
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
104
10
Patent trolls have a surprising ally: universities
100
Scientific publications [?]
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First flight of Lunar plant growth experiment
30
2
Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real?
28
3
Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation
14
4
San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
8
5
Five ways the Raspberry Pi is making life a little sweeter
4
6
D-Wave’s Year of Computing Dangerously
3
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Emotion Regulation Predicts Marital Satisfaction: More Than a Wives' Tale.
2
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NASA: Comet ISON may have survived
2
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In some species, mere presence of males shortens females' lifespan
2
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Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
127
2
Tor Appliance
88
3
How Antivirus Companies Handle State-Sponsored Malware
77
4
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
7
5
Spanner - Google's Distributed Database [video]
4
6
New exploit kit Atrax boasts Tor Connectivity, Bitcoin Extraction
4
7
9-year-old kid sells his Apple shares to buy Bitcoin
3
8
Ruby On Rails Cookiestore Vulnerability Plagues Prominent Websites
2
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\"There is no way I could fix C++ for her\"
2
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Roll Up Your Sleeves, It’s Time to Save the Web
2
Tech blogs [?]
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Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor
112
2
What's Wrong With the Latest Beastie Boys Lawsuit
26
3
Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
8
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Newsstand Shotgun Hack Poised to Further Ruin Air Travel
7
5
DIY Thermal Imaging Camera
4
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We're One Step Closer to Ending Mass Surveillance
4
7
How Hacker News Page Rankings Really Work
2
8
Pokemon Blue Becomes An IDE
2
9
Creative Commons Issues an Update to its Copyright License Suite
2
10
Retrotechtacular: WWII Paraset Spy Radio Used by French Resistance
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Prime Air
1356
2
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Intro To Modern C Programming
74
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Amazon Prime Air
2
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Amazon Prime Air
2
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Meet Microsoft's master of high-tech showmanship
1
6
AMAZON Moto G USA Preorder... SHIPS NEXT WEEK
1
7
The 100 million dollar walkie talkie
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Clojure: The JFDI language
185
2
Go 1.3 Linker Overhaul
97
3
Do not use Amazon chat support. This just happened to me.
11
4
U.S. Government Caught Pirating Military Software, Settles For $50 Million
8
5
Russell Brand: Get My New DVD From The Pirate Bay
4
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Three unpublished Salinger books leaked to the internet
3
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Undead labs, makers of State of Decay, employee profit sharing plan
2
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Landmark Beyonce BitTorrent Prosecution Fails to Intimidate
2
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U.S. Government Caught Pirating Military Software, Settles For $50 Million
2
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Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
2
Science News [?]
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New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms
220
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To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation
114
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23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks
102
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Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted
50
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Research Integrity in China
3
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Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze
2
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Baby Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed in Canada
2
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Snap-Together Planes and Bridges
2
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You’ve Got Mail… about STDs
2
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Governments will struggle to put Bitcoin under lock and key
2
Social [?]
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Facebook's robots.txt
39
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An understated job advertisement
23
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Penny Arcade web dev / sysadmin job posting
22
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Spike Lee responds to Juan Luis Garcia's letter
18
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Coinpunk becomes first Bitcoin mobile wallet app to be unbannable by Apple
10
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Part of GCHQ .. cracked password on paedophile's hard drive
9
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What Happened to TermKit
8
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Someone who made millions and then lost it all
6
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AT&T 1993 \"You Will\" Ads
6
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Rails and Django also switching documentation to gender neutral pronouns
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
323
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Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed
238
3
A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
216
4
How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++
212
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Monocle.io Open Sourced
110
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Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler
106
7
Expanding Context in Diffs
104
8
Linux-ng
81
9
Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses
75
10
Open Hardware Bitcoin Miner
72
Wikipedia [?]
1
Shaft passer
195
2
Toast Sandwich
171
3
Cicada 3301
55
4
List of important publications in philosophy
44
5
Turboencabulator
25
6
Inverted Totalitarianism
19
7
Syndicalism: a replacement for Capitalism
9
8
Mercury-Redstone 1 - The \"Four Inch Flight\"
6
9
Google Invested with CIA?
5
10
Allegory of the long spoons
4
Blogs [?]
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Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms
80
2
What happens when you run \"Hello, world\"
51
3
Please stop live tweeting people’s private conversations
47
4
How radioactive poison became the assassin’s weapon of choice
14
5
How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed My Life
12
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I’m a really good impostor
12
7
Bitcoin might need a “Red Hat moment”: a Bitcoin Bank
10
8
The Value of Content
10
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The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon
9
10
How Much Do You Get Paid?
8
Stackoverflow [?]
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Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?
82
2
The most voted Ruby question on Stack Overflow
4
3
A simple explanation about SOAP and REST
4
4
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
3
5
Highest Voted java Questions - Stack Overflow
2
6
Hidden features of Python [2011]
2
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How does C compute sin() and other math functions?
2
8
Python: How to get the Content-Type of an URL? - Stack Overflow
1
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When is each sorting algorithm used?
1
10
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
1
Substack [?]