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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos

1466

2

573

3

They're Made out of Meat

556

4

How we turn $199 Chromebooks into Ubuntu-based code learning machines for kids

492

5

Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess

438

6

Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years

430

7

What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

408

8

OpenStreetMap Then and Now

406

9

Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published

401

10

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

401

Top Ask HN

1

I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason

364

2

Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?

155

3

What info do you web scrape for?

126

4

Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much?

94

5

Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?

81

6

How much should a bootstrapped startup ask for an acquihire?

68

7

Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?

57

8

Why doesn't your team ship?

43

9

Object you'd like to see connected to the internet?

35

10

What helped you leave your day job and start on your own?

24

Top Show HN

1

Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line

219

2

EDI – An editor in Go

93

3

HN-beautify – a stylesheet for the HN frontpage

91

4

Simple algorithmic trading in JavaScript

88

5

Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone

82

6

81

7

PojoViz – Visualize the structure of any JavaScript library, framework

73

8

BemTV – Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts

71

9

Aerobatic – Smart Hosting for Single Page Apps

68

10

Stellar Jackpot

56

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days

304

2

Questions about Nasa's space drive answered

285

3

With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides

224

4

Bikanta’s (YC S14) Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads

179

5

Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins

171

6

IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does

169

7

How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century

169

8

Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US

122

9

How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

112

10

An App Store for Algorithms

101

News [?]

1

Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63

293

2

Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring

278

3

White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm

275

4

Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P

234

5

Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles

231

6

Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon

215

7

Russia extends Snowden residency by three years

207

8

Prostitution and the internet

205

9

Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey

201

10

Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

192

Scientific publications [?]

1

Security of OS-level virtualization technologies [pdf]

27

2

Non-Blocking Doubly-Linked Lists with Good Amortized Complexity

25

3

Savioke Unveils Its Delivery Robot

24

4

Self-Folding Origami Robot Goes From Flat to Walking in Four Minutes

19

5

Black Hat 2014: How to Hack the Cloud to Mine Crypto Currency

10

6

'Trojan horse' gold nanoparticles treatment could beat brain tumors

9

7

Hummingbirds vs. Micro UAVs: Who's the Best Flyer?

4

8

Photo editing algorithm changes weather, seasons automatically

4

9

Identification of individuals using palatal rugae: Computerized method (2010)

3

10

Homo floresiensis specimen may be just H. sapiens individual with Down Syndrome

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment

355

2

New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware

278

3

The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker

204

4

CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets

171

5

CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October

153

6

Performance Analysis Methodology

36

7

Functional Examples from Category Theory [video]

36

8

Q&A on the Reported Theft of 1.2B Email Accounts

34

9

Improved email receipts

23

10

Google Now Factoring HTTPS Into Ranking; CloudFlare On Track to Make it Free

20

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail

160

2

Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M

115

3

OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, and More

50

4

NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook

44

5

Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014

38

6

Hardware “Security” and a DMCA Takedown Notice

3

7

Google Boosts Secure Sites in Search Results

3

8

Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014

3

9

Apple releases promised diversity data: 55% white in US, 7 out 10 male

3

10

Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple releases diversity numbers

58

2

20 years old: Microsofts first website recreated

46

3

Amazon.com: Same-Day Delivery

20

4

Free Book – Coding for Speed – A Hacker's Guide to a Faster Web

18

5

All Data Are Belong to AWS: Streaming upload via Fluentd

6

6

Amazon discounts “Guardians of the Galaxy” (Kindle graphic novel)

4

7

AWS SDK for Python (Boto) Now Supports Python 3

3

8

AWS SDK for Python (Boto) Now Supports Python 3

3

9

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates (The RAND Corporation)

3

10

Amazon Changed Their Design

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

War in the womb

267

2

“A Communications Primer” by Charles and Ray Eames (1953) [video]

36

3

The Evolution of Emotion

35

4

If you develop in a *nix environment, fill out my survey for science

19

5

UK Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns

5

6

Compelling story of life in a WWII concentration camp by someone who was there

5

7

Apple approves BitTorrent app in App Store

4

8

How should looks perfect visual editor for Bootstrap?

2

9

The AA is out of step with research on addiction

2

10

The iPhone in India (versus iPhone in China)

2

Science News [?]

1

BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous

116

2

Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem

100

3

Computer Games Better Than Medication in Treating Elderly Depression

70

4

Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced implicit learning

57

5

The Bridge From Nowhere

35

6

Organic synthesis: The robo-chemist

34

7

Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows (2013)

15

8

Astronomers are using new tools in their search for cosmic voids

5

9

The 20 Deadliest Events in Human History

5

10

“Molecular Still Lives” Show the Science in Our Food in Us

4

Social [?]

1

Microsoft has joined Khronos, WebGL working group

134

2

Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip

120

3

Tegra K1 Glass Fracture Demo [video]

37

4

Raya – Real-time sound simulation library for games [video]

30

5

Gamma International Leaked

13

6

Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed (2009)

10

7

John Carmack SMU Talk

8

8

Linux vs bsd network stack

8

9

A Spacecraft for All: The ISEE-3 Live Lunar Flyby

7

10

How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb and Groupon acquired their first users

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies

132

2

StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp

88

3

Clojure Style Guide

75

4

Angular Restmod – Rails-inspired REST ORM

71

5

The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

67

6

Gif.js – JavaScript GIF encoding library

60

7

18F API Standards

57

8

S3Proxy allows applications using the S3 API to access other object stores

47

9

Best GitHub repositories

33

10

Sherlog.js – JavaScript error and event tracker application

22

Wikipedia [?]

1

Sweden Solar System

224

2

Doomsday rule: calculate the day for any date

125

3

56

4

47

5

43

6

Zoopharmacognosy

32

7

List of Java virtual machines

25

8

List of people who have petitioned for the right to be forgotten

18

9

Maryam Mirzakhani

9

10

6

Blogs [?]

1

What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

408

2

Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll

384

3

What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?

154

4

How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me

87

5

47% of applications for our Hacker Retreat were women. Here is how we did it

76

6

Building mindfulness into the Asana culture

53

7

You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do?

27

8

I'm A Thinker, Not a Do-er

22

9

Low skills causes procrastination

10

10

Stop Talking about Inner Beauty

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

[SO C/C++] Operator “untill”

3

2

Most tricky/useful commands for gdb debugger

3

3

Erlang's 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability

2

4

Was the misspelling of the HTTP field name Referer intentional?

1

5

Loading pages without letting screen go white

1

6

Dealing With Not 100% Sum Percentage

1

7

Generalized Threading Macro in Clojure

1

Substack [?]