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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

2376

2

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

2019

3

Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

1257

4

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

1230

5

Philae has landed

1165

6

Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript

818

7

Go is moving to GitHub

686

8

Rosetta comet landing – live stream

629

9

Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists

588

10

526

Top Ask HN

1

Did “Idea Sunday” HN Discussion Die?

62

2

What's the best way to buy a claimed domain name?

54

3

I was let go for writing about my depression. What should I do?

53

4

Are there any JavaScript libraries for generating maps?

49

5

When did you write your first commercial code?

29

6

What would happened if an operator of a gTLD went out of business?

26

7

Bootstrapped business is good but slow growth. Should I raise money?

25

8

What's your favourite sci-fi/fantasy book?

24

9

Alternative jobs to take a break from being a developer?

22

10

$45k wages unpaid. What should I do?

21

Top Show HN

1

Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

424

2

Explained Visually

352

3

A Python Spider System with Web UI

159

4

SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86

137

5

We built an open source tool for journalists to inspect Wikipedia edits

131

6

Program Microcontrollers from Your Headphone jack

107

7

A Fast, Malloc-Free C++14 Json Parser and Encoder

98

8

A simple, highly commented, rootkit which attacks GCC and Python

94

9

Stoffi – a music player

83

10

Our Bayes Impact Hackathon Project, MineData.org

56

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft Launches Free Version of Visual Studio for Small Teams

238

2

Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac

223

3

Android 5.0 Lollipop reviewed

159

4

Inmates at California’s San Quentin prison learn to code

143

5

Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API

127

6

Why Did Google Decide to Split Inbox from Gmail?

126

7

Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac

99

8

Online Labs Designed Its Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean

85

9

Facebook's New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco

83

10

Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App

71

News [?]

1

Philae has landed

1165

2

What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

420

3

The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent

372

4

Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software

240

5

Getting Better at Getting Better

236

6

Pay Phones in NYC Will Become Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots

182

7

Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86

177

8

German Cloud Company Offering Free Heat If You Have Room for Some of Its Servers

171

9

Pilot Who Survived Space Crash Says Parachute Opened Itself

165

10

Teespring Says It's Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M

162

Scientific publications [?]

1

Rethinking Databases for an Avalanche of Genetic Data

9

2

Experimental Realization of Quantum Artificial Intelligence

8

3

Benchmarking Usability and Performance of Multicore Languages [pdf]

7

4

Flying Robots Stay Stable with Just One Motor, Controllable with Two

6

5

Simon's Algorithm run on quantum computer faster than simulation

5

6

To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields

5

7

Korean Competition Shows Weather Still a Challenge for Autonomous Cars

4

8

YouTube brings its huge fan base to music streaming

4

9

WATCH Live NOW: ESA Countdown to Epic Comet Landing

4

10

NASA Computer Model Provides a New Portrait of Carbon Dioxide

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

396

2

Building a complete Tweet index

117

3

Developing for WatchKit

17

4

Mozilla’s Data Privacy Principles Revisited

14

5

Coming soon to Twitter

14

6

Clojure Is the New C

8

7

Introducing Essence#: A Smalltalk-based Language for .NET

8

8

Strategic Design: Embrace Imperfection [video]

6

9

Qt Improvements Forthcoming for HiDPI Displays

4

10

Firefox tiles going live today

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

2019

2

The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know

180

3

Apple A8X’s GPU – GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought

153

4

Unsealed Filing Shows DOJ Misled Appeals Court About NSL Gag Orders

119

5

CircuitHub Launches Group Buy Crowdsourcing Campaigns

10

6

Court Finally Throws Out Ultramercial’s Infamous Patent on Advertising

8

7

The Nexus 6 Review

7

8

Justice Department Accused of Using Fake Cell Towers on Planes to Gather Data

4

9

Department of Justice uses fake cell towers on airplanes to capture mobile data

4

10

SatNOGS (DIY Satellite Ground Station) Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

526

2

AWS EC2 Container Service

350

3

Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

314

4

211

5

AWS Key Management Service

109

6

62

7

Event Notifications for Amazon S3

61

8

New Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances

28

9

Amazon Aurora – MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS

25

10

Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer – Free Book on Amazon

19

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

164

2

Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Be the Model for Innovation

7

3

Enter to win free tickets to www.next.ml (Scalable Machine Learning Workshops)

4

4

How to Spend the Last 10 Minutes of Your Day

3

5

How Apple Creates Leverage, and the Future of Apple Pay

2

6

How Female CEOs Actually Get to the Top

2

7

Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? (2008)

2

8

ISP Provides Free VPN to Protect Customer Privacy

2

9

Start innovating in 90 days with this step-by-step guide

2

10

An Update on the Stratechery Membership Program

1

Science News [?]

1

Idea that intestinal bacteria affect mental health gains ground

187

2

Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing

133

3

The Neanderthal correlation (2008)

92

4

The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See

64

5

Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame

51

6

On the Origin of Celebrity (2013)

42

7

Mind-controlled transgene expression by a wireless-powered designer cell implant

37

8

What Are Wallabies Doing in Ireland?

36

9

Self-repairing software tackles malware

29

10

The Beer Archaeologist (2011)

27

Social [?]

1

Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar)

58

2

Theo Jansen’s wind-powered sculptures

47

3

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc (2011)

37

4

Unikernels: Who, What, Where, When, Why [video]

11

5

Touchdown! My new address: 67P

10

6

Music Key by YouTube

8

7

Kirk McKusick – A Narrative History of BSD

8

8

Chrome Android Emulator

7

9

What Do Devs Do When They Get Older?

7

10

Facebook Laucnhes Say Thanks

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Facebook Go Libraries

225

2

Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?

213

3

Thrust: Chromium-based cross-platform, cross-language application framework

184

4

ArrayFire, a general-purpose GPU library, goes open source

174

5

Delve: a debugger for Go, written in Go

165

6

Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine

160

7

Source code of Polish electoral voting system?

111

8

Give me back my sanity: How I had to install Pandoc in a CentOS Docker container

109

9

A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust

98

10

Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity

86

Wikipedia [?]

1

RTX2010 – Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor

156

2

75

3

RTX2010 radiation-hardened microprocessor

11

4

8

5

George H. Heilmeier's Catechism

8

6

Toussaint Louverture

4

7

Alexander Grothendieck, 1966 Fields medalist, dead at 86

3

8

Alexander Grothendieck (28 Mar 1928–13 Nov 2014)

3

9

3

10

Lists of unsolved problems

3

Blogs [?]

1

Keeping Secrets

240

2

After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure

237

3

The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing.”

222

4

The Growing Impact of Old Scientific Papers

184

5

An Opinionated Treatise on Cosmos, a New Programming Language

137

6

My Technical Co-Founder Quit 2 Days Before I Got My YC Interview a Year Ago

96

7

The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness

73

8

The Empirical Evidence That Types Affect Productivity and Correctness

38

9

Getting Funded, Step 4: Due Diligence

26

10

6 links that will show you what Google knows about you

19

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Do you still limit line length in code?

3

2

Cascaded string split, pythonic way – Stack Overflow

1

3

How can I locally cancel all the changes made in a commit?

1

4

Why can't the Yesod session cookie be hijacked?

1

5

Why does my implementation of SVG arc conversion not pass QuickCheck?

1

Substack [?]