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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Don't mess with Newegg
1377
2
Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
598
3
Scribd and Quora considered harmful
464
4
PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source
387
5
Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
383
6
The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
356
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Python 3 can revive Python
355
8
A Hacker’s Guide to Git
347
9
My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
335
10
Surface Pro 3
326
Top Ask HN
1
What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
366
2
Which paid apps and services do you use?
79
3
Owe over $100k US backtaxes. Not sure what to do.
63
4
As a software developer, how do I get into brain research?
55
5
Horror co-founder stories.
54
6
living and working in US
51
7
Alternative to Stack Overflow?
50
8
Are some signup CAPTCHAs becoming a bit ridiculous (yes you HN)?
30
9
Thinking of mentoring? Looking for a mentor?
23
10
Are we using the final numeral system?
19
Top Show HN
1
Font Awesome to PNG
128
2
Fast and Extensible Parser for Markdown in PHP
80
3
Screen recording with JavaScript
78
4
We brought iOS dictation to Windows
70
5
PressureNet – The Weather's Future
67
6
My wife developed an Android app but she's too shy to post it on HN
53
7
Boxes
43
8
WordPass – password generator giving over 90 bits of entropy
35
9
FreshPost.io – Automated Social Media Marketing
34
10
OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing
25
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Critic, Is Now Building Azure
222
2
Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy
195
3
Snowden’s First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii
153
4
Data mining Reddit posts reveals how to ask for a favor and get it
117
5
The Hidden Beauty of Airport Runways, and How to Decipher Them
104
6
Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers
88
7
How Statisticians Found AirFrance Flight Two Years After It Crashed
76
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DoorDash (YC S13) Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand On-Demand Delivery
65
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Apple said to be prepping smart home software platform for WWDC
63
10
Fab Lays Off One-Third of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff
54
News [?]
1
Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
383
2
My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
335
3
US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe
154
4
Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?
153
5
End Mass Incarceration Now
136
6
Leo The Homeless Coder Is Still Homeless
134
7
Fitness Crazed
131
8
Why Has Google Forsaken MetaFilter?
130
9
Organic Cat Litter Chief Suspect In Nuclear Waste Accident
126
10
Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans
111
Scientific publications [?]
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Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice
168
2
Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage
76
3
Static energy consumption analysis of LLVM IR programs
55
4
Hubble Sees Flickering Light Display on Saturn
27
5
Scienceography: the study of how science is written
15
6
Constructor Theory of Information
7
7
Quadrotor Uses Google's Project Tango to Fly Autonomously
7
8
Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor.
4
9
Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones
4
10
"Shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics: A purely mathematical universe
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Send money to debit cards
244
2
BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode
172
3
OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
110
4
Data Modeling in Graph Databases: Interview with Jim Webber and Ian Robinson
78
5
Damian Conway on Teaching, Programming Languages, Open Source and Our Future
36
6
The LLVM 64-bit ARM64/AArch64 Back-Ends Have Merged
32
7
The NSA is Not Made of Magic
22
8
Firefox's new sync protocol
8
9
Bitcoin and Regulation: Lessons from the Early Days of Skype
6
10
Bitcoin Buoyant as Price Surges Past $500
5
Tech blogs [?]
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Privacy Badger
229
2
EFF Dismayed by House's Gutted USA Freedom Act
134
3
A Blow for Copyright Trolls
60
4
Averting Disaster – A Guide To Computer Backups (2014)
37
5
Senator Leahy Kills Patent Reform (For Now)
12
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Apple Forgets to Renew SSL Certificate, Breaking OS X Software Update
3
7
Apple Testing ARM Based Mac Prototypes
3
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Apple Testing ARM Based Mac Prototypes with Large Magic Trackpad?
3
9
Towards Evidence-based Copyright and Patent Policymaking at the OECD
2
10
Averting Disaster – A Guide To Computer Backups
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management for Versioned Objects
136
2
HBO programming available on Amazon Prime
111
3
AWS Pop-up Loft in San Francisco
7
4
EBS Encryption for Additional Data Protection
4
5
Amazon Leadership Principles
2
6
HBO's shows on Amazon Prime
1
7
Cherie King, a deaf traveler, and her iPad
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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It's Time to Kill Surface
107
2
Bass Guitar Preamp Design [pdf]
60
3
The Intimacy of Crowds
59
4
What Bayesianism taught me
38
5
Pirate Party keeps a Seat at the European Parliament
10
6
Beauty ≠ truth
5
7
Humans are utility monsters (ethics)
2
8
The Capitalist's Dilemma
2
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BitTorrent Network Mysteriously Doubles in Size, In a Week
2
10
Super-detailed comparison of AngularJS seed/starter kits
2
Science News [?]
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Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists
136
2
A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
74
3
NASA scientists scramble to find an object in the Kuiper belt in time for visit
35
4
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Faces Crisis
23
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The Whole Economy Is Rife with Ponzi Schemes (Yes, Silicon Valley too)
9
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Backlash to Big Bang Discovery Gathers Steam
4
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Humans as a model organism
2
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Consciousness Might Emerge from a Data Broadcast
2
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Microbial production of short-chain alkanes
2
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Comfort Food Myth: Ice Cream May Not Boost Your Mood
2
Social [?]
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Altair 8800 – Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype [video]
73
2
Dijkstra on Dutch TV (2000)
52
3
3dfx Oral History Panel [video]
29
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Solar FREAKIN' Roadways!
16
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Kids (6-13) React to an old Apple II Computer
9
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Facebook's ad manager on the state of the media
7
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Dutch Rail: Where will the train stop? Where can I find an empty seat?
7
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65% of Nobel laureates had at least one mentor who was a Nobel laureate
6
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Tim Pope, crafter of vim plugins - AMA
6
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Why a 4 core 3.5 GHz Intel i5 CPU beats an 8 core 4.7 GHz AMD CPU
6
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Pixel graphics in terminal
217
2
Browserify handbook
138
3
Unix history repository
106
4
Replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower
103
5
Onionshare – Securely share a file of any size using Tor
98
6
C-Reduce, a C program reducer
77
7
Gitjk – command to undo what you just did in git
74
8
EventHub – An open source event analytics platform
68
9
Knod – A Tiny HTTP server for your current directory with writes
61
10
ElasticDump – Import and export tools for ElasticSearch
59
Wikipedia [?]
1
Benford's law
49
2
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
44
3
Shanti Devi
24
4
Moondog
10
5
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
9
6
Thomas Harriot
8
7
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
8
8
The Great Stink – London 1858
5
9
4'33" of silence
3
10
Overview effect
3
Blogs [?]
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Python 3 can revive Python
355
2
Some of the work we did at Danger
314
3
Python 3 is killing Python
208
4
Tehran tracked, captured, studied, copied RQ-170
119
5
E-Commerce Is A Bear
69
6
On the future of Metafilter
31
7
The Future of Apps
16
8
Why the Internet is getting bland
10
9
I did the math. I’m on pace to waste 33 yrs of my life.
9
10
Blunders That Held Back Progress in Modern Astronomy
8
Stackoverflow [?]
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Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation
316
2
Why is running code single time slower than running four times in JavaScript
2
3
Google released new tooling, # no longer required, scrapes JavaScript pages
2
4
Why does git fast-forward merges by default
2
5
JavaScript to find leap year
2
6
Python: Recommended way to walk complex dictionary imported from JSON?
2
7
How does JavaScript .prototype work?
2
8
Java Is The Most Popular Tag On StackOverflow Now
2
9
Match only valid roman numerals with a regular expression (2008)
2
10
Which position in the string caused the regular expression to fail?
1
Substack [?]