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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hacker News API

1715

2

GitHub Student Developer Pack

1022

3

722

4

Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]

718

5

Before the Startup

703

6

648

7

"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"

605

8

Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

599

9

SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17

579

10

Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

474

Top Ask HN

1

How to price yourself?

329

2

Who is hiring? (October 2014)

275

3

Big company approached our stealth startup – what to do?

159

4

How do I write good documentation?

87

5

What are your sources of inspiration and motivation?

83

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2014)

81

7

Who wants to be hired? (October 2014)

81

8

Your best passive income?

72

9

What is HN reading?

53

10

Have you rejected an offer to work on a project because of self-doubt?

47

Top Show HN

1

Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool

436

2

Nightmare – Simple browser automation

429

3

Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution

332

4

ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy

266

5

GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager

211

6

JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

202

7

JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle

137

8

Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

136

9

Hacker News implemented using the new API

90

10

Clojure in the Open – simple tasks from open-source projects

81

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich

250

2

Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs

198

3

Stamplay: IFTTT for developers

198

4

The force vectors on a skateboard during an Ollie

194

5

A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release

170

6

Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India

169

7

After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF

163

8

What It's Like to Build a Startup in Gaza

142

9

Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market

129

10

When 911 calls fail

124

News [?]

1

Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders

470

2

In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight

200

3

JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households

196

4

The Empire of Edge

139

5

Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread

138

6

Aboard a Cargo Colossus: Maersk’s New Container Ships

135

7

The Limits of Friendship

122

8

Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up

117

9

The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever

106

10

Up All Night: The Science of Sleeplessness (2013)

103

Scientific publications [?]

1

Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? [pdf]

126

2

The LED's Dark Secret (2009)

79

3

On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe

66

4

Introducing the World’s Most Precise Clock

40

5

Parallel scheduling of task trees with limited memory [pdf]

6

6

Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks

5

7

Teens Take on Drone Collision Avoidance, Cyber Bullying, and More

3

8

U.S. Navy Tests Robot Boat Swarm to Overwhelm Enemies

3

9

Epitaxial growth of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulator on semiconductor

2

10

'Data smashing' could unshackle automated discovery

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Route leak incident on October 2, 2014

93

2

Content Security Policy (CSP) for the web we have

24

3

Universal SSL: How It Scales

18

4

Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story

13

5

Twitter – Taking the fight for transparency to court

12

6

Bugzilla Zero-Day Exposes Zero-Day Bugs

11

7

Bugzilla 0-day exposes 0-days

8

8

iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

6

9

Schneier on Incident Response

6

10

Building Your First Swift App Video

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Distributed to Families

109

2

Apple sapphire crystal supplier GT Advanced files for bankruptcy

6

3

iOS 8 Safari Supports Animated PNG Images

4

4

According to Apple, people have all but stopped upgrading to iOS 8

4

5

iOS 8 Adoption Stagnates Just Two and a Half Weeks After Launch

3

6

Quadrotor Pod Racing

3

7

The iPhone 6 Review-AnandTech

2

8

Video Compares iPhone 6 Plus 802.11ac Wi-Fi Speeds to 802.11n iPhone 5s Speeds

2

9

ARM Announces “mbed” IoT Device Platform

2

10

EU-US Trade Negotiations Continue Shutting Out the Public

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

EC2 Maintenance Update II

108

2

I Hate Commander Chris Hadfield

13

3

AWS Self-Paced Labs

3

4

Kindle Unlimited – Unlimited Reading. Unlimited Listening. Any Device

2

5

EC2 Maintenance Update II

1

6

How Google Works (by Eric Schmidt – not an affiliate link)

1

7

Philips Clock for $10,000 + $59.99 S/H

1

8

Apple Supplier Responsibility

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts

268

2

Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments?

65

3

Freedom from Food

51

4

Tor growth rates

10

5

How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate

10

6

Raw data from rDNS scan of the whole v4 Internet (2011)

7

7

PayPal's Incentive Problem

7

8

Hacker News comments with greatest number of upvotes, by month of posting

6

9

New brain implants can restore autonomy to damaged minds

5

10

UK Legalizes CD Ripping and Cloud Backups Today

4

Science News [?]

1

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

458

2

Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron

120

3

Maps attributed to Marco Polo sketch what looks like the coast of Alaska

45

4

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest

45

5

How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math

23

6

How Nuclear Explosions Were Used to Save the Environment

9

7

Why the U.S. Military Is into Bee Brain Surgery

9

8

Blue Chip – Shuji Nakamura beat the titans to blue LEDs and laser (2000)

8

9

Emotional Renovations: How your brain twists together emotion and place

8

10

Scientific writing: the online cooperative

5

Social [?]

1

Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]

718

2

A Visual Tour of Erlang (2012) [video]

67

3

Tesla to unveil D and other product on October 9th

60

4

Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival (2014)

56

5

Geometric Madness: Implementation of computational geometry algorithms [video]

48

6

The Star7 PDA Prototype, Genesis of Java [video] (1992)

27

7

Reddit to force relocation of remote workers

24

8

Reddit disallows remote work after $50MM investment round

15

9

Windows 95 on Android Wear [video]

15

10

GitHub.com is officially banned in Russia by the Government

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A replacement for JavaScript's “alert”

311

2

The Physical Web

250

3

Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

246

4

Unfinished game – learn by practice

214

5

Monit's DMCA takedown notice for Inspeqtor

164

6

LambdaNative – A cross-platform development environment written in Scheme

129

7

Reddit source code

127

8

Atom: Editor window startup is slow

121

9

Saeed Malekpour, programmer and political prisoner in Iran

112

10

Libsqlfs: A POSIX-style file system on top of an SQLite database

99

Wikipedia [?]

1

38

2

MONIAC Computer

8

3

Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in x86 Assembly by one guy

7

4

The Quiet Zone: No wifi or cell phone service for 13,000 sq. miles

6

5

Evercookie used by NSA to track TOR users across browsers

5

6

Rolls-Royce RB211

4

7

Qattara Depression Project

4

8

General Motors Street Car Conspiracy

4

9

List of emerging technologies

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Before the Startup

703

2

Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

133

3

Unintentionally in YC

70

4

How does SQLite work? Part 2: disk seeks are slow don't do them

58

5

38

6

The badge of ignorance

31

7

What's wrong with Angular.js

16

8

What’s wrong with Angular.js

14

9

The Immaturity and Arrogance of Uber

12

10

Simple is Fucking Hard

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

ELI5: Why are there so many MEAN stacks?

4

2

Heroku + Cloudflare completely free SSL?

3

3

How do browsers know loading progress?

2

4

Using ping to sleep in a batch script

2

5

Why does adding 0.1 multiple times remain lossless?

1

6

How do Emulators work and how are they written?

1

7

Python meta-decorator for parametrized decorators

1

8

How can I obfuscate JavaScript?

1

9

Selenium: Is possible to get the text between two xpath selections?

1

10

How to stream and download a video using videoview in android?

1

Substack [?]