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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A new approach to China

1145

2

508

3

Evolution of a Python programmer

366

4

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

357

5

Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.

344

6

I Have No Talent

334

7

Realism in UI Design

324

8

Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White

278

9

How Do You Look When Merging Fails

269

10

A successful Git branching model

268

Top Ask HN

1

Review my site - devcheatsheet.com

186

2

I made $24k over the last month. Now what?

132

3

Great books you read in 2009?

125

4

What are you working on?

114

5

Looking for interns / entry level?

113

6

Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names

104

7

A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do?

88

8

A New Decade. Any Predictions?

75

9

Review my app again? Short domain name search

73

10

What's your favorite scientific paper?

67

Top Show HN

1

My latest pet project, pydroid

109

2

My exercise bike hooked up to an xbox - pedal faster to drive faster.

76

3

gleeBox, keyboard glee for your web

39

4

My Snake-implemetation, how I taught myself GLSL

24

5

Check our crowd-sourcing project: One Frame Of Fame.

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites

189

2

Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

132

3

Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

132

4

TechCrunch Hacked

126

5

Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "Bullshit" and Adobe "Lazy"

125

6

Dropbox (YC S07) Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce

102

7

Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility

101

8

Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

93

9

Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International

83

10

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

82

News [?]

1

The end of Haiti?

182

2

Why Poor Countries Are Poor

129

3

The stray dog ecosystem of Moscow

119

4

The logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers

112

5

When work doesn't pay for the middle class

100

6

85

7

Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language

85

8

Obama: Patent office's system is 'embarrassing'

80

9

Amazon Fires Missile At Book Industry, Launches 70% Kindle Royalty Option

75

10

71 percent of top colleges still have policies that severely restrict speech

72

Scientific publications [?]

1

Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight

20

2

How Europe Missed The Transistor

20

3

Math Quiz: Why do men predominate?

18

4

IEEE Spectrum: 25 Microchips That Shook the World

8

5

IEEE Spectrum: 25 Microchips That Shook the World

5

6

NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications

3

7

Solving a Hamiltonian Path Problem with a bacterial computer

3

8

The Entropic Landscape

3

9

No Moon Trips: Obama's Space Vision a 'Paradigm Shift'

3

10

[0903.5082] Quantum Darwinism

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Would you have spotted the fraud?

118

2

0MQ: A new approach to messaging

89

3

Schneier on Security: Technology Shouldn't Give Big Brother a Head Start

83

4

LCA: How to destroy your community

55

5

Matz on Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design

49

6

Schneier on Security: Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security

29

7

Christmas Bomber: Where Airport Security Worked

28

8

Privacy in the Age of Persistence

27

9

The Midlayer Mistake (Kernel Design Pattern)

25

10

Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft

24

Tech blogs [?]

1

SandForce SSD controller beats Intel X-25M by compressing data before storing

26

2

Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research

21

3

Sprint Received 8 MIL Law Enforcement Requests for GPS Location Data this Year

19

4

Some Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Switcheroo

17

5

OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested

7

6

Apple profits soar 50% on record sales of 3.36M Macs, 8.7M iPhones

5

7

Future iPhone GPU supports OpenGL 3.2, OpenCL 1.0

5

8

NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2

5

9

EFF on browsers, entropy, and identification

5

10

12 Trends to Watch in 2010

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

108

2

Kindle Development Kit

101

3

Amazon indicates they'll accept Macmillan's terms

58

4

Amazon.com attacks new and used textbook market

33

5

iPad SDK (iPhone OS 3.2 beta) available for download

7

6

Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK

3

7

IPad - Technical Specifications

3

8

Microsoft at International Consumer Electronics Show 2010

2

9

Apple reports first quarter results.

2

10

Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

HN Internships + Potential Interns [gdoc]

99

2

French 3 Strikes Group Unveils Copyright Infringing Logo

66

3

Unlimited Free Calling with Google Voice

50

4

Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public

25

5

Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions

12

6

OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free

9

7

Scala for Haskell programmers

8

8

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers

7

9

A proof that penguins rule the universe

6

10

VOIP + Cloud = Better Political Campaigns

5

Science News [?]

1

Damning verdict on doctor who linked vaccine and autism

116

2

The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages

80

3

Surgeon stationed in Antarctica removes his own appendix (1961)

78

4

Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World

63

5

Sex and shopping - it's a guy thing

47

6

How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

47

7

Barefoot Running

44

8

Quantum computer calculates exact energy of molecular hydrogen

41

9

Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360

38

10

Lost Sleep Can't Be Made Up, Study Suggests

29

Social [?]

1

Piracy is a Market Correction.

120

2

Wooden Combination Lock

109

3

Microsoft blatantly hung up on us - so this is how to crash IE8

72

4

Ask Peter Norvig Anything

72

5

UCSF Endocrinologist debunks "Calories In / Calories Out" Model

71

6

The secret of making money online: David Heinemeier Hansson

69

7

Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL

69

8

Going back to C

66

9

Ed Catmull on Surfacing Failures / Remaining Original at Pixar [2007] [video]

49

10

History Of Valve (Part 1)

47

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Evolution of a Python programmer

366

2

Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

246

3

Beautiful Failure

71

4

Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site

63

5

Gremlin: A Graph-Based Programming Language

62

6

Arel, a composable relational algebra for Ruby

46

7

Pharen: A lispy language that compiles to PHP

45

8

Explore GitHub (trending/featured repos and podcasts)

39

9

Classic computer science problems solved in JavaScript

33

10

Rails 2.3.5 on Google's App Engine

30

Wikipedia [?]

1

152

2

124

3

List of unusual Wikipedia articles

55

4

The repetitive and boring gameplay in WoW is probably intentional.

34

5

Dunning-Kruger effect

33

6

26

7

26

8

25

9

24

10

Curta calculator

23

Blogs [?]

1

Apple's Mistake

82

2

The Roots of Lisp

47

3

47

4

Is It Worth Being Wise?

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest language feature - Stack Overflow

9

2

How can you program if you’re blind?

6

3

Useful Emacs Hacks

4

4

Why isn't "right click" more used in web applications ?

4

5

What is (functional) reactive programming?

3

6

Installing Ruby on Rails alongside WampServer

1

7

Polyglot binary that runs both on Windows (sort of) and Linux

1

Substack [?]