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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

1584

2

FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

1489

3

Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

1128

4

698

5

“Just remove the duck” (2013)

682

6

My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

605

7

A girl who gets gifts from birds

506

8

Notes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids

396

9

VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

394

10

Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free

390

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (March 2015)

413

2

Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects?

160

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)

131

4

Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?

113

5

Who wants to be hired? (March 2015)

110

6

Any Lenovo engineers here part of Superfish fame?

70

7

My app is shared on Twitter every day. What should I do?

60

8

Since CitizenFour, have you changed the way you conduct yourself online?

43

9

What do you wear to programming interviews?

38

10

How do you curate and keep up with general news?

30

Top Show HN

1

Slack Meets GitHub Issues

373

2

Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

301

3

Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the Fourier Transform

293

4

Discover your ranking on GitHub

137

5

Opinionated Dress Color Simulation

134

6

A workshop on how to use Vim plugins

94

7

Real Resume Examples from 1000s of Top Paid Professionals

90

8

Paz – A Simple Docker PaaS Written in Node.js

90

9

Lazy evaluation in Python

88

10

Highbrow – Bite-sized email courses delivered to your inbox daily

78

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

1489

2

My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

605

3

Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free

390

4

Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms

289

5

No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

254

6

Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war

234

7

Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5

207

8

Why SATA is now obsolete

163

9

Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default

155

10

Our Director of Engineering on the new Wired.com

104

News [?]

1

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

1584

2

SpaceX Profitable as Musk Pulls in NASA Contracts, Google Cash

363

3

The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose

302

4

Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service

262

5

The Siberian crater phenomenon is more widespread than previously thought

211

6

Forget the ‘To-Do’ List, You Need a ‘Stop Doing’ List

211

7

Kino by Haruki Murakami

187

8

Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests

186

9

Leonard Nimoy's Advice to a Biracial Girl in 1968

168

10

What Google DeepMind Means for A.I.

156

Scientific publications [?]

1

Small Amounts of Gluten in Subjects with Suspected Nonceliac Gluten Sensitivity

52

2

How to Make Multicore Chips Faster, More Efficient

34

3

Rooting Out Malware with a Side-Channel Chip Defense System

34

4

Cockroaches made to follow directions via wireless nerve stimulation

25

5

Learning a Convolutional Neural Network for Non-Uniform Motion Blur Removal [pdf]

18

6

From massive supercomputers come tiniest transistors

14

7

The Set of Prime Numbers (2007) [pdf]

11

8

Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan

4

9

Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources

4

10

DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network for Image Generation [pdf]

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Path to Parallel JavaScript

226

2

Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow

202

3

Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2

129

4

Getting Superfish Out of Firefox

115

5

Linux Perf_events Off-CPU Time Flame Graph

55

6

Linux Profiling at Netflix

17

7

Docker Acquires SDN Technology Startup SocketPlane.io

11

8

The Democratization of Cyberattack

11

9

Node.js Fork JXcore Goes Open Source

10

10

Two Go Developers Who Switched from JavaScript and Ruby

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?

190

2

Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

165

3

EFF to UN: You Need a Privacy Watchdog

147

4

Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now

146

5

EFF to Congress: Curb Patent Demand Letter Abuse

7

6

Arduino vs. Arduino

5

7

EFF Supports Early Push in Congress to Update Online Privacy Law

4

8

Stupid Patent of the Month: Attorney “Inventor” Games the System

3

9

Apple Opens Up 'iWork for iCloud' to Everyone, No Apple Device Required

3

10

Apple Watch’s retail sales pitch revealed

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Upcoming AWS Security Maintenance

98

2

Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event

47

3

Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision

46

4

Amazon is working on an SDK for Echo

12

5

The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan ,Alan Donovan

12

6

Shot on iPhone 6

8

7

Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas ($14.38)

2

8

Microsoft's 5-10 Year Vision

2

9

Finding Success in Failure: 10 Years of Startup Mistakes (free Book on Amazon)

2

10

Python programming for Arduino – IoT prototyping book for beginners

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania

162

2

Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?

57

3

Computing is too easy

49

4

Have We Drawn the Wrong Lessons from Epigenetics?

42

5

When Multitasking Makes You Happy and When It Doesn’t

25

6

Physics’s pangolin

15

7

Under U.S. Pressure, PayPal Nukes Mega for Encrypting Files

12

8

How science made an honest man of God

11

9

EU Commissioner wants to abolish Netflix style geoblocking

8

10

Would TDCS make me smarter? (2013)

8

Science News [?]

1

Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats

74

2

How Odd Behavior in Some Young Horses May Reveal a Cause of Autism

66

3

Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links

66

4

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge (2013)

59

5

Researchers have achieved wireless speeds of 1 Tb per second

59

6

A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D (2014)

48

7

Yes, You’re Irrational, and Yes, That’s OK

39

8

Did Grief Give Him Parkinson’s?

37

9

First detailed microscopy evidence of bacteria at the lower size limit of life

37

10

Simultaneous observation of quantization and interference pattern

34

Social [?]

1

Richard Hamming: Learning to Learn

174

2

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client in Go [video]

153

3

Yann LeCun on a MIT Tech Review article that is all hype

140

4

The F# Path to Relaxation [video]

93

5

Drone surveillance is increasing rapidly. Unplug is a device that stops it

22

6

Elizabeth Iorns CEO of Science Exchange, Part-Time Partner at Y Combinator AMA

11

7

Silicon Valley Season 2 Trailer

11

8

Google's Proposal for North Bayshore

11

9

9

10

What happens when you outsource testing to India

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ember's Glimmer Engine

378

2

361

3

“Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”

339

4

Io.js and Node.js reconciliation proposal

225

5

Neovim now has builtin terminal emulation via libvterm

195

6

8cc: A Small C Compiler

162

7

C – Compile and execute C “scripts” in one go

123

8

SmileMiner – A Java library of state-of-art machine learning algorithms

118

9

MySQL to PostgreSQL converter

78

10

Nock – HTTP mocking and expectations library

63

Wikipedia [?]

1

Agbogbloshie, the world's largest e-waste dump

107

2

22

3

Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

20

4

Succinct Data Structures

19

5

Roseto effect: close-knit communities experience a reduced rate of heart disease

17

6

MS-DOS runs the US Army's food service management system

6

7

4

8

Rubber duck debugging

3

9

Semipredicate problem

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One

176

2

How a half-million dollar Kickstarter project can crash and burn

113

3

How I Accessed Employee Settings on Uber

92

4

The Death of the Login

50

5

The UK Ruby Contract Drought Is Real

48

6

44

7

Yahoo and Alibaba, Joined at the Balance Sheet

40

8

Get your shit together, Google

28

9

No, Dropbox is not stealing your files

22

10

Lint Like It's 2015

22

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Git use a cryptographic hash function? – Stack Overflow

2

2

Examples of good gotos in C or C++

2

3

Stack Overflow: How to add a progress bar to a shell script

1

4

PRGN in iOS Keychain

1

5

How to multiply terabyte-sized numbers?

1

6

AppFabric vs. NCache – A Detailed Feature Comparison

1

7

Why are repeated case labels in a switch block allowed in JavaScript?

1

8

Super cool hack for adding infix operators in C++

1

Substack [?]