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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Amazon Prime Air
1356
2
Explain Shell
1318
3
Started a stupid company. Failed.
1291
4
How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
871
5
Jolla
734
6
Web GL Ocean Simulation
673
7
Dear Spike Lee
627
8
End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
529
9
Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
524
10
Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
495

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (December 2013)
247
2
Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
185
3
Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
121
4
Open Source alternatives to Disqus?
116
5
What kind of side projects are you working on?
103
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)
96
7
How do you come back from a failed acquisition?
82
8
Hacker News Person Of the Year
65
9
Why does Facebook respect my data more than HN?
58
10
How do I stay \"on\" all the time?
49

Top Show HN

1
Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
644
2
Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life
260
3
Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
193
4
GuessHub, our Github Game off entry. Guess a commit's repository
122
5
Headline Smasher
93
6
Hacker News in your system tray
86
7
WebRTC Poker
66
8
I built a live Bitcoin price aggregator with multiple indexes
49
9
Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Payments
45
10
Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL
31

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
Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
524
2
Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
183
3
Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone
167
4
How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views
143
5
Newegg on trial: Mystery company TQP rewrites the history of encryption
109
6
Quantum Light Harvesting Hints at Entirely New Form of Computing
82
7
Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound
76
8
An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's computational paradigm
70
9
YouTube Addresses Massive Spam Problem Following Rollout of Google+ Commenting
67
10
'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)
65

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
End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
529
2
Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Massachusetts Legal System In Turmoil
164
3
Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype
163
4
Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site
149
5
Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money
137
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Britain targets Guardian paper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden
117
7
Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10
117
8
Why are there so many tunnels under London?
106
9
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
104
10
Patent trolls have a surprising ally: universities
100

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
First flight of Lunar plant growth experiment
30
2
Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real?
28
3
Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation
14
4
San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid
8
5
Five ways the Raspberry Pi is making life a little sweeter
4
6
D-Wave’s Year of Computing Dangerously
3
7
Emotion Regulation Predicts Marital Satisfaction: More Than a Wives' Tale.
2
8
NASA: Comet ISON may have survived
2
9
In some species, mere presence of males shortens females' lifespan
2
10
Fundamental Incertitudes Behind Bitcoin Mining
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
Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
127
2
Tor Appliance
88
3
How Antivirus Companies Handle State-Sponsored Malware
77
4
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
7
5
Spanner - Google's Distributed Database [video]
4
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New exploit kit Atrax boasts Tor Connectivity, Bitcoin Extraction
4
7
9-year-old kid sells his Apple shares to buy Bitcoin
3
8
Ruby On Rails Cookiestore Vulnerability Plagues Prominent Websites
2
9
\"There is no way I could fix C++ for her\"
2
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Roll Up Your Sleeves, It’s Time to Save the Web
2

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Dell Leaks Details of a 24” UHD 4K (3840x2160) Monitor
112
2
What's Wrong With the Latest Beastie Boys Lawsuit
26
3
Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
8
4
Newsstand Shotgun Hack Poised to Further Ruin Air Travel
7
5
DIY Thermal Imaging Camera
4
6
We're One Step Closer to Ending Mass Surveillance
4
7
How Hacker News Page Rankings Really Work
2
8
Pokemon Blue Becomes An IDE
2
9
Creative Commons Issues an Update to its Copyright License Suite
2
10
Retrotechtacular: WWII Paraset Spy Radio Used by French Resistance
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Prime Air
1356
2
Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear and Direct Intro To Modern C Programming
74
3
Amazon Prime Air
2
4
Amazon Prime Air
2
5
Meet Microsoft's master of high-tech showmanship
1
6
AMAZON Moto G USA Preorder... SHIPS NEXT WEEK
1
7
The 100 million dollar walkie talkie
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
Clojure: The JFDI language
185
2
Go 1.3 Linker Overhaul
97
3
Do not use Amazon chat support. This just happened to me.
11
4
U.S. Government Caught Pirating Military Software, Settles For $50 Million
8
5
Russell Brand: Get My New DVD From The Pirate Bay
4
6
Three unpublished Salinger books leaked to the internet
3
7
Undead labs, makers of State of Decay, employee profit sharing plan
2
8
Landmark Beyonce BitTorrent Prosecution Fails to Intimidate
2
9
U.S. Government Caught Pirating Military Software, Settles For $50 Million
2
10
Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality
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
New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms
220
2
To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation
114
3
23andMe Is Terrifying, But Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks
102
4
Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted
50
5
Research Integrity in China
3
6
Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze
2
7
Baby Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed in Canada
2
8
Snap-Together Planes and Bridges
2
9
You’ve Got Mail… about STDs
2
10
Governments will struggle to put Bitcoin under lock and key
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Facebook's robots.txt
39
2
An understated job advertisement
23
3
Penny Arcade web dev / sysadmin job posting
22
4
Spike Lee responds to Juan Luis Garcia's letter
18
5
Coinpunk becomes first Bitcoin mobile wallet app to be unbannable by Apple
10
6
Part of GCHQ .. cracked password on paedophile's hard drive
9
7
What Happened to TermKit
8
8
Someone who made millions and then lost it all
6
9
AT&T 1993 \"You Will\" Ads
6
10
Rails and Django also switching documentation to gender neutral pronouns
6

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
“MongoDB is dead. Long live Postgresql”
323
2
Combine your Wi-Fi, Ethernet and 3G connections to increase your download speed
238
3
A JavaScript parser and interpreter written in Go
216
4
How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++
212
5
Monocle.io Open Sourced
110
6
Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler
106
7
Expanding Context in Diffs
104
8
Linux-ng
81
9
Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses
75
10
Open Hardware Bitcoin Miner
72

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Shaft passer
195
2
Toast Sandwich
171
3
Cicada 3301
55
4
List of important publications in philosophy
44
5
Turboencabulator
25
6
Inverted Totalitarianism
19
7
Syndicalism: a replacement for Capitalism
9
8
Mercury-Redstone 1 - The \"Four Inch Flight\"
6
9
Google Invested with CIA?
5
10
Allegory of the long spoons
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why HN Should Use Randomized Algorithms
80
2
What happens when you run \"Hello, world\"
51
3
Please stop live tweeting people’s private conversations
47
4
How radioactive poison became the assassin’s weapon of choice
14
5
How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed My Life
12
6
I’m a really good impostor
12
7
Bitcoin might need a “Red Hat moment”: a Bitcoin Bank
10
8
The Value of Content
10
9
The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon
9
10
How Much Do You Get Paid?
8

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?
82
2
The most voted Ruby question on Stack Overflow
4
3
A simple explanation about SOAP and REST
4
4
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
3
5
Highest Voted java Questions - Stack Overflow
2
6
Hidden features of Python [2011]
2
7
How does C compute sin() and other math functions?
2
8
Python: How to get the Content-Type of an URL? - Stack Overflow
1
9
When is each sorting algorithm used?
1
10
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com