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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

1100

2

I found Prezi's source code

688

3

672

4

My Roommate's a Genius

666

5

Reform Government Surveillance

629

6

Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

601

7

Valve joins the Linux Foundation

567

8

OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again

559

9

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

556

10

How the Bitcoin protocol actually works

490

Top Ask HN

1

I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

150

2

Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?

76

3

Senior dev, no degree – which countries may accept me?

42

4

What are some good gift ideas for hacker types?

40

5

Is it possible to start of as a programmer at almost 40?

40

6

How do I legally run a startup in US while on an F1 or H1B visa?

33

7

How did you get started with the programming languages you use?

28

8

Any volunteers for Guaranteed Basic Income Non-Profit?

16

9

Client refused payment, told us to come back with lawyers

15

10

What could be done to build a competitor to Wikipedia?

15

Top Show HN

1

I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

459

2

I made an HN for the financial industry

411

3

Bitrated – Bitcoin m-of-n arbitrated transactions

155

4

I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

124

5

Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

108

6

RiffBank – A reverse guitar tab search engine

78

7

MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains

77

8

I made a SaaS that helps keep freelancer's pipeline full - with no code

72

9

Build an iPhone Game in your Browser

67

10

Automatically create QA environments for your GitHub pull requests

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Valve joins the Linux Foundation

567

2

Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

338

3

Clever Gets $10 Million To Provide A Standardized API For School Data

151

4

Anti-Patent Troll Bill Passes The House

149

5

The Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From The Dead

113

6

Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet

94

7

Popular Flashlight App has been secretly sharing your location

90

8

Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS

87

9

Internet horror stories: How ISPs screwed over users

83

10

Leaked Uber Numbers Point to Over $1B Gross, $213M Revenue

74

News [?]

1

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

1100

2

672

3

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

556

4

Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013

399

5

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

377

6

People Don’t Actually Like Creativity

375

7

Killing cancer like the common cold

320

8

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

308

9

German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android

278

10

NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say

258

Scientific publications [?]

1

Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics

231

2

42

3

23

4

Italian company to sell portable cold fusion plant deliverable next year

5

5

Creation of entanglement simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole

3

6

Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism

3

7

New algorithm finds you, even in untagged photos

3

8

New formula for fast, abundant hydrogen production may help power fuel cells

2

9

Bitcoins in Space

2

10

New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Evading Airport Security

174

2

Apple Tells Gliph to Remove App's Bitcoin Transfer Function

117

3

Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator

81

4

Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol

72

5

Google Cloud Platform

14

6

The Problem with EULAs (sneaky bitcoin mining)

9

7

Bitcoin Price Could Reach $98,500, Say Wall Street Analysts

9

8

Building reusable components and widgets with Ember

7

9

How \"dumb mistakes\" can lead to costly Bitcoin losses

5

10

Unleash The Game Creator in You By Entering Our Holiday Gaming Competition

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Nexus 5 Review

18

2

Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128

7

3

Stealing $100 Million in Bitcoins

4

4

Bally's bomber flying 1/3rd replica

4

5

Innovation Act passed

4

6

Crab-ble – A Table That Walks

2

7

EFF's 2013 Holiday Wishlist

2

8

Toshiba Agrees to Acquire OCZ SSD Business

2

9

Trimming The Fat From AVR GCC

2

10

Dell's 24 inch 60hz4k Display will cost $1399

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Honors Mandela on Home Page

43

2

Tech Company Coalition Supports Global Surveillance Principles, Reform Efforts

6

3

Apple Replaces Homepage with Nelson Mandela Tribute

3

4

Amazon Prime Air

1

5

Lamest (and most hilarious) Amazon review I've ever seen

1

6

Interviews with the Masters eBook (includes Paul Graham interview) now free.

1

7

Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging

1

8

Microsoft, FBI, Europol & partners disrupt ZeroAccess botnet

1

9

An Hour of Code Youth Workshop Dec 11

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014

276

2

Taboo Your Words (2008)

121

3

BitTorrent Sync 7 Times Faster Than Dropbox

10

4

Donate to the Internet Archive

10

5

Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence

7

6

Die, selfish gene, die

7

7

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

7

8

Oilpan: GC for Google Blink

3

9

Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding

3

10

The analysis of a Frank Zappa song

2

Science News [?]

1

There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections

85

2

Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans

46

3

Offshore fresh groundwater reserves as a global phenomenon

21

4

A Formula That Shows How to Cheat and Triumph at Tournaments

11

5

Stealth Camera Takes Pictures Virtually in the Dark

9

6

Metals in your smartphone have no substitutes

6

7

Mice can inherit learned fear of a smell

6

8

The Curious Case of the Exploding Pig Farms

4

9

How to Waste Time Properly

3

10

The realpolitik of Thanksgiving

2

Social [?]

1

President Obama calls on every American to learn code

331

2

Facebook's AI lab

217

3

John Cleese on creative thinking

63

4

We scanned this from a computing magazine from 1970

49

5

Why are all the 'cool' jobs no longer using .NET?

25

6

Samsung galaxy s4 catches on fire, samsung wants silence

19

7

Bill Gates explains If statements

6

8

Goldman versus Google: A career on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley? [video]

6

9

AT&T 1993-1994 'You Will' Ad campaign [video]

6

10

Bill Nye's Open Letter to President Barack Obama

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller

238

2

Guardian Frontend – Source for the Guardian's responsive site

221

3

DissidentX – Censorship resistance tool by Bram Cohen

212

4

GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python

140

5

X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp

129

6

Bundler to be integrated into Rubygems

105

7

BBC-News/Imager.js

102

8

Chromium: I just wanted to quickly hack an iframe blocker for personal use

80

9

Quick Look plugins for developers

80

10

Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff

47

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of cognitive biases

160

2

48

3

Colors of Poland's flag are legally defined in CIE xyY color space

6

4

Colors of Noise

3

5

Merkle signature scheme

3

6

List of cryptocurrencies

3

7

3

8

Covariance and Contravariance

2

9

2

10

William Gibson -- Agrippa (a book of the dead)

2

Blogs [?]

1

After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key

244

2

On programming without malloc

166

3

29

4

What I learned from funding 55 companies in 16 months with $10M

13

5

How We Discovered the Underground Chinese App Market

11

6

How I built emojitracker

11

7

How Node.js is Going to Replace JavaScript

11

8

Was Cantor Wrong? Are the real numbers countable?

8

9

Failure is not a good thing. Stop saying it is.

7

10

Gary North is Wrong: It's Not a Ponzi Scheme, Here’s Why

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What and where are the stack and heap?

79

2

Plain English explanation of Big O

69

3

Hellо, I am a compiler.

11

4

Trailing slash in URLs - which style is preferred?

7

5

Why does CSS work with fake tags?

6

6

Quickest way to search through a JS string array

2

7

Google's black bar on top is ok, StackOverlow's is just plain ugly

2

8

StackOverflow.com rolls out new UI changes.

2

9

Docker + Google Compute Engine = Happiness

2

10

Why this huge performance difference for an encapsulated Javascript function?

1

Substack [?]