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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Today is The Day We Fight Back

1958

2

Facebook Fraud [video]

1583

3

How I hacked Github again

861

4

Girls and Software

765

5

Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help

678

6

Curse Of The Gifted (2000)

606

7

Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web

556

8

Why I Did Not Go To Jail

546

9

Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?

532

10

Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty

469

Top Ask HN

1

What is REST exactly?

59

2

What are pressing issues that will affect humanity this decade?

56

3

What are the best sources of news for iOS app dev?

49

4

How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

43

5

What should I learn to stay relevant in the next 5 – 10 years?

43

6

Founder's tactics crossing the line?

42

7

Decode Youtube 500 page

42

8

Have your parents done anything to make you interested in Science or IT?

26

9

Gay bashing at bayarea tech company—What do?

25

10

What are the best sources for inspiration for website designs?

21

Top Show HN

1

thedaywefightback.js

442

2

JS library to make your website instant

393

3

I built this game alone – design, code, music, sound, marketing

198

4

187

5

Hacker News with categories and popularity

136

6

Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks

125

7

I made an app that listens for a rapper's songs and raps along in sync

105

8

Abacus – Killing The Expense Report

103

9

A developers-only news site you join via pull request

86

10

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web

556

2

Sony sells its waterproof mp3 player inside a bottle of water

311

3

FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List

236

4

Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.

165

5

GoPro Files For IPO

160

6

Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months

157

7

Russia Bans Bitcoin

125

8

French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+

114

9

Mozilla launches $300,000 Gigabit Community Fund

94

10

Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack

83

News [?]

1

That “distressed baby" Tim Armstrong blamed for benefit cuts? She’s my daughter

266

2

War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show

161

3

High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating

137

4

Google Passes Exxon to Become Second-Most Valuable U.S. Company

129

5

Eureka: First Life In The Universe

128

6

Google to own $750 million Lenovo stake after Motorola deal closes: HK exchange

118

7

Turkey pushes through new raft of 'draconian' Internet restrictions

97

8

New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours

96

9

Twitter reports $645m loss for 2013

95

10

Huge chimpanzee population thriving in remote Congo forest

91

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA, Saylor Foundation to Offer New Free Space Systems Engineering Course

26

2

Planck Stars: new type of star emerges from black holes

8

3

Mathematicians calculate that there are 177,147 ways to knot a tie

4

4

First Single-Molecule LED

4

5

Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC

4

6

CERN eyes new giant particle collider

2

7

A [...] method for automated topic classification

2

8

Deriving natural city borders from geosocial data

2

9

NASA and French Space Agency Sign Agreement for Mars Mission

2

10

Amputee Successfully Feels Prosthetic Grip Strength Via Arm Electrodes

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’

274

2

135 new currencies at Stripe

274

3

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts

159

4

Target Hackers Broke in via HVAC Company

144

5

Mt. Gox Halts Bitcoin Withdrawals, Price Drop Follows

125

6

CoinDesk Removes Mt. Gox from Bitcoin Price Index

123

7

1971 Social Engineering Attack

103

8

A Better Firefox Sync

81

9

Netflix Architect on High Availability and Lessons Learned in the Cloud

80

10

"The Mask" Espionage Malware

73

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers

239

2

Sony’s 2001 offer from Steve Jobs to run Mac OS on Vaio laptops

67

3

International Community Unites to Protest Big Brother

24

4

Flappy Bird Removed

9

5

Apple creates Sapphire Crystal furnaces to make 100-200M ~5-inch iPhone displays

3

6

Bitcoin-Stealing Mac OS X Trojan Discovered

3

7

The Pixel Density Race and its Technical Merits

3

8

Tim Cook: Apple 'Spending an Enormous Amount' on 'Macs of the Future'

2

9

'Flappy Bird' Creator Promises to Remove Game From App Store Tomorrow

2

10

The Day We Fight Back banner is live

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Books to Read in a Lifetime

65

2

The most expensive e-book

12

3

Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

2

4

Thirty Years of Mac – “1.24.14” Film

1

5

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

1

6

BetterCMS is on the Microsoft Web Gallery

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Microsoft’s Mobile Muddle

7

2

Because Of DRM, The Entire Copyright Monopoly Legislation Is A Lie

3

3

Bill Gates’ Steve Jobs Moment

2

4

Academics Launch Site to Share Papers and Datasets

2

5

You Might Not Need jQuery

2

6

A Note From The Programmers (1988, Double Dragon, C64)

1

7

Is your Manager approachable?

1

8

List of Bugs JQuery Fixes

1

9

Help us validate our idea, 5 question survey, Ann Arbor Startup Weekend. Thanks

1

10

Is it wrong to teach children about God?

1

Science News [?]

1

Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected

120

2

Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013)

119

3

Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate

63

4

Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake

54

5

Monkey research suggests a biological explanation for toy preferences (2012)

53

6

SolarCoin cryptocurrency pays you to go green

45

7

We recognize less attractive faces best

11

8

Your memory is no video camera, it edits the past with present experiences

2

9

A high-energy-density sugar biobattery based on a synthetic enzymatic pathway

2

10

Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel

2

Social [?]

1

Facebook Fraud [video]

1583

2

Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

401

3

Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

192

4

Warsaw, August 1947

108

5

How Adobe Got Rid of Traditional Performance Reviews

58

6

The Facebook Fraud, by Veritasium

21

7

Will This Go Faster Than Light?

13

8

11

9

Player Piano Emulating Human Speech

10

10

Dogecoin random block reward NOT actually random and some people are "cheating"

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

203

2

GitHub goes to school

148

3

I've made an open source flappy bird clone

118

4

Diffable, more customizable maps

110

5

Webhooks Level Up

109

6

Hy, a Lisp that compiles to Python

105

7

Cryptocat security audit results

104

8

Sublime Text 2 plugin to show git commit history for selected line(s) of code

101

9

JZed.js – The functional JQuery alternative

93

10

Gitbucket – The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala

87

Wikipedia [?]

1

11

2

Timeline of the Far Future

6

3

5

4

List of multi-paradigm programming languages

5

5

The Finkbeiner test

3

6

False awakening

2

7

List of lists of lists

2

8

Wikipedia: Internal Error (Too many connections)

2

9

Racetrack (paper and pencil game)

2

10

Finger protocol

2

Blogs [?]

1

Microsoft is Dead (2007)

166

2

Why Don't Schools Teach Debugging?

143

3

I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much.

80

4

Washing Machine for Men

15

5

Why the World Will Run Out of Helium

15

6

What U.S. Really Did to Us Iranians.

14

7

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

14

8

What U.S. Really Did To Us Iranian developers.

8

9

The Real Story Behind Why Flappy Bird Was Deleted

7

10

Meet Glimpse, a new dating app built on Instagram

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Libc random number generator flawed?

4

2

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?

3

3

How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?

2

4

Promises do not leak memory.

2

5

Why is f(i = -1, i = -1) undefined behavior?

2

6

Stack Overflow about page

1

7

StackOverflow: 2014 Community Moderator Election

1

8

What type of represantation is default in python to store Unicode strings?

1

9

Why is `f(i = -1, i = -1)` undefined behavior?

1

10

Are java script arrays primitives strings objects?

1

Substack [?]