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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
1611
2
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
1021
3
There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
732
4
TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
724
5
Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
708
6
How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies
645
7
Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
645
8
Eight years today
632
9
GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.
579
10
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
471

Top Ask HN

1
Finding work for a significant other
92
2
Any other devs seeing decreased android downloads from March 7th on?
30
3
Is there any point in using mailto: links any more?
26
4
good looking "nerdy" t-shirts?
25
5
I'm an Economics prof. & I need your help teaching about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA
24
6
What is the point of karma?
19
7
How many hours do you sit in front of a computer per day?
17
8
Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doesn't see "well"?
15
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anyone interested in going to Thailand to work on a startup?
15
10
Quitting a well paid job
14

Top Show HN

1
I wrote a guidebook on everything I know about applying to Y Combinator
172
2
GPS + Calendar + Traffic = always on time
128
3
Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app
118
4
Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password
94
5
Petridish.org,a kickstarter for scientific research
76
6
Password validity hinting
58
7
A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on
54
8
web-based music player built with Node and CoffeeScript
52
9
Holy shit Lycos still exists
47
10
git clone, git pull with no central repository
45

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
Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'
356
2
Kara Is Self-Aware
244
3
Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash
197
4
Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable
175
5
Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public
160
6
Chute (YC W12) Launches A Twilio For Photos
159
7
IE9 pwn2owned with 0-day with exploit working back from IE6 to IE10 on Windows 8
142
8
Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon
103
9
How Google set a trap for Pwn2Own exploit team
96
10
At hacking contest, Google Chrome falls to third zero-day attack
89

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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A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp
387
2
Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?
296
3
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
237
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We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction
196
5
How easy is it to buy YouTube views? $46 for 20,000 easy.
138
6
Electronic Arts bringing back SimCity franchise after 10-year absence
122
7
People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
115
8
Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days
102
9
Dating Site for Married Couples
101
10
The iPad Is Unbeatable
97

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
Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
16
2
Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard
10
3
Giant Solar Flare, Everyone Panic
5
4
NASA - Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle
4
5
Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids
3
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Speech jamming gun (arxiv article)
2
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Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Survives 1 Year in Orbit
2
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SpeechJammer: Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback
1
9
Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five"
1
10
Robotic satellite gas attendant poised for space test
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
Nvidia Is Joining The Linux Foundation
119
2
Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R
4
3
Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey
2
4
Twitter Blog: The road to Super Tuesday in Tweets
2
5
The Story of Read-Only Collection Interfaces in .NET
2
6
Stuffing PHP With Mono, .NET
1
7
A look at Visual Basic 11
1
8
Unigine Releases New Heaven For Linux
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
Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
105
2
HTTPS Everywhere Now Available For Chrome
11
3
Apple's massive 'iPad 3' air freight deal with DHL shaking up shipping rates
11
4
Apple iWallet, new patent granted.
7
5
Apple announces new iPad with 3.1M-pixel Retina Display, 4G LTE, voice dictation
6
6
Ubuntu 12.04 will bring OS-level privacy options
5
7
A Tale of Two Encryption Cases
4
8
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take Stand on Abstract Patents
4
9
In-Depth with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
3
10
Apple snuck Sensegs groundbreaking haptic display technology into iPad 3?
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple releases Ipad 3
285
2
Apple announces the new iPad
13
3
The new iPad technical specifications
10
4
Apple Launches New iPad
6
5
25 Billion App Store Downloads
6
6
Introducing the new iPad
5
7
The New Ipad (Video)
5
8
The new iPad
5
9
IPad 3
5
10
The new iPad
4

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
Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
251
2
Bayes' Theorem Illustrated
158
3
Self-cleaning macros in Scala
17
4
Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming
8
5
DMCA: Horrors of a Broad and Automated Censorship Tool
4
6
BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid
3
7
Reductionism
3
8
Hotfile As Bad As Megaupload, MPAA Tells Court
3
9
Its Official: US Demands Extradition of Megaupload Suspects
2
10
Companies that Launched at Launch 2012
2

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
Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40
176
2
LSD helps to treat alcoholism
108
3
Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked - 6 bit bytes
91
4
Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components
3
5
AI designs its own video game
3
6
Study: Facebook profile beats IQ test in predicting job performance
2
7
Computer modelling: Brain in a box
2
8
Gorilla joins the genome club
2
9
How Scientific Publishers' Current Licenses Impede Text Mining
2
10
Cracking brain memory code
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Stephen Wolfram does an AMA
119
2
What is 'Space' expanding into?
67
3
Facebook is down in Northern Europe
25
4
Stephen Wolfram AMA
18
5
Kony 2012
17
6
The UX Effect of Touch Latency on Tablets, Demonstrated by Microsoft
6
7
Did you notice the book being read in the Dollar Shave Club spot?
6
8
NLP_class, algo-class and crypto-class are now live
5
9
Best explanation of public key encryption ever
5
10
Kony 2012
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
645
2
Responsible Disclosure Policy
312
3
How Homakov hacked GitHub & the line of code that could have prevented it
305
4
SSH Key Audit on Github (required)
291
5
The Evolution of a Python Programmer
251
6
A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar
176
7
npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts
151
8
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation
131
9
Codakido, Lua/SDL programming environment for Kids, with C64-alike editor
97
10
Graphene: A D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit
95

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Work aversion disorder
18
2
Hofstadter's law
4
3
Where "Spam" comes from
3
4
The First Woman Programmer
3
5
Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
2
6
The 1-9-90-Rule of Internet culture
2
7
EURion constellation
2
8
Electromigration
1
9
Sturgeon's Law - "ninety percent of everything is crap"
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
1021
2
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
7
3
How to do what you love
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How PyPy works
108
2
Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting
100
3
Difference Between URL and URI
94
4
How did Scirra get HTML5 audio so perfect in Construct 2?
3
5
Good way to crash any page with jQuery
3
6
What algorithms could be used to rank popular blog posts in blog aggregator?
2
7
Haskell Recursion Patterns, FTW
2
8
ZODB in real life?
2
9
How to explain callbacks in plain english?
2
10
Stack vs. Heap
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com