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Top stories
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“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
883
2
Git client vulnerability announced
818
3
EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
808
4
PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
744
5
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
521
6
Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network
516
7
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
452
8
JMAP – a better way to email
410
9
Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014
391
10
Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
388
Top Ask HN
1
What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?
189
2
How to refresh on modern features of C++?
101
3
If we could redesign the Internet from scratch, what should it be?
90
4
How to break up and delegate programming tasks
80
5
XMPP/Jabber self hosting
65
6
I’m visiting Bay Area and I dislike the “hacker” culture. Please help
61
7
What is the best JavaScript stack for a beginner to learn?
49
8
What is your method for up/down votes?
48
9
What encrypted chat application to choose?
46
10
Companies using MongoDB, suggestions to deploy at scale?
41
Top Show HN
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Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps
215
2
Startup Fighter
117
3
Scrape the web by injecting JavaScript into web pages
109
4
An interactive comparison chart of the 300 most popular smartphones
96
5
Simple monitoring service
95
6
My Personal Hacker News Reader
81
7
Rudolph Runner
61
8
Cluckles, live theme editor for Bootstrap
55
9
My first startup, making premium long distance cyclewear
50
10
A static kd-tree in JavaScript
44
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Hyperloop is making progress
205
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AWS Will Give You Credit for Completing These EdX Courses
130
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Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers
120
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Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney General
113
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An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
109
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The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality
96
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With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch developer war, at least for now
74
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FarmLogs (YC W12) Nabs $10M Series B from SV Angel, Sam Altman and Others
60
9
Airbnb invents a call center that isn't hell to work at
53
10
Disabled dog runs for the first time thanks to 3D-printed legs
49
News [?]
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Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses
521
2
Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses
373
3
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs
328
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Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations
324
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German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls
311
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Amazon Unveils One-Hour Delivery Service
288
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Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats
250
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US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking
200
9
The Tale of Studio Ghibli
186
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Eggs Not Always What They're Cracked Up to Be
182
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration
127
2
Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise
125
3
DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition
78
4
Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code
59
5
An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine has been successfully tested in the UK
54
6
Catnip: its uses and effects, past and present (1990) [pdf]
26
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Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
15
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Evidence that a phase of matter competes with high-temperature superconductivity
12
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Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data
8
10
Halting photons could lead to improved data transmission
8
Dev Blogs [?]
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Snowdrift.coop: Funding for free projects
127
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One-stop performance analysis using atop
34
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Krebs on FBI implication of North Korea in Sony hack
11
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Lessons from the Sony Hack
10
5
Teaching Kids Java Programming
10
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The Limits of Police Subterfuge
9
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Reacting to the Sony Hack
8
8
Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST
5
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Reactive REST at Netflix [video]
5
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Getting Tiles Data from Firefox
4
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
808
2
AnandTech Acquired by Purch
107
3
Google Files Lawsuit Challenging MPAA-Funded State Subpoena
7
4
EFF's Must-Reads and Must-Sees: Books and Movies of 2014
3
5
Notes from the Fight Against Surveillance and Censorship: 2014 in Review
3
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ARM challenging Intel in the server market
2
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EFF 2014 Holiday Wish List
2
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Towards the Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon
2
9
Best High-End Laptops: Holiday 2014
2
10
Trade Agreements Aren't the Place for Internet Regulations
2
FAANG+ [?]
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EC2 Container Service in Action
3
2
Resource Groups and Tagging for AWS
3
3
Resources Groups and Tagging for AWS
3
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I wrote a book to make people read what you write
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Just wrote my first ebook about using Ionic for cross-platform app development
2
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Amazon CloudSearch Adds Dynamic Fields
2
7
Tube Amplifier Includes Gallbladder
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Framed by Forensics
27
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Researchers Make BitTorrent Anonymous and Impossible to Shut Down
24
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The retraction war
21
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Pirate Bay Domain Back Online, Waving a Pirate Flag
13
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Pirate Bay Domain Back Online, Waving a Pirate Flag
10
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BBC: ISPs Should Assume Heavy VPN Users Are Pirates [Sept. 2014]
9
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Hey HackerNews: I'm looking for technical people to Beta test SuperTCP
8
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Loyalty to a leader is overrated, even dangerous
6
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No Island Is an Island in a Cosmopolitan Age
6
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The Open Bay: Now Anyone Can Run a Pirate Bay ‘Copy’
5
Science News [?]
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Scientists use language and logic to translate monkey sounds into English
141
2
A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap
118
3
What to Eat After the Apocalypse
104
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Still no stem cells via easy 'STAP' path
89
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Evidence that the universe is made of strings has been elusive for 30 years
53
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Ancient Roman Water Networks Made the Empire Vulnerable
40
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What Earth Tells Us About Life, Intelligence and the Universe
34
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Parasite test shows where validation studies can go wrong
31
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Think we might eventually travel to other planets? In a way, we already are
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Main characters are more likely to die in children's cartoons
12
Social [?]
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Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux
98
2
Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video]
76
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An Artificial Biological Leaf [video]
49
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A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot (2011) [video]
24
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“This is my favorite "Hello World" how-to of all time”
16
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Major Privacy Bug in Skype – forced answers even if not physically present
15
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Screencast: Learn Swift in 40 Minutes
12
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Scott Meyers – The evolving search for effective C++ [video]
8
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Building a cross platform MMORPG walkthrough
7
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Write in Go (2014)
7
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Git client vulnerability announced
818
2
A tiling window manager written in Rust
324
3
“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
300
4
Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust
208
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Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++
139
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DuetDisplay and Unattributed Open-Source
139
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FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition
132
8
ARMv7 vs. x86-64: Pathfinding benchmark of C++, D, Go, Nim, Ocaml, and more
121
9
Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases
120
10
Node.js stream handbook
113
Wikipedia [?]
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The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management
126
2
Project A119 – Plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
12
3
China brain
4
4
When South Carolina executed a 14-year old
4
5
HTTP ETag
3
6
“Death of a President” (2006 Film)
3
7
Dining cryptographers problem
3
8
AMPRNet: computer networks over amateur radio
2
9
Timeline of the far future
2
10
The first open source musical opera in history
2
Blogs [?]
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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
452
2
The Itch Nobody Can Scratch
291
3
Cat Litter Boxes and DRM
286
4
The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
166
5
Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart
117
6
How We Email Hardware to Space
109
7
How I Got the First Paying Customers for My Startup
106
8
A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace
91
9
Apple, is USB allowed now?
51
10
The Most Pinteresting People in the World
42
Stackoverflow [?]
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Does the LFENCE instruction make any sense in x86 processors?
17
2
JavaScriptCore deeply composed call performance – Stack Overflow
5
3
Is there a good reason to use upper case for SQL keywords?
3
4
Jamoscript
2
5
How to prepare for Angular 2.0 today
1
Substack [?]