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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

How to Teach a Child to Argue

217

4

The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

176

5

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

169

6

Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires

159

7

How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time)

155

8

Curing Python's Neglect

149

9

The Ultimate Lock Picker

144

10

The Flimsy Doorknob & The Forgettable Receipt

142

Top Ask HN

1

Please review my new project: almost.at

164

2

Please review my site - PickFu.com

104

3

Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life?

76

4

Where do I go from here?

73

5

Do you write comments, and then not submit them?

61

6

How to stay focused?

56

7

P=NP, what do you do?

54

8

In which modern language/environment/framework is programming a joy?

53

9

Review my startup - Chords!

50

10

What to do about distracting mental chatter?

45

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

169

2

Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires

159

3

The Ultimate Lock Picker

144

4

CrunchPad Prototype

123

5

MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox

73

6

From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009

58

7

Almost.at: Real Time Events, As Tweeted By The People Who Are Actually There

49

8

Chromium alpha for Linux

44

9

The Trunk Club For Men: Never Shop For Clothes Again

42

10

Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit

42

News [?]

1

Common Solecisms - Words you are almost certainly using incorrectly

73

2

The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M.

50

3

Google to sell eBooks

44

4

Unmanned sub touches deepest part of world's ocean

34

5

Don't get too excited about some recent brighter economic news

33

6

Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation

31

7

Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms

30

8

Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking.

30

9

Born free: Open-source software in the recession

29

10

Microsoft wows with full motion camera for games

28

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner)

42

2

The Million Dollar Programming Prize

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Compcache: in-memory compressed swapping

34

2

Democratic Political Technology Revolution

1

3

"Using Prompt Commands" a Sign of Criminals? Supreme Court Begs To Differ

1

4

Google Wave’s Architecture

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

67

2

1964 300baud modem surfs the web

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

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

2

2

A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web

2

3

The book, Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway is out

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

My Language Is More Agile Than Yours: A Study of Arc

77

2

Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic

15

3

Do Fandoms Need Awfulness? (by Eliezer Yudkowsky)

4

Science News [?]

1

Travel time to major cities

3

2

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

2

3

Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read

1

4

People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows

1

5

New research reveals how meditation changes the brain

1

6

In a major pharmaceutical breakthrough, a one-two punch to stop HIV

1

7

Researchers study the natural foundations of female social aggression

1

8

What string theory is really good for

1

9

Breakthrough In Quantum Control Of Light: Implications For Banking, Drug Design

1

10

Phosphorus Famine: The Threat to Our Food Supply

1

Social [?]

1

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

21

2

Google Wave video leaked internal data at 33min43s

8

3

Youtube starts testing HTML5 tag

7

4

YouTube for TVs (YoutTube XL)

5

5

Sergey Brin On Breaking "Page's Law" Of Software Sluggishness (vid)

3

6

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

3

7

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

3

8

Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service

3

9

Project Natal: E3 XBOX 360 - First Video Demo Release

2

10

The First Help Desk Call

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sinatra clone in Scala

31

2

Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge

30

3

The Hg-Git Plugin from GitHub

13

4

Functional Complexity Modulo a Test Suite

2

5

Get Twitter Messages As IMAP Server in Python

1

6

Optfunc - use introspection to turn Python functions in to command line scripts

1

7

1

8

Edownload is a segmented http file downloader in Erlang

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Opposition to and problems with neckties

13

2

Rosenhan experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis

2

3

Gijeong-dong - propaganda village, site of major music war

2

4

Carter Catastrophe : Calculating the Probability of Doomsday

1

5

Frank Lloyd Wright's Sky-City

1

6

1

7

Crossing the Chasm

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]