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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub

1038

2

Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell

828

3

Let Snowden Come Home

785

4

Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

623

5

Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh

553

6

539

7

Project Jacquard

531

8

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]

506

9

Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality

490

10

Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account

484

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (June 2015)

429

2

I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?

310

3

Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

149

4

Are there forgotten servers out there?

144

5

My free app has gone slighty viral – looking for ideas to monetize it

121

6

Those who hired bootcamp graduates, would you hire them again?

93

7

How to get lots of spam, fast?

72

8

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015)

62

9

Which Laptop models would you recommend for a developer using Linux?

50

10

Python Enthusiast – How to get my foot through the door?

44

Top Show HN

1

Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

249

2

194

3

Explore 16 Years of Green Card Applications

173

4

Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript

171

5

Differential Equations Explained

171

6

Startup Jobs for Developers

150

7

Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer

127

8

The first websynth that's 100% mappable to a MIDI controller

122

9

A puzzle game inspired by functional programming, written in PureScript

121

10

Use wealthbot.io to easily setup your own portfolio management platform

114

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy

272

2

Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card

249

3

All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem

217

4

The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout

161

5

How Much Do Skyscrapers Actually Move?

107

6

The Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2015 Report

103

7

Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot challenge

91

8

Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform

90

9

Esperanto is finding new life online

86

10

Google Will Launch Google Photos, a Photo Host With “Unlimited Storage”

83

News [?]

1

Let Snowden Come Home

785

2

Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison

623

3

WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal

426

4

FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities

379

5

Intel Buys Altera for $16.7B

339

6

Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

293

7

How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)

261

8

Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

249

9

Why do airplane windows have tiny holes?

246

10

Senate Approves Bill to Rein in N.S.A. Surveillance

230

Scientific publications [?]

1

Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves into Nothing

160

2

Braid is undecidable (2014) [pdf]

136

3

Physical Limits to Computation (2000) [pdf]

40

4

Visual Search at Pinterest [pdf]

32

5

NASA Telescopes Set Limits on Spacetime Quantum “Foam”

20

6

How Computer Modelers Took On the Ebola Outbreak

14

7

Macroscopic and direct light propulsion of bulk graphene material

8

8

Do burnout and work engagement predict depressive symptoms or satisfaction?

6

9

Researchers prove magnetism can control heat, sound

5

10

Take a stand on autonomous killer robots

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Android Pay is coming

150

2

Flying faster with Twitter Heron

117

3

The programming talent myth

103

4

Stripe and Pinterest

98

5

The OpenJDK Revised Java Memory Model

64

6

Developing Provably-Correct Software Using Formal Methods

60

7

Measuring data structure sizes: Firefox (C++) vs. Servo (Rust)

28

8

Delay-gradient congestion control

25

9

Firefox and Pocket

5

10

UN Report on the Value of Encryption to Freedom Worldwide

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Section 215 Expires For Now

471

2

Freedom Act Passes: What We Celebrate, What We Mourn, and Where We Go from Here

207

3

UN Experts Condemn the Human Rights Costs of Secret Trade Agreements

190

4

The Truth about SSD Data Retention

72

5

AMD Launches Carrizo

56

6

EFF sued for defamation by lawyer behind a "Stupid Patent of the Month"

53

7

TISA: Yet Another Treaty You've Never Heard of Makes Secret Internet Rules

39

8

Canarywatch.org Reaches 50 Canaries

19

9

The US Senate's Patriot Act Fail

15

10

The Government Still Has Plenty of Surveillance Power If Section 215 Sunsets

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers

318

2

Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go

137

3

Windows 10, coming July 29, free to Win7 and 8.1 users

51

4

Amazon Elastic File System

12

5

Reading Just Got Better

5

6

Upgrade to Windows 10 for free

4

7

Beats Pill XL Speaker Recall Program

3

8

EC2 Instance History

2

9

Microsoft's ebook: From Agile to DevOps

2

10

Microsoft: Accelerate your application delivery lifecycle

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Accounting for Developers

285

2

Yesterday's best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns

221

3

Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says

129

4

The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

61

5

Ford follows Tesla’s lead and opens all their electric vehicle patents

54

6

Head Space: Behind 10,000 Years of Artificial Cranial Modification

38

7

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Fredrik Neij Released from Prison

16

8

Beyond Automation

7

9

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Fredrik Neij Released from Prison

4

10

Kim Dotcom Thwarts $67M Asset Forfeiture by U.S. Government

3

Science News [?]

1

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

241

2

How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

113

3

How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds

83

4

Animal behaviour: Inside the cunning, caring and greedy minds of fish

70

5

John Ochsendorf: The architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers

56

6

Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon

47

7

Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay to rival Silicon Valley

25

8

The Unpredictable Era of Editing Human Embryos

19

9

Around the world global warming is exposing bodies lost in glaciers

12

10

How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science

11

Social [?]

1

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]

506

2

Securing Email Communications from Facebook

399

3

Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

237

4

Google I/O 2015 – Keynote

145

5

Hound voice search NLP demo [video]

142

6

Japan Bicycle Parking Technology [video]

67

7

Stress Test Recap: Bitcoin

63

8

JetBrains' MPS Projectional Editor [video]

60

9

Google ATAP: Welcome to Project Soli [video]

57

10

Elixir and the Internet of Things (2014) [video]

53

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PicoC: A very small C interpreter

164

2

RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor

155

3

Proposed Who Is Hiring Spec

106

4

Docker Bench for Security

98

5

Mail-in-a-Box Security Guide

97

6

Neural network OCR in JavaScript

81

7

How to clone Agar.io

76

8

Linux Insides: Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, Part 1

74

9

Git-hub – Do GitHub operations from the git command

71

10

Operational PGP

70

Wikipedia [?]

1

174

2

Arrow's impossibility theorem

97

3

38

4

7

5

OpenBSD security features

4

6

Quantum Zeno effect

3

7

Executive Order 6102

3

8

Carl Gugasian – The 'STEM' Bank Robber

3

9

List of video game crowdfunding projects

3

10

Bread and circuses

3

Blogs [?]

1

How we uncovered the identity of popular spyware makers

255

2

Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?

158

3

Slashdot Burying Stories About SlashdotMedia Owned SourceForge

145

4

Daum Kakao Will Acquire the Path and Path Talk Apps

79

5

Can Reddit interview presidential candidates better than traditional media?

77

6

Taste for Makers (2002)

70

7

The Evolution of Flux Frameworks

70

8

Pharo at Beta Nine

46

9

How Google’s New Photos App Can Tell Cats From Dogs

30

10

Cassandra on ContainerShip

28

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

4

2

Why Functional Languages

4

3

Thinking in AngularJS with a JQuery Background

3

4

Representing a hex grid as a data structure

2

5

JavaScript: Difference between microtask and macrotask in the event loop

2

6

JS Package Manager: Bower vs. Jspm

1

7

Apple Watch – WKInterfaceSwitch Bug

1

8

MVVM, dependency injection and too many constructor parameters

1

Substack [?]