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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tesla Energy
1162
2
Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died
1014
3
Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
919
4
Fractal Lab
900
5
Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
698
6
Talking About Money
650
7
Grooveshark Shuts Down
555
8
Agar.io
528
9
The programming talent myth
510
10
I would have hired Doug, but...
505
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (May 2015)
501
2
Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?
308
3
Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?
158
4
What newsletters do you read every day or week?
148
5
Should I consider a startup based on scraped data?
111
6
How to not base self worth on your own work?
71
7
How to cope with depression
69
8
Getting in front of people
67
9
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2015)
66
10
How to avoid giving a scathing code review?
66
Top Show HN
1
kiUi – Lightweight auto-layout stylable UI toolkit
136
2
Efficiently searching compressed text files
125
3
Parsing CSV files with GPU
123
4
Filter and read Hacker News by category
78
5
2D PID controller simulation
73
6
4m-accuracy Indoor Location with Beacons
71
7
Onboarded – User Onboarding as a Service
54
8
FumbleBrag – Learn from Others' Failures
49
9
The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
45
10
Talking Code – Technical podcast for nontechnical people
45
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
275
2
Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon
272
3
Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system
201
4
Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock
160
5
Neural network chip built using memristors
149
6
Microsoft Announces Azure Stack
100
7
Uber Is Testing a Massive Merchant Delivery Program
99
8
Zenefits (YC W13) Just Raised $500M at a $4.5B Valuation
97
9
Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform
90
10
AltSchool, an Experiment in Education, Raises $100M
87
News [?]
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Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)
462
2
Illegal drugs: The wars don’t work
263
3
Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand
224
4
Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped
216
5
How to Beat a Polygraph Test
211
6
Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
184
7
The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up in the U.S.
182
8
Peter Thiel on what works at work (2014)
143
9
Congressman with CS degree: Encryption back-doors are ‘technologically stupid’
141
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IBM's Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals
139
Scientific publications [?]
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Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS for Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality
78
2
Microwave Ovens Posing as Astronomical Objects
58
3
No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
39
4
Telomerase gene therapy in mice delays aging without increasing cancer (2012)
36
5
Two new advances toward building the first practical quantum computer
27
6
New gold standard established for open and reproducible research
22
7
Riding Gravity Away from Doomsday
18
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Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines
18
9
Blade: A Data Center Garbage Collector [pdf]
17
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Fjords are 'hotspots' in global carbon cycling
15
Dev Blogs [?]
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The programming talent myth
510
2
Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
340
3
Introducing F# 4.0
161
4
Firefox OS for TV: UX Overview
124
5
An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
122
6
Redesigning CloudFlare
43
7
Google Cloud Bigtable
16
8
Git 2.4 released: this is what changed
9
9
The kdbuswreck
8
10
Apple Rebuilds Siri Back End Services Using Apache Mesos
6
Tech blogs [?]
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The New USA Freedom Act: A Step in the Right Direction, but More Must Be Done
147
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Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want to You to Police Your Users
75
3
Congrats on the 10 Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID
74
4
Eclipse IP Casts a Shadow Over Innovation
63
5
Apple Urging Music Labels to Stop Licensing Free Songs on Spotify and YouTube
20
6
SOPA Lives on for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
11
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EFF Argues Internet Surveillance Must Be Excluded from Criminal Trials
7
8
The PATENT Act: The Senate’s Solid Start to Reforming the Patent System
6
9
Private DNA data led cops on wild goose chase and linked innocent man to murder
6
10
Help Free PACER in San Francisco and New York This Friday
5
FAANG+ [?]
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The GNU Make Book
38
2
Keyboard Ghosting
27
3
Microsoft Hololens looks amazing
3
4
AWS and Sustainable Energy
2
5
Python Data Science
1
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
1
7
Apple ResearchKit
1
8
Books that influenced Clojure, in no particular order
1
9
Everything changes with iPad
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Is there a war instinct?
29
2
Twitter and What Might Have Been
24
3
The Disremembered
17
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Kim Dotcom has succeeded in getting more of his seized funds
14
5
From Economic Man to Behavioral Economics
12
6
How horizontal gene transfer shakes up evolution
12
7
The Fire Age
11
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Atmospheric refraction: a history (2005)
9
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Kim Dotcom Awarded Millions for Legal Bills and Living Expenses
8
10
When Bad Behaviour Does a Good Turn
7
Science News [?]
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Ants show that emergency exits can work better when they’re obstructed
126
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How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created
87
3
Give Thanks to Jupiter, Our Little Planet’s Big Protector
75
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Gut Feelings: The “Second Brain” in Our Gastrointestinal Systems
75
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Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg
73
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Sixth DNA base discovered?
68
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The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
67
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Rapidly falling costs of battery packs for electric vehicles
65
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A Man Who Beat HIV for 30 Years
48
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First results from psychology’s largest reproducibility test
47
Social [?]
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Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
468
2
What we know about the EmDrive and Cannae Drive
208
3
Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]
197
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Virgin Media stores user passwords in plaintext?
51
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SpaceX Pad Abort Test
42
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Mike Bostock Leaves NYT Graphics to Work on Visualization Startup
8
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John Carmack technical talk on rendering techniques for the Gear VR
6
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Threes removed from Google Play for using “2048” as keyword
6
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Prime Minister of Singapore codes Sudoku solver in C++
6
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Sama: “using a new version of HN that renders on mobile”
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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Seaborn: a high-level Python interface for drawing statistical graphics
134
2
Assembler for Nvidia Maxwell architecture
132
3
Ccat – syntax highlighting cat
127
4
Improving the GitHub Workflow for the Microsoft Community
124
5
Dart for Android apps with 120fps
115
6
Elasticsearch node crashes can cause data loss
112
7
A small kernel written in Nim
111
8
Distributed Read-Write Mutex in Go
109
9
The JustDecompile .NET decompiler engine has been open-sourced
102
10
The Lux Programming Language
85
Wikipedia [?]
1
Peak car
210
2
Corrupted Blood Incident
87
3
Cognitive Distortion
55
4
Long line (topology)
46
5
Mechanism design
31
6
Operation Northwoods
9
7
Funeral strippers
6
8
Year 2038 problem
4
9
Therac-25
3
10
Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
2
Blogs [?]
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Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
328
2
What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York
295
3
The Secret Lives of Homeless Students
170
4
How I Hacked My Way from TC to YC
122
5
Silicon Valley Then and Now
111
6
Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewhere
95
7
Our company has a therapist
44
8
In Rwanda, Building a “University in a Box”
41
9
Slack's $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce
33
10
The CIA Battled the Kremlin with Books and Movies
33
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is `1000000000000000 in range(1000000000000001)` so fast?
6
2
JavaScript – How can I animate the drawing of text on a web page?
1
Substack [?]