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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

879

2

BPG Image format

842

3

Android Studio 1.0

725

4

Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?

698

5

Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”

694

6

Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates

650

7

Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework

598

8

Wire – Modern Communications Network

498

9

The Fatal Pinch

480

10

Introducing .NET Core

458

Top Ask HN

1

How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?

357

2

How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?

345

3

What book changed your life in 2014?

329

4

Examples of profitable little free web tools?

223

5

What do you need that you'd pay a lot for?

55

6

If you open source some code, are you responsible for maintaining it?

47

7

How's working in the Silicon Valley today?

37

8

Django, Rails or Node.js for a SaaS web application?

25

9

Who is making the most awesome dumb phones?

18

10

My company is about to get acquired, how do I best manage this money?

18

Top Show HN

1

Front-end framework optimized for internal apps

438

2

229

3

Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming

181

4

164

5

Rant, a procedural text generation language

155

6

Collapse HN Comments

141

7

SWAPI – A Star Wars API

79

8

Gantt chart component for AngularJS

77

9

My wife's email was hacked, I created an app to protect online accounts

56

10

Caine – A GitHub bot

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps

340

2

Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

320

3

Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years

273

4

Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program

265

5

Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

237

6

America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane

228

7

Google can now tell you are not a robot with just one click!

132

8

Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades

128

9

Antivirus Companies Shouldn’t Have Hidden What They Knew About Regin

123

10

Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat

115

News [?]

1

Uber banned from operating in Indian capital after rape accusation

358

2

We Can't Trust Uber

318

3

Steve Wozniak remembers the early days [video]

267

4

Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

259

5

Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society

259

6

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down in Pacific After Test Flight

223

7

209

8

Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs

189

9

California drought most severe in 1,200 years, study says

164

10

Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry

159

Scientific publications [?]

1

Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled

183

2

Orion Flight Test Live Launch

175

3

Orion flight test rescheduled for tomorrow

169

4

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter

100

5

OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (2013)

74

6

Korean Competition Shows Weather Still a Challenge for Autonomous Cars

61

7

Further Explorations of Absent Self-Insight Among the Incompetent

39

8

Fujitsu Forges Li-Fi-like QR Code Replacement

13

9

SpaceX Will Try to Land Rocket on Floating Platform Next Week

11

10

Deep Learning and Renormalization Group Thery

10

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm

95

2

Scaling email transparency

90

3

Investing 300 btc in each Bitcoin startup

31

4

Can Bitcoin's Price Ever Be Stable?

30

5

Inter-thread communications in Java at the speed of light (2013)

29

6

Treasury Dept: Tor a Big Source of Bank Fraud

8

7

The Future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

7

8

NSA Hacking of Cell Phone Networks

6

9

Corporations Misusing Our Data

5

10

Ericsson Interops OpenWebRTC with Firefox

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Troll-Proofed Defensive Patent License Launches with 23 Patents

150

2

Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman's Case Against NSA Spying

76

3

Chaos Computer Club and Hackaday Blocked by British Filters

8

4

Google Chromecast Leapfrogs Apple TV

5

5

Pyrawebs: Paraguayans Rise Up Against Mandatory Data Retention

4

6

Rumour Has It That Apple's Planning New 4-Inch iPhone for 2015

4

7

Apple Stores recruiting fashion/luxury experts ahead of Apple Watch debut

2

8

Running Debian on a Graphing Calculator

1

9

Losing Two-Factor Recovery Key Could Permanently Lock Apple ID

1

10

Last plaintiff in iTunes lawsuit disqualified, lawyers search for replacement

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

50

2

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

7

3

Apple Retail Store – Hour of Code Workshop

6

4

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

6

5

Amazon Kinesis Update – New High-Throughput API

4

6

Amazon RDS for Aurora (Preview)

3

7

AWS OpsWorks On-Premises support

2

8

Amoeba Management

2

9

CompuLab 4K Display Emulator

1

10

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline

375

2

Our quantum problem

82

3

The golden quarter

67

4

Is Preventive Medicine Its Own Health Risk?

49

5

Before the Garden Gnome, the Ornamental Hermit

27

6

Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Goes Offline

10

7

Why the traditional wedding isn't as traditional as it seems

6

8

The Pirate Bay Goes Down Worldwide

5

9

ISPs Must Take Responsibility for Sony Movie Leaks

5

10

Gustave Eiffel's secret apartment atop the Eiffel Tower

5

Science News [?]

1

Single-shot compressed photography at one hundred billion frames per second

115

2

Chiral Key Found to Origin of Life

84

3

Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices

56

4

Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos

53

5

Homo erectus made world's oldest doodle 500,000 years ago

48

6

Quest for Quantum Computers Heats Up

48

7

Khoisan have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human history

45

8

Questioning the Longstanding Plan to Merge the Dead Sea and the Red Sea

27

9

First life: The search for the first replicator (2011)

22

10

Genomic Loopholes and Other Weapons (2013)

20

Social [?]

1

World's Simplest Electric Train [video]

359

2

Donald Knuth's 20th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture: (3/2)-ary Trees [video]

131

3

Bill Gates: Best book I read in 2014 [video]

73

4

Crazy Pool Vortex [video]

62

5

High Speed Robot Hand Dexterity [video]

61

6

Rick Reed – WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users [video]

60

7

Geoff Hinton AMA – Deep Learning's Biological Inspiration

55

8

He sold potato peelers for $5 each and became a millionaire

20

9

Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer (1974) [video]

19

10

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

272

2

The reason people burn out on open source

243

3

Golang on GitHub

220

4

Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptcha system

216

5

Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes

216

6

Firefox for iOS on GitHub

206

7

Github may block content if they receive a valid request from Roskomnadzor

187

8

System.Linq.Parallel Is Now Open Source

146

9

LambdaLite: A functional, relational Lisp database in 250 lines of Common Lisp

126

10

Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing

111

Wikipedia [?]

1

6

2

5

3

Coastline Paradox

4

4

4

5

Advantages of CRT Monitors

4

6

An AI from 1985 that played Rogue better than humans

3

7

Kanzi, the bonobo who understands English

3

8

And yet it moves

2

9

World's most powerful weapon: Mobile launched nuclear missile, top speed Mach 21

2

10

Multiple Buffering

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Fatal Pinch

480

2

Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive

223

3

A quick tutorial on implementing C memory management functions

202

4

Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions

185

5

A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup

171

6

Confessions of a mortician

127

7

Uber vs. Lyft: From The Driver’s Seat

116

8

Hunting Task Wabbits

105

9

Go and Swift take another step up the programming language ladder

70

10

53

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the most minimal functional programming language

5

2

What is the intuition behind the Fibonacci heap data structure?

4

3

How Do You Run Elixir Interactive Shell from Emacs?

4

4

Amazon's Build and Release System

3

5

Absolute beginner's guide to bit shifting

2

6

Exploitable PHP functions

1

7

Why does Java's hashCode() in String use 31 as a multiplier?

1

8

Mysql fulltext index search returning weird result

1

9

Difference Between Framework vs. Library vs. IDE vs. API vs. SDK vs. Toolkits?

1

10

PostgreSQL – Update JSON

1

Substack [?]