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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
928
2
Apple's Mistake
723
3
A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
626
4
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
588
5
Microsoft rips off Plurk
581
6
_why is no more
558
7
New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.
532
8
The End Of The CrunchPad
435
9
Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
413
10
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
401

Top Ask HN

1
Who's Hiring? (take 2)
202
2
Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?
165
3
Please review my new project: almost.at
164
4
Who's hiring (take 3)?
162
5
What's a Non-Programmer to do?
152
6
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
149
7
Just cashed out for 2M. What now?
148
8
Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?
145
9
What are you working on?
136
10
More types of flagging?
132

Top Show HN

1
Our new online face recognition demo
50
2
Code draws better than you
19
3
How ShoveBox is Handling MacHeist Traffic
16
4
Hacking is not Cracking
3
5
I wrote a nifty perl script for managing projects. Thoughts?
3
6
JStartup - Hacker News for news people/journalists
2
7
my weekend project, jetsetter
2
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Checkout the app my company helped launch
1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
The End Of The CrunchPad
435
2
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
347
3
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
321
4
Deny This, Last.fm
312
5
Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
289
6
Some things need to change
287
7
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
279
8
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell
279
9
How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition
270
10
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
258

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn
199
2
R.I.P. Les Paul
196
3
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
194
4
I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
186
5
Don’t! The secret of self-control
186
6
My Personal Credit Crisis
185
7
Why it's expensive to be poor
183
8
The dark side of Dubai
174
9
Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch
170
10
How American Health Care Killed My Father
166

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
The LED's Dark Secret: "droop"
106
2
It's Official: Water Found on the Moon
97
3
Netflix Prize - One Team's Account
87
4
For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up
81
5
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
67
6
New Chips Loaded With Dummy Parts
61
7
Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News
57
8
A Radical New Router
56
9
LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
50
10
Why the wires behind your computer are a tangled mess.
45

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
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Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
291
2
Self-Enforcing Protocols
156
3
ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees
130
4
Schneier: The Value of Privacy
109
5
Who wrote Linux Kernel 2.6.20?
91
6
Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell
90
7
Schneier on Security: Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector
89
8
Intercepting Predator Video
89
9
Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09)
77
10
Damian Katz - Why he decided to create couchDB
73

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better
136
2
Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity
109
3
Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone right now, no jailbreak, for free
78
4
Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, because it links "objectionable" youtube video
67
5
Sam Odio and the EFF vs. Apple Inc.
66
6
Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro
66
7
Doctorow, How to Destroy the Book
59
8
AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
59
9
Homebrew device with iPhone aspirations (based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller)
54
10
EFF Launches A 'Terms of Service' Tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, Etc.
51

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature
222
2
Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
199
3
Amazon Relational Database Service
181
4
Steve Jobs speaks out about his health
153
5
Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce
148
6
Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time
139
7
Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle
112
8
Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions
87
9
Bypass the internet for large transfers: AWS Import/Export
86
10
AIMA 3rd edition (Russell, Norvig) available for pre-order now
81

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
Pirate Bay officially loses case
226
2
Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament
177
3
Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message
91
4
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
84
5
Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (1997)
82
6
The Two-Party Swindle
77
7
Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
77
8
My Language Is More Agile Than Yours: A Study of Arc
77
9
Living root bridges
72
10
You're calling who a cult leader?
70

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Humans prefer cockiness to expertise
125
2
Rejection massively reduces IQ
103
3
Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?
102
4
Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
86
5
The next generation of mirrors
80
6
Direct Evidence Of Role Of Sleep In Memory Formation Is Uncovered
76
7
Is time an illusion?
74
8
Depression is not a malfunction
73
9
Our world may be a giant hologram
73
10
Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic
68

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
_why is no more
558
2
Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)
153
3
Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang
109
4
How Facebook stores its billions of photos
80
5
My first app just got published to the app store Here's what I learned.
76
6
I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA
74
7
Students Ace Textbook Physics While Struggling With Basic Understanding (video)
72
8
How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night.
67
9
HP computers are racist
67
10
How to Make a Whiteboard for $4 [video]
65

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
No Hire
230
2
How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture
214
3
Potion - a little fast OO language by _why
183
4
The Zen of HN
182
5
GitHub's Unicorn Setup
162
6
GitHub is moving to Rackspace
152
7
I made a native Python module for MS Word docx
144
8
Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer
137
9
GitHub releases integrated issue tracking
135
10
Introducing Resque
135

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
200
2
I never realized how useful netcat is
190
3
Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
152
4
The official term for the smell after it rains
148
5
The Erlang Distribution
142
6
Antiobjects
133
7
Erlang Shen
127
8
List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions
109
9
English-Prime - English without "is"
108
10
The German Tank Problem
103

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Apple's Mistake
723
2
What Startups Are Really Like
382
3
What I've Learned from Hacker News
381
4
Startups in 13 Sentences
322
5
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
312
6
What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
264
7
Ramen Profitable
264
8
Be Relentlessly Resourceful
241
9
Keep Your Identity Small
234
10
The Trouble with the Segway
221

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What real life bad habits has programming given you?
45
2
Should developers worry about ageism?
37
3
Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?
30
4
How accurate are the arguments in JWZ’s 10-year-old "java sucks" article?
30
5
Is Linux ruining my chance at a good software engineering career?
28
6
What is your best programmer joke?
24
7
What’s happening with Arc?
21
8
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex.
14
9
Woot.com enlists StackOverflow users to address bot/scripting attacks
12
10
Hidden features of Python
11

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com