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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
I'm Leaving Mojang
1252
2
Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
941
3
My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39 TB)
825
4
Bézier Clock
809
5
Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
784
6
New Requests for Startups
713
7
A Watch Guy's Thoughts on the Apple Watch After Seeing It in the Metal
609
8
Minix 3.3.0
600
9
How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
594
10
Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
583

Top Ask HN

1
Quit my job. Company coming after me
64
2
What are you building?
59
3
What tech stack do YC startups use?
58
4
Any good audio podcasts?
55
5
Do you still use an RSS reader?
51
6
Has anyone ever tried building an OS that doesn't use files?
33
7
Should I open-source my code?
29
8
Why is that 10+ years experience folks struggle to find work
25
9
What is the best Linux Laptop in 2014?
22
10
How do you go from being an average developer to a great one?
18

Top Show HN

1
Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
247
2
ContentBuilder.js – JQuery Plugin to Write Anything Beautifully
189
3
Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
181
4
Berlin Hacker News
145
5
Upmin – An Admin Framework for Ruby on Rails
140
6
Pup – A command-line HTML parser
125
7
Thumbor – open-source on-demand image cropping, resizing, and filters
113
8
Hypermasher – Live streaming of Hyperlapse videos
84
9
Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read
78
10
Chat for Trello
75

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
Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM
784
2
Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court
290
3
California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
232
4
The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings
205
5
Y Combinator Will Teach a Class on Startups at Stanford This Fall
201
6
How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit
176
7
Tim Cook on iMessage Security: It’s Encrypted, and We Don’t Have a Key
146
8
Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
138
9
TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules
131
10
500px Co-Founder and Former CEO Ousted from the Startup
131

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 event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder
420
2
Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award
244
3
No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Finds
244
4
Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
239
5
Learning How to Exert Self-Control
225
6
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive
194
7
Canon printer hacked to run Doom
186
8
The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
172
9
Tesla prevails in top Massachusetts court over direct sales
167
10
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)
149

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
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain
152
2
MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors
131
3
NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS
89
4
How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
64
5
'Solid' light could compute previously unsolvable problems
32
6
NASA's commercial crew transportation live announcement
22
7
Gradient boosting machines, a tutorial (2013)
6
8
The sound of an atom has been captured
5
9
Squishy Pink Robot Makes Explosive Jumps
4
10
NASA to Make Major Private Space Taxi Announcement Today: Watch Live
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
Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups
280
2
Swift Has Reached 1.0
272
3
Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click
108
4
How Stacks Are Handled in Go
106
5
Linux perf rides the rocket
101
6
Caml Trading – Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street [video]
93
7
The Model Specific Registers of EC2
79
8
All About ATM Skimmers
69
9
How Stacks Are Handled in Go
8
10
Phasing Out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
7

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]
199
2
Where is Thunderbolt Headed?
74
3
Hands on with USB Type C: Reversible USB Connectors
53
4
Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases
7
5
Tesla Model S Battery Teardown
5
6
Towards an Internet Nation?
5
7
Samsung releases new set of ads taking jabs at the iPhone 6
3
8
Report Claims Apple Launching New 27-Inch 5K Display Later This Year
3
9
Quick Look at Core M 5Y70 and Llama Mountain
2
10
Siri what song is this? The ios 8 GM doesn't have a clue
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B
169
2
Apple announces new iPhones
6
3
Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours
5
4
The All New Apple Watch Sport
3
5
Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD OS: 2nd edition available for order
3
6
iPhone6's Cinematic Video Stabilization Will Kill Hyperlapse
1
7
Safari seems to load images on Apple website by individual color channel
1
8
ElastiCache T2 Support
1
9
You can already buy a fake iPhone 6 replica on Amazon
1
10
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)
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
Worse Than Random (2008)
39
2
What good is information?
17
3
Apple Watch: Asking Why and Saying No
11
4
How mathematics can make epidemics history
10
5
How mathematics can make epidemics history
5
6
The Rise and Likely Fall of the Talent Economy
4
7
Microsoft’s good (and potentially great) Minecraft acquisition
3
8
Warner Bros (allegedly) Conspired with NZ Over Dotcom Extradition
3
9
The Art of Unix Programming
2
10
Confound it Correlation is (usually) not causation but why not?
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
Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain
496
2
Falling in Love with the Dark
205
3
Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
111
4
An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene
97
5
Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings
91
6
Will the Ebola virus go airborne?
65
7
Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells
63
8
How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again (2013)
61
9
Reverse-engineering censorship in China
61
10
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems (2013)
35

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Peter Thiel AMA
304
2
WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
263
3
Macworld lays off most staff
106
4
QCraft: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics in Minecraft [video]
70
5
Books that have stayed with us
57
6
The Typewriter Artist (2004) [video]
14
7
PennApps X Award Ceremony Live Stream
12
8
“My price is two billion dollars” (2012)
11
9
Julian Assange AMA
11
10
Hazelcast 3.3 Tops Charts in In-Memory Data Grid, Moves into NoSQL
7

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Commander Keen source code released
545
2
OS X Auditor
348
3
Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
325
4
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
279
5
Channels Are Not Enough
235
6
Elixir Release v1.0.0
214
7
Dejavu: Audio fingerprinting and recognition in Python
169
8
Awesome Node.js: Curated list of delightful Node.js packages
151
9
Vim Plug – A minimalist Vim plugin manager
81
10
Introducing //TODO for companies that are committed to open source
70

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
HAARP: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
6
2
Nested virtualization
4
3
One of the most symmetrical celestial objects ever discovered
4
4
Base58
4
5
Fallacy of relative privation
3
6
AI Effect
3
7
Hypercomputation
3
8
Mysorean rockets
3
9
Erdős number
3
10
Chicago water cribs (deep tunnels under the lake)
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
384
2
The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
249
3
The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display
191
4
What I know about Minecraft
61
5
How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
60
6
Uber v/s Lyft – Who has the better app experience?
18
7
The Value of Y Combinator and Accelerators
12
8
Write code. Sometimes
11
9
Don’t start your startup name with F
10
10
Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy Your Aircraft Carrier from Russia
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Don't try to kill your apps
4
2
Using multiple shaders on iOS, from two concurrent threads
3
3
C++ array out of bound
2
4
How many ways are to call JavaScript code from html?
1
5
Character for up/down triangle (arrow) to display in HTML
1
6
Xcode 6 allows vector image assets, but only as PDF files
1
7
How can I get a web page into a string using JavaScript?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com