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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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The future of Unreal Tournament begins today
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2
Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
632
3
Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
623
4
All of Bach
575
5
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
566
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Tell HN: Call your mom
503
7
Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
456
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Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
444
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Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
435
10
‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
394
Top Ask HN
1
Can we get a "Show HN:" section
172
2
As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?
126
3
Would self-taught programmers be interested in such a book?
52
4
I'm visiting SF for 3 days, what do I do?
39
5
what features do you want in a geocoder?
39
6
How did you make your first million dollars?
26
7
What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
25
8
Which are good computer science problems to work on right now?
20
9
I want to contribute to an open source project. Where do I begin?
18
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If you coded your own bookmarking service, what features would it have?
18
Top Show HN
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OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games
121
2
Flight Times Sliced, Diced and Visualized (side project)
62
3
C++11 inline object definitions
59
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Crowsnest – API for the Real World
53
5
Hive – A fast, easy and safe way to use your Bitcoins
49
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Comment on on-demand TV as if everyone is watching at the same time
44
7
Survival Thriller Game that uses Echolocation
44
8
Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile
43
9
Career Finder – A quiz that gives you career recommendations
40
10
bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka
37
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
322
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Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling
265
3
Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
212
4
All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get something like Alibaba
167
5
Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups
153
6
A Look at the Formula 1 Steering Wheel
105
7
What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus
104
8
NSA Reportedly Intercepts And Alters Routers And Servers Exported From U.S.
84
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How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing
65
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Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
51
News [?]
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Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
285
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Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
276
3
Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet
227
4
Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos
198
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Found after 500 years, the wreck of Columbus's flagship the Santa Maria
130
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A Test for School Reform in Newark
124
7
Baby Name Predictor
118
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Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview
108
9
‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald
92
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Popular fish oil study deeply flawed, new research says
91
Scientific publications [?]
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Dovetail: Stronger Anonymity in Next-Generation Internet Routing
37
2
Is Consciousness Computable?
35
3
Relation between the psychological and thermodynamic arrows of time
28
4
No-Poaching Pact Broke With Silicon Valley Culture
4
5
Boeing Unveils Cabin Design for Commercial Spaceliner (Images)
2
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Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe
2
7
Being A Bully Is Actually Good For Your Health
2
8
Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
2
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Covert Optical Communication [pdf]
2
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Ultra-fast, the bionic arm can catch objects on the fly
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
139
2
Teen Arrested for 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats
82
3
The compiler is always right
74
4
A Developer's Perspective On Porting Games To Linux
74
5
ZTE Starts Sales of Open C Firefox OS Phone on eBay
73
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New Tab Experiments
55
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Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute
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Internet Subversion
4
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Scottish Tech Store CeX Drops UK Pound for Bitcoin
3
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Firefox Sync’s New Security Model
3
Tech blogs [?]
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Aspen to Students: Your Property Book is Not Your Property
10
2
International Day Against DRM: Whatever Happened to the W3C?
7
3
Pols to Ad Networks: Pretend SOPA Passed, and Never Mind About Antitrust Law
6
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The Way the NSA Uses Section 702 is Deeply Troubling. Here’s Why.
5
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Federal Circuit Reverses Lower Court Ruling on APIs
4
6
The Intel Haswell Refresh Review: Core i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360 Tested
3
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Take Action to Defend Net Neutrality – Here’s How FCC Makes Rules
3
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IPhones Could Capture 'Super-Resolution' Photos Using Image Stabilization
3
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The Smallest ATtiny85 Based USB Board
3
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Criminal Defendants Should Have Chance to Review FISA Materials
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Legal Process Guidelines for US Law Enforcement
4
2
Amazon CloudFront Joins AWS Free Usage Tier
2
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AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon CloudFront
2
4
The Amazon Reviews Of a $36,295 Rolex Watch
2
5
Book: Beginning Haskell: A project based approach
1
6
Against Intellectual Monopoly
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The logic of Buddhist philosophy
308
2
The Power of Fat
90
3
Why Apple Is Buying Beats
33
4
How to listen to our future citizens
6
5
Offensive Work and Addiction
5
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Music Distributor Claims Right to Monetize JFK Speech
3
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Two internships in different fields. Help me decide.
3
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Open Internet Investors Letter
2
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Dependent on Digital Whales
2
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Artifact Austin: Leaving Pixels Behind – Todd Parker
2
Science News [?]
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Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed
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First life with 'alien' DNA
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World’s Largest Solar Array Set to Crank Out 290 Megawatts of Sunshine Power
26
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Effects of Sexual Activity on Beard Growth in Man: letters to Nature (1970)
18
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The microscopic structures of dried human tears
16
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Career on the Move: Geography, Stratification, and Scientific Impact
16
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Superheavy Element 117 Points to Fabled “Island of Stability” on Periodic Table
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Flying 3D printer could seal off nuclear waste
4
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Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
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Anger makes people want things more
3
Social [?]
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Three Optimization Tips for C++
146
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Seymour Cray: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976) [video]
61
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Tom Mitchell: Never Ending Language Learning (2012)
45
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"Gmail will continue to receive emails from non-Gmail addresses"
20
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Is TDD dead?
14
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Vi Hart explains network neutrality in the US
12
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Steve Perlman discussing pCells at Stanford [video]
10
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Steve Jobs calls up Dr. Dre about iTunes
9
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Vi Hart's net neutrality video
8
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Solution to "The Expert" (draw 7 red lines, all strictly perpendicular...)
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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Source code of ASP.NET
268
2
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
258
3
MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source
216
4
Reverse Engineering for Beginners
212
5
Jsfmt – Like Gofmt, but for JavaScript
137
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Bob – A Tarsnap GUI client for OS X
105
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SocketCluster – WebSockets that scale to 100K messages per second on 8 cores
81
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Streamparse: Pythonic processing of real-time data streams using Apache Storm
75
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BasicCoin, a cryptocurrency in less than 600 lines of Python
66
10
Docker 0.11 Released
64
Wikipedia [?]
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Xeer
230
2
Corecursion
149
3
Oh-My-God particle
148
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
90
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Euthanasia Coaster
82
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Mode 2
19
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Catatumbo Lightning
6
8
Zugzwang: When every move will make you worse off
5
9
Starflight was written in Forth
4
10
The Course of Empire
3
Blogs [?]
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Computers are fast
296
2
Scammed
238
3
Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera
132
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Syntax highlighters are wrong
127
5
I sold my house to fund my company
11
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Mathematical Model Implies Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable
10
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Is It Worth Being Wise? (2007)
8
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Advice from 30 year old me to 20 year old me
7
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20% of Vested Options Are Left On The Table
7
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If you aren't cheating on your finals, you aren't trying.
7
Stackoverflow [?]
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Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
435
2
Apply CSS to half a character
4
3
Fill text inside irregular shapes using html5 canvas
3
4
Slickgrid-like functionality with ReactJS
2
5
Sort domains by number of public web pages?
2
6
Closed beta vs. open beta
1
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Where does Scala look for implicits?
1
8
JQuery: How to change the displayed date format in Datepicker?
1
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JQuery: How to change the displayed date format in Datepicker?
1
10
Motivation for Simple Factory and Factory Method Pattern
1
Substack [?]