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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
660
2
Whatever goes up, that’s what we do
609
3
Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S
597
4
Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
597
5
Meet the People Taking over Hacker News
578
6
Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
515
7
Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions
456
8
The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.
449
9
Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
395
10
Screw stigma. I’m coming out.
391

Top Ask HN

1
Is it me or ...?
426
2
Who is hiring? (April 2014)
288
3
I can't do this anymore, I need help
147
4
What is the difference between a junior and senior developer?
89
5
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)
74
6
What under $100 item would you recommend everyone buy?
54
7
How do I deal with the "unpaid overtime crowd"?
53
8
Why Haskell?
49
9
Any good investments for those saving a substantial portion of income?
44
10
Help I need advice on fraud
43

Top Show HN

1
My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later
407
2
A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch
342
3
Coding Interview Practice
155
4
Deaf? My iPhone app wakes you up if it hears an alarm
153
5
Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js
124
6
Drag-and-drop library for 2D, resizable and responsive lists
82
7
ffjson: faster json serialization in Go
68
8
Route Optimization API
61
9
HackerNews as default tab (chrome extension)
48
10
Terminal sharing using your browser
48

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
Microsoft launches Office for iPad
305
2
After seven years, exactly one person gets off the government no-fly list
233
3
Google Maps now lets you find and catch wild Pokémon
177
4
Experts Find Mt.Gox Only Lost 386 Bitcoins Due To Transaction Malleability
169
5
Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency
126
6
Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York
126
7
Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine
97
8
Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down”
86
9
Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windows XP still above 27%
68
10
Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision
58

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
Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions
456
2
NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply than thought: Study
389
3
Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]
339
4
Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents
256
5
U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis
204
6
Big data: are we making a big mistake?
180
7
How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten years later
165
8
How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups
162
9
Facebook shares fall 7% on Oculus deal
112
10
How Everyone Got the Top 1% Wrong
97

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
How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (2004)
165
2
Microchips That Shook the World
94
3
There was no widespread use of malleability attacks before the closure of MtGox
72
4
Ultra tiny camera has no lens – uses algorithm to develop pictures
6
5
WPA2 wireless security cracked
5
6
Intellectual Love
3
7
Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions
2
8
Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism (2010)
2
9
Reworking the human genome so people can colonize other planets
2
10
US Gov't Blocks China's Huawei for having "back doors" in products
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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Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
597
2
Generational GC has landed in Firefox
185
3
Linux 3.14 out
146
4
Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git
124
5
MCS locks and qspinlocks
101
6
The J Programming Language [video]
64
7
The weird and wonderful world of DNS LOC records
37
8
Mozilla Supports LGBT Equality
25
9
Virtual Panel on Immutable Infrastructure
20
10
And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems
10

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed
248
2
404 Day: A Day of Action Against Censorship in Libraries
2
3
Inside the Room Where Apple Developed the Original iPhone Software
2
4
Microsoft Paying Apple 30-Percent Cut on In-App Office 365 Subscription
2
5
Japan Display shows off 5.5", quad-HD mobile display that might land in iPhone 6
2
6
Microsoft Office Apps Top App Store Charts One Day After Release
2
7
Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed
2
8
Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone's Birth
1
9
Big improvements for ibeacons
1
10
XTouch turns any surface into touch-enabled controls for iOS apps
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
317
2
Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
201
3
Amazon WorkSpaces
156
4
Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for preorder
75
5
Amazon WorkSpaces
13
6
Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization
9
7
Windows XP support ends on April 8, 2014
3
8
Amazon RDS Price Reduction -40%
3
9
Satya Nadella Briefing on Cloud and Mobile [live]
3
10
Amazon Linux 2014.3 released (Release Notes)
2

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
Do you want to live like 'The Wolf of Wall Street'?
13
2
Microsoft censors TorrentFreak for security reasons
6
3
Face is not the Future
6
4
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols
3
5
Famo.us will launch on April 9th.
3
6
UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer
2
7
Demonoid returns, website now back online
2
8
Bitcoin Websites[Google Doc]
2
9
ISPs can be Forced to Block Pirate Sites in the EU
2
10
Looks like Robinhood just started their beta registration
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
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death
364
2
Eating 7+ portions of fruits and veggies a day reduces your risk of death by 42%
36
3
To Save Drowning People, Ask Yourself “What Would Light Do?”
14
4
Daylight saving impacts the timing of heart attacks
7
5
Falling in Love With the Dark
5
6
Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves
4
7
Mass participation experiment reveals how to create the perfect dream
4
8
Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death
4
9
A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units
3
10
Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Servo passes Acid2
244
2
Dropbox DMCA takedown on personal folders
109
3
Carmack: For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.
20
4
DMCA takedown requests for files in your Dropbox
20
5
The Expert
13
6
Google Maps Pokemon Challenge
11
7
Why is GitHub not opensource?
8
8
Demo of Kernel Upgrade without Downtime [youtube]
7
9
Conway's Game Of Life in APL
7
10
Zuckerberg's update on Connectivity Lab
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
TimL – Clojure like language which compiles down to VimL
187
2
DigitalOcean not destroying droplets securely, data is completely recoverable
167
3
2048 As A Service
165
4
2048 Solver
154
5
Valve open sources Mesa fork from SteamOS
117
6
Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes
114
7
Evil.js: A JavaScript library for thwarting hot-linkers
103
8
A simple, kernel-space, on-disk filesystem from scratch
91
9
Hide this in your coworkers' JavaScript code tomorrow
80
10
Psdash: A linux system information web dashboard using Psutils and Flask
67

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Ink trap
203
2
Ready Player One – what Oculus + FB will look like?
27
3
R/K selection theory
17
4
The PGP word list
6
5
Fast Inverse Square Root
5
6
Miura fold
5
7
Dahala Khagrabari – The Indian Town in Bangladesh in India in Bangladesh
3
8
Scoville scale
3
9
Space elevator – Wikipedia
2
10
Open Cobalt
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
395
2
Screw stigma. I’m coming out.
391
3
Good Samaritan Backfire
154
4
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus, a letter of concern
59
5
The hidden danger when developing for Android
46
6
Why did 30-year-old former Microsoft engineers apply to YC?
26
7
Response to OkCupid's blocking of Firefox users
25
8
Why Sports Are A Sad and Dangerous Waste of Time
15
9
How child porn killed my app called YayNay
14
10
Why your previous developer was terrible
11

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? (2013)
215
2
SO: Why can't my program compile under Windows 7 in French?
4
3
Ruby Hashes vs. Arrays
3
4
How to return the number of dimensions of a variable passed to it in VBA
2
5
Html element changes position when the page is refreshed in chrome
2
6
Grepping a huge file (80GB) any way to speed it up?
2
7
JDK 8 bug? Lambda behaving differently than anonymous inner class
2
8
When to use forward declaration?
1
9
How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background? (2013)
1
10
April Fools joke that would be good for Tesla: how to limit speed with BMW JSDK
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com