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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
746
2
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
729
3
Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
729
4
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
638
5
Using the wrong dictionary
590
6
New DuckDuckGo design
581
7
OS X Command Line Utilities
533
8
Google is Breaking the Internet
467
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
456
10
FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM
410
Top Ask HN
1
I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better
109
2
The best way to find remote job
91
3
What's the best programming book you've read recently?
82
4
Which service do you use to sell downloads?
55
5
How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?
44
6
How to tell your friend his idea sucks
44
7
How did you find Hacker News?
28
8
How would you change your life if there was a basic income?
21
9
Ask HN – What do you do to stay fit while working?
18
10
How do you manage side projects?
14
Top Show HN
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Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
197
2
The static, static site generator
170
3
Wesnoth – Free, turn-based strategy game
137
4
Take It Apart
135
5
Updn – HN/Reddit-style site where stories, votes, tips use Bitcoin
88
6
Paperstencil – cross between word processor and web form
67
7
Manage servers easily online with Commando.io
59
8
A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails
53
9
Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe
52
10
Ampache – Web-based audio/video streaming and file manager
51
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
260
2
Baidu Hires Andrew Ng
210
3
Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition
146
4
Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down
128
5
How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads
111
6
Cheap smartphones are about to change everything
111
7
Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles To Bike Routes
87
8
Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
80
9
Inside the US government’s war on tech support scammers
75
10
Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys
75
News [?]
1
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
746
2
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
638
3
Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
393
4
China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers
262
5
So You’re Not Desirable
238
6
How did we get so busy?
227
7
The Reykjavik Confessions
182
8
How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
176
9
How extreme isolation warps the mind
152
10
India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
143
Scientific publications [?]
1
Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft
136
2
Enclosed tube maglev system tested in China
43
3
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80 years
4
4
Earth organisms survive under Martian conditions
3
5
Russia Calls for Ban of US Military Launches Using Russian Rocket Engines
3
6
IT experts urge E-stonia to drop Internet voting
2
7
Drone Flies Over World's Tallest Building
2
8
Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
2
9
Drone Hobbyists Fly Quadrotor Over World's Tallest Building in Dubai
2
10
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making 'Progress' Toward Mars Colony
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
456
2
Network Neutrality
190
3
“Free” as in “we own your IP”
50
4
Espionage vs. Surveillance
48
5
The Web is World-Wide, or who still needs RC4?
45
6
DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users
44
7
Introducing Mozilla Winter of Security 2014
30
8
My Open Wireless Network (2008)
23
9
Facebook: MVC Does Not Scale, Use Flux Instead
21
10
0.2% Facebook desktop clients access FB via forged SSL certificates
10
Tech blogs [?]
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Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
336
2
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests
154
3
Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement
90
4
Apple Releases OS X 10.9.3 With Enhanced Support for 4K Displays
7
5
Entire Id software tech team moved to OculusVR over internal issues
4
6
Testing Improved 4K Display Support in OS X 10.9.3
3
7
The European Court of Justice Opts for Scattergun Censorship
2
8
South Korea Officials Enact De Facto SOPA Regime to Block Foreign Websites
2
9
Who has your back? A report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
2
10
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Display and Performance Preview
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
The New AWS TCO Calculator
18
2
AWS OpsWorks With Amazon RDS
2
3
$100 AWS Activate Coupon | Startup Pack
2
4
Alt Coin Rush Ends | Graphics Cards Available at Retail or Below
2
5
Live Webcast: Microsoft Surface Event
2
6
Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
1
7
AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Docker
1
8
Amazon RDS for SQL Server With Multi-AZ
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Are coders worth it? (2013)
131
2
Kola Superdeep Borehole
76
3
Education Automation, Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies (1962)
14
4
Publisher targets university researchers for "pirating" their own articles
6
5
Publisher Targets University Researchers for “Pirating” Their Own Articles
5
6
U.S. Prisons Play Pirated Movies to Inmates
4
7
The Net Neutrality Wake-up Call
4
8
Archive.org Console Living Room
3
9
Devops Against Humanity Cards
2
10
The intimacy of crowds
2
Science News [?]
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What Do Animals See in a Mirror?
174
2
New algorithm shakes up cryptography
125
3
Rumours swirl over credibility of big bang ripple find
38
4
The missing piece to changing the university culture (2013)
21
5
Research shows smartphone sensors leave trackable fingerprints
6
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Skinny wormholes could send messages through time
4
7
Microbial stowaways to Mars identified
3
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could disappear in a generation
2
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Chemical supplement extends longevity by about 50%
2
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It's the end of jobs. But what are we going to do?
2
Social [?]
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Life360 CEO calls patent troll "Piece of Shit"
42
2
Original Apple 1 setup – demo of a working piece of history (2012) [video]
21
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A Conversation with Turing Award Winner Leslie Lamport [video]
19
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George R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor
12
5
Is TDD dead? (part ii)
9
6
SIGGRAPH 2014 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer
8
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WikiLeaks: We will reveal the country being mass recorded in 72 hours
8
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Linux Sucks
7
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China publishes latest data detailing US cyber attacks
6
10
SIGGRAPH 2014 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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Improving GitHub for science
166
2
Noise: Box and pipe cryptographic core
120
3
Pokémon Crystal disassembled source code
93
4
Clib: Package manager for C
75
5
GoCircuit: Simple language-agnostic cluster programming
73
6
Convert your iOS App into a PSD file
68
7
R3 – High-performance URL router library in C
64
8
Filtrex: A simple JavaScript filter expression compiler
57
9
ActiveJob – gem for defining background jobs in Rails
57
10
Auto-expiring TODO notes in Ruby
51
Wikipedia [?]
1
Experiment HN: If you end up with anything interesting, post the link
66
2
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
57
3
Year 2038 problem
40
4
Waldseemüller map
36
5
Model M keyboard
22
6
Planimeter
9
7
Elias gamma coding
7
8
Creative Destruction
2
9
Prince Rupert's Drop
2
10
Warnock's dilemma
2
Blogs [?]
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Erlang and code style
178
2
The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
103
3
How libraries decide which books to keep
94
4
Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003)
73
5
The Pleasure of Designing your own Furniture
66
6
Everything Is Broken – The Message
58
7
Down-Vote Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
22
8
Two Weeks Ago, I Almost Died in the Deadliest Plane Crash Ever
14
9
Coding in Color
12
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I’m just another failed tech entrepreneur sitting at a bar writing these words.
8
Stackoverflow [?]
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Try-catch speeding up my code?
131
2
Why is NaN not equal to NaN?
50
3
Stack Overflow is down
11
4
Why is Google Chrome's Math.random number generator not that random?
9
5
How to pass data from PHP to JavaScript
7
6
Why can't my JavaScript closure access a parent scope's variable?
3
7
Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
3
8
GoDaddy SHA-256 Certificates Broken
2
9
Writing a Frame Buster-Buster in JavaScript
2
10
How to think in AngularJS if coming from jQuery
2
Substack [?]