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Top stories
1
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
1224
2
Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
830
3
fork() can fail
759
4
Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
747
5
Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
653
6
A Single Div
647
7
Using Google Earth to Find an ISIS Training Camp
547
8
Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
485
9
Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
479
10
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
475
Top Ask HN
1
Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?
231
2
Why are there two Job Ads at the top?
143
3
MTurk is no longer available to non-US companies. How are you coping?
88
4
How many HNers strongly prefer silence at home?
67
5
Has anyone found a good co-founder using “founder dating” techniques?
55
6
Would you like to see notifications in HackerNews?
55
7
RubyMotion or Swift?
42
8
Any APIs you'd like to see from the New York Public Library?
36
9
My company is participating in discriminatory pay practices
32
10
Tips to become a great programmer
31
Top Show HN
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I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
1013
2
Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL
325
3
A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
309
4
Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end
164
5
C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs
146
6
I lose things constantly, so I built this service
145
7
ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation
139
8
Weird iOS, a list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps
136
9
Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web
133
10
Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3
126
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
1224
2
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
475
3
Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app
438
4
Hard Science About Diet
209
5
Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
139
6
Uber Opens Its API
134
7
Dat, open-source software, seeks to restart the open data revolution
108
8
Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday?
108
9
BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
100
10
Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights
89
News [?]
1
How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'
270
2
Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt
257
3
The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear
220
4
Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests
212
5
This Man Built a $3M Business a Year After Four Years in Prison
188
6
Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2008)
156
7
Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth
154
8
SpaceX rocket explodes during testing over Texas
143
9
At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
142
10
What China wants
118
Scientific publications [?]
1
A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world
87
2
Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows
80
3
Unbounded Robotics to Shut Down Due to Willow Garage Spin-Off Agreement
51
4
The Electric Warship
37
5
Make Your Own World with Programmable Matter
18
6
Will Quantum Dots Dominate Displays?
10
7
Thermogenesis after eating is increased 100% on a high-protein diet
8
8
Spherical Display Lets You See 3-D Animations from Any Angle
3
9
New type of solar concentrator desn't block the view
2
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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit
2
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
366
2
JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
303
3
Linux Performance
184
4
Ftrace: The hidden light switch
145
5
Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
117
6
Counterfeit U.S. Cash Floods Crime Forums
86
7
Knot DNS: A high-performance, authoritative DNS server
85
8
Lessons from the Novena laptop project
79
9
Fighting spam with BotMaker
74
10
HTTP "Prefer:Safe" – Making Online Safety Simpler in Firefox
46
Tech blogs [?]
1
Coding with EFF
96
2
Comcast Data Breach Leaks Thousands of Unlisted Phone Numbers
34
3
Apple in Talks with Insurance Companies Over HealthKit Partnership
16
4
Brazilian judge orders Apple to remove Secret from the Store, remotely delete it
6
5
Apple to Launch 12.9-Inch iPad in Early 2015
6
6
Open Source GPU Released
4
7
Apple Initiates iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program
3
8
JTAGulator Finds Debug Interfaces (2013)
3
9
Coding with EFF
2
10
Fear and Loathing at DEFCON 22
2
FAANG+ [?]
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The Amazon Cloud Drive application for Windows and Mac is currently unavailable
20
2
Uranium Ore Customer Reviews
8
3
Amazon CloudFront – Session Tickets, OCSP Stapling, Perfect Forward Secrecy
2
4
Amazon CloudFront – Session Tickets, OCSP Stapling, Perfect Forward Secrecy
2
5
Amazon Mobile Analytics
1
6
'xkcd' creator explores the absurd in his new book, 'What If?'
1
7
Enhanced Throughput for EBS Volumes
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
How plagues really work
39
2
Evolution of Diet
12
3
Say Not “Complexity” (2007)
5
4
The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why (1995)
5
5
Backup Service Kicks Customer Over “Infringing” Torrent Files
4
6
Games and Good Enough
4
7
Contextual Intelligence
4
8
Are You a Cyberthreat to Your Organization?
4
9
Checklist of Rationality Habits
3
10
Tool to allow front-end developers to build web apps
3
Science News [?]
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This Is Your Brain on Silence
144
2
Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank
135
3
Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains
77
4
What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?
72
5
The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real
68
6
The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets
67
7
The Advantages of Dyslexia
51
8
200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable
42
9
Solar energy that doesn't block the view
39
10
A Meta-Law to Rule Them All: Physicists Devise a “Theory of Everything”
30
Social [?]
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6 Marketing Techniques That Will Make You Better at Selling
92
2
A New Theory of Time – Lee Smolin (2013) [video]
36
3
Emacs, the editor of a lifetime [video]
25
4
India's Orbiter Mangalyaan about a Month Away From Mars
10
5
Life in Life (2012)
7
6
Viewing a Video Illegal in the UK? A Twitter Discussion from David Allen Green
7
7
Turn database table into a CRUD documentation API application with one line
6
8
BBC Website is Down
6
9
Twelve Go Best Practices [video]
6
10
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014)
6
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
485
2
Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go
269
3
Programming language subreddits and their choice of words
176
4
LowDB – A flat JSON file database
148
5
Slap: Terminal-based text editor
109
6
DNS server that lets you look up EC2 instances by instance name
96
7
Catch: A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit tests
95
8
Using Emacs for Haskell development
85
9
Stalin: a global optimizing compiler for Scheme
85
10
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers
83
Wikipedia [?]
1
SHRDLU
159
2
Geohash: text representation allows you to sort locations by proximity
39
3
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
5
4
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
5
5
Memento mori
4
6
Space Fountain
3
7
Terminal Event Management Policy of Wikepedia
3
8
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (1994)
3
9
ALOHAnet
3
10
Red Queen Hypothesis
3
Blogs [?]
1
Why do all code editors look the same?
99
2
Lessons I learned on the road as a Digital Nomad
73
3
What Is Time?
67
4
Why didn’t the Universe become a black hole?
57
5
My open source brain data
55
6
Crafting link underlines on Medium
44
7
End-user computing (2013)
29
8
Rebuilding Iron – An Application Framework in Rust
13
9
Stellar and the $10 Trillion Economy
12
10
What is Reactive Programming
9
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Stackoverflow is down
8
2
What does :) mean in CSS
3
3
Integer[] and int[] memory difference in Java
2
4
How to decide when to use Node.js?
2
5
Why isn't Go linking my assembly properly?
2
6
Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?
1
7
What is proper way to persist time or date type of information into database
1
8
[Ruby] Use of assignment as the condition of an if statement
1
9
Python: Why is var1 += var2 much faster than var1 = var1 + var2?
1
10
Preferred way to customize UITableViewCell
1
Substack [?]