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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1028

2

The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

567

3

How Israel handles airport security

550

4

Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

470

5

Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down

459

6

Remind HN: Vote

454

7

Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...

443

8

Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

437

9

SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower

422

10

When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.

422

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

213

2

Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

157

3

Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Apple?

134

4

What advice messed up your life?

131

5

Any web startups using Java?

119

6

Anyone else here struggle with the alcohol?

116

7

What do you use?

116

8

Any high frequency trading hackers

114

9

Inspirational movies

105

10

Is there a hippie commune for hackers?

97

Top Show HN

1

Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?

97

2

A successful penny-auction bot

74

3

Our little html5/js dungeon crawler.

71

4

We just launched a Bayesian-Based Sentiment Tracker

42

5

Fulltext Search for the Leaked US Embassy Cables

42

6

Cyberspace - my new web browser for iOS

41

7

my new app is fast user switching for the iPad (sort-of)

38

8

Our telepresence setup

38

9

Syncpad, like Facetime but for drawings

34

10

A/Bingo for ASP.NET

32

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole

260

2

At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us

259

3

Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

231

4

Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

215

5

How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends’ Private Email Addresses

199

6

Google offers engineer $3.5M to not leave for Facebook

191

7

Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense

187

8

Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity

175

9

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border

174

10

WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

172

News [?]

1

WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy

341

2

PG on the cover of Forbes

262

3

Budget Puzzle: You Fix the US Budget

190

4

The Men Who Stole the World

139

5

Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees and seniority

131

6

The Great Cyberheist

130

7

Marijuana Legalization Fails in California

128

8

The Things He Carried

127

9

Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'

120

10

Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

117

Scientific publications [?]

1

154

2

NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

130

3

30-year-old black hole discovered by

71

4

SpaceX receives first-ever FAA license for commercial reentry

67

5

Small Polish company leads the world in crystalline gallium nitride quality

65

6

An exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood discovered

63

7

pre-Big-Bang activity evidence

51

8

What Has Riled 96 Prominent Internet Engineers and 49 Law Professors?

46

9

42 feet per gallon

46

10

NASA holds press conference to discuss finding that impacts search for life

21

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

420

2

Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized

152

3

Changing Passwords

93

4

Life after X: Plans for getting rid of the X server in the future

65

5

Functional Languages Discussion by Joe, Odersky & Don Syme

59

6

Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers

52

7

SSH: Use Password or Public-Private Keys?

49

8

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns

46

9

Strange Loop 2010 Panel: The Future of Programming Languages

43

10

Causing Terror on the Cheap

41

Tech blogs [?]

1

Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum

211

2

EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly

167

3

Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air battery life by 2 hours

73

4

How to Complain About TSA’s Invasive Screening Procedures

36

5

Toshiba Introduces MacBook Air 'Blade-Type' SSDs to Mass Market

34

6

Angry Birds maker apologizes for Android fragmentation issues

27

7

Apple iPad rival HP Slate sees demand fizzle at 9,000 units

25

8

Apple Poaching Enterprise Sales Staff From Research in Motion

20

9

Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st

20

10

Cydia hack enables Airplay in all apps

12

FAANG+ [?]

1

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

200

2

Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

143

3

SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000)

75

4

Apple to abandon their XServe line

59

5

Amazon.com got a full theme refresh and looks great

47

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Douglas Crockford's review of The Little Schemer

33

7

iOS 4.2 Software Update for iPad, iPhone and iPod

27

8

Apple Announces Beatles Availability on iTunes

10

9

Announcing Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2

8

10

IOS 4.2 Software Update Features for iPad

8

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Engineering Management Mistakes

296

2

BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures

221

3

U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

172

4

BitTorrent Records

104

5

OCR by uploading images to Google Docs

66

6

Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy

19

7

Film companies sue lawyer who helped ‘BitTorrent’ defendants

16

8

LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team

15

9

Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, a cross-platform object scripting language

7

10

Finding Competitive Advantage in Adversity

7

Science News [?]

1

Tim Berners-Lee: Long Live The Web

90

2

Physicists carry out Maxwell's "demon" thought experiment

43

3

US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research, study finds

32

4

Distant Galaxies Confirm Dark Energy's Existence and Universe's Flatness

28

5

Very realistic CGI

25

6

Gene therapy for metastatic melanoma in mice produces complete remission

22

7

The Top 10 Daily Consequences of Having Evolved

21

8

A new kind of neutrino?

19

9

The Antikythera Mechanism: Animation and Analysis [video]

16

10

Is this evidence we can see into the future?

15

Social [?]

1

Good YC Applications, More Interviews

111

2

From the guy who makes SMBC to the guy who keeps hacking SMBC

73

3

GitHub is now SSL only

51

4

WePay and DailyBooth Hackathon

48

5

Minecraft CPU now available

35

6

Kid's awesome marble run around the outside of his room.

31

7

Community for Lisp Game Development

30

8

27bslash6 responds to complaints by posting users personal information on reddit

28

9

Github is down :(

28

10

3D Video Capture with Kinect [VIDEO]

26

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Cause of today's Github outage

214

2

A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates

171

3

"Please take this down and write your own book."

170

4

A new way to think about programs

130

5

IBM Open Sources Multi-core Smalltalk VM

111

6

Why Emacs is great - SLIME repl for developing in-browser javascript

95

7

Expose any Ruby object over the web. An interesting little snippet...

88

8

Please fork, contrib & push Paython (Payments in Python) forward

87

9

Git as a NoSQL datastore

84

10

Someone Copied the SNAP Source Code to Github Before Sony Pulled it Down

82

Wikipedia [?]

1

Cool stuff you can do with netcat

126

2

27

3

The Magical Number 7 plus or minus 2

21

4

Commonplace Book

15

5

Airline sex discrimination seating controversy

9

6

Alternative Periodic Tables

8

7

Assassination market

7

8

Big Five personality traits

7

9

Traf-O-Data: Bill Gates' 1st startup

4

10

Extract, transform, load

4

Blogs [?]

1

156

2

Hijacking is Buffer Overflow

3

3

How to do what you love (2006)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What should a developer know before building a public web site?

196

2

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

147

3

Creating a Lisp Executable

73

4

Why doesn't this code simply return a to z as the output?

59

5

How do I install Arc to get a Hacker News clone website?

49

6

Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

48

7

Hidden limitations of Google App Engine

28

8

What is the best way for a non-CS major to obtain credibility as a programmer?

26

9

C is 38 years old. K&R V2 is 22 years old. What's the best modern C book?

17

10

JavaScript closures and recursion

14

Substack [?]