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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
885
2
Nokia acquired by Microsoft
831
3
The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
724
4
Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
707
5
How a Car Engine Works
554
6
0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game
532
7
PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
507
8
Android is for startups
495
9
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
460
10
Left with Nothing
453

Top Ask HN

1
How to best acquire theoretical computer science knowledge?
160
2
Running a hackathon and someone's laptop got stolen, what should we do?
87
3
Best paid VPN?
51
4
Ask HN Googlers: would you invite a fellow geek to visit the Googleplex?
48
5
Dealing with a huge MySQL database - help
30
6
I am working in a troubled startup and seeking some advice
19
7
Share your projects and the stories behind them (Pt. 2)
18
8
Aside from the stock market, where would you invest excess cash?
18
9
Ask HN:Why is it so rare to see job ads asking for generalist programmers?
16
10
How is it going with Shareware/Desktop apps these days?
15

Top Show HN

1
Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
723
2
Very basic Unix-like operating system built when I was younger
143
3
Crime Doesn't Climb in San Francisco
135
4
Find the fastest route via a place
83
5
st simple statistics from the command line
69
6
Skillswap, a tiny site to help people help each other
58
7
Visualizing transit delays in real time for SF MUNI
50
8
Analysing Hacker News Metadata with R
39
9
3D sensing SDK for iOS Produces point cloud and 6DOF device motion
39
10
Dating turned upside down - Tomonotomo
37

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
Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet
246
2
Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real
211
3
AT&T gives DEA 26 years of phone call records to wage war on drugs
187
4
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
176
5
NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech Industry
150
6
PayPal releases Mailpiles $45,000 (updated)
144
7
Australian opposition vows to implement Internet filter by default
139
8
HDMI 2.0 officially announced
130
9
Sony Unveils PlayStation Vita TV, a Tiny, Sub-$100 Game Console
99
10
Google is changing its logo
81

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
N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
885
2
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
460
3
Left with Nothing
453
4
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
279
5
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance
270
6
Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars
261
7
Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection
250
8
Europe drafts law to ban mobile roaming charges
221
9
The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst
220
10
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
197

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
Are STEM Workers Overpaid?
52
2
New connection between stacked solar cells can handle energy of 70,000 suns
42
3
Gdel's Proof of God's Existence
37
4
Is There a U.S. IT Worker Shortage?
19
5
Is mathematics an effective way to describe the world?
5
6
Happy Birthday, Voyager 1
3
7
In search for dark matter components
2
8
What Ever Happened to STEM Job Security?
2
9
Dash Robotics Developing Indestructible Biomimetic Roachbots for Everyone
2
10
Scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene
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
Our Newfound Fear of Risk
330
2
How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It?
201
3
The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet
192
4
Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11
128
5
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
106
6
Open-Sourcing Stripe Shop
100
7
The NSA's Cryptographic Capabilities
87
8
Stripe in Ireland
83
9
Compromised Keylogger-aaS exposes network of Nigerian 419 scammers
64
10
Who Built the Syrian Electronic Army?
40

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit
324
2
Tahoe and Tor: Building Privacy on Strong Foundations
8
3
Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording
3
4
Apple Issues Invitations for September 10, 2013 Event
2
5
EFF Files Brief on Behalf of Rep. Sensenbrenner in NSA Spying Case
2
6
An Illustration of How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying
2
7
Blackberry has submitted Messenger to the iOS app sore
2
8
Stripping Kindle DRM with Lego
2
9
Javascript of things
1
10
Qualcomm introduces Toq smartwatch
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Kindle MatchBook
403
2
Microsoft to acquire Nokia
379
3
All-New Kindle Paperwhite
85
4
Steve Ballmer email to Microsoft employees on Nokia acquisition
67
5
AWS Command Line Interface
8
6
New Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
3
7
Strategic rationale for Microsoft-Nokia deal
3
8
Amazon Adds Mobile Push to Simple Notification Service (SNS)
2
9
All-New Kindle Paperwhite
2
10
New Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Capabilities
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
The Deal That Makes No Sense
195
2
17 y/o kicked out of house - seeking devilishly motivated partner
33
3
Open letter to Glenn Greenwald asking for names to be named
8
4
Kim Dotcom Resigns as Mega Director to Focus on Music Venture
7
5
Google Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay Homepage
6
6
UK Internet Filter Blocks VPNs, Australia to Follow Soon?
6
7
Why Greenwald should reveal which companies have been compromised by the NSA
6
8
Thinking About iPhone Pricing, and What's Up with the Fingerprint Scanner?
5
9
Another Nokia Explanation, The Same Tragic Conclusion
3
10
Private Torrent Sites Run Their Own Mini-PRISM to Share Data on Users
3

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
This Interactive Map Compares the New York City of 1836 to Today
3
2
What Did San Francisco Look Like in the Mid-1800s?
2
3
Gravity variations over Earth is bigger than initially thought
2
4
Red Lightening
2
5
A Salute to the Wheel
2
6
New York: 200 years later (interactive map)
2
7
"We think that fame is deserved. We are wrong." Applies to people and tech.
2
8
What is This? Mysterious Amazon Web Baffles Scientists
2
9
How NSA gets around encryption
2
10
Before There Could Be a Los Angeles, There Had to be Water
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Hacker News Onion
99
2
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
35
3
Disruptive Innovation vs. Harvard: Who Will Win?
33
4
PennApps Final Demos Livestream
32
5
Fuck Google Plus
31
6
Memo To The BuzzFeed Team
24
7
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
22
8
Elon Musk The Future of Design [video]
18
9
Did Linus Torvalds backdoor Linux random number generation?
14
10
Designing rocket part with hand gestures and 3D printing [video]
10

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Two-factor Authentication
245
2
Know Your HTTP Well
119
3
DockerUI - A web interface for Docker
111
4
Js Game Wiki
77
5
Git pissed
73
6
ExoBrowser: The Experimentation Platform to Build a Next generation Web Browser
57
7
Go style Channels for Lua
54
8
Sparklines in your shell
43
9
A PLT Redex model of Rust, almost
43
10
Antares: all-in-one build system for different microcontrollers
39

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Norman Borlaug
91
2
Professor Ronald Coase has died aged 102
26
3
Programmer's Day - 13 September
20
4
Tardigrades
13
5
The Cornfield Bomber
7
6
_NSAKEY crypto key in MS Windows
3
7
Candida keroseneae
3
8
The Atanasoff Berry Computer
3
9
List of eponymous laws
2
10
Elevator paradox
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Stealing Traction: How Youtube, Paypal, AirBnB grew through piggybacking
134
2
Why I Don't Write For Medium
86
3
iOS7 is not about flat
83
4
No I wont lean in because I stand up
81
5
Radical Inclusion vs. Radical Self-Reliance at Burning Man
78
6
Is The Web Dying?
51
7
You wont find an angel in a dragons den
50
8
Universe May Contain Tardis Regions Bigger On The Inside Than The Outside
33
9
Local Library Would Like to Remind Everyone Its Shit Is Free
30
10
Why input validation could cost you a lot
28

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Which is better? Performing calculations in sql or in your application?
49
2
How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
5
3
C++ -\the purpose of specifying captured variable in lambda expression
2
4
Getting age from date of birth accurately
2
5
Obj-C: Use result of an if statement as a variable
1
6
How to deserialize xml created by to_xml() in Google appengine
1
7
Tricks to speed up Eclipse
1
8
StackOverflow: Segmenting GPS Data
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com