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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

1128

2

React Native is now open source

1039

3

1039

4

Sir Terry Pratchett has died

1019

5

Announcing Starfighter

932

6

The new MacBook

921

7

Bidding farewell to Google Code

880

8

Slack was hacked

857

9

We are under attack

839

10

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

802

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (March 2015)

413

2

Who are your favorite poets?

349

3

How to move beyond “freelancer”?

322

4

Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?

282

5

The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture

251

6

Favorite podcasts?

239

7

I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?

196

8

My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?

193

9

Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?

178

10

How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?

160

Top Show HN

1

Textures.js, SVG Patterns for Data Visualization

404

2

Slack Meets GitHub Issues

373

3

Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

301

4

Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the Fourier Transform

293

5

Find tech jobs that come with a visa

290

6

Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed

256

7

GraphQL for Postgres

195

8

JavaScript Acid Techno Machine

161

9

SSL Decoder – An open-source alternative for the SSL Labs server test

160

10

My kid choked on a toy, so I built this

133

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

605

2

Apple Acquires FoundationDB

483

3

On Secretly Terrible Engineers

463

4

Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free

390

5

Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC

324

6

Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband

307

7

We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans

305

8

Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production

293

9

Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage

277

10

No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

254

News [?]

1

Sir Terry Pratchett has died

1019

2

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper

495

3

The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty

472

4

After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge

429

5

Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving

422

6

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

408

7

Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer

365

8

SpaceX Profitable as Musk Pulls in NASA Contracts, Google Cash

363

9

Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins

332

10

California has about one year of water left

320

Scientific publications [?]

1

The FedEx Problem

229

2

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm

129

3

Physics in 100 Years

127

4

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

109

5

Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem

97

6

The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript

85

7

Geotagging 100M Twitter accounts, independent of location-sharing preferences [pdf]

79

8

The revolutionary ion engine that took spacecraft to Ceres

79

9

Text Understanding from Scratch [pdf]

53

10

Researchers Demonstrate Heat and Sound Are Magnetic

47

Dev Blogs [?]

1

All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

488

2

Stripe Connect v2

332

3

Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig

187

4

Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets

173

5

LibOS – A library operating system for Linux

160

6

Ten Years of Kubuntu

130

7

Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2

129

8

Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary

117

9

Peter Lawrey Describes Petabyte JVMs

117

10

GitHub unveils its Licenses API

113

Tech blogs [?]

1

Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance

224

2

Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?

190

3

EFF to UN: You Need a Privacy Watchdog

147

4

Farewell From Shari Steele

126

5

EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (2008)

107

6

The Need for Care with “Thoughtcrime”

83

7

The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review

80

8

Intel Xeon D Launched: 14 Nm Broadwell SoC for Enterprise

78

9

Will the U.S. Senate Allow Big Media to Hold Blind People for Ransom?

58

10

The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

54

FAANG+ [?]

1

The new MacBook

921

2

Amazon Dash Button

745

3

The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan

396

4

ResearchKit: A software framework designed to benefit medical research

348

5

Amazon Home Services

341

6

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1

131

7

Start Using Landsat on AWS

115

8

16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes

84

9

Apple Watch Keynote Live Streaming

83

10

Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3

80

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go 1.5 concurrent garbage collector pacing

179

2

Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania

162

3

Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version

153

4

BYTE Magazine: The C Language (1983)

141

5

The Great Green Wall of Africa

104

6

Web Development as a career – the realities

97

7

Landing the Nostromo (1981)

92

8

The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978)

78

9

What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong (2013)

70

10

BitTorrent-Style Updates Revealed in Windows 10

67

Science News [?]

1

The myopia boom

311

2

Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think

160

3

Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best

129

4

A self-fueled liquid metal motor

80

5

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

75

6

Toxoplasma Could Manipulate Our Behavior

73

7

Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

66

8

The Impossible Physiology of the Free Diver

64

9

In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens

61

10

Jupiter Is a Garden of Storms

60

Social [?]

1

Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]

567

2

“Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”

491

3

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”

402

4

“Today we moved into our new Facebook building”

234

5

Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]

230

6

Steam store rendered in Servo

195

7

Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

192

8

Yann LeCun on a MIT Tech Review article that is all hype

140

9

UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

137

10

Peter Norvig: How Computers Learn [video]

128

Github repos and gists [?]

1

React Native is now open source

1039

2

SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls

792

3

Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification

523

4

Vim is moving to GitHub

462

5

French civil code now on GitHub

453

6

Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

409

7

Ember's Glimmer Engine

378

8

A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React

352

9

Termui – Go terminal dashboard

347

10

The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license

304

Wikipedia [?]

1

127

2

Agbogbloshie, the world's largest e-waste dump

107

3

Coulomb explosion

94

4

93

5

87

6

Development of Doom

74

7

70

8

67

9

Hypothetical types of biochemistry

42

10

Dempster–Shafer theory

42

Blogs [?]

1

The Shut-In Economy

447

2

Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower

330

3

When Nerds Collide (2014)

328

4

Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years

298

5

JavaScript's world domination

295

6

Programmer Passion Considered Harmful

224

7

Five Years’ Time

212

8

The joyless world of data-driven startups

193

9

Dunning-Kruger and Other Memes

193

10

Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang

177

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (2011)

69

2

What are the pros and cons of register-based VMs versus stack-based VMs?

13

3

How do BitTorrent magnet links work?

9

4

Stack Overflow is offline for maintenance (UPDATE: It's back)

6

5

Regex to match Egyptian Hieroglyphics

5

6

The Definitive C Book Guide and List

4

7

Reserved Keywords in JavaScript

4

8

How does iOS app Display Recorder record the screen without using private API?

4

9

Generating PDF files with JavaScript

3

10

Rendering a SceneKit scene to video output

2

Substack [?]