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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review

1010

2

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

860

3

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

803

4

Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa

723

5

Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins

618

6

The Future of JavaScript MVCs

564

7

Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke

522

8

Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

511

9

Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer

496

10

Data Structure Visualizations

495

Top Ask HN

1

Let's open-source our unused pitch decks

57

2

I'm bored with programming, what should I do?

53

3

What is the problem you try to solve?

52

4

Using a side project at my day job

24

5

What programming language will you learn in 2014?

22

6

Is Perl making a comeback?

19

7

We are looking to rethink discussion platforms. Your suggestions?

19

8

Let's predict. What's your prediction for 2014?

17

9

What new skill or tech you intend to master in 2014?

16

10

How much corruption do you let slide at a startup?

16

Top Show HN

1

Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

333

2

Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing

131

3

My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away

97

4

I made an easy-to-understand 6502 emulator in pure C

80

5

Fail it Forward – you fail so others don't have to

34

6

time tracking in Emacs without Org-mode

30

7

TipperCoin - Send Bitcoins over Twitter

29

8

Killed our 6-month old photo startup, and this came out of it

27

9

Fast Monte Carlo Permutation Simulator in C

24

10

StreetEYE, all the top financial market news in one click

22

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner

228

2

The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed

160

3

NSA reform panel: Foreigners actually have privacy rights, too

102

4

Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors

83

5

A Tiny Speaker Printed on a Single Sheet of Paper

74

6

CryptoLocker's crimewave: A trail of millions in laundered Bitcoin

72

7

Tim Draper Wants To Split California, Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State

70

8

Bitcoin drops 50% overnight as China’s Biggest BTC exchange stops Yuan deposits

70

9

How open source changed Google and Google changed open source

61

10

Sweden fines pirate $650,000 for illegally sharing a single film

59

News [?]

1

Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

860

2

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System

803

3

Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice

412

4

White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts

388

5

Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid

354

6

Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution

286

7

Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning

284

8

I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed

267

9

N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite

262

10

AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94

236

Scientific publications [?]

1

How William Shockley’s Robot Dream Helped Launch Silicon Valley

18

2

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon (2008) [pdf]

13

3

Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform

10

4

New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort

5

5

Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab

4

6

Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone

3

7

First exoplanet-exomoon system may have been discovered

2

8

Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) has begun

2

9

Apple, Amazon, and Now Google: An Exciting Time for Robotics

2

10

Alzheimer's-Causing Protein Could Be Nanomaterial of The Future

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (1998)

155

2

Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop

148

3

Deconstructing Functional Programming [video]

95

4

Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets

88

5

Starting Feb 1, new apps and app updates must be optimized for iOS 7

87

6

Chuck Moore: Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power [video]

72

7

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

63

8

Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach

54

9

Non-US Cards Used At Target Fetch Premium

28

10

Tor User Identified by FBI

15

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF's Reading List: Books of 2013

47

2

Mac Pro Build-to-Order Upgrade Pricing Revealed

21

3

Federal Judge Declares NSA Mass Phone Surveillance is Likely Unconstitutional

4

4

What Do Your Android Reader Apps Know About You?

3

5

Tim Cook tells employees Apple has ‘big plans’ for 2014

3

6

The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights

2

7

All-New Mac Pro Launches Thursday, December 19 Starting at $2999

2

8

Software Allows Hackers to Activate MacBook Webcams Without Green Warning Light

2

9

Crossword Puzzle: What Did We Learn About the NSA This Year?

2

10

Former Microsoft Executive Charged with Insider Trading

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

1-star reviews of 'Extreme Programming'

100

2

Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers

62

3

China Mobile and Apple Bring iPhone to China Mobile’s 4G & 3G Networks

50

4

All New Mac Pro Available Starting Tomorrow

49

5

Amazon issues \"Choking Hazard\" warning for Testable JavaScript

13

6

AWS opening Beijing Region (for select customers)

10

7

Amazon announces new high I/O EC2 instances

2

8

Amazon CloudFront Adds Geo Restriction Feature

1

9

Shortcut URLs to Common Amazon pages

1

10

Collection of all Amazon short urls

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go 1.3+ Compiler Overhaul

197

2

Web Domain White Elephant Exchange

106

3

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

98

4

Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules

79

5

PHP Framework Survey - short questionnaire about preferences

13

6

How Netflix Reinvented HR

10

7

Pirate Bay Moves to Guyana After Domain Suspension, 70 Domains to Go

6

8

How Netflix Reinvented HR

3

9

A Novel Proposed Structure for Bitcoin based Stocks using Colored Coins

2

10

Customs Asked to Leak Kim Dotcom Secrets to FBI for “Brownie Points”

2

Science News [?]

1

A Solar Boom So Successful, It's Been Halted

183

2

Fungus threatens top banana

35

3

People who mattered in science this year

17

4

\"Dark Money\" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

16

5

Distinguishing yield advances from yield plateaus in historical crop production

11

6

Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago

5

7

Scientific American's Top Science Stories of 2013

5

8

Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago

3

9

New Salt Compounds Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry

3

10

Quantum Waves Found at the Heart of Organic Solar Cells

3

Social [?]

1

Consider Silk Road compromised

11

2

Rapid packing container

7

3

A cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'

7

4

Game Dev gets own Game Flagged on YouTube

6

5

KGB Defector Explains the Theory and Practice of Subversion (1983)

6

6

The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'

6

7

Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM

5

8

A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation in Disney's Frozen

4

9

Putin: I envy Obama, because he can spy and get away with it [video]

4

10

Responding to RSA/NSA criticism on Twitter

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it

511

2

After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source

134

3

List of minimalist frameworks

116

4

Twitter releases SPDY library for iOS and OS X

98

5

The React tutorial rewritten in Om

91

6

Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack

76

7

Reverse engineering Snapchat to store files

74

8

Simple responsive HTML email template

65

9

Bashstrap – For your OS X terminal

65

10

Wordpress Bootstrap 3 Starter Theme – MIT License

63

Wikipedia [?]

1

457

2

Kerckhoffs's principle

34

3

11

4

8

5

Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics

4

6

List of important publications in mathematics

3

7

APR - Academic Progress Rate

2

8

Does science disprove most religions in the 21st century?

2

9

2

10

List of lists of lists

2

Blogs [?]

1

I now have Rust code for executing executables

130

2

Something is erasing my program while it's running (oh wait oops)

72

3

Understanding how killall works using strace

59

4

When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege

15

5

I hired twice the people in half the time by changing my decision-making style

12

6

3 Lessons from 3 Years on the App Store

10

7

When \"Life Hacking\" Is Really White Privilege

9

8

“Your shitty website is not a startup.” - Reflecting on negative attacks

6

9

What Would You Say You Do Here?

6

10

Things Successful People Do Every Day

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Lisp In the Real World

6

2

What and where are the stack and heap?

2

3

How to efficiently match socks

2

4

Transfer money between two users

2

5

How are C structs allocated?

2

6

Why aren't my balls shrinking/disappearing?

1

7

Why is parenthesis optional only after sub declaration?

1

8

The first question on StackOverflow site

1

9

Is there a tool for automatic selection of code snippets?

1

10

Apache license vs BSD vs MIT (2008)

1

Substack [?]