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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tim Cook Speaks Up
3086
2
Hacker News API
1715
3
Google Inbox
1069
4
Cursors
1032
5
The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
1025
6
GitHub Student Developer Pack
1022
7
Nexus 6
1005
8
Firebase is Joining Google
878
9
Microsoft Band
857
10
Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
816
Top Ask HN
1
How to price yourself?
329
2
My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
318
3
How do you use Docker in production?
309
4
Who is hiring? (October 2014)
275
5
Is the semantic web still a thing?
178
6
Big company approached our stealth startup – what to do?
159
7
Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?
126
8
My VPS got hacked and now I'm facing a massive bill. What can I do?
110
9
Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?
108
10
What to do when your once potential competitor becomes a real competitor
94
Top Show HN
1
Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool
436
2
Nightmare – Simple browser automation
429
3
Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution
332
4
“Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps
279
5
ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy
266
6
HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL
239
7
Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind
229
8
RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
220
9
VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean
216
10
A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks
212
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
439
2
The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks
427
3
OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
405
4
Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile
376
5
CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen
331
6
Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959)
269
7
How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)
251
8
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich
250
9
Ten years of Ubuntu
246
10
Virginia Police Have Been Stockpiling Private Phone Records
240
News [?]
1
Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
816
2
SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
598
3
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
510
4
Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders
470
5
Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign
411
6
How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F
377
7
Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests
358
8
Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?
333
9
Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
306
10
Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations
303
Scientific publications [?]
1
Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
503
2
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
214
3
Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Others
185
4
Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea
161
5
Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? [pdf]
126
6
Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms
110
7
The LED's Dark Secret (2009)
79
8
A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions
77
9
Neural Turing Machines [pdf]
75
10
On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe
66
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe – Apple Pay
183
2
The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp
173
3
Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth
165
4
Route leak incident on October 2, 2014
93
5
Game day exercises at Stripe
92
6
Crash-only software: More than meets the eye (2006)
74
7
Researcher finds Tor exit node adding malware to binaries
73
8
TestFlight Beta Testing
72
9
64-bit and iOS 8 Requirements for New Apps
66
10
The Debian init system general resolution returns
66
Tech blogs [?]
1
Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
504
2
India’s Downward Spiral
275
3
Troubling Arguments from the Government in Smith v. Obama
215
4
EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
203
5
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Copyright/Trademark Bullies
162
6
DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals Major Vulnerabilities
138
7
Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes
132
8
ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Distributed to Families
109
9
Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals
105
10
An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry
65
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft Band
857
2
iMac with Retina 5K display
615
3
AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region
293
4
OS X Yosemite
237
5
Apple Mac Mini
192
6
Amazon.com redesign
143
7
iPad Air 2
135
8
New AWS Directory Service
126
9
EC2 Maintenance Update II
108
10
Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue
98
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Great Robocoin Rip-off: How We Lost $25,000 Buying a Robocoin ATM
575
2
My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google
574
3
Angular 2 Core
363
4
The new archive.org
302
5
Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts
268
6
Are we at Peak Google?
193
7
Sorry but not sorry
106
8
Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments?
65
9
What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet?
63
10
Freedom from Food
51
Science News [?]
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How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
458
2
Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming
148
3
Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
136
4
Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy
122
5
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
121
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Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron
120
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Is This the Future of Robotic Legs?
106
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The most-cited papers
101
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When Theft Was Worse Than Murder
99
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Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old
98
Social [?]
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Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]
718
2
Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
427
3
How a differential gear works (1937) [video]
391
4
Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]
288
5
Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
258
6
Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
248
7
Go home Twitter, you're drunk
211
8
Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures
189
9
Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a deposition (1998) [video]
188
10
A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]
141
Github repos and gists [?]
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An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II
348
2
Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite
331
3
Safari is sending every search query to Apple
327
4
A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”
311
5
PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database
297
6
Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux
260
7
The Physical Web
250
8
Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
246
9
A Doom Renderer written in Rust
229
10
Unfinished game – learn by practice
214
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Gombe Chimpanzee War
134
2
Dreadnought hoax
98
3
Jaquard Loom
47
4
Heathkit
38
5
Biefeld–Brown effect
27
6
Wikipedia moving to HHVM
10
7
MONIAC Computer
8
8
Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in x86 Assembly by one guy
7
9
Songs deemed “lyrically questionable” after 9/11
6
10
The Quiet Zone: No wifi or cell phone service for 13,000 sq. miles
6
Blogs [?]
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Before the Startup
703
2
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
635
3
My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator
259
4
Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals
219
5
Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor
196
6
Diary of a Corporate Sellout
189
7
SimCity That I Used to Know
181
8
Our Journey to and Through YC
159
9
Living the Future of Technical Writing
149
10
Pipino: Gentleman Thief
149
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why would identical C loops in the same program execute in different times?
9
2
What are the common undefined behaviors that a C++ programmer should know about?
5
3
ELI5: Why are there so many MEAN stacks?
4
4
Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default? (2011)
3
5
Heroku + Cloudflare completely free SSL?
3
6
Colors in JavaScript Console
3
7
** What is the simple way to repeat a String in Java?
2
8
Undefined Behavior and Sequence Points
2
9
Get the author and title from ISBN using Google Book API and python
2
10
Client prediction, logic share between client and server side
2
Substack [?]