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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173

758

2

Packets of Death

721

3

Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

711

4

I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

689

5

Employees leave managers, not companies

617

6

Im Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA

567

7

Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S fake, citing vehicle log data

555

8

Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby

471

9

I made $200K and PayPal locked my account

464

10

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (2011)

455

Top Ask HN

1

How do you deal with Rabbit Hole Syndrome?

136

2

Independently learning design?

91

3

First time in SF today and tomorrow can I visit your startup?

86

4

Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been asked to intervene

40

5

in 2013, is it still worth learning RoR/Django?

32

6

What are starting salaries for CS grads this year?

24

7

How do you stay focused on your 9 to 5 whilst bootstrapping a startup?

19

8

I Used My Credit Cards to Fund My Failed Startup and Now They're Suing

18

9

My dad just died suddenly. How to setup a Memorial site ASAP?

16

10

How do you get 'your-domain.com' email address, now Google isn't free?

13

Top Show HN

1

a conspiracy theory generator

175

2

Hacky Hacker News app for Mac

159

3

Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

156

4

An NES emulator written in Rust

120

5

Raspberry Pi website hit tracking neon sign

78

6

Building a Database of False DMCA Takedowns

64

7

Slidescroll view your slide decks together

45

8

Subtome Universal subscribe button

43

9

We're writing a book about Meteor

41

10

LeanSentry - Better Monitoring for Windows Server Apps

39

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Elon Musk calls NYT review of the Tesla Model S fake, citing vehicle log data

555

2

Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?

315

3

Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinators Secret Financial And Operational Weapon

247

4

Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals

246

5

At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life

203

6

Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone Launches Pre-Orders

170

7

A frighteningly ambitious way to improve email

141

8

Googles Supposed Chromebook Pixel (And Its Touch Display) Stars In Leaked Video

119

9

Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never

110

10

DHS Watchdog OKs Suspicionless Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border

104

News [?]

1

Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This

325

2

Someone Just Leaked Obama's Rules for Assassinating American Citizens

219

3

Relax. You'll be more productive

119

4

Dont Take Medical Advice From the New York Times Magazine

112

5

Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldnt he save himself?

104

6

German Fascination With Degrees Claims Latest Victim: Education Minister

95

7

IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare

92

8

How to prevent a meritocracy entrenching itself

91

9

And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd Luck of, Famous Men

90

10

Stalled Out on Teslas Electric Highway

88

Scientific publications [?]

1

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics [pdf]

9

2

Phreaking Out Ma Bell

4

3

Asteroid 2012 DA14 Earth Flyby Reality Check

4

4

Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts (pdf)

4

5

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

2

6

What Comes After the Cloud? How About the Fog?

2

7

Habitable Zones Around Main-Sequence Stars: New Estimates

1

8

Teeny Tiny Microcopter Deploys to Afghanistan With British Troops

1

9

The Existential Threat to Dell: Chromebooks

1

10

RobotsLab Wants to Put a Box of Robots in Every Classroom

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

434

2

Announcing MoSQL

372

3

Lock elision in the GNU C library

68

4

Glibc and the kernel user-space API

48

5

FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux? (2011)

25

6

Microsoft Looking At Office For Linux In 2014

6

7

Now showing: Older Tweets in search results

5

8

Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware

5

9

MongoDBs Fault Tolerance

5

10

The Netflix API Optimization Story

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Microsoft Surface Pro Review

101

2

Podcasting Community Faces Patent Troll Threat; EFF Wants to Help

26

3

Wozniak: Apple now 'somewhat behind' in smartphone features

6

4

Apple grabs more than 20% of global PC market in Q4 2012

2

5

'Spots the Space Marine' Back Online

2

6

Steve Wozniak believes Apple has fallen 'somewhat behind' in smartphones

2

7

Apple updates flash player

2

8

5 year old uses $150 prosthetic hand thanks to 3d printing

2

9

Apple's solar cell multitouch panels may harvest energy for future iPhones

1

10

Former Apple Human Interface Developer Speculates on Future 'iWatch'

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Statement by Apple

89

2

Ouya begins presale on Amazon

8

3

Windows Phone 8 for Africa

2

4

Microsoft Statement on Loan to Support Dell Privatization

2

5

ITunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold

2

6

Startup Field Guide

2

7

2

8

101 Things Your Startup Needs To Know

1

9

Required Startup Reading With Great Insights

1

10

PHP Programming For Affiliate Marketers - Free Today At Amazon

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary

156

2

FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV Shows

56

3

Pirate Bay Founder Helped Wikileaks On Several Fronts

4

4

Open Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support

3

5

Indie Game Devs Delight Pirate Bay and Reddit With Disappearing Torrent

3

6

Hollywood Wont Get Piracy Profits From Usenet Site, High Court Rules

3

7

Philosophical Landmines

2

8

Pro File-Sharing Professors Hunted Down by the Copyright Lobby

2

9

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW

2

10

Be my HTML / CSS / Javascript Tutor $$

2

Science News [?]

1

New 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime

8

2

Type 1 Diabetes Cured in Dogs, Study Suggests

6

3

Online workers, unite!

6

4

Students with autism gravitate toward STEM majors

3

5

Researchers opt to limit uses of their open-access publications

2

6

New Largest Known Prime Number Discovered

1

7

Why we're building a 1 billion model of a human brain

1

8

New evidence suggests comet or asteroid impact was last straw for dinosaurs

1

9

Do plants 'veto' bad genes?

1

10

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts Alone to Control Robot Arm

1

Social [?]

1

Im Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA

567

2

A congressman who justifies every vote on Facebook

182

3

Facebook Connect was down

108

4

SpaceX software engineers hosting a Reddit AMA starting at 10AM PT

18

5

Carmack: Supporting Linux isn't worth the hassle at the moment

10

6

Facebook is down

8

7

This is why you should always close your HTML tags

8

8

Id_aa_carmack comments on "John Carmack asks why Wine isn't good enough"

6

9

John Carmack: Why Wine isn't good enough

6

10

Microsoft Surface team does Reddit IAMA

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Wizard Modals for Bootstrap

182

2

174

3

fatcache - Memcache on SSD

170

4

Django Unchained Introduction to Python and Django

88

5

Php-o: metaprogramming PHP to give it a saner API

71

6

Hello Chrome and Firefox, meet serverless WebRTC

61

7

What's produced more value: Y Combinator's investments or Hacker News?

58

8

Histo.c histograms in the terminal for static or streaming data

53

9

Upcoming Changes to GitHub Services

43

10

Transparent Git Encryption

34

Wikipedia [?]

1

145

2

TIL: There used to be an Internet Explorer for Unix

24

3

2013 Shahbag Protest

16

4

Kola Superdeep Borehole

5

5

British National Grid prepares when everyone puts a kettle on for tea.

3

6

Berlin key (forced locking key)

3

7

Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles

2

8

Comparison of open-access journals

2

9

Doping at the Tour de France

1

10

Olbers' Paradox and how E.A.Poe anticipated some aspects of it, 170 years ago

1

Blogs [?]

1

Protect Kids, Get F*cked

9

2

A Manager's Manifesto

4

3

When Good Design Isnt Enough

3

4

Nomgoose: The Product that Named Itself

2

5

Megan Phelps - Head Full of Doubt

2

6

Looking down the barrel of a gun

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to achieve 4 flops per cycle?

85

2

What is Branch Prediction?

66

3

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

17

4

How to achieve 4 FLOPS per CPU cycle

11

5

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

9

6

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

8

7

Why does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color?

5

8

How to Create a Memory Leak in Java

5

9

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

3

10

How can I get browser to prompt to save password?

2

Substack [?]