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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Don't Fly During Ramadan
2617
2
Hyperloop
2549
3
Aaron Swartz commits suicide
2076
4
Google Reader shutting down
1926
5
A Most Peculiar Test Drive
1815
6
Lavabit abruptly shuts down
1747
7
Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown
1734
8
Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
1715
9
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
1624
10
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
1525
Top Ask HN
1
Why the Microsoft hate?
737
2
What's the best technical talk you've heard?
517
3
Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
481
4
I'm quadriplegic can you help me with my security?
471
5
Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
457
6
Why would a government have created bitcoin?
448
7
How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
431
8
What are you working on and why is it cool?
413
9
Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
389
10
Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
361
Top Show HN
1
XKCD-inspired StackSort
923
2
6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
840
3
My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
740
4
My seven minute workout timer evening project
737
5
Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
731
6
Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
723
7
Weekend project, Intro.js
699
8
Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
644
9
a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
574
10
Remove backgrounds from images online
550
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
New Zealand bans some software patents
865
2
Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned Rockstar sues Google
766
3
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
646
4
This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
644
5
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them
634
6
How Newegg crushed the shopping cart patent and saved online retail
632
7
I understood gender discrimination once I added Mr. to my resume
629
8
Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
623
9
Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Backstory of His Epic 3,990-Panel Comic
615
10
Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
570
News [?]
1
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
1624
2
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
1525
3
Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
1417
4
Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
5
South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
1100
6
FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
1056
7
US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
962
8
N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
885
9
I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
873
10
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
860
Scientific publications [?]
1
What Ive learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear
398
2
Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars
315
3
Hurricane on Saturn
251
4
Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics
231
5
Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?
216
6
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable
192
7
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion
179
8
UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out
174
9
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
169
10
High-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds
167
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The DDoS that almost broke the Internet
805
2
New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services
631
3
Stripe Checkout
521
4
The Internet Is a Surveillance State
517
5
Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
485
6
jQuery.payment
434
7
Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
425
8
Firefox introduces PDF viewer
408
9
Announcing MoSQL
372
10
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
355
Tech blogs [?]
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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
1191
2
Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors
736
3
Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
665
4
Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
573
5
EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
466
6
In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
442
7
TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
442
8
Tor and HTTPS
430
9
Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
424
10
Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
396
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Prime Air
1356
2
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
1183
3
Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues
691
4
Mac Pro
641
5
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
559
6
Amazon WorkSpaces
464
7
Kindle MatchBook
403
8
Microsoft to acquire Nokia
379
9
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
371
10
iOS 7
283
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
BitTorrents Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
750
2
Some dark corners of C
344
3
UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
342
4
Archive.org donations matched 3:1 until 2014
276
5
The Future of AngularJS
266
6
Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers
257
7
The White Hat's Dilemma
243
8
Antigua Government Set to Launch Pirate Website To Punish United States
220
9
Go 1.3+ Compiler Overhaul
197
10
Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features
196
Science News [?]
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Fourier Transforms The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpsons Face
340
2
Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible
284
3
Water seems to flow freely on Mars
263
4
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
236
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Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
235
6
Russian meteor largest in a century
234
7
Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction
230
8
New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms
220
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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits
211
10
Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]
210
Social [?]
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Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?
569
2
Im Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA
567
3
Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years
503
4
Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]
433
5
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement
395
6
Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
384
7
Introducing Graph Search
378
8
#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software
378
9
Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews
369
10
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo [video]
342
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Quine Relay
983
2
Lime Experimental Sublime Text clone
532
3
Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it
511
4
Releases a workflow for shipping software to end users
463
5
Heroku Fucking Console
460
6
Comcast injecting JS
450
7
Introducing Boxen
447
8
A list of free programming books
435
9
GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
418
10
Introducing government.github.com
414
Wikipedia [?]
1
White Coke
466
2
Geneva drive
457
3
Stellar Wind (code name)
393
4
Jonathan James
360
5
Black Perl
316
6
Alief
298
7
Black Start
281
8
Warrant Canary
281
9
Iron Ring
270
10
Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders
269
Blogs [?]
1
What I Didn't Say
1289
2
Do Things that Don't Scale
1235
3
I will not do a tech interview
1004
4
You are not Steve Jobs
601
5
The Facebook experiment has failed
594
6
How to Raise Money
514
7
Founders' Accents
508
8
Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my
496
9
Choosing Minecraft over Disney
495
10
Apple Literally Stole my Thunder
486
Stackoverflow [?]
1
We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
628
2
Hello. I'm a compiler
452
3
Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?
409
4
Creating a Radial Menu in CSS
324
5
How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
308
6
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
305
7
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
280
8
How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?
275
9
Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?
271
10
The language of Vim
263
Substack [?]