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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
770
2
NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
709
3
An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
693
4
Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
633
5
Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
570
6
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack
552
7
The microhydro plant
534
8
Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
506
9
News is bad for you
485
10
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
465
Top Ask HN
1
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
135
2
Tools you use for remote working?
93
3
Help, I'm stuck on HN
82
4
I am crazy (but can you help?)
51
5
Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree?
41
6
Should I validate a client's idea?
40
7
I just heard someone else's call on Skype
27
8
What was the best book you read in 2013?
24
9
Why are hackers today so insecure?
24
10
What position should a generalist apply for?
20
Top Show HN
1
Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online
270
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tyto
169
3
Bitcoin Pulse - Tracking Bitcoin Adoption
74
4
nvlope.com, your mailbox with an API
57
5
Bitroad – Sell anything online for Bitcoin
48
6
Convos, a OSS persistent IRC web client built using Mojo and Redis
45
7
AmberExpress - order any product on your mobile device with just 2 taps
43
8
Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at
42
9
Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be of interest
41
10
Helium - Simple web automation
41
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
570
2
“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say
332
3
New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
275
4
Oculus VR raises $75M
274
5
Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT
254
6
Academia.edu slammed with takedown notices from Elsevier
116
7
Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem
113
8
Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support
101
9
I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam
99
10
Microsoft FAT patent loss endangers its Android revenue
88
News [?]
1
Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
770
2
NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
709
3
News is bad for you
485
4
Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
462
5
If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
461
6
NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: \"A Genius Among Geniuses\"
354
7
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
318
8
China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon
281
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Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data
246
10
Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills
229
Scientific publications [?]
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China's 1st Moon Rover Mission to Attempt Lunar Landing
54
2
Capitalist Science
23
3
NASA JSC Unveils 'Valkyrie' DRC Robot
9
4
Incapsula Reports That Web Bots Now Account For 61% of Web Traffic
4
5
Nuclear war would 'end civilization' with famine, study says
4
6
Efficient Promotion Strategies in Hierarchical Organizations
4
7
China's Moon Rover Leaves Traces On Lunar Soil
4
8
Meet Valkyrie: NASA's Humanoid Darpa Robot
4
9
Humans not smarter than animals, just different, experts say
3
10
Leaner Fourier transforms
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla in 2013
174
2
First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js
153
3
Best Firefox Add-ons of 2013
108
4
Bitcoin Startups Pitch for Funding at Plug and Play Winter Expo
19
5
Twitter reverts changes to blocking functionality
14
6
China Bans Payment Companies from Working With Bitcoin Exchanges, Sources Claim
7
7
Cisco open sources H.264 Codec
7
8
Activision Is Preventing A Game From Coming To Linux
4
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SteamOS internals, compositor details and screenshots
4
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SteamOS vs. Windows 8.1 Nvidia Performance
4
Tech blogs [?]
1
Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental
392
2
The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights
69
3
Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 Per Day
19
4
Building the worst linux PC ever
8
5
NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons
5
6
Oculus Rift Goes from Virtual to Augmented Reality
3
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Apple Supplier Pegatron Uses Facial Recognition to Screen for Underage Workers
2
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Machine Learning Used to Create an HIV Vaccine
2
9
Nvidia G-Sync Review
2
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AT&T chief says they 'can't afford to subsidize' iPhones forever
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003
23
2
Announcing Support for Impala with Amazon Elastic MapReduce
18
3
Amazon RDS now supports PGSQL
5
4
Apples tribute to Nelson Mandela
2
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Nelson Mandela on front page of Apple,This is why we love Apple
2
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Review: I bought this after selling our daughter Amanda into white slavery
2
7
SALT Summaries: Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
2
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And you thought the iPad bouncy was bad...
1
9
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds Background Task Handling and RDS PostgreSQL support
1
10
The Algorithm Design Manual
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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David Deutsch On Artificial Intelligence
93
2
100 Days of Meditation
71
3
Why it's time to lay the Selfish Gene to rest
13
4
Pirate Bay Founder Held in Solitary Confinement Without Warrant
11
5
The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC After Domain Name Seizure
10
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Pirate Bay Docks in Peru: New System Will Make Domains “Irrelevant”
9
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AT&T Invents New Technology to Detect and Ban Filesharing
6
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Thousands receive 'fines' for watching RedTube videos
4
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Browser based or Sandboxed secure apps in golang - Native Client Support
4
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IsoHunt Founder Launches Kickstarter for P2P Clothing Line
2
Science News [?]
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Water seems to flow freely on Mars
263
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Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
236
3
First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa
85
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Boys and Girls may get different breast milk
71
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Water seems to flow freely on Mars
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1st Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
4
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3D-printed skull simulates sensations of brain surgery
4
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FIFA Physics: How a Video Game Finally Figured Out Air Resistance
3
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Global gender disparities in science
3
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Universe Really Is a Hologram According to New Simulations
3
Social [?]
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The new YC batch is from 23 countries
32
2
Startup Advisor Alice Zhang on SF Homeless: \"Put them all in labor camps\"
22
3
Kevin Rose's new web idea prototype
9
4
Richard Feynman - Manhattan Project [video]
8
5
\"Paypal froze over $70,000 in my account; Say they won't return it for 180 days\"
6
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A 47-Year-Old Prediction Comes True
6
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Feedly hijacking ad referrals in RSS posts
5
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Federal Reserve defaults when Germany attempts gold withdrawal
5
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Bill Gates Doom
4
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Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: Planar Graphs and Ternary Trees
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server
311
2
Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec
176
3
Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n)
163
4
Don't commit when you're drunk
80
5
Benchmarking Nginx with Go
79
6
WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin
75
7
Unofficial WhatsApp API
70
8
Dynatable.js: HTML5+JSON interactive table plugin
62
9
From Object Oriented Programming to Functional Programming
61
10
MWOpenInKit: An attempt to fix iOS third-party app linking
28
Wikipedia [?]
1
Doom released 20 years ago today
243
2
Inverted totalitarianism
229
3
The SOLID principles of object-oriented design
56
4
The \"DeWitt Clause\"
18
5
I Would Rather Cry In A BMW
15
6
Pi Calculus
12
7
Dogecoin
10
8
Dogecoin not notable
10
9
Doomsday rule
9
10
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
3
Blogs [?]
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Writing malloc wrong, for fun
38
2
Fishermen, Explorers and Trading Ships. Not all entrepreneurs are the same.
8
3
The boy whose brain could unlock Autism
7
4
Functional DOM programming
7
5
Linear Methods (PCA) vs. Deep Learning (Autoencoder)
7
6
Failing to reach Hacker News
6
7
Developers: Stop Uploading Address Books.
6
8
A letter from a flat designer.
6
9
How To Arbitrage Bitcoin*
6
10
Why You Shouldn’t Raise Huge Rounds Before You Launch
5
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Is golang good fit for chess engine? (performance wise)
2
2
IsNaN is literally f1 != f1
2
3
Cycles in family tree software
2
4
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently
2
5
Intelligent web app algorithms
1
6
What does the expression \":-!!\" mean in C?
1
7
Difference between procedural and functional programming explained
1
8
Interesting math/python problem, equation generator
1
9
Data Mining in Lisp
1
10
Should I use past or present tense in git commit messages?
1
Substack [?]