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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1329

2

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

1142

3

Extracting the SuperFish certificate

867

4

Stripe: Bitcoin

855

5

Introducing Pebble Time

658

6

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

647

7

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

638

8

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer

625

9

Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken

608

10

How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast

592

Top Ask HN

1

What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?

186

2

How do your enterprise customers pay you?

184

3

How do I start with test driven development?

136

4

Founders, what's your lifestyle like?

116

5

What to do when all you have is talent?

102

6

Switching from OS X to Linux

98

7

Why keep living?

62

8

Would the job postings be better with comments?

59

9

Is it too late to do a startup after 35?

57

10

Sentiment Analysis – how to handle biased word list lengths?

51

Top Show HN

1

A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers in the software industry

322

2

Gun v0.1.0 – The Easiest Database Ever

173

3

SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL

166

4

Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust

132

5

A daily aggregator of all remote jobs out there

100

6

DonglePi, a USB Stick Giving You the Raspberry Pi IOs on a PC

92

7

Add “Magic” to Your Business

84

8

Keymetrics/PM2 a realtime monitoring solution for Node.js

63

9

Lua/C for mobile devices – Please tell me what you think

58

10

MUI – Lightweight Material Design CSS Framework

56

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

1142

2

Lenovo's Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless

397

3

Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

351

4

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling

318

5

Intel forges ahead to 10nm, will move away from silicon at 7nm

197

6

Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy

165

7

How Etsy Alienated Its Crafters and Lost Its Soul

136

8

Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Victims of Sex Trafficking

107

9

Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible

99

10

Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges

85

News [?]

1

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer

625

2

Too much finance is bad for the economy

313

3

Microsoft Is the New Google, Google Is the Old Microsoft

275

4

As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers

171

5

Alaska on Tuesday Will Become Third State with Legal Marijuana

160

6

Privatised London: the Thames Path walk that resembles a prison corridor

159

7

Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns

148

8

Battery power alone can be used to track Android phones

147

9

Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say

139

10

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

133

Scientific publications [?]

1

Characterizing the Spatial Structure of Defensive Skill in Pro Basketball [pdf]

25

2

Cosmic Ray Particles Will Reveal Molten Hearts of Fukushima Daiichi's Reactors

17

3

Stephen Hawking Says Humanity Won't Survive Without Leaving Earth

9

4

The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated (2013)

9

5

Jerobeam Fenderson's Trippy Oscilloscope Music

8

6

Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning

6

7

An app that reduces traffic in rush hours by 20%

4

8

Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks

4

9

NASA’s New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto

3

10

Periods of low atmospheric pressure correlate with high aneurysm rupture rates

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: Bitcoin

855

2

It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

638

3

The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed

181

4

Fix your damned data races

130

5

Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

104

6

Moving Forward with Firefox

104

7

Handling five billion sessions a day in real time

98

8

SSL Week Means Less Weak SSL

22

9

CloudFlare Enables ChaCha20/Poly1305 for all sites

16

10

Unreal Engine 4.7 Binary Release Includes HTML5 Export

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

647

2

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal

287

3

Dell XPS 13 Review

269

4

EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System

208

5

EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Collection

196

6

White House Doesn't Want You to Know the TPP's Effects on U.S. Copyright Laws

133

7

Intel at ISSCC 2015: Reaping the Benefits of 14nm and Going Beyond 10nm

34

8

Lenovo is breaking HTTPS security on its recent laptops

20

9

Dear FCC: Rethink the Vague “General Conduct” Rule

14

10

EFF to NSA: If the Rule of Law Is Important, Start Acting Like It

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

247

2

Apple invests €1.7B in renewable energy data centres in Denmark and Ireland

133

3

Amazon EC2 Container Service Available in US West (Oregon)

10

4

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

7

5

Win32/CompromisedCert

5

6

EC2 Container Service – Access Private Docker Repos and Volumes in Containers

4

7

Microsoft Productivity Future Vision

4

8

Amazon silently pulled Cloud Sync clients

3

9

Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers

2

10

iOS 8: Feature Availability

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Crowd-sourced list of European investors, angels and accelerators

60

2

New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler

59

3

Go-gl: Massive Overhaul

53

4

The World's Most Idiotic Copyright Complaint

19

5

16

6

Citizenfour now available on Internet Archive

6

7

Is the many worlds hypothesis just a fantasy?

5

8

Hacker News, 2007 Edition

4

9

HBR: Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest

3

10

Tumblr Censors “Torrent” Related Tags and Searches

3

Science News [?]

1

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

209

2

We Might First Find Life on Tidally Locked Planets

128

3

Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?

116

4

Breakthrough DNA Editor Borne of Bacteria

113

5

Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic

102

6

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick

101

7

How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

97

8

Residents in faster places tend to report feeling somewhat happier

87

9

The Quantum Mechanics of Fate (2014)

66

10

Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question

64

Social [?]

1

Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA

559

2

Windows SSL Interception Gone Wild

263

3

Reddit User confirms Siri/Cortana transactions are recorded

94

4

The Psychology of Doing Nothing [video]

65

5

“The news web is straight trash”

29

6

“Hey lenovo I'm enjoying the #SuperFish private key Look at me ma' I'm a CA”

27

7

Snowden, Poitras, Greenwarld: Reddit AMA

24

8

iRobot CEO Colin Angle on lessons learned and the future [video]

13

9

No more 'undefined is not a function' messages in JavaScript

13

10

Microsoft invokes nuclear option on Superfish

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

“This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”

306

2

Cool-retro-term

176

3

Io.js 1.3.0 released

158

4

Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementations of Echo.c

153

5

GopherLua: VM and Compiler for Lua in Go

147

6

System Programming Book in GitHub Wiki

109

7

Lisp implemented in under 1K of JavaScript

108

8

Lenovo's SuperFish Removal Tool on GitHub

102

9

XSV – A fast CSV toolkit in Rust

101

10

The Git game: Guess who on your team wrote a commit based only on their message

92

Wikipedia [?]

1

Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

166

2

113

3

66

4

60

5

Tweel – Airless Wheel

40

6

List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States

18

7

Mbone – Multicast over the Internet

11

8

9

9

Margaret Hamilton

4

10

Origin of SQL Airport Code – San Carlos Airport (California)

4

Blogs [?]

1

How to Grow a Forest Really Really Fast

592

2

What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?

331

3

Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely

299

4

How gzip uses Huffman coding

163

5

What happens when Betelgeuse explodes?

124

6

DIY: kernel panic OS X and iOS in 10 LOC

117

7

How I Wrote an Ultra-Fast DNA Sequence Alignment Algorithm in JavaScript

106

8

Mastering Git submodules

101

9

The Last of the Typewriter Men

58

10

Advice for first time founders

53

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why use Python's os module methods instead of executing shell commands directly?

3

2

Git reset behavior

2

3

Singletons vs. Application Context in Android?

1

4

What is the ideal growth rate for a dynamically allocated array?

1

5

Plain English Explanation of Big-O with Telephone Book Analogy

1

6

How to create an Android keystore RSA key with infinite validity?

1

Substack [?]