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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

942

2

The Lowdown on Lidar

667

3

Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition

632

4

Extracting audio from visual information

573

5

Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month

462

6

US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding

436

7

Announcing UberPool

430

8

NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work

406

9

Justin.tv has shut down

396

10

Seven habits of highly fraudulent users

390

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (August 2014)

440

2

Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

224

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)

139

4

Ideas for a small passive income site

87

5

Should I be a plumber?

72

6

Is there an over supply of tech products and services?

57

7

What to work on?

56

8

How do you transfer money internationally?

55

9

How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page?

53

10

How many hours can you productively program a day?

49

Top Show HN

1

NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

633

2

A small virtual machine written in C

212

3

Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet

192

4

Omive – Find movies based on genre, rating, directors and more

132

5

I'm renting a truck to make buying and selling furniture easier

132

6

Emacs Mini Manual

129

7

Workfrom – The best coffee shops and cafes to work from

117

8

Hacker News CLI, written in Go

98

9

QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles

96

10

Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus

93

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work

406

2

Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal of Freedom Already

162

3

FCC chair accuses Verizon of throttling unlimited data to boost profits

155

4

A spambot became the second most powerful member of an Italian social network

130

5

Lords: right to be forgotten is wrong, unworkable, unreasonable

128

6

FCC asked six more ISPs, content providers to reveal paid peering deals

112

7

The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Helps Power Apple

106

8

Why Andrew Ng left Google and joined Baidu

104

9

Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

95

10

Google Barge Sold For Scrap

89

News [?]

1

A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013)

354

2

The Kids Who Beat Autism

327

3

UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January

305

4

Nukes of Hazard (2013)

207

5

Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials

192

6

The CIA's Reckless Breach of Trust

184

7

When It's Bad to Have Good Choices

166

8

$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So Hard

152

9

Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet

152

10

C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers

135

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm

120

2

A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

19

3

Optimal Hub Labeling is NP-complete

18

4

Law changed to allow 'unlocking' cellphones

5

5

BitTorrent unveils NSA-proof online calling and messaging software

3

6

Winning Google's $1M Little Box Challenge Will Take a 'Holistic Approach'

3

7

NASA Engineers Resurrect F-1 Engine Gas Generator

3

8

Researchers develop new wireless power transfer technique

2

9

Free Ebooks from NASA (Epub, Mobi, PDF)

2

10

'Impossible' Space Engine May Actually Work, NASA Test Suggests

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

942

2

‘White Label’ Money Laundering Services

94

3

MDN Database Disclosure

73

4

The unified control group hierarchy in Linux kernel 3.16

70

5

Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

52

6

Former NSA Director Patenting Computer Security Techniques

26

7

Debugging the Linux kernel using Ftrace (2009)

19

8

Swift: Files and Initialization

7

9

GDB 7.8 Released

5

10

Whither Web programming? [video]

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month

462

2

US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding

436

3

Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber

355

4

Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager

247

5

Your Wireless Router Is Broken – Help Us Fix It At DEF CON

149

6

The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review

38

7

Behold The Most Insane Crowdfunding Campaign Ever

29

8

EFF to Patent Office: End the Flood of Stupid Software Patents

11

9

Tor on Campus, Part I: It’s Been Done Before and Should Happen Again

6

10

A Dead Simple, Well Constructed FM Transmitter

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53

130

2

AWS Trusted Advisor for Everyone

14

3

Amazon Route 53 starts accepting domain registrations for 150 TLDs

9

4

Welcome to the family (Apple landing site for Beats acquisition)

6

5

Amazon Route 53 Announces Domain Name Registration, Geo Routing, ..

5

6

Amazon discounts James Franco's “Palo Alto Stories” (Kindle edition)

3

7

Announcement Update re: Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption

2

8

The quest for a quantum future

1

9

Amazon Facelift

1

10

iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications (2007)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Lowdown on Lidar

667

2

The great forgetting

67

3

Google's questionnaire response to Article 29 Working Party

42

4

Addressing Founder Depression – YC Hackathon project

40

5

Why we can’t wage war on drugs

27

6

Pleco: Building a Business, not an App

8

7

Director Wants His Film on The Pirate Bay, Pirates Deliver

7

8

Stopping the Exodus of Women in Science

7

9

If death comes for everything, does it matter what we kill?

2

10

Overview of launch PR for loklok.co

2

Science News [?]

1

It takes more than practice to excel

104

2

Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength

97

3

Cloudy With a Chance of War

80

4

Animals That Taste Only Saltiness

50

5

Mysterious Siberian crater attributed to methane

30

6

Cultural history captured in 5-minute film

27

7

Nerve implant retrains your brain to stop tinnitus

22

8

Should your robot driver kill you to save a child’s life?

19

9

Proposed solution to Navier–Stokes equations, used to model fluids, is wrong

4

10

The Minds and Algorithms That Make Hollywood Spectacle

4

Social [?]

1

My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker

179

2

Vision-Correcting Displays [video]

172

3

Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

131

4

“They Have No Use for Someone Who Looks and Dresses Like Me”

82

5

Videos from Startup School Europe 2014

34

6

Don’t Waste Your 20s at Google or McKinsey

23

7

People are calling the police about Facebook being down

17

8

Recovering speech from vibrations in simple objects

15

9

Marc Andreessen is wrong. The IPO isn't dying

12

10

John Carmack: 20 years after Doom

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python

291

2

Immutable Data Collections for Javascript

204

3

A computer algebra system written in Python

142

4

HTML5 mockups of popular devices

132

5

GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0

91

6

An Android app that collects Mag-Stripe data and CVC3 codes from PayPass cards

84

7

Poisson Image Editing in Python

75

8

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

75

9

Pun: A small library to enable pattern matching in JavaScript and CoffeeScript

73

10

C++React: A reactive programming library for C++11

71

Wikipedia [?]

1

Friendship Paradox

288

2

188

3

Illegal prime number

59

4

29

5

Saccadic masking

10

6

8

7

Test functions for optimization

8

8

Scribal abbreviation

6

9

Timeline of Algorithms

6

10

Deniable encryption

5

Blogs [?]

1

The American Room

125

2

How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours

104

3

Uber passenger rating hack is back online

24

4

Launching Helpful – A community-built product

19

5

ODesk is screwing employers with their new “Hire for Trial Project” feature

13

6

App Store Realities – Six Years as an Indy Mobile App Developer

12

7

StrongLoop and Express

10

8

Design culture is a frozen shithole

9

9

No, You Can't Manufacture That Like Apple Does

7

10

Why I left the best job I ever wanted

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations

143

2

Explanation of Combinators for the Working Man

4

3

What is referential transparency in programming languages?

4

4

Dark Corners of VIM

3

5

What's the strangest corner case you've seen in C# or .NET?

2

6

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

1

Substack [?]