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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

1219

2

Firefox Developer Edition

979

3

924

4

Doing Business in Japan

818

5

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing

799

6

745

7

Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

722

8

Sometimes, it’s just time to go home

564

9

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

517

10

On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs

506

Top Ask HN

1

Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?

235

2

Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do

80

3

Founders whose startups failed, what happens to VC/angel relationships?

63

4

How do I get my team to write better code?

63

5

What (side) projects are you working on?

57

6

My penmanship has gone to shit, what can i do?

34

7

What are you working on right now and why is it cool?

31

8

Good at programming but suck at Computer Science and coding interviews?

25

9

Who is on your shit-list of frustrating Enterprise Software?

21

10

Founders whose startups failed, do you experience bias in interviews?

19

Top Show HN

1

Meet me, I'll buy you coffee

427

2

StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks

218

3

Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words

157

4

90

5

Timely for iPhone – Scheduling and Time Tracking, Simultaneously

78

6

HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN

76

7

Pfs – A Git-like distributed file system for the Docker ecosystem

74

8

Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it

70

9

I updated the Smackbook script for OS X Yosemite

65

10

Madrassa – Code and Design Courses Reduced to 5sec GIFs

56

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31

474

2

SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites for Low Cost Internet Within Three Months

280

3

EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games

251

4

The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution

193

5

Google Takes Over Operations of Moffett Airfield from NASA

167

6

Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains

163

7

Running a South Pole data center

162

8

Lyft Accuses Former COO of Stealing Confidential Docs Before Joining Uber

157

9

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free

141

10

Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls

102

News [?]

1

Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize

403

2

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact

375

3

Colorado communities secure the right to build their own broadband

313

4

Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA

297

5

Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile

248

6

Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Broke No Law

195

7

Tesla: The Origin Story

195

8

Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus

140

9

If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more

133

10

How the FBI made the world a more dangerous place by shutting down Silkroad 2.0

132

Scientific publications [?]

1

Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing

215

2

MultiQueues: Simpler, Faster, and Better Relaxed Concurrent Priority Queues

46

3

Code Injection Attacks on HTML5-based Mobile Apps [pdf]

15

4

First Terahertz Amplifier

12

5

MIT's Augmented Reality Room Shows What Robots Are Thinking

6

6

Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies

5

7

Visualizing the “Heartbeat” of a City with Tweets

4

8

Hungry bats compete for prey by jamming sonar

4

9

Is Iceland Poised to Become a Data Center Paradise?

4

10

Forecasting the 2013–2014 Influenza Season Using Wikipedia

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox

266

2

Polaris Privacy Initiative to Accelerate User-focused Privacy Online

121

3

The Math Behind Bitcoin

101

4

NSA Director Says Agency Shares Vast Majority of Bugs It Finds

62

5

DNSSEC: Complexities and Considerations

33

6

Quantifying the Effects of Firefox’s Tracking Protection

10

7

DNSSEC: Complexities and Considerations

8

8

Open sourcing Twitter emoji for everyone

8

9

Firefox Interest Dashboard Beta Add-on Ready for Testing

7

10

Programming for the Expression of Ideas (2013) [video]

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

517

2

ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption

333

3

A Closer Look at Android RunTime in Android L

119

4

Australian “Terrorism” Law May Be Used for Copyright Enforcement

32

5

What Makes a Good Security Audit?

26

6

The White House Gets It with Net Neutrality. Will the FCC?

14

7

FCC Should Reject Risky, Confusing “Hybrid” Net Neutrality

8

8

Honor Aaron Swartz's Legacy by Hacking for a Better World

5

9

Scorecard Update: We Cannot Credit Skype for End-to-end Encryption

4

10

Swype is free this week on iOS

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

924

2

Introducing Amazon Echo

15

3

Sneak Preview – DynamoDB Streams

13

4

Route 53 Update – Private DNS and More

6

5

A HFT's Response to Michael Lewis' Flash Boys

5

6

Introducing Amazon Echo

4

7

4

8

Amazon Route 53 Announces Private DNS Within Amazon VPC

3

9

2

10

Amazon's Best Books of 2014

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released from Prison

380

2

Why Broken Sleep Is a Golden Time for Creativity

240

3

HN Salary Survey Results, Fall 2014

86

4

Systems Programming in Distributed, Multicore World with Go, Rust, and Parasail

51

5

Sorry, We Have No Imagery Here: When Google Earth Goes Blind

48

6

BlinkOn3: State of Google Blink

25

7

The end of sleep?

17

8

Go 1.4 will have Android Support

15

9

Quantum gravity

12

10

Popcorn Time Now 'Impossible' to Shut Down

6

Science News [?]

1

Nature: IPython interactive demo

153

2

Fooled by Your Own Brain

80

3

Multiverse Collisions May Dot the Sky

43

4

How to Avoid the Desperate Future of “Interstellar”

30

5

Special spots in empty space might hold the key to interplanetary exploration

28

6

Encounters with the Posthuman

26

7

Whether measured in milliseconds or megayears, the world is in constant motion

15

8

Five Ways to Lie with Charts

14

9

Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes

11

10

The New IBM True North Architecture

8

Social [?]

1

Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data

108

2

Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer [video]

80

3

Geoffrey Hinton: Dark Knowledge [video]

63

4

My regrets as a 46 year old, and advice to others at a crossroad

24

5

Performing with Emacs as a musical instrument (2013) [video]

21

6

Space Filling Curves (1972) [video]

20

7

HEAT2X Engine closeup at 240fps

16

8

Emacs: The Editor of a Lifetime [video]

16

9

Why is India so filthy?

13

10

FBI seizes Silk Road 2.0, names operator

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

175

2

Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch

154

3

Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore

98

4

McFly – Flux Architecture Made Easy

86

5

Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js

81

6

Less.js, a CSS pre-processor, releases 2.0

77

7

66

8

Java Functions: Every Java FunctionalInterface You Want

61

9

React.js: VelocityTransitionGroup, a replacement for ReactCSSTransitionGroup

60

10

Portable AWS-style infrastructure service for Docker

46

Wikipedia [?]

1

252

2

Interplanetary Transport Network

98

3

Thermoacoustic heat engine

21

4

The Great Emu War

15

5

Spaghetti stacks

8

6

Pentalobe Screw

7

7

List of software development philosophies

5

8

The Peter Principle – “Managers rise to the level of their incompetence”

4

9

Bresenham's Algorithm

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing

799

2

351

3

Against Productivity

329

4

Why I love databases

238

5

What women in technology really think (150 of them at least)

141

6

All Dressed Up for Mars and Nowhere to Go

126

7

Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory

118

8

Our Own Private Germany

94

9

Important Things to Remember When Coding

91

10

Obama: My Plan for a Free and Open Internet

84

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

10

2

Have I beaten Stackoverflow?

2

3

Pair socks from a pile efficiently?

2

4

How is linux the kernel tested?

1

5

Can you help me for this Clojure programming problem?

1

6

Replacing angular with standard web technologies

1

Substack [?]