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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC

841

2

Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

605

3

584

4

What Problems to Solve

569

5

Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues

501

6

497

7

Pinboard Turns Five

491

8

467

9

A Server Naming Scheme

461

10

I've been tracking everything about myself

456

Top Ask HN

1

Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings

84

2

What did I do so wrong in this coding interview

60

3

What are your favorite examples of clever product hacks by customers?

58

4

My mom called me, but I got someone else. How can I report this bug?

56

5

Where to find remote PHP jobs?

48

6

Can I make it in the Valley and live a well-rounded life?

39

7

How should I handle an equity dispute?

35

8

Is the HN front page having technical issues?

35

9

Have you emigrated from the USA?

34

10

Are good jobs a myth?

28

Top Show HN

1

Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC

776

2

Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts

443

3

Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js

404

4

A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"

318

5

Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

252

6

Realm (YC S11), a mobile database

188

7

MechanicalSoup, Python library for automating interaction with websites

180

8

Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

145

9

The Markdown Resume

117

10

HearthSim, an AI and game simulator for Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft

115

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues

501

2

Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push

323

3

White House nixes Patent Office pick after tech-sector outcry

213

4

Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship

198

5

Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster

189

6

Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius

177

7

Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers

152

8

Neurobiologists Reveal The Wisdom Of The Confident

124

9

Save $9, Here Are The TechCrunch Staff’s Email Addresses

123

10

Squink Lets You Print a Circuit Board for the Price of a Cup of Coffee

105

News [?]

1

William Binney: 80% of audio calls are recorded and stored in the US

328

2

Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new patent lawsuits

220

3

Intestinal bacteria may influence our moods

212

4

The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline

198

5

In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner

197

6

A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education

169

7

What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?

146

8

A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind

128

9

Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer

126

10

Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker

113

Scientific publications [?]

1

Even faster integer multiplication

94

2

Abnormal Brain Structure In Youth Who Commit Homicide

82

3

Why Alien Life Hunt Should Focus on Impact Craters

4

4

What makes code hard to understand [pdf]

3

5

Darpa Wants a Memory Prosthetic for Injured Vets–and Wants It Now

2

6

Hydrostor Wants to Stash Energy in Underwater Bags

2

7

2 days of calorie deprivation: effects on cognition, activity, sleep

2

8

Nasa's next giant leap

2

9

One Red Cent: Curiosity Rover Totes Penny on Mars

2

10

One Atom + Two Photons = Quantum Computing Switch

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0

309

2

177

3

Beware Keyloggers at Hotel Business Centers

122

4

A ToC of the 20-part linker essay (2008)

64

5

Introducing CFSSL – CloudFlare's PKI toolkit

60

6

It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (2007)

40

7

Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career

27

8

GCHQ Catalog of Exploit Tools

20

9

Introducing CFSSL – CloudFlare's PKI toolkit

19

10

Microsoft, Adobe Push Critical Fixes in Flash, Windows and IE

16

Tech blogs [?]

1

Raspberry Pi B+

38

2

Introducing The Raspberry Pi B+

6

3

Devil’s Canyon Review: Intel Core i7-4790K and i5-4690K

5

4

Releasing a Public Domain Image of the NSA's Utah Data Center

4

5

An Amazing DIY Single Board ARM Computer with BGA

4

6

Open Source Glucose Monitoring at the Front Lines of Innovation

4

7

Homebrew NSA Bugs

3

8

Apple Now Allowed to Trademark Apple Store Layout in Europe

2

9

Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint ID, and RFID Readers in Future iPhones?(2009)

1

10

Shingled Magnetic Recording (2013)

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

467

2

424

3

Bold Ambition and Our Core

80

4

Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility

40

5

Azure Intelligent Systems Service

27

6

Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Update – Service Level Agreement and General Availability

11

7

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Logs

10

8

Amazon Zocalo – Document Storage and Sharing for the Enterprise

9

9

Amazon Zocalo, secure storage and sharing service

8

10

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

DConf 2014 Tooling: Bringing Developers and Development Together

5

2

MPAA Pulls “Popcorn Time” Repositories Off GitHub

4

3

List of Topics for programming Competitions

4

4

The Pirate Bay asks support for its imprisoned founders

4

5

CIA Style Manual and Writers Guide for Intelligence Publications [pdf]

1

6

Soundcloud Doing A Deal With Record Labels Not To Get Sued

1

7

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 6: Debugging in D by Iain Buclaw

1

8

Take 90-seconds for this ANONYMOUS Tinder survey, guys

1

9

DConf 2014: Tiny, Ubiquitous Machines Powered by D by Michael D. Franklin

1

10

DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

1

Science News [?]

1

Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23

334

2

Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected

119

3

Elon Musk Donates $1 Million to New Tesla Museum

23

4

Elon Musk Donates $1 Million to New Tesla Museum

6

5

Nature's way of producing JPEGs

3

6

Why the World Cup Has So Many Goals

3

7

Record levels of solar ultraviolet on Earth's surface measured in South America

2

8

Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected

2

9

Peering Into Some of the World's Largest Mines

2

10

Waiting for the motivation fairy [pdf]

1

Social [?]

1

Twitter bot that tweets Wikipedia edits made from IP addresses of Congress

128

2

Reverse Engineering Vendor Firmware [video]

16

3

AMA: G. Greenwald on the Muslim-American leaders spied on by NSA and FBI

12

4

Machine Learning Summer School 2014 videos and live streams

11

5

The Secret History Of Hacking [video]

10

6

Aaron Swartz documentary now available for full on Youtube

9

7

Claude Lévi-Strauss In His Own Worlds (2008) [video]

5

8

Please help me identify this physical phenomenon [video]

5

9

Pizza vending machine

4

10

6 People You Need for Successful Content Marketing

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Videos about JavaScript

360

2

File system that stores location of file in Pi

309

3

Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly

234

4

Neural networks in JavaScript

151

5

Snabb Switch – A toolkit for solving novel problems in networking

137

6

Polyglot is a distributed web framework for multiple programming languages

135

7

What I mean when I say "I think VR is bad news"

118

8

Anon – Tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from particular IP address ranges

118

9

107

10

Multiline strings in JavaScript

98

Wikipedia [?]

1

Diffie-Hellman key exchange, explained using colors

159

2

52

3

World-systems theory

51

4

Five Eyes Surveillance Targets

20

5

Illegal Numbers

9

6

Timeline of the far future

6

7

How Google Fired Scribe Creator (Brian Reid)

5

8

Project West Ford

3

9

First Digits in Sets of Numbers – Benford's Law

3

10

Canadian Cross-compiling

3

Blogs [?]

1

10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

104

2

How a password changed my life

97

3

“Speaking up every. Fucking. Time”

40

4

I’m Currently Running My Last Kickstarter Campaign Ever

17

5

Best Practices for Building Angular.js Apps

15

6

JQuery, You’re Great But…It’s Just Not Going to Work Out

11

7

Want to Listen to Spy Broadcasts? Here’s How

11

8

Onward – Secret Raises $25m

11

9

Doomed to Repeat It: Learning from the things we make over and over

7

10

Thirty things i've learned (great life advice)

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Slang, Goldman Sachs' proprietary programming language

25

2

C++11 – How can the compile-time be (exponentially) faster than run-time?

5

3

Simple way to raise a 500 error in any rails application

3

4

The purpose of declaring a C empty structure

3

5

Top StackOverflow Users

2

6

Docker: Ambassador Pattern vs. Port Exposition?

2

7

Comprehensive explanation of SQL joins

2

8

Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue

2

9

Classic sorting algorithms implemented in modern C++

1

10

[Help] [Wordpress]: WordPress, Parse Shortcode within Shortcode

1

Substack [?]