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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Quake on an oscilloscope
859
2
Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
748
3
Look, no hands
698
4
Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven
621
5
Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
595
6
Merry Christmas to HN
502
7
Mozilla Research Projects
440
8
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
434
9
Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps
433
10
Saving a Project and a Company
425

Top Ask HN

1
How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?
246
2
What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?
122
3
How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?
115
4
What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?
115
5
How to use small chunks of time productively
109
6
Have you already made money off Firefox OS apps?
44
7
I'm 18, broke, and inexperienced. What do I do?
40
8
Is Twitter sign in down?
37
9
Pre-mature baldness, self confidence and networking
21
10
Done with startups. Contemplating freelancing
21

Top Show HN

1
Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015
251
2
New Hacker News web client
128
3
Learn Chinese Through Novels
76
4
Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line
64
5
#Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
56
6
LambdaNet – A functional neural network library written in Haskell
56
7
Orthogami – Turn voxel models into foldable papercraft
49
8
Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies
48
9
A simple “stateless” password manager for Chrome
40
10
Fireplace, a Hearthstone Simulator
37

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
On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs
186
2
Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor
170
3
Everything we know Google is working on for the new year
141
4
An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopters
91
5
The Implications of Facebook Indexing a Trillion Posts
89
6
Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push
61
7
A Bitcoin battle is brewing
60
8
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
59
9
Blimps Protecting Washington, D.C
57
10
Home for the holidays, and for a 20-year-old issue of PC Magazine
49

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
Gmail blocked in China
261
2
Why is everyone so busy?
252
3
The Benefits of Being Cold
247
4
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
240
5
William Gibson: How I wrote Neuromancer
227
6
Virgin births in animals are no longer rare
213
7
The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
205
8
That Debt from 1720? Britain’s Payment Is Coming
183
9
The future of jobs: The onrushing wave
164
10
Virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula
163

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
New paper claims that the neutrino is likely a faster-than-light particle
59
2
First scientific report shows police body-worn-cameras can reduce use-of-force
33
3
Study unveils new half-light half-matter quantum particles
32
4
Study finds possible alternative explanation for dark energy
20
5
Researchers propose ballistic capture as cheaper path to Mars
7
6
Graphene-based fuel cell membrane could extract hydrogen from the air
5
7
Japan gets Fx0–Mozilla Firefox OS-powered transparent smartphone
4
8
GPS-loaded helmet offers easier trip for motorcyclists
4
9
NASA's Ape-like RoboSimian Set for Darpa Robot Challenge
3
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Team opens new frontier of vast chemical 'space', makes dozens of new chemicals
2

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
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The Interview
191
2
Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
173
3
Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
146
4
Bitcoin guide
127
5
Under the Hood with Java 10 Enhanced Generics
44
6
The Case for N. Korea’s Role in Sony Hack
40
7
Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
11
8
Who's in the Lizard Squad?
10
9
Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3
3
10
Santa Claus and the Surveillance State
2

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
It’s Not Too Late for Uber to Avoid Stupid Patent of the Month
120
2
A virtual machine in Excel
83
3
Web Encryption Gets Stronger and More Widespread: 2014 in Review
76
4
Towards the Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon
63
5
2048 makes #10 top free iPhone app for 2014
3
6
Net Neutrality Takes a Wild Ride: 2014 in Review
2
7
Apple Dominates Christmas Week with Over Half of New Mobile Device Activations
2
8
Selfie Robot
1
9
Using Excel to Watch Movies at Work
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Prime Now – Skip the Trip. One-Hour Delivery
2
2
Microsoft launches Nokia X2, its first Android phones
2
3
Just published my first Kindle eBook
1
4
You can buy piano lessons on Amazon
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
Why we love repetition in music
169
2
Diary of a little girl in old New York (1919)
90
3
Kim Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks
76
4
Elon Musk: How We're Going to Colonize Mars
31
5
Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have
22
6
Indifference is a power
15
7
The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014
12
8
Sakura: Cherry Tree Season in Japan
10
9
Science India Hackathon
4
10
The Alan Watts Collection
3

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
When rational thinking is correlated with intelligence the correlation is modest
120
2
Psychologists Strike a Blow for Reproducibility (2013)
84
3
Six Pictures of Paradise
70
4
Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics
46
5
Rebrand Stage Fright to Overcome It
33
6
What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?
27
7
T. Rex Might Be the Thing with Feathers
23
8
On the Wilderness Continent
20
9
Is Santa Claus a God?
14
10
The dynamics of correlated novelties
9

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
James Golick has died
198
2
Veteran's Hospital LSD Testing (1956) [video]
182
3
We Are Built to Be Kind [video]
90
4
Redesiging a Broken Internet: Cory Doctorow [video]
69
5
Jeff Hawkins: Brains, Data, and Machine Intelligence [video]
61
6
Idris: Type safe printf [video]
53
7
Xiaomi raises $1.1B on a $45B valuation
51
8
Computational Phenomena in Physics – Scott Aaronson [video]
16
9
SOFT, Not SOLID: Beyond Traditional Hardware Engineering [video]
15
10
Quake on an oscilloscope
14

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
List of Computer Science Courses
323
2
Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages
207
3
Atom Shell: Cross-platform desktop application shell
181
4
Masscan: Scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes
147
5
Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles
120
6
Mozilla Shumway: A Flash VM and runtime written in JavaScript
105
7
Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp
99
8
Experimental C++11 multi-platform 3D engine
87
9
Elixir plugin for SublimeText 3 providing code completion and linting
83
10
Distributed Python for the Erlang Ecosystem
66

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Oliver Heaviside
100
2
Gödel's ontological proof
55
3
Pax Mongolica
51
4
Shoelace Formula
27
5
ThyssenKrupp Express Walkway
11
6
Mathematics of paper folding
5
7
The Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
5
8
Separation of Concerns (SoC)
3
9
First Principle
3
10
Superdollar
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
434
2
Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon
255
3
Julia is awesome, but..
178
4
Adventures in Piano Building
173
5
Great Quotes
147
6
Who Is Watching You?
131
7
The Second Wave of Blockchain Innovation
39
8
Rise and fall of our first startup, Epiclist
38
9
Signal Intelligence Helped Shoot Down a Third of North Vietnam’s MiG-21s
30
10
Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using a Smartphone Camera
27

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How to save the output of a console.log(object) to a file?
3
2
Why doesn't “cd” work in a bash shell script?
2
3
What do you get when you compose * with + in Haskell?
2
4
Cycles in family tree software
1
5
Why use AJAX when WebSockets is available?
1
6
Writing portable scheme code
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com