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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
776
2
Google Kills Wave
712
3
Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
360
4
This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
275
5
Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
274
6
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
269
7
The Future of Startup Funding
241
8
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
238
9
Depression-era color photos
234
10
Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R
227

Top Ask HN

1
I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
208
2
Best Startup City - Outside the USA?
158
3
Does anyone still use IRC?
149
4
Where do you host your webapp?
135
5
Recommend me a Podcast
127
6
What annoys you?
81
7
Is the "adult space" a career-killer?
75
8
passing the torch on userscripts.org
71
9
What are you working on (hacking)?
69
10
What is a talent acquisition like?
64

Top Show HN

1
swytch.net - my attempt at a social network
7
2
my weekend project, Upcoming Events
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
Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
146
2
Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut?
127
3
Rapportive (YC S10) Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator & Others
120
4
China to build giant buses that cars can drive under
116
5
Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games
101
6
“Good On Video” Is The New “Good On Paper” With HireHive (YC S10)
87
7
Live Long And Prosper with FutureAdvisor (YC S10)
84
8
How To Get an Article on TechCrunch, A Case Study
77
9
Frenzy As Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Raises Round For New Startup
71
10
Microsoft and Ballmer not getting the iPad
61

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
Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority
166
2
Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
164
3
High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
151
4
Rise of the telepresence robots
134
5
F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law
94
6
As We May Think (1945)
77
7
NYT article on deal between Verizon and Google is inaccurate. Original source.
67
8
Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat
63
9
Wikileaks Must Be Stopped
61
10
Intuit lobbies against California's free tax filing service
54

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
Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home
31
2
The Future of Social Networking is the Surveillance State
2
3
Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro unveils strange telepresence android
1
4
The Revolution Yet to Happen
1
5
NASA puts off space station repair until Friday‎
1
6
The Emerging Scholarly Brain
1
7
North Polar Layers of Mars
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
1
Linux 2.6.35 is out
80
2
Schneier on UAE to Ban BlackBerrys
77
3
LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure
60
4
Realtime Linux: academia v. reality
52
5
InfoQ: Justin Sheehy on Riak
30
6
EmotionML: A new W3C markup language for expression emotions
17
7
Perl 6 -- Too Bloated to Survive? (Core Devs Discuss)
8
8
The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect kernel
4
9
Eavesdropping Smartphone Apps
3
10
Discovering Who To Follow
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
Experiment: Can You Mine Gold From Old Motherboards?
70
2
The EFF SSL Observatory
39
3
Study finds 14% of free iPhone apps can snoop contacts
2
4
RIM attempts to create Apple-like buzz with BlackBerry Torch event
2
5
DOJ Pushing to Expand Warrantless Access to Internet Records
1
6
DIY picture frame better than store bought
1
7
Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link
1
8
RIM plans to counter Apple's iPad with 'Blackpad' in November
1
9
FaceTime over 3G [video]
1
10
Defcon 18 badges
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Active Interview Case Study
3
2
3rd Generation Kindle Announced for $189
2
3
Amazon Just Announced The Newest Kindle
2
4
Amazon.com: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
2
5
New Kindle - $139
1
6
The Microsoft .LNK patch is finally live
1
7
Microsoft's patch for the .LNK vulnerability (2286198) is out *now*
1
8
Amazon.com: Uranium Ore: Industrial & Scientific
1
9
First interactive Kindle content available
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
U.S. Copyright Group ‘Steal’ Competitor’s Website
22
2
Netscape Communications First Press Release (1994)
14
3
How Will You Measure Your Life?
5
4
Classic Texts in Computer Science
5
5
Romany life
2
6
Youtube in 2005
1
7
Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies
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
What happens when coal is gone?
24
2
Women Attracted to Redshirts, Research Shows
5
3
Laughing rats and ticklish gorillas: Joy and mirth in humans and other animals
4
4
Underground Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern
3
5
New solar energy conversion process could double solar efficiency of solar cells
2
6
Male modesty not appreciated by female or male interviewers, study suggests
1
7
Toyota Recall Might Be Caused by Cosmic Rays
1
8
Illusions: Colors Out of Space
1
9
Size isn't everything: The big brain myth
1
10
Solving protein folding by playing a computer game
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Reddit: I stopped using a task killer to see if there's a difference. It's huge.
101
2
Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]
61
3
Yelp Hackathon results in an iPad-powered KegBot
46
4
Philippe Starck: Why design?
35
5
Eric Schmidt On Google Wave's Death Video
25
6
Google Tech Talk: Three Cool Things About The D Programing Language
19
7
Silicon Valley Founder Institute List
15
8
Posterous is Down
9
9
Angular: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps
5
10
Google Tech Talk - Three Cool Things About D
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch
80
2
A book about Git, hosted on Github
38
3
V8-GL: A Toolkit for creating Desktop Hardware Accelerated Graphics with JS
13
4
Perl 6 on GitHub
5
5
Mongrel2 got mirrored on github.
2
6
Re-suggest.el - a simple regexp-based command suggestion minor mode for emacs
1
7
Easily create dynamic and robust sandbox environments from Ruby on OSX.
1
8
Design your own JavaScript with weepy's kaffeine
1
9
Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading
1
10
Vimjolts's vimjolts at master - GitHub
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hacker Koan
50
2
Oliver Heaviside -- Self Learner Who changed the face of Electrical Engineering
11
3
Sussman Anomaly: Why naive goal-based planning is hard.
6
4
Tarski's undefinability theorem
4
5
Best alternative to a negotiated agreement
3
6
Anything worth knowing about CS can be found within 3 jumps from this page
3
7
Raven paradox
3
8
Boltzmann brain paradox
3
9
Jean Meslier
2
10
Trim and Fit
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Future of Startup Funding
241
2
How to Start a Startup (2005)
60

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Alan Kay: Significant new inventions in computing since 1980?
12
2
[Stackoverflow] What’s your biggest fear as a programmer?
7
3
Useful GCC flags for C
2
4
Why programming competition contestants use C++ and Java?
2
5
Do you think compiled languages have reached their EOL?
2
6
Code Golf: Connecting the dots
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com