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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.

588

2

The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X

323

3

If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?

321

4

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell

279

5

How to get automatically rejected by an angel investor

214

6

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

204

7

Brewing a Better Rating System

200

8

Tools we use for running our startup

198

9

My startups's new service for parents - A Story Before Bed

179

10

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

177

Top Ask HN

1

How have you dealt with corruption?

91

2

Review my app: tweetrad.io

77

3

the road to learning useful math

59

4

What's the worst thing that could happen to Google?

45

5

Why downvote? I honestly do not get it.

41

6

What do you use to monitor your websites?

40

7

What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app?

37

8

So I quit my job to focus on my startup...

35

9

What artists do you like?

34

10

What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days?

32

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem of Hell

279

2

How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insiders Confession

101

3

Why every country has a different electrical plug - awesome graphic

68

4

Firefox finally passes IE6

56

5

Mint’s Aaron Patzer: “We Will End-Of-Life Quicken Online” In Six to Nine Months

54

6

Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid

47

7

Snow Leopard Update Blocks Intel Atom, Kills Hackintosh

42

8

Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games

40

9

Tiny banner ads attached to flies generate buzz at conference [video]

35

10

Loopt Shifts Its Strategy To Tap The Pulse Of Location

35

News [?]

1

We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story.

88

2

Cheaper, cleverer desalination

62

3

Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100

57

4

A tiny niche in collectible coins grows into a $5 million mini-empire

55

5

French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality

51

6

Lower fertility is changing the world for the better

48

7

New Skate-Sharpening Method Takes Hockey by Storm

31

8

The future of schooling may lie with video games

29

9

Google UK town that only exists online

29

10

Ludwig Wittgenstein

28

Scientific publications [?]

1

For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up

81

2

Rebuilding the IBM 1401

21

3

The Truth About Bender's Brain

4

4

Acoustic Hyperlens Could Sharpen Ultrasound Imaging

1

5

Build your own Google Street View for $300 with open source software

1

6

1

7

Performance of modularity maximization (for community detection) in practice

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security: Fear and Overreaction

20

2

Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages (JVM) (Cliff Click) (Video)

12

3

Joe Armstrong: Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)

9

4

Functional Programming with a Mainstream Language

8

5

Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes

3

6

Schneier on Zero Tolerance Policies

3

7

Automated, Open Source Performance Regression Testing

1

8

Community contributions and copyright assignment

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Boarduino + LCD + Ethernet + Temp monitoring

15

2

Apple's new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout

4

3

Inside Newegg: A Look Inside Their Warehouse and Infrastructure

2

4

The Highest-End Notebooks in 2009

1

5

Apple pitches $30-a-month iTunes TV subscriptions

1

6

Give yourself Pyro [ X-Men ] mutant powers...

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon PayPhrase

3

2

Kindle goes International

1

3

Songwriters on Songwriting: Like "Coders at Work" for music

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

UTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

32

2

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

1

3

Pirate Party gets second seat in European Parliament

1

Science News [?]

1

The real 40-year-old virgins (13.9% of men and 8.9% of women)

52

2

Alcohol Activates Cellular Changes That Make Tumor Cells Spread

27

3

How You Learn More from Success Than Failure

23

4

Where do ghosts come from?

13

5

Why Don't Babies Talk Like Adults?

11

6

Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory

4

7

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

4

8

Controversial caterpillar-evolution study formally rebutted

4

9

Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss

3

10

How Women Can Save the Planet

3

Social [?]

1

Str0ke isn't dead yet. He's just being trolled.

37

2

HN: I made a Twitter list of a few Y Combinator companies. Did I miss any?

15

3

Youtube becomes a social networking website with 'Find your Friends' new feature

13

4

(VIDEO) Arrington vs. Shukla: Virtual Goods Controversy

4

5

Tangible Functional Programming

4

6

The Subversion project is joining the Apache Software Foundation

3

7

Everything is amazing and no one is happy

3

8

Jeff Minter (aka Yak) at Google Tech Talk (2007)

2

9

New technology for parking bicycles

2

10

Updated privacy policy etc for Facebook | Facebook Site Governance

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing Resque

135

2

Github redesigns its profile pages

26

3

Script to get emails when someone unfollows you on twitter

23

4

Clarity - New log search server from Shopify

4

5

KISSUnit: Really simple Javascript tests

3

6

Github's postmortem on today's outage

2

7

AS3 Shoutcast stream parser/player

2

8

JQuery now hosted on the GitHubs

1

9

TweepML is stupid.

1

10

Bookmarklet to augment your GitHub dashboard

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Srinivasa Ramanujan

77

2

54

3

Natural nuclear fission reactor

14

4

6

5

2

6

Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]