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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

913

2

How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

740

3

Debunking Princeton

736

4

Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only

556

5

Square thinks I don’t exist

532

6

King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls with a Double Standard?

509

7

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

480

8

Revolution in Kiev

477

9

Why I'm Betting On Julia

463

10

We spent a week making Trello boards load fast

418

Top Ask HN

1

Best big companies to work for?

103

2

How do I add $100k to my 2014 income?

95

3

Do you cold call?

84

4

Help. I need to go away from here

71

5

Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?

64

6

cheap ways to host your own email server?

50

7

Software Engineer Salaries in Berlin

45

8

Is it legally enforceable for your company to own your IP?

40

9

Password best practices?

33

10

How do you find clients?

29

Top Show HN

1

I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator

619

2

Random Street View

340

3

Linux server monitoring web dashboard

164

4

Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right

87

5

Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing you'll actually use

65

6

Beautify-with-words unminifies JS with unique words for variable names

61

7

Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

59

8

Dogecoin Average - the price of Doge

58

9

Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

52

10

47

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

480

2

Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator

314

3

Docker Raises $15M

295

4

Gmail Glitch Is Causing 1000s Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account

279

5

Google outed me

234

6

If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox

203

7

The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

190

8

South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware

158

9

If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free

156

10

SoundCloud Raises $60 Million at $700 Million Valuation

151

News [?]

1

US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests

383

2

Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

348

3

The hardest computer game of all time

265

4

How Long Have I Got Left?

259

5

3 Enemas Later, Still No Drugs

253

6

Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves

238

7

Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True

231

8

Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers

214

9

Vinod Khosla Wants Californians To Keep Out of Martins Beach

197

10

US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps

156

Scientific publications [?]

1

Hawking: Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes

56

2

Epistemology of Wave Function Collapse in Quantum Physics [pdf]

22

3

New pictures of the mysterious rock on Mars

13

4

Epidemiological Modeling Of Online Social Network Dynamics

7

5

U.S. Army Considers Replacing Thousands of Soldiers With Robots

4

6

Hidden Attacks on Power Grid: Optimal Attack Strategies and Mitigation

4

7

Deep Mind's neural networks play 7 Atari 2600 games with more skill than a human

3

8

U.S. Army Considers Robots for Support Service Roles

2

9

Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed in Chandra/Hubble composite photo

2

10

Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

130

2

Halluxwater: NSA Exploit of the Day

75

3

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

74

4

Taking PHP Seriously

53

5

CloudFlare Transparency Report on National Security Orders

35

6

Apple Originally Tried To Give GPL'ed LLVM To GCC

19

7

Valve Is Making All Their Games Free To Debian Developers

10

8

FreeBSD, OS X, and Solaris monitoring tools using DTrace

10

9

Stallman calls LLVM "A Terrible Setback"

5

10

How we’re using Lucidchart and Dropbox to reduce duplicate UX artifacts

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple TV graduates from hobby/accessory to product line ahead of major changes

51

2

Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality

10

3

Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan

3

4

Reverse Engineering an HDMI Extender

2

5

Apple Patents Solar Power Converters for iPhone

1

6

AMD Kaveri Review: hUMA architecture arrives for desktop PCs

1

7

Snapchat Person Verification Defeated in less than 100 lines of code

1

8

Celebrate 30 years of Mac with Apple’s hidden icon font

1

9

Apple continues hiring raid on medical sensor field

1

10

Oculus Rift Lets You Inhabit Someone Else's Body

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Thirty Years of Mac [video]

222

2

Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter

154

3

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

66

4

Apple: Update on National Security and Law Enforcement Orders

11

5

Tell Apple the Story of Your First Mac

9

6

Some Ideas Don't Require A Kickstarter

2

7

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Amazon book reviews

2

8

Happy Birthday, Mac.

2

9

Mac is 30 years old

2

10

Thirty Years of Mac - Your first Mac

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

First TV interview with Edward Snowden (original english version)

17

2

Instead of elections, let’s use lotteries

7

3

Is Your ISP Messing With BitTorrent Traffic? Find Out

5

4

Clientside App Crypto-Currency Payments with Web Activities

4

5

Federal judge rules IP address is not enough to prove identity

3

6

Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL

2

7

The General-Purpose iPad and the Specialist Mac

2

8

Our quantum reality problem

2

9

UK Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail

2

10

Prince Targets Facebook Users in $22m Live Concert Piracy Lawsuit

2

Science News [?]

1

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'

205

2

New era of fast genetic engineering

80

3

Kazakh mathematician may have solved $1 million puzzle

4

4

Motion-captured laughs

3

5

Graphene rival 'phosphorene' is born to be a transistor

2

6

Wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery

2

7

Fastest routes revealed by mimicking electrical flow

2

8

Kazakh mathematician may have solved $1 million puzzle

2

9

Stephen Hawking claims "there are no black holes"

2

10

Infectious cancer preserves dog genes for 11,000 years

2

Social [?]

1

Debunking Princeton

736

2

Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

119

3

We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout

105

4

We are the Google Site Reliability Engineering team. Ask us Anything

14

5

"in my late 20s, and I wasted time. Is it too late?" A 47 year old replies

11

6

We are creating the HIV/AIDS vaccine to give away to the world for free. AMA.

11

7

Things I Want To Teach My Toddler About Work

10

8

Snowden Exlusive Interview Jan 26 (blocked in US)

7

9

Magnus Carlsen VS Bill Gates

7

10

TIL: Marissa Mayer Still Uses Gmail

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application

277

2

Best reply to a Pull Request ever?

255

3

Yalo – Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware

177

4

Redesigned Conversations

112

5

A positioning engine to make overlays, tooltips and dropdowns faster

90

6

Rename GTFO to GOAWAY

56

7

Light Table 0.6.2 released

55

8

Easily add an NSA backdoor into your Rails app

51

9

Python implementation of passcode hashing algorithm used on Samsung Galaxy S4

38

10

Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff

34

Wikipedia [?]

1

United States incarceration rate

31

2

Antikythera mechanism

8

3

8

4

Paxos, a protocol to get consensus

3

5

3

6

Cognitive Polyphasia

2

7

List of unsolved problems in computer science

2

8

Long-term nonprogressor

2

9

Dominant Design

2

10

Russian Internet Blacklist

2

Blogs [?]

1

Parallelism in one line

137

2

Failed to delight. Post-mortem of Delight IO

55

3

Coding in color

46

4

Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy

31

5

The state of computer science education in California’s high schools

8

6

Why SCRUM Sprints slow you down

8

7

How to stop giving a F$% what people think.

8

8

This is how Google is killing the Web

7

9

Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Superior

7

10

They didn't only copy our model, they copied our exact texts

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Django vs. Flask for a long-term project

35

2

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

10

3

Chat app synchronization on background in IOS

8

4

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

6

5

What data structures and algorithms are not implementable in C?

4

6

Undefined reference to ma11oc - Stack Overflow

2

7

Learning to Write a Compiler

2

8

Is a good practice store images from Facebook?

2

9

Hidden features of Python

2

10

Python ternary operator and assigment in else - Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]