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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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YC Fellowship
998
2
Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)
988
3
I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
965
4
Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
963
5
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
937
6
Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
931
7
Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home
922
8
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
862
9
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
851
10
Tell HN: Hello
847
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (July 2015)
673
2
What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?
333
3
What is the actual purpose of Docker?
313
4
I am busy with too many things at once
282
5
Good Python codebases to read?
278
6
How do I keep child porn out of my site?
252
7
Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
194
8
Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
190
9
I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?
175
10
How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?
155
Top Show HN
1
Spot the Drowning Child
1215
2
Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
662
3
“Who is hiring?” Map
546
4
Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely
281
5
A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative
270
6
Density – Anonymous People Counter and API
258
7
Flexbox.io – a free video series on learning CSS Flexbox
236
8
Arrow Hero
195
9
YouTube Filesystem – YTFS
185
10
FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base
184
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
691
2
A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
402
3
What happens when you talk about salaries at Google
330
4
LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts
313
5
New Court Evidence Reveals Hollywood’s Plan to Smear Google
270
6
Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
266
7
Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M
246
8
Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun”
234
9
YC Backs Portable Coffee Stand Called Wheelys (YC S15) to Take on Starbucks
224
10
Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in
174
News [?]
1
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
862
2
The Really Big One
612
3
In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me
600
4
GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
569
5
New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
558
6
A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving
533
7
The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
473
8
Facebook’s Piracy Problem
439
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FISA court rules NSA can resume bulk data collection
425
10
Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication
417
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
851
2
The Icy Mountains of Pluto
591
3
NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
410
4
New Image of Pluto
366
5
NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
246
6
A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability
148
7
HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer
116
8
A social-network illusion that makes things appear more popular than they are
111
9
NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)
88
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NASA’s New Horizons Plans July 7 Return to Normal Science Operations
76
Dev Blogs [?]
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Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
497
2
Why Debian returned to FFmpeg
265
3
Guido on Python
263
4
Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
247
5
rm -r fs/ext3
214
6
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
208
7
Decentralization for the web
177
8
Solving multi-core Python
166
9
Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (2009)
155
10
An unexpected benefit of open-sourcing our code
154
Tech blogs [?]
1
Artificial Killing Machine
191
2
Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance
191
3
The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
190
4
Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial
166
5
Victory for CloudFlare Against SOPA-like Court Order
155
6
Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its E-Voting System
143
7
XKeyscore Exposé Reaffirms the Need to Rid the Web of Tracking Cookies
129
8
How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
128
9
EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer
70
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Charges Against Netzpolitik.org Are an Attack on the Free Press
54
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
403
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Amazon Aurora Now Available
342
3
AWS CodePipeline
217
4
AWS Device Farm
185
5
AWS CodeCommit
136
6
Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results
70
7
New iPod touch
49
8
AWS Service Catalog
37
9
Earnings Release FY15 Q4
37
10
Amazon Aurora
16
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case
265
2
The Max Headroom TV Hack
255
3
A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
198
4
Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo
157
5
Developing Web Applications with Haskell
130
6
The Art of Quitting
116
7
Why Web Pages Suck
114
8
Ethereum: what’s about to happen
107
9
What It Was Like to Seek Asylum in Medieval England
106
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Chrome Blocks Major Torrent Sites Over "Harmful Programs"
103
Science News [?]
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Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
288
2
The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more
172
3
New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
142
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Antibody wipeout relieves symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome
135
5
Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete
103
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Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones
90
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To Stop Mosquito Bites, Silence Your Skin's Bacteria
76
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Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves
73
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Humans accidentally created hidden carbon sink in the desert
68
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Leader of China’s genomics powerhouse steps down to pursue AI research
60
Social [?]
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Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
963
2
Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
699
3
“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”
439
4
Woah that is some wild postgresql
341
5
Om Next – David Nolen [video]
259
6
You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk”
211
7
Fireside Chat with Paul Graham [video]
194
8
We apologize
177
9
Facebook completes construction of first full-scale aircraft, Aquila [video]
176
10
DynaFlash: High-speed 8-bit image projector at 1,000fps with 3ms delay [video]
176
Github repos and gists [?]
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I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help
549
2
GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
542
3
PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database
486
4
Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
444
5
React UI Builder
391
6
“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”
369
7
Dragula: Simple drag and drop
339
8
Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code
327
9
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
304
10
Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide
303
Wikipedia [?]
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Potato paradox
559
2
iLoo
354
3
Preferred number
272
4
Nelson Rules
219
5
Pykrete
114
6
Cincinnati Subway
94
7
US time zones (1857)
81
8
Allen Curve
72
9
Seikilos epitaph
62
10
Luhn Algorithm for validating credit cards
53
Blogs [?]
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7 Rejections
720
2
How I became an artist
437
3
Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
427
4
How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity
337
5
Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices
313
6
Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)
305
7
How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup
303
8
The anatomy of a credit card form
226
9
How I’d redesign piano sheet music
193
10
Want a better pitch? Watch Elon Musk’s presentation for the Tesla Powerwall
133
Stackoverflow [?]
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How should you deal with auth and sharing Users info across microservices?
15
2
How Racket Evaluates Modules
11
3
Why does ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] return the string “10”?
10
4
Why do we need monads?
7
5
Difference between INNER and OUTER joins
7
6
How does C compute sin() and other math functions?
7
7
Why is executing Java code in comments with certain Unicode characters allowed?
7
8
Why Does “not(True) in [False, True]” Return False?
6
9
Design Principles, Best Practices and Design Patterns for C
6
10
Python lists are so “leaky”
5
Substack [?]