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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

2088

2

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

1584

3

FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

1489

4

1329

5

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

1275

6

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

1174

7

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

1142

8

“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

870

9

Extracting the SuperFish certificate

867

10

Stripe: Bitcoin

855

Top Ask HN

1

The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

806

2

Who is hiring? (February 2015)

459

3

What up with these startup salaries?

421

4

Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?

225

5

What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?

186

6

TrueCrypt audit status?

185

7

How do your enterprise customers pay you?

184

8

How to manage developers who aren't very good?

179

9

Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects?

160

10

How do I start with test driven development?

136

Top Show HN

1

A Unixy approach to WebSockets

421

2

A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

375

3

Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

350

4

A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry

322

5

Matterhorn – Your new project manager

298

6

I rendered the Go gopher using Go

287

7

A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads

265

8

Watch People Code

243

9

193

10

Littlebox, a pure CSS icon library – worth continuing?

192

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

1489

2

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

1275

3

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

1174

4

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

1142

5

“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

870

6

Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless

397

7

‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game

367

8

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

351

9

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling

318

10

Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms

289

News [?]

1

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

1584

2

F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility

636

3

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer

625

4

The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up

552

5

Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

523

6

Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens

485

7

Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

437

8

At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday

402

9

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

401

10

Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him

391

Scientific publications [?]

1

Layoff Underway at IBM

274

2

Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]

240

3

Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]

134

4

Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition

63

5

Text Understanding from Scratch Using Temporal Convolutional Networks

61

6

NASA ISS 2015 Calendar [pdf]

55

7

Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]

53

8

Small Amounts of Gluten in Subjects with Suspected Nonceliac Gluten Sensitivity

52

9

DeepWalk: Online Learning of Social Representations

39

10

Rooting Out Malware with a Side-Channel Chip Defense System

34

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: Bitcoin

855

2

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

638

3

The Path to Parallel JavaScript

226

4

Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow

202

5

The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed

181

6

Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta

155

7

Fix your damned data races

130

8

Getting Superfish Out of Firefox

115

9

React.js in Real Life at Codecademy

111

10

Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

104

Tech blogs [?]

1

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

647

2

YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters

381

3

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal

287

4

Dell XPS 13 Review

269

5

An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running

264

6

Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension

250

7

EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System

208

8

EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals’ Cell-Tracking Spy Planes

208

9

EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection

196

10

Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

165

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

247

2

181

3

Apple invests €1.7B in renewable energy data centres in Denmark and Ireland

133

4

Upcoming AWS Security Maintenance

98

5

Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event

47

6

Cluster Management with Amazon ECS

34

7

Amazon is working on an SDK for Echo

12

8

Amazon EC2 Container Service Available in US West (Oregon)

10

9

The era of holographic computing is here

7

10

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Whiteboard Clock

784

2

How to Machine Learn

136

3

Apple's New Market

129

4

Go Escape Analysis Flaws

82

5

Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up

71

6

Crowd-sourced list of European investors, angels and accelerators

60

7

New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler

59

8

Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?

57

9

Go-gl: Massive Overhaul

53

10

The Importance of Anxiety

52

Science News [?]

1

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

209

2

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

147

3

U.S. Droughts Predicted to Be the Worst in 1,000 Years

141

4

We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets

128

5

Sodium's explosive secrets revealed

123

6

Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?

116

7

Breakthrough DNA Editor Borne of Bacteria

113

8

Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic

102

9

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick

101

10

How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

97

Social [?]

1

Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA

559

2

Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot

426

3

“A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”

353

4

Windows SSL Interception Gone Wild

263

5

First NetHack bot ascension

196

6

The Worst Way to Fire Someone: I Was There

191

7

A source for this picture?

175

8

Richard Hamming: Learning to Learn

174

9

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client in Go [video]

153

10

YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights

95

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Flipboard releases React Canvas

501

2

361

3

“Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”

339

4

“This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”

306

5

Mkcast – GIF terminal screencasts with key presses overlaid

304

6

Io.js and Node.js reconciliation proposal

225

7

Atom now using Io.js

223

8

Play Breakout while you pull to refresh

195

9

Cool-retro-term

176

10

Git-Stats – A local GitHub-like contributions calendar

176

Wikipedia [?]

1

258

2

Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

166

3

One-electron universe

128

4

113

5

UTF-9 and UTF-18

109

6

66

7

60

8

Graham's Number

52

9

Mills' constant

44

10

Tweel – Airless Wheel

40

Blogs [?]

1

How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast

592

2

A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

415

3

Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University

358

4

What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?

331

5

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

318

6

Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely

299

7

The curious case of disappearing Polish S

295

8

271

9

One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

181

10

How gzip uses Huffman coding

163

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to deal with race conditions in Django tests?

7

2

What is the difference between URI, URL and URN?

6

3

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

5

4

iOS Devs – how to load different views on UIPageViewController

3

5

What is the difference between Node.js and io.js? – Stack Overflow

3

6

Why use Python's os module methods instead of executing shell commands directly?

3

7

Lodash – difference between .extend() / .assign() and .merge()

2

8

Git reset behavior

2

9

Why Java Streams once-off

2

10

StackOverflow: Disable personalized predictions

2

Substack [?]