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Top stories
1
Thoughts on Flash
962
2
New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
525
3
Android – Now Ported On The iPhone
494
4
The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell
446
5
Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07
439
6
The case of the 500-mile email
434
7
Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
410
8
An apology...
367
9
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
361
10
Booted out of Bootup Labs
345
Top Ask HN
1
Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)
201
2
Who's Hiring?
161
3
got any food hacks?
133
4
Are you an information addict?
121
5
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please
112
6
Who's hiring?
97
7
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns?
78
8
What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?
74
9
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
73
10
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development?
62
Top Show HN
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CanvasMol molecule viewer (JS + canvas demo)
72
2
I just made 4sqvision at SuperHappyDevHouse
29
3
I just hacked together an app to map broadband speeds.
23
4
Like-o-matic
23
5
autolib, the last Python library you'll ever need
13
6
TeamPostgreSQL, neat admin interface for PostgreSQL
10
7
Super Hacker News adds one page browsing & keyboard navigation to HN
10
8
A webapp for sharing cocktail napkin drawings
4
9
Hacker Trends
3
10
See what is trending amongst friends
3
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
361
2
Police raid Gizmodo editor's house
257
3
IPhone OS 4.0 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer
166
4
US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus
145
5
App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire
126
6
India's copyright proposal: DRM circumvention OK if no intent to infringe
120
7
Ars Technica reviews the iPad
114
8
RethinkDB (YC S09) Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives
114
9
Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash
107
10
Build Your Own Cellular Network
106
News [?]
1
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
313
2
Not Even In South Park?
257
3
Most Digital Photocopiers Save Every Page Ever Scanned
197
4
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?
178
5
93% of 2006 AAA-rated subprime mortgage-backed securities now rated junk
149
6
IPad is Steve Jobs’ final victory over Steve Wozniak
144
7
A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit
140
8
The Data-Driven Life
121
9
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
115
10
America is about to undertake "its biggest transformation in decades"
106
Scientific publications [?]
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A Robot That Balances on a Ball
118
2
NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images
59
3
Polynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism Testing
19
4
Hiroshi Ishiguro: The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself
16
5
Hacking Ticketmaster
16
6
Flawed Computer Models Add To European Flight Delays
11
7
Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Astonishing Discoveries
6
8
Honda's Unicycle of the Future
6
9
The Graph Traversal Pattern
5
10
Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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This year, Mac apps are no longer eligible for the Apple Design awards
119
2
Josh Bloch on the Future of Java
72
3
Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control
40
4
Scaling Clojure Web Apps with Google AppEngine
37
5
Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp [video]
26
6
Apple announces WWDC dates (June 7-11)
23
7
Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Air Marshals
23
8
Video Decode Acceleration framework available on Mac OS X 10.6.3
22
9
Twitter buys Tweetie
16
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Twitter for Android is released
11
Tech blogs [?]
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Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas
151
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Apple's prohibition of Flash-built apps in iPhone 4.0 related to multitasking
77
3
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information
70
4
EFF: The Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future
63
5
Apple rejected iPad app for using pinch to expand gesture
58
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EFF: Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant
57
7
Lego Gearbox - 7 Speed + Reverse
34
8
ARM-Based Servers Expected by 2011
31
9
Apple in advance discussions to adopt AMD chips
29
10
SproutCore debuts new HTML5 web development tools
29
FAANG+ [?]
1
Thoughts on Flash
962
2
Microsoft's Guide to Humor
252
3
Amazon introduces new service: Simple Notification Service
199
4
Visual Studio 2010 released
146
5
New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros released
125
6
Opera Mini takes over the App Store Charts
124
7
Apple: iPad will not be released internationally until the end of May
59
8
Apple featuring HTML5 sites
24
9
Book published using tweets without permission, backlash ensues
23
10
Remember Babylonian Twins? It's now on Apple's top suggested games for iPad
23
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Short Studies On Excuses
156
2
HN frontpage 3 years ago
152
3
Top 50,000 paying Adsense keywords (purchased from a shady looking website)
105
4
Top Algorithms in Data Mining
60
5
How I Did It: Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO
56
6
Crash-Only Software
47
7
Ugh fields (things that make your mind flinch)
46
8
Notes from Startup Lessons Learned Conf
44
9
High Concurrency MySQL @ Facebook #mysqlconf
34
10
Existential Angst Factory (2008)
18
Science News [?]
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Half the people in human history who reached the age of 65 are alive now.
95
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Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition
50
3
How to manipulate people with font type?
49
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Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
44
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Individuals with Rare Disorder Have No Racial Biases
40
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No gain from brain training
38
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Astronomers find 9 new planets and upset the theory of planetary formation
37
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How Random Matrix theory sheds a light on the laws underlying reality.
35
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Maxed out: How much can a human lift?
24
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When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?
24
Social [?]
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Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07
439
2
This link says it's from YouTube but it's not
277
3
"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."
268
4
Hong Kong architect turns shoebox apartment into 24 rooms
223
5
A Dismal Guide to Concurrency
149
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Optical illusion of motion
131
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Genius redditor created a multiplayer 2d game, where everybody edits the world
129
8
SimCity Player Spends 3 years on optimal city design
121
9
Innovation in rail travel: The train that never stops at a station
107
10
New sub-reddit devoted to datasets
89
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub announces subversion support
138
2
Three.js: Javascript 3D engine
118
3
FlockDB: Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database
79
4
Gizzard - Twitter's open source framework for creating distributed datastores
69
5
Node.js fanout pubsub server for real-time apps
54
6
Rails 3 Beta 2 released
46
7
Nodule: A Node.js Pub-Sub Key-Value Store in 185 Lines
42
8
The Use Case for Blocks
40
9
Let's make a "type the code listings" book for kids.
39
10
Smart HTTP Support - GitHub
35
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Jakarta Incident, or Rebooting 747 Engines In Flight
52
2
April 12, 1961: First man in space
45
3
Regular Heptadecagon Inscribed in a Circle
44
4
Why less competent may rate their own ability higher than more competent
44
5
The Friendship Paradox: Why People's Friends Have More Friends Than They Do
41
6
Comb Sort - Just As Good As Quick Sort
31
7
Copyright Law is 300 years old today.
31
8
Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging
28
9
Bacteria in clouds
18
10
Worse is better
12
Blogs [?]
1
Organic Startup Ideas
273
2
Organic Startup Ideas
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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You Cannot Parse HTML with Regular Expressions
30
2
Twitter image encoding challenge
7
3
StackOverflow: "Please explain some of Paul Graham’s points on Lisp"
6
4
'Use the right tool for the job'
5
5
Tricks to get "in the zone"
5
6
How do you pronounce the word 'Tuple'? Just like the song.
5
7
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
5
8
What every JavaScript programmer should know?
4
9
How can you tell if a person is a programmer?
2
10
Create, sort, and print 100 random ints in the fewest chars of code
2
Substack [?]