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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
1466
2
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
1224
3
Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
830
4
fork() can fail
759
5
Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
747
6
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
714
7
X to close
704
8
MathBox 2
656
9
Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
653
10
A Single Div
647

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (August 2014)
440
2
I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
364
3
How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
288
4
Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?
231
5
Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)
224
6
Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
155
7
Why are there two Job Ads at the top?
143
8
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)
139
9
What info do you web scrape for?
126
10
How to learn design as a hacker?
117

Top Show HN

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I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
1013
2
Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
576
3
Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
455
4
Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL
325
5
A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
309
6
I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
259
7
Restore tmux environment after a system restart
240
8
Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line
219
9
Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS
219
10
A small virtual machine written in C
212

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
Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
1224
2
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
714
3
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
475
4
Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
470
5
Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app
438
6
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
380
7
Maps of the Roman Empire
344
8
I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
304
9
Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies
293
10
Questions about Nasa's space drive answered
285

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
US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet
460
2
Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
432
3
Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
315
4
Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63
293
5
When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
281
6
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring
278
7
White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm
275
8
An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)
272
9
How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'
270
10
Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt
257

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
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
120
2
The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku
96
3
Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011)
92
4
A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world
87
5
Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows
80
6
Unbounded Robotics to Shut Down Due to Willow Garage Spin-Off Agreement
51
7
Electron spin changes as a mechanism for general anesthesia?
46
8
Bone chemistry reveals royal lifestyle of Richard III
39
9
The Electric Warship
37
10
Security of OS-level virtualization technologies [pdf]
27

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
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
366
2
Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
355
3
JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
303
4
New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware
278
5
Common App Rejections
219
6
The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker
204
7
Linux Performance
184
8
CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets
171
9
CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October
153
10
Ftrace: The hidden light switch
145

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
The Road Ahead
536
2
US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding
436
3
Hate Your ISP? Maybe You Need Community Fiber
355
4
Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
170
5
Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail
160
6
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll
150
7
Your Wireless Router Is Broken – Help Us Fix It At DEF CON
149
8
Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
115
9
Coding with EFF
96
10
Let's Take a Trip Inside a Power Strip
83

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
343
2
Apple releases diversity numbers
58
3
20 years old: Microsofts first website recreated
46
4
The Amazon Cloud Drive application for Windows and Mac is currently unavailable
20
5
Amazon.com: Same-Day Delivery
20
6
Free Book – Coding for Speed – A Hacker's Guide to a Faster Web
18
7
Amazon Route 53 starts accepting domain registrations for 150 TLDs
9
8
Apple – Remembering Robin Williams
9
9
Uranium Ore Customer Reviews
8
10
Welcome to the family (Apple landing site for Beats acquisition)
6

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
George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)
305
2
War in the womb
267
3
How to choose?
120
4
Google's questionnaire response to Article 29 Working Party
42
5
Can tiny plankton help reverse climate change?
40
6
Addressing Founder Depression – YC Hackathon project
40
7
How plagues really work
39
8
“A Communications Primer” by Charles and Ray Eames (1953) [video]
36
9
Principles of Antifragile Software
35
10
The Evolution of Emotion
35

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
What Do Blind People Actually See?
304
2
States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths
209
3
Why We Procrastinate
190
4
Roadmap to Alpha Centauri
147
5
This Is Your Brain on Silence
144
6
Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank
135
7
BPA-Free Plastic Containers May Be Just as Hazardous
116
8
Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox
100
9
Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem
100
10
Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength
97

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker
179
2
Vision-Correcting Displays [video]
172
3
Microsoft has joined Khronos, WebGL working group
134
4
Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)
131
5
Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip
120
6
6 Marketing Techniques That Will Make You Better at Selling
92
7
“They Have No Use for Someone Who Looks and Dresses Like Me”
82
8
Humans Need Not Apply
74
9
Movie rental page on YouTube
68
10
Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes
48

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
485
2
Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python
291
3
How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather
286
4
Facebook's std::vector optimization
275
5
Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go
269
6
NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub
214
7
Programming language subreddits and their choice of words
176
8
Linda Sandvik Resigns As Director Of Code Club
164
9
LowDB – A flat JSON file database
148
10
HTML5 mockups of popular devices
132

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Friendship Paradox
288
2
Sweden Solar System
224
3
J002E3
188
4
Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment
167
5
SHRDLU
159
6
Doomsday rule: calculate the day for any date
125
7
Vacuum airship
56
8
Nomogram
50
9
LOLCODE
47
10
IBM Simon
43

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
X to close
704
2
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?
408
3
Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
384
4
Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
355
5
How to Be Polite
218
6
What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
154
7
How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours
104
8
Why do all code editors look the same?
99
9
How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me
87
10
The Last of a Class
85

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations
143
2
Replacing a 32-bit counter with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
15
3
Stackoverflow is down
8
4
IO Monad and Purity
5
5
Replacing 32-bit loop count with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
5
6
What is referential transparency in programming languages?
4
7
Explanation of Combinators for the Working Man
4
8
How to properly use h1 in HTML5
3
9
Defining Algebraic data-types in Haskell by Don Stewart
3
10
[SO C/C++] Operator “untill”
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com