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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
714
2
X to close
704
3
MathBox 2
656
4
Hextris
589
5
Project Euler Returns
470
6
Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
442
7
Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
432
8
We have C++14
426
9
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
389
10
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
380

Top Ask HN

1
How to learn design as a hacker?
117
2
Experienced dev having career lull
85
3
Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
78
4
Show us your abandoned (and probably incomplete) side projects
72
5
Why don't more apps use peer to peer networking?
58
6
What's Paul Graham been up to?
54
7
Current best practice for drag-and-drop?
41
8
Why hasn't Dart become mainstream?
39
9
How to overcome the fear of doing more than your co-founder?
39
10
Review my startup – itripd.com
37

Top Show HN

1
Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
576
2
Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
455
3
I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
259
4
Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS
219
5
Detect articles with corporate sponsors
204
6
Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper
192
7
Way.js – Simple, persistent, framework-agnostic two-way databinding
162
8
Opp.io – Meeting Minutes Made Useful
133
9
Self-hosted project management application
133
10
Practical Guide to Mobile Apps Using Phonegap and Famo.us
129

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
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
714
2
Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
380
3
Maps of the Roman Empire
344
4
Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute
259
5
The Anti-Facebook
258
6
Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin
208
7
UPower (YC S14) Is Building Nuclear Batteries
188
8
KDE Plasma 5
144
9
New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play
123
10
YC Demo Day Session 1
120

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
Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
432
2
Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
315
3
When Patients Read What Their Doctors Write
281
4
An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)
272
5
In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest
217
6
It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web
214
7
Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?
188
8
The 30-year-old health sector billionaire
180
9
The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far
140
10
For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’
140

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 physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku
96
2
Electron spin changes as a mechanism for general anesthesia?
46
3
Bone chemistry reveals royal lifestyle of Richard III
39
4
Balancing the load: A Voronoi based scheme for parallel computations
6
5
Mathematical Obfuscation Against Hackers Is Focus of New Cybersecurity Center
5
6
Algorithm Detected Ebola Outbreak Before Official Alerts
5
7
Can Winograd Schemas Replace Turing Test for Defining Human-Level AI?
5
8
Your Candy Wrappers are Listening
4
9
Could hemp nanosheets topple graphene for making the ideal supercapacitor?
3
10
ISS earth night photos Crowdsourced For Science with Crowdcrafting.org
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
Lorem Ipsum: Of Good and Evil, Google and China
141
2
DIY Web Server: Raspberry Pi + CloudFlare
13
3
The Security of al Qaeda Encryption Software
13
4
NSA/GCHQ/CES Infecting Innocent Computers Worldwide
11
5
Security Firm Claims New Leads in Search for Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoin
6
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How Secure is Your Security Badge?
6
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8,000 Convenience Stores in Argentina Now Sell Bitcoin
5
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Did Margin Trading Crash the Price of Bitcoin?
4
9
Apple releases Xcode6-Beta6
4
10
Animating the Firefox Desktop Pages
4

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
170
2
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll
150
3
Let's Take a Trip Inside a Power Strip
83
4
Intel Disables TSX Instructions
10
5
Microsoft Launches Three New Surface Pro 3 Ads Targeting the MacBook Air
6
6
App developers can now earn affiliate commissions via Store Kit in iOS 8
3
7
How Would You Detect a Stealth Aircraft?
2
8
EFF's Defcon 22 T-Shirt Puzzle Explained
1
9
Apple Seeds iOS 8 Beta 6 to Carrier Testing Partners, but Not Devs
1

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 – Remembering Robin Williams
9
3
Apple – Remembering Robin Williams
4
4
Amazon Pantry
4
5
Microsoft Typography – Installing fonts on Windows
2
6
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
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
George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940)
305
2
Principles of Antifragile Software
35
3
The origin of laughter, smiles and tears
6
4
U.S. Court Grants Order to Wipe Pirate Sites from the Internet
6
5
If you have a startup idea that hasn't launched yet, what is the main reason?
5
6
Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Shouldn't Be in Jail, MEP Says
4
7
Balloon Race: Data Breaches – Public Data
4
8
US court grants temporary order to offline sites prior to defense
4
9
Anti-piracy Outfit Wants to Hijack Browsers Until Fine Paid
3
10
One of Carl Sagan's most pertinent messages for humanity
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
What Do Blind People Actually See?
304
2
Why We Procrastinate
190
3
Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness
60
4
What’s 250M Light-Years Big, Almost Empty, and Full of Answers?
54
5
Parenting from before conception: Babies' health doesn't 'start from scratch'
24
6
Genetic tests can predict when placebos may be the best medicine
13
7
Should Robot Drivers Kill to Save a Child's Life?
8
8
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? (2011)
6
9
Searching for Disappearing Species in the US’ Deepest Wilds
5
10
A Plague of Pigs in Texas (2011)
5

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Humans Need Not Apply
74
2
Movie rental page on YouTube
68
3
Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes
48
4
Novena: Building a laptop from scratch [video]
45
5
PARC Movies [video]
36
6
The Search at San Jose (1958) [video]
16
7
Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
14
8
Look-and-Say Numbers featuring John Conway [video]
13
9
Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
11
10
Please. Stop Using Git
11

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather
286
2
NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub
214
3
Implementations of various type systems in OCaml
112
4
A Blockchain-based DNS and HTTP server
103
5
Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken
101
6
Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C
97
7
A JavaScript Quality Guide
86
8
Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources
86
9
Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell
73
10
Mypy – static type checking for Python 3
70

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Hilbert's 24th problem
29
2
Indefinite lifespan
22
3
The Great American Streetcar Scandal
11
4
Great Seal bug
10
5
Fractional calculus
9
6
Qualia
5
7
Protest Permit
5
8
Acoustic Kitty
4
9
Vacuous truth
4
10
Definitions of mathematics
4

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
X to close
704
2
How to Be Polite
218
3
First Images of a Heart Injected with Liquid Metal
82
4
Leaving Airbnb
27
5
How to Be Polite
26
6
An Internet citizen's guide to Ethereum
19
7
Why engineers hate your shitty job specs
16
8
Machine Learning Algorithm Studies Fine Art Paintings
14
9
Internet friends, we need your help
13
10
I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I'm male
13

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Replacing a 32-bit counter with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
15
2
Replacing 32-bit loop count with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
5
3
How to properly use h1 in HTML5
3
4
Defining Algebraic data-types in Haskell by Don Stewart
3
5
LinkedinApi Help on Stackoverflow
1
6
The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List
1
7
Sending post request on window unload event
1
8
Angular.js: service vs. provider vs. factory?
1
9
PHP expects T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com