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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

660

2

Whatever goes up, that’s what we do

609

3

Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S

597

4

Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

597

5

Meet the People Taking over Hacker News

578

6

Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game

515

7

Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions

456

8

The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

449

9

Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do

395

10

Screw stigma. I’m coming out.

391

Top Ask HN

1

Is it me or ...?

426

2

Who is hiring? (April 2014)

288

3

I can't do this anymore, I need help

147

4

What is the difference between a junior and senior developer?

89

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)

74

6

What under $100 item would you recommend everyone buy?

54

7

How do I deal with the "unpaid overtime crowd"?

53

8

49

9

Any good investments for those saving a substantial portion of income?

44

10

Help I need advice on fraud

43

Top Show HN

1

My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later

407

2

A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch

342

3

Coding Interview Practice

155

4

Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm

153

5

Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

124

6

Drag-and-drop library for 2D, resizable and responsive lists

82

7

ffjson: faster json serialization in Go

68

8

Route Optimization API

61

9

HackerNews as default tab (chrome extension)

48

10

Terminal sharing using your browser

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft launches Office for iPad

305

2

After seven years, exactly one person gets off the government no-fly list

233

3

Google Maps now lets you find and catch wild Pokémon

177

4

Experts Find Mt.Gox Only Lost 386 Bitcoins Due To Transaction Malleability

169

5

Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency

126

6

Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York

126

7

Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine

97

8

Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down”

86

9

Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windows XP still above 27%

68

10

Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision

58

News [?]

1

Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions

456

2

NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study

389

3

Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]

339

4

Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents

256

5

U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis

204

6

Big data: are we making a big mistake?

180

7

How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten years later

165

8

How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups

162

9

Facebook shares fall 7% on Oculus deal

112

10

How Everyone Got the Top 1% Wrong

97

Scientific publications [?]

1

How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (2004)

165

2

Microchips That Shook the World

94

3

There was no widespread use of malleability attacks before the closure of MtGox

72

4

Ultra tiny camera has no lens – uses algorithm to develop pictures

6

5

WPA2 wireless security cracked

5

6

Intellectual Love

3

7

Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions

2

8

Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism (2010)

2

9

Reworking the human genome so people can colonize other planets

2

10

US Gov't Blocks China's Huawei for having "back doors" in products

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

597

2

Generational GC has landed in Firefox

185

3

146

4

Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

124

5

MCS locks and qspinlocks

101

6

The J Programming Language [video]

64

7

The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records

37

8

Mozilla Supports LGBT Equality

25

9

Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure

20

10

And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed

248

2

404 Day: A Day of Action Against Censorship in Libraries

2

3

Inside the Room Where Apple Developed the Original iPhone Software

2

4

Microsoft Paying Apple 30-Percent Cut on In-App Office 365 Subscription

2

5

Japan Display shows off 5.5", quad-HD mobile display that might land in iPhone 6

2

6

Microsoft Office Apps Top App Store Charts One Day After Release

2

7

Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed

2

8

Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone's Birth

1

9

Big improvements for ibeacons

1

10

XTouch turns any surface into touch-enabled controls for iOS apps

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

317

2

Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

201

3

Amazon WorkSpaces

156

4

Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for preorder

75

5

Amazon WorkSpaces

13

6

Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization

9

7

Windows XP support ends on April 8, 2014

3

8

Amazon RDS Price Reduction -40%

3

9

Satya Nadella Briefing on Cloud and Mobile [live]

3

10

Amazon Linux 2014.3 released (Release Notes)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Do you want to live like 'The Wolf of Wall Street'?

13

2

Microsoft censors TorrentFreak for security reasons

6

3

Face is not the Future

6

4

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols

3

5

Famo.us will launch on April 9th.

3

6

UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer

2

7

Demonoid returns, website now back online

2

8

Bitcoin Websites[Google Doc]

2

9

ISPs can be Forced to Block Pirate Sites in the EU

2

10

Looks like Robinhood just started their beta registration

2

Science News [?]

1

Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death

364

2

Eating 7+ portions of fruits and veggies a day reduces your risk of death by 42%

36

3

To Save Drowning People, Ask Yourself “What Would Light Do?”

14

4

Daylight saving impacts the timing of heart attacks

7

5

Falling in Love With the Dark

5

6

Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves

4

7

Mass participation experiment reveals how to create the perfect dream

4

8

Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death

4

9

A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

3

10

Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer

3

Social [?]

1

Servo passes Acid2

244

2

Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders

109

3

Carmack: For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.

20

4

DMCA takedown requests for files in your Dropbox

20

5

13

6

Google Maps Pokemon Challenge

11

7

Why is GitHub not opensource?

8

8

Demo of Kernel Upgrade without Downtime [youtube]

7

9

Conway's Game Of Life in APL

7

10

Zuckerberg's update on Connectivity Lab

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

TimL – Clojure like language which compiles down to VimL

187

2

DigitalOcean not destroying droplets securely, data is completely recoverable

167

3

2048 As A Service

165

4

154

5

Valve open sources Mesa fork from SteamOS

117

6

Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes

114

7

Evil.js: A JavaScript library for thwarting hot-linkers

103

8

A simple, kernel-space, on-disk filesystem from scratch

91

9

Hide this in your coworkers' JavaScript code tomorrow

80

10

Psdash: A linux system information web dashboard using Psutils and Flask

67

Wikipedia [?]

1

203

2

Ready Player One – what Oculus + FB will look like?

27

3

R/K selection theory

17

4

The PGP word list

6

5

Fast Inverse Square Root

5

6

5

7

Dahala Khagrabari – The Indian Town in Bangladesh in India in Bangladesh

3

8

3

9

Space elevator – Wikipedia

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do

395

2

Screw stigma. I’m coming out.

391

3

Good Samaritan Backfire

154

4

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus, a letter of concern

59

5

The hidden danger when developing for Android

46

6

Why did 30-year-old former Microsoft engineers apply to YC?

26

7

Response to OkCupid's blocking of Firefox users

25

8

Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time

15

9

How child porn killed my app called YayNay

14

10

Why your previous developer was terrible

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? (2013)

215

2

SO: Why can't my program compile under Windows 7 in French?

4

3

Ruby Hashes vs. Arrays

3

4

How to return the number of dimensions of a variable passed to it in VBA

2

5

Html element changes position when the page is refreshed in chrome

2

6

Grepping a huge file (80GB) any way to speed it up?

2

7

JDK 8 bug? Lambda behaving differently than anonymous inner class

2

8

When to use forward declaration?

1

9

How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background? (2013)

1

10

April Fools joke that would be good for Tesla: how to limit speed with BMW JSDK

1

Substack [?]