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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

We are under attack

839

2

Replacing Photoshop with NSString

680

3

I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

634

4

Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone

625

5

558

6

Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award

528

7

“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome”

516

8

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper

495

9

All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

488

10

Apple Acquires FoundationDB

483

Top Ask HN

1

Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?

282

2

How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?

160

3

Do you take nootropics?

155

4

What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

155

5

How do you read Academic Papers?

140

6

Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?

97

7

RapGenius for code?

96

8

I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to

84

9

Static site generator with web UI?

75

10

Good books on debugging?

67

Top Show HN

1

Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed

256

2

Fiddle.md – a collaborative writing tool by Swipe

129

3

Madeon's Adventure Machine

85

4

Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required

58

5

Stripe Customer Info inside Gmail

56

6

Performance-focused pure CSS loading animations

49

7

Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads in PHP

46

8

Create a papercraft book from any ISBN – experiment with React and Node

46

9

WakaTime and Slack live demo

45

10

Figure out when you closed your MacBook lid

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Acquires FoundationDB

483

2

Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC

324

3

We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans

305

4

Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape?

234

5

Google warns of unauthorized TLS certificates trusted by almost all OSes

205

6

Razorpay (YC W15) offers Stripe-style payment experience in India

153

7

The Terrible Technical Interview

133

8

Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2

110

9

Companies That Presented at Y Combinator Demo Day 1

108

10

New DNA construct can set off a “mutagenic chain reaction”

100

News [?]

1

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper

495

2

Pinterest lets employees exercise options 7 years after leaving

422

3

Elon Musk: Tesla cars will have “autopilot mode” by summer

365

4

Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated

267

5

China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century

230

6

“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

223

7

In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

222

8

How doctors choose to die (2012)

161

9

Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91

154

10

After Jobs Dry Up, What Then?

145

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

109

2

Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem

97

3

Researchers Demonstrate Heat and Sound Are Magnetic

47

4

Novel polynomial basis and its application to Reed-Solomon erasure codes

39

5

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm [pdf]

31

6

The Race to Build a Search Engine for Your DNA

18

7

Quantum experiment verifies Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'

14

8

A QoS-Aware Novel Probabilistic Strategy for Dynamic Resource Allocation [pdf]

10

9

Exploring Non-Homogeneity and Dynamicity of High Scale Cloud [pdf]

9

10

Entropy-scaling search of massive biological data

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

488

2

Stripe Connect v2

332

3

LibOS – A library operating system for Linux

160

4

Ten Years of Kubuntu

130

5

Deprecating the DNS ANY meta-query type

47

6

Equation APT Group Attack Platform – A Study in Stealth

22

7

9

8

Cisco Shipping Equipment to Fake Addresses to Foil NSA Interception

9

9

Mozilla Makes Yandex the Default Search Engine for Firefox in Turkey

8

10

The new Stripe Connect

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance

224

2

The Need for Care with “Thoughtcrime”

83

3

The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review

80

4

The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review

54

5

White House Confirms: If Section 215 Expires, So Does Bulk Phone Records

8

6

Ads sending users to App Store app without user interaction from Safari on iOS

3

7

Coalition Launches Manila Principles to Protect Freedom of Expression Worldwide

3

8

Congress Must Pass FOIA Reform Legislation

2

9

Senate Intelligence Committee Advances Terrible Surveillance Bill in Secret

2

10

Apple cracking down on iOS antivirus apps

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.4.1

131

2

Start Using Landsat on AWS

115

3

16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes

84

4

Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3

80

5

“The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” Now for Free on Amazon Prime Instant Video

10

6

Now Available: Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03

6

7

Amazon s3 introduces cross region replication

5

8

Minecraft Modding for Dummies: Making coding more accessible for kids

4

9

1

10

Amazon RDS adds Postgres 9.4 support

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version

153

2

BYTE Magazine: The C Language (1983)

141

3

Landing the Nostromo (1981)

92

4

What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong (2013)

70

5

Bacteria kill us by accident (2014)

58

6

Registration – BugMeNot.com

45

7

Cockroach Design Document

34

8

The Facebook Reckoning

20

9

Byte Magazine - LISP (1979)

5

10

Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time

4

Science News [?]

1

Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best

129

2

Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

75

3

The PhD Factory (2011)

58

4

The Gravekeeper’s Paradox: People want permanent tombstones that also show decay

46

5

‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles

31

6

Costa Rica powered with 100% renewable energy for 75 straight days

24

7

Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the Portland Airport’s Carpet?

23

8

Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets

22

9

The Greatest Animal War

14

10

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function

12

Social [?]

1

Proving Things About Biology with F#

77

2

“Reasons you shouldn't join us: if you're looking for work-life balance.”

59

3

Airbus A380 Emergency Evacuation Test (2007) [video]

36

4

“Your password should be committed to memory rather than using a password mgr”

26

5

A Drupal Developer is going to die on March 24

20

6

Graal Tutorial at CGO 2015 [video]

14

7

Computer Color is Broken

14

8

Magic Leap Demo: Just Another Day in the Office at Magic Leap

14

9

What is Rust bad at?

9

10

When Impostor Syndrome Is Real

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Vim is moving to GitHub

462

2

A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React

352

3

httpdiff – diff responses to two HTTP/HTTPS requests

197

4

Proving false in Coq using an implementation bug

125

5

Pterosaur: Full power of Vim in each Firefox text field

109

6

Nes emulator written in go

108

7

Video Streaming with RethinkDB Changefeeds

107

8

A General Theory of Reactivity

103

9

Mozilla MASCHE – Memory Forensic Library

99

10

BitTorrent client package and utilities in Go

90

Wikipedia [?]

1

93

2

87

3

Development of Doom

74

4

70

5

Dempster–Shafer theory

42

6

Hypothetical types of biochemistry

42

7

PreScheme – Scheme for systems programming

37

8

The knowledge argument

31

9

27

10

Trolley problem

22

Blogs [?]

1

The Shut-In Economy

447

2

JavaScript's world domination

295

3

Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang

177

4

The Ugliest Sign in America

125

5

The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca

123

6

We Actually Built a Remote Team, and It Rocks

96

7

High performance services using coroutines

69

8

Hijacking is Buffer Overflow (2001)

48

9

Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons

45

10

Efficient Nested React Components

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Definitive C Book Guide and List

4

2

Why Skype using HTTP or HTTPS ports 80 and 443?

1

3

Best comments in source code

1

4

Table Naming Dilemma: Singular vs. Plural Names

1

5

Both Authors Reply to Comparing Haskell's Snap and Yesod Web Frameworks

1

Substack [?]