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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
966
2
Facebook open sources its servers and data centers
521
3
Crash Course: Design for Startups
517
4
Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive
516
5
Predator Object Tracking Algorithm
459
6
Before I Die...
442
7
Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company
429
8
Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done
418
9
Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge
409
10
Physics Engines for Dummies
375

Top Ask HN

1
How to stave off decline of HN?
462
2
Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much
183
3
Programming Problems for Plane Rides
74
4
Recommendations on Learning Photoshop?
62
5
What's the relationship between App Store Top Grossing Rank and Revenue?
51
6
What to read instead of Techcrunch?
50
7
How to give submission a second chance?
49
8
What's the average salary for a Web Python Developer in California?
46
9
What are you working on?
46
10
What podcasts do you watch regularly?
45

Top Show HN

1
my weekend project, Gumroad
390
2
My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada
211
3
CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms
179
4
jsgif: A GIF player in JavaScript
126
5
NationBuilder, my startup just launched
106
6
Patternify, a CSS Pattern Generator
74
7
SyncPad on 40 iPads simultaneously
58
8
measure curiosity of your website users
39
9
Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitter 'follow' lists
36
10
I was afraid to launch, so I did. Babolog.
33

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
Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal... very personal
206
2
Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect
144
3
Is gravity not actually a force? Forcing theory to meet experiments
106
4
Google Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees
93
5
Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web
79
6
Pandora app found to be sending DOB, gender and location info to ad servers
72
7
Clever CSS Easter Egg: Search Google For Tilt Or Askew On Your Smartphone
69
8
Ars Technica on GNOME3
67
9
Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion)
62
10
Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook
62

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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Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity
164
2
On Tesla's induction motor
154
3
Why Paying Bribes Should Be Legal
105
4
Fighting to Shut Out the Real India
105
5
Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works.
100
6
Ex-Engadget Crew Starting New Site
79
7
Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914.
76
8
English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries
71
9
Students paying to get internships?
61
10
At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
51

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
Boosting brain matter by learning like a child.
5
2
Da Vinci Surgical Robot Folds, Throws Tiny Paper Airplane
3
3
Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima's Fuel Could Still Seep Out
2
4
TurtleBot: Mobile 3D Mapping and ROS
2
5
How Japan's Earthquake Is Shaking Up Taiwan's High-Tech Sector
2
6
Space Junk a Growing Threat for Astronauts in Orbit
1
7
Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite: Wassonite
1
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What Causes the Poles To Warm Faster Than the Rest of Earth?
1
9
Geminoid Robots and Human Originals Get Together
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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Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala
107
2
Ebook Fraud
70
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Pinpointing your location to Within 690 Meters
53
4
Detecting Cheaters
10
5
appCode: a new Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS
6
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Eclipse moves to GitHub
3
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Substantive List of Companies Affected in Epsilon Breach
3
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Introduction to GPU Computing
1
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Lessons Learned From LizaMoon
1
10
Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets
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
Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory
66
2
Epic developer calls iPad 2 graphics leap "astonishing"
26
3
The EFF SSL Observatory
17
4
The OCZ Vertex 3 Review (120GB) and the 25/34nm affair
14
5
Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory
5
6
Work for EFF's Activism Team This Summer | Electronic Frontier Foundation
4
7
'Urban Homesteading' is no longer just a movement but a company trademark
4
8
EFF's mass copyright litigation roundup
3
9
Qualcomm's new mobile ARM chipset has breathtaking performance
3
10
Motorola's Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom sales forecast slashed to 100,000 units
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Levy's new book "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"
9
2
Free Kindle edition of "Do the Work", an upcoming Steven Pressfield book
2
3
Microsoft explains how to make PowerPoint decks less crummy
2

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
Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?
149
2
An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident
82
3
Unknown band's album illegally downloaded 100,000 times. Or is it?
42
4
Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the power of community building
5
5
Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success
3
6
Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success
3
7
US Governments Pirate Domain Seizures Failed Miserably
2
8
Youre driving us crazy. Youve got to back off."
2
9
Color.xxx pitch deck stuck in my Google Docs
1
10
"Going platinum on piracy" based on bad numbers
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
Yellow dye 1 could be the key to immortality
17
2
Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers
3
3
Waiting for the Motivation Fairy
3
4
Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force
3
5
IP and Ping Time Based Tracking
3
6
Malaria on the Rise as East African Climate Heats Up
2
7
Copper vrs Stainless in anti-microbial applications
2
8
Fukushima health risks scrutinized
1
9
Magnitude 7.1 Aftershock Disrupts Japanese Efforts
1
10
Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Starting Up Silicon Valley Style
127
2
The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit
115
3
Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?
84
4
Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story
66
5
I've been working on infinite streaming in Rails 3.1, here is my work so far.
34
6
Speed Up Your JavaScript - Google Tech Talk with Nicholas C. Zakas
26
7
Amazing video showing what it is like to run solo as a blind person
14
8
Sorting algorithms interpreted as Hungarian folk dances
12
9
How Being Labelled Smart Affects People
12
10
USC Researchers implement Gmail Motion with a Kinect
10

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh
228
2
SICP in ePub format on Github
156
3
Raphters, a web framework for C
144
4
Source for Predator Object Tracking (OpenCV)
115
5
Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.
104
6
Annyong, a small web server that serves static files from the current directory
34
7
Redis 2.2.3 released
25
8
Xp - agile programming tools in Coffeescript
16
9
Ruby-bigquery-cl integrate your Ruby system to the Google BigQuery web service
12
10
ChitChatRooms : how we earned our #GoogleIO ticket
7

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Evercookie
72
2
Earth as a nuclear furnace (geothermal heat is mostly from radioactive decay)
44
3
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
6
4
Objectivism
4
5
Google's April Fool's 2011
3
6
Noisy market hypothesis
3
7
Prizes awarded to the Indian cricket team
2
8
Remote controlled caterpillar mine [1940]
2
9
The ABA Shared Memory Problem
2
10
Fear, uncertainty and doubt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago?
56
2
Why you should not parse (X)HTML with a Regexp
13
3
You can be breaking the law using pt for font-size
5
4
Who has the BEST documentation you have ever seen?
2
5
What ever happened to TextMate 2?
2
6
Are there any provable real-world languages?
2
7
Best Possible Configuration for a Programming Desktop
2
8
Library for tree/graph search?
1
9
simplified outline on how Google processes your sites
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com