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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
1624
2
I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
1485
3
Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book
1276
4
Do Things that Don't Scale
1235
5
Ubuntu Edge
1159
6
Doug Engelbart has died
1128
7
Victory Lap for Ask Patents
1037
8
Quine Relay
983
9
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
913
10
Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online
843

Top Ask HN

1
I'm quadriplegic can you help me with my security?
471
2
Who is hiring? (July 2013)
284
3
HN Political News Overload?
198
4
Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?
183
5
When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?
162
6
How does one create a fake identity?
151
7
Has anyone here self-published a book? Any advice?
127
8
How do you apply for a tech job?
112
9
Intermediate Python learning resources?
105
10
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)
105

Top Show HN

1
I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi
407
2
CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers
397
3
Floobits – Remote pair programming done right
363
4
Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains
193
5
Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)
157
6
Minified.js a fully-featured, 4K alternative to jQuery and MooTools
151
7
I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup
148
8
I made an HN job board
143
9
Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken programming language
138
10
This page will disappear in 10,000 views
134

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
I understood gender discrimination once I added Mr. to my resume
629
2
Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File
407
3
EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements
373
4
Now That Its in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality
349
5
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video
297
6
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartzs Secret Service File
281
7
Amashs Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217
278
8
Amazon Drops Price Of EC2 Dedicated Instances By Up To 80%
278
9
NASDAQ is owned. Five men charged in largest financial hack ever
274
10
$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android
236

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
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
1624
2
The Drone that Killed my Grandson
683
3
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
478
4
Riding the New Silk Road
475
5
Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and fathers attorney
436
6
The NSA slide you havent seen
419
7
Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden
398
8
Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
371
9
Secret government: America against democracy
360
10
NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference
328

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
OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t
110
2
UCLA scientists double efficiency of novel solar cell
59
3
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf]
58
4
NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet
53
5
The Memristors Fundamental Secrets Revealed
52
6
How fast can we make interpreted Python?
51
7
Jaron Lanier: We're Being Enslaved by Free Information
47
8
Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer
43
9
NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class
32
10
Self-replicating alien probes could already be here
30

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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Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones
254
2
The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG suspected NSA backdoor (2007)
218
3
Apple Dev Center outage
217
4
A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
186
5
Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
149
6
Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground
133
7
Philosophy and "for" loops more from Go and Rust
133
8
Bruce Schneier awarded fellowship at Harvard's Berkman Center
115
9
NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
97
10
Apple Developer System Status
91

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
466
2
Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
424
3
EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment
270
4
Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance
260
5
Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
201
6
Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying
156
7
Chrome 27, Firefox 22, IE10, And Opera Next, Benchmarked
142
8
ASUS PQ321Q 4k 32" Monitor first look
64
9
Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping?
54
10
ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Display
53

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft reorganizes
253
2
Logic Pro X
227
3
Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page
39
4
Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7
39
5
Amazon AWS introduces resource levels for EC2
39
6
iWork for iCloud beta
35
7
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
9
8
Statement from Microsoft About Response to Government Demands for Customer Data
7
9
IWork for iCloud beta now available
4
10
Steve Ballmer email to employees on Don Mattrick transition
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
UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
342
2
Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers
257
3
An easy way to share files P2P, and how it works
162
4
Pirate Bay Founder: Future copy fights will need something better
79
5
Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Camerons Porn Filter With Immunicity
71
6
MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunts Failing Piracy Filter
65
7
Representatives that rejected limits on NSA data collection and funding sources
58
8
Byte magazine archives
56
9
HBO Asks Google to Take Down Infringing VLC Media Player
52
10
Of mice, men and machines (1998)
32

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
Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
235
2
Antibiotic resistance: The last resort
196
3
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems
157
4
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
149
5
Kindergarten coders can program before they can read
82
6
Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding
54
7
Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics
46
8
The Kopp-Etchells effect
43
9
Solar System Has a Tail, Just Like a Comet
40
10
50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
36

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?
341
2
Stay-at-home dad
287
3
Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August
282
4
Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]
236
5
How to permanently delete a Facebook account
199
6
SpaceX's Grasshopper Successfully Flew 325 Metres
151
7
Don't talk to the police [video]
118
8
Jimmy Wales: This is super cool. "I started to learn python..."
93
9
r/SideProject: A subreddit for sharing your side project
73
10
A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings
65

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Quine Relay
983
2
Releases a workflow for shipping software to end users
463
3
Alternative Internet
347
4
Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go
330
5
Ideas for Computing
320
6
GitHub's on your phone
265
7
A Dark Room game open-sourced
203
8
Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber
193
9
Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone
169
10
Rust 0.7 Released
162

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
White Coke
466
2
Alief
298
3
Archy
72
4
The Mother of All Demos
62
5
Qwest Refusal of NSA surveillance requests
60
6
Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft
51
7
Blind faith (computer programming)
23
8
Toilet paper orientation
9
9
Brainbows
9
10
Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy (2009)
7

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Do Things that Don't Scale
1235
2
Distributed Everything
282
3
How I have lost over 100 pounds and dont know how
145
4
Discovering Sketch
128
5
A Shiny Content Farm is Still a Content Farm
112
6
Lean Startups fail for these 3 reasons, but they didnt tell you in the book
105
7
Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation
87
8
How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups
82
9
In times of change, make tires
77
10
Automatic Summarization in Medium
71

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?
275
2
How the algorithm for coloring the iTunes song list works
97
3
How to design a multi-user ajax web application to be concurrently safe
73
4
How to build a model to distinguish tweets about Apple and apples
69
5
What git branching models actually work?
65
6
Why would you not want to use Cloud Computing? (2009)
13
7
What blocks Ruby, Python to get Javascript V8 speed?
12
8
Advantages of web applications over desktop applications
6
9
Answers for bad questions on Stack Overflow
6
10
Best comments in source code
5

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com