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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Most Peculiar Test Drive

1815

2

Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails

1715

3

Why HN was down

1027

4

Opera moves to WebKit

918

5

I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

883

6

Meteorite crash in Russia

848

7

Learn Git Branching

702

8

Python trademark at risk in Europe

539

9

Death in Singapore

456

10

Ten predictions (2004)

452

Top Ask HN

1

Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

481

2

What is the coolest JS library out there?

93

3

How do you manage your bookmarks?

47

4

Which hosting company to use for a small SaaS product?

38

5

Where do you get ideas to build side-projects?

35

6

Tech predictions for the next 10 years?

19

7

What are some examples of really well designed websites?

17

8

How do you prime/start a community for your site?

17

9

Interview questions for experienced programmers

15

10

What tech stack is your startup built on?

14

Top Show HN

1

a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

574

2

Build your own Heroku on your own servers

202

3

What colour is your IP address?

197

4

Quickly copy a file between computers

105

5

Semantics3 API for Products and Prices

101

6

Open Source Mobile Privacy Policy

100

7

Beautiful real-time dashboards with FnordMetric

91

8

Stop asking your clients "What browser are you on?"

88

9

I Designed this HN Mac App Should I develop it?

82

10

A threaded, TCP, key value store in Haskell

59

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World

202

2

Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin

148

3

Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit

143

4

Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases via Coinbase

109

5

Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects

77

6

Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed

71

7

Hackers Turn Burger Kings Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess

71

8

Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

66

9

Virool (YC S12) Raises $6.62 Million Seed Round To Help Make Videos Go Viral

65

10

Get Ready To Lose Your Job

61

News [?]

1

Death in Singapore

456

2

A warning to college profs from a high school teacher

230

3

White House Owes Response To Petition To Fire Prosecutor Of Aaron Swartz

148

4

Mexico: The New China

145

5

Letter from the grave (2009)

136

6

US Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case

134

7

Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain

114

8

As Families Change, Koreas Elderly Are Turning to Suicide

96

9

In China, Betting It All on a Child in College

88

10

FarmLogs (YC W12) Is Going To Change The Way That Farmers Manage Their Business

76

Scientific publications [?]

1

Willow Garage to Shut Down

67

2

UK's RobotCar demonstrated

41

3

Polytron predicts glass smartphones by end of year

4

4

Robot rat attacks real rats until they're depressed to test anti-depressants

3

5

Internet temptation at work lowers employee productivity

3

6

Asteroid Flyby Webcasts: Watch 2012 DA14 Live

3

7

Penguins welcome their robot overlords

3

8

Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby

2

9

Physics Paper of the week: Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts

2

10

Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Email transparency

210

2

Browser Wars, the game

169

3

Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware

57

4

Automobile Data Surveillance and the Future of Black Boxes

9

5

When the Bad Guys Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right

7

6

Automobile Data Surveillance and the Future of Black Boxes

5

7

Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel

5

8

Stripe hiring UK Engineers- it's coming

4

9

Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel

3

10

Michael Nygard - Redefining CAP

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls

239

2

The Effects of Temperature on Electric Vehicle Efficiency and Range

13

3

Bill Gates Uses 80-inch Touchscreen for Reddit AMA

6

4

Talking Software Patents with the Patent Office: A Sign of Reform to Come?

5

5

Adobe wants you to pay them 40% for iOS Apps

4

6

Anand's thoughts on Intel's TV initiative

3

7

Make your own head-mounted display for under $200

2

8

Google asks journalists to tone down story of "massive" security flaw

2

9

California Sheriff Faces Loud Privacy Protests Against Drone Plans

2

10

Apple makes more from iTunes + accessories than most do from phones

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers

85

2

SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP

8

3

Health Checks for Route53

3

4

Apple Updates Processors & Prices of MacBook Pro with Retina Display

3

5

Amazon Route 53 Introduces DNS Failover

2

6

Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers

2

7

Amazon's Data Warehouse Redshift Pricing

2

8

Microsoft SyncToy

1

9

SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP [Kindle Edition]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

94

2

The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police

66

3

Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit

37

4

Anti-Piracy Group to The Pirate Bay: We Want You To Sue Us

31

5

BitTorrent Starts Cyberlocker/BitTorrent Hybrid, Without Limits

5

6

U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers

3

7

Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit

3

8

Graph Databases Compared - Spreadsheet

2

9

Megaupload Planted Evidence Claim is an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory, U.S. Says

2

10

Competent Elites

2

Science News [?]

1

Russian meteor largest in a century

234

2

Genetic system performs logic operations and stores data in DNA

55

3

When Google got flu wrong

28

4

The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor -- Scientific American

22

5

The computer that never crashes

7

6

Computer program can reconstruct long-extinct languages from modern ones

6

7

GA EP System Reprograms Faults

3

8

Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits

2

9

Bacteria boost fixes symptoms of autism in mice

2

10

When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop That from Happening)?

2

Social [?]

1

Why It's Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport

259

2

Protecting People On Facebook

54

3

Elon Musk and How Not to Handle a PR Crisis

48

4

CNN live tweets while driving the same route as Broder (NYT)

12

5

Huge meteore blew up over Chelyabinsk, Russia

9

6

Tesla Road Trip

9

7

Good To Know Uber Doesn't Screen Their Drivers

8

8

Burger King Twitter account hacked

8

9

Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson comedy movie with Google

8

10

PG: What it looks like when a startup takes off

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing Boxen

447

2

Unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API

172

3

A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

154

4

Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub

140

5

Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game

122

6

Array.js: A better array for the browser and Node.js

76

7

MIDI visualizer in WebGL

73

8

HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake

67

9

Zend Optimizer+ now open-source on Github

41

10

Chocolate Duke3D - educational, compilable port of original Duke 3D

31

Wikipedia [?]

1

Productivity Paradox

5

2

WeberFechner law

2

3

Motivation Not to Leave a Startup

2

4

The Strategy of Conflict (1960)

2

5

2

6

Slowly changing dimensions

2

7

Big meteorite rain over Ural, Russia

2

8

Stanislav Petrov

2

9

2

10

The Abilene paradox

1

Blogs [?]

1

Protect Kids, Get F*cked

131

2

The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play

70

3

Free transportation for life

29

4

When are you going to start your own company?

6

5

Products I Wish Existed

3

6

Four ways to improve your next job interview

2

7

2

8

What it means to have remote presence

1

9

The most common mistake in job interviews

1

10

When Good Design Isn't Enough

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to program if you are blind

107

2

Does JavaScript's setInterval() method cause memory leak?

21

3

What is a Smalltalk image?

6

4

What is Branch Prediction?

4

5

What makes COBOL such a hated language?

3

6

File reading performance on smartphones: internal storage vs. SD card

2

7

Mythical man month 10 lines per developer day - how close on large projects?

2

8

How to count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer?

2

9

Why UI design so hard for some developers

2

10

How improper loop structure can cause cache misses and balloon runtime [C]

2

Substack [?]