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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
1482
2
Count to ten when a plane goes down
1112
3
Stellar
942
4
Game about squares
905
5
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
850
6
Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
841
7
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
810
8
Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s
802
9
Verizon's accidental mea culpa
776
10
Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities
742
Top Ask HN
1
Urgent connection to Twitter support
874
2
16-hour work week jobs?
656
3
Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
386
4
How best to learn software design principles?
268
5
Who is hiring? (July 2014)
246
6
Did you get "never have to work again rich" through software?
238
7
What's the best technical eBook you have read?
191
8
Good countries for American expats
112
9
What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?
109
10
Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
107
Top Show HN
1
Show HN
1301
2
Markov chains explained visually
1065
3
OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years
1016
4
Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC
776
5
NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
633
6
Free, anonymous coding interview practice
503
7
Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts
443
8
Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
404
9
Hacker News Redesign
379
10
Papa Parse 3
362
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues
501
2
NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work
406
3
MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform
389
4
Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push
323
5
Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
315
6
Xiki: An amazing shell
310
7
The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies
246
8
Stop The JerkTech
243
9
Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms
240
10
Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed
237
News [?]
1
Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
1482
2
NPR One
445
3
A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013)
354
4
The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization
349
5
Love People, Not Pleasure
345
6
Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus
339
7
William Binney: 80% of audio calls are recorded and stored in the US
328
8
The Kids Who Beat Autism
327
9
UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
305
10
Why has Google cast me into oblivion?
228
Scientific publications [?]
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July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)
263
2
Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines
133
3
Even faster integer multiplication
94
4
Abnormal Brain Structure In Youth Who Commit Homicide
82
5
NASA e-Book Features
80
6
High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Function in Middle Aged Adults
72
7
Holographic Displays Coming to Smartphones
70
8
Google Voice Search Attack on Android [pdf]
62
9
Confirmed: Voyager 1 in interstellar space
57
10
Laser-based projection technology will make cinema screens bigger and brighter
52
Dev Blogs [?]
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Stellar
942
2
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
810
3
Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
309
4
Anatomy of a system call, part 1
215
5
Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox
191
6
Swift Blog
177
7
Service drains competitor's Adwords budget
176
8
Iosnoop For Linux
169
9
Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla
162
10
Stripe launches in Australia
160
Tech blogs [?]
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Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
850
2
Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
462
3
Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.com
297
4
EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional
292
5
Things You Should Know About Tor
272
6
Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager
247
7
Open Source Madness
191
8
A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L
94
9
Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers
87
10
Colombian Student Faces Prison Charges for Sharing an Academic Article Online
64
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Zocalo
467
2
Amazon Cognito
424
3
Kindle Unlimited
244
4
Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance
194
5
MacBook Air Stickers
182
6
3D Printing Store
180
7
Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption
173
8
Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53
130
9
The Quest For A Quantum Future
90
10
Bold Ambition and Our Core
80
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Lowdown on Lidar
667
2
How to Be Happy
282
3
Pinboard 2014 Expenses
213
4
Simpler and faster GC for Go
190
5
GitLab.com Downtime Postmortem
123
6
The great forgetting
67
7
One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat
43
8
The chaos and tangled energy of living cities
42
9
The longevity gap
40
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Why we can’t wage war on drugs
27
Science News [?]
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Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
334
2
Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
319
3
Electric life forms that live on energy
253
4
Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy
151
5
The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers
124
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“You're not allowed science any more”
124
7
Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected
119
8
Quantum gas goes below absolute zero
117
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Black holes might end their lives by transforming into their exact opposite
111
10
Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts
106
Social [?]
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Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office
177
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla [video]
153
3
Twitter bot that tweets Wikipedia edits made from IP addresses of Congress
128
4
Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?
114
5
Fireworks filmed with a drone
83
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A platform for large-scale neuroscience [video]
46
7
Web Applications that Scale Forever and Upgrade Seamlessly [video]
45
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Testing a New Way to Discover and Buy Products on Facebook
39
9
Videos from Startup School Europe 2014
34
10
XKeyscore sourcecode published
34
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Today Rails turns 10 years old
394
2
Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
380
3
Videos about JavaScript
360
4
List of Web Business Models
342
5
File system that stores location of file in Pi
309
6
Facebook Flux – Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
253
7
Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
234
8
Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go
221
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Immutable Data Collections for Javascript
204
10
Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask
194
Wikipedia [?]
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Digital sundial
232
2
A Russian scientist who was struck by a particle accelerator beam
172
3
Atlantropa
168
4
Diffie-Hellman key exchange, explained using colors
159
5
Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
117
6
Andrews and Arnold is xkcd 806-compliant (2010)
85
7
Cicada 3301
80
8
Pigeon photography
79
9
SHA-3 NIST announcement controversy
77
10
Paris syndrome
74
Blogs [?]
1
Farewell Node.js
355
2
How to find your Uber passenger rating
323
3
Banned for Life
316
4
How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 photos
206
5
Urllib3, Stripe, and Open Source Grants
205
6
Are We Welcome Entrepreneurs or Unwanted Criminals?
163
7
Farewell Node.js - TJ Holowaychuk
155
8
A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans
147
9
You Are Not Late
131
10
The American Room
125
Stackoverflow [?]
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Which is faster? while(1) {} or while(2) {}
62
2
Slang, Goldman Sachs' proprietary programming language
25
3
Swift performance: sorting arrays
9
4
JAVA: Why does Math.round(0.49999999999999994) return 1
7
5
C++ Sucks
5
6
C++11 – How can the compile-time be (exponentially) faster than run-time?
5
7
Issues with Homebrew install Ruby on Mac OS X
4
8
Which CSS3 vendor prefixes are still required?
3
9
The purpose of declaring a C empty structure
3
10
How does Bluebird’s util.toFastProperties() make an object’s properties “fast”?
3
Substack [?]