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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

1054

2

838

3

772

4

Sam Altman for President

735

5

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

666

6

578

7

Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

557

8

MtGox.com is offline

552

9

One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen

508

10

467

Top Ask HN

1

Why isn't Erlang more popular?

181

2

How to create an anonymous site?

78

3

Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps?

77

4

What can I ask potential employers?

60

5

Should I quit my job if I am not learning?

32

6

do you use App.net?

29

7

Please share your YC applications

23

8

Do you have startup ideas to share?

20

9

My industry's becoming commoditised and I'm scared

19

10

What keeps you off of Postgres?

14

Top Show HN

1

We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

258

2

Add forms to your static site – no iFrames required

214

3

Google Music for Mac

180

4

I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner

122

5

My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts

118

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115

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Check if your browser is vulnerable to the Apple SSL bug

108

8

ThreesJS – iOS game Threes for the browser

74

9

Gargl – Create an API for any website, without writing a line of code

68

10

Simple translation by email

55

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

1054

2

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately

257

3

Women Outnumber Men For The First Time In Berkeley’s Intro To Computer Science

218

4

Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

215

5

Servo: Inside Mozilla's mission to reinvent the web browser

190

6

Paul Graham Shares Lessons Learned From 630+ YC Startups

142

7

Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem (2012)

110

8

Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

106

9

Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states

105

10

Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

104

News [?]

1

A Star in a Bottle

260

2

Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

249

3

This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses

229

4

America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)

222

5

It's time to break up the NSA

215

6

Comcast’s deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete

200

7

Go Ahead, Let Your Kids Fail

184

8

Harold Ramis dies aged 69

156

9

How to Get a Job at Google

149

10

Exxon CEO sues against fracking in his own backyard

133

Scientific publications [?]

1

A probabilistic model of prime numbers based on network theory

74

2

Can Quiet, Efficient 'Space Elevators' Really Work?

63

3

Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon

37

4

Scientists demonstrate first contagious airborne WiFi virus

4

5

5G Service On Your 4G Phone?

2

6

D-Wave's Quantum Computing Claim Disputed Again

2

7

How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine?

2

8

Dogecoin miner barred from Harvard research computing facility access

2

9

Fractal wire patterns enhance stretchability of electronic devices

1

10

Computer generated math proof is too large for humans to check

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bitcoin Prices Down As Mt. Gox Concerns Escalate

71

2

Vulnerable NTP Servers Closing Down

32

3

Breaking Up the NSA

9

4

CYCLONE Hx9: NSA Exploit of the Day

6

5

Hazelcast Introduces MapReduce API

4

6

Enabling Java in Latency Sensitive Environments

4

7

Schneier on the NSA

2

8

Google Cloud SQL now generally available

2

9

Bitcoin Price Resilient as Antonopoulos, Andreessen Weigh in on Mt. Gox Debacle

2

10

What the ‘Bitcoin Bug’ Means: A Guide to Transaction Malleability

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix

298

2

Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout

107

3

Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California

106

4

Apple Acquires Burstly, which owns Testflight (iOS beta testing platform)

6

5

American Sues Ethiopian Government for Spyware Infection

4

6

Mac users four times more likely to run latest OS than Windows users

3

7

The Wrong Tool For the Job: Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Creates New Problems

3

8

Elon Musk says any acquisition of Tesla - very unlikely

3

9

Peering into the Soft Underbelly of Net Neutrality

3

10

Three Months Later, Egyptian Blogger Remains Imprisoned

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Garage – startup within Microsoft

5

2

2

3

Elastic Load Balancing – Perfect Forward Secrecy and more new security features

2

4

Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh

2

5

Free Book- Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective on War

1

6

Elastic Load Balancing – Perfect Forward Secrecy and more new security features

1

7

GOF Design Patterns: #1 Pattern Recognition Book on Amazon?

1

8

Amazon.com: Ship Internationally

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics

72

2

AngularJS change detection – draft

65

3

Recovered Mt. Gox Financials

49

4

Google Downranks The Pirate Bay in Search Results

3

5

UTorrent Speeds up Downloads and Counter DDoS Attacks

2

6

2

7

RapidShare Stops Washington Lobbying Efforts and Regains Pirate Stamp

2

8

Messaging: Mobile’s Killer App

2

9

Angular Best Practice for App Structure

2

10

Starlog Magazine: Free Texts

1

Science News [?]

1

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

90

2

How Long Does Mass Extinction Take?

74

3

Incoming ‘Moby Dick' asteroid goes missing near Earth

38

4

Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

33

5

For 40 years, this Russian family was cut of from all human contact

29

6

Quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' in brain supports theory of consciousness

22

7

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers

7

8

Fukushima's Radioactive Ocean Water Arrives At West Coast

4

9

Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

3

10

What is Garry Kasparov's Next Move?

2

Social [?]

1

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich

369

2

“Facebook turned me down” (2009)

360

3

Mt.Gox's tweets are all gone

149

4

PG at Launch [video]

98

5

"We are getting 100 new registrations every second."

83

6

A fish that can steer its tank around the room

61

7

Sad News: Jim Weirich (author of Rake and Builder) passed away

27

8

We've agreed to acquire WhatsApp

18

9

Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

16

10

Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

838

2

Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit

370

3

Radiation-hardened quine

215

4

ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners

204

5

ClearSkies – open-source file syncing without cloud

177

6

`three = 1` in the linux sourcecode

176

7

Q – Execute SQL on text. Supports joins across files, RPM available

114

8

A recreation of the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Python

110

9

Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

65

10

PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library)

62

Wikipedia [?]

1

German tank problem

217

2

36

3

Wikipedia: Are you evil?

24

4

Ski rental problem

11

5

5

6

France's Minitel

4

7

3

8

SF and predicting the atomic bomb

2

9

Fast inverse square root

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

What the bubble got right (2004)

47

2

Why I wrote my own UIKit and the end of the platform wars

18

3

It’s Time to Dump Photoshop and Embrace Sketch

11

4

The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact

9

5

The man who destroyed America‘s ego

9

6

Why PHP doesn't suck

8

7

Why I Left Facebook

8

8

The origins of the use of [x] in UI design

6

9

Startups Interviews Turn Hackers Off

6

10

Startups Interviews Turn Hackers Off

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

245

2

The branch prediction pitfall

3

3

Modeling a hierarchy of related things (in Go)

2

4

What is the name of this operator: “-->”?

2

5

Is Quicksort in-place or not?

2

6

Why does dividing by zero in JavaScript result in Infinity?

1

7

C++ – What is the name of this operator: "-->"?

1

8

C# Antipatterns

1

9

How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?

1

10

Stackoverflow: Why is printing "B" slower than printing "#"?

1

Substack [?]