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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What should I do about YouTube?

1391

2

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

1227

3

YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

1035

4

Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

946

5

Intel Compute Stick

929

6

Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

894

7

Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

827

8

Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

810

9

What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps

740

10

Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC

735

Top Ask HN

1

What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?

463

2

How do you find freelance/contract gigs?

275

3

Who is hiring? (January 2015)

240

4

Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?

239

5

I got let go this morning. What should I do next?

215

6

What's the best way to write an API spec?

170

7

Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?

151

8

Could you share your general purpose development contracts?

138

9

An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

133

10

Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?

128

Top Show HN

1

Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”

401

2

Snabbt.js – a minimalistic animation library

323

3

Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript

305

4

263

5

App for Falling in Love

252

6

Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research

252

7

LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

243

8

Get your local and public IP addresses in JavaScript

239

9

Pgcli – A CLI for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

227

10

A curated list of remote jobs

218

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

946

2

Obama calls for municipal broadband

520

3

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

434

4

Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in Apple OS X

351

5

How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song

342

6

Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

301

7

Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)

284

8

Stack Exchange Raises $40M Led by A16Z to Boost Its Programmer Forums

268

9

The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal

251

10

Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

239

News [?]

1

Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

474

2

Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought

450

3

Google Glass sales halted

444

4

I Owe It All to Community College

400

5

U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars

393

6

“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

389

7

Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem

367

8

SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1B

339

9

Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love

320

10

Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad

316

Scientific publications [?]

1

Chemists find a way to unboil eggs

164

2

Lifespan depends on month of birth (2000)

116

3

Darpa Unveils Upgraded Atlas Robot, Now Completely Unplugged

105

4

NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)

94

5

A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences (2014) [pdf]

62

6

Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light

58

7

Space Shuttle Mission Archives – Challenger, January 28, 1986

56

8

Computers Conquer Heads-Up Limit Hold'em

53

9

Quantum hard drive breakthrough

52

10

Black holes do not exist where space and time do not exist, says new theory

50

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Deploying Tor Relays

541

2

Working at Netflix

337

3

Improving Linux networking performance

235

4

Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

190

5

The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule

150

6

Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

135

7

Type hinting for Python

122

8

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)

118

9

Practical and robust anomaly detection in time series

107

10

Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers

104

Tech blogs [?]

1

Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

700

2

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

678

3

EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

582

4

How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections

505

5

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

346

6

In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even More Rights

285

7

Ford Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool with Copyright

252

8

Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS

243

9

Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential to Copyright

174

10

British Spy Agency Considers Journalists a Threat, Vacuums Up Their Emails

152

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

262

2

Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go

209

3

Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2

167

4

AWS C4 Instances

50

5

Amazon WorkMail

42

6

Microsoft HoloLens

26

7

8m (26'3“) Audioquest Diamond RJ/E (Ethernet) Cable, $5,494.75

9

8

U.S. jobs created or supported by Apple

9

9

Microsoft Nokia 215 for emerging markets

7

10

New C4 Instances for EC2 Now Available

6

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

One day left to help Internet Archive reach its donation goal

220

2

Chilling Effects removes itself from search engines

189

3

Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan

134

4

A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and failure

97

5

The Invasion of America: New Visualizations of Native American Dispossession

92

6

David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (2005)

90

7

New Science on Building Great Teams

89

8

Notepad ++ hacked for Je Suis Charlie comments(web archive link)

65

9

Summary of Go Generics Discussions

55

10

On Artificial Intelligence

49

Science News [?]

1

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

415

2

Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

182

3

Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof

126

4

To Be More Creative, Cheer Up

122

5

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture

118

6

Discovery: Fish Live Beneath Antarctica

84

7

What is it about the financial sector that encourages bad behavior?

72

8

Chemists Confirm the Existence of New Type of Bond

71

9

A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut

67

10

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home

67

Social [?]

1

569

2

Introducing React Native [video]

542

3

Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps

466

4

Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

329

5

Facebook was down

323

6

Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]

229

7

A Deep Dive on React Native [video]

199

8

Redstone Word Processor in Minecraft [video]

166

9

Reddit transparency report, 2014

158

10

Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL”

137

Github repos and gists [?]

1

µBlock for Firefox

707

2

Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user

603

3

“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”

489

4

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

330

5

List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science

300

6

How GitHub Uses GitHub to Document GitHub

256

7

Relay FAQ: Facebook's Data-fetching Framework for React

239

8

Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package manager

229

9

Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go

221

10

Elasticsearch for Beginners: Indexing Your GMail Inbox

216

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Unsolved Problems in Physics

105

2

84

3

80

4

Gallery of animations that explain math ideas

79

5

The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation

76

6

The Nebra sky disk

57

7

The Magic SysRq key

55

8

Shatranj, the predecessor of modern chess

47

9

Dolgopolsky list

42

10

Curta mechanical calculator

38

Blogs [?]

1

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

1227

2

What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

711

3

Don't Talk to Corp Dev

674

4

Can't you just turn up the volume?

545

5

Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

514

6

A Teenager’s View on Social Media

488

7

How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

379

8

The Ronco Principle

311

9

How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store

305

10

What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?

302

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?

314

2

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

7

3

Turning a bunch of numeric attributes into a single score

5

4

Java: Why does this random value have a 25/75 distribution instead of 50/50?

5

5

What does `void 0` mean?

5

6

Hidden Features of Python

4

7

Difficulty in implementing tail recursive calls in C

3

8

Why do we need monads?

3

9

Why does the 260 character path length limit exist in Windows?

3

10

Can I hack people connecting to my server?

3

Substack [?]