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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Visualizing Algorithms

1290

2

Supreme court: Warrantless cell phone searches illegal [pdf]

740

3

Google Cardboard

712

4

454

5

An Introduction to Reactive Programming

452

6

Why Go Is Not Good

434

7

Sleep as a Competitive Advantage

412

8

How I got a medal from the Army for writing code

369

9

367

10

New Y Combinator Website

343

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (July 2014)

246

2

What projects are you working on?

184

3

Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)

99

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)

77

5

Looking for advice – Failed startup, long term relationship at same time

68

6

How do you start a website that requires user contribution?

65

7

Local vs. remote salary gap

61

8

Should I use Polymer for my next project?

59

9

Difference in management styles of Ulrich Drepper and Linus Torvalds

54

10

Finding a job for beginner programmer?

53

Top Show HN

1

HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

177

2

Vim Awesome – Vim plugins

176

3

Replace CAPTCHA with Proof-of-Work

89

4

Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

82

5

Find a Bootstrap theme for your next project

65

6

Gin – Golang Martini-like web framework

63

7

A data science fellowship to solve the world’s toughest problems

58

8

Napwell – We Want to Help You Sleep Better

52

9

Show HN – Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

50

10

Dollar and Cent – A functional tool belt for Swift

49

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse

189

2

Google’s Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later

181

3

Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X

133

4

Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language

131

5

Foursquare, Quora, Path: What Becomes Of The Underachievers?

107

6

The IPO is dying – Marc Andreessen explains why

101

7

A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid

86

8

PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s Crowdfunding Account

83

9

Community Will Get Its Sixth Season On Yahoo

80

10

Aereo Loses In Supreme Court, Deemed Illegal

66

News [?]

1

Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations

263

2

Masters of Love

207

3

How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen

192

4

This CEO is out for blood

178

5

From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank

139

6

Facebook's unethical experiment manipulated users' emotions

115

7

Let Them Eat Cash

91

8

German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S. spying row

87

9

California governor signs bill to bring Bitcoin and other currency into fold

79

10

The incorporated woman

78

Scientific publications [?]

1

Recipe for a Better Oven

159

2

Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

83

3

The Top Programming Languages

23

4

Hand-Held Spectroscopy Tool – Examine the Molecular Composition of Your Food

5

5

Evolution of life's operating system revealed in detail

4

6

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through Facebook

4

7

Hydrogen breakthrough could be a game-changer for the future of car fuels

4

8

Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes?

3

9

Physicist suggests speed of light might be slower than thought

3

10

Darpa Robotics Challenge Finals: Everything You Need to Know

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Android without the mothership

251

2

The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted

102

3

USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist

76

4

2014: The Year Extortion Went Mainstream

25

5

Cloudflare crypto meetup

7

6

TSAR, a TimeSeries AggregatoR

5

7

Twitter: Introducing mobile app promotion

3

8

More on Hacking Team's Government Spying Software

2

9

Chrome Dev Editor: A New JavaScript and Dart IDE

2

10

Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.com

297

2

Things You Should Know About Tor

272

3

Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers

87

4

This Guy Definitely Has More CPUs Than You Do

20

5

Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB and 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Era

6

6

EFF launches StandAgainstSpying.org to Encourage NSA Reform

5

7

Diverse Groups Fly Airship Over NSA’s Utah Data Center to Protest Illegal Spying

5

8

XKCD Virua Aquarium Made Real

3

9

Decentralize the Gatekeeper: Why Open Hardware (Still) Matters

3

10

Intel's Knight's Landing Xeon Phi details released

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance

194

2

New AWS EC2 instances

61

3

New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance

8

4

Book: Stronger (Boston Marathon Bombing Eyewitness)

1

5

iPod Touch Updated with iSight Camera and available in vibrant colors

1

6

Build Apps for Amazon Mobile Devices with AWS

1

7

Amazon CloudFront Adds Device Detection, Geo Targeting, ..., and more

1

8

Amazon CloudFront Adds Device Detection, Geo Targeting, CORS + More

1

9

Apple Announces Updates to iTunes U

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz [video]

212

2

Type P R I D E in the first cells of a Google spreadsheet

8

3

Go support for Android (Games)

3

4

DConf 2014 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2

5

The Pirate Bay Now Blocked in Argentina

2

6

Italian Ruby Day CFP is out. Go submit your talk proposal

1

7

Get 30 mins FREE marketing and design help for your startup

1

8

1

9

17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System

1

10

UK Cinemas Ban Google Glass Over Piracy Fears

1

Science News [?]

1

How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being (2010)

97

2

Dolphin whistle translated by computer

5

3

Statins are a mess: we need better data, and shared decision making

3

4

Don't fear Facebook's emotion manipulation experiment

3

5

Physicists find way to boot up quantum computers 72 times faster

2

6

Foundations of human reasoning in the prefrontal cortex

2

7

Computer spots rare diseases in family photos

2

8

Mysterious Earthen 'Mima' Mounds Created by Plants, Not Animals

2

9

Cancer 'as old as multi-cellular life on Earth'

1

10

Colonies of growing bacteria make psychedelic art

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation

63

2

Security at scale at Google [video]

45

3

Xiki: Can your shell console do this?

13

4

CNBC accidentally outs Apple CEO Tim Cook

7

5

Supreme Court: "Aereo is illegal because it engages in public performances"

7

6

Jason Fried of Basecamp - Reddit AMA

7

7

I am Tim Pope, crafter of Vim plugins. AMA

6

8

Google I/O: Ray Kurzweil – Biologically inspired models of intelligence

6

9

Google I/O 2014 – Keynote (live)

6

10

3D Operating System

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

An Introduction to Reactive Programming

452

2

µg: Open-source replacements of Google Apps and API on Android

233

3

Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources

220

4

V8 Optimization Killers

213

5

Lisp implementation in sed

184

6

Ajenti – Web admin panel

162

7

Open-source Libraries for Working with Open XML Documents (docx, xlsx, pptx)

106

8

Race Conditions == Random Number Generation

79

9

Goop – Dependency Manager for Go

71

10

SoundCloud Command-Line Client

70

Wikipedia [?]

1

80

2

38

3

Braess's Paradox

9

4

7

5

List of really stupid ideas you should not create

5

6

Antikythera mechanism

4

7

On the Robotic Nature of Wasps

3

8

Mike the Headless Chicken

2

9

Balloonfest '86: biggest ever balloon release triggered lawsuits

2

10

US National Archives plans to upload all holdings to Commons

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Death of the Urdu Script

275

2

Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem

199

3

Technical Debt 101

141

4

Things I learned as an engineer that I wish I had known in grad school

108

5

The Economics of Star Trek (2013)

97

6

Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round

97

7

How to Exploit a Developer

95

8

Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group

20

9

How a password changed my life.

17

10

Node.js, The Bad Parts

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the difference between Polymer elements and AngularJS directives?

2

2

Does it make sense to create canvas-based UI components?

2

3

Anybody noticed that Facebook returns error for interests(music) over api

1

4

Scala Collections Flowchart

1

5

Opening keyboard on tap in ionic framework

1

6

What is the difference between reactive programming and plain old closures?

1

Substack [?]