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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
1193
2
Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
988
3
Moon
659
4
3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
519
5
Losing graciously
513
6
Flappy Space Program
474
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A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
440
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Elasticsearch 1.0.0 released
439
9
Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen
423
10
The Book of Graham
421
Top Ask HN
1
What'd you do to get your first 100 users?
195
2
What are some alternatives to HN?
185
3
Where I can post my startup to get beta users?
125
4
Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far?
53
5
What is your development setup?
37
6
How do you sell in a new programming language?
33
7
Open source an abandoned Mac app for mockups?
28
8
Where do you register your domains?
28
9
Do you have any code currently in production that you're ashamed of?
28
10
Should I attend college?
20
Top Show HN
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I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
303
2
A simple IP address API
229
3
Siri-as-a-Service Speech API
220
4
Wagtail, our new Django CMS
150
5
An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning
135
6
Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized
101
7
Fiddlewax
82
8
It's Popcorn Time - Stream movies using node-webkit and backbone
78
9
Pumpkin – An open-source HN clone
75
10
Writebin, an inline markdown editor
64
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Was Y Combinator Worth It?
130
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Crazy ants take on fire ants and win
110
3
Instapainting Turns Your Photos Into Hand-Painted Oil Paintings On The Cheap
99
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New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena
81
5
Abacus (YC W14) Wants to Make Expense Reports Obsolete
57
6
Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source
55
7
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions
54
8
Google, Apple rejecting flappy-branded games
52
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TrueVault (YC W14) Brings Easy HIPAA Compliance to Startups and Health Apps
52
10
Valve DNS privacy flap exposes the murky world of cheat prevention
50
News [?]
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Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion
320
2
Ron Paul Launches Snowden Clemency Petition
291
3
The Man Who Built Catan
199
4
Obama Sued by Rand Paul Over Phone Surveillance Program
149
5
How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com
139
6
Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly
131
7
When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees
116
8
China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon
93
9
Is the Universe a Simulation?
82
10
Polish clinics: Another kind of health tourism (2013)
77
Scientific publications [?]
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Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data
5
2
One in four Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun
4
3
Sun Primer: Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths
3
4
“Goldberg polyhedra” – a 4th class of convex equilateral polyhedra
3
5
Self-organizing robots: Robotic construction crew needs no foreman (w/ video)
2
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Darpa Robotics Challenge Trials: What We Learned on Day 1
2
7
National Ignition Facility Achieves Record Energies
2
8
China Moon Rover Survives Lunar Night, 'Stands a Chance' of Recovery
2
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Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar System's Edge a 'Cosmic Roadmap'
1
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Sphere satellites fly aboard the ISS
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack
200
2
The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
123
3
The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
83
4
Man Confronts CEO of MT. Gox In Tokyo
75
5
"Strong" stack protection for GCC
64
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Mozilla will put ads directly into Firefox
30
7
Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1
5
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The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
4
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CoinTerra to Release GSX I Water-Cooled PCIe Bitcoin Mining Card
4
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Why Mt. Gox May Be Headed for Bankruptcy
4
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple SVP of Design Jony Ive Removed from Leadership Webpage
16
2
Alleged iPhone 6 Prototype Depicted in New Images
6
3
ITunes Connect updated
3
4
Apple Reportedly Launching Two New iPhones with Larger Displays In September
3
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The History of Surveillance and the Black Community
2
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Mac + iOS Outsells Windows
2
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Obama Pushes "Fast Track" Bill of Non-Public Treaty (TPP) Despite Opposition
2
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IPhone6 first shots leak
1
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IOS 8 'Healthbook' App Depicted in New Mockups
1
10
Apple describes disposable email solution to combat spam in patent application
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Announcing the next generation of Amazon EC2 High I/O instance
21
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Jony Ive has been Removed from Apple's Leadership Page
14
3
Apple – Thirty Years of Mac
2
4
AWS Summit 2014 Registration Open
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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QUIC – Next-generation multiplex transport over UDP
58
2
Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules
6
3
Microsoft v Microsoft
6
4
Hyperlinking is not copy right infringement, EU court rules
5
5
Rethinking Education
4
6
QUIC: next generation multiplexed transport over UDP
3
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US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other “Notorious” Sites
1
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Android App Store Survey
1
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Pirate Bay Case Goes to Supreme Court Again
1
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Support Academic Freedom at MIT
1
Science News [?]
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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
250
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P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume
170
3
After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes
75
4
Acid-bath stem-cell study under investigation
42
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Stellar archaeologist: We excavated the purest star
23
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First animals may have lived with almost no oxygen
21
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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes
15
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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check
4
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Seeds of life can sprout in moon's icy pockets
3
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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities beyond Normal Limits
3
Social [?]
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Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014
105
2
Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC, and trust
93
3
Facebook data scientists: A series of blog posts on love
63
4
Raganwald quits Hacker News
40
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Flight ET702 hijacked – live Twitter feed
36
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Redditor tears apart the current JavaScript thick-client landscape
16
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“MtGox's plan is simple and genius”
15
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Dear Hiring Manager, Please Don't Shun Me
13
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Valve Anti Cheat Engine reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back
12
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Jeff Lindsay joining DigitalOcean to build a service platform using Flynn.
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format
186
2
The world's smallest and fastest classical JavaScript inheritance pattern
80
3
Rendered Prose Diffs
74
4
REPL to any browser in the cloud
72
5
iMessage from Terminal
58
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Scala-js v0.3 released
58
7
Mozilla localForage
52
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Spark web server
48
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Naive Parallel Prime Numbers Sieve in Erlang
37
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Create a DDOS attack using NTP servers
36
Wikipedia [?]
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The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light
122
2
Therac-25
78
3
Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site
67
4
Kernel Embedding of Distributions
10
5
Chinese restaurant process
10
6
Zooming user interface
6
7
Free will theorem
4
8
Today is Niklaus Wirth's 80th Birthday
3
9
The Book of Mormon – By Trey Parker and Matt Stone
2
10
Stockbridge damper
2
Blogs [?]
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How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
1193
2
The Star Trek Economy
230
3
The Erlang Shell
117
4
How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help
84
5
San Francisco’s Class War, By the Numbers
10
6
Faking the Shot
9
7
How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help
8
8
We Don't Sell Saddles Here
8
9
San Francisco’s Class War, By the Numbers
7
10
Why I Won't Sign Your NDA
6
Stackoverflow [?]
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How does Facebook disable Developer Tools?
242
2
Why not inherit from List?
86
3
Why is Git better than Subversion?
39
4
Stack Overflow is down
25
5
Stack Overflow is down
13
6
Stack Overflow is down
9
7
How does Facebook disable browser's integrated Developer Tools?
3
8
Help: UIScrollView with sticky footer
2
9
How does Trello access the user’s clipboard?
2
10
JavaScript.next Maps are useless.
2
Substack [?]