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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

536

2

Failing the startup game at Unbabel

535

3

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

470

4

US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet

460

5

Yahoo stopping all new development of YUI

448

6

What I use instead of Google services

423

7

Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

400

8

Mosh: A replacement for SSH

399

9

Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government

384

10

Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

364

Top Ask HN

1

How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?

288

2

Who is hiring? (September 2014)

217

3

Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)

116

4

I have to analyze 100M lines of Java – where do I start?

87

5

What are some Bay Area startups that don't use an open office plan?

71

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)

59

7

What is HN reading?

49

8

How do you manage time between working and “absorption”?

49

9

Palantir or Facebook?

36

10

Someone is harassing me online, using my personal info. What can I do?

33

Top Show HN

1

Restore tmux environment after a system restart

240

2

Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels

150

3

RandomStartup.org – Refresh the page to discover another startup

119

4

LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines

101

5

Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web

92

6

Pre-commit – A framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks

73

7

Call emails, not phones

71

8

Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager

70

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69

10

Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports activities nearby

64

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone

470

2

How a new HTML element will make the Web faster

310

3

Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies

293

4

I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays

282

5

The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni

217

6

Maps that illustrate the global economy

158

7

There Are Only Two Weeks Left to Comment on Net Neutrality

143

8

Hackers Build a Skype That’s Not Controlled by Microsoft

112

9

Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Negative Effects

94

10

This is why you never end up hiring good developers

92

News [?]

1

US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet

460

2

Our Use of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests

255

3

Inside Google’s Drone-Delivery Program

239

4

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet

236

5

Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity

221

6

Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph

152

7

Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest

151

8

How the 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came to Represent Asia

112

9

What People Cured of Blindness See

105

10

If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot

101

Scientific publications [?]

1

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011)

92

2

Hygiene hypothesis: difference in autoimmune diseases in Russia, Finland (2012)

42

3

Disney Research Patents ETH Zurich's PuppetCopter

17

4

Quantum Entanglement Camera Images Object with Photons That Never Come Near It

10

5

What Happened to NASA's Valkyrie Robot at the DRC Trials, and What's Next

5

6

US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Passes 600 Days in Orbit

5

7

Japan firm showcases 'touchable' 3D technology

4

8

FAA Faces Legal Action on Its Rules for Model Aircraft

4

9

NASA completes test on composite cryogenic tank for rockets

4

10

The Moon Smells: Apollo Astronauts Describe Lunar Aroma

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Common App Rejections

219

2

What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation

107

3

Go interfaces make test stubbing easy

78

4

Banks: Credit Card Breach at Home Depot

25

5

Fun With Funny Money

9

6

Docker: Present and Future

9

7

Gilad Bracha on How to Make JavaScript and the Web a Good Compilation Target

7

8

New Tweets per second record, and how (2013)

6

9

Swift Optionals Case Study

5

10

P5.js Brings Creative Coding to the Masses

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

536

2

MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives

70

3

Blocking Consumer Choice: Google's Dangerous Ban of Privacy and Security App

14

4

Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

14

5

Seeing Through the Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery of the Media

11

6

Apple announces special event for September 9th: ‘Wish we could say more’

5

7

Texas Supreme Court Quotes the Big Lebowski

5

8

Support for 3x image assets found in latest iOS 8 beta

3

9

Apple highlighting top ten reasons apps get rejected on new developer page

3

10

Green Light Your Commute with America’s Unsecured Traffic Lights

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

98

2

Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

11

3

4

4

Amazon Zocalo – Now Generally Available

3

5

Free on AMZN: Where Startup Ideas Come From: 4 Ways to Get Business Ideas

3

6

Windows ClearType Tuner

2

7

Gabriel Weinberg's Traction Book Is Out

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

React vs. Ember – EmberNYC slides

149

2

120

3

Can tiny plankton help reverse climate change?

40

4

24

5

React from an Ember.js perspective

19

6

React from an Ember.js perspective

11

7

Tribler makes Bittorrent anonymous with built-in Tor network

8

8

Are coders worth it? (2013)

5

9

Comparing Ember and React

3

10

Managed VMs Cloud SDK for Trusted Testers

2

Science News [?]

1

States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths

209

2

Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”

153

3

Roadmap to Alpha Centauri

147

4

Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox

100

5

The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race

80

6

The U.S. Navy Tests Its Ships in This Indoor Ocean

63

7

How do dolphins sleep without drowning? [video]

63

8

Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias

63

9

Half Male, Half Female, Total Animal

46

10

Meet the Father of Digital Life

39

Social [?]

1

Introducing Project Wing [video]

28

2

Does John Conway Hate His Game of Life? [video]

10

3

State of Mesos 2014

10

4

“Every Unix command eventually become an Internet service”

9

5

9

6

Flatland: the film (2007)

8

7

Beautiful online voxel MMO game powered by WebGL / HTML5

8

8

Distributed Computing with Apache Mesos

7

9

Discussion on the current state of GuileEmacs

7

10

Dr. Fill computer solver at 2014 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament [video]

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Facebook's std::vector optimization

275

2

Making MySQL Better at GitHub

195

3

Linda Sandvik Resigns As Director Of Code Club

164

4

AppleID password brute force proof-of-concept

141

5

Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro

130

6

Fix the versioning

115

7

Dockersh – a shell that puts users into individual docker containers

110

8

Library to diff DOM changes with PhantomJs

64

9

Why Semantic Versioning Isn't

60

10

Requiring NPM modules in the browser console

53

Wikipedia [?]

1

Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment

167

2

50

3

KarTrak, a bar code system designed to automatically identify rail cars

11

4

Cyclomatic complexity

3

5

3

6

Mafia (party game)

3

7

3

8

Stanford prison experiment

3

9

Davy Crockett (nuclear device)

3

10

Too long; didn't read

2

Blogs [?]

1

Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience

355

2

My year with a distraction-free iPhone

285

3

Let's Make a Promo – Creating Videos for Apps

105

4

The Last of a Class

85

5

Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions

81

6

Social Login Myths Debunked

34

7

13,402 unhappy users and no lessons learned–so we built this

24

8

We have renamed Gittip to Gratipay

24

9

Medium’s CSS is actually pretty fucking good

20

10

Adafruit Blocks University of Waterloo

13

Stackoverflow [?]

1

IO Monad and Purity

5

2

Does it matter which equals operator (== vs. ===) to use in JavaScript?

4

3

Why is subtracting two times in 1927 giving a strange result?

3

4

How do you performance test JavaScript code?

3

5

Simulating tremor (from e.g. Parkinson's Disease) with the mouse on a webpage?

3

6

Chrome Bug with colspan and border?

2

7

C#: yield return statement inside a using() { } block Disposes before executing

1

8

What Linux/Unix commands are outdated and have powerful alternatives?

1

Substack [?]