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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
2
Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
838
3
Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
732
4
You know, Google, the web already had this feature
656
5
News is bad for you and giving up reading it will make you happier
502
6
Hummingbird A fresh take on music notation
460
7
Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
451
8
How can we get Google Support?
439
9
Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll
422
10
We used to sleep twice each night
408

Top Ask HN

1
Why would a government have created bitcoin?
448
2
How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?
104
3
How can I make an extra 30-50k a year?
72
4
for those who successfuly launched on HN, how many attempts did it take?
61
5
Those with intense focus, how do you do it?
60
6
How do hackers make friends?
32
7
What is your favorite movie? And why do you like it?
20
8
Is anyone making money from garbage?
17
9
How do I obtain part-time development work?
15
10
How come hardware engineer's salary is declining?
13

Top Show HN

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I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system
290
2
vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection
186
3
Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor
154
4
Rappad - Write better lyrics
126
5
Star Trek-like computer with voice interface
93
6
Hospice.io Vagrant configurations generator
88
7
The Found a Business Book Interviews with Entrepreneurs
73
8
TL;DRizer - an algorithmic summarizer webapp/api in java (weekend hack)
52
9
We manage your code duplication. We want your bugs to stay fixed
42
10
Analytics / CRM hybrid
40

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
Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
390
2
Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbons Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature
134
3
Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet
114
4
FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Details Revealed in Court
106
5
Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links
96
6
FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire
91
7
Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
85
8
Treehouse gets $7M to bring learn-to-code programs to high schools
84
9
Backlift (YC W12) Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers
77
10
Foursquare raises $41 million Series D round
76

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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Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
2
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment
222
3
Why Did Yahoo Buy Summly?
171
4
Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India
154
5
I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed
147
6
Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)
136
7
Tech group representing Google, Yahoo backs CISPA
125
8
US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'
108
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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down
105
10
Eighteen and Abandoned
75

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
Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run
164
2
NASA plans to capture asteroid and bring it to Earth orbit
9
3
The Wow signal of the terrestrial genetic code [pdf]
8
4
The appearance of new phantom fingers post-amputation in a phocomelus
3
5
VR team presents infinite walking in virtual environments (w/ video)
3
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Pregnancy in a hermaphrodite with a male-predominant mosaic karyotype.
2
7
Does the Brain Work Logarithmically?
2
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Influence of repressive legislation on the structure of a social media network
2
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Interview with Warren Wiscombe on scientific programing
2
10
Autonomous Balloon Destruction Wins Stanford Drone Games
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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Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
153
2
Go at Google [video]
134
3
Schrdinger's and outside-the-box naming
119
4
Nice Security Mindset Example
104
5
IT for Oppression
80
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Sails 0.8.9: A Rails-Inspired Real-Time Node MVC Framework
48
7
Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War
10
8
Patching the Internet in Realtime: Fixing a Current WordPress Brute Force Attack
8
9
Joe Duffy on Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism
6
10
Nvidia Has Major New Linux Driver: Optimus, RandR 1.4
4

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
The Crucial/Micron M500 Review – 960GB SSD for $600
85
2
EFF Joins Andrew Auernheimer Case on Appeal
24
3
The EFF's New HQ
8
4
Exxon Hates Your Free Speech, Tries to Censor Satirical Ad
4
5
EFF and Partners Challenge Six 3D Printing Patent Applications
4
6
Intel releases OpenCL 1.2 driver and tools update for Ivy Bridge and Haswell
2
7
Sends a camera through mail to record the process
2
8
California Court Rules Anti-Texting Laws Apply to Checking Maps While Driving
1
9
Valve's Lessons Learned: Porting Source Engine to Linux
1
10
Rumor has Google close to buying WhatsApp for $1B
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
161
2
Visual Studio SP2 (Official) is out
2
3
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Kindle edition on sale for $1.99
2
4
Apple remains committed to the Open Source development model
2
5
Pointers on C (Book by Kenneth Reek)
1
6
Geoflow 3D for Excel 2013 (preview)
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
The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf]
71
2
Problems in Education
60
3
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway
7
4
The Copyright Monopoly Was Always Intended To Prevent Freedom Of Expression
6
5
Massive BitTorrent and Cyberlocker Domain Crackdown Underway
4
6
Google Relaxes DMCA Takedown Restrictions, Eyes Abuse
3
7
IMAGiNE Piracy Group Founder Jailed For 23 Months
2
8
Summary of MtGox Reddit AMA Q&A from this morning
2
9
Go 1.1 Function Calls
2
10
The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure
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
Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee
75
2
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
65
3
Stone tools helped shape human hands
40
4
Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria
8
5
Researcher's trick transforms conservatives into liberals ahead of election
6
6
Chemical treatment turns whole organs, including brain, transparent
3
7
Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
3
8
Crick's DNA Nobel medal gets $2 million at auction
2
9
What "Psychopath" Means -- It is not quite what you may think
1
10
The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
We are Mt. Gox: AMA
46
2
Browser cookies influence ticket prices
34
3
When terrible things happen to people I can't help...
15
4
High-tech sex workers in Silicon Valley
10
5
23 generations of a Roxette song on VHS, with attendant signal degredation
9
6
Brainwash (1/7) - The Gender Equality Paradox
8
7
Apple is about to pull my app from the App Store, so it's free until its gone
7
8
The admin of bitcoin24 doesn't know what database transactions are
6
9
Pg on exploding accelerator offers
6
10
Explosion at Boston Marathon finish line
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Github turns five
352
2
Quake 3 engine in Rust
176
3
STL File Viewing
144
4
Yummy cookies across domains
133
5
A simple dark theme and accompanying color scheme for Sublime Text 2
102
6
The Payphone Project
99
7
Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean
83
8
Balancer Battle Load testing HAproxy, Nginx and HTTP-Proxy's WebSocket support
74
9
Anonymous Open Letter to the Ember.js Core Team
45
10
Akka design patterns Scala actors
44

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Esquivalience
93
2
Zero Knowledge Proofs
57
3
Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox
48
4
Prince Rupert's Drop
40
5
Hebrew: the only language to revive from absolute 0 native speakers to Millions
9
6
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
2
7
Google Bubble
2
8
Champernowne constant
2
9
Metro-2
2
10
ASMR That pleasurable feeling you can't explain
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst
144
2
Designing Open Source
85
3
Coffee meetings
49
4
Oh, Im not a Medium
46
5
Transitional Interfaces
22
6
The DOM is still a mess
20
7
Women in Technology, Rise of the Anti-Movement
18
8
Dating with Graph Search
18
9
Go Big by Going Home
12
10
An Open Letter To Women In Technology
10

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c
222
2
How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
144
3
What is your best programmer joke?
7
4
BitCoin-24 Founder Learning About SQL Transactions
5
5
Java equivalent to Python's zip() - StackOverflow
2
6
Nginx redirect Http Requests to Https. Any Ideas?
2
7
Syntax highlight for json in 18 lines of plain JavaScript
1
8
What is the cost of many TIME_WAIT on the server side?
1
9
What paradigm shifts should a Rails developer make when beginning Ember.js?
1
10
How to best represent dynamic game actions in a REST API?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com