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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
777
2
Fired? Speak No Evil
695
3
Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me
675
4
Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers
529
5
The Rise and Rise of Television Torture
507
6
If you move your mouse continually the query may not fail. Do not stop moving
469
7
“Vacations are for the weak”
437
8
Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant
434
9
The new Photosynth
429
10
Python code to solve xkcd 1313 by Peter Norvig
428
Top Ask HN
1
What's your speciality, and what's your"FizzBuz" equivalent?
252
2
Who is hiring? (January 2014)
201
3
How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?
146
4
Female hacker-founder AMA
142
5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)
78
6
Who is Co-Founding?
62
7
What are your 2014 Predictions?
62
8
Where did you hang out while HN was down?
48
9
Is"Gödel, Escher, Bac" still worth reading?
47
10
When is it too old to be an intern?
46
Top Show HN
1
Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby
267
2
Use any text as a domain name
244
3
Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE
141
4
Sneakers – Fast background processing for Ruby
106
5
LINQ for Go
80
6
Relearning to code after 20 years
76
7
email - Send emails easily in Go
62
8
We made 1 app this year
62
9
Have a pug sent to your Snapchat every day
43
10
A website aiming to fix homelessness in SF
41
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs
215
2
The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype
144
3
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
85
4
Intel announces Edison, a computer the size of an SD card.
79
5
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30%
72
6
Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic
64
7
OpenSSL site defacement involving hypervisor hack rattles nerves
55
8
Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega [video]
55
9
Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date
54
10
Linksys resurrects classic blue router, with open source and $300 price
50
News [?]
1
Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
777
2
Fired? Speak No Evil
695
3
Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
409
4
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
321
5
David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep
311
6
At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything
248
7
What Snowden really revealed
231
8
NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
163
9
How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples
160
10
Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body
153
Scientific publications [?]
1
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
200
2
New Image compression method from UCLA outperforms JPEG
4
3
The U.S. BRAIN Initiative Boldly Begins
2
4
The ternary Goldbach conjecture is true
2
5
US Government Might Deregulate Corn, Soybean Seeds
2
6
Elastic Pathing: Your Speed is Enough to Track You
2
7
Ford To Unveil Solar Hybrid Concept Car At CES
2
8
Shallow neural networks as good as Deep Neural Networks
2
9
Chipmakers Push Memory Into the Third Dimension
1
10
Genetically Identical Bacteria can Behave in Radically Different Ways
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Bruce Schneier Joins Startup Co3 Systems
48
2
2013: Rebuild the Engine; 2014: Step on the Gas
22
3
NSA Exploit of the Day: DEITYBOUNCE
8
4
How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography: A technical primer
8
5
Schneier on Security: NSA Exploit of the Day: IRONCHEF
8
6
A new Dual EC DRBG flaw
5
7
Games Giant Zynga Starts Playing With Bitcoin
5
8
Design Patterns for JavaScript Applications
2
9
HTML5 Terminal Emulator To Support X11
2
10
Lock Screen Bypass Flaw Found in Samsung Androids
2
Tech blogs [?]
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Mac Pro/OS X 4K Display Compatibility 'Like the Wild West'
3
2
Winamp May Live On Thanks to New Owner
2
3
Intel Edison: A Desktop From 1998 In An SD Card
2
4
AMD’s Kaveri: Pre-Launch Information
2
5
An Arduino With Better Speech Recognition Than Siri
1
6
The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption
1
7
3D Accoustic Manipulation: Seeminly-Unreal Levitation Using Soundwaves
1
8
Keeping The Family Off The Net With An Undocumented Backdoor
1
9
Signal Announces 'RP One' Xbox-Style Gaming Controller for iOS
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Download Your Amazon Order History
8
2
Amazon Best Sellers: Best External Zip Drives
5
3
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
5
4
Amazon customer review of"Marketing as a Business Syste" eBook
2
5
Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs
2
6
Marketing De-Mystified: Amazonc.com Review of Marketing as a Business System
1
7
Startup Field Guide
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
What was trending on HN (February 21, 2007)
22
2
How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good
9
3
Chromebooks and the Cost of Complexity
7
4
Internet Censors Came For TorrentFreak
7
5
The Internet Archive hosts a large collection of abandonware games
5
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Ubuntu Will Add Torrent Search to Embed Free Culture Into User Experience
4
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How did SnappyCam unlock 20 pictures/sec at 8 Mpx on iPhone
4
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Is Technology Making the World Too Complex?
2
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UK ‘Porn Filter’ Blocks Legitimate File-Sharing Services (And TorrentFreak)
2
10
The Simpsons Cover The Pirate Bay & Anti-Piracy Enforcement
2
Science News [?]
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AI takes on humans to create video game
30
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Bizarre Star Could Host a Neutron Star in Its Core
15
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A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
4
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Our liver vacation: Is a dry January really worth it?
2
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Mysterious Light Associated with Earthquakes Now Linked to Geologic Rift Zones
2
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Patrons of Game Criticism
2
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Cloudy skies on nearby super-Earth
1
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The Madness of the Planets
1
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10% is the Tipping Point for Adoption of Ideas
1
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Pregnant women avoided peanuts without any supporing research: allergies tripled
1
Social [?]
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Get Facebook WiFi for your business
276
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Zynga team announces testing Bitcoin payment using Bitpay
13
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MPAA joins the W3C
11
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AK-47 underwater at 27,450 FPS
10
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Official Skype account on Twitter hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
6
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30c3: To Protect And Infect [video]
6
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Coinbase account deletion is bullshit
6
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The PornHub developers are doing an AMA on Reddit, 60th largest site on the net
6
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CS professor who taught in North Korea AMA [reddit]
5
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Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco
4
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers
529
2
Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages
169
3
Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics
93
4
Greatest: C unit testing library in one file
91
5
Compile Clojure to Objective-C
84
6
Google Analytics for GitHub
84
7
Homebrew Cask – CLI workflow for the administration of Mac binaries
79
8
Increasing the size of Ruby objects to minimize CPU cache misses
78
9
The Micro Python Project
68
10
Jubilee, a new Rack server for JRuby based on the high-performance Vert.x
53
Wikipedia [?]
1
Gate Tower Building
188
2
Boltzmann brain
55
3
Lehmer sieve
51
4
Hartmann Pipeline
6
5
The Voltmeter Story: An argument in favor of the likelihood principle
5
6
Comparison of Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents
4
7
Random Forest
4
8
Wikipedia predicts 2014
3
9
The Wow Signal
3
10
Data URI scheme
3
Blogs [?]
1
How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses
165
2
Paths to being a kernel hacker
77
3
Some of what we did at Danger - The future that everyone forgot
14
4
"Solve your own problems."
10
5
On the “Learn to Code” Movement and Its Lies
10
6
Reflections on 132 nights as an Airbnb host in 2013
8
7
Is it a bad time to learn Python?
7
8
How to fail at entrepreneurship
6
9
Recruiters only know bad developers
6
10
Some of what we did at Danger - The future that everyone forgot
5
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
15
2
Prevent Google Glass from Auto-Uploading Photos
8
3
Prevent Google Glass from Auto-Uploading Photos
3
4
Why is PHP crypt() function allowing two passwords for one user?
2
5
Classes as Objects in Python
2
6
How to Sort a Divergent Decentralized List?
2
7
JavaScript performance tricks
1
8
OAuth so difficult , should be illegal (in 1st answer)
1
9
Making Pretty Text Directory Trees
1
10
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
1
Substack [?]