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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

1055

2

Results of the GitHub Investigation

672

3

The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

635

4

Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

608

5

563

6

The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

545

7

Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

539

8

New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

537

9

Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87

493

10

Employee Equity

460

Top Ask HN

1

What source code is worth studying?

376

2

Your favorite YouTube channels?

301

3

225

4

If you worked with a grad from a code bootcamp, how effective were they?

74

5

Ex-Intuit Engineer Building Free Income Tax Software. Join as cofounder?

67

6

Is UML still relevant today?

64

7

What encryption algorithms should we take as compromised?

58

8

jumping back into C++ after 4 years, what did I miss?

52

9

Creating a query builder for end users

31

10

The startup I work for, got acquired. What will I get?

26

Top Show HN

1

To-learn list and course reminders

105

2

Tic-tac-toe, with a multiplayer twist

84

3

Try Scala in your browser

51

4

JustReachOut – Forget PR Firms, a tool to pitch reporters yourself

50

5

Ditto – Markdown documentation system

35

6

Freelancy – an easy way to track your time and earned money

34

7

Our weekend project – PaperSync, notebook scanning as a service

33

8

HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

32

9

SoundCloud Instant

30

10

minicron – a system to manage and monitor cron jobs

26

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns

443

2

Project Ara – Google's modular phone project

164

3

Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware

155

4

Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG

146

5

Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k

132

6

The Gut Microbes of African Hunter-Gatherers

94

7

Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains

93

8

How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis

90

9

Uber adds $1 “Safe Rides Fee” to UberX rides for background checks, insurance

80

10

Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail and everything after

69

News [?]

1

Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87

493

2

SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station

406

3

How Americans Die

356

4

The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

288

5

The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper

212

6

Did removing lead from petrol spark a decline in crime?

192

7

Greed and the Wright Brothers

185

8

The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest

152

9

Plant Breeders Release First 'Open Source Seeds'

136

10

Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week

116

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Signs Agreement with SpaceX for Use of Historic Launch Pad

10

2

Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws

8

3

Unbounded Robotics UBR-1 Now Available for Pre-Order

8

4

Watch SRI's Nimble Microrobots Cooperate to Build Structures

2

5

Astronomers discover first self-lensing binary star system

2

6

Watch SRI's Nimble Micro-robots Cooperate to Build Structures

2

7

Watch SRI's Nimble Microrobots Cooperate to Build Structures

2

8

Physicists design quantum switches which can be activated by single photons

2

9

Graphene You Can Whip Up In A Blender

1

10

'Dressed' laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2

314

2

The Heartbleed Aftermath: all CloudFlare certificates revoked and reissued

60

3

Jonathan Corbet, LWN editor-in-chief, has cancer

18

4

ISC releases BIND 10 1.2, renames it, and turns it over to community

13

5

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Cloud Benchmarks

7

6

A new way to promote mobile apps to 1 billion devices, both on and off-Twitter

6

7

Linguistic Researchers Name Nick Szabo as Author of Bitcoin Whitepaper

4

8

500 Startups Funds Five Bitcoin Startups With $100,000 Each

4

9

The Hidden Costs of Heartbleed

4

10

Improving vulnerability disclosure for researchers

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help

304

2

Windows Phone 8.1 review

107

3

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 and 808 Processors

69

4

Dear Volunteer Web Developers: Thank You, You’re Awesome

9

5

Apple Releases iOS 7.1.1 With Touch ID Improvements, Bug Fixes

4

6

EFF aligns with Tea Party to fight NSA

3

7

Apple’s new program lets anyone, not just developers, test OS X beta builds

2

8

Former Apple CEO John Sculley: Forcing Steve Jobs Out Was a 'Mistake'

2

9

AMD Q1 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis

2

10

Is the SEC Obtaining Emails Without a Warrant?

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

5

2

Free 63 lifehacks book

4

3

Microsoft Analytics Platform System

2

4

R3: Announcing the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory-optimized instances

2

5

Did Microsoft APS just kill ParStream?

1

6

Apple bollywood vision

1

7

What's New from Amazon Web Services

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies But No One Will Talk

134

2

89

3

Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network

64

4

Check Your Torrent IP-Address

4

5

Rethinking Education

2

6

MPAA and RIAA Members Uploaded Over 2,000 Gigabytes to Megaupload

2

7

Google Asked to Censor Two Million Pirate Bay URLs

2

8

High Court: Kim Dotcom Can Have His Cars, Millions in Cash Returned

1

9

Thomas Piketty used bad math in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"

1

10

Stratechey goes freemium

1

Science News [?]

1

A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life

128

2

Processed foods that dilute protein content subvert our appetite control systems

100

3

Nuclear plants release less radiation into environment than coal plants (2007)

79

4

When the Internet dies, meet the meshnet that survives

62

5

The “Vulgar Mechanick” and His Magical Oven

25

6

Researchers present new view of myelin

5

7

Heartbleed Shows Government Must Lead on Internet Security

2

8

Vanishing mirror turns into a window as you spin it

2

9

Every weekend could be four days long, if the will was there

2

10

Make graphene in your kitchen with soap and a blender

2

Social [?]

1

Yahoo In More Turmoil: Is CEO Mayer Running Out Of Options?

23

2

F9R First Flight Test

12

3

Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robots for Advanced Manipulation

9

4

SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 Grappled by Robotic Arm on ISS

8

5

Computer simulations teaching themselves to walk

8

6

The timeless: 64K demo [video]

8

7

Julie Ann Horvath: "There was no investigation."

7

8

SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage appears to have executed a successful water landing

7

9

Facebook Paper adds new Hacker News "cover"

6

10

Video of Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking its first test flight

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Results of the GitHub Investigation

672

2

Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS

133

3

Lisp macros for C

116

4

Phabricator: An open source, software engineering platform

114

5

80

6

Merkle Patricia Tree

38

7

Seattle Band 'netcat' Releases Album as a Linux Kernel Module

37

8

Poxa: A Pusher clone with a real-time Console

35

9

Programmers' Proverbs (I'd love some input)

33

10

Android-resource-remover – utility to auto-remove unused Android resources

23

Wikipedia [?]

1

Dujiangyan irrigation system

58

2

Could folks please help me get DigitalOcean onto wikipedia? (deleted thrice)

30

3

Mars Colonial Transporter

24

4

Romanesco broccoli

7

5

3500 BC, Louisiana, Earliest dated, complex construction in the Americas

5

6

4

7

Lynx (web browser)

2

8

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

2

9

Duckworth-Lewis method

2

10

Inferno (operating system)

2

Blogs [?]

1

Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

539

2

They say “nothing will change”

374

3

“Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team

176

4

What every founder fears

141

5

Facts conveniently withheld – The rest of the Julie Ann Horvath story

65

6

A fair, mathematical approach to equity programs for pre-IPO companies

48

7

Generative Impressionism

44

8

41

9

The Power of the Marginal (2006)

41

10

Debug your programs like they're closed source

36

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Node.js cluster versus JXcore multithread

22

2

What does Docker add to just plain LXC?

8

3

AngularJS don't make Java's mistakes from 10 years ago

2

4

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

2

5

When to use HTML img tag vs. CSS background-image?

1

6

Why does bash “echo [t]” result in “t” not “[t]”

1

7

How to model opening hours in RDF

1

8

Git Easter Egg, calls you clever when amending a dirty index

1

Substack [?]