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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

All Our Patent Are Belong To You

1855

2

Visualizing Algorithms

1290

3

Introducing Swift

1142

4

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

894

5

Supreme court: Warrantless cell phone searches illegal [pdf]

740

6

Google Cardboard

712

7

Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs

711

8

634

9

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

595

10

Web Starter Kit

553

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (June 2014)

267

2

What projects are you working on?

184

3

Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?

172

4

Did you start a company whilst employed?

141

5

Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)

137

6

How can i help my dad?

130

7

Will Hacker News Get An Official "Show HN" Section?

84

8

What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown?

73

9

About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

72

10

Looking for advice – Failed startup, long term relationship at same time

68

Top Show HN

1

Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

586

2

We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car

354

3

Card – An interactive CSS3 credit card form

352

4

Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions

274

5

HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

177

6

Vim Awesome – Vim plugins

176

7

Create pretty resumes in HTML, Latex, Markdown from a single JSON

173

8

Bounce.js – A tool for generating CSS3 animations

148

9

zzzz.io, a free DynDNS replacement I created on the weekend

144

10

Automatically convert a website to Android and iOS

135

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google+ broke our trust

333

2

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

317

3

Contiki: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things

299

4

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU

295

5

For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)

216

6

Ars tests Internet surveillance by spying on an NPR reporter

214

7

Apple begins rejecting apps that offer rewards for video views, social sharing

200

8

Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges

198

9

Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse

189

10

Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing

186

News [?]

1

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

535

2

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers

458

3

Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter

411

4

Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less

378

5

A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water

305

6

How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution

298

7

Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations

263

8

Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution

240

9

Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday

239

10

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (2013)

236

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing

180

2

Recipe for a Better Oven

159

3

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)

99

4

Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

83

5

Feminine-named hurricanes are deadlier than masculine-named hurricanes

54

6

Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod

50

7

Some Emerging Possibilities For Space Propulsion

40

8

How to Build a Home-Brew Radon Detector: Measure Radiation with a Webcam

40

9

The increase of genetic complexity follows Moore’s law (2013) [pdf]

38

10

Titan Aerial Daughtercraft

32

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Introducing Swift

1142

2

JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite

385

3

Introducing Swift

363

4

Metal – Apple’s new graphics API

320

5

298

6

Android without the mothership

251

7

250

8

“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies”

238

9

Stripe: Alipay support

155

10

Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop

153

Tech blogs [?]

1

Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court

254

2

243

3

Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party

162

4

Surface Pro 3 Review

110

5

EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors

61

6

AMD Launches Mobile Kaveri APUs

39

7

A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs (2013)

20

8

This Guy Definitely Has More CPUs Than You Do

20

9

iOS 8 WKWebView uses Nitro JavaScript Engine

11

10

Apple announces ‘Swift’ programming language

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Fire Phone

552

2

432

3

Apple Introduces iOS 8

302

4

Amazon Prime Music

225

5

New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD)

89

6

The Future of Kinect

88

7

Amazon Launch Event

76

8

Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming

67

9

New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac

63

10

54

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

518

2

Go support for Android

306

3

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz [video]

212

4

Steve Jobs Resume

22

5

Wordpress demands $10,000 for DMCA Takedown Censorship

17

6

WordPress demands $10,000 for DMCA takedown censorship

10

7

'Popcorn Time' Gives Users Anonymity With a Free Built-In VPN

5

8

The Hunt for Life Beyond Earth

5

9

Whitepaper on TV Show "Silicon Valley" Nucleus Project

5

10

Comparing Rebol and "The Power of Lisp Macros" (2010)

4

Science News [?]

1

Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core

258

2

Tailspotting: Identifying and profiting from CEO vacation trips

213

3

How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being (2010)

97

4

The Body on Somerton Beach (2011)

73

5

Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Review and meta-analysis

57

6

Big Bang finding challenged

53

7

The Disappearing Physicist and His Elusive Particle

45

8

Effect of General Anesthesia in Infancy on Long-Term Recognition Memory

36

9

China's campaign to bulldoze mountains to build cities

30

10

This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists

29

Social [?]

1

iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks

406

2

The co-designer of the F-16 on why the F-35 is a failure [video]

358

3

Facebook was down

269

4

Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

131

5

Bare Metal Assembly Raspberry Pi Starfox Tribute

116

6

ArchiveTeam rescues Justin.tv videos

89

7

Wayland 3D Compositor with Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra [video]

84

8

John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video]

73

9

Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation

63

10

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System

61

Github repos and gists [?]

1

An Introduction to Reactive Programming

452

2

Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils

299

3

Flappy Bird in Swift

280

4

µg: Open-source replacements of Google Apps and API on Android

233

5

NodeBB: Node.js-based forum software

231

6

Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources

220

7

V8 Optimization Killers

213

8

Native GUI library for Go

199

9

Lisp implementation in sed

184

10

Ajenti – Web admin panel

162

Wikipedia [?]

1

PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law

188

2

117

3

Pythagorean cup

97

4

Oxford Electric Bell

91

5

Island of California

89

6

Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky

76

7

Utau – a Japanese singing synthesizer application

57

8

46

9

Rabbit-proof fence

43

10

38

Blogs [?]

1

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

894

2

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

445

3

Fake Friends with Real Benefits

283

4

The Death of the Urdu Script

275

5

Gittip, Year Two

235

6

The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe

201

7

Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem

199

8

Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

174

9

Technical Debt 101

141

10

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs

139

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to write an iOS app purely in C

123

2

Why 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 is false?

14

3

Swift performance: sorting arrays

10

4

Message Queue vs. Web Services?

5

5

Swift Performance: Sorting Arrays

5

6

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

5

7

What is the Python Equivalent of a Map in Ruby and JavaScript?

3

8

Python: Why Operator “is” and “==” Are Sometimes Interchangeable For Strings?

3

9

Stack Overflow was Down for 1 hour

2

10

Node.js Best Practice Exception Handling

2

Substack [?]