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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

1025

2

Trouble at the Koolaid Point

723

3

Rolling Shutters

708

4

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

635

5

My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

574

6

Redis cluster, no longer vaporware

522

7

Final – A credit card built for the 21st century

517

8

Humble Mozilla Bundle

516

9

Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security

504

10

Move Fast and Break Nothing

458

Top Ask HN

1

What do you use for PDF reports these days?

94

2

Where to find startup culture?

38

3

Developers above 35 – what are you doing?

24

4

How viable is it to live off of freelance programming while travelling?

21

5

Programmers, what are your min requirements? What is your utopia?

20

6

Apart DO and Linode, are there other good alternatives?

19

7

Work from home Daddy

13

8

What about the founders in their 30s who fail?

13

9

Help me find a job for $400 per month

11

10

Startupschool “Speed Networking” anyone?

10

Top Show HN

1

HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL

239

2

Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind

229

3

A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks

212

4

Snapception – Intercept all snapchats received over the network

210

5

Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating

125

6

Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX

122

7

Imgix.js, a JavaScript library for responsive imaging

102

8

Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

80

9

One Adaptive API for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive

71

10

React-hn – Supports all Hacker News API v0 item types

69

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks

427

2

How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013)

251

3

Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road, on a Technicality

233

4

Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999)

179

5

San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb with 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments

159

6

Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google

141

7

Dorian Nakamoto Is Suing Newsweek

132

8

Microsoft’s Quantum Mechanics

131

9

Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put Him in Prison (2013)

122

10

The Internet of Someone Else’s Things

107

News [?]

1

What kids around the world eat for breakfast

245

2

Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]

220

3

Firestone Stopped Ebola in Its Tracks

183

4

French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war

176

5

Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls

174

6

Asset seizures fuel police spending

153

7

The fatal attraction of lead

143

8

Dallas health worker who tested positive for Ebola wore ‘full’ protective gear

135

9

A Promising Pill, Not So Hard to Swallow

125

10

The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

115

Scientific publications [?]

1

Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms

110

2

OpenStreetMap and mathematics reveal there are only 4 unique city topologies

13

3

Drones Learn Tricks with Suspended Loads

8

4

No Nobel for the Father of the LED

5

5

A note on a sports league scheduling problem

4

6

Quantum Photonics on a Single Chip?

4

7

Mathematical model tackles 'Game of Thrones' predictions

3

8

A massively parallel algorithm for constructing the BWT of large string sets

3

9

Virgin Galactic 'On the Verge' of Private Space Launches, Richard Branson Says

3

10

Quantum computing poised for new silicon revolution

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

173

2

Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth

165

3

Gavin Andresen Proposes Bitcoin Hard Fork to Address Network Scalability

9

4

JavaOne: Hazelcast Announce JCache Support and JCP Run

7

5

SSLv3 Support Disabled by Default Due to POODLE Vulnerability

6

6

Herb Sutter on Modern C++ Essentials

5

7

Apple Pay a threat to Bitcoin?

4

8

Panel Dicsussion-What's the Best Way to Improve Software Architectures? [Vid]

3

9

Mozilla: The POODLE Attack and the End of SSL 3.0

3

10

Systemd will introduce a console daemon to replace kernel's VT

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security

504

2

DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals Major Vulnerabilities

138

3

An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry

65

4

Even a Golden Key Can Be Stolen by Thieves

8

5

An Introduction to Semiconductor Physics, Technology, and Industry

5

6

Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher Not Concerned About Upcoming iPad Launch

4

7

Nintendo Updates Take Wii U Hostage Until You “Agree” to New Legal Terms

4

8

Jony Ive Details Apple Design Process, iPhone 6 Design Choices

3

9

iPhone 6 Pre-Orders in China Top 20M in 3 Days

3

10

MacWorld 2015 Cancelled

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

DynamoDB Update – JSON, Expanded Free Tier, Flexible Scaling

11

2

Amazon DynamoDB Update: JSON, Expanded Free Tier, Flexible Scaling, Larger Items

6

3

General Purpose (SSD) Storage for Amazon RDS

3

4

Amazon CloudFront Now Publishes Six Operational Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch

2

5

Preventing readmissions and reducing LOS with predictive analytics

2

6

The $16,000 Paperback

1

7

Wonderbag Success Story

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

574

2

What would happen in the ocean if we went quiet?

63

3

Spreadsheet showing SHA-256 calculations in step-by-step detail

41

4

The Awesome Reading List

6

5

How Urbanization Can Be a Friend to Birds

6

6

Popcorn Time Devs Drop Like Flies, but No One Will Talk

6

7

4

8

Lagom: some ideas about cryptocurrency

4

9

War in the womb: The ferocious biological struggle between mother and baby

4

10

How urbanization can be a friend to the biodiversity of birds

4

Science News [?]

1

Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense

121

2

When Theft Was Worse Than Murder

99

3

Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old

98

4

The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon

66

5

Famed Antikythera wreck yields more treasures

59

6

In Search of Time’s Origin

48

7

Artificial arms get closer to the real thing

47

8

Ebola: learn from the past

42

9

Hawking radiation mimicked in the lab

32

10

Human vs. Squirrel: The Battle of Wits Is On

27

Social [?]

1

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Donating $25M to the CDC Foundation

85

2

A Programming Language for Games, Talk #2 [video]

51

3

Elance can close your account with NO reasons, just because they CAN

15

4

Joe Armstrong: Faults, Scaling and Erlang Concurrency [video]

13

5

Nvidia 's Light-field Glasses Prototype (Like Magic Leap)

9

6

SF Gentrification/DropBox Community Service – Mission Playground Is Not for Sale

7

7

Startup School SV 2014 Videos

7

8

Lecture 6 – How to Start a Startup

6

9

Snapchat murders Facebook

6

10

Me, a feminist? No way

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Doom Renderer written in Rust

229

2

GopherJS – A compiler from Go to JavaScript

172

3

Termtris: A Game Like Tetris in Ten Functions

144

4

143

5

Lwan: Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server

116

6

DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn

81

7

Transducers for JavaScript

79

8

Decrypting Android Snapchat images

78

9

All pull requests will be accepted. Let's see where it goes

68

10

Pdf-tools: Emacs support library for PDF files

68

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia moving to HHVM

10

2

Songs deemed “lyrically questionable” after 9/11

6

3

Illusion of Control

5

4

JavaScript Style Sheets

5

5

The Gamergate controversy

4

6

4

7

Fallen Astronaut

3

8

Eating live seafood

3

9

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

635

2

My story of applying, getting in, and being a mom in Y Combinator

259

3

Our Journey to and Through YC

159

4

How to Reapply to YC

80

5

Magic in a Box: My First Day Using Myo

49

6

Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money

28

7

How Bad UX Killed Jenny

28

8

Why I’m Betting on You to Help Shape the New American Economy

16

9

What’s wrong with Angular.js

15

10

How I hacked Paypal to create money

15

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why would identical C loops in the same program execute in different times?

9

2

What are the common undefined behaviors that a C++ programmer should know about?

5

3

Python comment as a NOOP replacement

2

4

** What is the simple way to repeat a String in Java?

2

5

Using This-Pointer Causes Strange Deoptimization in Hot Loop

2

6

Client prediction, logic share between client and server side

2

7

Get the author and title from ISBN using Google Book API and python

2

8

How to block the installation of unsigned packages in Debian by default?

1

9

Python slow read performance issue

1

10

What can cause glDrawArrays to generate a GL_INVALID_OPERATION error?

1

Substack [?]