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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Today is The Day We Fight Back

1958

2

Facebook Fraud [video]

1583

3

1386

4

How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

1193

5

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

1067

6

Mystery signal from a helicopter

1062

7

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

1054

8

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear

988

9

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

953

10

How I hacked Github again

861

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2014)

278

2

Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?

204

3

What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

195

4

What are some alternatives to HN?

185

5

Why isn't Erlang more popular?

181

6

Where I can post my startup to get beta users?

125

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

117

8

Best IRC channels?

112

9

How to create an anonymous site?

78

10

Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps?

77

Top Show HN

1

thedaywefightback.js

442

2

JS library to make your website instant

393

3

I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge

303

4

We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

258

5

A simple IP address API

229

6

Siri-as-a-Service Speech API

220

7

Add forms to your static site – no iFrames required

214

8

I built this game alone – design, code, music, sound, marketing

198

9

187

10

Google Music for Mac

180

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

1054

2

Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web

556

3

Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water

311

4

Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

272

5

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately

257

6

A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

239

7

FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List

236

8

Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science

218

9

Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

215

10

Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users

214

News [?]

1

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

1067

2

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him

409

3

Scenes from a militarized America

326

4

Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion

320

5

Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition

291

6

That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter

266

7

A Star in a Bottle

260

8

Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

249

9

We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer

246

10

This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses

229

Scientific publications [?]

1

Who's Writing Linux?

94

2

A probabilistic model of prime numbers based on network theory

74

3

Can Quiet, Efficient 'Space Elevators' Really Work?

63

4

Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon

37

5

NASA, Saylor Foundation to Offer New Free Space Systems Engineering Course

26

6

Planck Stars: new type of star emerges from black holes

8

7

NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

8

8

Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data

5

9

One in four Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun

4

10

Mathematicians calculate that there are 177,147 ways to knot a tie

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’

274

2

135 new currencies at Stripe

274

3

Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack

200

4

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

159

5

Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals

144

6

Target Hackers Broke in via HVAC Company

144

7

Mt. Gox Halts Bitcoin Withdrawals, Price Drop Follows

125

8

The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems

123

9

CoinDesk Removes Mt. Gox from Bitcoin Price Index

123

10

1971 Social Engineering Attack

103

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix

298

2

EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers

239

3

Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

107

4

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

106

5

Sony’s 2001 offer from Steve Jobs to run Mac OS on Vaio laptops

67

6

International Community Unites to Protest Big Brother

24

7

Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive Removed from Leadership Webpage

16

8

ASUS Chromebox: Fanless Haswell in a NUC-like Form Factor, Starting at $179

12

9

Flappy Bird Removed

9

10

Apple Acquires Burstly, which owns Testflight (iOS beta testing platform)

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

953

2

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

126

3

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO

90

4

Books to Read in a Lifetime

65

5

Announcing the next generation of Amazon EC2 High I/O instance

21

6

Jony Ive has been Removed from Apple's Leadership Page

14

7

The most expensive e-book

12

8

The Garage – startup within Microsoft

5

9

Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO

3

10

Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics

72

2

AngularJS change detection – draft

65

3

QUIC – Next-generation multiplex transport over UDP

58

4

Recovered Mt. Gox Financials

49

5

Lawrence Lessig wins damages for bogus YouTube takedown

8

6

Microsoft’s Mobile Muddle

7

7

Bitcoin Donations Now Integrated into BitTorrent Client

7

8

Microsoft v Microsoft

6

9

Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules

6

10

Netflix is not a friend of net neutrality

5

Science News [?]

1

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

250

2

P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume

170

3

Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected

120

4

Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013)

119

5

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

106

6

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

90

7

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

75

8

How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?

74

9

Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate

63

10

Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake

54

Social [?]

1

Facebook Fraud [video]

1583

2

Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

401

3

Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites

394

4

/u/161719 tells us all why surveillance is not OK

392

5

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich

369

6

“Facebook turned me down” (2009)

360

7

Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

192

8

Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone

149

9

Warsaw, August 1947

108

10

Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014

105

Github repos and gists [?]

1

838

2

GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

662

3

Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit

370

4

Radiation-hardened quine

215

5

ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners

204

6

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

203

7

Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever

193

8

Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format

186

9

ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud

177

10

`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode

176

Wikipedia [?]

1

German tank problem

217

2

The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light

122

3

78

4

Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site

67

5

60

6

Letters of Last Resort

57

7

Parkinson's Law of Triviality

45

8

Quantum vacuum plasma thruster

38

9

36

10

Wikipedia: Are you evil?

24

Blogs [?]

1

How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

1193

2

The Star Trek Economy

230

3

Microsoft is Dead (2007)

166

4

Why Don't Schools Teach Debugging?

143

5

The Erlang Shell

117

6

How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help

84

7

I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much.

80

8

What the bubble got right (2004)

47

9

Why I wrote my own UIKit and the end of the platform wars

18

10

Why the World Will Run Out of Helium

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

245

2

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?

242

3

Why not inherit from List?

86

4

Why is Git better than Subversion?

39

5

Stack Overflow is down

25

6

Stack Overflow is down

13

7

Stack Overflow is down

9

8

Libc random number generator flawed?

4

9

How does Facebook disable browser's integrated Developer Tools?

3

10

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?

3

Substack [?]