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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Intel Compute Stick

929

2

A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

673

3

Je Suis Charlie

586

4

569

5

Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

563

6

Can't you just turn up the volume?

545

7

Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

514

8

A Teenager’s View on Social Media

488

9

Secure Secure Shell

477

10

Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles

472

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (January 2015)

240

2

Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?

239

3

What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?

120

4

Should I report my main competitor for PCI Violations?

118

5

Socialize to make software

74

6

It's 2015 and I'm not in the situation I wanted to be. Need Advice

74

7

What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

68

8

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)

67

9

How can I verify that WhatsApp uses E2E encryption?

58

10

What are your predictions for 2015?

51

Top Show HN

1

Snabbt.js – a minimalistic animation library

323

2

263

3

Pgcli – A CLI for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

227

4

A curated list of remote jobs

218

5

Sitekite – Imgur for Websites

114

6

Crapify, a proxy for simulating slow, spotty HTTP connections

96

7

ChatSecure iOS v3.0 (OTR + Tor + XMPP)

74

8

GoPee – Simple, Self-Hosted Web Proxy in Go

70

9

PyScribe – A Python library to make print debugging more efficient

53

10

Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas

49

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages using a pop song

342

2

The Fire phone debacle

233

3

Facebook is the new AOL

202

4

Almost No Patented Discoveries Get Used

179

5

Pokémon plays Twitch: How a robot got IRC running on an unmodified SNES

160

6

Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (2012)

104

7

How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)

80

8

Snapchat has raised $485M more from 23 investors

74

9

FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses

73

10

Why people leave companies

69

News [?]

1

Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought

450

2

Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance

270

3

What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits

241

4

Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates

188

5

How My Mom Got Hacked

170

6

Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities

140

7

New York Prosecutor Calls for Law to Fight Apple Data Encryption

137

8

Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation

129

9

On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be Toughest Progresses Slowly

100

10

Whatever Happened to Overtime?

99

Scientific publications [?]

1

An Algorithm for the Forecasting of Romantic Options

31

2

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013) [pdf]

21

3

At CES: Color-changing E Ink film for display experience

14

4

NASA explores inflatable spacecraft technology

14

5

Venetian treacle and the foundation of medicines regulation (2004)

9

6

Dynamic Models of Reputation and Competition in Job-Market Matching

7

7

NASA Approves SpaceX's Plans for Sending Astronauts to ISS

5

8

NASA team hacks Opportunity to treat Mars Rover's amnesia

4

9

WATCH Live 4 Pm ET: NASA and SpaceX Dragon Launch

4

10

How Perfect Offline Wallets Can Still Leak Bitcoin Private Keys [pdf]

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Type hinting for Python

122

2

Practical and robust anomaly detection in time series

107

3

Bitstamp confirms ~19,000 Bitcoin loss in hack

17

4

Linux Page Cache Hit Ratio

11

5

Who’s Attacking Whom? Realtime Attack Trackers

9

6

Plug-and-play sanitization of USB thumb drives

8

7

Java 9 and Beyond

7

8

TwitterDev Code Samples on GitHub – Twitter Blogs

6

9

19 Crypto 2.0 Projects to Watch in 2015

6

10

DDoS Packet Forensics: Take Me to the Hex

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ford Tries to Shut Down Independent Repair Tool with Copyright

252

2

Apple’s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS

243

3

Coder's Rights Project – Reverse Engineering FAQ

112

4

Stingrays Go Mainstream: 2014 in Review

65

5

Nvidia Tegra X1 Preview and Architecture Analysis

55

6

Apple’s next major Mac revealed: the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air

32

7

Reverse engineering a superior chinese product

10

8

Apple’s next major Mac revealed: the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air

7

9

Google Outs Critical Windows Vulnerability Microsoft Wouldn't Fix

6

10

Intel Announces Curie: Tiny Module for Wearables

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Nokia 215 for emerging markets

7

2

Launched my book, Soft Skills on Amazon, got 80 reviews on the first day

3

3

New – EC2 Spot Instance Termination Notices

3

4

New – EC2 Spot Instance Termination Notices

3

5

Unintentionally hilarious (review of Masterminds of Programming)

2

6

Amazon's redesign

1

7

The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

One day left to help Internet Archive reach its donation goal

220

2

New Science on Building Great Teams

89

3

Summary of Go Generics Discussions

55

4

Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption To Help Archive Vintage Software (2003)

48

5

Software Library: MS-DOS Games

22

6

Morgan Freeman: Movie Pirates Have Tiny, Useless Penises

11

7

Netflix Cracks Down on VPN and Proxy “Pirates”

11

8

The Authenticity Paradox

9

9

Why do women know so little about their fertility?

9

10

In Europe, pirates are writing the copyright law

9

Science News [?]

1

Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

415

2

What is it about the financial sector that encourages bad behavior?

72

3

Jupiter Moon Europa's Giant Geysers Are Missing

65

4

What Was Found Inside the Oldest American Time Capsule

50

5

How a Kids’ Cartoon Created a Racoon Invasion in Japan (2013)

45

6

Complications in Physics Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis

45

7

Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency

40

8

Ancient Amulet Discovered with Curious Palindrome Inscription

38

9

Why We Procrastinate – We think of our future selves as strangers

37

10

Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?

29

Social [?]

1

569

2

Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains

108

3

Alan Kay's Tribute to Ted Nelson at “Intertwingled” Fest [video]

77

4

Onewheel [video]

73

5

Deep Space – A Simulation Drama [video]

59

6

Elon Musk IAmA Live on Reddit

28

7

Fordson Snowmobile 1929 Concept Reel [video]

27

8

Monads in Chains [video]

17

9

Telescope Making [video]

13

10

I really did have to decrypt my HD flying through CDG in France

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

How GitHub Uses GitHub to Document GitHub

256

2

Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package manager

229

3

Experimental KVM-based VMM, Written in Go

221

4

Elasticsearch for Beginners: Indexing Your GMail Inbox

216

5

Automatic REST API for Any Postgres Database

197

6

Wifiphisher: Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks

189

7

Pythonpy – Command-line Kung Fu with Python

158

8

Linux kernel booting process, part 1

155

9

GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang

98

10

Hvdos, a simple DOS emulator based on the OS X Hypervisor.framework

84

Wikipedia [?]

1

80

2

Gallery of animations that explain math ideas

79

3

Nepal Standard Time

32

4

Russian cosmism

15

5

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil (1999)

9

6

6

7

Systems Thinking

6

8

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ = -1/12

5

9

Wikipedia proposes developing Wikidata as a hub for all open data

4

10

Chaitin's constant: a not computable number

3

Blogs [?]

1

Can't you just turn up the volume?

545

2

Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future

514

3

A Teenager’s View on Social Media

488

4

How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store

305

5

Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

270

6

Exempting popular apps from data charges is anti-competitive

203

7

Broken cap tables

156

8

Why you should not use AngularJs

112

9

Supply and Demand, Labor and Visas

108

10

I Almost Let My Failed Startup Destroy Me

90

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?

7

2

Java: Why does this random value have a 25/75 distribution instead of 50/50?

5

3

Hidden Features of Python

4

4

What can be learned from a 12px font size and 15.36px line height?

3

5

Why does an hour get added on to java.util.Date for dates before Nov 1 1971?

2

6

What is the optimal algorithm for the game, 2048?

1

Substack [?]