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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
1482
2
Count to ten when a plane goes down
1112
3
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
850
4
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
810
5
Verizon's accidental mea culpa
776
6
Google Noto Fonts
588
7
SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
561
8
Introduction to A*
507
9
Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
502
10
What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter
495
Top Ask HN
1
Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?
386
2
Good countries for American expats
112
3
How do you showcase work from previous jobs?
81
4
Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?
78
5
How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?
71
6
What does traffic to example.com look like?
68
7
How to deal with bullshit DMCA threat ?
62
8
Which podcasts do you listen to/watch?
62
9
What are good blogging platforms for programmers?
57
10
Little hacks that make your life easier?
48
Top Show HN
1
Papa Parse 3
362
2
Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
208
3
Weather Icons – Icon font with 123 weather-themed icons
184
4
LanceList – A directory of ways for freelancers to find work
162
5
Shoelace.io – Visual Bootstrap Grid Builder and Teacher Beta
158
6
Star Trek DS9 Episodes Worth Watching
124
7
Please Don't Rob Me
123
8
GameDevs.com, a social news site for game developers
118
9
SwiftHN, a Hacker News reader in Swift
103
10
A Marketing Bot That Sells OpenStack Cloud Instances for Bitcoin
96
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
315
2
Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms
240
3
Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases
207
4
Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch
196
5
Inside Google Brain
136
6
The Problem With Founders
127
7
The UN thinks we could hit peak births in 2014
122
8
Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math
111
9
Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003
95
10
Ex-Googlers Building Cloud Software That’s Almost Impossible to Take Down
92
News [?]
1
Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
1482
2
Love People, Not Pleasure
345
3
Leading HIV researchers lost as flight MH17 is downed in Ukraine
199
4
The Benefits of Failing at French
191
5
The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up
190
6
How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito in the Jim Crow Era
183
7
World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered
151
8
Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans
123
9
The Middle East Friendship Chart
117
10
How tall can a Lego tower get?
115
Scientific publications [?]
1
July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)
263
2
Holographic Displays Coming to Smartphones
70
3
Google Voice Search Attack on Android [pdf]
62
4
Laser-based projection technology will make cinema screens bigger and brighter
52
5
Robots Get Flexible and Torqued Up With Origami Wheels
49
6
Hank Hartsfield, Who Led First Flight of Space Shuttle Discovery, Dies at 80
29
7
Drawing The Line Between “Peer-to-Peer” And “Jerk” Technology
23
8
The Melbourne Shuffle: Improving Oblivious Storage in the Cloud
18
9
Military Satellites Likely Saw Missile Strike on Malaysian Airlines Flight
8
10
Cynthia Breazeal Unveils Jibo, a Social Robot for the Home
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
810
2
Anatomy of a system call, part 1
215
3
Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox
191
4
Iosnoop For Linux
169
5
Stripe launches in Australia
160
6
WebGL in Web Workers
61
7
Stripe launches in Australia
8
8
Even Script Kids Have a Right to Be Forgotten
8
9
Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
7
10
Building assert() in Swift, Part 1: Lazy Evaluation
6
Tech blogs [?]
1
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
850
2
Open Source Madness
191
3
Reverse Engineering Unobtanium
10
4
Open Source Madness
6
5
iOS 8 and Xcode 6 beta 4 released
6
6
Android tells everyone about the Wifi networks you have used
5
7
ServoBender – Arduino-powered pedal steel
4
8
Evaluating Samsung's QHD AMOLED Displays
2
9
Stop Congress’s Move to Shut Down Broadband Competition
2
10
iOS 8 Beta 4 Available Now
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
Kindle Unlimited
244
2
MacBook Air Stickers
182
3
Microsoft Cloud Growth Drives Strong Fourth-Quarter Results
77
4
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
75
5
Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture
18
6
Store and Monitor OS and Application Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch
3
7
Store and Monitor OS and Application Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch
2
8
Microsoft is killing its Android smartphones after just four months
2
9
Sue Wagner Joins Apple's Board of Directors
2
10
Amazon.com: Kindle Unlimited
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
How to Be Happy
282
2
Simpler and faster GC for Go
190
3
One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat
43
4
The chaos and tangled energy of living cities
42
5
It's Time to Split Up Microsoft
11
6
Why does power corrupt? – LessWrong.com
3
7
Is human sexuality determined by evolution?
2
8
Inconsistency Robustness Conference 2014 July 29-31
2
9
DConf 2014: x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming
2
10
If you can't choose wisely, pick at random
2
Science News [?]
1
Electric life forms that live on energy
253
2
ESA confirms Podkletnov's Anti-Gravity Effect (2006)
53
3
A major upgrade of the LIGO gravitational-wave detector is almost complete
52
4
The Scientific Problem That Must Be Experienced
44
5
How to Make a Microcosm of the Ocean
22
6
Reconstruction of cell lineages from large-scale fluorescence microscopy data
12
7
Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy
11
8
Google Streetview cars sniff out gas leaks in cities
7
9
Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects
4
10
China plans super collider
4
Social [?]
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Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office
177
2
Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?
114
3
A platform for large-scale neuroscience [video]
46
4
Testing a New Way to Discover and Buy Products on Facebook
39
5
Rediscovering a technique to shoot 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds
27
6
Verizon's Thoughts on SpeedTest.net
18
7
Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office [video]
16
8
When I am knee-deep in project
9
9
Bill Nye, NASA's Chief Scientist and JPL's Europa Study Scientist AMA
9
10
Agism, experience and working smarter in Silicon Valley
7
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Conspiracy and an off-by-one error
184
2
Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software
161
3
Escher: A language for programming in metaphors
140
4
A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers – or, Values as Exceptions
119
5
An IRC Bot in Arm Assembler
116
6
Third Annual GitHub Data Challenge
82
7
Progress Bar Badge for GitHub README Files
81
8
HTML Canvas in the terminal
78
9
Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing
76
10
What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub
73
Wikipedia [?]
1
Digital sundial
232
2
Pigeon photography
79
3
SHA-3 NIST announcement controversy
77
4
Piri Reis Map
61
5
Malaysian airliner shot down on Russia-Ukraine border, 298 fatalities
7
6
List of common misconceptions
6
7
Li-Fi: visible light communication
5
8
Iron Dome – Israel's mobile all-weather anti-missile system
4
9
An airplane with 200 wings
4
10
The Game (mind game)
3
Blogs [?]
1
Everything is broken
23
2
How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet
16
3
The secret of Minecraft
15
4
The Return of Email Startup Acquisitions
13
5
Open Source as a Habit
9
6
The Hassle of Haskell
9
7
Why I Refuse to Use Resumes and What I Do Instead
9
8
The Bullshit Machine
8
9
The great white space debate
8
10
Here Is How Google Works
7
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Which is faster? while(1) {} or while(2) {}
62
2
Issues with Homebrew install Ruby on Mac OS X
4
3
Which CSS3 vendor prefixes are still required?
3
4
Blind SQL Injection
2
5
How important is unit testing in rapid release, non-critical (web) apps?
2
6
Presenting a view controller modally from an action sheet's delegate in iOS8
2
7
Vagrant vs. Docker by their respective authors
2
8
Instagram API hacked to allow uploads?
1
Substack [?]