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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Heartbleed Bug

1634

2

Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

1297

3

Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

889

4

What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

746

5

Learn C and build your own Lisp

641

6

586

7

Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

559

8

European Parliament passes net neutrality law

506

9

Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue

490

10

469

Top Ask HN

1

338

2

Any hackers over 60? 70?

206

3

Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?

125

4

What's your greatest epiphany?

63

5

I am a good developer but have a serious gaming addiction

62

6

Ideas on promoting an open source project?

56

7

How do you feel about HBO's Silicon Valley?

45

8

How viable is F# on Mono for real-life web apps?

40

9

Should I cash out my 401K and try to get my dream job?

36

10

What accounting software do you use?

34

Top Show HN

1

Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

516

2

GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown

407

3

InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

217

4

Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line

173

5

An open-source, Raspberry-Pi-based Siri alternative

172

6

Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration

154

7

Siri, open the garage

112

8

I built this notifying device – electronics, code, design, marketing

110

9

Snappy Checkout – Stripe Checkout with full-featured dashboard, admin

97

10

Try Ion before you buy – uses BluetoothLE, Node.js, websockets, jsmpeg

64

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1

349

2

NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden

226

3

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana

189

4

The right way to ask users for iOS permissions

183

5

US burns through all high-skill visas for 2015 in less than a week

166

6

Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season

142

7

This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots

134

8

One reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is hard

132

9

The Fallacy of Android-First

128

10

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio

110

News [?]

1

EU court rejects requirement to keep data of telecom users

313

2

A group of 3,000 citizens is making better forecasts than CIA analysts

267

3

Judge says prosecutors should follow the law. Prosecutors revolt.

208

4

The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires

178

5

A Moon of Saturn Has a Sea, Scientists Say

157

6

S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals

155

7

Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'

121

8

Ketamine 'exciting' depression therapy

117

9

Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm

114

10

A veteran programmer explains how the stock market became “rigged”

83

Scientific publications [?]

1

India Launches Its Second Navigation Satellite

83

2

Computational solution to quantum foundational problems

24

3

ConvNet Features off-the-shelf: an Astounding Baseline for Object Recognition

9

4

Econophysics: Can antimoney prevent the next financial crisis?

4

5

Nanostructures half a DNA strand-wide show promise for efficient LEDs

2

6

World's largest single crystal of gold verified at Los Alamos

2

7

The algebraic square peg problem – does every curve contain a square?

2

8

First Wafer-Scale, Single-Crystal, Monolayer Graphene Made in Bulk

2

9

Molten gold was poured down his throat until his bowels burst

2

10

Festo's Newest Robot Is a Hopping Bionic Kangaroo

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

889

2

Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

183

3

PostgreSQL pain points

103

4

Haskell in the Newsroom [video]

90

5

CNAME Flattening: RFC-Compliant CNAMEs at a Domain's Root

84

6

Manhattan: Real-time, multi-tenant distributed database for Twitter scale

80

7

70

8

"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't

53

9

46

10

Manhattan, Twitter's real-time, multi-tenant distributed database

36

Tech blogs [?]

1

Websites Must Use HSTS in Order to Be Secure

46

2

EFF Statement on Mozilla and the Importance of the Open Internet

7

3

UPDATE: Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What | EFF

6

4

IOS7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock

3

5

Heroes of Hardware Revolution: Bob Widlar

2

6

Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details)

2

7

Samsung Galaxy S 5 Review | AnandTech

2

8

Yahoo Protects Users with Lots More Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation

2

9

Microsoft Announces Siri Competitor Cortana, Coming With Windows Phone 8.1

2

10

Apple, Microsoft Join Lobbying Group Opposing Patent Reform

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

346

2

AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability

79

3

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2

62

4

AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability

6

5

Amazon Launches Fire TV

4

6

4

7

Enterprise Customers Support for Windows XP ends

3

8

AWS HeartBleed Status

2

9

Amazon FireTV – Set Top Box running Android

1

10

Amazon Fire TV – Streaming Media Player – Shop Now

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Brendan Eich's Homepage 15 Years Ago

12

2

The Next Five Years Could Determine Our Liberties

5

3

Slysoft DVD Ripper Owner Found Guilty in Criminal Action

4

4

Sony blocks Creative Commons movie with bogus DMCA takedown

3

5

Offensive security work and addiction: why offense is hard to contain

3

6

JS developers, what is your favorite devstack? (A short survey)

2

7

Game of Thrones Premiere Triggers Piracy Craze

2

8

Famo.us FAQ Part 2: The Tough Questions

1

9

Living In A World Without Darkness

1

10

TOUGH QUESTIONS

1

Science News [?]

1

Caloric restriction reduces age-related and all-cause mortality in rhesus monkeys

142

2

Game of Thrones: why hasn’t Westeros had an industrial revolution?

65

3

Nanoparticle Temporarily Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics

19

4

The function of zebra stripes

11

5

Stem-cell scientist found guilty of misconduct

7

6

DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches

4

7

Google Play Kicks Porn of All Types Out of Its Store

2

8

Permanent tattoos inked by hacked 3D printer

2

9

Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water on Moon

2

10

Best dark matter signal yet hints at heftier particles

2

Social [?]

1

Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

227

2

Twitter spam wave

85

3

Silicon Valley Episode 1

24

4

Shit Hackers Say

20

5

Confuse people SSHing to your host with a redirect back to theirs

15

6

CS50 Guest Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg [2005]

13

7

GitHub sexism investigation failing

10

8

SwayDating sends out email spam, reveals their database password

8

9

George Takei – Well, that was fast

6

10

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Heartbleed Alexa top 10000

138

2

2048 implemented in 487 bytes of C

113

3

Half-Life 1 engine based games

94

4

Heartbleed vulnerability tester

86

5

Note the commit hash

79

6

Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

78

7

Ethereum White Paper

77

8

An open-source Python implementation using JIT techniques

70

9

Peas: Ruby-based Docker PaaS

56

10

Security: Heartbleed vulnerability

22

Wikipedia [?]

1

Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia

14

2

Sonic the Hedgehog Protein

4

3

3

4

Astral Projection

3

5

The Traitorous Eight – Literally the guys that founded Silicon Valley

2

6

Banach–Tarski paradox

2

7

2

8

Impossible colors

2

9

Human Universals

2

10

Anscombe's Quartet

2

Blogs [?]

1

My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

260

2

Is Google crippling Firefox?

145

3

Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.

141

4

Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page

114

5

Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked

73

6

The Tragedy of Mozilla

33

7

Transitioning to Scala

22

8

The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions

19

9

P=NP Problem Linked To The Quantum Nature Of The Universe

14

10

We Slept in an Office for 6 Months…and Still Failed

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow HTTPS Error – Heartbleed Bug

37

2

JavaScript – Why use semicolons?

3

3

What are the lesser known but useful data structures? (2009)

3

4

Designated Initializers in C

2

5

Is Literate Programming Dead?

2

6

Poor memcpy Performance on Linux

2

7

Can I use Common Lisp for SICP or is Scheme the only option? (2009)

2

8

What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon?

2

9

Python: an expression for an infinite generator?

1

10

Why is a database table called a "table"?

1

Substack [?]