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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

2088

2

I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords

594

3

A Xenon flash will cause the Raspberry Pi 2 to freeze

544

4

First Impressions Using React Native

539

5

Flipboard releases React Canvas

501

6

Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

482

7

The Bitcoin Piñata

482

8

Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android

448

9

Modern SQL in PostgreSQL

446

10

YC for Hardware

445

Top Ask HN

1

How to manage developers who aren't very good?

179

2

Should I Downplay My Age?

84

3

What is wrong with me?

65

4

What is it like to work on pager duty?

51

5

Would you hire me (passionate hobbyist programmer) to a dev position?

43

6

What to do when CloudFlare is on an Adult block list

42

7

Should I have multiple employers file H-1B petitions for me?

40

8

What is the most you've paid for a domain name?

39

9

As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies

37

10

What is “full stack” actually?

36

Top Show HN

1

A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

375

2

I rendered the Go gopher using Go

287

3

A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads

265

4

Watch People Code

243

5

193

6

I made a command-line iMessage interface

130

7

JanOS – A new OS that turns your smartphone into an IoT board

123

8

Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services

114

9

Gosms – Your own local SMS gateway powered by Golang

101

10

JustWatch – Choose your favorite streaming providers and see what’s new

94

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game

367

2

New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers

281

3

Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

265

4

The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery has an idea for a new one

229

5

Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone

226

6

Confessions of a Congressman

207

7

Dark Patterns: Inside the interfaces designed to trick you

164

8

Why Do Cats Love Boxes?

160

9

Once-starving GnuPG crypto project gets a windfall. Now comes the hard part

159

10

Twitter Confirms New Google Firehose Deal

144

News [?]

1

At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday

402

2

How Chris McCandless Died: An Update

311

3

UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’

296

4

An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost

258

5

Why reading a book 100 times is a great idea

240

6

How startup Fab died

233

7

404. PAGE Not FOUND

174

8

Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps

172

9

Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)

172

10

The Island Where People Forget to Die

150

Scientific publications [?]

1

Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]

240

2

Text Understanding from Scratch Using Temporal Convolutional Networks

61

3

Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]

53

4

No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning

30

5

TuPAQ: an efficient planner for large-scale predictive analytic queries [pdf]

13

6

How to collect matches that will catch fire: thoughts on picking researchers

9

7

Flying Robot Just Won a $1M Drone Competition

9

8

Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification

9

9

Is “Valleytronics” the Next Big Thing in Quantum Computing?

8

10

Massive Worldwide Layoff Underway at IBM

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta

155

2

An overhyped GHOST

96

3

Anthem Breach May Have Started in April 2014

91

4

How programs get run

73

5

Introducing Extension Signing: A Safer Add-On Experience

26

6

[Mozilla] Introducing Extension Signing: A Safer Add-On Experience

22

7

RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Packages”

19

8

The ACCESS_ONCE() macro (2012)

13

9

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem Could Impact Millions

10

10

Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters

381

2

An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running

264

3

Negotiators Lose Last Chance to Salvage the TPP by Caving on Copyright Extension

250

4

EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals’ Cell-Tracking Spy Planes

208

5

Developer Saved Years Later by His Own Hardware

149

6

A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP

140

7

Things to Love About Reddit’s First Transparency Report

125

8

EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid

108

9

UIKit-like Framework Called UXKit Used in Photos for Mac – 9to5Mac

5

10

Jewel V. NSA: Making Sense of a Disappointing Decision Over Mass Surveillance

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

181

2

Cluster Management with Amazon ECS

34

3

The era of holographic computing is here

7

4

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supports Go

5

5

AWS SDK for Ruby – Version 2

2

6

Melanie's Marvelous Measles

2

7

Thinking about buying this book: The Phoenix Project. Would you recommend it?

1

8

Our brain-computer needs cooling

1

9

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Apple's New Market

129

2

Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up

71

3

Blogging’s Bright Future

36

4

34

5

Why Are We Obsessed with Talking Animals?

10

6

Management theories from Roman slave-owners

8

7

Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great

7

8

Kickass Torrents taken down by domain name seizure

4

9

File-Sharing Icon RapidShare Shuts Down

4

10

Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

4

Science News [?]

1

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

147

2

Sodium's explosive secrets revealed

123

3

All cause mortality and the case for age specific alcohol consumption guidelines

40

4

How Henry Cavendish Used a Wire to Measure a Tiny Force of Gravity

31

5

Optics: Super vision

20

6

Breakthrough DNA Editor Borne of Bacteria

19

7

Cosmology from quantum potential

17

8

How Scared Should You Be of Genetic Testing?

17

9

Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon

14

10

Why Spaceflight Will Never Be as Safe as Modern Aviation

13

Social [?]

1

Boston Dynamics' New Robot – Spot

426

2

How HHVM Uses Modern C++ for Fun and Profit (2014) [video]

73

3

GnuPG: The Linux Foundation granted me 60,000 USD

64

4

Titanic: Engineering Facts [video]

54

5

Stripe and Facebook are going to sponsor gnupg w. 50k/y each

36

6

Singular: Reimagining AngularJS in Java

33

7

Closest thing to teleportation?

17

8

The Future of Work – Robert Skidelsky (2014) [video]

15

9

Designing value classes for modern C++ [video]

13

10

ELI5:What's bad about Internet Explorer?

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Flipboard releases React Canvas

501

2

A simple Minecraft written in Rust

169

3

A collection of useful .htaccess snippets

163

4

Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (2007)

143

5

Teletext for Raspberry Pi

143

6

µBlock dynamic filtering: default deny

141

7

Tail-call optimization added to 6to5 compiler

117

8

Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp

103

9

Swift compiler crashes

98

10

Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR

96

Wikipedia [?]

1

One-electron universe

128

2

UTF-9 and UTF-18

109

3

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

32

4

Reverse Mathematics

10

5

Cryptanalysis of the Enigma

9

6

Wikipedia is down

8

7

List of inventors killed by their own inventions

5

8

Milankovitch cycles

4

9

3

10

List of mathematical jargon

3

Blogs [?]

1

Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University

358

2

Let's Build a Modern Hadoop

146

3

The “Web Application” Myth

133

4

The 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge

122

5

104

6

How many fundamental constants does it take to describe our Universe?

99

7

The Search for Neutrons That Leak into Our World from Other Universes

41

8

We Need a Manhattan Project for Cybersecurity

40

9

Building a cheat bot

36

10

Declaring War on Adderall

34

Stackoverflow [?]

1

iOS Devs – how to load different views on UIPageViewController

3

2

How does dependency injection differ from just not using global variables?

2

3

How to write Binary Search

2

4

What is self in Python?

1

5

Solve the memory alignment in C interview question that stumped me

1

Substack [?]