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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

364

2

Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store

327

3

FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection

217

4

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

210

5

Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

199

6

I Quit The iPhone

191

7

YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

187

8

How to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle In One Night

169

9

$12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story

154

10

C# is now a better language than Java

152

Top Ask HN

1

Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

71

2

How do you record your thoughts?

44

3

What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?

39

4

Income on the Side?

38

5

review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides]

31

6

How did you really learn a foreign language?

28

7

Had an original idea for a start-up...but

28

8

Ask HN - Is it worth joining Mensa?

26

9

review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way

25

10

Payroll for bootstrapped startups?

23

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection

217

2

I Quit The iPhone

191

3

Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag In 3 Months

102

4

Listia (YC S09) Is An Awesome Way To Give And Get Free Stuff

98

5

Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009

77

6

YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game

63

7

Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH

59

8

Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare

53

9

Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation

49

10

JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like

43

News [?]

1

How Different Groups Use Their Time

108

2

Where Is Xu Zhiyong?

99

3

For Many Americans, Nowhere to Go but Down

53

4

How work expands to fill available time (1955)

52

5

How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story

49

6

Large Hadron Collider "Fizzles"

41

7

Is it possible to reassemble a shredded document?

31

8

Unemployment in Silicon Valley higher than after dot-com bubble burst

27

9

Like Today, the 1920s Roared With Technology

26

10

Math-hattan: How math lovers see the City

24

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA - Harnessing the Sun

2

2

NASA - NASA High Definition Video: Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video

2

3

Data management in systems biology I - Overview and bibliography

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees

130

2

Schneier on Security : Another New AES Attack

24

3

Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology

18

4

Schneier on Security : Risks of Cloud Computing

16

5

Schneier on Security : Building in Surveillance

3

6

Google Chose Jetty for App Engine

3

7

IronRuby and the Road to 1.0

1

8

Security vs. Usability

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Steve Ballmer calls Apple's Mac growth a "rounding error"

21

2

The Book vs. The Kindle

14

3

Microsoft plans to use Windows 7 to raise netbook prices

3

4

IPhone OS 3.0.1 released - fixes SMS security vulnerability

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

199

2

Bump Technologies (YC S09) featured in Apple iPhone Ad

64

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

One in Three Is A Music Pirate

1

2

Python Wrapper Tools: A Performance Study

1

Science News [?]

1

Electrons split into two new particles, Holons and Spinons.

26

2

50% 0f doctors have used wikipedia as a reference.

26

3

Markov & statistical models unlock ancient script

19

4

Evoloution's Third Replicator

11

5

The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals

7

6

Why We Learn More From Our Successes Than Our Failures

5

7

An Easy Way to Increase Creativity

5

8

Self-healing Surfaces

5

9

Evolution's Third Replicator

4

10

Did an ice age boost human brain size?

3

Social [?]

1

4 Years of Reddit

4

2

Knocking down a shed with an air cannon

4

3

Silver Bullet -- Time Travelling Debugger [Google Tech Talk]

3

4

What can you steal from an iPhone in 2 minutes?

3

5

Google Tech Talk : Interactive Ray Tracing: A Better Way to Program 3D

3

6

Ptolemy and Homer Simpson

3

7

Philip Wadler: What does logic have to do with Java? [video]

3

8

Overpopulation: The Making of a Myth

2

9

MySQL@Facebook: Anatomy of a query pileup

2

10

Reddit: Hard Science

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Smart JS Polling

13

2

Mutter — the tiny command-line interface library with lots of style~

7

3

Deployment Script Spring Cleaning

6

4

Phuby : All your PHP belongs to me

5

5

Transactors: Actors + STM

2

6

The 2009 GitHub contest

1

7

Mu: A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Facebook Connect

1

8

Functionally-inspired array tools for PHP

1

9

PyPaste - no nonsense access to pastebins

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Important publications in Computer Science

5

2

Holonomic brain theory

3

3

3

4

List of Cognitive Biases

1

5

Project Xanadu, Ted Nelsons' WWW precursor

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

List of freely available programming books

6

2

How do you design object oriented projects?

2

3

How to port one-to-many db's to key-value based stores ?

1

Substack [?]