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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Lily – Drone camera

1397

2

Announcing Rust 1.0

1363

3

John Nash Has Died

1282

4

1198

5

1162

6

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub

1038

7

Postgres gets support for upsert

1003

8

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

913

9

900

10

Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation

794

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (May 2015)

501

2

Where can I buy real software companies?

485

3

How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?

339

4

I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?

310

5

Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?

308

6

What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

224

7

Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?

158

8

Am I missing out by not being in sillicon valley?

148

9

What newsletters do you read every day or week?

148

10

Are there forgotten servers out there?

144

Top Show HN

1

This page exists only if someone is looking at it

803

2

666

3

Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA

582

4

An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React

337

5

JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison

328

6

Deck of Cards – A playing card API

255

7

Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

249

8

An old rotary phone converted into a mobile phone

222

9

Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom

190

10

InboxSDK by Streak (YC S11) – Build Apps inside Gmail

176

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats

473

2

FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers

428

3

Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules

332

4

The mystery of the power bank phone taking over Ghana

326

5

Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner

275

6

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

272

7

Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support

259

8

Meteor Raises $20M

256

9

Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card

249

10

Reid Hoffman on the relationship between employers and employees

231

News [?]

1

U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court

653

2

B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89

647

3

Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

623

4

How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime

602

5

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla

503

6

Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)

462

7

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum

425

8

FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S

405

9

PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices

380

10

House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection

368

Scientific publications [?]

1

Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves into Nothing

160

2

NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge

84

3

Zoox, a Robo-Taxi Start-Up Taking on Google and Uber

82

4

Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS for Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality

78

5

Gallium Nitride Power Transistors Priced Cheaper Than Silicon

74

6

Scientists develop atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing

63

7

Microwave Ovens Posing as Astronomical Objects

58

8

Alan Turing: The Applications of Probability to Cryptography [pdf]

47

9

A Tunable Liquid Metal Antennas for Tuning in to Anything

44

10

Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]

40

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The programming talent myth

510

2

The end for Mandriva

236

3

Go crypto: bridging the performance gap

211

4

PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly

177

5

Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU

163

6

Android Pay is coming

150

7

CloudFlare “Interview Questions”

150

8

Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol

142

9

Reasons for Python async/await

135

10

Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview

124

Tech blogs [?]

1

Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet

633

2

UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights

271

3

Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa

189

4

Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform

122

5

Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act

104

6

EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents

103

7

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Patent Liability, but Limits Defenses

76

8

Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want to You to Police Your Users

75

9

Congrats on the 10 Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID

74

10

The Truth about SSD Data Retention

72

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers

318

2

Microsoft Surface Hub

215

3

Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS

170

4

Apple Releases new MacBook Pros with Force Touch Trackpad

91

5

The GNU Make Book

38

6

Keyboard Ghosting

27

7

Amazon now requiring Prime membership to buy popular Blu-rays

20

8

Amazon Elastic File System

12

9

AWS Loft Program Expands to NYC

11

10

EC2 Spot Fleet API

9

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

353

2

Accounting for Developers

285

3

Game theory’s cure for corruption

246

4

Yesterday's best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns

221

5

The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video]

140

6

Twitter Needs New Leadership

95

7

Mountains Aren't the Shape You Think

71

8

Has Cosmology Run into a Creative Crisis?

65

9

The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

61

10

Do we really want to fuse our minds together?

59

Science News [?]

1

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

241

2

Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life

136

3

Deep Learning – Review by LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton

128

4

In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be

126

5

Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed

126

6

Autonomous truck cleared to drive on US roads for the first time

121

7

Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds

115

8

How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

113

9

Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?

110

10

Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last

105

Social [?]

1

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]

506

2

Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

468

3

Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

237

4

Computational Hydrographic Printing [video]

225

5

What we know about the EmDrive and Cannae Drive

208

6

P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]

190

7

Google I/O 2015 – Keynote

145

8

Using Go at The New York Times [video]

140

9

Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video]

129

10

Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition

107

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation

794

2

Microsoft TouchDevelop

500

3

“I'm wiping this repository away”

485

4

Julia issue #8839 closed

273

5

Underscore and Lodash Merge Thread

208

6

GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks

199

7

Cryptographic Right Answers

187

8

Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chakra JavaScript engine

170

9

“The benchmark numbers are completely wrong for both databases”

165

10

Asmttpd – Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly

159

Wikipedia [?]

1

210

2

Norwegian butter crisis (2011)

176

3

174

4

105

5

The Machine Stops

93

6

Alberto Santos-Dumont

76

7

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959)

67

8

Cognitive Distortion

55

9

Long line (topology)

46

10

London Bridge (Lake Havasu)

43

Blogs [?]

1

Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger

391

2

Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down

328

3

What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York

295

4

I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week

280

5

The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car

265

6

Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck

260

7

Accepting payments is getting harder

225

8

Join the Engineering Leisure Class

220

9

Interview with Eric Brewer

186

10

The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

170

Stackoverflow [?]

1

JavaScript: Why does 00.0 cause a syntax error?

7

2

Why is `1000000000000000 in range(1000000000000001)` so fast?

6

3

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

5

4

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

4

5

Thinking in AngularJS with a JQuery Background

3

6

JavaScript DIY Heredocs

3

7

India has highest percentage of female developers – Stack Overflow Survey 2015

2

8

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color

2

9

Why does HTML think that Chuck Norris is a color

2

10

Why is string '+' faster than array join with JS?

2

Substack [?]