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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

1227

2

Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

894

3

What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps

740

4

Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC

735

5

Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor

697

6

Don't Talk to Corp Dev

674

7

634

8

A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

629

9

How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire

599

10

DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

552

Top Ask HN

1

What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?

463

2

Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?

128

3

How to get started with paying side projects?

125

4

Is Swift ready for production yet?

69

5

What do you need in HN search?

66

6

Salary in Stockholm?

59

7

What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aaron Swartz?

59

8

Is there any country that allows foreigner setup their company online?

55

9

Sell, open-source, or abandon a $10k/year Mac app?

48

10

Can I sell a SaaS service without a company?

45

Top Show HN

1

Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript

305

2

App for Falling in Love

252

3

Save your side project

175

4

Smart pointers for the C programming language

126

5

I built an iOS remake of that old windows game SkiFree

107

6

Beds and services for homeless youth

100

7

Slalom – creating declarative touch interactions with constraints

96

8

A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”

93

9

Simple wiki server written in Go

82

10

Facebook Page Unliker

82

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Obama calls for municipal broadband

520

2

Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

301

3

Google Domains Launches to All in U.S

239

4

East of Palo Alto’s Eden

209

5

Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

151

6

Decentralize All the Things

143

7

Hacked emails reveal China’s Internet propaganda machine

138

8

FCC urged to investigate Verizon’s statements on utility rules

129

9

What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth

116

10

MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M

93

News [?]

1

I Owe It All to Community College

400

2

Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love

320

3

Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad

316

4

Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo

244

5

BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, study says

242

6

Trapped in His Body for 12 Years, a Man Breaks Free

209

7

Scientists say they’ll soon extend life ‘well beyond 120’

174

8

El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Top at Yosemite

166

9

Hotel Wi-Fi blocking: Marriott is bad

161

10

Regular naps are 'key to learning'

158

Scientific publications [?]

1

Computers Conquer Heads-Up Limit Hold'em

53

2

Quantum hard drive breakthrough

52

3

Super-insulated clothing could eliminate need for indoor heating

49

4

Metasurface Solves Calculus Problems as Analog Computer

41

5

One of the Milky Way's arms might encircle the entire galaxy

36

6

Tobii and SteelSeries Release Consumer Eye Tracker

30

7

Chemists one step closer to new generation of electric car battery

25

8

Effects of retroactive prayer on outcomes in patients with infection (2001)

25

9

Rapere: An Intercept Drone to Seek and Destroy Other Drones

9

10

On Math, Matter and Mind (2005) [pdf]

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers

104

2

Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programming

91

3

Machine learning for fraud detection

70

4

A JIT for grepping: jrep and rejit (2014)

65

5

David Cameron's Plan to Ban Encryption in the UK

12

6

C4 Engine Drops Linux Support, Calls It “Frankenstein OS”

9

7

Bitcoin Price Continues to Fall, Breaks $200 Mark

6

8

Bitcoin Price Crashes Through $250 Mark

6

9

The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule

5

10

Schneier: Attack Attribution in Cyberspace

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even More Rights

285

2

Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment

8

3

More surveillance won’t protect free speech

7

4

President Obama Gets It: Net Neutrality Begins at Home

7

5

Patent Troll Can't Stop People from Accessing Medical Records Online Anymore

4

6

Consumers Deserve Protection Against the Scourge of DRM–Will the UN Help?

3

7

PEN America: “The Harm Caused by Surveillanceis Unmistakable”

2

8

Drone and CCTVs for Everyone: Surveillance Tech Expands Across Latin America

2

9

Apple Watch iPhone ‘Companion’ app revealed with new Watch features, monograms

2

10

Apple Watch iPhone ‘Companion’ app revealed with new Watch features, monograms

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS C4 Instances

50

2

8m (26'3“) Audioquest Diamond RJ/E (Ethernet) Cable, $5,494.75

9

3

U.S. jobs created or supported by Apple

9

4

New C4 Instances for EC2 Now Available

6

5

Book giveaway on Amazon only today: Startupedia (please review if you can)

6

6

New C4 instances launched on EC2 AWS

5

7

New AWS EC-2 Instances Most Powerful Amz Cloud EC2 Instances

4

8

Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery Now Available in the US East

4

9

Hackers and Painters on Kindle $3.99 today only (USA)

3

10

ClassicLink: Private Communication Between Classic EC2 Instances and VPC Resources

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Chilling Effects removes itself from search engines

189

2

Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan

134

3

The Invasion of America: New Visualizations of Native American Dispossession

92

4

Notepad ++ hacked for Je Suis Charlie comments(web archive link)

65

5

Is this microservice?

18

6

The Myth of the Tech Whiz Who Quits College to Start a Company

17

7

The power of story: stories as agents of personal transformation

12

8

Elon Musk says Model 3 will cost $35,000, aiming for 2017 launch

10

9

Pirate Bay's Mystery AES Code Finally Decrypted

10

10

Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan

8

Science News [?]

1

Mathematician's anger over his unread 500-page proof

126

2

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture

118

3

A Proof That Some Spaces Can’t Be Cut

67

4

For Sale: “Your Name Here” in a Prestigious Science Journal

46

5

Game Theorists Crack Poker

45

6

Tired of London? Maybe you're living in the wrong place

30

7

Blown-up brains reveal nanoscale details

27

8

An Arguably Unreal Particle Powers All of Your Electronics (2013)

19

9

Renaissance-Era Italian Warlord Was Poisoned, Mummy Reveals

18

10

14-year-old creates eco-battery

15

Social [?]

1

Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]

229

2

Redstone Word Processor in Minecraft [video]

166

3

Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL”

137

4

Whois on any .fr domain displays “je suis charlie”

130

5

“Why does a car like the Tesla still have old-style fuses?”

114

6

Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

75

7

Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt (2014) [video]

51

8

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org

50

9

What's coming up for RethinkDB in 2015 [video]

44

10

K'nex Mechanical Computer (2011) [video]

23

Github repos and gists [?]

1

List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science

300

2

195

3

An NES emulator written in Go

187

4

Run Any JavaScript Function in the Cloud

181

5

Operating System Development in Rust

160

6

Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages

149

7

Remote code execution in Asus router firmware

125

8

GitHub's pages targeted by porn industry DMCA request to Google

90

9

Tesser – Clojure reducers, but for parallel execution on distributed systems

57

10

SpockFS – An HTTP-based network filesystem

55

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Magic SysRq key

55

2

Curta mechanical calculator

38

3

David Wheeler (British computer scientist)

8

4

Red Square Nebula

6

5

Celebratory gunfire – Falling-bullet injuries

5

6

Rubber duck debugging

4

7

Tabula Peutingeriana

4

8

Baumol's Cost Disease

4

9

List of common misconceptions

3

10

Shivkar Bapuji Talpade

3

Blogs [?]

1

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

1227

2

Don't Talk to Corp Dev

674

3

How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

379

4

What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?

302

5

Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

149

6

Why Instagram Worked

120

7

Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K

114

8

The Smalltalk Revolution

84

9

A 1980 Teenager's View of Social Media

76

10

The history of grep

72

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Turning a bunch of numeric attributes into a single score

5

2

What does `void 0` mean?

5

3

Difficulty in implementing tail recursive calls in C

3

4

What are all the uses of an underscore in Scala?

2

5

What's the fastest algorithm for sorting a linked list?

1

6

Thorough refactoring solution for renaming rails models?

1

Substack [?]