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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
1608
2
Console.mihai();
1445
3
New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
1248
4
I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
1215
5
The days are long but the decades are short
1163
6
Project Fi by Google
1107
7
How to Center in CSS
1036
8
Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died
1014
9
The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
970
10
Myself – v1.0.3
965
Top Ask HN
1
How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
558
2
Who is hiring? (April 2015)
473
3
What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
333
4
What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?
325
5
When do you know your startup has failed?
325
6
Should I testify?
292
7
Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
247
8
How do you log application events?
221
9
How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
216
10
Which book are you reading these days?
211
Top Show HN
1
A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
764
2
A random startup generator
607
3
Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
493
4
I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
430
5
Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client
339
6
Ramjet.js – Morph DOM elements into each other
309
7
Kubist, a little web app to make cubism-like images
231
8
Caddy, a cross-platform HTTP/2 web server
208
9
Get pinged when standards hit 90% browser support
199
10
Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go
169
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
1608
2
Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac
915
3
We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Ownership
578
4
The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy
461
5
Secret Shuts Down
417
6
Google’s ARC Now Runs Android Apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux
350
7
LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B
320
8
How Google Hires
296
9
Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
281
10
Microsoft Announces Continuum, Turning Windows 10 Phones into Desktops
272
News [?]
1
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000
338
2
U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade
325
3
Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day
315
4
“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Streeters don’t. What’s up?”
307
5
Amazon Finally Discloses Cloud Services Sales, Showing 49% Jump
301
6
1.5 Million Missing Black Men
291
7
Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal
272
8
Owner of a Credit Card Processor Is Setting a New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year
268
9
Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
263
10
We Should Have a Better Condom by Now
250
Scientific publications [?]
1
SpaceX Dragon CRS-6 Launch Webcast
217
2
The Effect of Physical Exercise on the Concentration of Individuals with ADHD
150
3
SpaceX CRS-6 Launch Webcast
91
4
Student creates powerful catalyst from potassium
86
5
How Nicaraguan Villagers Built Their Own Electric Grid
83
6
An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists (2000) [pdf]
74
7
A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning
74
8
New Theory Leads to Gigahertz Antenna on a Chip
69
9
DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)
67
10
Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
64
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
340
2
Python without an operating system
219
3
Introducing F# 4.0
161
4
CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner
158
5
Apple WWDC 2015
145
6
Making Python 3 more attractive
141
7
An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
122
8
Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
120
9
XFS: There and back and there again?
110
10
Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists
107
Tech blogs [?]
1
Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
460
2
Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
442
3
Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
392
4
Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal
282
5
EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Bills
279
6
Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents
264
7
New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities
234
8
United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security
229
9
Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Didn’t Fix Itself
196
10
The Whitehouse’s New Executive Order on Cyber Crime Is (Unfortunately) No Joke
187
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Elastic File System
471
2
Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
251
3
Apple – OS X – Photos
213
4
Amazon Business
135
5
Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results
57
6
Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda
45
7
Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson
41
8
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Introduction to Modern C Programming
37
9
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
26
10
Apple's Research Kit
17
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)
543
2
Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft
307
3
The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
284
4
Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks
259
5
React and Angular Meeting
210
6
Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?
173
7
How to Sell Excellence
137
8
Can life exist on a planet without a star?
130
9
What will C++17 be?
122
10
F# Survey 2015 Results
93
Science News [?]
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
297
2
Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible from the Air
243
3
Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms
225
4
A mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory?
212
5
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
204
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Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight
121
7
A systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence
109
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Triangulation Conjecture Disproved
87
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The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the Miracle on Hudson
86
10
After Prime Proof, an Unlikely Star Rises
85
Social [?]
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]
494
2
Space X CR6 First stage landing
362
3
Sprinklr Acquires GetSatisfaction, Founders Get Nothing
311
4
Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison
213
5
Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]
197
6
BeOS Demo Video (1998) [video]
125
7
Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]
121
8
The design and implementation of the Meteor platform [video]
91
9
This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage (1967) [video]
86
10
Hackpad goes open source
85
Github repos and gists [?]
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Announcing Git Large File Storage
620
2
The Fuck – Correct your previous console command
438
3
Disque – a distributed message broker
420
4
Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64)
393
5
I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted
332
6
Unit tests fail when run in Australia
285
7
Boltons: over 100 Python utilities
282
8
Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP
257
9
Pure Python Vim clone
255
10
C# 7 Work List of Features
246
Wikipedia [?]
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Tupper's formula
92
2
Corrupted Blood Incident
87
3
Golden hat
87
4
List of screw drives
73
5
Raven paradox
69
6
Last universal ancestor
63
7
One instruction set computer
63
8
Black Arrow
54
9
Newcomb's paradox
54
10
Relativistic kill vehicle
38
Blogs [?]
1
Why can’t we read anymore?
329
2
Ten Commandments of Sushi
274
3
The Code Is Just the Symptom
263
4
The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join
207
5
A few spy tools for your operating system (other than strace)
200
6
I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
198
7
Postmortem of Venture-Backed Startup, Sonar
180
8
Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
180
9
Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882
152
10
Why Young Men Go to War
152
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015
111
2
Bytecode features not available in the Java language
50
3
An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases
31
4
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
20
5
What does the C??? operator do?
11
6
Java 8 times faster with arrays then std::vector in C++. What did I do wrong?
10
7
What does the C ??!??! operator do?
6
8
OS X will only recognize Apple's CA for kernel extensions
4
9
You don't need `class`, `this` and `() = {}`
4
10
Best excuse ever
4
Substack [?]