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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
I'm Leaving Mojang
1252
2
Standard Markdown
1165
3
ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit
1015
4
TXT Record XSS
998
5
I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
997
6
Reddit
988
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Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
941
8
CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash
905
9
My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)
825
10
Bézier Clock
809
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (September 2014)
217
2
Hackers who cook
134
3
What DB to use for huge time series?
126
4
Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)
116
5
What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
101
6
What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?
95
7
I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start?
87
8
How do I set up a HIPAA-compliant server?
68
9
Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?
67
10
Quit my job. Company coming after me
64
Top Show HN
1
Javelin Browser
373
2
Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid
361
3
Famous Outfits
358
4
CloudTunes
306
5
CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted
305
6
Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
247
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Creddle – Paper-friendly web resumes
224
8
ContentBuilder.js – JQuery Plugin to Write Anything Beautifully
189
9
Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
181
10
Bootstrappers.io – A community for business bootstrappers
161
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
784
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With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
467
3
MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
416
4
How a new HTML element will make the Web faster
310
5
Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court
290
6
Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers
265
7
A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
250
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DigitalOcean Partners with CoreOS for Large-Scale Cluster Deployments
245
9
Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise
233
10
California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
232
News [?]
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U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile Data
601
2
How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks
445
3
Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder
420
4
CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US
409
5
Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling
392
6
Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
349
7
Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal
344
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Stop and Seize
323
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New York Police Officers to Begin Wearing Body Cameras in Pilot Program
299
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Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read
271
Scientific publications [?]
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Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS
227
2
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
207
3
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain
152
4
MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors
131
5
NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS
89
6
The Athens Affair – The most audacious cell-network break-in (2007)
76
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How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
64
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Guess Who Rated This Movie: Identifying Users Through Subspace Clustering
60
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Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea
48
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Dmitry Grishin: “Robotics Has Too Many Dreamers, Needs More Practical People”
45
Dev Blogs [?]
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Universal SSL
712
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Announcing Keyless SSL
508
3
Stripe and Apple Pay
447
4
JavaScript for OS X Automation
357
5
Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups
280
6
Swift Has Reached 1.0
272
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Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exploit systems
229
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Official Go support
189
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Relativistic hash tables
186
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Keyless SSL: The Nitty Gritty Technical Details
162
Tech blogs [?]
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Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]
199
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Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance
197
3
Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880
132
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From Reddit to Pornhub, Websites Slow Down for Net Neutrality on September 10
121
5
Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache and More
120
6
The iPhone 6 Review
113
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Intel Xeon E5 v3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores
112
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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Benchmark Results
85
9
Motorola Announces the New Moto X
81
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Where is Thunderbolt Headed?
74
FAANG+ [?]
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The Apple Watch
501
2
Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
278
3
Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event
237
4
Amazon releases new Kindle products
236
5
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed.
194
6
Apple Pay
184
7
iPhone 6
182
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Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B
169
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Amazon Mobile Analytics
155
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A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy
135
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars ensures humanity's future
321
2
React vs. Ember – EmberNYC slides
149
3
Interview with Terence Tao
145
4
The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines
139
5
Draining California
126
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Humans are wired for negativity
112
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Go Execution Modes
111
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New York City's Most Accessible Ruins
80
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Go generate: A proposal for a Go preprocessor
76
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The obesity era: The problem may be bigger than any of us (2013)
66
Science News [?]
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The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
639
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Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
496
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Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
412
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Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
356
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Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
237
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Falling in Love with the Dark
205
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Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching
163
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Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”
153
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Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
111
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An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene
97
Social [?]
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Peter Thiel AMA
304
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Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]
291
3
Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video]
288
4
WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
263
5
“Transducers” by Rich Hickey at Strange Loop [video]
203
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Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop
167
7
The Man Behind the World's Smallest V-12 Engine [video]
164
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ClojureScript, Lisp's Revenge [video]
158
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“The Mess We're In” by Joe Armstrong at Strange Loop [video]
156
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“We've been acquired and Twitpic will live on”
124
Github repos and gists [?]
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Commander Keen source code released
545
2
Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows
471
3
OS X Auditor
348
4
Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
325
5
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
279
6
Introducing split diffs
279
7
Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha
238
8
Channels Are Not Enough
235
9
sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home
235
10
Elixir Release v1.0.0
214
Wikipedia [?]
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Al-Jazari
286
2
Langton's ant
118
3
Alexey Chervonenkis found dead
50
4
Berkson's Paradox
39
5
The Beale ciphers
33
6
Missed call
8
7
HAARP: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
6
8
IBM and the Holocaust
5
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The Ascent of Man
5
10
AARD code
5
Blogs [?]
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What Coke Contains (2013)
410
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
384
3
Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
356
4
My year with a distraction-free iPhone
285
5
The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
249
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No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does
225
7
Brave New Phone Call
210
8
The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display
191
9
How to tell when a robot has written you a letter
187
10
How is a binary executable organized? Let’s explore it
162
Stackoverflow [?]
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WTF Java? Why Not Overload == for Java.lang.Long?
6
2
Does it matter which equals operator (== vs. ===) to use in JavaScript?
4
3
“ ”.length is 6 in DOM's .innerHTML – but everything else works fine
4
4
Don't try to kill your apps
4
5
What are the lesser known but useful data structures?
3
6
How to synchronize I/O in JavaScript
3
7
What is the difference between while (true) vs. while (\\true)?
3
8
How to restore specific data from previous backup on Postgres Heroku?
3
9
Using multiple shaders on iOS, from two concurrent threads
3
10
Absolute fastest way to iterate through an array in C or assembly
2
Substack [?]