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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple's Mistake

723

2

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

588

3

The End Of The CrunchPad

435

4

Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++

377

5

One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar

376

6

HN Help: I'm lost

366

7

Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr

365

8

The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X

323

9

Your looks and your inbox

315

10

Thank you, Rails

297

Top Ask HN

1

Who's hiring (take 3)?

162

2

I want to learn statistics and data mining

105

3

how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of?

92

4

Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?

89

5

How do I regain my attention span?

82

6

Review my app: tweetrad.io

77

7

Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?

74

8

How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics?

70

9

How do you explain closures?

69

10

What APIs do you wish existed?

68

Top Show HN

1

How ShoveBox is Handling MacHeist Traffic

16

2

I wrote a nifty perl script for managing projects. Thoughts?

3

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The End Of The CrunchPad

435

2

Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye

289

3

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell

279

4

The best questions we got while raising venture capital

165

5

Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

127

6

How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession

101

7

Droid camera fixes itself (for 24.5 days)

94

8

Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

90

9

Odeo Releases Twttr [2006]

89

10

FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

83

News [?]

1

The Unemployment Rate for People Like You

164

2

My app ShoveBox is on NYTimes.com for some reason

104

3

The dark side of Dubai

103

4

My Nightmare Interviews With Google

103

5

We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story.

88

6

Google to Acquire AdMob for $750 Million

82

7

Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again

69

8

Against Camel Case

63

9

Cheaper, cleverer desalination

62

10

Slidable Composite Photos of Berlin Wall 20 Years Later

62

Scientific publications [?]

1

LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

50

2

Rebuilding the IBM 1401

21

3

Introduction to Bioinformatics

20

4

Robotic power line inspection

9

5

On a curious property of 3435

7

6

NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

5

7

Nimble Robot tightrope walks High-Voltage power lines

5

8

The Convergence of Bird Flocking

3

9

Carbon Nanotubes Turned into an Opportunity for Agriculture

1

10

Hamlet and Pfister forms (A tragedy in four acts)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey's Keynote from the JVM Languages Summit (video)

68

2

Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds

54

3

LWN - How Google uses Linux

36

4

Schneier on Security: Is Antivirus Dead?

35

5

Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git

29

6

Security in a Reputation Economy

28

7

John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell

23

8

Schneier on Security: Fear and Overreaction

20

9

Fedora 12 - unpriviliged users can install packages?

13

10

Schneier on Security: A Useful Side-Effect of Misplaced Fear

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

Homebrew device with iPhone aspirations (based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller)

54

2

Smoking may void Applecare Warranty

37

3

STM8S-Discovery: Microcontrollers reach a new low

18

4

From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena

13

5

Apple's new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout

4

6

A Blade Runner umbrella

4

7

Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain

3

8

Palm Releases webOS 1.3.1, iTunes Media Sync Missing

2

9

Bill Gates praises Steve Jobs for saving Apple

2

10

Inside Newegg: A Look Inside Their Warehouse and Infrastructure

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AIMA 3rd edition (Russell, Norvig) available for pre-order now

81

2

Amazon Kindle for PC Beta Launched

37

3

ITunes website open to HTML injection...again (lgt example). [WARNING: autoplay]

16

4

Visual Mathematics

4

5

Windows Kernel Exploit using @font-face in Internet Explorer

3

6

Microsoft Student - Visual Studio, turn your vision into reality

2

7

Songwriters on Songwriting: Like "Coders at Work" for music

1

8

Which one of the Entrepreneurship books is a must read?

1

9

Microsoft Windows Media - Web Help

1

10

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk (Read the reviews)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.

64

2

Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

56

3

UTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

32

4

Internet Archive's S3 like server API

23

5

Leaked Documents Reveal Anti-Piracy Cash Operation

23

6

Anti-Akrasia Technique: Structured Procrastination

22

7

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions

5

8

Pirate bay logo 'hijacked' by private company

3

9

The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good

3

10

A synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics

2

Science News [?]

1

Rejection massively reduces IQ

103

2

Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic

68

3

Why do human testicles hang like that?

56

4

The real 40-year-old virgins (13.9% of men and 8.9% of women)

52

5

Climate change cover-up? You better believe it

39

6

Alcohol Activates Cellular Changes That Make Tumor Cells Spread

27

7

How You Learn More from Success Than Failure

23

8

Exotic Electric Properties of Graphene Confirmed

23

9

Program Uses Interactive Genetic Algorithm to Help Witnesses Remember Criminals

19

10

How blind people "see" the actions of others

13

Social [?]

1

Str0ke isn't dead yet. He's just being trolled.

37

2

HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

36

3

Facebook: Building a Better Photo Uploader

35

4

An actual attempt at a list of "What You Can't Say."

28

5

What's the best / most interesting piece of code you've ever seen?

24

6

HN: I made a Twitter list of a few Y Combinator companies. Did I miss any?

15

7

Youtube becomes a social networking website with 'Find your Friends' new feature

13

8

Rob Pike on "Go"

12

9

Slow light (1.5 m/s) rendering

10

10

The story of RZA's failed start-up investment

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing Resque

135

2

Erlang is now on Github (official repo)

98

3

Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby

94

4

Looking for a Job? Let GitHub Help

75

5

Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.

65

6

Kiwi - A little javascript framework I wrote that saved me a lot of time

61

7

Comparing Non-Relational Databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, Tokyo Tyrant

50

8

A Haml-inspired mini-language for jQuery: Jabs

43

9

Jaml: Haml in Javascript

42

10

SNES9x Ported to Flash (Ed McManus)

39

Wikipedia [?]

1

Go! -- the non-Google programming language by Keith Clark and Francis McCabe.

82

2

The Interesting Number Paradox

65

3

Help keep the Y Combinator Wikipedia page updated

37

4

Natural nuclear fission reactor

14

5

IQ and the Wealth of Nations

13

6

Business war games

9

7

9

8

Shunting-yard Algorithm

8

9

The Abilene Paradox

7

10

Al-Jazari: Medieval Hacker (1136-1206 CE)

7

Blogs [?]

1

Apple's Mistake

723

2

Re: What You Can't Say

95

Stackoverflow [?]

1

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex.

14

2

How to "get" Bayes' Theorem

8

3

Dark magic with VIM

7

4

What is the name of this operator?

5

5

4

Substack [?]