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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Google Inbox
1069
2
Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
816
3
Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
651
4
#define CTO
650
5
Meteor hits 1.0
572
6
Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
503
7
FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises
489
8
“Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
455
9
1984 v. Brave New World
449
10
Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
427

Top Ask HN

1
My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
318
2
Is the semantic web still a thing?
178
3
Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?
108
4
What to do when your once potential competitor becomes a real competitor
94
5
Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?
89
6
Anyone need a landing page photo for free?
80
7
What makes an API good?
67
8
How I can get out of a job that has me burned out and exhausted?
62
9
Your recommendations for Windows PC backup software solutions?
47
10
Which laptop brands are worth shortlisting for Windows work/development?
32

Top Show HN

1
Create generative background images from a string in Go
188
2
Polarr.co, a WebGL photo editor
167
3
Supercharge GitHub with ZenHub
159
4
I built an Android game after work with a friend in 6 months
128
5
Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel
120
6
A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class
120
7
Startup Utility – Collection of Startup Resources
90
8
Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
88
9
“Did You Mean?” for Python
66
10
Verified Twitter Followers
62

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
Ten years of Ubuntu
246
2
W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
232
3
Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape
146
4
DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere
140
5
China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals
114
6
Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour
103
7
A startup CEO drives for Uber
102
8
The laborers of content moderation on Facebook
101
9
Ello Raises $5.5M, Legally Files as Public Benefit Corp.
94
10
Raspberry Pi Founder Shows Off Incoming Touch Panel for Making DIY ‘Pi Pads’
91

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
Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
816
2
Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign
411
3
Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
306
4
Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector
298
5
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
236
6
Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’
224
7
We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'
223
8
T-Mobile quietly hardens part of its U.S. cellular network against snooping
190
9
Feds identify suspected 'second leaker' for Snowden reporters
183
10
What If Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?
177

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
Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
503
2
Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea
161
3
A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions
77
4
Neural Turing Machines
60
5
Learning to Execute
41
6
Parallel Prefix Polymorphism Permits Parallelization, Presentation and Proof
31
7
Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems [pdf]
15
8
Electrostatics: Good for Robot Grippers, and Lots More
13
9
Printed Dots Detect Ebola (and More) Without a Lab
8
10
Neural Turing Machines by DeepMind [pdf]
8

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
Game day exercises at Stripe
92
2
Researcher finds Tor exit node adding malware to binaries
73
3
TestFlight Beta Testing
72
4
Breakout detection in the wild
23
5
Analysis of Printer Watermarking Techniques
12
6
Buy Bitcoin with a Visa or MasterCard from Trucoin
8
7
Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher
7
8
Apple removing SSL 3.0 support from APNs next Wednesday
6
9
Jumping Air Gaps with All-in-One Printers
5
10
OverlayFS Proposed for the Linux 3.18 Kernel
5

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 Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
203
2
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Copyright/Trademark Bullies
162
3
Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes
132
4
CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet
7
5
FindTheBest Wins Again: Patent Troll Hit with Double Fee Award
5
6
Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips
2
7
Apple in talks to expand NFC in iPhone 6 and replace keycards and transit tickets
2
8
Amazon launches Fire TV stick
2
9
Discarded Power Mac G5s 'Upcycled' into Modern Office Furniture
1
10
A Look at OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.1
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region
293
2
Amazon.com redesign
143
3
New AWS Directory Service
126
4
Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue
98
5
Amazon Fire TV Stick
87
6
Amazon Fire TV Stick
35
7
Fire TV Stick
28
8
Amazon Fire TV Stick
8
9
Microsoft Garage
5
10
Firestick Amazons competitor to Chromecast
5

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
Angular 2 Core
363
2
Are we at Peak Google?
193
3
AtScript Primer
51
4
Yesterday's Drugs Are Tomorrow's Medicines
46
5
The present/future of AngularJS
36
6
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1988) [video]
14
7
Embedding is not copyright infringement, EU court rules
12
8
AtScript Primer
4
9
Google atScript
4
10
Photographer who sued Imgur now finds his 20k pic archive on Pirate Bay
4

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
How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me
78
2
Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow?
62
3
To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal
57
4
Roman Gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank a tonic of ashes
53
5
The city is a big brain that can solve big problems
50
6
Oxytocin Modulates Sociosexual Behavior in Female Mice
38
7
Who Really Found the Higgs Boson
37
8
A pill to dampen memories stirs hope and worry
34
9
The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit
24
10
The Missing Maps initiative aims to chart slums around the world
15

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
427
2
How a differential gear works (1937) [video]
391
3
Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM (2013) [video]
288
4
Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
248
5
Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a deposition (1998) [video]
188
6
YC Alum Hacks Jason Calacanis' Voicemail Message to Ask for Investment
134
7
RC fighter model UAV build in Jet engine 360+mph [video]
131
8
Yann LeCun responds to Michael Jordan's comments about deep learning
63
9
Elon Musk Speaks About Tesla and SpaceX at Vanity Fair’s Summit [video]
24
10
Verizon Injecting X-UIDH Tracking Header on All Requests
16

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
An open source engine clone of Age of Empires II
348
2
Fastsocket – A highly scalable socket for Linux
260
3
Pgweb: Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go
209
4
Awesome React – A collection of React resources
182
5
LastPass command-line interface tool
173
6
CSS-only plotting
102
7
Tug: Use Docker for development
92
8
A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
87
9
Meteor 1.0 released
87
10
A Clone of Chips Challenge in Haskell
86

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Dreadnought hoax
98
2
Biefeld–Brown effect
27
3
Illegal prime
5
4
William Rockefeller, Sr.
5
5
Bat bomb
5
6
Machines That Think
4
7
The Extended Mind
3
8
Philip Glass
3
9
Tiger versus lion
3
10
Light cone
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor
196
2
Diary of a Corporate Sellout
189
3
Living the Future of Technical Writing
149
4
Pipino: Gentleman Thief
149
5
Why I left my PM role at Microsoft
88
6
Clones Wars: Video Game Litigation Illustrated
78
7
Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity
76
8
Reviewing common API Editors
68
9
Blendle has received $3.8M from The New York Times and Axel Springer
43
10
OS X Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks
26

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Colors in JavaScript Console
3
2
Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default? (2011)
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com