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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Introducing Swift
1142
2
TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
731
3
Sistine Chapel
574
4
Alexander Shulgin has died
547
5
A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS
527
6
Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
497
7
End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
473
8
Introducing Socket.io 1.0
449
9
Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
445
10
Micro Python – a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3
441

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (June 2014)
267
2
Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)
137
3
How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?
109
4
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)
66
5
Open Courses vs. Master degrees value in the IT market
55
6
Mentor Saturday
50
7
How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
48
8
Where did all the Product Managers go?
45
9
Homogeneity of HN readers in terms of political views?
39
10
Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
39

Top Show HN

1
Mighty Spring – Passive job search
144
2
Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript
103
3
FiveStar.io – The best Amazon products, by budget
65
4
DeveloperAgents – a newsletter to promote remote developers
53
5
Brix for Bootstrap
47
6
Who is hiring refugees? Or, hacking visas to help refugees
47
7
Simple refined types implementation that can prevent Heartbleed
46
8
Screen recording with real-time upload
37
9
Convert a GitHub repository into a CMS
35
10
Everyone Panic – Almost-free downtime phone alerts using Twilio
35

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
Google Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
192
2
Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either
131
3
It's time for the US to use the metric system
113
4
How Do You Get a Train Moving?
87
5
Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances to Small Businesses
81
6
Ghostery Also Helps the Ad Industry
74
7
This Guy Trademarked the Symbol for Pi and Took Away Our Geeky T-Shirts
63
8
Apple Opens Up Touch ID To All Apps
56
9
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 (2007)
56
10
Why Google Made Its Self-Driving Car So Darn Cute
53

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
Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
309
2
US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers
240
3
Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday
239
4
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
190
5
The Indian Miracle-Buster Stuck in Finland
168
6
Maya Angelou Dies at 86
149
7
LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly
135
8
How Different Cultures Understand Time
126
9
How the Asians Became White
115
10
Thomas Piketty Responds to Criticism of His Data
107

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
Feminine-named hurricanes are deadlier than masculine-named hurricanes
54
2
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, Stories Come Out
52
3
Grid-connected Electric Buses Could Displace Diesels
28
4
Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Aims to Replace Gas Plants
13
5
Researchers Develop Robot That Lets Them Feel Softness of Virtual Breasts
5
6
Learn New Skills With Superhuman Speed
4
7
Google uses machine learning at data centers in efficiency drive
4
8
After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
4
9
Quantum Cryptography with Ordinary Equipment
4
10
Learn New Skills With Wearable Computers
4

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
Introducing Swift
1142
2
Introducing Swift
363
3
True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
340
4
Metal – Apple’s new graphics API
320
5
HomeKit
298
6
Healthkit
250
7
“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies”
238
8
Java 8 Features
180
9
iCloud for Developers
90
10
Apple Design Awards 2014
68

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EFF to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence
13
2
Apple announces ‘Swift’ programming language
9
3
WWDC 2014 Roundup: fresh details
4
4
J1: a CPU core in 200 lines of Verilog (2010)
4
5
Interview: Inventing the Unix “sudo” command
3
6
EFF: Join us on June 5th to Reset the Net
3
7
Inventing the Unix "sudo" command
2
8
Some Thoughts on Apple's Metal API
2
9
Apple makes it easy for devs to screencast iOS apps
2
10
T-Mobile confirms WiFi calling arriving for iPhone users with iOS 8
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
OS X Yosemite
432
2
Apple Introduces iOS 8
302
3
Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption
100
4
Apple WWDC 2014 Live Streaming
67
5
iOS 8
54
6
OS X Yosemite public beta signup
22
7
Apple: OS X Yosemite
6
8
iCloud Drive
3
9
AWS Management Portal for vCenter
3
10
Apple to Acquire Beats Music & Beats Electronic
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
Does everyone who suffers trauma have PTSD?
47
2
Aphorisms, Rules, and Heuristics
38
3
Terminal: A Short Film about the Mechanical Ballet of Cargo (2009) [video]
8
4
Whitepaper on TV Show "Silicon Valley" Nucleus Project
5
5
Machine Learning Applications for Data Center Optimization
4
6
All YC Companies Sorted by Alexa Traffic Rank
4
7
Do educators use GitHub to support learning and teaching? How? [Survey]
3
8
Why Activism Isn't Enough
3
9
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested
3
10
Can-we-break-free-from-the-fear-of-missing-out
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
Scientists induce visual hallucinations by stimulating brain
17
2
Diet Soda Beats Water for Weight Loss, Industry-Funded Study Finds
9
3
Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state quantum bits
4
4
Theoretical physics: Complexity on the horizon
3
5
Scientists set limits on the anti-hydrogen atom charge
2
6
Destruction of species over 1000x the likely background rate
2
7
Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state quantum bits
2
8
Obsession engineers: Mind control the Candy Crush way [paywall]
2
9
Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers
2
10
Good Vibrations Bring Braille into the 21st Century
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video]
73
2
APL Demonstration From 1975 [video]
63
3
AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System
61
4
Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video]
45
5
Twitter stops using Helevetica Neue in favour of Gotham
45
6
Design is a Search Problem [video]
31
7
Google wants 4chan to pay $150k per year to continue to use Analytics
21
8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality
12
9
Bill Gates: Don't tax my income, tax my consumption [video]
9
10
Things Programmers Say Vs. What They Mean
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Flappy Bird in Swift
280
2
Neovim Plugin UI architecture
121
3
Open Source GPGPU
82
4
CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore
65
5
Algorithms.js – Atwood's Law applied to CS101
52
6
Diversity and Feedback at GitHub
49
7
CanCanCan – Continuation of CanCan, the authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
46
8
Commander.js – Node.js command-line interfaces made easy
46
9
Pure 0.5.0 – Get Started with Grids
41
10
Link: A fast and simple PHP Router
38

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Door to Hell
117
2
Pythagorean cup
97
3
Oxford Electric Bell
91
4
Somebody Else's Problem
25
5
Boltzmann machine
25
6
List of fictional computers
23
7
PAQ
9
8
Unix time - 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596
8
9
Dyson sphere
5
10
Swift (programming language)
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
445
2
My journey into the Berlin startup scene
93
3
The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
18
4
Dots in gmail don’t count… and this is idiotic
12
5
To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga
9
6
Shut Up and Eat.
9
7
Coding Principles Every Engineer Should Know
8
8
It Is Impossible to Believe How Mindblowing These Amazing New Jobs Are
8
9
Behind the Scenes of HBO’s Silicon Valley: How our startup made a cameo
7
10
How a bug in Skype prevented our users from using our app
7

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 is false?
14
2
Regular Expression to Parse a URL
3
3
Java is now the leader on Stack Overflow
2
4
How can I use ggplot with a simple 2 column array?
2
5
JavaScript Function Name Funny Clash
1
6
How can I make the ANSI escape codes to work in Windows?
1
7
How can I upload files asynchronously with jQuery?
1
8
A surveillance camera which crashes every time the CEO enters the room
1
9
Needless extra thread makes code run faster
1
10
Any jQuery programmers that can help me fix this problem?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com