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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Google Glass
752
2
Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks
632
3
Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
605
4
Ruby 2.0.0 Released
536
5
Ubuntu on tablets
514
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The best programmers are the quickest to Google
476
7
The Chromebook Pixel
458
8
Hello. I'm a compiler
452
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The Truth about a Failing Startup
447
10
HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning
436

Top Ask HN

1
A patent troll is targeting my transit app
214
2
State of Django vs. Rails?
51
3
On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it?
39
4
If you could start a start-up anywhere in the world
31
5
Why not make everyone's salary public?
28
6
If you would launch a website in 4 hours, what would it be?
27
7
What do you wish your non-technical co-founders knew how to do?
22
8
Any US based company interested in an EE/CS Bachelor for free?
20
9
Why is it so hard to make good friendships in the Bay Area?
16
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Ask HN - How successful are YC companies hiring via HN posting
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Top Show HN

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Like The Onion, But Real
122
2
TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API
112
3
importd d is for django
110
4
Real-time Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
84
5
Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud
78
6
HN Frontpage Minus Techmeme
70
7
urlbox.io - Add beautiful website screenshots to your site
47
8
Facebook Unlike
43
9
My weekend project - inspirational quotes
36
10
Listen to Growth Hacking & Hacker News on your mobile
33

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
Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures
323
2
Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time
253
3
Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4
231
4
I used Google Glass
188
5
Dells Linux Ultrabook gets more pixels, European availability
170
6
LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
146
7
France to invest 20B in high-speed broadband for the entire country
144
8
Google Announces $1,299 Chromebook Pixel With 25601700px Touchscreen
141
9
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
140
10
Microryza (YC W13) Is A Kickstarter For Scientific Research
126

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
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
353
2
The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
291
3
The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures
276
4
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
190
5
Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?
148
6
The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists
139
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Why Clarence Thomas Uses Simple Words in His Opinions
112
8
How To Buy Your Way Onto The New York Times Bestsellers List
112
9
Who Has the Guts for Gluten?
95
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Paul Graham and David Hornik on Bloomberg West [video]
80

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 Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
61
2
German student builds electromagnetic harvester to recharge a battery
47
3
NASA Sees Monster Sunspot Growing Fast, Solar Storms Possible
6
4
Can You Trust an Amazon Review?
5
5
Why Smart Glasses Might Not Make You Smarter - a Q&A with Steve Mann
5
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Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon
5
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Rat Robot Beats on Live Rats to Make Them Depressed
4
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The nuclear reactor in your basement
3
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Japan makes a rat robot specializing in making other rats depressed.
3
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Curves in spacetime violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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
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Firefox introduces PDF viewer
408
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Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS
205
3
Parallelism and Concurrency with Haskell and Cloud Haskell
66
4
The Racket Way
66
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All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security
57
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Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
15
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Countering Trusting Trust
8
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Hacking the Papal Election
5
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How Secure Is the Papal Election
5
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DDoS Attack on Bank Hid $900,000 Cyberheist
4

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
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The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis
47
2
The Copyright Propaganda Machine Gets a New Agent: Your ISP
20
3
Apple Hit with 'Planned Obsolescence' Lawsuit in Brazil over 4th Generation iPad
7
4
Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends by Brian Klug
4
5
Nvidia Tegra 4 Architecture Deep Dive, Tegra 4i, Icera i500 & Phoenix Hands On
3
6
How Many Drone Licenses Has the FAA Issued?
3
7
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB: GK110 On A Gaming Card
2
8
Nvidia Announces Tegra 4i, Formerly Project Grey, With Integrated LTE
2
9
"Abu Dhabi" AMD Opterons Tested
2
10
Benchmarking GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB: Fast, Quiet, Consistent
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon releases OpsWorks - Chef-based dev-ops product
5
2
Peter Thiel & Gary Kasparov's Upcoming Book on the Free Market
3
3
AWS Summit 2013
2
4
An Ultimate Hunt Part 2
1
5
Best Videos from YouTube - Android app
1
6
Amazon launches AWS OpsWorks
1
7
Amazon: At the publisher's request, title is being sold without DRM applied
1
8
AWS Summit 2013
1
9
AWS Summit 2013
1
10
Amazon AWS Summit 2013 registrations open
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
All D3.js demonstrations in one document
107
2
Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission
29
3
Survey: Do You Donate to Crowdfunding Projects?
18
4
Anti-Piracy Groups Want Google to Lift DMCA Takedown Cap
7
5
About TechCrunch (2005)
6
6
The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain
5
7
Always Say Yes to Networking
5
8
Pirate Bay Bandwidth Supplier Disconnected, But The Ship Sails On
4
9
Have no heroes, and no villains
4
10
Pirate Party Threatened With Lawsuit for Hosting The Pirate Bay
4

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
Thalmic (YC W13) introduces gesture control without the cameras
185
2
3D printing pen lets you draw sculptures in thin air
132
3
Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean
53
4
The Shocking Savagery of Americas Early History
12
5
The Roots of Human Genius Are Deeper Than Expected
9
6
Depression's Evolutionary Roots
5
7
Spidey-sense suit tingles when someone gets too close
4
8
Siberian Caves Reveal Advancing Permafrost Thaw
3
9
Photo Interactive: The Civil War, Now in Living Color
3
10
Influential few predict behaviour of the many
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Namecheap disabled imgur.com for abuse
18
2
Scott Chacon, CIO of Github, The Future Of Work [video]
18
3
How to build a genuine fan base on Facebook
9
4
President Obama on Patents
9
5
Teacher makes iOS app to automatically grade quizzes
8
6
Feynman: Difference between Mathematics and Physics
8
7
Steve Jobs in a TV report about Apple Computers (1985)
6
8
Pin - Australian payment API now in public beta
6
9
Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise 24 hours loop
6
10
Dropping Out of Stanford
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete
410
2
TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language
151
3
Ruby - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections
129
4
Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum
108
5
TCMalloc and MySQL
90
6
Common JavaScript Gotchas
75
7
CoffeeComplete Plus True autocompletions for CoffeeScript in SublimeText
59
8
Fluxcapacitor: spoof Posix time functions
55
9
CoffeeScript in Firefox console with DOM support
51
10
Bootstrap-switch
49

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Rubber duck debugging
33
2
Jevons Paradox
6
3
East Germany showing off its computers in a state parade, 1987
5
4
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
4
5
Hexspeak
4
6
Faceted Classification
3
7
Braess's paradox: adding capacity can reduce performance
2
8
Lemuria: the lost atlantis in indian ocean?
2
9
Prions
1
10
Pando (tree) - 80,000 year old tree
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Your Tumblr is broken. Fix it.
169
2
When to Sell Your Company
125
3
How to start working on side projects
86
4
Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters
79
5
Facebook Lost a Great Engineer
52
6
Play by your own rules
32
7
What Yahoo's no work from home policy means
15
8
Yahoos backwards move
12
9
Tesla Is The New Apple
2
10
Its Complicated: Breakup in the Social Age
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Hello. I'm a compiler
452
2
Meanwhile in another news, Azure is down because of expired certificate
12
3
How do I "think in AngularJS" if I have a jQuery background?
7
4
How to confirm that your calculation of pi is correct
7
5
2013 Moderator Election
4
6
How to use vim registers?
3
7
Haskell Type Classes in OCaml
2
8
Five-line solution to the Subset-sum problem (Python)
2
9
Biggest differences of Thrift vs Protocol Buffers?
2
10
How hard is it to implement a chess engine?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com