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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Less, a leaner CSS

253

2

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

228

3

Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser

160

4

Python to get Google-backed speedup

158

5

Things about Web Images I Just Learned

154

6

Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

152

7

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.

151

8

Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming

139

9

The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg

132

10

User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself.

126

Top Ask HN

1

what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?

107

2

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

84

3

80

4

Is there a SICP of biology?

54

5

What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?

38

6

Thoughts on performance-enhancing drugs?

36

7

Please review my app

35

8

Review my product - Server Density

27

9

How and when to pitch an angel?

26

10

What are your favorite management books?

19

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours

49

2

Get A Job With Reddit Jobs. Or At Least Vote On One.

43

3

Tesla’s Founder Sues Tesla’s CEO

34

4

Tesla Motors CEO: Let Me Run Detroit

32

5

French court savages "three-strikes" law, tosses it out

28

6

Google Voice’s Secret Weapon: Number Portability

28

7

The Taming of Comment Trolls

27

8

Someone at Wired.com just found pg's "The Hundred Year Language".

23

9

WizeHive Shaping Up To Become A Powerful Collaboration Tool (ca98am79's startup)

20

10

Are Silicon Valley Startups More Likely To Be Acquired?

19

News [?]

1

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

83

2

Positive thinking's negative results

66

3

The Underworked American Child

54

4

On Will Wright’s Team, Would You Be a Solvent, or the Glue?

46

5

A Plant That Thrives When Used as a Toilet

43

6

Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website

42

7

Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class

34

8

They are known as the grass-eaters: Japan's Generation XX

31

9

Re-Engineering the Earth

27

10

China’s College Entry Test, Gao Kao, Is National Obsession

26

Scientific publications [?]

1

The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut

6

2

10 Favorite Mars Novels - Kim Stanley Robinson

2

3

Benford's Law anomalies in the 2009 Iranian presidential election

2

4

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Ever Better Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1

33

2

New attack class exploits intranet weaknesses

3

3

Presentation: The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software

3

4

Twitter reschedules downtime in response to Iran situation

2

5

Kent Beck: Just You Wait

2

6

Protecting individual privacy remains an externality for many companies

1

7

Up, Up, and Away

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

78

2

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

59

3

How-To: Web server on a business card

7

4

EFF Busts Bogus Internet Subdomain Patent

6

5

13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface

5

6

Apple's 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For

3

7

University claims Apple's glossy screens may cause injury

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

iPhone 3.0 Released

68

2

Ten Grand is Buried Here - Microsoft Australia

22

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Two-Party Swindle

77

2

Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder

47

3

Fleet Foxes thank piracy for their success

41

4

Knuth: Programs to Read

34

5

Let's reimplement Eurisko

21

6

A more interesting look at the planning fallacy

3

7

Why Safety is Not Safe - Less Wrong

2

8

Media Misreports on Biased Pirate Bay Judge

1

9

The two meanings of mathematical terms

1

10

Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

1

Science News [?]

1

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise

125

2

The inside story of the Conficker worm

38

3

New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics

22

4

Why Do We Have Fingerprints?

19

5

Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant

12

6

Gravity mysteries: What is gravity?

2

7

Gravity mysteries: Why does gravity only pull?

2

8

Common fish species has 'human' ability to learn

2

9

Can smoking ever be made safe?

1

10

Time moves too slowly for hyperactive boys

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook | Username

27

2

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

27

3

IPhone OS on Mac Pro and 24″ Multitouch Screen

26

4

Facebook Chat hits 1B messages per day

20

5

Google asks Times Square, "What is a browser?" [video]

8

6

Facebook settles outstanding trademark suit

7

7

The Incredible Bread Machine Film (1975, features Milton Friedman)

6

8

What is a Browser?

6

9

Great Funny Talk by Luis von Ahn on reCAPTCHA [video]

4

10

Facebook Username Easter Egg?

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rudimentary Currying and Partial Application in Python

13

2

Clojure moving to github?

9

3

Set up tethering on iPhone 3.0 software

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The hairy ball theorem

63

2

Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel

14

3

The Ham Sandwich Theorem

6

4

Banach-Tarski paradox

5

5

1

6

The Apple Newton

1

7

Benford's Law (aka the First-Digit Law)

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]