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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap)

352

2

Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo

308

3

They Killed My Lawyer

252

4

CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles to JavaScript. Happy Holidays, HN

206

5

The Master, The Expert, The Programmer

195

6

Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

183

7

Make a Mess, Clean it Up

158

8

I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack

158

9

Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety

152

10

Worst. Puzzle. Ever.

152

Top Ask HN

1

What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?

54

2

53

3

Rate my startup idea "Be Caller Nine"

48

4

How did you get started in hacking/programming?

45

5

What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET?

45

6

How do you organize your code on your machine?

41

7

What are your goals for your startups in 2010?

40

8

Where do I go from here?

40

9

So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas?

39

10

Review my site, CureCRM.com

36

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Amazon goes down; takes S3, Salesforce, Target, and others with them.

78

2

Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code

64

3

Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need

61

4

Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire

61

5

Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says

59

6

WePay’s (YC S09) Group Payments Get Some Big-Name Backers, Including Max Levchin

58

7

Is the Tipping Point Toast?

54

8

Twilio Raises $3.7 Million For Powerful Telephony API

44

9

Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending?

43

10

The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules

37

News [?]

1

IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (2006)

113

2

Hitchens: The truth about airplane security measures

105

3

GSM encryption broken

89

4

A Ponzi scheme that works

63

5

Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out (2005, Neal Stephenson)

53

6

Reproductive biology: Girls on top

50

7

42

8

Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?

31

9

John Mackey and Whole Foods

29

10

'Search Neutrality' is neccessary to promote growth and innovation

23

Scientific publications [?]

1

Coding Guidelines for Prolog

7

2

Russia May Try to Deflect Asteroid With Spacecraft

3

3

Quiet Sun Means Cooling of Earth's Upper Atmosphere

1

4

The Kruskal Count

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Intercepting Predator Video

89

2

Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator

37

3

Stack Overflow Has Open Sourced Markdown/C#

8

4

Information Can Be Sold and Bought in "Dallas"

1

5

Change blindness

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple orders 10-inch tablet displays and robust glass panels

32

2

Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in 8 weeks

7

3

Possible Apple Tablet multi touch tactile keyboard revealed

1

4

Apple purchased iSlate.com in 2007

1

5

Apple tablet likely named iSlate

1

6

Nokia Increases Scope of Patent Complaints to Include Most Apple Products

1

7

ProSwitcher - WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

1290 Amazon mp3s free (most music)

51

2

I am a blind cave fish (evolution vs. intelligent design)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Miller, key to obtaining 14,700 tons of silver Manhattan Project

16

2

Asch's Conformity Experiment

4

3

UTorrent Users Double to 52 Million in a Year

1

4

BaconBits, A BitTorrent Tracker for Redditors Only

1

Science News [?]

1

Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?

17

2

Diary of a High Functioning Person with Schizophrenia

13

3

Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected

8

4

Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?

4

5

The science of Santa

1

6

Sugar-free satisfaction: Finding the brain's sweet spot

1

7

Ginkgo biloba does not appear to slow rate of cognitive decline

1

8

Happiest States Revealed by New Research

1

Social [?]

1

Students Ace Textbook Physics While Struggling With Basic Understanding (video)

72

2

Hacker News Twitter list

22

3

One heck of a hack: Ocarina from an egg

8

4

The Known Universe [video]

4

5

Tell HN: Hacker News list on Twitter

4

6

The fine art of not knowing: comments from great scientists

2

7

Greenspun's Tenth Rule - Prolog version

2

8

1

9

Morality and the Free Market (Video)

1

10

Welcome To The Future [video]

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I made a native Python module for MS Word docx

144

2

Amazon S3 file system with improved caching: the itch I scratched over Christmas

36

3

Adia: (very) new webframework for Clojure

12

4

Dumbo -- Python module to easily write and run Hadoop programs

5

5

Python, twisted and Web Sockets

5

6

Mustache.erl, a template system for Erlang from the creator of Jekyll

4

7

Savon - Heavy metal Ruby SOAP client library

3

8

I wrote a Twitter client in Emacs Lisp

3

9

Pykg-config: a pkg-config replacement

1

10

Library for constructing complex Regular Expressions from simpler expressions

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Linda coordination language

23

2

Math and structure in music: the Circle of Fifths

21

3

12

4

Double Logarithmic Timeline of the Universe

7

5

One guy made all the best Zeldas

2

6

The Mother of All Demos

2

7

1

8

Red Flag Linux: Official distro of the CCP Bureau of Culture

1

9

Registered_companies size vs. citizen size

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... (2008)

151

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Implementing HN's Popularity Algorithm in Django

4

2

Trick question: while( x -- 0 ) // x goes to 0

2

Substack [?]