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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What should I do about YouTube?

1391

2

YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

1035

3

710

4

Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

700

5

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

678

6

Deploying Tor Relays

541

7

CVE-2015-0235 – GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow

531

8

PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

524

9

Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan

489

10

Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

486

Top Ask HN

1

Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?

151

2

All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?

117

3

What's a day in your life look like?

71

4

What is this triangle in the Philippines?

54

5

The purest skills needed to become a programmer?

50

6

What do you do if some other startup got funding for your exact idea?

45

7

Do you feel like your potential is being wasted?

28

8

When was the last time you lived 24 hours without the Internet?

27

9

Tricks to integrate late coding session in current workflow?

24

10

Can you be a good programmer if you are not details oriented?

23

Top Show HN

1

LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello

243

2

Get your local and public IP addresses in JavaScript

239

3

Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs

217

4

Haskell on Heroku – Buildpack for deploying Haskell apps

148

5

Ultra, a Leiningen plugin for a superior development environment

144

6

Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present)

111

7

Pacifica, daily tools for anxiety based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

106

8

LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge

83

9

Shipit, pure JavaScript deployment tool used by Ghost blogging platform

81

10

Offline – Access your favorite websites without a network connection

69

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in Apple OS X

351

2

Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)

284

3

80 Percent of Tor Traffic Is Not Child Porn

224

4

Ross Ulbricht’s private journal shows Silk Road’s birth

221

5

Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop

200

6

China Cracks Down on VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’

179

7

Inside the Tragic, Obsessive World of Video Game Addicts

112

8

Lockitron Announces the $99 Bolt, a Deadbolt You Can Unlock with Your Phone

85

9

Pachyderm (YC W15) – A Data Processing Tool for the Docker Generation

79

10

Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen in Silicon Valley

77

News [?]

1

U.S. Spies on Millions of Cars

393

2

“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

389

3

Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem

367

4

Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece

272

5

Inside the world of longsword fighting

267

6

Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, innovative and complex

246

7

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human

214

8

When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'

198

9

IBM says 'several thousand' layoffs on the way

182

10

Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies

173

Scientific publications [?]

1

Chemists find a way to unboil eggs

164

2

Lifespan depends on month of birth (2000)

116

3

NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)

94

4

Space Shuttle Mission Archives – Challenger, January 28, 1986

56

5

A brain implant offers relief to an epilepsy patient

48

6

A red meat-derived glycan promotes inflammation and cancer progression

46

7

Brain Hackers Beware: Scientist Says tDCS Has No Effect

38

8

Scientists set quantum speed limit

19

9

AI Experts to Explore Turing Test Triathlon

15

10

Smart Neural Stimulators Listen to the Body to Deliver Tailored Therapy

14

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Deploying Tor Relays

541

2

Improving Linux networking performance

235

3

Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

190

4

The “too small to fail” memory-allocation rule

150

5

Now on Twitter: Group direct messages and mobile video camera

78

6

Schneier: My Conversation with Edward Snowden

11

7

FBI: Businesses Lost $215M to Email Scams

10

8

New Google Container Registry for Docker Images

9

9

When Thinking Machines Break the Law

7

10

Google Container Registry

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

700

2

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

678

3

Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential to Copyright

174

4

British Spy Agency Considers Journalists a Threat, Vacuums Up Their Emails

152

5

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970: Correcting the Specs and Exploring Memory Allocation

88

6

What You Can Learn from Oakland's Raw ALPR Data

11

7

Digital Rights Groups Oppose Fast Track for the TPP

6

8

Tweetbot for Mac falls victim to token limit, gets pulled from App Store

4

9

Which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe?

3

10

Apple to Shut Down Old TestFlight Website in February

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

262

2

Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

6

3

C++: The Good Parts

3

4

Earnings Release FY15 Q2 – Microsoft

2

5

Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results

1

6

The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (2005)

90

2

Are we ready for companies that run themselves?

19

3

Is technology making us vulnerable?

17

4

GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

9

5

Zombie Pirate Bay Tracker Fuels Chinese DDoS Attacks

6

6

The Scarcity Games

5

7

Using Project Kotlin for Android

4

8

Bad Assumptions

4

9

Are we all born with synaesthesia?

3

10

Steve Jobs Lied?

2

Science News [?]

1

Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

182

2

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home

67

3

Physicist Paul Steinhardt on what’s wrong with inflation theory

45

4

Robots Can’t Dance: Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated

38

5

Genghis Khan's genetic legacy has competition

37

6

Humankind’s Most Ambitious Search for Life’s Beginnings

35

7

The Secret Language of Tennis Champions (2013)

29

8

Developing the DeLorean: Literature and science, traveling through time

23

9

Quantum Computing Without Qubits

21

10

How to Build a Better Learner

20

Social [?]

1

Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps

466

2

Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

329

3

Facebook was down

323

4

Why the Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang [video]

93

5

Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix [video]

56

6

Self-Driving Tractor (1978) [video]

43

7

Interfacing D to Legacy C++ Code [video]

29

8

A flying robot that can walk [video]

20

9

The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [31c3]

19

10

Hi Reddit, I’m Bill Gates and I’m back for my third AMA

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

330

2

First C# 7 Design Meeting Notes

154

3

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

147

4

Code, Eval, Play, Loop – Common Lisp OpenGL Environment

139

5

Npm install could be dangerous

122

6

Zstandard – Fast and efficient compression algorithm

113

7

Run a script when police raid your house

106

8

Texgen.js – Lightweight Procedural Texture Generator

98

9

Bitcoinfs: A minimal full Bitcoin node in F#

90

10

Zbackup: open-source, encrypted, de-duplicated, compressed backups

76

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Unsolved Problems in Physics

105

2

The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation

76

3

Shatranj, the predecessor of modern chess

47

4

Dolgopolsky list

42

5

List of cognitive biases

5

6

The Mother of All Demos

4

7

List of Google Domains

4

8

India is celebrating the 66th Republic Day today with Obama

3

9

3

10

List of genetic algorithm applications

3

Blogs [?]

1

Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President

215

2

The Way We Hire Is All Wrong

168

3

Wake No More – The exhausting world of the hypersomniac

159

4

The Net Neutrality Bait and Switch

112

5

Is running ads on a programming blog worth it?

99

6

Coffee Meets Bagel Meets Me – Statistical analysis of online dating

76

7

Science by democracy doesn’t work

72

8

The 30,000 Futures of the Brain

65

9

The Deep Mind of Demis Hassabis

59

10

Superman vs. Baseball

48

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can I hack people connecting to my server?

3

2

Why does the 260 character path length limit exist in Windows?

3

3

You can't parse html with regex

2

4

Disable zoom on input focus in Android webpage (2011)

1

5

Creators of Vagrant and Docker submit an answer to same question

1

6

How does python's “Conda” work internally?

1

Substack [?]