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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

920

2

Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

602

3

To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)

543

4

Fearless concurrency with Rust

542

5

Amazon Elastic File System

471

6

The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

461

7

Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters

460

8

Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows

458

9

RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

407

10

Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?

392

Top Ask HN

1

Should I testify?

292

2

Which book are you reading these days?

211

3

What are you doing to improve your health?

205

4

How much does Amazon contribute to the open source community?

91

5

What are the books that changed the perspective of your life?

88

6

What do you guys think of zero rating?

78

7

How do I prepare for the interview?

48

8

What I should do with my life?

44

9

Why USB drives are still using the FAT32 format?

27

10

Young devs vs. Older devs salaries

25

Top Show HN

1

Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?

493

2

Free, instant, secure, disposable chat rooms built in Go

169

3

CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown

161

4

Bot accepts every pull request for its own code

155

5

TypeSlab – simple, shareable typographic posters

138

6

A fast append-only data store for Java 8

74

7

Black-hole.js – Visualize black hole gravitational lensing in WebGL

72

8

Laundromatch – Community-based laundry services

72

9

BoomFilters – Probabilistic data structures for processing streams

70

10

All You Can Optimize on Your Website in a Single Report

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

461

2

LinkedIn to Buy Online Education Site Lynda.com for $1.5B

320

3

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Foursquare

199

4

Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops

197

5

Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites

171

6

Why Open Source Startups Fail

167

7

EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations

165

8

Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business

141

9

Docker Raises $95M Series D Round for Its Container Platform

126

10

Man Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days

119

News [?]

1

U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade

325

2

Owner of a Credit Card Processor Is Setting a New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year

268

3

German author Guenter Grass dies

197

4

Distraction is a kind of obesity of the mind

167

5

Spain's hologram protest: Thousands join virtual march against new gag law

148

6

Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil

146

7

Keeping Your Car Safe from Electronic Thieves

139

8

The Moral Bucket List

130

9

Shopify to raise $100M in Toronto, New York IPO

128

10

Best, Brightest – and Saddest?

124

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX Dragon CRS-6 Launch Webcast

217

2

SpaceX CRS-6 Launch Webcast

91

3

Aerotow to Orbit: The Eclipse Project

27

4

Physicists show 'quantum freezing phenomenon' is universal

26

5

Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope

20

6

The Discrete Gaussian Strikes Again

19

7

Hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track

19

8

BitWhisper: Signaling Between Air-Gapped Computers Using Thermal Manipulations [pdf]

16

9

Pan Galactic Division

14

10

The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]

11

Dev Blogs [?]

1

CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner

158

2

Apple WWDC 2015

145

3

Making Python 3 more attractive

141

4

Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)

120

5

XFS: There and back and there again?

110

6

Google Prediction API

59

7

Protection against critical Windows vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635)

26

8

InterState: A Language and Environment for Expressing Interface Behavior

20

9

A ToC of the 20 part linker essay (2008)

19

10

Python 3 adoption

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters

460

2

The Federal HTTPS-Only Standard: Necessary and Overdue

117

3

2015 MacBook Review

60

4

Apple watch sells out in 6 hours

14

5

Peripherals Behind the Iron Curtain

10

6

“Selfie sticks” banned at WWDC 2015

7

7

NVMe SSD Interface Arrives on New MacBook and OS X

5

8

Where 3000MPG+ Cars Come to Compete: The Ecomarathon

5

9

Apple Acquires Israeli Camera Tech Company LinX Imaging for ~$20M

4

10

France’s Censorship and Surveillance Initiatives Lack Judicial Review

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Elastic File System

471

2

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale

251

3

Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson

41

4

Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf

26

5

EC2 Container Service – Long-Running Applications, Load Balancing, and More

15

6

AWS Lambda – In Full Production with New Features for Mobile Devs

13

7

Amazon Machine Learning

9

8

Amazon Elastic Container Service now generally available

8

9

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale

5

10

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)

543

2

React and Angular Meeting

210

3

Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?

173

4

Can life exist on a planet without a star?

130

5

F# Survey 2015 Results

93

6

Ruby Design Principles – Yukihiro Matsumoto (2006)

44

7

Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate

41

8

The New Science of Building Great Teams

32

9

How to get a B.S. in CS without BS

32

10

The New New Product Development Game (1986)

7

Science News [?]

1

Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways

204

2

Triangulation Conjecture Disproved

87

3

The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the Miracle on Hudson

86

4

What the Deer Are Telling Us

79

5

The Tangled History of Soviet Computer Science

68

6

Mystery of Ceres' bright spots grows

56

7

More Sex Talk from the Love Scientist

43

8

How a bacterial cell recognizes its own DNA

40

9

Pre-Inca canals may solve Lima's water crisis

26

10

The Hated, Invasive Parasite That’s Actually a Key Part of Its Ecosystem

25

Social [?]

1

Space X CR6 First stage landing

362

2

Sprinklr Acquires GetSatisfaction, Founders Get Nothing

311

3

Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]

121

4

Hackpad goes open source

85

5

Lessons learned from the early days of Google [video]

45

6

Elon Musk inviting John Carmack to work on rockets

24

7

Google Is Now a 'Tier Two' Employer, Says Recent Comp-Sci Grad

23

8

A professional programmer joined an amateur gamedev project… it didn’t go well

19

9

NASA GoPro footage from EVA 30

16

10

Pycon Keynote on Being Average in Programming [video]

16

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Boltons: over 100 Python utilities

282

2

LLILC – LLVM-Based Compiler for .NET CoreCLR

220

3

City of Helsinki

161

4

Reference cycle bug in Rust's scoped threads

106

5

Facebook updates React Patent grant

93

6

Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace

81

7

CSS Framework for Dummies

77

8

Microcode parser for AMD, Intel, and VIA processors

61

9

Gradual type checking for Ruby

60

10

JIT compiler for 6502 machine code, built on lib6502 and LLVM

59

Wikipedia [?]

1

54

2

Relativistic kill vehicle

38

3

32

4

30

5

16

6

6

7

Year Without a Summer

4

8

4

9

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

3

10

Amorphous computing

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Code Is Just the Symptom

263

2

The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join

207

3

Inconvenient Truths About the Apple Watch

138

4

Raising Money in London Almost Killed Our Startup

95

5

Why Self-Organizing Is So Hard

91

6

Andy Hertzfeld's take on the Schlender-Tetzeli bio

51

7

Self-host a scientific journal with eLife Lens

50

8

Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, Talks Bitcoin’s Most Ambitious Successor

49

9

The Struggle for Series A

34

10

What the Apple Watch Means for the Age of Notifications

26

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

20

2

What does the C??? operator do?

11

3

Java 8 times faster with arrays then std::vector in C++. What did I do wrong?

10

4

You don't need `class`, `this` and `() = {}`

4

5

OS X will only recognize Apple's CA for kernel extensions

4

6

Best excuse ever

4

7

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

3

8

StackOverflow Developer Survey 2015

3

9

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

2

10

Is 1.0 a valid output from std::generate_canonical?

2

Substack [?]