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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Induction powered LED lit engagement ring
760
2
Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
665
3
Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early
650
4
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits
596
5
42
523
6
Leaving Googles silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
496
7
The Girl Who Turned to Bone
488
8
Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
483
9
Hacker News is depressing
451
10
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
445

Top Ask HN

1
and now what?
163
2
What Freelancer site do you recommend?
149
3
I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?
84
4
How to contribute to open source projects?
79
5
What's the most creative use of IFTTT you've seen?
77
6
Is NodeJS stable enough to build the next Twitter?
48
7
Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?
37
8
What to do next in my career?
17
9
How do you focus?
15
10
leaving a company in silicon valley.
15

Top Show HN

1
WideArea – an expandable textarea
181
2
Raspberry Pi Laptop
120
3
Like Airbnb but for food
108
4
I've used Go to build a daemon for the Raspberry Pi
96
5
Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today
96
6
My new homepage
94
7
log-shuttle log delivery over HTTPs written in Go
62
8
A site for teaming up designers and developers on short projects
61
9
Find the email address of any GitHub user
59
10
Nuesbyte v2
42

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
Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
483
2
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
445
3
I was struck by lightning yesterdayand boy am I sore
433
4
Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
323
5
This Is What Winning Looks Like Afghanistan War Diary
242
6
Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
198
7
Memcached turns 10 years old today
146
8
Xbox One: Microsoft's All-In-One Home Entertainment System
133
9
Google Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines
127
10
Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge
109

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
The Girl Who Turned to Bone
488
2
Chinese DIY Inventions
227
3
The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur
144
4
Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?
143
5
Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off
123
6
BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That
90
7
Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic (2010)
75
8
IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
72
9
In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots
71
10
Is Silicon Valley getting too big for its boots?
67

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
Researchers turn cement into metal
79
2
IBMs Watson Tries to Learn Everything
20
3
Category theory for scientists
4
4
Conductive paint lands in pens and pots for creatives
3
5
Making quantum encryption practical
3
6
Credit Union: Bitcoin's New Best Friends?
2
7
Scientists build record-setting metamaterial flat lens
2
8
Robot Octopus Shows Off New Sculls
2
9
The ternary Goldbach conjecture. QED.
2
10
Here's Microsoft's New Kinect Sensor
2

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
Surveillance and the Internet of Things
142
2
Liberty Reserve Founder Arrested, Site Shuttered
107
3
Clojure in the Field [video]
69
4
Getting started with login verification
56
5
KTAP: A New Scripting Dynamic Tracing Tool For Linux
27
6
Brewing our first IPA patent, and new adopters
6
7
GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance Three-Way
6
8
(Nearly) full tickless operation in Linux 3.10
5
9
Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
5
10
Major compatibility changes coming for Firefox 25
3

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
665
2
The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications
124
3
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
97
4
Jony Ives new look for iOS 7: black, white, and flat all over
32
5
Twitter Launches Innovators Patent Agreement
19
6
AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: powering the PS4 and XBOX One, Kabini & Temash
5
7
Excerpts of Apple Executives' Senate Committee Testimony on Tax Policy
3
8
Laptop vs Thermite - Hard Drive Self Destruct
2
9
EFFSupport Open Access
2
10
HP expands Mac-cloning design approach across all of its latest notebooks
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple releases ad for Google Glass
3
2
NuoDB on AWS marketplace
2
3
Amazon to allow e-book fan fiction sales in US
2
4
The Story about Ping
2
5
Advance Copy of Apple CEO Tim Cook's Testimony to US Senate
1
6
Greatest programming book review
1
7
Tim Cook's Opening Statement
1
8
Kinect for Windows
1
9
Get Maturity in Pure Mathematics for Grad School
1
10
AWS Achieves FedRAMP Compliance
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 Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
130
2
Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me
66
3
Brainfilling Curves - a Fractal Bestiary (online book)
17
4
Someones Trying to Nail the RIAA for Downloading Porn
13
5
RIAA: 20 Million Piracy Takedowns Sent to Google, Still No End in Sight
9
6
How to Give a Killer Presentation
6
7
Pirate Bay User Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation
5
8
Three years attacking web crypto
5
9
UTorrent Serves Over 5 Billion Ads Per Month
2
10
Pirate Bay Downloads Visualized in Real-Time Art Installation
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
Baby's life saved with 3-D printed device that restored his breathing
178
2
You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think
132
3
Advanced biological computer developed
6
4
An Interview with a Dead Man
4
5
Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected?
4
6
We Are All Princes, Paupers, and Part of the Human Family
3
7
New immune system discovered
2
8
Discovery of viruses in the gut that protect from infection
2
9
Tiny Human liver created by 3D tissue printer
2
10
Never Underestimate the Power of a Paint Tube
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million
115
2
The $6,600 Master's Degree.
63
3
Shocking response from Facebook about request to remove this offensive page
39
4
Warren Buffett: Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ
38
5
Elon Musk: thinking of producing sequel to Thank You for Smoking; for the planet
32
6
What was inside Peter Molyneux's Curiosity
11
7
SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview
10
8
AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes
9
9
Paul Graham Talk - Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas [video]
7
10
Screen vs. tmux faceoff
6

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github
278
2
Free private Github repos for students and edu people
209
3
Rustboot: a 32 bit kernel written in Rust
190
4
VNC over gif
190
5
My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint
178
6
Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phantomjs
162
7
Zero.rs: runtime-less Rust programs
123
8
Store files in your Flickr account
96
9
Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability
77
10
Dictdiffer: Diff and Patch Python dictionaries
58

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
List of unsolved problems in computer science
99
2
List of probability distributions
43
3
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
43
4
Stigler diet - an early rigorous approach to nutrition
7
5
Yahoo Meme was a microblogging site launched by Yahoo Inc. in August 2009.
5
6
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
4
7
TIL SQLite was created to be used on guided missile destroyers
4
8
Secretary problem
2
9
Fork Bomb
2
10
Yes (Unix)
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Always Be Coding How to Land an Engineering Job
432
2
The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
347
3
Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree
213
4
Too scared to write a line of code
211
5
Why Silicon Valley is not the second coming of the Gilded Age
185
6
The People of Postgres: Tom Lane
136
7
Dear Dumb VC
115
8
Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009)
98
9
Star Trek, tech companies, and the death of futurism in cinema
81
10
The Weakest Link Is You
74

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What does O(log n) mean, exactly?
139
2
What's the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?
37
3
What is the correct JSON content type?
15
4
Hidden features of Python
3
5
Why not port Linux kernel to Common Lisp
2
6
Faye vs. Socket.IO (and Juggernaut)
2
7
How to undo the last Git commit?
2
8
Checking for IE9 in JS
2
9
What is a monad?
2
10
Hidden features of Clojure
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com