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Top stories
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NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
1424
2
“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
1284
3
Nature makes all articles free to view
1102
4
Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
1029
5
CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
902
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“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
883
7
US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
879
8
The Case for Slow Programming
865
9
Quake on an oscilloscope
859
10
BPG Image format
842
Top Ask HN
1
How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
357
2
How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?
345
3
Who is hiring? (December 2014)
335
4
What book changed your life in 2014?
329
5
How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
246
6
Examples of profitable little free web tools?
223
7
What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?
189
8
What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?
122
9
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)
118
10
How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?
115
Top Show HN
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Front-end framework optimized for internal apps
438
2
Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015
251
3
PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X
247
4
Artful for Mac
229
5
Iota – a text editor written in Rust
221
6
Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps
215
7
Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
196
8
Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming
181
9
Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
180
10
ssh chat.shazow.net
171
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
460
2
Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
366
3
The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps
340
4
Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two
320
5
Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years
273
6
Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program
265
7
Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far
237
8
America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane
228
9
Giving Stephen Hawking a voice
216
10
Hyperloop is making progress
205
News [?]
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Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
521
2
Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
373
3
Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation
358
4
You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created
352
5
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs
328
6
Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations
324
7
We Can't Trust Uber
318
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German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls
311
9
Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service
288
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Google to close engineering office in Russia
283
Scientific publications [?]
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Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled
183
2
Orion Flight Test Live Launch
175
3
Orion flight test rescheduled for tomorrow
169
4
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration
127
5
Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
125
6
DIY Exoplanet Detection with a DSLR
115
7
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter
100
8
The Long Road to Maxwell’s Equations
96
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Social media fingerprints of unemployment
85
10
DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
78
Dev Blogs [?]
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Comments on the Sony Hack
302
2
The Interview
191
3
Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
173
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Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
146
5
Bitcoin guide
127
6
Snowdrift.coop: Funding for free projects
127
7
Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm
95
8
José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration
91
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Scaling email transparency
90
10
More Data on Attributing the Sony Attack
56
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
808
2
Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
233
3
Troll-Proofed Defensive Patent License Launches with 23 Patents
150
4
It’s Not Too Late for Uber to Avoid Stupid Patent of the Month
120
5
AnandTech Acquired by Purch
107
6
Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain
94
7
A virtual machine in Excel
83
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Web Encryption Gets Stronger and More Widespread: 2014 in Review
76
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Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman's Case Against NSA Spying
76
10
Towards the Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon
63
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS CodeCommit
285
2
Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps
54
3
AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction
50
4
Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model
42
5
Start Something New
20
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Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model
12
7
Apple+IBM release 10 iOS apps
11
8
AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction
7
9
U.S. Jobs Supported by Apple
7
10
AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction
6
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
375
2
Donate to the Internet Archive
181
3
Why we love repetition in music
169
4
Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey
124
5
The Google Way of Attacking Problems
97
6
Diary of a little girl in old New York (1919)
90
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Summary of Golang Generics Discussion
89
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Our quantum problem
82
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Kim Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks
76
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The golden quarter
67
Science News [?]
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Nature makes all articles free to view
1102
2
A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours
254
3
A New Physics Theory of Life
161
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Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English
141
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When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest
120
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A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap
118
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Single-shot compressed photography at one hundred billion frames per second
115
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What to Eat After the Apocalypse
104
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Scientists have put a simulated worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body
90
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Still no stem cells via easy 'STAP' path
89
Social [?]
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NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
1424
2
World's Simplest Electric Train [video]
359
3
James Golick has died
198
4
Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video]
182
5
How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Applications Across Multiple Platforms
181
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Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
174
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Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video]
163
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TRS-80 Model 4p movie streaming from floppies
146
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Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees [video]
131
10
Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux
98
Github repos and gists [?]
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Git client vulnerability announced
818
2
Streem – a new programming language from Matz
547
3
A tiling window manager written in Rust
324
4
List of Computer Science Courses
323
5
Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs
300
6
“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
300
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
272
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The reason people burn out on open source
243
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Golang on GitHub
220
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Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes
216
Wikipedia [?]
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The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management
126
2
Oliver Heaviside
100
3
Gödel's ontological proof
55
4
Iridium satellite constellation
52
5
Pax Mongolica
51
6
Shoelace Formula
27
7
Project A119 – Plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
12
8
ThyssenKrupp Express Walkway
11
9
Dudeism
6
10
The Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
5
Blogs [?]
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How You Know
686
2
The Fatal Pinch
480
3
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
452
4
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
434
5
The Itch Nobody Can Scratch
291
6
Cat Litter Boxes and DRM
286
7
Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon
255
8
The drug revolution that no one can stop
230
9
Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive
223
10
A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions
202
Stackoverflow [?]
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Does the LFENCE instruction make any sense in x86 processors?
17
2
ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Lucene, Solr, Xapian. Which Fits for Which Usage?
10
3
Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”
6
4
JavaScriptCore deeply composed call performance – Stack Overflow
5
5
What is the most minimal functional programming language
5
6
What is the intuition behind the Fibonacci heap data structure?
4
7
How Do You Run Elixir Interactive Shell from Emacs?
4
8
How to save the output of a console.log(object) to a file?
3
9
$(document).ready equivalent without using jQuery
3
10
Is there a good reason to use upper case for SQL keywords?
3
Substack [?]