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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
1079
2
Unicode Text Converter
908
3
God's Lonely Programmer
883
4
Node.js in Flame Graphs
778
5
Youtube-dl
597
6
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
551
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JS1k demo: “Highway at Night”
525
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2 years with Angular
445
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Cache is the new RAM
438
10
New Search Strategy for Firefox
430
Top Ask HN
1
Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
352
2
How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
293
3
Where are all the Rails jobs?
112
4
Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on?
49
5
Non-compete agreement advice?
47
6
Do you have some advice on pricing a product?
32
7
The Tools we used to build a SAAS. 1100/month in 6 wks. Favorite tools?
21
8
Math and science gift ideas for kids?
20
9
Is Perl still useful in 2014?
19
10
Bored at my dev job. Don't know what to do
19
Top Show HN
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QuaggaJS, a barcode scanner written in JavaScript
168
2
C# 6.0 Functional Language Extensions
164
3
TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs
161
4
Prophet – A financial micro-framework in Python
152
5
Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo
134
6
Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only
129
7
Workshape.io – A talent matching service for developers in Startups
119
8
Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats
114
9
Axis - a React.js multiplayer math game
110
10
WebGL Playground
89
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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How Magic Leap Is Creating an Alternate Reality
230
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Harvard researchers build $10 robot to teach kids to code
130
3
Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Center
115
4
EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups
114
5
A New Clue to Solve the CIA's Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture
111
6
RelativeWave Acquired by Google, Giving Its App Design Tool Away for Free
111
7
With Assembly (YC W12), anyone can contribute to open-source and get paid
93
8
Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast
75
9
MongoDB CTO: How our new storage engine will earn its stripes
71
10
Elon Musk Testing ‘X-Wing’ Fins, Seafaring Spaceport Drones for Landing/Take-Off
66
News [?]
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Bill to Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked in Vote by Senate Republicans
233
2
Postal Service almost never denies mail-surveillance requests
203
3
Two new subatomic particles discovered at CERN
176
4
‘Serial,’ Podcasting’s First Breakout Hit, Sets Stage for More
163
5
The Group That Rules the Web
139
6
Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers
137
7
There's a Mysterious Field of Electrical Energy Outside Google London
136
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Electrical brain stimulation beats caffeine and the effect lasts longer
134
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Marijuana helped shrink one of the most aggressive brain cancers
128
10
The Secret Life of Passwords
127
Scientific publications [?]
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Li-Fi Gets Ready to Compete with Wi-Fi
193
2
The Startup That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car
171
3
Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time
87
4
Six-State Memristor Opens Door to Weird Computing
74
5
Two New Subatomic Particles Found Using Large Hadron Collider
68
6
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
59
7
Emotion Detection in Suicide Notes Using Maximum Entropy Classification [pdf]
44
8
PR2 Very Close to Completing Laundry Cycle
36
9
NASA's Cube Quest Challenge, the agency’s first in-space competition
31
10
Turbulent luminance in impassioned van Gogh paintings
16
Dev Blogs [?]
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New Search Strategy for Firefox
430
2
High-DPI displays and Linux
164
3
Intel's Xeon Phi Is Being Sold for a Low Price
124
4
Open-sourcing tools for Hadoop
15
5
New Search Strategy for Firefox: Promoting Choice and Innovation
13
6
The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate
9
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Find It Faster: The New Search Interface in Firefox
9
8
Mozilla Now Accepts Bitcoin
7
9
CPU Flame Graphs
7
10
Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership
5
Tech blogs [?]
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A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance
195
2
EIZO Announces Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution
181
3
EFF Statement on the Senate Failing to Advance the USA Freedom Act
26
4
Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop
8
5
Artisanal Vacuum Tubes
8
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EFF Joins the Call for a NIST We Can Trust
6
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Twitterrific 5 for Mac may become the first casualty in Twitter’s war on devs
4
8
Free 50-minute video tutorial video shows you how to make an Apple Watch app
3
9
A8 Chip in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Playing 4K Video
3
10
Telecoms Fulfilled 90+ Illegitimate Subpoenas from New Mexico
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Cloud Platform System (Azure Cloud in a Box)
5
2
Amazon Unable to Fulfill New Fire TV Stick Orders Until After Christmas
3
3
Amazon Zocalo Update – Mobile Apps + 5 TB Files
2
4
Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala book available for pre-order
2
5
AWS and Sustainable Energy
1
6
STOP NETWORKING! Meeting New People and Building Relationships with Authenticity
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (2012)
224
2
Is reality a computer simulation? Does it matter?
39
3
Why Uber Fights
6
4
News from webperf-landia – Google Slides
4
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If Illegal Sites in UK Get Blocked Accidentally, Hard Luck Says Court
4
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Clay Christensen on Peter Drucker
3
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Why Uber Fights
3
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Differentiation and value capture in the Internet age
3
9
Open sourcing my startup
2
10
Research
2
Science News [?]
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Half of stars lurk outside galaxies
104
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Startup creates VetiGel, a plant based polymer that seals wounds in seconds
102
3
Neuronal “Superhub” Might Generate Consciousness
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How the moon stirs tension between the conscious and subconscious minds
49
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Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B?
46
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How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease
44
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Lavatory Laboratory: How sanitation is following the cell phone model
43
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Ancient Survivors Could Redefine Sex
41
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We bend time to make our world make sense
25
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When Does a Consciousness Test Not Test for Consciousness?
16
Social [?]
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Schlieren Optics – See small changes in the index of refraction in air
131
2
Rich Hickey – Inside Transducers [video]
112
3
Vladimir Vapnik Joins Facebook Research
111
4
"Autonomous spaceport drone ship”
91
5
Things I still can't do in November 2014
80
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The Dancing Traffic Light [video]
48
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History of MOS 6502 [video]
42
8
AWS Innovation at Scale – James Hamilton [video]
31
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Elon Musk and John Carmack Discussing Rocket Design on Twitter
26
10
The Art of Writing Software [video]
19
Github repos and gists [?]
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Git's initial commit
351
2
Interact.js – drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures
203
3
Semantic UI 1.0 released
185
4
PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework
147
5
Response to Netflix's “Node.js in Flames” Blog Post
130
6
101 – A JavaScript utility library
120
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San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite
107
8
Rust Hello World on a PSP
98
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Dateparser: Python parser for human readable dates
89
10
Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB
80
Wikipedia [?]
1
Graham's number
4
2
Boltzmann brain
3
3
The 17 Rules of Unix
3
4
Binary Clock
3
5
List of wheel-well stowaway flights
3
6
List of mergers and acquisitions by Google
3
7
Flettner airplane
2
8
Government Pension Fund of Norway
2
9
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
2
10
SatIP
2
Blogs [?]
1
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
551
2
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
385
3
WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
346
4
How we built Flow
197
5
Charted – A new way to share data
97
6
How Britain Beat Germany’s Magnetic Sea Mines
83
7
Rewriting Cheezburger Saved My Life
38
8
An ‘Interstellar’ Explainer: What Are Bulk Beings?
29
9
Pomplamoose 2014 Tour Profits
25
10
After 24 months, we just made our first hire
21
Stackoverflow [?]
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Angular $http stripping $ prefixed fields from json post body
2
2
GitHub Project Releases Atom Feed: Never Miss a Release Again
2
3
Using Objective-C Classes in Swift
2
4
Why is malloc+memset slower than calloc?
2
5
Proper use cases for Android's UserManager.isUserAGoat
1
Substack [?]