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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
I'm Leaving Mojang
1252
2
Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
941
3
My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)
825
4
Bézier Clock
809
5
Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
784
6
New Requests for Startups
713
7
A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal
609
8
Minix 3.3.0
600
9
How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
594
10
Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
583
Top Ask HN
1
Quit my job. Company coming after me
64
2
What are you building?
59
3
What tech stack do YC startups use?
58
4
Any good audio podcasts?
55
5
Do you still use an RSS reader?
51
6
Has anyone ever tried building an OS that doesn't use files?
33
7
Should I open-source my code?
29
8
Why is that 10+ years experience folks struggle to find work
25
9
What is the best Linux Laptop in 2014?
22
10
How do you go from being an average developer to a great one?
18
Top Show HN
1
Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
247
2
ContentBuilder.js – JQuery Plugin to Write Anything Beautifully
189
3
Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
181
4
Berlin Hacker News
145
5
Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails
140
6
Pup – A command-line HTML parser
125
7
Thumbor – open-source on-demand image cropping, resizing, and filters
113
8
Hypermasher – Live streaming of Hyperlapse videos
84
9
Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read
78
10
Chat for Trello
75
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
784
2
Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court
290
3
California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
232
4
The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings
205
5
Y Combinator Will Teach a Class on Startups at Stanford This Fall
201
6
How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit
176
7
Tim Cook on iMessage Security: It’s Encrypted, and We Don’t Have a Key
146
8
Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
138
9
TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules
131
10
500px Co-Founder and Former CEO Ousted from the Startup
131
News [?]
1
Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder
420
2
Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award
244
3
No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds
244
4
Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
239
5
Learning How to Exert Self-Control
225
6
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive
194
7
Canon printer hacked to run Doom
186
8
The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
172
9
Tesla prevails in top Massachusetts court over direct sales
167
10
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)
149
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain
152
2
MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors
131
3
NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS
89
4
How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
64
5
'Solid' light could compute previously unsolvable problems
32
6
NASA's commercial crew transportation live announcement
22
7
Gradient boosting machines, a tutorial (2013)
6
8
The sound of an atom has been captured
5
9
Squishy Pink Robot Makes Explosive Jumps
4
10
NASA to Make Major Private Space Taxi Announcement Today: Watch Live
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups
280
2
Swift Has Reached 1.0
272
3
Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click
108
4
How Stacks Are Handled in Go
106
5
Linux perf rides the rocket
101
6
Caml Trading – Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street [video]
93
7
The Model Specific Registers of EC2
79
8
All About ATM Skimmers
69
9
How Stacks Are Handled in Go
8
10
Phasing Out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
7
Tech blogs [?]
1
Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]
199
2
Where is Thunderbolt Headed?
74
3
Hands on with USB Type C: Reversible USB Connectors
53
4
Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases
7
5
Tesla Model S Battery Teardown
5
6
Towards an Internet Nation?
5
7
Samsung releases new set of ads taking jabs at the iPhone 6
3
8
Report Claims Apple Launching New 27-Inch 5K Display Later This Year
3
9
Quick Look at Core M 5Y70 and Llama Mountain
2
10
Siri what song is this? The ios 8 GM doesn't have a clue
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B
169
2
Apple announces new iPhones
6
3
Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours
5
4
The All New Apple Watch Sport
3
5
Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for order
3
6
iPhone6's Cinematic Video Stabilization Will Kill Hyperlapse
1
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Safari seems to load images on Apple website by individual color channel
1
8
ElastiCache T2 Support
1
9
You can already buy a fake iPhone 6 replica on Amazon
1
10
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Worse Than Random (2008)
39
2
What good is information?
17
3
Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No
11
4
How mathematics can make epidemics history
10
5
How mathematics can make epidemics history
5
6
The Rise and Likely Fall of the Talent Economy
4
7
Microsoft’s good (and potentially great) Minecraft acquisition
3
8
Warner Bros (allegedly) Conspired with NZ Over Dotcom Extradition
3
9
The Art of Unix Programming
2
10
Confound it Correlation is (usually) not causation but why not?
2
Science News [?]
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Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
496
2
Falling in Love with the Dark
205
3
Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
111
4
An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene
97
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Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings
91
6
Will the Ebola virus go airborne?
65
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Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells
63
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How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again (2013)
61
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Reverse-engineering censorship in China
61
10
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems (2013)
35
Social [?]
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Peter Thiel AMA
304
2
WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
263
3
Macworld lays off most staff
106
4
QCraft: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics in Minecraft [video]
70
5
Books that have stayed with us
57
6
The Typewriter Artist (2004) [video]
14
7
PennApps X Award Ceremony Live Stream
12
8
“My price is two billion dollars” (2012)
11
9
Julian Assange AMA
11
10
Hazelcast 3.3 Tops Charts in In-Memory Data Grid, Moves into NoSQL
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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Commander Keen source code released
545
2
OS X Auditor
348
3
Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
325
4
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
279
5
Channels Are Not Enough
235
6
Elixir Release v1.0.0
214
7
Dejavu: Audio fingerprinting and recognition in Python
169
8
Awesome Node.js: Curated list of delightful Node.js packages
151
9
Vim Plug – A minimalist Vim plugin manager
81
10
Introducing //TODO for companies that are committed to open source
70
Wikipedia [?]
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HAARP: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
6
2
Nested virtualization
4
3
One of the most symmetrical celestial objects ever discovered
4
4
Base58
4
5
Fallacy of relative privation
3
6
AI Effect
3
7
Hypercomputation
3
8
Mysorean rockets
3
9
Erdős number
3
10
Chicago water cribs (deep tunnels under the lake)
3
Blogs [?]
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
384
2
The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
249
3
The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display
191
4
What I know about Minecraft
61
5
How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
60
6
Uber v/s Lyft – Who has the better app experience?
18
7
The Value of Y Combinator and Accelerators
12
8
Write code. Sometimes
11
9
Don’t start your startup name with F
10
10
Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy Your Aircraft Carrier from Russia
9
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Don't try to kill your apps
4
2
Using multiple shaders on iOS, from two concurrent threads
3
3
C++ array out of bound
2
4
How many ways are to call JavaScript code from html?
1
5
Character for up/down triangle (arrow) to display in HTML
1
6
Xcode 6 allows vector image assets, but only as PDF files
1
7
How can I get a web page into a string using JavaScript?
1
Substack [?]