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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”

1522

2

Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850

881

3

OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on

801

4

Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement

745

5

What Hard Drive Should I Buy?

663

6

Building an open source Nest

617

7

Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

610

8

For the Love of Money

553

9

Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA

515

10

2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor

468

Top Ask HN

1

How to find part-time developer work?

196

2

What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

135

3

I want to learn how to prototype hardware. Where do I start?

98

4

How do you deal with potential acquirers?

93

5

Which language/web framework to learn for employability?

60

6

I've done absolutely no work since December 15th

25

7

Alternatives to DigitalOcean?

20

8

Help, How to deal with severe ADHD as a programmer?

18

9

What's the best "Contact Us" email address for a startup?

16

10

French software engineering student, looking for a nobullshit internship

16

Top Show HN

1

Kimono – Never write a web scraper again

682

2

Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding

212

3

Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

138

4

An Open-Source Data Science Curriculum

118

5

Workflow for front end developers to create desktop applications

93

6

A Clojure game library

84

7

Akiva – A simple NLP, question-answering artificial intelligence

63

8

Fez, a file-based build tool for JavaScript

63

9

Reddit-based product recommendations (weekend project)

60

10

I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades

55

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems

159

2

Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates

152

3

Keyboard innovation is making them worse

145

4

Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe

129

5

With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest

122

6

Frere-Jones is suing Hoefler for half of preeminent digital type foundry

115

7

FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps

108

8

Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You

93

9

This startup tells you when companies try your competitors’ software

90

10

Tesla Motors’ Over-the-Air Repairs

88

News [?]

1

For the Love of Money

553

2

Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down

415

3

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep

253

4

Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying

237

5

What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café

229

6

N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers

188

7

Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public

187

8

Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world

187

9

The iPod of Prison

185

10

Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance

164

Scientific publications [?]

1

Researchers achieve fastest real-world fiber speeds of 1.4Tb/s

4

2

NASA now seeking proposals for commercial robotic lunar lander capabilities.

2

3

Thermophotovoltaic Device Has Potential to Reach Huge Solar Efficiencies

2

4

Mathematical Formula for Cyberwar

1

5

Superconducting spintronics pave way for next-generation computing

1

6

Study: Internet erodes democratic protections

1

7

Corroborating experimental evidence for Penrose-Hammerhoff

1

8

Post-newtonian terms and the secular increase of the astronomical unit [pdf]

1

9

Defining and detecting quantum speedup

1

10

Facebook memes can evolve like genes

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA

515

2

Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition

167

3

A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC

130

4

Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]

111

5

Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

57

6

A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware

45

7

Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook

24

8

Coming soon: Stripe CTF3

9

9

US Government announces the sale of $25m worth of Silk Road Bitcoin

4

10

Another Look at the Target Malware - KrebsOnSecurity

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Stop Congress From Taking the Fast Track to One-Sided Copyright Laws

48

2

Getting Copyright Right for the 21st Century

33

3

Apple Falls Behind Microsoft, Samsung, Sony In New Consumer Experience Survey

22

4

TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms

7

5

Obama's NSA Reform Scorecard

5

6

I present, The PiBoy

2

7

Wikipedia Shows the Value of a Vibrant Public Domain

2

8

Pokemon Blue just became a development tool for the Game Boy

2

9

Updated Scorecard: Will Obama Hit the Mark on Real NSA Reform?

2

10

Starbucks App Stores Cleartext Passwords, Location Data in iPhone App

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS

90

2

3.99 One-Day shipping no longer mentioned in Amazon Prime

6

3

People from book about Amazon review book about Amazon on Amazon

2

4

New Book by Glenn Greenwald: "No Place to Hide"

2

5

Ben Horowitz: the hard thing about hard things

2

6

New Book by Ben Horowitz: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

2

7

New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS

1

8

Inventing a Clip That Customers Love

1

9

Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective Feb. 1, 2014

1

10

AWS S3 Pricing lowered up to 22% from 1st Feb

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google’s New Business Model

39

2

Battle of the Box

39

3

Android support in Go

10

4

Warning to consumers on real world currencies

7

5

How People Really Use Mobile

4

6

2

7

Apple and the innovator's dilemma [2010]

2

8

Regular Churchgoers Less Likely to Become Music Pirates

2

9

Record Label Asks Google to Censor Own Artists’ Twitter Accounts

2

10

FBI arrests innocent man wearing Google glass in movie theater

2

Science News [?]

1

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?

160

2

What's expected of us

121

3

Ampere to get rational redefinition

76

4

The History of Velveeta

11

5

Development: Time to leave GDP behind

9

6

D-Wave Quantum Computer Flunks Speed Test

8

7

Http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/why-we-procrastinate

6

8

Physicists explain 'gravity-defying' chain trick

5

9

First confirmed record of a freshwater fish catching a bird midflight

4

10

From Breastfeeding To Politics, Facebook Steps Up Censorship

4

Social [?]

1

You can use Facebook to identify people by their email or phone number

48

2

I am Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Edward Snowden is my hero. AMA

18

3

A Sudoku Solver in APL

8

4

Hacker News Onion

7

5

"What's wrong with TED talks?" Benjamin Bratton

5

6

Prototyping a $3.2B business in 20 minutes: ng-conf 2014

5

7

Minuum keyboard on a Smart Watch

5

8

Really Humorous Sub-reddit about the ActualMoney Protocol

5

9

Paul Buchheit talks at Stanford (2012)

4

10

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

New Year, New CEO for GitHub

339

2

WebKit.js: Pure JavaScript Port of WebKit

157

3

Light Table ClojureScript Tutorial

139

4

132

5

My Mind: A new web-based mind map editor

108

6

List of languages that compile to JS

85

7

Customize iOS7 App Switcher with custom card view

84

8

Termcoin – A Bitcoin wallet for your terminal

78

9

Orbit.js – A standalone library for data access and synchronization

64

10

DNS Outage Post Mortem

48

Wikipedia [?]

1

Peelian Principles

76

2

9

3

List of Math Paradoxes

3

4

3

5

Hiroo Onoda (died)

3

6

Can you divide a sandwich between three people fairly?

2

7

Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee

2

8

Neuromorphic engineering

2

9

Scunthorpe problem

2

10

Frontline has won a total of 57 Emmys

2

Blogs [?]

1

Cities and Ambition (2008)

175

2

On the Matter of Why Bitcoin Matters

11

3

Fuck That Shitty Coloring Book—On kids and swearing.

8

4

Ball Lightning has been recorded in nature by scientists for the first time ever

7

5

Einstein’s Camera

6

6

The World Is Now an Airport

6

7

Lifestyles of the Young, Rich, and Homeless

5

8

Tesla, you did it again.

5

9

The environmental scandal that’s happening right beneath your feet

5

10

Will the Internet be like TV?

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

328

2

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

67

3

CSS 'frameworks' are missing the point (2008)

27

4

[PHP] Why does switch(true) have a smaller NPath complexity than if() elseif()?

2

5

Hidden features of Ruby

2

6

A friendly reminder: the"ne" keyword in Javascript

2

7

What original en-visionary of open source solution is reclusive?

1

8

Story of CouchDB, Couchbase Server, BigCouch, Membase, Memcached and MemcacheDB

1

9

Why does `random.randint(a, b)` return a range inclusive of `b`?

1

10

How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?

1

Substack [?]