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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Introducing Swift

1142

2

TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

731

3

574

4

Alexander Shulgin has died

547

5

A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS

527

6

Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle

497

7

End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google

473

8

Introducing Socket.io 1.0

449

9

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

445

10

Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

441

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (June 2014)

267

2

Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)

137

3

How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?

109

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)

66

5

Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market

55

6

Mentor Saturday

50

7

How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?

48

8

Where did all the Product Managers go?

45

9

Homogeneity of HN readers in terms of political views?

39

10

Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

39

Top Show HN

1

Mighty Spring – Passive job search

144

2

Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript

103

3

FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget

65

4

DeveloperAgents – a newsletter to promote remote developers

53

5

Brix for Bootstrap

47

6

Who is hiring refugees? Or, hacking visas to help refugees

47

7

Simple refined types implementation that can prevent Heartbleed

46

8

Screen recording with real-time upload

37

9

Convert a GitHub repository into a CMS

35

10

Everyone Panic – Almost-free downtime phone alerts using Twilio

35

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report

192

2

Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either

131

3

It's time for the US to use the metric system

113

4

How Do You Get a Train Moving?

87

5

Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances to Small Businesses

81

6

Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry

74

7

This Guy Trademarked the Symbol for Pi and Took Away Our Geeky T-Shirts

63

8

Apple Opens Up Touch ID To All Apps

56

9

Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 (2007)

56

10

Why Google Made Its Self-Driving Car So Darn Cute

53

News [?]

1

Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics

309

2

US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers

240

3

Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday

239

4

N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

190

5

The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland

168

6

Maya Angelou Dies at 86

149

7

LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly

135

8

How Different Cultures Understand Time

126

9

How the Asians Became White

115

10

Thomas Piketty Responds to Criticism of His Data

107

Scientific publications [?]

1

Feminine-named hurricanes are deadlier than masculine-named hurricanes

54

2

After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, Stories Come Out

52

3

Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels

28

4

Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Aims to Replace Gas Plants

13

5

Researchers Develop Robot That Lets Them Feel Softness of Virtual Breasts

5

6

Learn New Skills With Superhuman Speed

4

7

Google uses machine learning at data centers in efficiency drive

4

8

After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out

4

9

Quantum Cryptography with Ordinary Equipment

4

10

Learn New Skills With Wearable Computers

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Introducing Swift

1142

2

Introducing Swift

363

3

True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’

340

4

Metal – Apple’s new graphics API

320

5

298

6

250

7

“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies”

238

8

Java 8 Features

180

9

iCloud for Developers

90

10

Apple Design Awards 2014

68

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence

13

2

Apple announces ‘Swift’ programming language

9

3

WWDC 2014 Roundup: fresh details

4

4

J1: a CPU core in 200 lines of Verilog (2010)

4

5

Interview: Inventing the Unix “sudo” command

3

6

EFF: Join us on June 5th to Reset the Net

3

7

Inventing the Unix "sudo" command

2

8

Some Thoughts on Apple's Metal API

2

9

Apple makes it easy for devs to screencast iOS apps

2

10

T-Mobile confirms WiFi calling arriving for iPhone users with iOS 8

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

432

2

Apple Introduces iOS 8

302

3

Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption

100

4

Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming

67

5

54

6

OS X Yosemite public beta signup

22

7

Apple: OS X Yosemite

6

8

3

9

AWS Management Portal for vCenter

3

10

Apple to Acquire Beats Music & Beats Electronic

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Does everyone who suffers trauma have PTSD?

47

2

Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics

38

3

Terminal: A Short Film about the Mechanical Ballet of Cargo (2009) [video]

8

4

Whitepaper on TV Show "Silicon Valley" Nucleus Project

5

5

Machine Learning Applications for Data Center Optimization

4

6

All YC Companies Sorted by Alexa Traffic Rank

4

7

Do educators use GitHub to support learning and teaching? How? [Survey]

3

8

Why Activism Isn't Enough

3

9

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested

3

10

Can-we-break-free-from-the-fear-of-missing-out

2

Science News [?]

1

Scientists induce visual hallucinations by stimulating brain

17

2

Diet Soda Beats Water for Weight Loss, Industry-Funded Study Finds

9

3

Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state quantum bits

4

4

Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon

3

5

Scientists set limits on the anti-hydrogen atom charge

2

6

Destruction of species over 1000x the likely background rate

2

7

Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state quantum bits

2

8

Obsession engineers: Mind control the Candy Crush way [paywall]

2

9

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

2

10

Good Vibrations Bring Braille into the 21st Century

1

Social [?]

1

John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video]

73

2

APL Demonstration From 1975 [video]

63

3

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System

61

4

Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]

45

5

Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham

45

6

Design is a Search Problem [video]

31

7

Google wants 4chan to pay $150k per year to continue to use Analytics

21

8

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality

12

9

Bill Gates: Don't tax my income, tax my consumption [video]

9

10

Things Programmers Say Vs. What They Mean

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Flappy Bird in Swift

280

2

Neovim Plugin UI architecture

121

3

Open Source GPGPU

82

4

CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

65

5

Algorithms.js – Atwood's Law applied to CS101

52

6

Diversity and Feedback at GitHub

49

7

CanCanCan – Continuation of CanCan, the authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

46

8

Commander.js – Node.js command-line interfaces made easy

46

9

Pure 0.5.0 – Get Started with Grids

41

10

Link: A fast and simple PHP Router

38

Wikipedia [?]

1

117

2

Pythagorean cup

97

3

Oxford Electric Bell

91

4

Somebody Else's Problem

25

5

Boltzmann machine

25

6

List of fictional computers

23

7

9

8

Unix time - 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596

8

9

5

10

Swift (programming language)

4

Blogs [?]

1

Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

445

2

My journey into the Berlin startup scene

93

3

The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world

18

4

Dots in gmail don’t count… and this is idiotic

12

5

To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga

9

6

Shut Up and Eat.

9

7

Coding Principles Every Engineer Should Know

8

8

It Is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are

8

9

Behind the Scenes of HBO’s Silicon Valley: How our startup made a cameo

7

10

How a bug in Skype prevented our users from using our app

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 is false?

14

2

Regular Expression to Parse a URL

3

3

Java is now the leader on Stack Overflow

2

4

How can I use ggplot with a simple 2 column array?

2

5

JavaScript Function Name Funny Clash

1

6

How can I make the ANSI escape codes to work in Windows?

1

7

How can I upload files asynchronously with jQuery?

1

8

A surveillance camera which crashes every time the CEO enters the room

1

9

Needless extra thread makes code run faster

1

10

Any jQuery programmers that can help me fix this problem?

1

Substack [?]