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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

1275

2

Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

723

3

CoreCLR is now open source

709

4

F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility

636

5

EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

582

6

Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed

573

7

Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

550

8

Introducing React Native [video]

542

9

Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

523

10

Inkscape 0.91 release

511

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (February 2015)

459

2

I got let go this morning. What should I do next?

215

3

Could you share your general purpose development contracts?

138

4

An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?

133

5

What to do if you are ridiculously burnt out?

108

6

What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

84

7

Someone raised money by claiming my project as their own

80

8

Laptop for FreeBSD?

75

9

How do you analyze logs?

71

10

Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?

70

Top Show HN

1

Matterhorn – Your new project manager

298

2

Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture

203

3

A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C

172

4

PolyGen App, turn gradients and photos into pretty low poly patterns

108

5

Monthly earnings of 23 Twitch streamer

92

6

Online Data Science Courses for $10

81

7

AI Planning for Starcraft

78

8

Jolie – The First Programming Language for Microservices

64

9

Beautiful movie app for movie info, trailers, showtimes

49

10

Health Scout – An app I wrote for a mother traveling with a sick child

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

1275

2

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

434

3

Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M

288

4

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web

266

5

Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars

263

6

The NFL wants you to think these things are illegal

251

7

Amazon Is in Talks to Buy RadioShack Stores, Report Says

236

8

Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids

132

9

Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS and Android

122

10

Tesla’s P85D Will Get Even Faster Thanks to a Software Update

116

News [?]

1

F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility

636

2

Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

523

3

Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens

485

4

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results

346

5

Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts

292

6

Harper Lee to publish Mockingbird 'sequel'

270

7

Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project

212

8

Why You Should Tell Your Children How Much You Make

175

9

FBI put Anonymous 'hacktivist' Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist

173

10

UK to allow babies from three people

172

Scientific publications [?]

1

Layoff Underway at IBM

274

2

A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences (2014) [pdf]

62

3

Black holes do not exist where space and time do not exist, says new theory

50

4

How would the world change if we found extraterrestrial life?

47

5

Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks [pdf]

19

6

Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed

18

7

China's New Rules Ask Tech Firms to Hand Over Source Code

17

8

SprayList: multicore-optimized inexact priority queues

10

9

New algorithm can separate unstructured text into topics with high accuracy

5

10

Effects of food processing on masticatory strain and craniofacial growth

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

PlayStation 4 System Compiler Support Landing in LLVM

95

2

Path MTU Discovery in Practice

29

3

Help us test our DNSSEC implementation

14

4

DNSSEC Done Right

11

5

Does VirtualBox VM Have Much a Future Left?

9

6

Next-Gen OpenGL to Be Shown Off Next Month

7

7

Obama Says Terrorism Is Not an Existential Threat

7

8

When real validation begins

5

9

Systemd integrates gummiboot for boot safety

5

10

SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

582

2

EFF Joins Coalition to Launch Canarywatch.org

18

3

iTunes Connect Issue Causing Developers to Be Logged into Wrong Accounts

13

4

iOS 8 Adoption Rate Hits 72% as Android Lollipop Distribution Reaches 1.6%

9

5

The Google Nexus 9 Review

7

6

ARM Announces Cortex-A72, CCI-500, and Mali-T880

7

7

Who Really Owns Your Drones?

7

8

Retrotechtacular: The Gossamer Condor

6

9

Introducing the Raspberry Pi 2

5

10

iTunes Connect portal down – users able to login to others' accounts

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go

209

2

Amazon WorkMail

42

3

Amazon Workmail

4

4

OneDrive for Business Mac Sync Client Preview

2

5

AWS Aurora: The new relational database engine

2

6

Microsoft launches affordable TV white space Internet in Ghana

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and failure

97

2

Full ZX-81 Chess in 1K (1983)

33

3

How did science come to speak only English?

29

4

Byte Magazine Volume 20 Number 09: 20 Years

24

5

The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Sharing at All

11

6

Reddit Rejects 62% of All Copyright Complaints

5

7

A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and failure

5

8

Huge Security Flaw Leaks VPN Users’ Real IP-Addresses

5

9

Huge Security Flaw Leaks VPN Users' Real IP-Addresses

5

10

The Pirate Bay is back online

5

Science News [?]

1

Chemists Confirm the Existence of New Type of Bond

71

2

What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves

38

3

Measurements on the reality of the wavefunction

36

4

An Iceberg Flipped Over, and Its Underside Is Breathtaking

34

5

Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal

33

6

Prehistoric High Times: Early Humans Used Magic Mushrooms, Opium

26

7

Graphene’s cousin silicene makes transistor debut

23

8

The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations

21

9

How Jocks and Mathletes Are Alike

18

10

New programming language for fast simulations

16

Social [?]

1

Introducing React Native [video]

542

2

A Deep Dive on React Native [video]

199

3

First NetHack bot ascension

196

4

A source for this picture?

175

5

Reddit transparency report, 2014

158

6

YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights

95

7

Robert Scoble to take 2 months off

28

8

From JavaScript to ClojureScript [video]

17

9

Mapping, Localization, and Self-Driving Vehicles [video]

15

10

The Seattle Seahawks play calling

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mkcast – GIF terminal screencasts with key presses overlaid

304

2

Relay FAQ: Facebook's Data-fetching Framework for React

239

3

Atom now using Io.js

223

4

Flux Comparison by Example

145

5

116

6

Webseclab – Web security test cases and a construction toolkit

114

7

C++ named operators

113

8

React License – Additional Grant of Patent Rights

111

9

106

10

This project won China 2014 State Science and Technology Prize

105

Wikipedia [?]

1

84

2

The Nebra sky disk

57

3

5

4

1000 tons of diamonds created every year on Saturn

3

5

Buckaroo Banzai

3

6

3

7

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster – February 1st 2003

2

8

The forgetting curve

2

9

Michael Scott – The First CEO of Apple from 1977 to 1981

2

10

Kardashev scale

2

Blogs [?]

1

A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

415

2

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

318

3

The curious case of disappearing Polish S

295

4

271

5

One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

181

6

I feel like a fraud and that’s a good thing

177

7

Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Shotgun into Space

151

8

Make Your Startup Great at One Thing

131

9

Andrew Ng on the state of deep learning at Baidu

122

10

Paradoxes That Threaten to Tear Modern Cosmology Apart

86

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to deal with race conditions in Django tests?

7

2

What is the difference between URI, URL and URN?

6

3

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

5

4

Why do we need monads?

3

5

What is the difference between Node.js and io.js? – Stack Overflow

3

6

Excessive Latency on CORS AJAX Request to Local WSGI Server in Chrome

2

7

How slow are Java exceptions?

2

8

What is the difference between double-dot .. and triple-dot ... in Git?

1

9

SwiftyJSON: Loop through results and add to array

1

Substack [?]