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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What I Didn't Say

1289

2

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

873

3

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished

661

4

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

551

5

542

6

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality

527

7

How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google

472

8

Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes

471

9

The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People

444

10

On Hacking MicroSD Cards

385

Top Ask HN

1

How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?

328

2

What book changed your life in 2013?

198

3

How to fire your co-founder?

99

4

Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

94

5

What is the best drone for hackers?

58

6

How would a new OS be different?

54

7

Do you know anyone who left the tech world and found happiness?

46

8

How did you launch your product?

46

9

How do I make my dating app popular?

35

10

What's the best way for a foreigner to improve English to a great level?

30

Top Show HN

1

I made 30 apps this year and I'm 15

187

2

LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor

125

3

I made 22 apps and games this year mostly by myself – here they are

125

4

I make my family postcards every year. Here's this year's.

103

5

A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework

73

6

I mapped 30k+ paintings around the world

63

7

Countdown – Twitter bot which tweets answers to the Countdown TV show

61

8

I started a repo for sharing algorithm implementations

44

9

embedcurl.com - Pretty curl commands for your web site or blog

26

10

Bi-weekly newsletter for engineers looking for other engineers.

26

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality

527

2

Don't want your laptop tampered with? Just add glitter nail polish

215

3

Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching

105

4

Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Result Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam

99

5

Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride

87

6

Accuracy takes power: a 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (2010)

59

7

Uber now has to wait 15 minutes before picking you up in France

58

8

More details on Microsoft's new M# language

49

9

Microsoft applies for trademark on 'Mod'

40

10

New Mac Pro teardown reveals replaceable Xeon CPU

35

News [?]

1

I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

873

2

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing

551

3

I flew on a plane without going through security. It was amazing and no one died

235

4

The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling

228

5

Uruguay is the Economist's Country of the Year

207

6

Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet

203

7

Uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the first world war

155

8

New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause

150

9

Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep

142

10

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

135

Scientific publications [?]

1

The universe as quantum computer

10

2

If You Don't Like Facebook, You Can Leave – It's Easier Than You Think

4

3

Not Just Koch Brothers: Study Reveals Funders Behind Climate Change

3

4

Magnetic Properties In Graphene Could Unlock Broad Applications

3

5

How to Brew Your Own Conductive Ink

3

6

New circuit design allows for elimination of laptop charger brick

2

7

Apple Is Granted Hover & Heart-Rate Monitoring Patents

2

8

Report Says NSA Intercepts Computer Deliveries

2

9

Solar Activity Not A Key Cause of Climate Change, Study Shows

1

10

Research trio crack RSA encryption keys by listening to computer noise

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target

228

2

Oracle Tunes Java's Internal String Representation

57

3

Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY

29

4

25

5

Android 4.4 KitKat and the Secret Key Factory

10

6

Why Sony Is Using LLVM/Clang On The PlayStation 4

5

7

Hadoop Jobs on GPU with ParallelX

4

8

Ionic HTML5 Mobile Framework Alpha Preview

3

9

PyParallel: A Fast Parallel Version of Python

2

10

GNUnet 0.10.0 released

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

2013 in Review: The Year the NSA Finally Admitted Its "Collect It All" Strategy

6

2

Best Tablets - Holiday 2013

3

3

New Mac Pro Confirmed to Have Removable CPU

2

4

Familiar Actors and Possible False Flags in Syrian Malware Campaigns

1

5

U.S. Tablet Sales Led by iPad in 2013 as Chromebooks Overtake MacBooks

1

6

Using the Wii U Controller Everywhere

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Surface Music Kit features

47

2

"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is free for the next 3 days

21

3

How to Avoid Huge Ships

6

4

Book: Jony Ive - The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

3

5

Amazon Giving away 5$ for installing app from App store

2

6

Get Them Gators- a book about dynamic equity-- is free on Amazon for two days

2

7

The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog (1993)

2

8

Book has four million words

1

9

Amazon offers 6 months Wired magazine print+digital subscription for $6

1

10

Free right now on Kindle: Hooked: How to build habit-forming products

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

MAME 0.151 ROMs

126

2

How Netflix Reinvented HR

117

3

Life’s Work: Salman Khan

60

4

The state of the Rust Runtime

51

5

Welcome to The Console Living Room

39

6

The Myth of the Overqualified Worker

25

7

Why most economists' predictions are wrong (1998)

22

8

Building Phenomenological Bridges

4

9

The Similarities Between Copyright Monopoly Madness & Boston Tea Taxes

3

10

The obesity era

2

Science News [?]

1

AI Has Grown Up and Left Home

2

2

Identical Astronauts Prepare for First Twin Study in Space

1

3

New Scientist: 2013 The Year in Technology

1

4

Memory Trick Increases Password Security

1

5

Facebook's so uncool, but it's morphing into a different beast

1

6

Fact or Fiction?: Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective Treatment

1

7

Hydrogen SUV ready to hit the road

1

8

2014 preview: Private Internet to beat the spooks

1

Social [?]

1

Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [video]

131

2

A Patent From 2004 Describes Dual EC As Key Escrow

103

3

30c3: To Protect And Infect, Part 2 (New Snowden revelations from Applebaum)

18

4

Favorite Hacks of 2013

14

5

Twilight Princess Eyes Breakdown

10

6

Edward Snowden's Christmas Message

10

7

Jacob Applebaum's 30C3 Talk about the recent NSA Revelations

10

8

A Christmas Message From Edward Snowden

9

9

Edward Snowden's Channel 4 Christmas Message

7

10

Why do you use Pandas instead of SQL?

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

DigitalOcean leaks customer data between VMs

374

2

T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

307

3

I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

241

4

OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower

121

5

62

6

Macaw - A Simple PHP Router

50

7

Syntax control for the command line

43

8

ReconnectingWebSocket

41

9

Fast and easy installation of Docker VM on OS X

41

10

Bookkeeper: A double-entry bookkeeping system for Django

30

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hinged dissection

33

2

Today is Linus Torvalds birthday

7

3

Prandtl–Glauert singularity

5

4

Stambovsky v. Ackley: sellers must disclose hauntedness of house to buyer

5

5

List of military strategies and concepts

4

6

Magazine-fed laser pistol

3

7

Modern History of the Middle East

3

8

Chaitin's Constant

2

9

Rietdijk–Putnam argument

2

10

The Wind Lens: Double or triple wind turbine output?

2

Blogs [?]

1

What I Didn't Say

1289

2

Steve Jobs Danced To My Song

231

3

What languages fix

91

4

Do You Have Your Paul Graham Pitchfork Out?

26

5

Python parallelism in one line - A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks

17

6

Girls Haven't Been Hacking for the Last 10 Years

12

7

Writer Pro: patently amateurish

12

8

I’m 22 years old and what is this.

11

9

So This Is What It Feels Like to Be A Millionaire

10

10

Recruiting advice no one tells you

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?

305

2

The purpose of .PHONY in a Makefile

27

3

Ex-Victoria's Secret top-model has a StackOverflow profile

13

4

What clustering algorithm is best for rectangles?

3

5

How to prevent phabricator from eating commit history?

2

6

How can I extend JavaScript to support new operators?

2

7

Advantages of compiling vs Executing the AST as soon as it is constructed

2

8

Benefits of prototypal inheritance over classical?

2

9

How to detect a Christmas Tree?

2

10

Exploitable PHP Functions (2010)

1

Substack [?]