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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Game about squares

905

2

Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

671

3

Mistakes You Should Never Make

643

4

600

5

Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M

589

6

Math Intuition Cheatsheet

474

7

445

8

The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi

431

9

Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity

421

10

Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case

420

Top Ask HN

1

What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?

109

2

Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?

107

3

Why is the 40-comment penalty being applied to Show HNs?

96

4

How to split equity?

81

5

How to find co-founders

64

6

How can I sustainably run a website without charging a fee?

63

7

Lesser-known open source projects that need contributors?

61

8

How do you sell the software of a failed business?

51

9

What are the essential components of your front-end workflow?

48

10

Coding outdoors

45

Top Show HN

1

Markov chains explained visually

1065

2

OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

1016

3

Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect

232

4

Tiempo – The fastest way to track time and get paid

116

5

Aptible – Deployment platform to automate HIPAA compliance

109

6

My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

102

7

Balances – Mint for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

94

8

Rainbowstream – Twitter the geek way

93

9

Sandstorm Personal Cloud Platform Demo

87

10

Webhook – Static site generator with a CMS

78

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed

237

2

Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge

179

3

The Majority of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable

130

4

Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveillance

99

5

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud

94

6

Netflix's Open Connect Appliances

86

7

The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home

85

8

Maidsafe is working on a decentralized network

76

9

Supreme Court’s new rules on abstract patents hit Apple v. Samsung

70

10

Amazon’s Cloud Is Growing So Fast It’s Scaring Shareholders

66

News [?]

1

445

2

The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

349

3

Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus

339

4

Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport

179

5

Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture

163

6

ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them

156

7

How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?

155

8

Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network

149

9

The ship that failed to change the world

144

10

Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers

142

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA e-Book Features

80

2

High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Function in Middle Aged Adults

72

3

NASA’s Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record

7

4

Finding alien polluters

6

5

A Made-For-TV Compression Algorithm

5

6

Researchers achieve 'holy grail' of battery design: A stable lithium anode

5

7

To Track or Not to Track: User Reactions to Longitudinal Health Monitoring

5

8

A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World

3

9

One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks

3

10

HIIT training programmes in highly trained endurance athletes. (abstract)

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Service drains competitor's Adwords budget

176

2

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

162

3

Debian and the PHP license

122

4

Experimenting with Mozjpeg 2.0

111

5

Access Control in Swift

81

6

Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron Dome’ Missile Defense

70

7

Interacting with C Pointers

48

8

Building a Twitter we can be proud of

8

9

Feds: Hackers Ran Concert Ticket Racket

6

10

Parallel-lazy Performance: Java 8 vs. Scala vs. GS Collections

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional

292

2

Colombian Student Faces Prison Charges for Sharing an Academic Article Online

64

3

A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn’t A Router

6

4

White House Website Includes Unique Non-Cookie Tracker

3

5

Updated retina Macbook Pro faster Haswell more RAM

3

6

Xiaomi Launches the Mi 4

2

7

Building A True Unix Keyboard

2

8

OS X Yosemite Public Beta Comes Out Tomorrow

1

9

OS X Yosemite planned for late October

1

10

Net Neutrality, Zero Rating, and the Global Digital Divide

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

3D Printing Store

180

2

Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption

173

3

The Quest For A Quantum Future

90

4

Updated MacBook Pros

76

5

Introducing Amazon's 3D Printing Store

11

6

7 Simple Steps for a Search-Savvy Site

4

7

Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform, 2nd Edition

3

8

AWS Climate Research Grants

2

9

Amazon Fire Phone now available

2

10

Amazon Fire Phone available now

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pinboard 2014 Expenses

213

2

Git Commit message conventions for Angular.js

25

3

Letter to the New York Department of Financial Services

15

4

Self-fulfilling correlations

12

5

US To Criminalize Moive and Music Streaming

6

6

Is technology making the world too complex?

4

7

Police begin placing warning adverts on 'pirate' sites

4

8

Losing my Amazon Religion

4

9

Survey of Design Salaries 2014: Results

2

10

List of all GitHub commit messages where the user drops an F-bomb

2

Science News [?]

1

Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy

151

2

“You're not allowed science any more”

124

3

Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

117

4

Black holes might end their lives by transforming into their exact opposite

111

5

Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts

106

6

Magnets for fusion energy: A revolutionary manufacturing method developed

35

7

Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked (2013)

33

8

The new Google? Baidu's big plans to bust out of China

27

9

California's governor enlisted two palaeoecologists, their careers changed

10

10

Flaws emerge in RNA method to build tree of life

7

Social [?]

1

The Concert Programmer

12

2

The day I met Tim Cook

11

3

Don’t Waste Your 20s at Google or McKinsey

10

4

Techcrunch vs. Reality

10

5

iOS Backdoor Services Proof of Concept

8

6

Someone is moving some of the earliest Bitcoins ever mined

8

7

Wikileaks leak imminent “unprecedented national security super-injunction”

8

8

99% of programming tutorials on the web

8

9

HOPE X: You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity

7

10

“Proof Of Charity” by the Dogecoin community. Wow. Such charity

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Today Rails turns 10 years old

394

2

List of Web Business Models

342

3

Facebook Flux – Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces

253

4

Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go

221

5

The seL4 microkernel

194

6

The New GitHub Issues

156

7

Master Emacs in one year

143

8

Instagram iOS session hijack

132

9

Open Source Implementation of Google App Engine

109

10

Flight rules for Git – What to do when things go wrong

96

Wikipedia [?]

1

A Russian scientist who was struck by a particle accelerator beam

172

2

168

3

74

4

57

5

Mobile Wikipedia looks more beautiful than desktop

20

6

List of really, really stupid article ideas that you should not create

20

7

You don't know ice. Neither do I, apparently

13

8

Oil Pipeline Pigs

12

9

7

10

Ebola Outbreak Evolution Rate

6

Blogs [?]

1

How to find your Uber passenger rating

323

2

Banned for Life

316

3

How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 photos

206

4

A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans

147

5

You Are Not Late

131

6

HackMIT Puzzle Guide

79

7

Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes

75

8

Macroscopic quantum objects cannot exist if P ≠ NP?

58

9

The best tool for the job, isn’t always

14

10

Launching Openfolio on Product Hunt

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

JAVA: Why does Math.round(0.49999999999999994) return 1

7

2

GitHub Best practice – Fork VS New Branch

3

3

How does Bluebird’s util.toFastProperties() make an object’s properties “fast”?

3

4

Cycles in family tree software

2

5

How to get the mouse position without events

2

6

Which JS frameworks besides React allow live-editing?

2

7

Scaling/optimizing a slow ruby on rails application

1

8

How to properly fork a Go Project

1

9

Difference between OOP interfaces and FP type classes

1

10

Make Every JavaScript object have fast properties in V8

1

Substack [?]