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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

347

2

Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source

291

3

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

258

4

Learning Advanced JavaScript

257

5

10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling"

237

6

"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown"

199

7

Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million

196

8

First subpixel typeface, ever

192

9

I never realized how useful netcat is

190

10

Google acquires reCAPTCHA

181

Top Ask HN

1

review my tiny app - code to html converter

55

2

Review our elevator pitch (Stormpulse)

33

3

Three years to startup

32

4

How to generate random terrain

31

5

About all this Lisp fuzz

30

6

Estimating market sizes

29

7

Why don't we see more HTTPS? Is CPU an issue?

26

8

Is it necessary to backup S3?

26

9

Review ContextSense - deduces context and sentiment for any URL/text

20

10

What's the coolest computer simulation you can think of?

19

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us

347

2

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

258

3

Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million

196

4

145

5

Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users and is Cash Flow Positive

86

6

Mint founder on Silicon Valley

76

7

Somebody Has To Say It: It’s Time For iTunes Lite

71

8

TC50 Backstage: Why PG Was Mean and Which YC Companies Will IPO

67

9

How a Construction Crane is Erected (Video)

59

10

Dropbox’s Web Interface Gets An Overhaul

56

News [?]

1

Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing

109

2

Why Can’t She Walk to School?

88

3

Humans evolving 100 times faster than historical levels.

64

4

America can't be the world's tech leader without immigration reform.

52

5

Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits

48

6

The Boss - First, $99. Then, Millions.

42

7

Norman Borlaug, Saved Millions from Starvation - Dies Aged 95

40

8

Google Rumored to Buy Brightcove For $500-$700 Million

40

9

Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming

34

10

The Woz calls the Pope

27

Scientific publications [?]

1

Radio's Regulatory Roadblocks - How the FCC slows new wireless technologies

10

2

NASA's Mars Rover Might Be Stuck For Good

6

3

Social Systems: Can we Do More Than Just Poke Friends?

1

4

IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Chip Helps Crack Code

1

5

Carrier Pidgeon Beats Internet in South Africa

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Fish - The friendly interactive shell

55

2

POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

40

3

Schneier on Security: File Deletion

39

4

Linus - I'm a bastard Speech (2000)

37

5

Twitter's new TOS

9

6

Programming and Minimalism

8

7

Schneier on Security: Eighth Anniversary of 9/11

4

8

Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ

4

9

Robert Sawyer's Alibis

3

10

Netboot.me - boot any OS over the net

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs

35

2

T-Mobile considering acquisition of Sprint

3

3

Browsers and battery life in Windows

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution

58

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Run a Free BitTorrent Tracker on Google App Engine

37

2

On the Theory of Computing

4

3

Writing a simple expert system in Prolog

2

4

What is the Singularity Summit?

2

5

Script to setup rails development environment using aptitude

1

6

Less Wrong : The New Nostradamus

1

Science News [?]

1

Fungus-treated Violin Outdoes Stradivarius

67

2

Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late

53

3

Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Oil and Gas

18

4

Mice Levitated in Lab

13

5

How to short-circuit the US power grid

11

6

Evil Ink: A Robot Impersonator Opens a Blog to Post Spam From the Future

9

7

Reading Kafka Improves Learning

5

8

Memories Exist Even When Forgotten, Study Suggests

5

9

"Annoying Habits of College Professors" (circa 1935 to 1937)

4

10

Birdsong Studies Lead To a Revolution In Biology

4

Social [?]

1

Gödel, Escher, Bach OCW lectures

26

2

LEGO Turing Machine

25

3

Python based MIT 6.00 | Intro to Computer Science and Programming

24

4

"I'm a PC, and more happy is coming"

9

5

Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial

4

6

Github under DDoS

4

7

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has launched its own YouTube channel

2

8

TheNanomancer on Twitter

2

9

Lecture on Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots, Claytronics Beyond Audio and Video

2

10

Scribblenauts: taking emergent gaming to the extreme

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub is moving to Rackspace

152

2

A Rails like framework for Clojure.

47

3

GitHub Contest Winners

29

4

Tornado as your server: WSGI container lands in Tornado

29

5

GitHub: Ref Names in URLs

17

6

Pong in 83 lines of F#

5

7

Functional Alcoholics and Github combined SF meetup tonight

4

8

Script to open the source file of a python module in vim. Ex: pyvi os.path

4

9

Facebook's Opensource Repos on GitHub

2

10

Download Latest Hubble Telescope Images to HDD with JSON API Hack

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

I never realized how useful netcat is

190

2

Inner-platform effect

42

3

The Theory of Interstellar Trade, Paul Krugman (1978)

21

4

Earth may be constantly producing oil

13

5

IP over Avian Carriers

5

6

List of Unix utilities

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can a Programmer be a Decent Graphic Designer? - Here's Some Tips

5

2

How do you tell someone they're writing bad code?

5

Substack [?]