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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Here's how I deal with users who steal
744
2
Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: Weve Reached The End of Antibiotics, Period
670
3
How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
598
4
Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
581
5
The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
552
6
LinkedIn Introduces Insecurity
543
7
C--
537
8
Lime Experimental Sublime Text clone
532
9
April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"
494
10
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
481

Top Ask HN

1
Why the Microsoft hate?
737
2
What are you working on and why is it cool?
413
3
Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?
159
4
Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?
110
5
Decided to start a business and regret later. Share your story.
30
6
Who are the 100 people who most changed the world?
29
7
Why would or wouldn't you do a marijuana-focused startup?
23
8
What's a good resource for a 9 year old to learn programming?
21
9
What are some cheap must-have software tools for Mac?
19
10
What subscriptions do you use (and pay for)?
18

Top Show HN

1
Sketchology
208
2
A Github for writers?
170
3
Make your app handle going offline
141
4
Mortality Rates in the US Visualized
88
5
Meals/Feels - Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies
79
6
Bitbillpay - Pay any PostBillPay biller in Australia with Bitcoin
77
7
Code Climate for JavaScript
53
8
Simple analytics for restaurants. Feedback on launch page?
45
9
Nunjucks Node templates with inheritance, asynchronous control
42
10
Our Open-Source Raspberry Pi Robot
28

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
Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling
432
2
OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
379
3
New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen
257
4
Google announces uProxy
202
5
Primer on elliptic curve cryptography
196
6
Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online
166
7
iPad Air
160
8
$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December
125
9
The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It
121
10
Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90%, save $450B annually
100

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
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders
480
2
In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars
347
3
Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence
282
4
Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results
228
5
The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
219
6
Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons'
219
7
Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
209
8
US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims
193
9
Why being a thinker takes quiet time
174
10
The way government does tech is outdated and risky
162

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
NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmissions to and from Moon
138
2
For Sale: Balloon Rides to Near-Space for $75,000 a Seat
39
3
A Bouncing Ball To Make Danger Zones Safer
23
4
Mechanisms of Modafinil: A review of current research
10
5
The Ketogenic Diet as a Treatment Paradigm for Diverse Neurological Disorders
4
6
Reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change
2
7
Vacuums provide solid ground for new definition of kilogram
2
8
New material for quantum computing discovered out of the blue
2
9
NASA Partner SpaceX Completes Review of 2014 Commercial Crew Abort Test
2
10
The World's Most Powerful MRI Takes Shape
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
Can I Be Trusted?
139
2
Dry Ice Bombs at LAX
66
3
Official Node.js support
49
4
US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
23
5
Lightbeam for Firefox: Privacy Education for Users & Open Data for Publishers
20
6
Can I Be Trusted?
8
7
A (Relatively Easy To Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
5
8
Introducing the Mozilla Location Service (experiment)
4
9
Defending Against Crypto Backdoors
4
10
Understanding the Threats in Cyberspace
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
USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source
294
2
EFF Has Lavabits Back in Contempt of Court Appeal
232
3
Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
120
4
Jony Ive Designs One-of-a-Kind Red Mac Pro for Charity Auction
22
5
Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads
10
6
Apple Pulls Some Disney and Pixar Titles From iTunes
7
7
T-Mobile Launches Cellular iPads with Free 200 MB Data
4
8
NSA Spying in Congress: What to Watch For in Upcoming Bills
4
9
Apple Giving iOS Devs Free Copies of OS X Server
3
10
Third Circuit Agrees With EFF: Warrant Required to Track a Car With GPS
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion
233
2
Amazon's minimum order size for free shipping is now $35
206
3
Apple Special Event October 2013 Live Stream
93
4
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
56
5
OS X Server
23
6
IPad air
13
7
Apple: No Search Results for 'Wozniak'
11
8
OS X Mavericks
5
9
Apple - iPad Air
3
10
iWork "free" only for Macs purchased after Oct 01, 2013
3

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
Women in Software Engineering stats
24
2
The Historical Software Collection
7
3
The iPad launch lacked a story. Does Apple still have vision?
6
4
File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot
5
5
How NSA-Proof Are VPN Providers?
4
6
VPN Provider Shuts Down After Lavabit Case Undermines Security
4
7
Share your Greatest Hack (from your YC application)
2
8
Go Release Cycle
2
9
Miko Hevery: What is in store for the future of AngularJS
2
10
VisiCalc in-browser emulator
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
Entangled toy universe shows time may be an illusion
71
2
Saturated Fat is not the major issue
65
3
UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid
65
4
United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan
55
5
Bees underwent massive extinctions when dinosaurs did
13
6
Software beats CAPTCHA, the web's 'are you human?' test
9
7
Chemical 'clock' tracks ageing more precisely than ever before
4
8
Brain decoding: Reading minds
4
9
Physicists Euphoric but Confused about Black Hole Paradox
4
10
Natural gold particles in Eucalyptus leaves
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Buffer app hacked
49
2
Mythbusters does the 4 Way Stop Vs Roundabout
16
3
Linkedin down
11
4
Redditor claims silkroad bust was an elaborate scam, other users seem to agree
9
5
Friends don't send friends links to HN threads
9
6
Under the hood: MySQL Pool Scanner (MPS)
8
7
Just how much power does a Tesla Model S produce?
8
8
Haskell at NYTimes
6
9
Startup School 2013 Videos
6
10
Thanks for the warning Google
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Lime Experimental Sublime Text clone
532
2
A Haskell kernel for IPython
203
3
Hk, The new Heroku Client written in Go
98
4
Repobuild Declarative-style build system, like Google Build
74
5
Time-Machine-style backup with rsync
71
6
Ruby-FFI is no longer maintained
66
7
FastImageCache iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling
64
8
FizzBuzz solved using only bit twiddling
63
9
Newton - Javascript Physics Library
61
10
EmberFire: Official Firebase bindings for EmberJS
36

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Aptronym
36
2
Low-background Steel
26
3
Spaghetti Tree Hoax
8
4
Direct democracy
5
5
Extreme ironing
5
6
Yes and No
4
7
Hairy ball theorem
3
8
The Impostor Syndrome
2
9
Hashlife
2
10
Gun politics in Switzerland
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Gzip + poetry = awesome
362
2
What I learned at YC Startup school
20
3
I want to fork everything
20
4
I want to fork everything
15
5
How I deal with users who steal
14
6
Daring to reimagine the panhandling economy
13
7
The Secret to Designing the Right Product
12
8
Quantum Experiment Shows How Time Emerges from Entanglement
11
9
Medium Opens Writing to Everyone
11
10
On Building Community Products
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why not port the Linux kernel to Common Lisp? (2009)
27
2
C# versus C++ performance
10
3
Keyset-driven paging
4
4
Why should I use an IDE?
3
5
What happened to "HelveticaNeue-Italic" on iOS 7.0.3
2
6
“Hello World” with Microsoft Paint
2
7
Python NOOP to keep syntax OK on commenting
2
8
C# versus C++ performance
2
9
How to explain Dependency Injection to a 5-year old
2
10
Python: Which XML parser supports DTD internal subset?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com