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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
894
2
A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
595
3
Web Starter Kit
553
4
Amazon Fire Phone
552
5
WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly
417
6
Eigenmorality
398
7
Inside the Mirrortocracy
393
8
Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
392
9
Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less
378
10
Real-time lightning map, worldwide
342

Top Ask HN

1
Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?
172
2
How Do I Become A 'Good' Programmer... Like Everyone Else Here
64
3
How do you find good developers on oDesk?
51
4
Google AdSense Still Bans Ajax. What are the Alternatives?
47
5
What to do as a programmer about to go homeless
36
6
Who are the engineers that don't get hired?
32
7
How do startups restrict employees from accessing private user data?
25
8
Join our Skype Strong AI Group
24
9
What are you learning right now?
24
10
Are the insides of Airbnb listings being commercialized?
21

Top Show HN

1
Fast.js – faster reimplementations of native JavaScript functions
274
2
An open distributed search engine for science
86
3
$4.4B in Startup Funding Rounds Visualized
69
4
Subscription Billing for Developers and Startups
62
5
Checkr.io – API for background checks
57
6
A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime
55
7
Hublo – Retarget your visitors based on what they do on your site
51
8
Topic
47
9
Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)
44
10
LGBT News – Hacker News for LGBT Topics
41

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
The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window
317
2
For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)
216
3
Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
198
4
FAA bans the use of drones to deliver packages
165
5
Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request
159
6
A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular
156
7
Yo
141
8
Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
97
9
House Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches
69
10
Carlypso (YC S14) could change everything about how we buy and sell used cars
65

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
Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less
378
2
Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution
240
3
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement (2013)
236
4
We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work
217
5
A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Your Brain)
209
6
Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post
180
7
Coder's High – The Intense Feeling of Absorption
162
8
Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset
148
9
How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture
121
10
Stephanie L. Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar, Is Dead at 90
103

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
The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
180
2
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009)
99
3
Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod
50
4
Titan Aerial Daughtercraft
32
5
Landau's Theoretical Minimum (2002)
31
6
Transatomic Power Wants to Build a Better Reactor
28
7
Soylent: It's Not People. Or Food.
13
8
ArXiv.org
7
9
San Francisco warns Monkey to stop selling spots
4
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No evidence for quantum speedup found in Google's D-Wave 2
3

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
Stripe: Alipay support
155
2
Startup advice: cold recruiting
130
3
Static checking of units in Servo
121
4
500 Million Dogecoins Mined by Unknown Hacker in Malware Attack
78
5
Card Breaches at Car Washes
49
6
P.F. Chang’s Breach Likely Began in Sept. 2013
26
7
List of possible Silk Road Bitcoin bidders leaked by US Marshals
8
8
AMD Reportedly Plans To Bring Mantle To Linux, Calls Mantle An Open-Source API
6
9
Goal Detecting the most important World Cup moments
4
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Q&A with Ryan Lackey
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
Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court
254
2
Surface Pro 3 Review
110
3
EFF Statement on Passage of Massie-Lofgren Amendment Regarding NSA Backdoors
61
4
በጉግል የአማርኛ ቋንቋ አገልግሎት ማስጀመሪያ መመሪያ እና ለአማርኛ ቋንቋ ጦማሪያን ያለው አንድምታ
3
5
Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8
2
6
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review
2
7
Adobe announces stylus and digital ruler for $100
1
8
EFF 2013 Pioneer Awards Ceremony
1
9
Oculus Rift + Head Tracking = The Ultimate Drone Experience
1
10
Google, Microsoft Will Include Kill Switches in Next OS
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Fire Phone
552
2
New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac
63
3
Amazon Fire Phone
10
4
Amazon 'Fire Phone'
3
5
AngelHack offers a voucher $100 worth of AWS services
2
6
Process Captions With Amazon Elastic Transcoder
2
7
AWS lowers prices again
2
8
Amazon introduces SDD EBS
1
9
The Fine Print on Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photos (Amazon Fire Phone)
1
10
Amazon Fire Phone
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
Go support for Android
306
2
The Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
5
3
YouTube Terminates Top Indian News Network For Infringement
3
4
Empire of Rock – China's Supercaves
3
5
PRIVACY IS DEAD
3
6
NBC Universal claiming all IP for hackathon
3
7
Amazon's Whale Strategy
3
8
Archive.org is plagued with warez
2
9
Model Combination and Adjustment as thinking
1
10
Does science link carbs and obesity?
1

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
The Body on Somerton Beach (2011)
73
2
Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Review and meta-analysis
57
3
Hormone-disrupting activity of fracking chemicals worse than initially found
14
4
Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
6
5
Computer spots rare diseases in family photos
5
6
Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
5
7
Detection of primordial gravitational waves: it was a mistake.
4
8
Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
4
9
Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
4
10
Evidence for the direct decay of the 125 GeV Higgs boson to fermions
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Facebook was down
269
2
Julian Assange AMA on Reddit
131
3
Bare Metal Assembly Raspberry Pi Starfox Tribute
116
4
Reddit changes from up/down votes to percentages
13
5
This is Phil Fish
10
6
Interview with Alan Kay [video]
10
7
Facebook is down
9
8
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Amazing Motivational Story
8
9
Facebook is down
7
10
Facebook is down
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
NodeBB: Node.js-based forum software
231
2
Egison: A Lisp Written in Haskell with Advanced Pattern Matching
115
3
Servo – Render in parallel
102
4
Introducing the Revert Button
94
5
Convolutional Neural Networks in your browser
78
6
A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua
75
7
Node's nested node_modules approach is basically incompatible with Windows
59
8
Haskoin – Haskell implementation of the Bitcoin specifications
59
9
Function hooking in Swift
56
10
Runsit – A process manager in Go
48

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hofstadter's butterfly
37
2
Basil Zaharoff
23
3
Magic Cap Operating System
7
4
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment
4
5
Office of Strategic Influence
2
6
Two Generals' Problem
2
7
Demoex: Experiment With Direct Democracy
2
8
Ornament and Crime
2
9
Haskell Curry
2
10
Paternoster
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
894
2
Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs
139
3
The Joy of Typing
94
4
Go, Colourspace, and All the RGB Colours in One Image
71
5
I Resent You – An Open Letter to Shanley Kane
32
6
First Movie Of An Entire Brain’s Neuronal Activity
16
7
How an “investor” from Silicon Valley almost kills our company
15
8
Docker breakout exploit analysis
15
9
Build a debugger in 5 minutes (1/5)
9
10
Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web – Part I
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Message Queue vs. Web Services?
5
2
What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?
5
3
Stack Overflow was Down for 1 hour
2
4
Stack is down (says maintenance) why not static site?
2
5
How trustworthy is JavaScript's random implementation in various browsers?
2
6
Make C# compiler crash and swear
2
7
How to test system commands in go-lang?
1
8
How does database indexing work? (2008)
1
9
Stack Exchange offline
1
10
Fast Bluebird promises now work with AngularJS
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com