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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.

349

2

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free

327

3

EtherPad Open Source Release

275

4

How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition

270

5

“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

225

6

191

7

Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro

180

8

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

177

9

Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local

167

10

VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out

166

Top Ask HN

1

More types of flagging?

132

2

What hosting do you use for personal projects?

106

3

What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

90

4

Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT.

68

5

Review my App - Freeciv.net

62

6

What magazines do you subscribe to?

29

7

Where do you get your scientific papers from?

28

8

anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy?

27

9

anyone here moved from academia to corporate?

26

10

How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works?

19

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition

270

2

Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?

130

3

Thorium, the New Green Nuke

124

4

YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict

113

5

What is DRM doing in my garage?

100

6

Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

90

7

80legs sets its web crawler free

74

8

How to obtain and install an SSL/TSL certificate, for free

69

9

Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More

67

10

Trading Shares in Milliseconds

64

News [?]

1

How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story

148

2

Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word

143

3

What's the Deal with Fish Oil?

136

4

The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit

120

5

The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley

96

6

The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages

92

7

Faster, NASA, Faster

67

8

Reading the Tattoos on People’s Faces

64

9

Call this a recession? It isn’t the Dark Ages

63

10

The reason why banks are suddenly repaying their bailout funds

57

Scientific publications [?]

1

Automated to Death?

43

2

Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life

3

3

Life and Times of Georgy Voronoi

3

4

Automated to Death

2

5

Scientists create synthetic blood cells

1

6

Sunlight glints off liquid lake on Titan

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter acquires Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI

13

2

Plura, a SETI-like Distributed Grid

10

3

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

9

4

InfoQ: Amazon RDS: MySQL Database as a Cloud Service

6

5

Bruce Schneier: The Eternal Value of Privacy

5

6

Twitter Update on DNS Disruption

3

7

InfoQ: OOPSLA Keynote: The Power Of Abstraction [video]

3

8

Luggage Locator: Might be a bad idea....

2

9

The Politics of Power in Cyberspace

1

10

Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins

28

2

Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS

23

3

Apple's iPhone commands 46% of Japanese smartphone market

14

4

Apple working on 3D displays

3

5

Apple Asking App Developers to Prepare for Large Screens?

3

6

Steve Jobs Named World's Best-Performing CEO

2

7

Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins

1

8

Apple Letting Private API Usage Slide Temporarily

1

9

An E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy

1

10

Unreal 3D game engine demonstrated on Apple's iPhone

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Iron Man II Trailer

7

2

MongoHub (MongoDB gui)

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

DRM Fiasco Ruins James Cameron’s Avatar 3D Preview

24

2

Norvig: What to demand from a Scientific Computing Lang Even if you don't care

16

3

Guessing the Teachers Password: the problem with most education systems

7

4

Suggestion to HN: replace [pdf] [scribd] with [G Docs Viewer]

3

5

First Free 1080p Electric Sheep Animation

1

6

Comcast To Compensate Throttled BitTorrent Users

1

Science News [?]

1

Five laws of human nature

37

2

Glint of sunlight seen off lake on Saturn's moon Titan.

26

3

Why your boss is incompetent

23

4

Beware humans bearing gifts.

9

5

How complexity rules our lives

4

6

Tooth-mounted hearing aid.

3

7

Students from public schools do better in math than ones from private schools

3

8

Let's face it, science is boring

3

9

Bacteria Turn Microgears in Suspended Solution by Swimming

2

10

Augmented reality system lets you see through walls

2

Social [?]

1

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)

153

2

HP computers are racist

67

3

Louis CK - "Everything is amazing, and no one is happy."

10

4

The Honest $10,000 Spam

5

5

"We need a scientific, non-religious approach." -Crichton on Environmentalism

5

6

An Incredibly Short PHP Script That Renders a Christmas Tree

4

7

Religious zealot(s) using DMCA complaints to shut down atheist YouTube channel

3

8

Real-World Web Application Benchmarking

3

9

Now watch the movie Matrix - on twitter

3

10

Carl Sagan plays Agent Smith in The Matrix

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell

100

2

The Arc challenge in Go

32

3

Lisp Linear Algebra: tpapp's lla at master - GitHub

16

4

Ngtemplate - a Google CTemplate compatible template engine written in C

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The official term for the smell after it rains

148

2

Tell HN: Happy Solstice

37

3

Refal programming language

31

4

--All You Zombies--

30

5

23

6

Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite.

21

7

Seven Bridges of Königsberg

17

8

Shor's algorythm

16

9

Cracking knuckles can lead to "lower grip strength and functional impairment."

3

10

Law of Large Numbers

3

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]