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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)

928

2

Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong

258

3

Less, a leaner CSS

253

4

RIP Michael Jackson

248

5

US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a Hacker)

239

6

The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

236

7

Firefox 3.5 is out

234

8

230

9

Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers

228

10

Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head and It Is Ugly

208

Top Ask HN

1

Please review my new project: almost.at

164

2

good math books

111

3

what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?

107

4

Please review my site - PickFu.com

104

5

Math for hackers.

102

6

What Web apps increase your productivity?

89

7

Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN?

84

8

80

9

Do you read math & hard science books? How?

68

10

Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for

68

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

CrunchPad Prototype

123

2

Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies

115

3

The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View

97

4

The Great Wall of Facebook

83

5

Swedish Software Firm Acquires The Pirate Bay For $7.7 Million

82

6

MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox

73

7

Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold

69

8

Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us

68

9

Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset

68

10

Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It

63

News [?]

1

119

2

Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia

88

3

Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?

83

4

Common sense dies when adults catch teenagers "sexting" each other

83

5

The evolutionary origin of depression

77

6

Common Solecisms - Words you are almost certainly using incorrectly

73

7

Cocaine prices around the world

70

8

The End of Retirement

66

9

Positive thinking's negative results

66

10

Next Test - Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers

65

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Firefox Kid: Blake Ross (2006)

11

2

The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut

6

3

Google Lunar X Prize - Underdog Team Aims For Moon

5

4

NASA - LRO Project

5

5

A Real Whopper: Black Hole Is Most Massive Known

4

6

Could Life Be 12 Billion Years Old?

4

7

U.S. Air Force Aims to Launch Space Plane Next Year

3

8

Community detection in graphs

2

9

10 Favorite Mars Novels - Kim Stanley Robinson

2

10

Benford's Law anomalies in the 2009 Iranian presidential election

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Corrupted Word Files for Sale

62

2

Inspiring talk on programming by creator of CouchDB

56

3

Bruce Schneier: Fixing Airport Security

44

4

Compcache: in-memory compressed swapping

34

5

Ever Better Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1

33

6

MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads

31

7

Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1

21

8

Schneier on Security: The Problem with Password Masking

8

9

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture

8

10

Twitter Launches Verified Accounts

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone right now, no jailbreak, for free

78

2

Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, because it links "objectionable" youtube video

67

3

AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life

59

4

EFF Launches A 'Terms of Service' Tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, Etc.

51

5

Pulsating App Store hyperwall at WWDC

42

6

ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings

37

7

IPhone 3GS: 54% faster than the 3G, 11% faster than the Pre

16

8

Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User

14

9

How-To: Web server on a business card

7

10

EFF Busts Bogus Internet Subdomain Patent

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

iPhone 3.0 Released

68

2

Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements

65

3

Books that influenced Clojure

48

4

New IE8 marketing materials

40

5

Ten Grand is Buried Here - Microsoft Australia

22

6

Download Safari 4 - Official Release

4

7

Beware of the significant differences between Kindle 1 and Kindle 2

3

8

Microsoft offers cheapish web app hosting with $100 search ad credit

2

9

A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web

2

10

Want to really understand the "lean" philosophy? Learn from the origin

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Party Wins 7.1% of Swedish Vote, Enters European Parliament

177

2

The Two-Party Swindle

77

3

Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder

47

4

Fleet Foxes thank piracy for their success

41

5

Knuth: Programs to Read

34

6

Atlas Obscura: Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

24

7

Let's reimplement Eurisko

21

8

ISP Dragged to Court for Refusing to Block The Pirate Bay

17

9

Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic

15

10

"Applied Picoeconomics": bargaining with your future self

15

Science News [?]

1

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise

125

2

Why A Low Calorie Diet Extends Lifespans: Critical Enzyme Pair Identified

39

3

The inside story of the Conficker worm

38

4

Why your brain just can't remember that word (btw bilingualism makes it harder)

37

5

The first solid-state quantum processor

32

6

Email patterns can predict impending doom

23

7

Inflatable tower could climb to the edge of space

23

8

'Warrior Gene' Linked To Gang Membership, Weapon Use

22

9

New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics

22

10

Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded

20

Social [?]

1

Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang

109

2

Erik Naggum (1965-2009) RIP

61

3

Clever British plug design.

57

4

Physicist Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the tracks.

48

5

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner Testing Obama's Nerdiness

35

6

Hive - A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop

32

7

Got a TradeMark? Register it On FaceBook in Advance to the 13th

27

8

Facebook | Username

27

9

IPhone OS on Mac Pro and 24″ Multitouch Screen

26

10

How a meme starts "in real life" - Guy starts dance party, single-handedly

21

Github repos and gists [?]

1

230

2

182

3

Ruby has entered the Enterprise thanks to the Enterprise gem

110

4

Python SimpleDB Library

22

5

NY State Senate Code on GitHub

13

6

Rudimentary Currying and Partial Application in Python

13

7

Clojure moving to github?

9

8

Hosting Python on GitHub?

3

9

Functional Complexity Modulo a Test Suite

2

10

BackgroundCount - display char count in textarea using Google Chart API

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The German Tank Problem

103

2

The hairy ball theorem

63

3

The Clever Hans Effect

34

4

Perl 6 new regexp rules

29

5

Bead sort: faster than O(N log N) sort

27

6

Nomic: a game in which changing the rules is a move

22

7

Communication with submarines

19

8

Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel

14

9

Opposition to and problems with neckties

13

10

List of WHO Essential Medicines (for developing economies)

9

Blogs [?]

1

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is Linux ruining my chance at a good software engineering career?

28

Substack [?]