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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft rips off Plurk

581

2

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

386

3

The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)

352

4

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

350

5

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

349

6

Why I gave away my company to charity

328

7

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free

327

8

Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo

308

9

Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.

301

10

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt

291

Top Ask HN

1

More types of flagging?

132

2

What hosting do you use for personal projects?

106

3

Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)

103

4

What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

90

5

Equity for a first employee

80

6

As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?

74

7

alternatives to EtherPad?

71

8

Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT.

68

9

Who are the top UI designers on the web today?

64

10

Review my App - Freeciv.net

62

Top Show HN

1

my weekend project, jetsetter

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition

270

2

Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11

204

3

Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?

130

4

CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination

126

5

Thorium, the New Green Nuke

124

6

YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict

113

7

James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

101

8

What is DRM doing in my garage?

100

9

TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive

99

10

Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times

97

News [?]

1

How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story

148

2

Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word

143

3

What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

136

4

Reuters: Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan

130

5

How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion

123

6

The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit

120

7

IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (2006)

113

8

Hitchens: The truth about airplane security measures

105

9

The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley

96

10

The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages

92

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]

44

2

Automated to Death?

43

3

Why cosmological observers should release their data slowly

29

4

On proof and progress in mathematics

25

5

Remote control insects, powered by their own living tissue and nuclear power

10

6

Coding Guidelines for Prolog

7

7

Is the physics within the Solar system really understood?

4

8

Russia May Try to Deflect Asteroid With Spacecraft

3

9

Life and Times of Georgy Voronoi

3

10

Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt

291

2

Schneier: The Value of Privacy

109

3

Intercepting Predator Video

89

4

Clojure Roundup: FlightCaster (YC S09), Crane, Incanter, Leiningen

70

5

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency

53

6

Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator

37

7

ECMAScript 5 released

33

8

Another Linux file notification subsystem

13

9

Twitter acquires Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI

13

10

Plura, a SETI-like Distributed Grid

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

Doctorow, How to Destroy the Book

59

2

Apple orders 10-inch tablet displays and robust glass panels

32

3

Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins

28

4

Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS

23

5

Apple's iPhone commands 46% of Japanese smartphone market

14

6

Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in 8 weeks

7

7

Pool playing robot and Augmented Reality pool

5

8

Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

4

9

Odroid: all the open, none of the contract

3

10

Apple Asking App Developers to Prepare for Large Screens?

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

222

2

Microsoft Investigating Questions over MSN China joint venture’s Juku feature

57

3

1290 Amazon mp3s free (most music)

51

4

The self-help book Bill Clinton used

48

5

Steve Krug's new #ux book is out

27

6

Apple Countersues Nokia

13

7

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Streaming

11

8

Free inbound data transfer to S3 until June 30, 2010

8

9

Iron Man II Trailer

7

10

MongoHub (MongoDB gui)

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message

91

2

Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective

55

3

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom

35

4

DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron’s Avatar 3D Preview

24

5

Norvig: What to demand from a Scientific Computing Lang Even if you don't care

16

6

Miller, key to obtaining 14,700 tons of silver Manhattan Project

16

7

The Pirate Bay Will Not Appeal Order to Remove Torrents

14

8

Guessing the Teachers Password: the problem with most education systems

7

9

Core Rationalist Skills

5

10

Asch's Conformity Experiment

4

Science News [?]

1

Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain

86

2

Single-atom transistor discovered

41

3

Five laws of human nature

37

4

First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

34

5

Research shows that people project their own beliefs onto God.

27

6

Glint of sunlight seen off lake on Saturn's moon Titan.

26

7

Why your boss is incompetent

23

8

Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?

17

9

Single-atom transistor discovered

15

10

First Evidence of Brain Rewiring in Children

13

Social [?]

1

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)

153

2

Students Ace Textbook Physics While Struggling With Basic Understanding (video)

72

3

HP computers are racist

67

4

How to Make a Whiteboard for $4 [video]

65

5

Experiences in Failed Startups

58

6

Hacker News Twitter list

22

7

Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford, 2005

22

8

Air jet manipulation of Ping Pong in 3D. By U of Illinois

10

9

Louis CK - "Everything is amazing, and no one is happy."

10

10

Acoustic Guitar Hack

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I made a native Python module for MS Word docx

144

2

Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell

100

3

Clojure 1.1 changes.txt

64

4

Amazon S3 file system with improved caching: the itch I scratched over Christmas

36

5

The Arc challenge in Go

32

6

CakePHP on GitHub

28

7

XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js)

27

8

Github spamming...

25

9

My first simple 97-loc Sinatra/Freebase/Heroku single-serving app

23

10

Hub : Utility which adds GitHub knowledge to Git

22

Wikipedia [?]

1

The official term for the smell after it rains

148

2

133

3

79

4

Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor

39

5

Tell HN: Happy Solstice

37

6

The Mpemba Effect

36

7

Tetrapharmakos - Epicurus's remedy for leading the happiest possible life.

32

8

Refal programming language

31

9

--All You Zombies--

30

10

Tell HN: There will be a Blue moon in December

29

Blogs [?]

1

Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... (2008)

151

2

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

68

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can someone copyright a SQL query?

5

2

Why not port Linux kernel to Common Lisp?

4

3

Implementing HN's Popularity Algorithm in Django

4

4

Trick question: while( x -- 0 ) // x goes to 0

2

Substack [?]