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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1039

2

Announcing Starfighter

932

3

The new MacBook

921

4

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

802

5

VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation

664

6

649

7

2015 Chromebook Pixel

643

8

GPS tracking device found on an activist's car

610

9

Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA

585

10

The Hiring Post

577

Top Ask HN

1

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

193

2

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

178

3

Front-end “design patterns”?

144

4

121

5

What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

82

6

What should I do if I feel depressed in my job?

78

7

Has anyone had success with Canada's startup visa?

66

8

What code do you frequently read?

64

9

Why would I want to pay with my phone?

63

10

I'm in SF for the weekend. What places can I tour that tout their tech?

60

Top Show HN

1

Find tech jobs that come with a visa

290

2

JavaScript Acid Techno Machine

161

3

My kid choked on a toy, so I built this

133

4

GitSavvy, Git integration in Sublime including per-line staging

126

5

TryCatch – Get offers only with your desired salary

124

6

Shitty Listings algorithmically finds undervalued property

122

7

Make School – College replacement for founders and developers

116

8

Paid, an API for invoicing

88

9

Bish – Shell scripting with a modern feel

84

10

Essential React, a minimal skeleton for building React apps using ES6

73

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

On Secretly Terrible Engineers

463

2

Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband

307

3

Ellen Pao Owns the Room

215

4

What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar

203

5

Hands-on with Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

134

6

Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women

126

7

Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state

120

8

Facebook post written in Florida lands US man in United Arab Emirates jail

119

9

Netflix on an NES

117

10

Further ties of NSA to Equation Group hackers

116

News [?]

1

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

408

2

The man who posted himself to Australia

269

3

Canadian Charged for Not Unlocking Smartphone at Canadian Border

262

4

End the Ethanol Rip-Off

227

5

How Air-Traffic Controllers Sound When They Have to Close the Airport

198

6

Bill Watterson talks

182

7

Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

172

8

Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office

163

9

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

145

10

Poor Kids of Silicon Valley

144

Scientific publications [?]

1

The revolutionary ion engine that took spacecraft to Ceres

79

2

Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts via Total Variation Minimization

44

3

NASA Finds Likely Source of Mars Rover Curiosity's Short Circuit

23

4

Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources [pdf]

10

5

Google Tests First Error Correction in Quantum Computing

8

6

Draw Biosensors on Your Skin

4

7

Solar-powered plane takes off in first round-the-world attempt

3

8

Google Tests First Error Correction in Quantum Computing

3

9

FitNets: Hints for Thin Deep Nets

3

10

As hacking grows, biometric security gains momentum

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig

187

2

Peter Lawrey Describes Petabyte JVMs

117

3

The state of SIMD.js performance in Firefox

87

4

Google Cloud Platform free for 60 days

69

5

Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic

46

6

Non-blocking buffered file read operations

40

7

FreeBSD Flame Graphs

38

8

Data and Goliath's Big Idea

26

9

Google Releases Freon to Replace X11 on ChromeOS

11

10

An Early Look at WebGL 2

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel Xeon D Launched: 14 Nm Broadwell SoC for Enterprise

78

2

The White House Has Gone Full Doublespeak on Fast Track and the TPP

15

3

Oracle starts bundling adware for OS X version of Java

10

4

Hollywood Asks Domain Registrars to Censor the Web for IP Infringment

8

5

Violating an Employer’s Computer Use Restriction Is Not a Federal Crime

8

6

Video of iOS 8 vs iOS 3 shows longer animations causing reduced responsiveness

5

7

Hardware contest giving $100K, 6 month residency as prize

5

8

Hands-On with the Collapsible Magnetic 'TextBlade' Keyboard for iOS Devices

4

9

A Way Forward: Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath

4

10

US Government “Clarifies” Its Stance on NSL Gag Orders

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

The new MacBook

921

2

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

396

3

ResearchKit: A software framework designed to benefit medical research

348

4

Apple Watch Keynote Live Streaming

83

5

19

6

Shot on iPhone 6

13

7

Apple Watch Battery

9

8

Apple ResearchKit

7

9

Apple ResearchKit

3

10

Amazon Cognito Streams

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go 1.5 concurrent garbage collector pacing

179

2

The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978)

78

3

A Strong Mode for JavaScript

53

4

To tip or not to tip?

42

5

How Will You Measure Your Life? (2010)

41

6

Beware of Trivial Inconveniences (2009)

35

7

Why the West fears insects while Japan reveres them

9

8

WordPress Wins $25,000 from DMCA Takedown Abuser

8

9

How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market

4

10

UK ISPs Quietly Block Lists of Pirate Bay Proxies

3

Science News [?]

1

In LHC’s Shadow, America’s Collider Awakens

61

2

Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes

51

3

Sunglasses That Could Correct Color Blindness

48

4

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

36

5

The brain, interrupted – Lasting consequences of premature birth

33

6

Experimental drug turns 'bad' white fat into 'good' brown-like fat

20

7

Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean

16

8

Bioelectrical Signals Can Stunt or Grow Brain Tissue

14

9

Why People “Fly from Facts”

14

10

How energy from dry ice could power human colonies on Mars

11

Social [?]

1

Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

192

2

Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?

126

3

MIT Bitcoin Expo Livestream

84

4

I Was a Guard in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment

80

5

Vivid: Sound Synthesis in Haskell [video]

44

6

YC/HN Meetup in Austin, March 27th

41

7

“JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML”

35

8

Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog [video]

22

9

Did Silent Circle remove their warrant canary?

15

10

The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook and Google – Who Wins/Loses

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A website that deletes itself once indexed by Google

233

2

Peripheral vision in Quake

231

3

Open source license usage on GitHub

129

4

InstaParse: Context-Free Grammars as Easy as Regular Expressions

126

5

Baobab: A JavaScript data tree supporting Om-style cursors, with React mixins

113

6

Onyx: fault tolerant data processing for Clojure

103

7

SolidOak, an IDE written in Rust

99

8

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

94

9

Peerwiki: all of Wikipedia on BitTorrent

88

10

Google Web Fonts on GitHub

68

Wikipedia [?]

1

Coulomb explosion

94

2

37

3

Normally distributed and uncorrelated does not imply independent

24

4

This page crashes my chrome tab

23

5

Timothy (tortoise)

2

6

NASA Crawler Transporters – 5 decades old this year

2

7

Embrace, extend and extinguish

2

8

Maxwell's demon

2

9

The Cooperative

2

10

Peirce quincuncial projection

2

Blogs [?]

1

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

330

2

When Nerds Collide (2014)

328

3

The joyless world of data-driven startups

193

4

Shitphone: A Love Story

119

5

Coding Like a Girl

115

6

How I Snuck Through Wikipedia’s Notability Test

97

7

The Dangers of Intermediate Targets: IQ, Cholesterol, and 99%-ile Latency

66

8

Coding Like a Girl

65

9

The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun

63

10

The big data successor of the spreadsheet

61

Stackoverflow [?]

1

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

13

2

Regex to match Egyptian Hieroglyphics

5

3

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

4

4

Generating PDF files with JavaScript

3

5

How can you program if you're blind?

2

6

Why is the raising of an exception a side effect?

2

7

Handling resources with JavaScript Promises

1

8

Scala: Why can I convert Int to Unit?

1

Substack [?]