Go dark
Top HN Stories
[from
Apr 01, 2014
to
May 01, 2014
)
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
W39
W40
W41
W42
W43
W44
W45
W46
W47
W48
W49
W50
W51
W52
Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Drop Dropbox
1990
2
The Heartbleed Bug
1634
3
Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
1297
4
How we got read access on Google’s production servers
1101
5
Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
1055
6
Write Code Every Day
1024
7
“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished
920
8
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
889
9
What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap
746
10
The Absurdity of LinkedIn
735
Top Ask HN
1
What source code is worth studying?
376
2
CTO wants me to leave
370
3
Idea Sunday
338
4
Your favorite YouTube channels?
301
5
Who is hiring? (April 2014)
288
6
Do you have a side project you want to sell?
288
7
Idea Sunday
276
8
Idea Sunday
225
9
Any hackers over 60? 70?
206
10
What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?
193
Top Show HN
1
Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
516
2
GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown
407
3
Super Planet Crash
348
4
Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes
258
5
InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car
217
6
Turn sketches on paper into app prototypes
195
7
Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line
173
8
An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative
172
9
Isomer – An isometric graphics library for HTML5 Canvas
164
10
Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js
154
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
SF’s Housing Crisis Explained
625
2
Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
478
3
TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
443
4
No Exit
409
5
Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
349
6
Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA
279
7
NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden
226
8
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana
189
9
The right way to ask users for iOS permissions
183
10
Bitcoin Falls Below $400
175
News [?]
1
Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87
493
2
SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station
406
3
F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane
397
4
The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback
378
5
How Americans Die
356
6
Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns
324
7
Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep
315
8
EU court rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users
313
9
NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years
294
10
The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
288
Scientific publications [?]
1
Mathematicians trace source of Rogers-Ramanujan identities, find algebraic gold
123
2
Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer
105
3
Japan's Plan for Centimeter-Resolution GPS
101
4
India Launches Its Second Navigation Satellite
83
5
How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
55
6
Division By Three (2006)
36
7
Computational solution to quantum foundational problems
24
8
Medieval bishop's theory resembles modern concept of multiple universes
14
9
'Wearable Eyes' Make You Appear Friendly, Social Even When You're Not
10
10
NASA Signs Agreement with SpaceX for Use of Historic Launch Pad
10
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
889
2
Stripe Open-Source Retreat
518
3
Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
314
4
Heartbleed
274
5
Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
183
6
Mozilla Moving Forward
147
7
Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git
124
8
PostgreSQL pain points
103
9
MCS locks and qspinlocks
101
10
Haskell in the Newsroom [video]
90
Tech blogs [?]
1
Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
304
2
Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
268
3
The Morality Police in Your Checking Account
120
4
Windows Phone 8.1 review
107
5
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 and 808 Processors
69
6
Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group
58
7
Websites Must Use HSTS in Order to Be Secure
46
8
In Aereo, Supreme Court Rightly Skeptical About Becoming Technology Regulators
17
9
Dear Volunteer Web Developers: Thank You, You’re Awesome
9
10
EFF Statement on Mozilla and the Importance of the Open Internet
7
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon Fire TV
346
2
AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability
79
3
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2
62
4
Daniel's review of Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
57
5
New MacBook Air Released – $100 Cheaper
50
6
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds Docker support
27
7
AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability
6
8
Microsoft Earnings Release FY14 Q3
5
9
Better
5
10
Amazon Launches Fire TV
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk
134
2
Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL
117
3
Growing-ups
89
4
Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network
64
5
Brendan Eich's Homepage 15 Years Ago
12
6
Hulu Blocks VPN Users Over Piracy Concerns
7
7
UK Prime Minister asked for permanent police anti-piracy unit funding
6
8
Why People Pirate Game of Thrones, a Global Cost Breakdown
5
9
Pirate Bay Hits 10 Million Torrent Milestone
5
10
Game of Thrones Sets New Torrent Swarm Record
5
Science News [?]
1
Blood of world's oldest woman hints at limits of life
152
2
Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys
142
3
Metabolism appears in lab without cells
140
4
How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better
137
5
This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
130
6
A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life
128
7
Ants swarm like brains think
121
8
Y Combinator Bets on Biotech
106
9
Processed foods that dilute protein content subvert our appetite control systems
100
10
Nuclear plants release less radiation into environment than coal plants (2007)
79
Social [?]
1
CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked
523
2
The user is drunk (2013) [video]
278
3
Facebook's git repo is 54GB
235
4
Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
227
5
Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory
218
6
CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
216
7
RIP TDD
110
8
Twitter spam wave
85
9
Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to work from
81
10
Julie Ann Horvath names harassers
78
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Results of the GitHub Investigation
672
2
Follow up to the investigation results
555
3
Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server
487
4
Free Programming Books
367
5
Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
347
6
Avow-CI Is No More
234
7
FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter
220
8
TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell
220
9
Exec($_GET
199
10
One of my Drupal sites was hacked
194
Wikipedia [?]
1
Dujiangyan irrigation system
58
2
Göbekli Tepe – Stone age mountain sanctuary
48
3
Bus factor
38
4
Could folks please help me get DigitalOcean onto wikipedia? (deleted thrice)
30
5
Mars Colonial Transporter
24
6
80k dollars almost certainly cures hepatitis C
22
7
Erdős–Bacon Number
19
8
Type I and type II errors
14
9
Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
14
10
Horizontal gene transfer
10
Blogs [?]
1
Stock Photos That Don’t Suck
539
2
They say “nothing will change”
374
3
My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
260
4
Freelancer.com is destroying my life
234
5
Designer Duds
213
6
Hacking Sonos
205
7
“Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
176
8
Is Google crippling Firefox?
145
9
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
141
10
What every founder fears
141
Stackoverflow [?]
1
“var functionName” vs “function functionName”
124
2
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
44
3
How do I find Waldo with Mathematica?
44
4
Stackoverflow HTTPS Error – Heartbleed Bug
37
5
Stack Overflow Down
23
6
Node.js cluster versus JXcore multithread
22
7
Glass still auto-uploads all photos to Google's servers
12
8
What does Docker add to just plain LXC?
8
9
StackOverflow down
8
10
SO: Why can't my program compile under Windows 7 in French?
4
Substack [?]