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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1386

2

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

1067

3

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

788

4

GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

662

5

Depixelizing Pixel Art

619

6

A birthday present from Broadcom

598

7

Iconic – An Icon System Designed for the Modern Web

562

8

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping

497

9

472

10

469

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (March 2014)

279

2

Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?

204

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)

106

4

What is really wrong with the US economy, really?

73

5

Is $100k for 50% just a terrible idea?

46

6

Are there any HN readers on Crimea and can tell us what's going on?

39

7

Kicked out by co-founders – what are my options?

36

8

Is HN the best place to be listing job posts?

27

9

Questions for Freelancers/Contractors?

25

10

What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

20

Top Show HN

1

Coderust – Prepare for Programming Interviews

67

2

Fireform – Hook your website form into a hosted private back end

63

3

Pagesnap – Take monthly screenshots of any webpage automatically

54

4

Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome

51

5

MealSquares, our whole food Soylent alternative

51

6

API for Sales Research

44

7

Custom Nginx Indexer

44

8

C# Pad – Interactive C# REPL

42

9

Learn Ruby by Example with Challenges

41

10

Awesometalk – Free video calling without the hassle

38

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping

497

2

The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire

346

3

Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner

272

4

A rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

239

5

Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users

214

6

Apple Explains How Secure iMessage Is

190

7

Tesla Announces Ambitious European Expansion Plans

150

8

Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club

148

9

There is no gender gap in tech salaries

144

10

Airpnp: Like Airbnb, but for toilets

114

News [?]

1

GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

1067

2

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

788

3

LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy

258

4

Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley

221

5

The incredible stock-picking ability of SEC employees

194

6

NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says

174

7

Algebraic and calculus concepts may be better way to introduce children to math

149

8

'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84

137

9

What Is the Time Signature of the Ominous Electronic Score of The Terminator?

129

10

The perovskite lightbulb moment for solar power

127

Scientific publications [?]

1

Dismantling Fukushima: The World's Toughest Demolition Project

51

2

Food Crises and Political Instability in N. Africa and Middle East (2011) [pdf]

17

3

NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

8

4

Near-IR Direct Detection of Water Vapor in Tau Boo b

3

5

Coding 35GB of Data in 35 Pages of Numbers

2

6

NwAvGuy: The Audio Genius Who Vanished

2

7

Mars Meteorite with Tunnels & Spheres Revives Debate Over Ancient Martian Life

2

8

Are plants more intelligent than we assumed?

2

9

Water Vapour found in Jupiter sized exoplanet

2

10

Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cells Exceed Targets Set for 2017

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?

86

2

Tinkercoin Will Sell You $20 in Bitcoin, But Only Once

77

3

Designing Tools

73

4

Mozilla Security Blog: Update on Plugin Activation

4

5

The future of NPAPI plugins in Firefox

3

6

Yes – be repetitively affirmative

3

7

CloudFlare Publishes Transparency Report for 2013

3

8

Introducing lua-capnproto: better serialization in Lua

3

9

Apple Design guidelines

3

10

Choosing Secure Passwords

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Raspberry Pi GPU Goes Open Source $10,000 Bounty For Quake 3

5

2

Hacking Dell laptop charger identification (1-Wire protocol)

4

3

Guest Post: Try Radar for Your Next Project

2

4

Hacking dell laptop charger identification

2

5

How to Protect Your Users from NSA Backdoors

2

6

What Information is "Personally Identifiable"? (2009)

2

7

Lawrence Lessig Settles Fair Use Lawsuit Over Phoenix Music Snippets

2

8

Bitcoin-Stealing OS X Trojan Now Masquerading as 'Angry Birds' and Other Apps

2

9

Apple’s CarPlay in new Mercedes C-Class (Gallery)

2

10

Time to lower your cell phone bill.

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

472

2

Satya Nadella announces changes to senior leadership team

7

3

Apple Rolls Out CarPlay

2

4

1

5

Thoughts on Flash (2010)

1

6

1

7

Thoughts on Flash - Apple (2010)

1

8

The Science of Word Recognition

1

9

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy An

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple.com (2004)

33

2

Lawrence Lessig wins damages for bogus YouTube takedown

8

3

Bitcoin Donations Now Integrated into BitTorrent Client

7

4

Netflix is not a friend of net neutrality

5

5

VPN Users ‘Pirating’ Netflix Scare TV Networks

5

6

Fact closes more usenet and torrent sites

2

7

Mt. Gox's Homepage in 2011

2

8

The Cost of Bitcoin

2

9

What four months on mars taught me about boredom

2

10

If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness

2

Science News [?]

1

Female Computer Scientists Make the Same Salary as Their Male Counterparts

91

2

Brain zap rouses people from years of vegetative state

49

3

TB strains in Russia becoming both more resistant to drugs and faster evolving

3

4

Music-making card turns objects into wacky instruments

2

5

How to protect yourself when GCHQ goes for your webcam

2

6

Checking the Claim: This Device Would Allow Dogs to Talk Like Humans

2

7

Autonomous drones flock like birds.

2

8

Win a Nobel prize (2000)

2

9

Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable | Science | Smithsonian

2

10

TV signal powered gesture detection on all devices

2

Social [?]

1

Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites

394

2

Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

182

3

Ellen DeGeneres and the Oscars take down Twitter

27

4

Russian troops entering Crimea, Ukraine

14

5

From a Googler: the Google interview process

13

6

Gnutls goto fail

10

7

MtGox files for Bankruptcy Protection

9

8

Obama Bubble Sort. Wait, what does he say at 1:01?

6

9

Steve Wozniak Switches To MapQuest

6

10

Meet Censored Reddit, anti-NSA story suppression (the latest episode)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

662

2

Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger

247

3

Nothing to Hide – Game inspired by government surveillance

224

4

Fig – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker

140

5

500 days – the longest streak on GitHub?

119

6

Download Atom editor without an invite

74

7

Response to Nodejitsu NPM Trademark

63

8

A dependency-free Node.js Tracer

50

9

Bossman: tmux-backed shell for your OS X menu bar

41

10

HTMLy: Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog)

35

Wikipedia [?]

1

259

2

Secretary Problem

84

3

Wallpaper group

57

4

PGP Word List for conveying data bytes unambiguously via voice

4

5

The Glider (from Conway's Game of Life)

2

6

Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

2

7

Moravec's paradox

2

8

Reality–virtuality continuum

2

9

Information-theoretic Death

2

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to Stop Giving a Fuck What People Think

23

2

The cronjob that generates $4 million a year

14

3

An attack on publisher freedom and the power abuse/misuse by npm Inc.

11

4

I’m a coder running for Congress, and I need your help

9

5

How to Run Live User Testing, Part 2: Test Day

8

6

"How-do-you-feel dinners" for startups

7

7

The cronjob that generates $4 million a year

6

8

Does your idea suck? Test user acquisition in 5 days for $37

5

9

Why Auroracoin will be huge

5

10

What My Brush With Fame Taught Me About Human Behavioural Psychology

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why BO, DO, DTO, DAO just to perform a SELECT on primary ID?

2

2

How Pony (ORM) does its tricks?

2

3

Java generics done the very wrong way

2

4

How to crop a mp3 from x to x+n using ffmpeg?

2

5

How to make favicons into a sprite?

1

6

List of words in letter matrix

1

7

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

1

8

What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon?

1

9

Getting Started with Haskell

1

10

Why are C++ int and long types both 4 bytes?

1

Substack [?]