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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines
318
2
Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
314
3
Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined
281
4
Solving turnover (unusual dailywtf)
276
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I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly
274
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Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
235
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Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"
212
8
If I Launched a Startup
196
9
VMware: the new Redis home
196
10
Care about search privacy? Duck Duck Go no longer logs IPs.
189

Top Ask HN

1
Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)
200
2
Are you a single founder ?
82
3
Who got rejected in earlier cycles of YC application and made it anyway?
80
4
How do you fight procrastination?
70
5
How many of you founders are girls ?
62
6
Is functional programming really worth it?
58
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What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts
51
8
How would you invest $50,000?
46
9
Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc?
40
10
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?
39

Top Show HN

1
I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
318
2
My weekend project - minimotivation.com
78
3
Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site
55
4
Weekend Project - Japanese Wordsearch Builder
17
5
The result of donating 8 hours design time
11
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My Twitter/Disqus mashup that I threw together. (www.choip.me)
5
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Show HN - My stupidly simple RSS reader
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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
Carnegie Mellon student shows that 64 pixels is enough for Mario (video)
137
2
YC-Funded Data Marketplace is an Amazon for Structured Information
133
3
YouTube Defense: Viacom "Secretly Uploaded" Content, And They Tried To Buy Us
91
4
iPhone App Digitizes Sheet Music, Teaches You Piano
76
5
Hacker Disables Over 100 Cars Remotely
48
6
The Key To Gmail: Sh*t Umbrellas
44
7
Bradford Cross: Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom
43
8
New Chatroulette Stats: 13% are Perverts
41
9
Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System
37
10
New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android
31

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
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We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die
142
2
Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
100
3
Gorbachev: Perestroika Lost
81
4
Success of a Marriage in 15 Minutes?
79
5
Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show
76
6
The Dropout Economy
63
7
How Real are the Defects in Toyota's Cars?
50
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Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover
37
9
The Most Expensive Cities in the World
33
10
We see so well because of snakes?
29

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 C Object System: Using C as a High-Level Object-Oriented Language
62
2
Creatine supplementation improves brain performance in vegetarians [pdf]
33
3
A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills
31
4
NASA perplexed by galaxies heading in a particular direction
28
5
Japanese image scanner lets you digitize a book by rapidly flipping its pages
3
6
On-Chip Routers Could be a Choke Point for Future Chips
2
7
Information-Sharing and Privacy in Social Networks
1

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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How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
70
2
API Design Maxims by Joshua Bloch, 2008 (no flash needed)
31
3
How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
21
4
Twitter Announces @Anywhere
18
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Stuart Halloway on Clojure and Functional Programming
7
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De-Anonymizing Social Network Users
4
7
USB Combination Lock
4
8
Charlie Miller on Mac OS X, Pwn2Own and Writing Exploits
3
9
How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers
2
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Ten million and one penguins: modeling emergent botnet behavior
1

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Amazon releases Kindle App for Mac OS X
22
2
How the IRS uses Social Media Sites
21
3
Google China Uncensors Tiananmen Square Info
19
4
Roughly 10% of Microsoft employees said to be iPhone owners
3
5
Former P.A. Semi chief leaves Apple for chip startup - report
3
6
In-depth look at Dell's M6500 mobile workstation
3
7
EFF : use of social networking sites for investigations (criminal or otherwise)
3
8
New "Smart Meters" for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk
2
9
Apple sees 98% iPhone growth as Microsoft, Google prepare for battle
1
10
Apple COO Tim Cook awarded $22 million bonus
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple's Tribute to Jerome B. York
96
2
Kindle zealots trash bestseller to spite publisher's lack of e version
3
3
Amazon Readers Shorting non ebooks
3
4
Windows Phone 7 development tools
2
5
Microsoft announces Windows Phone tool set
1
6
Sneaky & Clever, Microsoft Small Business Offer
1
7
Jwaala Online Banking Benefits after ASP.NET MVC Replaces Ruby on Rails, Linux
1
8
Elevation of Privilege (EoP): Microsoft's IT security card game
1

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
First write the crushing counterargument, then conclude with mockery.
19
2
Lobbyists Asking Obama To Support Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law
1
3
How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset
1

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
Belief in the Brain: Sacred and secular ideas engage identical areas
16
2
First quantum effects "seen" in visible object
6
3
'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke
3
4
Human arm transmits broadband
3
5
Failure prediction of dotcom companies using neural network–genetic programming
1
6
Keeping math whizzes off the street--Off Wall Street, that is
1
7
New CU-Boulder hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification
1
8
God Helps with Personal Decisions, Most Americans Say
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Still Face experiment: What happens when a mother shows no response to a child?
135
2
Example of Subliminal Advertising
68
3
Arial Font is Bullshit
40
4
A Dramatic Demonstration of the Power of Mental Frames by Simon Singh [video]
36
5
Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide (TED)
30
6
I'm a YouTube software engineer working on the video player
27
7
Everyday Looper Tutorial by Ed
21
8
Alpha particle detector, made from a webcamera.
16
9
Sketching on the iPhone
12
10
Google: The Beast File
6

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Committing like Crazy - GitHub
85
2
Functional HTML templating with Clojure+Enlive+Compojure
69
3
Cloudlets: universal images for the cloud
6
4
GitHub Followers count in your site
5
5
Joe Armstrong's Erlang libs
3
6
MVC on node.JS with MVC.js
2
7
Facebook client library in Clojure
2
8
Node.js WebWorker API Implementation
1
9
Get achievements for using git.
1
10
Android developments with Duby
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Project Cybersyn: real-time computer control of a planned economy (1970-1973)
56
2
XeTeX: A modern LaTeX with proper OpenType and Unicode support
47
3
Wow signal
27
4
Sailing Stones
24
5
Up to date list of departures & closures at Sun
12
6
Wikipedia dwm article deletion: No consensus
9
7
Dunning–Kruger effect
9
8
Daylight Saving Time this weekend, like it or not
3
9
The Timeline of Web Development Technologies, 1990-2009
3
10
Erdős number
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Programming FAQ
54
2
Return of the Mac
16

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Which mobile platform should I target?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com