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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

714

2

Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.

620

3

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

605

4

The reverse job applicant

518

5

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier

479

6

Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)

461

7

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

436

8

Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee

433

9

Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you

421

10

Tell HN: Please stop offering your services

406

Top Ask HN

1

Do we no longer support our members?

246

2

Tools of the trade, 2010 edition

240

3

Side Projects Gone Big

229

4

Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

193

5

181

6

Underperforming, feeling stuck

150

7

Where to look to learn UX/Design

146

8

Visual Design for Hackers

137

9

136

10

How does having a baby change your life?

127

Top Show HN

1

I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind

453

2

Hacker News, automagically organized

274

3

Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

90

4

Couldn't sleep; added 960gs support to jMockups

75

5

Coding noob - first weekend project

69

6

My HTML5 Sokoban game

40

7

A/Bingo for PHP

33

8

a compiler from Python syntax to JavaScript syntax (like CoffeeScript)

32

9

Condensr.com, Yelp Snippet Summarization

27

10

415-483-1860 twilio-translator

21

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

605

2

Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)

352

3

Are You A Pirate?

282

4

Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”

240

5

Compared to you, most people seem dumb

209

6

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

184

7

Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps

179

8

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits

176

9

Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent

176

10

Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana

168

News [?]

1

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

436

2

How Fake Money Saved Brazil

377

3

How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

292

4

To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it

276

5

Man jailed over computer password refusal

271

6

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

259

7

Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman

231

8

Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough

223

9

The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future

206

10

The Disruptor In The Valley

197

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

89

2

Time lost by driving fast

67

3

Twitter Predicts DOW

5

4

Converting information to energy

4

5

Randomly Promoting People is More Efficient Than Using Merit

4

6

Airships for the 21st Century

3

7

New Look at Mystery Flashes Reported by Astronauts

3

8

A DIY Telepresence Robot

3

9

Darpa Seeking to Revolutionize Robotic Manipulation

3

10

NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple deprecates Java

386

2

Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

75

3

72

4

The FBI is tracking whom?

54

5

Schneier on Security: Cargo Security

49

6

37

7

McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora Project

36

8

Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines

35

9

Scalatra: A Sinatra-like Web Framework for Scala

28

10

New Orleans Mayor Wants to Scrap Surveillance Cameras

22

Tech blogs [?]

1

Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review

82

2

Tiny USB business card

64

3

EFF Supports Microsoft in Seeking to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents

62

4

Reddit hacking for votes and profit

50

5

US government agency “friending” people applying for citizenship

38

6

Google founders wanted to hire Steve Jobs as company's first CEO

24

7

Smallest gaming console ever.

22

8

IPad "Orientation Lock" becomes "Mute On/Off" in software update

16

9

Microsoft exec says Zune software coming to the Mac

16

10

Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 spotted

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier

479

2

Amazon to add "lending" feature to Kindle

143

3

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

142

4

Facetime for the Mac

108

5

Mac OS X.7 "Lion" preview

107

6

81

7

Apple releases 11.6" Instant-On MacBook Air for $999

63

8

Verizon offers iPad/MiFi Bundle on October 28, 1GB/mo for $20 no contract

36

9

Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Motorola (over Android)

32

10

New MacBook Air Specs

27

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Homepage Circa 1997

44

2

Redis Cluster: a pragmatic approach to distribution

42

3

Understanding vipassana meditation

40

4

Leaked DVD Screener of The Social Network A BitTorrent Hit

30

5

Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store

15

6

The 'UNIX' system in Jurassic Park was, in fact, UNIX

14

7

Chris @ TED: The Creative Internet. 106 Projects.

12

8

LimeWire Shuts Down After Losing Court Battle With The RIAA

12

9

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

8

10

Money: The Unit of Caring

7

Science News [?]

1

Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight

185

2

Why complex life probably evolved only once

113

3

Publish your computer code: it is good enough

96

4

Briefing: Cancer is not a disease of the modern world

72

5

"Physics shows that cell phones cannot cause cancer"

49

6

No gain from brain training

37

7

Speed breakthrough in Solving Linear Systems

36

8

Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

35

9

How to boost your brain

25

10

New Theory Links Depression to Chronic Brain Inflammation

19

Social [?]

1

OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole.

264

2

"Nah, who needs another search engine?"

242

3

Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP)

153

4

Hacker News Facebook Group

151

5

What algorithm blows your mind? (Reddit compsci)

129

6

It Gets Better: Google Employees

93

7

"Google bought my first startup today. I learned to make stuff here on proggit."

67

8

I Buy and Sell Domain Names AMA

67

9

Why does digg need so many servers?

64

10

Opera Browser AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit

59

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.

92

2

EA open sources their internal version of STL

89

3

Sidejack Prevention

72

4

MVC, PVC and (¬M)VC

66

5

Haskell in JavaScript

64

6

Remember twich.me (node.js realtime chat)? Here is the source as promised.

62

7

Ghcjs: Haskell to Javascript compiler

56

8

Wilson, a Django-inspired node.js framework

51

9

Minecraft server built in Node.js

48

10

Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

47

Wikipedia [?]

1

Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook

200

2

The inventor of microfleece refused to patent it.

81

3

Emerald cockroach wasp - Reproductive behavior and life cycle

80

4

List of statutory minimum employment leave by country

48

5

44

6

13

7

Qi (programming language)

10

8

Ship of Theseus paradox

10

9

WoodGas Cars: 1000 kg of wood = 365L of gasoline, no refining required

6

10

Delay line memory

5

Blogs [?]

1

What We Look for in Founders

362

2

The New Funding Landscape

246

3

Where to See Silicon Valley

219

4

Where to See Silicon Valley

6

5

Beating the Averages

5

6

Design and Research

4

7

Hackers and Painters

1

8

Ideas for Startups (2005)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.

252

2

What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

231

3

How can you program if you're blind?

185

4

What's happening with Arc?

76

5

Understanding "randomness"

60

6

What is a safest way to set all bits of a variable to true in C?

33

7

Is functional programming relevant to web development?

31

8

Throwing cats out of windows

21

9

Check if one string is a rotation of another string

21

10

Alan Kay asks "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980"?

15

Substack [?]