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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

549

2

A Big Case of Oops

395

3

HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app

378

4

Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

342

5

I want privacy because I break the law

320

6

Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants

318

7

Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source

315

8

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

296

9

Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men

294

10

GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission

288

Top Ask HN

1

Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?

152

2

improving your design skills?

140

3

129

4

Do you need angel funding?

125

5

Gmail alternatives?

124

6

Steady 4-5% on $5 million?

78

7

What are you working on tonight?

75

8

Where are all the Python jobs?

73

9

Review my app: Wappr

70

10

A martial art for a programmer

58

Top Show HN

1

My project for this weekend (with source)

120

2

Meet the new Ajax IM (with Node.js)

95

3

My 2-Hour Twilio App

57

4

PatchBin.com - Pastebin for patches + comments + code review.

45

5

My Weekend Project -- A Clone of HN Built on Pligg

18

6

Show HN again: My new spec list app, Speckle - now with a homepage.

13

7

my story generator using answer-set programming

7

8

My 30 minute Aardvark clone

5

9

Interview Engine

5

10

SMS My TV Show (find out when your show is on next)

4

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million

125

2

ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships

110

3

Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy

106

4

CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

103

5

Memo to CEOs & Founders: Stop Being Such Cheap Bastards

97

6

‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months

91

7

Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”

90

8

TechCrunch Intern Admits To Asking For Compensation For Writing Posts

89

9

Symbian Operating System now open source

85

10

How L1-minimization can recover highly degraded images

83

News [?]

1

Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

342

2

How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998)

223

3

"Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger

132

4

U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, with deadly consequences

128

5

128

6

3 Tesla workers die in E. Palo Alto plane crash

125

7

An end to frivolous patents may finally be in sight

102

8

Taste test: Wal-Mart vs. Whole Foods produce

101

9

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?

96

10

Keep doing that and you'll go blind

95

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds

75

2

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks

16

3

Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters

14

4

Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy

11

5

A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud

9

6

Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind

7

7

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

6

8

Steganography via VoIP

5

9

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

5

10

Wireless Sensors That Live Forever

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3

140

2

China Internet Network Information Center accepted as a Mozilla root CA

68

3

How much Linux kernel code has survived the past five years?

65

4

Schneier has a new book coming out - Cryptography Engineering

58

5

Al-Mabhouh Assassination

53

6

Schneier on Security: All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register

49

7

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp

44

8

Mark Twain on Risk Analysis

38

9

Anonymity and the Internet

32

10

Verizon MiFi Device Hacked

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections

135

2

Apple taken to task for reporting partners' child labor violations

37

3

Google's Super Bowl ad shows the need for search privacy

33

4

Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store

8

5

The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight

8

6

Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize

6

7

A tour inside Western Digital

5

8

You Bought It, You Own It: Vernor v. Autodesk

4

9

IPhone LCD trumps Nexus One OLED

4

10

Seven "Corporations of Interest" in Selling Surveillance Tools to China

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

A new kind of review - inspired by Stephen Wolfram's book

63

2

Versioning Feature for Amazon S3 Now Available

39

3

Amazon lowers outbound data charge by 2 cents

31

4

Amazon pays Microsoft for patent cross-license agreement

4

5

Vulnerability in Microsoft Paint Could Allow Remote Code Execution

3

6

Amazon introduces Kindle for BlackBerry

2

7

Amazon SimpleDB Introduces Consistent Reads and Conditional Puts & Deletes

2

8

List of Essays Written by Bill Gates

1

9

Tell HN: A book about Twitter that isn't full of bullshit.

1

10

Windows Phone Image Gallery

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Business School is a Joke

223

2

The Fallacy of Gray

97

3

What is Bayesianism?

64

4

You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof

55

5

Foldl and foldr considered slightly harmful

48

6

Foursquare.com & Scala/Lift [slides]

44

7

Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (Leaked Document)

21

8

Nathan Myhrvold: Funding Eureka

20

9

Tactics to beat Akrasia (acting against one's better judgement)

15

10

Being an expert takes time, not talent (2007)

8

Science News [?]

1

Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men (2008)

50

2

Poor Teen Sleeping Due To Lack Of Blue Light?

44

3

Humour is a far more complex process than primeval pleasures like sex or food

37

4

Iran showing fastest scientific growth of any country

31

5

Sun-powered water splitter makes hydrogen tirelessly

30

6

How Humans Ran Comfortably and Safely Before the Invention of Shoes

30

7

'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers

27

8

Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills

27

9

The entropy force: a new direction for gravity

23

10

The key to regenerating bodies

20

Social [?]

1

XHP: A New Way to Write PHP (from Facebook)

134

2

I made $622,322.96 in 2009 from affiliate marketing.

130

3

I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.

128

4

Google's Parisian Love Superbowl Ad

120

5

Piano music visualized on a logarithmic spiral

92

6

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

88

7

Pharaoh's snake

77

8

Video explaining how a differential gear works

69

9

Reddit: IAmA grad student who has tried nearly every "study"/"smart" drug

59

10

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

56

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Clojure for .NET

57

2

Sequel: A Database Toolkit for Ruby [GitHub]

48

3

Ruby official mirror on Github

44

4

Deleting omgs out of Rails

37

5

Javascript + DOM in your ruby, the simple way

35

6

A Note on the Recent GitHub Outages

30

7

Leiningen 1.1.0 Released

30

8

Rails 3.0.0.beta

28

9

Facebook’s HipHop-PHP is now on Github

27

10

A Difficult Distraction

23

Wikipedia [?]

1

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

174

2

98

3

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

83

4

39

5

Wikirace - Wikipedia

38

6

Immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks

36

7

Fundamental attribution error

30

8

Therac-25: When software reliability really does matter

23

9

Non-blocking synchronization

21

10

You ain't gonna need it

20

Blogs [?]

1

209

2

Hackers and Painters

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Real Men don't use debuggers

13

2

"I thought we were ready - I thought it was time."

7

3

Why did java have the reputation of being slow?

5

4

Are Passwords on Modern *nix Systems Still Limited to 8 Characters?

3

5

Why are double sided polymorphic relationships lacking in Rails?

2

6

Strangest language feature

2

7

Favorite Django Tips & Features

1

Substack [?]