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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Tim Cook Speaks Up
3086
2
Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77
963
3
Microsoft Band
857
4
I’m Terrified of My New TV
739
5
The Other Side of Diversity
704
6
Please remove mitsuhiko/*
634
7
The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
618
8
Sprout
617
9
SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
598
10
What Does an Idle CPU Do?
563

Top Ask HN

1
Who is hiring? (November 2014)
324
2
What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
274
3
Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?
105
4
Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)
94
5
How much you make working remotely?
93
6
Remote ROR developers, how much per hour you make?
87
7
Who's using Clojure in production?
79
8
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2014)
78
9
”Coffee date” etiquette
75
10
Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting
55

Top Show HN

1
A database for browsing and discovering movies
296
2
“Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps
279
3
How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book
228
4
VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean
216
5
Professional sound effects for UI projects
166
6
Balls – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift
163
7
Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life
85
8
Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text
80
9
Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app
72
10
Python 3 home automation with Polymer/Material design front end
61

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
CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen
331
2
Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
212
3
Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation
212
4
Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage
197
5
Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin
189
6
A Day with Project Ara, Google's Modular Phone
165
7
Countries are still paying off debt from World War 1
162
8
Affordable adjustable standing desk
162
9
A Neuroscientist’s Theory of How Networks Become Conscious (2013)
159
10
Reddit Gets into Crowdfunding with Redditmade
110

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
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Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies at 77
963
2
SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
598
3
The Art of Not Working at Work
414
4
Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests
358
5
Can Authorities Cut Off Utilities And Pose As Repairmen To Search A Home?
333
6
Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations
303
7
Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
293
8
A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself
259
9
Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work
224
10
A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.?
214

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 Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
214
2
The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same
77
3
Mathematicians settle 30-year-old resonance controversy with interval arithmetic
49
4
Fluffy Little Rovers Are an Effective, Adorable Way of Monitoring Penguins
48
5
DARPA circuit achieves speeds of 1 trillion cycles per second
30
6
Immersive and Collaborative Data Visualization Using Virtual Reality Platforms [pdf]
19
7
Memory Networks
18
8
Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts (2013) [pdf]
9
9
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Complete
7
10
Two photons strongly coupled by glass fiber
7

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
The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
618
2
Please grow your buffers exponentially
231
3
Mayday.us
186
4
Porting rr to x86-64
119
5
Google Cloud Platform Live
72
6
Catching Your CPUs Napping
28
7
Etcd and fleet
8
8
The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
7
9
Nvidia Linux Driver on Ubuntu Delivers Better OpenGL Performance Than Windows
6
10
Twitter and IBM partnership
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
Secure Messaging Scorecard
175
2
EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood
10
3
How Uber and Facebook might look on Apple Watch
8
4
Verizon Inject Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers, Bypass Privacy Controls
7
5
Which Messaging Technologies Are Truly Safe and Secure?
6
6
Emoji to Expand Racial Diversity with Skin Tone Modifier Option in Mid-2015
4
7
Tim Cook officially comes out as gay in public essay about equality
3
8
EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Filming Yoga Class
3
9
Dual-mode Avalanche and RF Random Number Generator
2
10
Apple Reverses Course on iOS 8 Notification Center Calculators
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft Band
857
2
Diversity at Amazon
61
3
Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos
60
4
Microsoft Band (official site)
30
5
Microsoft Band, the smart band powered by Microsoft Health
4
6
Microsoft Band, the smart band powered by Microsoft Health
2
7
Introducing Microsoft Band
2
8
Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos
2
9
Unlimited Photo Storage Free with Amazon Prime
2
10
Amazon Cloud Drive: Prime Photos
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
HTTP/2 all the things
335
2
The new archive.org
302
3
The Internet Arcade
20
4
Go Execution Tracer
19
5
The Internet Arcade puts 900 classic games right in your web browser
14
6
Pirate bay founder Fredrik Neij arrested in Thailand
10
7
Life is quantum
10
8
AngularJS 2.0: all you need to know
7
9
How Apple Creates Leverage, and the Future of Apple Pay
6
10
Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine
5

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
Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
136
2
The most-cited papers
101
3
The Cost of Cryptography
62
4
Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human
61
5
What It Means to Live in a Holographic Universe
47
6
Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter
39
7
In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?
29
8
Dragons, Memory and Navigating the Globe Using Only Your Wits
18
9
In John They Trust (2006)
15
10
In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home
11

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
258
2
A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video]
141
3
Gravity visualized (2012) [video]
97
4
The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk (2013) [video]
84
5
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg
58
6
Business-class Lenovos ship with adware to inject ads into browsers
15
7
Alan Kay's Tribute to Ted Nelson at “Intertwingled” Fest [video]
15
8
Open Plea to Google About AngularJS 2.0
13
9
SyncFree: Large-Scale Computation Without Synchronization [video]
12
10
Help Save 100K American Puppies and Watch This Video
10

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Please remove mitsuhiko/*
634
2
C4 – C in 4 functions
517
3
PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database
297
4
Introduction to Reactive Programming
192
5
ToroDB – Document-oriented JSON database on top of PostgreSQL
165
6
The road to Ember 2.0 RFC
156
7
Adobe Brackets hits 1.0
150
8
A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp
131
9
LwIP on BareMetal: Lightweight TCP/IP stack running on ultra-lightweight kernel
89
10
Latency numbers
84

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Burmese pythons in Florida
8
2
Whale fall
5
3
Boeing Yellowstone Project
5
4
Chicago Pile 1 – The First Nuclear Reactor
3
5
You Have Two Cows
3
6
Rich black
3
7
Ghoti
2
8
Hybrid Rocket
2
9
Reverse mathematics
2
10
Nucleosynthesis periodic table – The Origin of all Elements
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Other Side of Diversity
704
2
Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals
219
3
The Hypercard Legacy
134
4
A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)
119
5
Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight
114
6
Fix a Parking Ticket? There's an App for That
71
7
Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU?
57
8
History offers clues to what the U.S. Air Force’s secretive spaceplane can do
35
9
The Two Pillars of JavaScript
32
10
“Screw You, Angular”
26

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
GMAIL API
5
2
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
3
3
Should I use Vagrant or Docker.io for creating an isolated environment?
3
4
GoDaddy SHA-2 SSL Cert Problem
2
5
Application Delivery of long running application in Clozure CL
2
6
Timezone bug in Firefox's SpiderMonkey engine?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com