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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Introducing the Google Chrome OS

370

2

Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

204

3

Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.

181

4

The work ethic of MJ - amazing tales from the studio by his engineers

181

5

Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

164

6

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip

157

7

Gmail is out of beta

140

8

How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?

132

9

Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project

117

10

BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library

107

Top Ask HN

1

What kind of index is Google using here?

116

2

Objecting to stories being killed

74

3

Startup vs Girlfriend

67

4

What to do after graduation with 100k?

48

5

What programming language are you currently learning?

38

6

What do you think of this startup idea?

35

7

start with python 2.6 or 3?

31

8

which functional language to learn?

30

9

What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You?

29

10

I have yet to do the one thing I wish before I die

29

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting

61

2

Since March, IE Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome

61

3

Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

60

4

New algorithm guesses SSNs

53

5

Michael Jackson is the First to Sell 1 Million Downloads in a Week

49

6

What should I do with my life?

44

7

Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund

42

8

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API

42

9

Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations

42

10

Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate

39

News [?]

1

BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library

107

2

Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (for netbooks)

72

3

Why do the rich keep working?

55

4

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth implanted into his eye

55

5

End All Taxes...Except One

53

6

India creating new identity card system for 1.2Bn people

43

7

Best Online To-Do Lists

40

8

Germany's Green Idea: Street Lighting on Demand

39

9

33

10

We Rent Movies, So Why Not College Textbooks?

31

Scientific publications [?]

1

Drink Beer, Win a Trip to Space

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

OpenSSH update from Damien Miller

62

2

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

27

3

The Pros and Cons of Password Masking (follow-up from Schneier)

18

4

COBOL to Java Automatic Migration with GPL'ed Tools

7

5

Self Study Course In Block Cipher Cryptoanalysis

5

6

Official Twitter blog about trademark for "tweet"

3

7

Information Leakage from Keypads

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Most Printers Secretly Add Their Serial # to Everything They Print

39

2

Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble

12

FAANG+ [?]

1

Windows XP Professional End-User License Agreement

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why are lectures more detailed than texts?

24

2

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On

12

3

"Man Of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" - Full Book

2

Science News [?]

1

Memristor Minds

65

2

How celebrities stay famous regardless of talent

43

3

Can You Be Too Perfect?

18

4

Finding a fair price for free knowledge

16

5

5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results

7

6

Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter

6

7

Why Music Moves Us

4

8

Scientists Reprogram Clearly Defined Adult Cells Into Pluripotent Stem Cells

4

9

Blackest Black Ever: Ultra-thin Material Absorbs Almost 100% Of Light

1

10

Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

1

Social [?]

1

Hammering Usernames (the story behind Facebook's one-night deployment)

8

2

Donald Knuth's talk at Google (on Faith and Science)

7

3

Impressive terrain generation in 4Kb [+DirectX]

6

4

Craig Venter gives Richard Dawkins a tour of his laboratory

4

5

Augmented reality app on the iPhone: Nearest tube

4

6

Facebook Pages: no usernames, no title changes

4

7

New light on the pirate bay story ?

3

8

Tools for analyzing Win32 binaries on Linux

3

9

Filmmaker David Lynch on the iPhone

2

10

Willard Wigan: The Micro Sculptor

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Wrapping Combinators (raganwald)

15

2

Django-couchdb is the Django database adapter for CouchDB databases

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot

17

2

Mind benders: List of paradoxes

15

3

Electronic Cigarettes

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What's your longest-held programming assumption that turned out to be incorrect?

5

2

How to create DOM elements and prevent memory leaks in IE

1

3

Unintentionally starting an XML debate

1

Substack [?]