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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL

279

2

You should follow me on Twitter

263

3

MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors

231

4

Unladen Swallow can now compile all Python code to native code using LLVM

206

5

Draw a math symbol and get the corresponding LaTeX code

193

6

"Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"

187

7

Trent Reznor: What to do as a new/unknown artist

150

8

The Firefox 3.5 fiasco

145

9

Jay Leno’s 3D Printer Makes Old Car Parts

133

10

YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

132

Top Ask HN

1

What are you working on?

136

2

review my web app, a wiki for code snippets

47

3

Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked?

44

4

What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers?

42

5

Best approach for taking on well funded competitors ?

31

6

Distributed File System

28

7

Lightweight Programmer's CMS?

25

8

How do you handle users that cancel their accounts?

24

9

Should I get U.S. citizenship?

20

10

Ask HN RE: Company's responsibilities to the open source community

19

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

132

2

To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes

103

3

In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents

68

4

RentHop (YC S09): Easier Apartment Hunting, Without The Broker Fee

63

5

Redfin Turns Profitable, Real Estate Industry Shudders

51

6

The unstoppable Google

51

7

Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Business Card

44

8

Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve Ballmer To Melt Down

41

9

Justin.tv Redesigns To Make Broadcasting Easier And Chat More Obvious

36

10

Thomas Jefferson's Geeky Gadget-filled House

32

News [?]

1

Company fined $300,000 for posting fake reviews online

60

2

Logo on Steroids - The new video game Kodu

58

3

60 million stung in social networking rip-off

49

4

Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want. Don't do it

47

5

The Spiritual Center Of the Earth (1999)

42

6

“Without Haste, Without Fear. We Will Conquer the World”

41

7

Cringely: Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me

40

8

California v Texas: America's future

31

9

How to extend your life by a decade or two

29

10

60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7

27

Scientific publications [?]

1

Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators [pdf]

25

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough

44

2

Laptop security while crossing borders

37

3

Making an Operating System Virus Free

24

4

Lost suitcases, or how to DoS an airport

23

5

Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted

14

6

The ATM Vulnerability You Won't Hear About

7

7

Do Strong Web Passwords Accomplish Anything?

7

8

Three Years of Real-World Ruby

4

9

Threatpost Podcast w/ Nate Lawson on Side Channels, EM, Smart Cards, Web Crypto

1

10

VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple launches HTTP live streaming in iPhone 3.0

23

2

Google CEO to discuss his future as an Apple director

3

3

Apple nears wireless license for iPhone in China

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Start-Up Challenge

36

2

Amazon drops price on their Kindle 2 to $299

22

3

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year

1

4

Amazon.com: Asus Eee PC T91 8.9-Inch Black Tablet Netbook

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay

20

2

The strangest thing an AI could tell you

11

3

Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain

2

4

Debate: Is short term planning in humans due to a short life or due to bias?

1

5

Viaweb.com yesterday

1

Science News [?]

1

How chaos drives the brain

27

2

A drug slows ageing in middle-aged mice

27

3

Profanity Helps One Tolerate Physical Pain Better

24

4

Computer learns sign language by watching TV

13

5

'Repulsive' Side to Light Force Could Control Nanodevices

9

6

Why the #$% Do We Swear? For Pain Relief

4

7

Ranking candidates is more accurate than voting

3

8

Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?

3

9

How to tap the wisdom of the crowd in your head

3

10

'Rosetta Stone' Of Bacterial Communication Discovered

3

Social [?]

1

Shopify brings Akamai CDN to all of it's 5000 e-commerce stores for free

10

2

Why evolution is true: the strongest evidence I have ever seen.

7

3

New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS | Nuts!

6

4

Ira Glass on Good Taste [video]

5

5

ROOMMATES - Episode 1

3

6

Frank Zappa talks customer development

3

7

Alligator Eggs (lambda calculus) animated studio

2

8

PubSubHubbub Demo - Real-Time CrunchUp

2

9

Building your own dynamic language

2

10

21st Century Approaches to Discovering (Chemical) Data

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype

51

2

Locate_me.js - Locate your users by using state of the art geolocation services.

1

3

Franz Inc. Github Repositories

1

4

Simple Web Product Guidelines (Leah Culver)

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Van Emde Boas tree - all operations in O(log log n) time

3

2

Schrödinger's cat

1

3

Lawnchair Larry

1

4

Steve Mann - Wearable computers pioneer

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do you stop scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second?

5

2

Making life better by not using Java web frameworks? - Stack Overflow

2

Substack [?]