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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

752

2

Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks

632

3

Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters

605

4

Ruby 2.0.0 Released

536

5

Ubuntu on tablets

514

6

The best programmers are the quickest to Google

476

7

The Chromebook Pixel

458

8

Hello. I'm a compiler

452

9

The Truth about a Failing Startup

447

10

HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning

436

Top Ask HN

1

A patent troll is targeting my transit app

214

2

State of Django vs. Rails?

51

3

On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it?

39

4

If you could start a start-up anywhere in the world

31

5

Why not make everyone's salary public?

28

6

If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?

27

7

What do you wish your non-technical co-founders knew how to do?

22

8

Any US based company interested in an EE/CS Bachelor for free?

20

9

Why is it so hard to make good friendships in the Bay Area?

16

10

Ask HN - How successful are YC companies hiring via HN posting

15

Top Show HN

1

Like The Onion, But Real

122

2

TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

112

3

importd d is for django

110

4

Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

84

5

Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud

78

6

HN Frontpage Minus Techmeme

70

7

urlbox.io - Add beautiful website screenshots to your site

47

8

Facebook Unlike

43

9

My weekend project - inspirational quotes

36

10

Listen to Growth Hacking & Hacker News on your mobile

33

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures

323

2

Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time

253

3

Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4

231

4

I used Google Glass

188

5

Dells Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability

170

6

LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform

146

7

France to invest 20B in high-speed broadband for the entire country

144

8

Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 25601700px Touchscreen

141

9

Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire

140

10

Microryza (YC W13) Is A Kickstarter For Scientific Research

126

News [?]

1

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

353

2

The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)

291

3

The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures

276

4

Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.

190

5

Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?

148

6

The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists

139

7

Why Clarence Thomas Uses Simple Words in His Opinions

112

8

How To Buy Your Way Onto The New York Times Bestsellers List

112

9

Who Has the Guts for Gluten?

95

10

Paul Graham and David Hornik on Bloomberg West [video]

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

61

2

German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery

47

3

NASA Sees Monster Sunspot Growing Fast, Solar Storms Possible

6

4

Can You Trust an Amazon Review?

5

5

Why Smart Glasses Might Not Make You Smarter - a Q&A with Steve Mann

5

6

Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon

5

7

Rat Robot Beats on Live Rats to Make Them Depressed

4

8

The nuclear reactor in your basement

3

9

Japan makes a rat robot specializing in making other rats depressed.

3

10

Curves in spacetime violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox introduces PDF viewer

408

2

Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS

205

3

Parallelism and Concurrency with Haskell and Cloud Haskell

66

4

66

5

All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security

57

6

Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed

15

7

Countering Trusting Trust

8

8

Hacking the Papal Election

5

9

How Secure Is the Papal Election

5

10

DDoS Attack on Bank Hid $900,000 Cyberheist

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis

47

2

The Copyright Propaganda Machine Gets a New Agent: Your ISP

20

3

Apple Hit with 'Planned Obsolescence' Lawsuit in Brazil over 4th Generation iPad

7

4

Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends by Brian Klug

4

5

Nvidia Tegra 4 Architecture Deep Dive, Tegra 4i, Icera i500 & Phoenix Hands On

3

6

How Many Drone Licenses Has the FAA Issued?

3

7

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB: GK110 On A Gaming Card

2

8

Nvidia Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE

2

9

"Abu Dhabi" AMD Opterons Tested

2

10

Benchmarking GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB: Fast, Quiet, Consistent

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon releases OpsWorks - Chef-based dev-ops product

5

2

Peter Thiel & Gary Kasparov's Upcoming Book on the Free Market

3

3

AWS Summit 2013

2

4

An Ultimate Hunt Part 2

1

5

Best Videos from YouTube - Android app

1

6

Amazon launches AWS OpsWorks

1

7

Amazon: At the publisher's request, title is being sold without DRM applied

1

8

AWS Summit 2013

1

9

AWS Summit 2013

1

10

Amazon AWS Summit 2013 registrations open

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

All D3.js demonstrations in one document

107

2

Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission

29

3

Survey: Do You Donate to Crowdfunding Projects?

18

4

Anti-Piracy Groups Want Google to Lift DMCA Takedown Cap

7

5

About TechCrunch (2005)

6

6

The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain

5

7

Always Say Yes to Networking

5

8

Pirate Bay Bandwidth Supplier Disconnected, But The Ship Sails On

4

9

Have no heroes, and no villains

4

10

Pirate Party Threatened With Lawsuit for Hosting The Pirate Bay

4

Science News [?]

1

Thalmic (YC W13) introduces gesture control without the cameras

185

2

3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air

132

3

Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean

53

4

The Shocking Savagery of Americas Early History

12

5

The Roots of Human Genius Are Deeper Than Expected

9

6

Depression's Evolutionary Roots

5

7

Spidey-sense suit tingles when someone gets too close

4

8

Siberian Caves Reveal Advancing Permafrost Thaw

3

9

Photo Interactive: The Civil War, Now in Living Color

3

10

Influential few predict behaviour of the many

2

Social [?]

1

Namecheap disabled imgur.com for abuse

18

2

Scott Chacon, CIO of Github, The Future Of Work [video]

18

3

How to build a genuine fan base on Facebook

9

4

President Obama on Patents

9

5

Teacher makes iOS app to automatically grade quizzes

8

6

Feynman: Difference between Mathematics and Physics

8

7

Steve Jobs in a TV report about Apple Computers (1985)

6

8

Pin - Australian payment API now in public beta

6

9

Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise 24 hours loop

6

10

Dropping Out of Stanford

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete

410

2

TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language

151

3

Ruby - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections

129

4

Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum

108

5

TCMalloc and MySQL

90

6

Common JavaScript Gotchas

75

7

CoffeeComplete Plus True autocompletions for CoffeeScript in SublimeText

59

8

Fluxcapacitor: spoof Posix time functions

55

9

CoffeeScript in Firefox console with DOM support

51

10

Bootstrap-switch

49

Wikipedia [?]

1

Rubber duck debugging

33

2

6

3

East Germany showing off its computers in a state parade, 1987

5

4

Unethical human experimentation in the United States

4

5

4

6

Faceted Classification

3

7

Braess's paradox: adding capacity can reduce performance

2

8

Lemuria: the lost atlantis in indian ocean?

2

9

1

10

Pando (tree) - 80,000 year old tree

1

Blogs [?]

1

Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.

169

2

When to Sell Your Company

125

3

How to start working on side projects

86

4

Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters

79

5

Facebook Lost a Great Engineer

52

6

Play by your own rules

32

7

What Yahoo's no work from home policy means

15

8

Yahoos backwards move

12

9

Tesla Is The New Apple

2

10

Its Complicated: Breakup in the Social Age

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hello. I'm a compiler

452

2

Meanwhile in another news, Azure is down because of expired certificate

12

3

How do I "think in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?

7

4

How to confirm that your calculation of pi is correct

7

5

2013 Moderator Election

4

6

How to use vim registers?

3

7

Haskell Type Classes in OCaml

2

8

Five-line solution to the Subset-sum problem (Python)

2

9

Biggest differences of Thrift vs Protocol Buffers?

2

10

How hard is it to implement a chess engine?

1

Substack [?]