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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”

1522

2

Light Table is now open source

1200

3

Quick tip for developers who use OS X

1072

4

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

1002

5

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

975

6

You might not need jQuery

938

7

913

8

Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850

881

9

OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on

801

10

Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

783

Top Ask HN

1

What's your speciality, and what's your"FizzBuz" equivalent?

252

2

What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

207

3

Who is hiring? (January 2014)

201

4

How to find part-time developer work?

196

5

How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

146

6

Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!

145

7

Female hacker-founder AMA

142

8

What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

135

9

Best big companies to work for?

103

10

I want to learn how to prototype hardware. Where do I start?

98

Top Show HN

1

Kimono – Never write a web scraper again

682

2

I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

619

3

Random Street View

340

4

Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products

310

5

We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5

281

6

Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby

267

7

Use any text as a domain name

244

8

Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding

212

9

Linux server monitoring web dashboard

164

10

Funded.io rapid prototype

156

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

480

2

Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules

324

3

Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins

321

4

Why 'Her' will dominate UI design even more than 'Minority Report'

314

5

Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator

314

6

AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution

297

7

Docker Raises $15M

295

8

AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100

290

9

Gmail Glitch Is Causing 1000s Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account

279

10

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue

275

News [?]

1

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

975

2

Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

783

3

Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower

777

4

Fired? Speak No Evil

695

5

For the Love of Money

553

6

Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division

446

7

Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down

415

8

Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

409

9

US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests

383

10

Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

348

Scientific publications [?]

1

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

200

2

Consciousness as a State of Matter

89

3

Hawking: Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes

56

4

Epistemology of Wave Function Collapse in Quantum Physics [pdf]

22

5

New pictures of the mysterious rock on Mars

13

6

The Greatest Myth About the Robotics Industry

8

7

Epidemiological Modeling Of Online Social Network Dynamics

7

8

U.S. Army Considers Replacing Thousands of Soldiers With Robots

4

9

New Image compression method from UCLA outperforms JPEG

4

10

Researchers achieve fastest real-world fiber speeds of 1.4Tb/s

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA

515

2

How the NSA Threatens National Security

264

3

Taking PHP Seriously

188

4

Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition

167

5

Asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance

151

6

JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

130

7

A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC

130

8

Stripe adds multiple account support

121

9

Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]

111

10

Bitcoin Price Touches $1,000 Again as Overstock Sales Hit $130,000

84

Tech blogs [?]

1

Which companies help protect your data from the government?

93

2

AMD Kaveri Review

88

3

Apple TV graduates from hobby/accessory to product line ahead of major changes

51

4

Stop Congress From Taking the Fast Track to One-Sided Copyright Laws

48

5

Getting Copyright Right for the 21st Century

33

6

Apple Falls Behind Microsoft, Samsung, Sony In New Consumer Experience Survey

22

7

Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality

10

8

IWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking

7

9

Congress, Don't Let Us Down: Oppose the Bill to “Fast Track” TPP

7

10

TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Thirty Years of Mac [video]

222

2

Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter

154

3

New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS

90

4

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

66

5

Apple: Update on National Security and Law Enforcement Orders

11

6

Tell Apple the Story of Your First Mac

9

7

Download Your Amazon Order History

8

8

3.99 One-Day shipping no longer mentioned in Amazon Prime

6

9

Amazon Best Sellers: Best External Zip Drives

5

10

App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google's new business model

122

2

Byte Magazine Smalltalk-80 Issue

68

3

Google’s New Business Model

39

4

Battle of the Box

39

5

How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship

30

6

Do you have a cold or flu? Spit and help Scanadu

29

7

What was trending on HN (February 21, 2007)

22

8

First TV interview with Edward Snowden (original english version)

17

9

EU Offers Public a Chance to Fix Copyright Law

11

10

Android support in Go

10

Science News [?]

1

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'

205

2

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?

160

3

Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface

137

4

What's expected of us

121

5

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

114

6

New era of fast genetic engineering

80

7

Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field

78

8

Ampere to get rational redefinition

76

9

Japan's aging population could actually be good news

34

10

AI takes on humans to create video game

30

Social [?]

1

Debunking Princeton

736

2

Introducing Paper

287

3

Get Facebook WiFi for your business

276

4

Super Mario World"Executes Arbitrary Cod" [video]

223

5

Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

119

6

We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout

105

7

Facebook's new optical storage solution [video]

101

8

You can use Facebook to identify people by their email or phone number

48

9

Mobile-First Is Old News. Think Platform-First

21

10

I am Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Edward Snowden is my hero. AMA

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides

567

2

Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers

529

3

New Year, New CEO for GitHub

339

4

Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application

277

5

Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

255

6

Bootstrap 3.1 released

251

7

You will probably need jQuery

207

8

Yalo – Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware

177

9

Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

169

10

Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

159

Wikipedia [?]

1

Gate Tower Building

188

2

148

3

105

4

Swatch Internet Time

98

5

1% rule (Internet culture)

90

6

Peelian Principles

76

7

Boltzmann brain

55

8

51

9

United States incarceration rate

31

10

1 + 2 + 3 + .. = -1/12

12

Blogs [?]

1

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

1002

2

Female Founders

569

3

A 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game

232

4

Cities and Ambition (2008)

175

5

How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses

165

6

Parallelism in one line

137

7

Paths to being a kernel hacker

77

8

Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO

55

9

Coding in color

46

10

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

328

2

What is your best programmer joke?

107

3

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

85

4

Strangest Programming Language Feature?

67

5

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

67

6

Django vs. Flask for a long-term project

35

7

CSS 'frameworks' are missing the point (2008)

27

8

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

15

9

Memory leak in Go http standard library?

10

10

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

10

Substack [?]