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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

All Our Patent Are Belong To You

1855

2

With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer

545

3

Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews

539

4

For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins

537

5

How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

518

6

Penny Arcade – Surface Pro 3 update

488

7

476

8

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers

458

9

Founder Depression

445

10

Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism

443

Top Ask HN

1

How can i help my dad?

130

2

What ever happened with the TrueCrypt shutdown?

73

3

Looking for feedback on my side project

66

4

What's with all the new languages?

55

5

If learning to develop for iOS- start with Obj C or Swift?

52

6

How do I know if the startup I'm working at is dysfunctional?

32

7

Personal Server Recommendations

30

8

How did you get your app featured by Apple?

17

9

If you're 20 years old, how would you invest $100k?

17

10

I Just Got A Used MacBook Pro. What To Install?

16

Top Show HN

1

Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web

586

2

We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car

354

3

119

4

We open-sourced our anime discovery application

83

5

Switchboard – open-source email processing in Erlang

82

6

Record all your web browsing with fully searchable screenshots

77

7

Planleaf – Manage tasks completely over email

65

8

A browser-based IRC client built on Node.js – first Node project

49

9

Discover Recipes by Ingredients

48

10

HackerBody – A Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape

47

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ars tests Internet surveillance by spying on an NPR reporter

214

2

Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-killer patents

150

3

Bitcoin security guarantee shattered by anonymous miner with 51% network power

129

4

Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips

110

5

The history of Android: The endless iterations of Google’s mobile OS

92

6

FCC gets Comcast, Verizon to reveal Netflix’s paid peering deals

87

7

Bannerman (YC S14) Delivers Bouncers On Demand

87

8

We Need To Talk About Depression

79

9

A Rare Peek Inside Amazon’s Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine

71

10

Starbucks starts rolling out wireless phone chargers nationwide

53

News [?]

1

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers

458

2

How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution

298

3

The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says

231

4

LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit

201

5

Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules

189

6

YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service

183

7

Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India

150

8

Priceline to Buy OpenTable in Deal Valued at $2.6 Billion

147

9

Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes

135

10

Window into Airbnb’s hidden impact on SF

133

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to Build a Home-Brew Radon Detector: Measure Radiation with a Webcam

40

2

Robots Get Flexible and Torqued Up With Origami Wheels

21

3

Neuroscientists Join the Open-Source Hardware Movement

10

4

Superconducting secrets solved after 30 years

5

5

Job interviews reward narcissists, punish applicants from modest cultures

4

6

Geothermal Flux Linked to Antarctic Ice Melt

3

7

How Earth avoided global warming, last time around

3

8

Quantum theory reveals puzzling pattern in how people respond to some surveys

3

9

The Future We Deserve

3

10

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm [pdf]

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An even slimmer pdf.js

149

2

Facebook Announces Apollo, a New NoSQL Database for On-line Low Latency Storage

122

3

Firefox OS ecosystem redefines the entry-level smartphone

44

4

Buongiorno, Milano – CloudFlare’s 26th Data Center Now Live

18

5

Delta Financial Offers Interest-Bearing Bitcoin Accounts

10

6

MemShrink's 3rd birthday

9

7

Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s

8

8

CloudFlare launches Madrid PoP

8

9

A browser benchmarking manifesto

5

10

BitFury Pulls 1PH/s of Mining Power from Ghash.io Amid Bitcoin Community Uproar

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party

162

2

A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs (2013)

20

3

An Umbrella in the Hurricane: Apple Limits Mobile Device Location Tracking

4

4

NSA May Lose Its Standing Invitation to Weaken Encryption

3

5

OpenVR: Building an Oculus Rift for only $150

3

6

IOS 8: New Features

3

7

New lock screen bypass discovered in iOS 7.1.1

2

8

SanDisk To Acquire Fusion-io

2

9

Apple seeds iOS 8 beta 2 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch to developers

2

10

Skype removed from App Store ahead of major 5.0 update

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Prime Music

225

2

New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD)

89

3

New SSD-Backed Elastic Block Storage

17

4

Use Your own Encryption Keys with S3's Server-Side Encryption

5

5

The New Apple II User's Guide (written 2012)

2

6

Introducing the Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) volume type

2

7

New Microsoft Privacy Policy

2

8

Microsoft Touch Mouse for $15.25 on Amazon

2

9

Amazon S3 supports Server Side Encryption with Customer-provided Keys

1

10

Apple 5W European USB Power Adapter Exchange Program

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

518

2

Wordpress demands $10,000 for DMCA Takedown Censorship

17

3

WordPress demands $10,000 for DMCA takedown censorship

10

4

Leaving Pixels Behind

3

5

IRC transcript of 1991 Soviet coup attempt

2

6

Knock to Unlock 2.0

2

7

DConf 2014: Using D at Facebook and Beyond by Adam Simpkins

2

8

How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony

2

9

Due Diligence Checklist : Helpful before fundraising or before an acquisition

2

10

Privacy is Dead

2

Science News [?]

1

Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core

258

2

Effect of General Anesthesia in Infancy on Long-Term Recognition Memory

36

3

This Shape-Shifter Could Tell Us Why Matter Exists

29

4

Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core

7

5

The underwater hunt for a 2000-year-old computer

6

6

US Scientists Resurrect Deadly 1918 Flu

4

7

Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto

3

8

Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto

2

9

Prolonged Sitting Linked to Increased Risk of Certain Cancers

2

10

Put down the smart drugs – cognitive enhancement is ethically risky business

2

Social [?]

1

The co-designer of the F-16 on why the F-35 is a failure [video]

358

2

Wayland 3D Compositor with Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra [video]

84

3

Is Your Dad Unemployed? So is Mine

37

4

Burroughs B6500 Status Report (1968) [video]

36

5

XSS in Tweetdeck (don't view in Tweetdeck...)

33

6

Lab-Tools FPGA Binning Co-processor for APL (2012) [video]

23

7

DHH Wins 2014 Le Mans GTE-Am

19

8

XSS in TweetDeck

11

9

Why Google Style Guide for C++ is a deal-breaker

11

10

"The F-35 is a lemon" Pierre Sprey

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils

299

2

KnightOS, a third party OS for TI z80 calculators

108

3

Lossless audio compression with libpng

104

4

JavaScript library for browser to S3 multipart resumable uploads

88

5

Percol: An interactive grep tool in your terminal

82

6

Django Query Inspector

71

7

Plan – Cron jobs in Python

51

8

Obtain a GitHub user's public keys

47

9

Source code from the book “HTML5 Game Engines”

38

10

Mprpc: A fast Python RPC

36

Wikipedia [?]

1

PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law

188

2

Island of California

89

3

Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky

76

4

46

5

Rubber duck debugging

9

6

The Anti-Flirt Club

7

7

6

8

List of people who disappeared mysteriously

6

9

Anscombe's quartet

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe

201

2

The Disappearing Universe

124

3

How I started BetaList

72

4

The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world

14

5

A lean method for hiring a chef for startups not too lean for a chef

6

6

How To Make Sure No One Ever Downloads Your App

5

7

The 5 ideal testing methods for Idea Validation

5

8

A chef for your startup? Might just be your most important hire.

5

9

Postmortem from getting kicked out of college for hacking

5

10

Is it time to leave your job and do a startup?

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Chrome 35 DirectWrite (on by default) breaks my site menu

2

2

Toughest bug found and fixed (2008)

2

3

Node.js Best Practice Exception Handling

2

4

Angular Dart to JavaScript result way too big for production?

2

5

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

1

6

Do-While and if-else statements in C/C++ macros

1

7

LoopBack: performance issue with relational databases

1

8

Why Apple did this in Swift language?

1

9

IOS Storyboards/NIBs low-level anatomy

1

10

What is the meaning of `struct X typedef` vs. `typedef struct X`?

1

Substack [?]