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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
TXT Record XSS
998
2
I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
997
3
I Had a Stroke at 33
602
4
Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]
520
5
Announcing Keyless SSL
508
6
Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows
471
7
MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
416
8
Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
412
9
What Coke Contains (2013)
410
10
Apple’s “warrant canary” disappears
406
Top Ask HN
1
Hackers who cook
134
2
What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?
95
3
How do I set up a HIPAA-compliant server?
68
4
Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?
67
5
How was your experience using parse.com?
59
6
How do I learn C and C++ when I love high-level languages?
53
7
What has been your experience with self-taught engineers?
37
8
Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
31
9
Why does XEmacs still exist?
26
10
A new way of online buying and selling. Viable?
21
Top Show HN
1
CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted
305
2
ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites
143
3
Paths.js – Generate SVG paths for geometric shapes
86
4
Waffle – Split-screen picture conversations with friends
68
5
Branch – Mobile links that pass data through install and open
57
6
Memory Chimp – How good is your working memory?
53
7
Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship
52
8
View and diff files in ZFS snapshots
50
9
Wormhole – A smart proxy that connects docker containers
48
10
Structr - Next-Generation Data CMS Based on Neo4j
47
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
416
2
A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
250
3
iOS 8 reviewed
218
4
Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary
139
5
Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley
133
6
Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud
131
7
Patent troll gives up, can’t defend “matchmaking” patent under new law
126
8
Money Is Pouring into Tech Like It’s 1999, and That's Not Good
119
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Apple Plans to Shut Down Beats Music?
117
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Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role as Google VP and Fellow
115
News [?]
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Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal
344
2
Tim Berners Lee slams Internet fast lanes: ‘It’s bribery.’
237
3
Alibaba Raises $21.8B in Initial Public Offering
213
4
To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
203
5
Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
190
6
Entrepreneurs anonymous
183
7
How Gangs Took Over Prisons
171
8
Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history
161
9
The Namibia desert is decorated by thousands of mysterious circles
158
10
The invasion of corporate news
151
Scientific publications [?]
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Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS
227
2
The Athens Affair – The most audacious cell-network break-in (2007)
76
3
Software-Defined Networking: A Comprehensive Survey [pdf]
19
4
Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data
15
5
Why do bubbles in Guinness sink?
11
6
The Last Day of Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley
11
7
Smart-Phone Based Recognition of States and State Changes in Bipolar Disorder
9
8
Tiny Humanoid Robot Learning to Fly Real Airplanes
8
9
Going Deeper with Convolutions (GoogLeNet Paper)
4
10
Robots Use RFID to Find and Navigate to Household Objects
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Announcing Keyless SSL
508
2
JavaScript for OS X Automation
357
3
Official Go support
189
4
Keyless SSL: The Nitty Gritty Technical Details
162
5
Koinify Raises $1M for Smart Corporation Crowdfunding Platform
29
6
Asm.js on status.modern.ie
11
7
Node.js Flame Graphs on Linux
10
8
Xcode 6.0.1 Officially Released
6
9
iOS 8 Security
5
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Apple Pay Human Interface Guidelines [pdf]
4
Tech blogs [?]
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Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache and More
120
2
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Benchmark Results
85
3
The New Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) Review
59
4
Bill Introduced in Congress to Let You Own Things, Even If They Contain Software
8
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DisplayPort Mode for USB Type-C Announced – Video, Power, and Data All Over Type-C
7
6
Scripting Debug Sessions: Python for GDB Remote Serial Protocol
7
7
iOS 8 Review
4
8
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus take a beating in first ever drop test video
3
9
Tor Challenge Inspires 1,635 Tor Relays
3
10
Moto X review from AnandTech
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests
278
2
Amazon releases new Kindle products
236
3
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed.
194
4
A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy
135
5
First Weekend iPhone Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Record
9
6
iOS Security White Paper [pdf]
3
7
Amazon Mobile Analytics
3
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New Apple Privacy Policy
3
9
Kindle with touch
3
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Drone University- free on Kindle this weekend
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 “Raid-Proof” Virtual Machines
139
2
Draining California
126
3
New York City's Most Accessible Ruins
80
4
The obesity era: The problem may be bigger than any of us (2013)
66
5
Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds
53
6
A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell
49
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Copyright Holders Want Netflix to Ban VPN Users
9
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Pirate bay founder “will wear handcuffs” to carry father's coffin
6
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We are more rational than those who nudge us
6
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The Warped World of 1950s Marriage Counselling
6
Science News [?]
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Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
412
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Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive
356
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Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
237
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An Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
84
5
Drowning in Light
79
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The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematics (2013)
60
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Contrary to appearances, online reviews reflect the opinions of the few
17
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How a “speed gene” test is stirring up horse racing and athletics
16
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She Heard Her Brain in Action: Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Getting Sensitive
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Einstein's “Time Dilation” Prediction Verified More Precisely
11
Social [?]
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Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]
291
2
“Transducers” by Rich Hickey at Strange Loop [video]
203
3
ClojureScript, Lisp's Revenge [video]
158
4
“The Mess We're In” by Joe Armstrong at Strange Loop [video]
156
5
“We've been acquired and Twitpic will live on”
124
6
Pauseless GC for OpenJDK [video]
76
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Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation [video]
61
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Ideas about a new programming language for games [video] [Jonathan Blow]
32
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What Your Visual System Sees Where You Are Not Looking (2011) [video]
21
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SpaceX CRS-4 Launch
19
Github repos and gists [?]
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Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows
471
2
sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home
235
3
Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim
176
4
PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript
175
5
mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool
157
6
React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om
136
7
Oculus Rift Development Kit 1
124
8
Implementing XKCD #688
122
9
H2O – an optimized HTTP server and library implementation
102
10
Racket mode for GNU Emacs
99
Wikipedia [?]
1
Missed call
8
2
IBM and the Holocaust
5
3
AARD code
5
4
Nymwars
4
5
Catatumbo Lightning
4
6
The “Kopi luwak” coffee
4
7
Memoization
4
8
Hash consing
3
9
IBM and the Holocaust
3
10
Cronut
3
Blogs [?]
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What Coke Contains (2013)
410
2
No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does
225
3
Brave New Phone Call
210
4
Eleventh Grade Tech Trends
161
5
Guido van Rossum on finding his way
35
6
Facebook and OkCupid Broke the Law When They Experimented on Users
33
7
The Road to Rust Web 1.0
24
8
Just Keep Building
21
9
I banned email at my startup
19
10
How we got this freelance web designer paid…in under an hour
16
Stackoverflow [?]
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WTF Java? Why Not Overload == for Java.lang.Long?
6
2
What are the lesser known but useful data structures?
3
3
Uploading files over HTTP fails on iOS 8 Safari
2
4
Random Color generator in JavaScript
2
5
iOS file upload issue – iOS 7.1.2 and iOS 8 (beta)
2
6
Haswell performance wrinkle
2
7
Simple explanation of naive Bayes classification
2
8
StackOverflow: Obtaining peak bandwidth on Haswell
2
9
How Does Facebook Disable the Browser's Integrated Developer Tools?
2
10
What does the smiley face “:)” mean in CSS?
1
Substack [?]