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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

2048, success and me

872

2

Atom Is Now Open Source

852

3

The Absurdity of LinkedIn

735

4

The next version of DuckDuckGo

681

5

Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary

572

6

An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1

516

7

Burying the URL

512

8

Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login

413

9

Observations of an Internet Middleman

396

10

It's Different for Girls

395

Top Ask HN

1

Who wants to be hired?

515

2

Who is hiring? (May 2014)

292

3

199

4

AdSense alternatives?

137

5

Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"

109

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

107

7

How Can I Find a Mentor?

90

8

Best current Linux-compatible laptop?

77

9

What do you use to organize your knowledge?

63

10

What companies have private offices for programmers?

55

Top Show HN

1

Hipster Domain Finder

219

2

Turn an email to a web page

172

3

Life Goes On, my side project game that turned into a release on Steam

149

4

WriterKata – a site for writers to practice their craft

83

5

HTML5 Game of Life in 24-bit RGB

72

6

My first Ludum Dare entry, online multiplayer game Hide-n-Stab

65

7

Stash, an evernote for command line

63

8

One-click citations for your essays

59

9

Ratatouille is an app to share your extra food

54

10

I open-sourced my iPhone app side project

46

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch

351

2

Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's

196

3

With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products

178

4

Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion

144

5

John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left

127

6

Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration

106

7

It’s Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment

93

8

Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two

87

9

Tindie says forget Kickstarter

86

10

Steve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates

58

News [?]

1

The slow death of purposeless walking

327

2

Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns

324

3

Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands

297

4

One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos

228

5

The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer

214

6

My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal

181

7

Snowden: Why hasn’t DNI Clapper been punished for lying to Congress?

110

8

How to tell when someone is lying?

107

9

SpaceX granted injunction in rocket launch suit against Lockheed-Boeing

101

10

Target removes CEO in wake of cyber attack

97

Scientific publications [?]

1

When does a physical system compute?

82

2

The Golden Age of Basic

38

3

The Hunt for the Invisible Axion

16

4

NASA – High Definition Earth Viewing

8

5

Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand

8

6

NASA May Put Greenhouse on Mars in 2021

7

7

Superheavy element 117 confirmed

6

8

Carrington-class coronal mass ejection (CME) narrowly misses Earth

4

9

NASA reveals its next generation Tron spacesuit

3

10

Scientists watch high-temperature superconductivity emerge out of magnetism

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Jepsen: Testing Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Riak (2013)

63

2

Compilers Love Messing With Benchmarks

25

3

Testing your full software stack with cwrap

18

4

A Crash Course In Modern Hardware

10

5

Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet

7

6

A JIT for packet filters (2011)

7

7

Microsoft Issues Fix for IE Zero-Day, Includes XP Users

4

8

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs

3

9

Tracking our SSL configuration

3

10

Contravariance is the Dual of Covariance [video]

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy

209

2

International Day Against DRM

131

3

The Morality Police in Your Checking Account

120

4

Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom

53

5

2014 President's Big Data and Privacy Working Group Report

4

6

Long-Fought Victory for Anonymous Email Users

4

7

3

8

A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile

3

9

Apple Will Begin Notifying Users of Information Requests from Law Enforcement

3

10

AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture Performance Preview

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Python for Finance

113

2

Flask Web Development Book – 2014

47

3

AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter

35

4

Bing creating their own StreetSide(streetview)

3

5

Add to your Amazon shopping cart using Twitter

2

6

Twitter + Amazon = #AmazonCart

2

7

Amazon.com: 3D Printing Store

1

8

Thoughts on Flash ~ Steve Jobs (2010 - Exactly 4 years ago)

1

9

AWS price reduction

1

10

Amazon Cart – use Twitter to add products to your shopping cart

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Is it Pokémon or big data technology?

123

2

The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013)

72

3

Revealed preferences aren't always accurate

53

4

Twitter's Marketing Problem

3

5

Apple Retail and the Innovator's Dilemma

2

6

Spacewar on emulated PDP-1

2

7

Life’s restlessness

2

8

Skidrow's Work is Pirated

2

9

No Evolution for Corporations or Nanodevices

2

10

Hell on earth – Life sentences in a world of long lives

2

Science News [?]

1

A new book compiles knowledge necessary for society to recover after disaster

259

2

Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel

50

3

Math shall set you free – How to do divorce, divestment, and death properly

41

4

You don't always know what you're saying

31

5

Using a foreign language changes moral decisions

8

6

Solved: How Ancient Egyptians Moved Massive Pyramid Stones

3

7

Automated-grading skeptic uses Babel to expose nonsense essay

2

8

Wiring of retina reveals how eyes sense motion

2

9

Sun's fractal surprise could help fusion on Earth

2

10

Did da Vinci Create a 3D 'Mona Lisa'?

2

Social [?]

1

We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting

199

2

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video]

194

3

144

4

Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search

19

5

How I Build a $27,000/year passive income with YouTube

18

6

SpaceX: 1,000m F9R hover test

11

7

Here Comes Another Bubble

8

8

Getting started with Pharo 3.0 (SmallTalk) [video]

8

9

Erlang On Xen is now Open Source

8

10

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PostgreSQL partitioning explained

210

2

One of my Drupal sites was hacked

194

3

Betty – English-like interface for the command line

172

4

Truthcoin: Trustless, Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Marketplace

124

5

Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

118

6

‘~’ is being removed from Rust

104

7

A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

93

8

Port of SGI ElectroPaint screensaver made via decompilation

79

9

Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone.

78

10

Bloodhound – Elasticsearch client and DSL for Haskell

72

Wikipedia [?]

1

158

2

Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms

48

3

9

4

Nontransitive Dice

2

5

Schleicher's fable: The Sheep and the Horses

2

6

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

2

7

Kent State shootings (May 4, 1970)

2

8

2

9

The Curse of Dimensionality

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

213

2

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

141

3

The Third Reich’s Electric Submarine Fail

52

4

The Greatest Amateur Astronomer

38

5

How Foursquare bought my domain to steal my idea

27

6

The Great Works of Software

13

7

You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White

13

8

The Great Works of Software

10

9

The Chinese Military Is a Paper Dragon

7

10

Reverse General Solicitation What if I did all my investing this way?

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

“var functionName” vs “function functionName”

124

2

Is CSS Turing Complete?

54

3

What is the name of this operator: "-->"?

18

4

What are the Options for Storing Hierarchical Data in a Relational Database?

2

5

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

1

6

How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?

1

7

Determine if an element will animate via a CSS3 transition

1

8

Href attribute for JavaScript links: "#" or "JavaScript:void(0)"?

1

9

Huge performance lack in emscripten code

1

10

Lambda expression and method overloading ambiguity doubts

1

Substack [?]