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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

894

2

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

595

3

Web Starter Kit

553

4

Amazon Fire Phone

552

5

WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly

417

6

398

7

Inside the Mirrortocracy

393

8

Call me maybe: Elasticsearch

392

9

Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less

378

10

Real-time lightning map, worldwide

342

Top Ask HN

1

Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?

172

2

How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here

64

3

How do you find good developers on oDesk?

51

4

Google AdSense Still Bans Ajax. What are the Alternatives?

47

5

What to do as a programmer about to go homeless

36

6

Who are the engineers that don't get hired?

32

7

How do startups restrict employees from accessing private user data?

25

8

Join our Skype Strong AI Group

24

9

What are you learning right now?

24

10

Are the insides of Airbnb listings being commercialized?

21

Top Show HN

1

Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions

274

2

An open distributed search engine for science

86

3

$4.4B in Startup Funding Rounds Visualized

69

4

Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups

62

5

Checkr.io – API for background checks

57

6

A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

55

7

Hublo – Retarget your visitors based on what they do on your site

51

8

47

9

Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

44

10

LGBT News – Hacker News for LGBT Topics

41

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window

317

2

For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)

216

3

Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges

198

4

FAA bans the use of drones to deliver packages

165

5

Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request

159

6

A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

156

7

141

8

Linux dominates supercomputers as never before

97

9

House Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches

69

10

Carlypso (YC S14) could change everything about how we buy and sell used cars

65

News [?]

1

Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less

378

2

Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution

240

3

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (2013)

236

4

We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work

217

5

A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Your Brain)

209

6

Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post

180

7

Coder's High – The Intense Feeling of Absorption

162

8

Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset

148

9

How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture

121

10

Stephanie L. Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar, Is Dead at 90

103

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing

180

2

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)

99

3

Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod

50

4

Titan Aerial Daughtercraft

32

5

Landau's Theoretical Minimum (2002)

31

6

Transatomic Power Wants to Build a Better Reactor

28

7

Soylent: It's Not People. Or Food.

13

8

7

9

San Francisco warns Monkey to stop selling spots

4

10

No evidence for quantum speedup found in Google's D-Wave 2

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: Alipay support

155

2

Startup advice: cold recruiting

130

3

Static checking of units in Servo

121

4

500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack

78

5

Card Breaches at Car Washes

49

6

P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013

26

7

List of possible Silk Road Bitcoin bidders leaked by US Marshals

8

8

AMD Reportedly Plans To Bring Mantle To Linux, Calls Mantle An Open-Source API

6

9

Goal Detecting the most important World Cup moments

4

10

Q&A with Ryan Lackey

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court

254

2

Surface Pro 3 Review

110

3

EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors

61

4

በጉግል የአማርኛ ቋንቋ አገልግሎት ማስጀመሪያ መመሪያ እና ለአማርኛ ቋንቋ ጦማሪያን ያለው አንድምታ

3

5

Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8

2

6

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review

2

7

Adobe announces stylus and digital ruler for $100

1

8

EFF 2013 Pioneer Awards Ceremony

1

9

Oculus Rift + Head Tracking = The Ultimate Drone Experience

1

10

Google, Microsoft Will Include Kill Switches in Next OS

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Fire Phone

552

2

New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac

63

3

Amazon Fire Phone

10

4

Amazon 'Fire Phone'

3

5

AngelHack offers a voucher $100 worth of AWS services

2

6

Process Captions With Amazon Elastic Transcoder

2

7

AWS lowers prices again

2

8

Amazon introduces SDD EBS

1

9

The Fine Print on Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photos (Amazon Fire Phone)

1

10

Amazon Fire Phone

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go support for Android

306

2

The Hunt for Life Beyond Earth

5

3

YouTube Terminates Top Indian News Network For Infringement

3

4

Empire of Rock – China's Supercaves

3

5

PRIVACY IS DEAD

3

6

NBC Universal claiming all IP for hackathon

3

7

Amazon's Whale Strategy

3

8

Archive.org is plagued with warez

2

9

Model Combination and Adjustment as thinking

1

10

Does science link carbs and obesity?

1

Science News [?]

1

The Body on Somerton Beach (2011)

73

2

Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Review and meta-analysis

57

3

Hormone-disrupting activity of fracking chemicals worse than initially found

14

4

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices

6

5

Computer spots rare diseases in family photos

5

6

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices

5

7

Detection of primordial gravitational waves: it was a mistake.

4

8

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices

4

9

Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices

4

10

Evidence for the direct decay of the 125 GeV Higgs boson to fermions

2

Social [?]

1

Facebook was down

269

2

Julian Assange AMA on Reddit

131

3

Bare Metal Assembly Raspberry Pi Starfox Tribute

116

4

Reddit changes from up/down votes to percentages

13

5

This is Phil Fish

10

6

Interview with Alan Kay [video]

10

7

Facebook is down

9

8

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Amazing Motivational Story

8

9

Facebook is down

7

10

Facebook is down

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

NodeBB: Node.js-based forum software

231

2

Egison: A Lisp Written in Haskell with Advanced Pattern Matching

115

3

Servo – Render in parallel

102

4

Introducing the Revert Button

94

5

Convolutional Neural Networks in your browser

78

6

A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua

75

7

Node's nested node_modules approach is basically incompatible with Windows

59

8

Haskoin – Haskell implementation of the Bitcoin specifications

59

9

Function hooking in Swift

56

10

Runsit – A process manager in Go

48

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hofstadter's butterfly

37

2

23

3

Magic Cap Operating System

7

4

Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment

4

5

Office of Strategic Influence

2

6

Two Generals' Problem

2

7

Demoex: Experiment With Direct Democracy

2

8

Ornament and Crime

2

9

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like

894

2

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs

139

3

The Joy of Typing

94

4

Go, Colourspace, and All the RGB Colours in One Image

71

5

I Resent You – An Open Letter to Shanley Kane

32

6

First Movie Of An Entire Brain’s Neuronal Activity

16

7

How an “investor” from Silicon Valley almost kills our company

15

8

Docker breakout exploit analysis

15

9

Build a debugger in 5 minutes (1/5)

9

10

Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web – Part I

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Message Queue vs. Web Services?

5

2

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

5

3

Stack Overflow was Down for 1 hour

2

4

Stack is down (says maintenance) why not static site?

2

5

How trustworthy is JavaScript's random implementation in various browsers?

2

6

Make C# compiler crash and swear

2

7

How to test system commands in go-lang?

1

8

How does database indexing work? (2008)

1

9

Stack Exchange offline

1

10

Fast Bluebird promises now work with AngularJS

1

Substack [?]