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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome

245

2

The Next Generation Bends Over

220

3

"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died

186

4

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

178

5

Rich, Black, Flunking

174

6

I had my head examined...

165

7

The Lost Oaks of California Ave

152

8

Persuade xor Discover

148

9

Rich Hickey's Keynote: A deconstruction of object-oriented time [pdf]

147

10

The Most Useful Rope Knots for the Average Person

136

Top Ask HN

1

Do you create music? Let's hear it!

89

2

Review my classroom web tool, Eduset

56

3

Javascript best practices?

51

4

When to get customers' billing info?

35

5

I think my startup is going to fail, what should I do?

31

6

Hosts you use for your projects?

28

7

Feelings of regret over career path?

26

8

check out my micro app - pygments syntax highlighter via HTTP

25

9

What do you think of my new site?

23

10

How accurate is Google Adword's Traffic Estimator?

21

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome

245

2

A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google

102

3

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

99

4

4chan vs Scientology: really?

85

5

80

6

Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.

72

7

A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Instapaper

70

8

Memo to Start-ups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing the World, Remember?

60

9

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (It actually exists)

48

10

YouTube Comes To A 5-Star Realization: Its Ratings Are Useless

43

News [?]

1

That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger

121

2

Where's the CrunchPad?

55

3

Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web?

47

4

Egyptian govt. wiped out pigs, cities now overwhelmed with trash

46

5

For Writing Software, a Buddy System

45

6

Making cloth from spider silk

45

7

The rise of Xavier Niel says a lot about French business

40

8

39

9

The well-deserved success of Mint, and what other businesses can learn from it.

36

10

The Man Who's Beating Google

33

Scientific publications [?]

1

New Chips Loaded With Dummy Parts

61

2

Geometry of the restricted Boltzmann machine

13

3

H-D Non-Linear Variable Selection through Hierarchical Kernel Learning

9

4

Data Monster: Why graphics processors will transform database processing

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Who wrote Linux Kernel 2.6.20?

91

2

How FlightCaster (YC S09) built multi-platform scalable apps on Heroku (YC W08)

46

3

Hacking Two-Factor Authentication

20

4

Hierarchical Read-Copy-Update (lockless synchronization for 1000's of CPUs)

14

5

Development statistics for Linux kernel 2.6.31

9

6

LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis

7

7

Quantum Computer Factors the Number 15

5

8

Inferring Friendship from Location Data

3

9

Why open-source DNS is 'Internet's dirty little secret'

3

10

Schneier on Security: Modifying the Color-Coded Threat Alert System

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs

14

2

AT&T To Offer Micro Cell for iPhone 3G $150

6

3

Vintage Video: Computing Across America

1

4

For students, Windows 7 will equal Snow Leopard's price

1

5

Apple Introduces App Store Resource Center for iPhone Developers

1

6

Seagate Announces the First SATA 6Gb/s 2TB Drive

1

7

6 monitors, 1 video card

1

8

Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor-Agnostic Multi-GPU (SLI/Crossfire) in Hardware

1

9

Mobile Core i7 920XM (Clarksfield) review + benchmarks

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf

49

2

Apple - iPod nano - Kenmerken - Videocamera

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Hacker News: Day 2

64

2

Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

54

3

Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

33

4

Reason as memetic immune disorder

33

5

Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People

7

6

Pirate Bay Appeal Judge Faces Ban, Works For Spotify

7

7

Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality

1

8

Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy

1

9

The First Global Revolution, a Club Of Rome publication

1

Science News [?]

1

Direct Evidence Of Role Of Sleep In Memory Formation Is Uncovered

76

2

Why It's So Hard to Make Nuclear Weapons

33

3

What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling

23

4

Fat that makes you thin

22

5

Naked mole rats never get cancer

18

6

Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades

15

7

Bacteria make nanomagnets for navigating the oceans

14

8

Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals

12

9

Submarine cables

6

10

Invading black holes explain gamma-ray bursts

3

Social [?]

1

Throwing your own Windows 7 launch party

8

2

How to Steal a Botnet and What Can Happen When You Do

7

3

Deep Green & Augmented Reality Pool (Video - Warning: awful music)

5

4

GitHub being DDoS'd again

3

5

Twitter Adds Explanations of Trending Topics

3

6

Arrington Disagrees with PG's Assessment

3

7

Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer (video)

2

8

CTRL-ALT-DEL: I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous...

1

9

LittleDog: Quadruped Locomotion on Rough Terrain

1

10

Interview with Elon Musk

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Homebrew is a new package management system for OS X based on git + ruby

99

2

Anaphora in Ruby

58

3

Rack::ChromeFrame, easy Google Chrome Frame integration for Ruby apps

36

4

Ack now hosted on GitHub

22

5

Github Rackspace Move Is Happening This Sunday

7

6

Gimp Extension: Auto Cleanup Whiteboard Pics

6

7

Python Arduino Prototyping API

4

8

GitHub user and repository renaming temporarily disabled due to rackspace move

4

9

Gourmand: automatically import links into delicious

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Why Gopher lost to HTML

25

2

List of pangrams

16

3

List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension

4

4

Infinite Monkey Theorem

3

5

The man who sold his 10% share of Apple for $800

2

6

World's Most Expensive Single Objects

2

7

Difference map algorithm

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Lost Oaks of California Ave

152

2

Persuade xor Discover

148

3

Post-Medium Publishing

98

4

Persuade xor Discover, Parkinson Remix

20

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]