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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mystery signal from a helicopter

1062

2

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

1002

3

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

975

4

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

953

5

You might not need jQuery

938

6

US Media Blacks Out Snowden Interview

847

7

How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

789

8

Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

783

9

688

10

Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP

663

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2014)

278

2

What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

207

3

Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!

145

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014)

117

5

Best IRC channels?

112

6

What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

76

7

What journals and blogs should I be reading to become a data scientist?

70

8

What else besides writing code or managing people?

49

9

Please tell us how you started a project in PHP and are sorry for this.

37

10

Does startups hire above 35 years old employees?

31

Top Show HN

1

Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products

310

2

We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5

281

3

SlaveryStories.org – Memoirs from American Slaves

166

4

Kurikku – Rap Genius for Code

150

5

Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation

125

6

Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project

115

7

Visualize every GitHub push with Awesomebox

86

8

Why sign a NDA when you can just pinky swear instead?

54

9

I Made a Decentralized Web Browser Built Built on BitTorrent Sync

52

10

manpages-tldr – short manpages with examples

41

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100

290

2

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue

275

3

Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce

196

4

Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet

167

5

PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker

160

6

Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All

151

7

Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas

143

8

What If You Combined Co-Working And Daycare?

125

9

Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft disclose data about NSA requests

117

10

Patent troll CEO explains why company wants names of EFF donors

114

News [?]

1

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize

975

2

Confessions of an ex-TSA agent

783

3

Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division

446

4

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him

409

5

Scenes from a militarized America

326

6

We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer

246

7

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

217

8

Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush With Other "Candy" Games

209

9

Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit

171

10

Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO

152

Scientific publications [?]

1

Who's Writing Linux?

94

2

Why App Store is Fool's Gold for Most Developers

3

3

Language key to learning math

3

4

Everything I need to know about genomics, I learned from Yogi Berra

2

5

Bitcoin Investors Urge Restraint at Regulatory Hearing

2

6

Researchers create embryonic stem cells without embryo

2

7

Physicists create synthetic monopole

2

8

What's behind a No. 1 ranking?

2

9

More ties than we thought

2

10

Is ergodicity a reasonable hypothesis?

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals

144

2

CTF3 architecture

74

3

Stripe adds multiple subscriptions

59

4

Killing RC4 (softly)

44

5

Trying to Value Online Privacy

8

6

New Clues in the Target Breach

6

7

New Clues in the Target Breach

6

8

Functional Vectors, Maps, and Sets in Julia Programming Language

5

9

Felix Klock II on Rust: Concurrency, GCs, Type System

4

10

Stories from Our Recent Global Data Center Upgrade

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

ASUS Chromebox: Fanless Haswell in a NUC-like Form Factor, Starting at $179

12

2

IWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking

7

3

Congress, Don't Let Us Down: Oppose the Bill to “Fast Track” TPP

7

4

Making the Mobile Web Safer with HTTPS Everywhere

5

5

Pete Seeger and the NSA

3

6

Ball Bearing Motor Rolls for Reasons Unknown

3

7

Army Ignores FOIA Request for Sgt. Star AI

3

8

App hits top of App Store after Shark Tank appearance

2

9

Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for $30 (2013)

2

10

It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

953

2

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

126

3

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO

90

4

Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO

3

5

Apple: "Don't send us your ideas"

2

6

Review: The Story About Ping

2

7

2

8

2

9

1

10

AWS Route 53 adds health checks

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Judge Understands BitTorrent, Kills Mass Piracy Lawsuits

4

2

BitTorrent Sync Used to Create Decentralized Web Browser

3

3

Antivirus Software Starts Blocking Pirate Websites

3

4

Go channels on steroids

3

5

Judge understands bitTorrent, kills mass piracy lawsuits

3

6

UK Government Plans to “Ensure” That Google Hinders Online Piracy

2

7

Two Bears, Revisited

2

8

Summary update to Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by recruiters?

2

9

Oilpan, Tracing Garbage Collection for Blink

2

10

Chrome on Android Exploit Writeup From Mobile Pwn2Own Autumn 2013

2

Science News [?]

1

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

114

2

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

106

3

Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field

78

4

Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining

5

5

India to build world's largest solar plant

5

6

When Big Data Marketing Becomes Stalking

4

7

How to get ants to solve a chess problem

3

8

4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Uncovered in Egypt

3

9

Acid bath offers easy path to stem cells

3

10

First monkeys with customized mutations born

2

Social [?]

1

/u/161719 tells us all why surveillance is not OK

392

2

Introducing Paper

287

3

Facebook's new optical storage solution [video]

101

4

Facebook's Lookback

75

5

Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

67

6

How Google Backs Up the Internet [video]

53

7

Mobile-First Is Old News. Think Platform-First

21

8

Web Host Cancels Account Because Of Tweet Asking About Downtime

17

9

N_is_stolen: It seems that Twitter simply ignored my claim

12

10

Students build auto-tracking Nerf turret with Arduino and Kinect

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bootstrap 3.1 released

251

2

You will probably need jQuery

207

3

Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever

193

4

Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV

118

5

Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly

107

6

Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book

104

7

GitHub Security Bug Bounty

100

8

Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2

89

9

Announcing Guides

82

10

Objective-Smalltalk

62

Wikipedia [?]

1

148

2

105

3

60

4

Letters of Last Resort

57

5

Parkinson's Law of Triviality

45

6

Quantum vacuum plasma thruster

38

7

Far side of the Moon

9

8

North American video game crash of 1983

8

9

7

10

Wikipedia:There is a deadline

6

Blogs [?]

1

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

1002

2

Demystifying Secret

11

3

How I Discovered My Growth Opportunity at Balanced

9

4

Sorry, Guy: I Won’t Come Work For Buzzfeed

7

5

Evidence Emerges That Google’s Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

7

6

Quitting everything to go to Nepal was the best thing I’ve done.

7

7

In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there still be love for .COM?

7

8

Who invested in 2013 in Philippine Startups

6

9

Good Tech Lead, Bad Tech Lead; A brief guide to tech leadership at Foursquare

6

10

How the web makes a real life Breaking Bad possible--and legal.

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest Programming Language Feature?

67

2

Dog's Device (Python grammar edge-case)

3

3

What's the most bizarre result you ever encountered in randomised data?

3

4

Algorithm to rotate an array in linear time

2

5

Why would one use the Publish/Subscribe pattern (in JS/jQuery)?

2

6

What are move semantics?

1

7

PhoneGap is the Internet Explorer of native

1

8

Why does Google Analytics use __utm.gif?

1

9

How to destructure jQuery spaghetti code to proper UI

1

10

How can I determine the JavaScript Engine from .js code?

1

Substack [?]