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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Don't mess with Newegg
1377
2
2048, success and me
872
3
Atom Is Now Open Source
852
4
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
746
5
The future of Unreal Tournament begins today
743
6
TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
731
7
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
729
8
Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
729
9
The next version of DuckDuckGo
681
10
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
638
Top Ask HN
1
Who wants to be hired?
515
2
What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
366
3
Who is hiring? (May 2014)
292
4
Idea Sunday
199
5
Can we get a "Show HN:" section
172
6
As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?
126
7
How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?
109
8
I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better
109
9
Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"
109
10
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)
107
Top Show HN
1
Hipster Domain Finder
219
2
Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
197
3
Turn an email to a web page
172
4
The static, static site generator
170
5
Mighty Spring – Passive job search
144
6
Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game
137
7
Take It Apart
135
8
Font Awesome to PNG
128
9
OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games
121
10
Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript
103
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
351
2
The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
322
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Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling
265
4
Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
260
5
Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Critic, Is Now Building Azure
222
6
Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
212
7
Baidu Hires Andrew Ng
210
8
Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's
196
9
Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
195
10
Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
192
News [?]
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Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
746
2
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
638
3
Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
393
4
Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
383
5
My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
335
6
The slow death of purposeless walking
327
7
Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
309
8
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands
297
9
Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
285
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Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
276
Scientific publications [?]
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Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice
168
2
Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft
136
3
When does a physical system compute?
82
4
Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage
76
5
Static energy consumption analysis of LLVM IR programs
55
6
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, Stories Come Out
52
7
Enclosed tube maglev system tested in China
43
8
The Golden Age of Basic
38
9
Dovetail: Stronger Anonymity in Next-Generation Internet Routing
37
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Is Consciousness Computable?
35
Dev Blogs [?]
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
456
2
True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
340
3
Send money to debit cards
244
4
Network Neutrality
190
5
Java 8 Features
180
6
BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode
172
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Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
139
8
OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
110
9
Teen Arrested for 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats
82
10
Data Modeling in Graph Databases: Interview with Jim Webber and Ian Robinson
78
Tech blogs [?]
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Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
336
2
Privacy Badger
229
3
Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy
209
4
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests
154
5
EFF Dismayed by House's Gutted USA Freedom Act
134
6
International Day Against DRM
131
7
Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement
90
8
A Blow for Copyright Trolls
60
9
Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom
53
10
Averting Disaster – A Guide To Computer Backups (2014)
37
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management for Versioned Objects
136
2
Python for Finance
113
3
HBO programming available on Amazon Prime
111
4
Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption
100
5
Flask Web Development Book – 2014
47
6
AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter
35
7
The New AWS TCO Calculator
18
8
AWS Pop-up Loft in San Francisco
7
9
Apple Legal Process Guidelines for US Law Enforcement
4
10
EBS Encryption for Additional Data Protection
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The logic of Buddhist philosophy
308
2
Are coders worth it? (2013)
131
3
Is it Pokémon or big data technology?
123
4
It's Time to Kill Surface
107
5
The Power of Fat
90
6
Kola Superdeep Borehole
76
7
The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013)
72
8
Bass Guitar Preamp Design [pdf]
60
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The Intimacy of Crowds
59
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Revealed preferences aren't always accurate
53
Science News [?]
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A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster
259
2
What Do Animals See in a Mirror?
174
3
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists
136
4
New algorithm shakes up cryptography
125
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Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed
102
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A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
74
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First life with 'alien' DNA
52
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Math shall set you free – How to do divorce, divestment, and death properly
41
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Rumours swirl over credibility of big bang ripple find
38
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NASA scientists scramble to find an object in the Kuiper belt in time for visit
35
Social [?]
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We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting
199
2
Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video]
194
3
Three Optimization Tips for C++
146
4
Shit HN Says
144
5
Altair 8800 – Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype [video]
73
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APL Demonstration From 1975 [video]
63
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Seymour Cray: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976) [video]
61
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Dijkstra on Dutch TV (2000)
52
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Tom Mitchell: Never Ending Language Learning (2012)
45
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Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham
45
Github repos and gists [?]
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Source code of ASP.NET
268
2
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
258
3
Pixel graphics in terminal
217
4
MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source
216
5
Reverse Engineering for Beginners
212
6
PostgreSQL partitioning explained
210
7
Betty – English-like interface for the command line
172
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Improving GitHub for science
166
9
Browserify handbook
138
10
Jsfmt – Like Gofmt, but for JavaScript
137
Wikipedia [?]
1
Xeer
230
2
Gimli Glider
158
3
Corecursion
149
4
Oh-My-God particle
148
5
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
90
6
Euthanasia Coaster
82
7
Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link
66
8
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
57
9
Benford's law
49
10
Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
48
Blogs [?]
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Python 3 can revive Python
355
2
Some of the work we did at Danger
314
3
Computers are fast
296
4
Scammed
238
5
Python 3 is killing Python
208
6
Erlang and code style
178
7
Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera
132
8
Syntax highlighters are wrong
127
9
Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170
119
10
The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
103
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
435
2
Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation
316
3
Try-catch speeding up my code?
131
4
Is CSS Turing Complete?
54
5
Why is NaN not equal to NaN?
50
6
What is the name of this operator: "-->"?
18
7
Stack Overflow is down
11
8
Why is Google Chrome's Math.random number generator not that random?
9
9
How to pass data from PHP to JavaScript
7
10
Apply CSS to half a character
4
Substack [?]