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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
A Most Peculiar Test Drive
1815
2
Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails
1715
3
Why HN was down
1027
4
Opera moves to WebKit
918
5
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
883
6
Meteorite crash in Russia
848
7
Learn Git Branching
702
8
Python trademark at risk in Europe
539
9
Death in Singapore
456
10
Ten predictions (2004)
452

Top Ask HN

1
Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
481
2
What is the coolest JS library out there?
93
3
How do you manage your bookmarks?
47
4
Which hosting company to use for a small SaaS product?
38
5
Where do you get ideas to build side-projects?
35
6
Tech predictions for the next 10 years?
19
7
What are some examples of really well designed websites?
17
8
How do you prime/start a community for your site?
17
9
Interview questions for experienced programmers
15
10
What tech stack is your startup built on?
14

Top Show HN

1
a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
574
2
Build your own Heroku on your own servers
202
3
What colour is your IP address?
197
4
Quickly copy a file between computers
105
5
Semantics3 API for Products and Prices
101
6
Open Source Mobile Privacy Policy
100
7
Beautiful real-time dashboards with FnordMetric
91
8
Stop asking your clients "What browser are you on?"
88
9
I Designed this HN Mac App Should I develop it?
82
10
A threaded, TCP, key value store in Haskell
59

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
Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World
202
2
Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin
148
3
Facebook computers compromised by zero-day Java exploit
143
4
Reddit Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Reddit Gold Purchases via Coinbase
109
5
Pixelapse (YC W12): GitHub-Style Sharing and Version Control For Design Projects
77
6
Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed
71
7
Hackers Turn Burger Kings Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess
71
8
Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round
66
9
Virool (YC S12) Raises $6.62 Million Seed Round To Help Make Videos Go Viral
65
10
Get Ready To Lose Your Job
61

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
Death in Singapore
456
2
A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
230
3
White House Owes Response To Petition To Fire Prosecutor Of Aaron Swartz
148
4
Mexico: The New China
145
5
Letter from the grave (2009)
136
6
US Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto Seed Patent Case
134
7
Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain
114
8
As Families Change, Koreas Elderly Are Turning to Suicide
96
9
In China, Betting It All on a Child in College
88
10
FarmLogs (YC W12) Is Going To Change The Way That Farmers Manage Their Business
76

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
Willow Garage to Shut Down
67
2
UK's RobotCar demonstrated
41
3
Polytron predicts glass smartphones by end of year
4
4
Robot rat attacks real rats until they're depressed to test anti-depressants
3
5
Internet temptation at work lowers employee productivity
3
6
Asteroid Flyby Webcasts: Watch 2012 DA14 Live
3
7
Penguins welcome their robot overlords
3
8
Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby
2
9
Physics Paper of the week: Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts
2
10
Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security
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
Email transparency
210
2
Browser Wars, the game
169
3
Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware
57
4
Automobile Data Surveillance and the Future of Black Boxes
9
5
When the Bad Guys Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right
7
6
Automobile Data Surveillance and the Future of Black Boxes
5
7
Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel
5
8
Stripe hiring UK Engineers- it's coming
4
9
Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel
3
10
Michael Nygard - Redefining CAP
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
Obama Calls for Patent Reform to Topple Trolls
239
2
The Effects of Temperature on Electric Vehicle Efficiency and Range
13
3
Bill Gates Uses 80-inch Touchscreen for Reddit AMA
6
4
Talking Software Patents with the Patent Office: A Sign of Reform to Come?
5
5
Adobe wants you to pay them 40% for iOS Apps
4
6
Anand's thoughts on Intel's TV initiative
3
7
Make your own head-mounted display for under $200
2
8
Google asks journalists to tone down story of "massive" security flaw
2
9
California Sheriff Faces Loud Privacy Protests Against Drone Plans
2
10
Apple makes more from iTunes + accessories than most do from phones
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers
85
2
SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP
8
3
Health Checks for Route53
3
4
Apple Updates Processors & Prices of MacBook Pro with Retina Display
3
5
Amazon Route 53 Introduces DNS Failover
2
6
Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers
2
7
Amazon's Data Warehouse Redshift Pricing
2
8
Microsoft SyncToy
1
9
SexyPHP: A Fun Way to Learn Object Oriented PHP [Kindle Edition]
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
How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
94
2
The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police
66
3
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit
37
4
Anti-Piracy Group to The Pirate Bay: We Want You To Sue Us
31
5
BitTorrent Starts Cyberlocker/BitTorrent Hybrid, Without Limits
5
6
U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers
3
7
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit
3
8
Graph Databases Compared - Spreadsheet
2
9
Megaupload Planted Evidence Claim is an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory, U.S. Says
2
10
Competent Elites
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
Russian meteor largest in a century
234
2
Genetic system performs logic operations and stores data in DNA
55
3
When Google got flu wrong
28
4
The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor -- Scientific American
22
5
The computer that never crashes
7
6
Computer program can reconstruct long-extinct languages from modern ones
6
7
GA EP System Reprograms Faults
3
8
Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits
2
9
Bacteria boost fixes symptoms of autism in mice
2
10
When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop That from Happening)?
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Why It's Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport
259
2
Protecting People On Facebook
54
3
Elon Musk and How Not to Handle a PR Crisis
48
4
CNN live tweets while driving the same route as Broder (NYT)
12
5
Huge meteore blew up over Chelyabinsk, Russia
9
6
Tesla Road Trip
9
7
Good To Know Uber Doesn't Screen Their Drivers
8
8
Burger King Twitter account hacked
8
9
Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson comedy movie with Google
8
10
PG: What it looks like when a startup takes off
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Introducing Boxen
447
2
Unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API
172
3
A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks
154
4
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub
140
5
Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game
122
6
Array.js: A better array for the browser and Node.js
76
7
MIDI visualizer in WebGL
73
8
HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake
67
9
Zend Optimizer+ now open-source on Github
41
10
Chocolate Duke3D - educational, compilable port of original Duke 3D
31

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Productivity Paradox
5
2
WeberFechner law
2
3
Motivation Not to Leave a Startup
2
4
The Strategy of Conflict (1960)
2
5
Door to Hell
2
6
Slowly changing dimensions
2
7
Big meteorite rain over Ural, Russia
2
8
Stanislav Petrov
2
9
IBM S/360
2
10
The Abilene paradox
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Protect Kids, Get F*cked
131
2
The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play
70
3
Free transportation for life
29
4
When are you going to start your own company?
6
5
Products I Wish Existed
3
6
Four ways to improve your next job interview
2
7
Fail fast
2
8
What it means to have remote presence
1
9
The most common mistake in job interviews
1
10
When Good Design Isn't Enough
1

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How to program if you are blind
107
2
Does JavaScript's setInterval() method cause memory leak?
21
3
What is a Smalltalk image?
6
4
What is Branch Prediction?
4
5
What makes COBOL such a hated language?
3
6
File reading performance on smartphones: internal storage vs. SD card
2
7
Mythical man month 10 lines per developer day - how close on large projects?
2
8
How to count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer?
2
9
Why UI design so hard for some developers
2
10
How improper loop structure can cause cache misses and balloon runtime [C]
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com