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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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1990

2

How we got read access on Google’s production servers

1101

3

Write Code Every Day

1024

4

SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

625

5

Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation

528

6

Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)

523

7

CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked

523

8

Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server

487

9

Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding

482

10

Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

478

Top Ask HN

1

CTO wants me to leave

370

2

276

3

Math books like SICP?

192

4

How do you get and stay in the "zone"?

126

5

Is Sublime Text dead?

61

6

Negative OpenSSL sentiments

55

7

Our Kickstarter project is failing

50

8

Examples of GPL Licence Violations being enforced?

31

9

Ask HN mods: Why are you killing Dropbox submissions?

27

10

Why is the RiceDropbox article penalized in the ranking?

26

Top Show HN

1

Super Planet Crash

348

2

Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js

154

3

10% off at Starbucks when you buy with Bitcoin

150

4

A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis

99

5

Learning SICP with Understudy

97

6

A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3

78

7

Poor Man's VPN With a Cheap VPS

76

8

Standing Queries about the World

67

9

TruckPlease – Moving sucks, so we decided to make it easier

62

10

A general tree editor component – Vim shortcuts, drag and drop

61

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

625

2

Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

478

3

Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA

279

4

Bitcoin Falls Below $400

175

5

The Spectacular Failure Of Better Place

159

6

The inventor of everything

149

7

The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

145

8

Firefox OS 2.0 starts emerging from its cocoon

133

9

Google Acquires Titan Aerospace, The Drone Company Pursued By Facebook

106

10

The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak

101

News [?]

1

Cheap microscopes: Yours to cut out and keep

315

2

NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

294

3

Raising a moral child

262

4

Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job

240

5

Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say

165

6

Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire

162

7

Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism'

140

8

Japanese railway operator to license maglev tech to US for free

126

9

The great 1980s Dungeons and Dragons panic

109

10

900 social insurance numbers stolen from Revenue Canada via Heartbleed

104

Scientific publications [?]

1

Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer

105

2

'Wearable Eyes' Make You Appear Friendly, Social Even When You're Not

10

3

'Wearable Eyes' Make You Appear Friendly, Social Even When You're Not

4

4

NASA to conduct unprecedented spaceflight experiment using identical twins

4

5

Why Are Search-and-Rescue Drones Grounded?

3

6

The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated

2

7

Patent Suggests Sony Still Sees Future for Household Robots

2

8

First Total Lunar Eclipse of 2014

2

9

Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer

2

10

High-resolution microscopy technique resolves individual carbon nanotube

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

274

2

Mozilla Moving Forward

147

3

A cash crunch at the Gnome Foundation

33

4

HD Manufacturer LaCie Admits Yearlong Data Breach

19

5

Twitter acquires Gnip

10

6

Can You Get Private SSL Keys Using Heartbleed?

9

7

Linux 3.15 Can Almost Be Compiled Under LLVM's Clang

7

8

Stripe: Heartbleed

5

9

Torvalds Is Unconvined By LTO'ing A Linux Kernel

5

10

The Gnome Foundation Is Running Short On Money

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?

268

2

Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group

58

3

Greg Christie to Depart Apple After Fallout with Jony Ive

6

4

IPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing

4

5

FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in its NGI Face Recognition Database

3

6

Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

2

7

Apple reportedly planning massive Q3 rollout

2

8

Windows Phone 8.1 Adds Support for Apple's Passbook Passes

2

9

Create Your Own J.A.R.V.I.S. Using Jasper

1

10

Greg Christie Retired from apple

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Daniel's review of Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

57

2

2

3

$500 == 4k monitor

2

4

AWS JavaScript SDK

2

5

AWS Free Usage Tier

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL

117

2

UK Prime Minister asked for permanent police anti-piracy unit funding

6

3

Game of Thrones Sets New Torrent Swarm Record

5

4

Why People Pirate Game of Thrones, a Global Cost Breakdown

5

5

39% of Film Industry Professionals are Movie and TV Show Pirates

2

6

Offensive work and addiction – why offense is hard to contain

2

7

Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying agents

2

8

Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying embedded agents

2

9

Help me collect a list of the best Chrome Extensions for developers

1

10

RAAS.co needs 100 Rejections

1

Science News [?]

1

How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better

137

2

This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air

130

3

LHC spots particle that may be new form of matter

66

4

Universal computing by DNA origami robots in a living animal

42

5

Engineered vaginas grown in women for the first time

6

6

A tower that pulls up to 25 gallons of drinking water from condensation

4

7

Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene

3

8

The "Heartbleed" Internet Security Flaw: What You Need to Know

2

9

Soft approach to programming

2

10

Online army helps map Guinea's Ebola outbreak (OpenStreetMap)

2

Social [?]

1

CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked

523

2

The 64-Bit Temple Operating System

18

3

Ruby author 'Matz' does television ad for his Mormon faith

16

4

Chrome (Canary) Now Only Shows Domain Info (Instead of Full URL)

13

5

Python creator says no to 2.8; time for Python 3

9

6

OpenBSD takes a knife to OpenSSL's old/unused cruft

7

7

NSA denies knowing about Heartbleed bug before it was made public

7

8

6

9

How Bitcoin Works (Video)

4

10

Navy powers model plane using fuel made from sea water

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server

487

2

Free Programming Books

367

3

Avow-CI Is No More

234

4

TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell

220

5

GitHub Cheat Sheet

193

6

Famo.us is now open source

150

7

Heartleech: Automated OpenSSL private key extraction tool using Heartbleed

99

8

C++ – From goto to std::transform

75

9

Add heartbeat extension bounds check

59

10

NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler

58

Wikipedia [?]

1

Pythagorean tuning

3

2

ADV Ocean Shield

3

3

Dancing Plague of 1518

3

4

Post-quantum Cryptography

3

5

2

6

Time Loop Logic

2

7

Graham's hierarchy of disagreement

2

8

2

9

Chinese telegraph code

2

10

Tilden's Laws of Robotics

2

Blogs [?]

1

Passwords are obsolete

46

2

Banned for Life – The hidden danger when developing for Android

17

3

What 61 points on HN did for my startup

14

4

The Big Growth Opportunity That Netflix is Missing

7

5

The Great Dithering

5

6

Running with the lemmings in metrics hell

5

7

Goodbye Popcorn Time

5

8

Tale from the front lines of dealing with the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability

5

9

How I Went From Gangster to CEO of SwissCoda

5

10

Ethereum: A Social Operating System

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow Down

23

2

Why would one use the Publish/Subscribe pattern (in JS/jQuery)?

2

3

Js rotate image in JavaScript

2

4

Strip string pyton

2

5

How to get the the source data of all the series of a chart in VBA?

2

6

Can git automatically switch between spaces and tabs?

1

7

MySQL thread state in "prepare" or "execute"

1

8

Proper SCSS Asset Structure in Rails

1

9

ScalaJS: How to convert String to String?

1

10

Python: How to check if a string is a valid IRI

1

Substack [?]