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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
G is for Google
2228
2
Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
2088
3
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
1952
4
Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
1905
5
Swift is Open Source
1824
6
YC Research
1776
7
Jessica Livingston
1740
8
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
1608
9
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
1584
10
Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
1562
Top Ask HN
1
The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
806
2
Who is hiring? (July 2015)
673
3
I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay
584
4
How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
558
5
How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
520
6
Who is hiring? (November 2015)
512
7
Who is hiring? (August 2015)
504
8
Who is hiring? (May 2015)
501
9
New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
497
10
Where can I buy real software companies?
485
Top Show HN
1
Spot the Drowning Child
1215
2
Make a programmable mirror
1172
3
Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
1093
4
My SSH server knows who you are
836
5
This page exists only if someone is looking at it
803
6
Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
802
7
A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
764
8
Something pointless I made
747
9
I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
681
10
Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp
674
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
1952
2
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
1608
3
FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
1489
4
FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
1275
5
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
1174
6
Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
1142
7
Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
946
8
Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac
915
9
“Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
870
10
Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway
691
News [?]
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Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules
1905
2
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
1584
3
What Is Code?
1384
4
Sir Terry Pratchett has died
1019
5
Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
1011
6
The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
949
7
Philae comet lander wakes up
922
8
'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules
872
9
Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
862
10
Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
830
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
851
2
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
593
3
The Icy Mountains of Pluto
591
4
Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
543
5
Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets
446
6
From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
437
7
NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
410
8
New Image of Pluto
366
9
Layoff Underway at IBM
274
10
Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client
259
Dev Blogs [?]
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Introducing OpenAI
1107
2
Stripe: Bitcoin
855
3
It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)
638
4
Stripe: Open Source
581
5
Firefox for iOS now available
548
6
How to receive a million packets per second
542
7
Deploying Tor Relays
541
8
The programming talent myth
510
9
Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
497
10
All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two
488
Tech blogs [?]
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Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter
700
2
EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
678
3
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
667
4
“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
647
5
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
641
6
Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
633
7
EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
582
8
How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
505
9
Section 215 Expires For Now
471
10
Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
460
FAANG+ [?]
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Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
1524
2
“Swift will be open source later this year”
1334
3
The new MacBook
921
4
Amazon Dash Button
745
5
Amazon Elastic File System
471
6
Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
403
7
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
402
8
The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan
396
9
Amazon Snowball
384
10
Amazon Underground
350
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Whiteboard Clock
784
2
To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home (2014)
543
3
From Python to Go and Back Again
366
4
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
353
5
Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering
349
6
The xkcd survey
349
7
Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft
307
8
How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
291
9
Accounting for Developers
285
10
The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples
284
Science News [?]
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Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice
452
2
Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
416
3
Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)
415
4
Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
403
5
Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
338
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The myopia boom
311
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
297
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Kilogram conflict resolved at last
294
9
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
288
10
Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem
285
Social [?]
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Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but...
1257
2
Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
963
3
Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
804
4
A letter to our daughter
790
5
Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
699
6
Elon Musk AMA
569
7
Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]
567
8
Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA
559
9
Introducing React Native [video]
542
10
Today is the end of sheloshim for my beloved husband
518
Github repos and gists [?]
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“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
1543
2
React Native is now open source
1039
3
Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
794
4
SQLite developer must have received a lot of phone calls
792
5
µBlock for Firefox
707
6
Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
645
7
Announcing Git Large File Storage
620
8
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
603
9
I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help
549
10
GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'
542
Wikipedia [?]
1
Potato paradox
559
2
iLoo
354
3
Xv6
350
4
Preferred number
272
5
Rat Park
258
6
E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be'
221
7
Nelson Rules
219
8
Peak car
210
9
Garden path sentence
185
10
Norwegian butter crisis (2011)
176
Blogs [?]
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Jessica Livingston
1740
2
Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development
1227
3
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
1121
4
Reconsider
906
5
When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
767
6
How to be like Steve Ballmer
763
7
The Web We Have to Save
760
8
Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation
730
9
7 Rejections
720
10
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
711
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?
314
2
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015
111
3
Stack Overflow Hits 10M Questions
75
4
How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (2011)
69
5
Bytecode features not available in the Java language
50
6
How to search for a commit message in GitHub?
50
7
Scheme: Procedures that return another inner procedure
43
8
Is Python strongly typed?
38
9
Fastest way to sort 10 numbers? (numbers are 32 bit)
33
10
An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases
31
Substack [?]