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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

350

2

Why I gave away my company to charity

328

3

Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We take them seriously.

301

4

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt

291

5

Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

279

6

EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced

276

7

Introducing Google Public DNS: A new DNS resolver from Google

264

8

Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad

258

9

IBM's infamous "Black Team" (2002)

234

10

222

Top Ask HN

1

Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)

103

2

As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often?

74

3

alternatives to EtherPad?

71

4

How to learn to web dev for real ?

58

5

Ask to be acquired?

47

6

I'm a programmer. I am always angry at job. Is this normal?

38

7

Do you find developer screencasts useful?

38

8

Common Lisp vs Clojure for web apps?

37

9

Rate a StartUp Zatista.com

36

10

Any startups offering summer internships?

33

Top Show HN

1

my weekend project, jetsetter

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11

204

2

Mint Explains Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is 17.2 Percent

68

3

Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

48

4

Google’s Coolest 20% Project: Liquid Galaxy

47

5

Hands on with the JooJoo (nee CrunchPad)

44

6

Apple Has Acquired Lala

43

7

Source: Google Is Acquiring AppJet, The Company Behind EtherPad (YC S07)

40

8

Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google

39

9

CrunchPad Litigation Imminent

37

10

Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter

37

News [?]

1

Why Introverts Can Make The Best Leaders

87

2

Not-so-safe Sex

85

3

Geeks trump alpha males on Wall Street

74

4

Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill

67

5

Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship

65

6

The looming crisis in human genetics

63

7

Bezos defends model of keeping 65% of (kindle) book revenue

39

8

Can Anyone Stop Facebook?

38

9

The taste that launched 1,000 parking tickets

35

10

NYT: Apple has acquired streaming music service Lala

34

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why cosmological observers should release their data slowly

29

2

On proof and progress in mathematics

25

3

Open-Source Effort to Hack GSM

2

4

Huge Explosion Reveals the Most Massive Star Known

2

5

Effort to crack GSM encryption

1

6

Evolutionary response of black snakes to cane toads

1

7

Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds

1

8

SpaceShipTwo WhiteKnightTwo roll-out. 100 people made them. 22 flights already

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt

291

2

Schneier: The Value of Privacy

109

3

Another Linux file notification subsystem

13

4

Resource-Oriented Architecture: The Rest of REST

2

5

Twitter Blog: New mobile site

1

6

Real Time Web with XMPP

1

7

SpyPhone iPhone App Can Harvest Personal Data

1

8

Vedea, A New Language for Visually Working With Data

1

9

Using Fake Documents to Get a Valid U.S. Passport

1

10

Failure: An Illustrated Guide

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

4

2

Eureqa discovers equations from data sets (incl Newton's 2nd law of motion)

2

3

Arduino dual core

1

4

Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Prime

1

5

Gestures Interfaces [video]

1

6

AT&T warns of coming clamp-down on iPhone data hogs

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Free inbound data transfer to S3 until June 30, 2010

8

2

AWS Launches the Northern California Region

5

3

Snap Circuits SC-300; for those asking about learning electronics 101 202

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message

91

2

Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective

55

3

Mininova Traffic Plummets After Going ‘Legal’

3

4

Record Labels Face $60 Billion Damages For Pirating Artists

2

5

Basecamp circa 2004

1

6

1

7

Slides from FourSquare's presentation on using the Lift framework (Scala)

1

Science News [?]

1

Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain

86

2

Single-atom transistor discovered

41

3

Research shows that people project their own beliefs onto God.

27

4

Single-atom transistor discovered

15

5

Piracy: The people vs the entertainment industry

8

6

Australian govt bullies scientist to alter a peer reviewed paper

6

7

The Pentagon invites you to play its red balloon game

4

8

Pop-up book about the Large Hadron Collider

3

9

You'll buy more from web ads that know how you think

2

10

Where are the female scientists in research articles?

2

Social [?]

1

Air jet manipulation of Ping Pong in 3D. By U of Illinois

10

2

Slimmed down YouTube "Feather" (beta)

8

3

Portland, OR: a video montage on why you'll love it

7

4

Optimize Your Brain at Work

7

5

My 2009 adjusted gross income will be in the 8 figures. Ask me anything.

6

6

Techniques to help you think better (google tech talk)

4

7

Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo 1.5 (video)

3

8

The Internet startup song with 100 YC companies

3

9

LBL challenges / opportunities in green building

2

10

Nutrients for better thinking (google tech talk)

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github spamming...

25

2

Hub : Utility which adds GitHub knowledge to Git

22

3

Dhun - Minimalist Music Player for OS X

22

4

Ron : Humane text format and toolchain for creating UNIX man pages

18

5

geonode - geography for node.js

16

6

Ruby Block Styling (Homoiconic/Reg Braithewaite)

13

7

Kestrels on Rails

9

8

Xapian-haystack-1.1.0BETA released

5

9

Version 1.0 of the Leiningen build tool for Clojure released

4

10

Emacs Lisp interpreter in JavaScript

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

133

2

79

3

Tell HN: There will be a Blue moon in December

29

4

25

5

The Clacks - discworld semaphore

20

6

"Quantum Man" sculpture

2

7

Knowledge work productivity

1

8

Countries with unwritten constitution

1

9

Life: Conway's undecidable game.

1

10

Mads Tofte - Functional programming and the Standard ML

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why not port Linux kernel to Common Lisp?

4

Substack [?]