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Top stories
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
491
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_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius
382
3
I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.
362
4
Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"
360
5
Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
357
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Google Prediction API
355
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Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
340
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Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
325
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Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
321
10
How real-world corruption works
316
Top Ask HN
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Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06)
220
2
HN Alternatives?
210
3
I sold my company last month for $5m. What do I do with the money?
142
4
What streetsmarts have you learnt?
129
5
Why do I lose interest in every project after 6 months?
127
6
Who's hiring in Europe?
106
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Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.
105
8
% of Free to Paid?
85
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How do you begin the process of developing a web application?
84
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Too much soap opera news as of late?
84
Top Show HN
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iPad port of my sheet music app Etude
94
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didtheywinornot.com Single Purpose Scores Site
33
3
Talking to your customers made easy.
24
4
I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.
16
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maskedmail: craigslist style email anonymizer web service
16
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Hacker News like site for South Africa: ZA-Coders
12
7
HN Recap - Daily, ranked list of articles that hit the front page
10
8
My notes from the Web 2.0 Expo
8
9
streamgraph.js, now on github
7
10
TomBoy, an OSS AAC iPhone App for Autistic Kids
6
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"
360
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Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
299
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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
250
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Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
225
5
Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft
215
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LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
207
7
Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud
201
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Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O
169
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$10 Million Round For Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (YC W08)
158
10
Opera parodies Google's Chrome speed tests mercilessly (video)
110
News [?]
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Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
325
2
An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)
279
3
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
260
4
Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
190
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Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it would be
140
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Top kill fails to plug leak
140
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Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In California
128
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How Did GM Pay Back Its Bailout So Fast? Well, It Didn't...
119
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Full Version of Metropolis Found
117
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Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
109
Scientific publications [?]
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Anybots launches QB proxy robot
151
2
Laser Fence Zaps Mosquitoes In Flight
37
3
A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchronization of Cows
33
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Open-source robotics firm Willow Garage gives away $4 million worth of robots
11
5
Build a Custom-Printed Circuit Board
8
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Microsoft Shifts Robotics Strategy, Makes Robotics Studio Available Free
7
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Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Data Sets
7
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Optical Transistor is a Step Toward the Quantum Internet
6
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Hacking a Ferrari
6
10
A Molecular Computer That Mimics the Brain
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
215
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It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux
192
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Worst-Case Thinking
113
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How We Moved From Microsoft ASP.NET to Rails and NoSQL
110
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The Twitter Platform
91
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PyPy: the other new compiler project
52
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An In-Depth Look at Clojure Collections
39
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Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect
26
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Write Down Your Password
23
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Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)
22
Tech blogs [?]
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Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
340
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Robotic quadcopter acrobatics like nothing we’ve seen
95
3
Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia
77
4
EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"
76
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Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net
64
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IPhone 4 to have dense IPS display
42
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AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac
32
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Apple Gives Tribute to Newton with New 'What is iPad?' Ad
29
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Steve Jobs Tells Germans to Blame Their Government for iPad Price Difference
29
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Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
23
FAANG+ [?]
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Peter Norvig's book reviews on Amazon
126
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Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk
116
3
My book 'Programming Windows Azure' from O'Reilly is available
55
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Apple's Statement on W3C Patent Policy (2002)
32
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Anger at Kindle pricing victimizes ratings of new Turow bestseller
26
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Amazon's Universal Wish List button: add anything on the web to your wish list
17
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Apple Sells One Million iPads
6
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Amusing PG book review from 2000
3
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Amazon VPC now available in the EU region.
3
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Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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What's a disease? Or: shoud fat/shy/alcoholic people be blamed or treated?
91
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"Sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content"
84
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The Pirate Bay goes down after legal pressure
83
4
Three Worlds Collide (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
66
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Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute
51
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Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P
38
7
IsoHunt Forced to Shut Down in the US
33
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Clojure notes
32
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Fabrik - A Visual Programming Environment From Apple (1988)
26
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BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent Protocol
25
Science News [?]
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More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart
174
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Jupiter loses a stripe.
64
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Scientists Find 'Baffling' Link between Autism and Vinyl Flooring
61
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Talking seriously with children is good for their language proficiency
56
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Living in denial: When a sceptic isn't a sceptic
53
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Disturbing Scientific Discoveries
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Mathematicians solve 140-year-old Boltzmann equation
48
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Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth
46
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Gravity-defying ramps take illusion prize
44
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The bugs that will give us free power while cleaning our sewage
33
Social [?]
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How real-world corruption works
316
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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
293
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Opera browser is much faster than a potato
226
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Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function
206
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I am one of the creators of the first "synthetic" bacterial cell. AMA
188
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The latest version of the LittleDog robot
173
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Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry
138
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Richard Stallman agrees to do an AMA on reddit
131
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How did Facebook guess my email address?
126
10
The Technician
103
Github repos and gists [?]
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Voicemail for Hackers
92
2
Subversion clients can now write to GitHub
54
3
Async JS in Nginx
45
4
Node.net - Node.js implemented in Javascript on the .NET runtime
45
5
GitHub's email correlation for authorship
43
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ALL code is ugly
43
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XMPP library for node.js
42
8
Stevedekorte's vertex.js
38
9
Faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser
37
10
A SQL console for your Heroku app
31
Wikipedia [?]
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Primer (film)
225
2
Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
93
3
In 1979, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill went on for 10 months at about the BP rate.
88
4
Hedy Lamarr, femme fatale and inventor of spread spectrum communications
65
5
Wikipedia's getting a new look
46
6
Fractional calculus
45
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Things you shouldn't do: Two pointers in one field.
42
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(e^(i * pi)) + 1 = 0
41
9
Grey goo
40
10
Birthday Paradox
31
Blogs [?]
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup
24
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See Randomness
2
Stackoverflow [?]
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I’m graduating with a CS degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.
180
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How do emulators work and how are they written?
176
3
What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
174
4
Reasons to hate any programming language
83
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New programming jargon you coined
56
6
What are your favorite programming-related academic papers?
45
7
Hidden features of Perl?
30
8
Using Javascript to Programmatically Untag Facebook Photos?
22
9
Programming Vernacular
4
10
List Comprehensions in Ruby
1
Substack [?]