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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Introducing Word Lens
1297
2
Today you, tomorrow me
1270
3
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
4
Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
687
5
Sacked by a Google algorithm
685
6
Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
664
7
Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website
586
8
Google Engineer bails out student in jail
540
9
What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
521
10
If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
503
Top Ask HN
1
I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
370
2
Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
258
3
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
253
4
Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)
179
5
How do you cope with loneliness?
158
6
How would you deal with DDoS?
129
7
Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (December 2010 Edition)
121
8
Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010
103
9
Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
102
10
What is a monad?
100
Top Show HN
1
Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)
297
2
I wrote my own Delicious clone
138
3
A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"
109
4
Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page
92
5
My first significant project with Backbone.js - a simple online editor
91
6
Profile Collage for Facebook
77
7
Gamification.org - Open Source Game Mechanics
76
8
drag-drop file uploading for the whole web (Firefox/Chrome)
66
9
Crondom
62
10
New Lisp data structure
62
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
2
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
486
3
Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees
217
4
BMW Burns Logo onto Cinema-Goers’ Eyes
209
5
Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)
202
6
The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker
178
7
Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest
176
8
PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal"
173
9
For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV
172
10
Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
158
News [?]
1
The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing
226
2
Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]
210
3
A Physicist Solves the City
189
4
The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day
185
5
The War on Cameras
173
6
Assange arrested in London (BBC)
156
7
"Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work"
141
8
Anonymous in The Economist
137
9
Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year
118
10
The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
116
Scientific publications [?]
1
Engineering Is Not Science
134
2
Uncertainty Can Increase Romantic Attraction
70
3
Using the Canon Hack Development Kit
31
4
Tonight's Lunar Eclipse Comes With a Rare Twist
31
5
Thoughts on what the X-37B was doing in space?
23
6
A 0.07-Second Power Problem at Chip-Plant Affect Digital Device Availability
22
7
Intel Lifts the Hood on its "Single-Chip Cloud Computer"
21
8
NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical (Official)
12
9
Anatomy of an Internet Hijacking
8
10
NASA 'alien life' announcement streams live from 2pm EST (7pm GMT)
7
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Close the Washington Monument
211
2
The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]
195
3
Schneier on Security: Recording the Police
126
4
iAd Producer from Apple
113
5
Security in 2020
111
6
Machine Learning: a Love Story (video)
57
7
Schneier on Security: Software Monoculture
46
8
Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD
41
9
Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD
40
10
Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks
29
Tech blogs [?]
1
What is Traitorware?
255
2
EFF: Say No to Online Censorship
189
3
Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
172
4
Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven
162
5
EFF: Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
151
6
How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech
85
7
The FBI Arbitrarily Covers Up Evidence of Misconduct
43
8
EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography
37
9
A hacker’s marginal security helps return stolen computer
33
10
A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
29
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
191
2
Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon
109
3
Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
105
4
Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live
80
5
Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
75
6
Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances
66
7
Xkcd: volume 0 is #714 on Amazon (20% Profits go to RoomToRead)
34
8
AWS Achieves PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance
26
9
Microsoft issues Internet Explorer zero-day warning
25
10
Announcing Mobile SDKs for Amazon Web Services
15
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate
192
2
Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People
119
3
Truly decentralized bittorrent
114
4
Facebook Chat Architecture (Erlang)
106
5
Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has Finally Arrived
58
6
The Groupon Editorial Manual
58
7
Most profitable movie ever was also most pirated of 2010
36
8
Were atoms real? (Interesting discussion of scientific philosophy.)
35
9
Pirate Apple App Store Innovates With ‘Reverse BitTorrent’
32
10
MPAA/RIAA Lobbied Extensively In Favor of Domain Seizures
31
Science News [?]
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The progress bar illusion
125
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Tooth decay to be a thing of the past? Enzyme responsible deciphered
91
3
Woman With No Fear Intrigues Scientists
69
4
No evidence of time before Big Bang
50
5
Bamboo Train: How Cambodians hacked together rural transit
48
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"Invisibility cloak" can shield macroscopic objects in visible light
40
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Arsenic-microbe gets toxic response from scientific community
34
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The moon as you've never seen it before
32
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Info pirates seek an alternative Internet
29
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Google Books: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
27
Social [?]
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Today you, tomorrow me
1270
2
Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map
430
3
I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
252
4
The Full Stack, Part I
243
5
Why I love math
231
6
Hotmail development team on Reddit
105
7
So, I looked at Plesk's 404 Page
89
8
Facebook Engineering Puzzles
89
9
Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks
88
10
Redditors share the way the world was 20 years ago
83
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Github 404 page
192
2
The Tree Slider - GitHub
182
3
Kod.app is open source
160
4
OOP practiced backwards is "POO"
140
5
"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own time." (Snap framework)
128
6
Cannabalt for iOS now open source
117
7
Kinect + Chrome * MIT / Minority Report = DepthJS
87
8
Gift HN: tund - SSH to your stolen laptop
86
9
Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App
86
10
RailsAdmin: Rails3 easy-to-use interface for managing your data
81
Wikipedia [?]
1
Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms
208
2
Full employment theorem
58
3
Why shaken, not stirred?
39
4
Liquid breathing
37
5
Heilmeier's Catechism: questions for every startup, every project.
35
6
Smoothening complex polygons - Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm
30
7
List of wikileaks mirrors deleted on Wikipedia
18
8
Why is P3P not used more?
18
9
Obesity in US 1985-2006
14
10
Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock
8
Blogs [?]
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Tablets
387
2
Founder Control
302
3
How To Make Wealth (2004)
112
4
Why TV Lost (2009)
55
5
PG on Java - comments from 2001
32
6
Organic Startup Ideas
25
7
Tablets
4
8
Made in USA
4
9
How to Disagree
3
10
Why There Aren't More Googles
3
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Database development mistakes made by application developers
154
2
How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking
154
3
List of freely available programming books
146
4
What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn/read?
110
5
Python - How to sort my paws?
107
6
Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters?
81
7
Why must the last part of an Objective-C method name take an argument?
48
8
Getting Started with Redis for Node.js
41
9
Prototype based vs. class based inheritance
35
10
New programming jargon you coined
29
Substack [?]