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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
1284
2
Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
1029
3
How You Know
686
4
Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
675
5
Good News You May Have Missed in 2014
656
6
Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML
609
7
Streem – a new programming language from Matz
547
8
Android: I don't need your permission
540
9
Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass
535
10
The Pirate Bay down, forever?
496
Top Ask HN
1
Where to start on creating AI for games?
87
2
Is there any part-time dev jobs listing?
78
3
Where do you get your inspiration from?
66
4
What is the most important lesson you learned this year?
66
5
How much screen time do you let your kids have?
60
6
Why people continue working in video game industry?
54
7
I'm having doubts about LastPass security, what should I switch to?
48
8
Is this common in the gaming industry?
47
9
How to get recruited at a US based startup?
46
10
Why do you code?
44
Top Show HN
1
Iota – a text editor written in Rust
221
2
Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders
196
3
Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
180
4
ssh chat.shazow.net
171
5
Phantom JS interactive editor
120
6
TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps
92
7
Addict – a Python dict whos values can be get and set using attributes
80
8
Buttercoin (YC S13) US Bitcoin Marketplace – Free Trading Through Dec
69
9
Facebook data visualizer
62
10
What's My Chain Cert?
48
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
460
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Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
366
3
The FBI Used the Web’s Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users
182
4
Scientific Peer Review Is Broken – Fighting to Fix It with Anonymity
176
5
Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform
171
6
Why Are Psychedelics Illegal?
112
7
Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel?
96
8
The pilots of Instagram: violating rules of the air
93
9
Clever (YC S12) Gets $30M to Become the Login Layer for Education Apps
93
10
The story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers
86
News [?]
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You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created
352
2
Google to close engineering office in Russia
283
3
The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work – And What They Do Instead
264
4
The most popular web sites every year since 1996
233
5
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use
218
6
McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels
194
7
Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations
186
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NASA’s $349M monument to its drift
176
9
France Says It Will Ban Uber’s Low-Cost Service in New Year
157
10
Inside the Collapse of the New Republic
140
Scientific publications [?]
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Social media fingerprints of unemployment
85
2
Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
71
3
iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba
67
4
A LEGO apparatus to demonstrate the definition of mass based on the new SI
46
5
Quantum Deep Learning
44
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'Fibonacci quasiparticle' could form basis of future quantum computers
30
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Darpa Prepares to Launch “Satlets”
25
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Animals that self-medicate
17
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Egocentric Video Biometrics
11
10
Dutch launch 'intelligent bicycle' that warns of danger
10
Dev Blogs [?]
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Comments on the Sony Hack
302
2
Yahoo and Mozilla Form Strategic Partnership
54
3
Unencrypted Data Lets Thieves ‘Charge Anywhere’
22
4
Cumulative heap profiling in Firefox with DMD
17
5
Libscore
14
6
Microsoft Now Accepts Bitcoin
12
7
Linux beats OS X in performance test with good margin
9
8
Over 700M People Taking Steps to Avoid NSA Surveillance
9
9
Launching CollabMark – An open-source guide to trademarks
6
10
Security Keynote by Bruce Schneier (QCon)
6
Tech blogs [?]
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Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance
233
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Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain
94
3
Some Lawmakers Are Taking Action to Close Security Backdoors
23
4
Pointing Users to DRM-Stripping Software Isn't Copyright Infringement
18
5
Password Sharing Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Ninth Circuit
4
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Apple Reverses Course, Allows Transmit to Reinstate 'Send To' Feature
3
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Experts Call on TPP Negotiators to Release Secret Trade Texts
3
8
ARM Challenging Intel in the Server Market: An Overview
3
9
Using (not your)auth as entry in paypal
2
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Apple Seeds OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 still failing to fix Wifi issue
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps
54
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Apple+IBM release 10 iOS apps
11
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[2000] PG on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
4
4
Earth Science on AWS with New CGIAR and Landsat Public Data Sets
3
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Earth Science on AWS with New CGIAR and Landsat Public Data Sets
2
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iOS Mobile Enterprise Apps by IBM
2
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Apple Canada iPod History (glitched images)
2
8
Trolling is a Art
2
9
Hour of Code
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Donate to the Internet Archive
181
2
Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey
124
3
The Google Way of Attacking Problems
97
4
Summary of Golang Generics Discussion
89
5
How the Victorians Invented the Future
27
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Egyptology can help us future-proof our culture
20
7
A rationalist's guide to psychoactive drugs (2011)
20
8
Poll about an upcoming fast numpy/scipy port to JS
16
9
What Happens to Society When Robots Replace Workers?
12
10
Furious Google Ended MPAA Anti-Piracy Cooperation
10
Science News [?]
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A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours
254
2
A New Physics Theory of Life
161
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Scientists have put a simulated worm’s brain into a Lego robot’s body
90
4
Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull
83
5
The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellites
76
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Adult-onset diabetes, obesity cured in lab mice, scientists report
66
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Biodiversity: Life – a status report
49
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Marvelous, Bad Ideas That Are Worth Billions
21
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Identical Twins' Genes Are Not Identical
17
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Stem cells: The black box of reprogramming
17
Social [?]
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Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
174
2
Millennium Falcon's SFX Demonstrated by Sound Designer Ben Burtt (1980) [video]
163
3
Self-Hosted JS
45
4
How to program computers (kOS)
42
5
Arcade Games: Hacking, Emulation, Preservation
26
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Handmade Hero Day 021 – Loading Game Code Dynamically [video]
20
7
The Hello Machine (1974) [video]
11
8
Google: Introducing Route 85 [Video]
8
9
Power is off at Internet Archive, people are keeping track of any water leaks
7
10
How India's Silicon Valley Became Its Suicide Capital
7
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Streem – a new programming language from Matz
547
2
Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming
205
3
What we wish we'd known before building the Prismatic Android app
171
4
Bolt: A low-level key/value database for Go
155
5
An experimental, automatically generated set of AWS clients in Go
153
6
Stack Exchange for Emacs
143
7
PresidentObama on GitHub
137
8
Emacs Major Mode for Sequence Diagrams
136
9
c4x86 - JIT compiler for x86 in 86 lines
133
10
VRAMfs – VRAM based file system for Linux
105
Wikipedia [?]
1
Iridium satellite constellation
52
2
Margaret Hamilton: Director of the group that developed Apollo 11 flight s/ware
5
3
Polyphasic sleep
4
4
Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA Torture
4
5
P2P Asset Management the Next Thing in FinTech?
3
6
Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome
3
7
Timeline of historic inventions (1964 – Nutella)
3
8
Wallpaper group
2
9
Cesare, the Destroyer Creator
2
10
Duodecimal
2
Blogs [?]
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How You Know
686
2
The drug revolution that no one can stop
230
3
Should Surgeons Keep Score?
191
4
Redesigning SoundCloud
145
5
Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries
118
6
High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed by Sulphur Hydride
118
7
Larry Lessig’s Long Walk
115
8
Things We Believe After Building Maptia
100
9
Smartphone ≠ smart home
86
10
Bitcoin for Rockstars
78
Stackoverflow [?]
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Most viewed SO question ever
3
2
Begin, Rescue and Ensure in Ruby?
3
3
$(document).ready equivalent without using jQuery
3
4
What is the '=' symbol for in Python?
2
5
Remove specific element from an array in JavaScript?
2
6
Use email address as primary key?
2
7
Reserved Keywords in JavaScript
2
8
MSBuild / Visual Studio distributed builds
2
9
Can I comment a JSON file?
2
10
2nd most controversial answer on SO
2
Substack [?]