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Top stories
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Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
776
2
P ≠ NP
740
3
Google Kills Wave
712
4
What Happened to Yahoo
687
5
My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
606
6
Why GNU grep is Fast
512
7
Welcome to the new decade
486
8
A letter to my students
462
9
Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android
452
10
"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."
417
Top Ask HN
1
I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
208
2
All startup websites look the same
165
3
Best Startup City - Outside the USA?
158
4
Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?
158
5
How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?
149
6
Tips for Hackers having Kids?
136
7
Where do you host your webapp?
135
8
Recommend me a Podcast
127
9
What Vim Plugins do you use?
127
10
Who is currently broke due to being in a startup?
112
Top Show HN
1
My <canvas>-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker
73
2
A new book notification service I just launched
41
3
Pomodoro-Timer
31
4
VoiceForms 4000, my submission to the Wufoo API contest
27
5
I took your advice and prldr is now a visual RSS reader
15
6
My social music app
13
7
The real time community search engine
12
8
prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.
10
9
LivGiv - Be more than a Face in a Book
9
10
swytch.net - my attempt at a social network
7
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
323
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Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey
246
3
Burning man defeats PayPal
200
4
StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
196
5
Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)
195
6
Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age
185
7
Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
179
8
Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)
175
9
Sharpie reinvents the pen with liquid pencil
175
10
A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse
172
News [?]
1
The Most Isolated Man on the Planet
206
2
Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority
166
3
How bathroom posture affects your health.
164
4
Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
164
5
Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
149
6
Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect
134
7
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)
127
8
Obesity: Drink till you drop
125
9
Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity
125
10
Free Parking Comes at a Price
104
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA to announce 'intriguing planetary system' discovery on Thursday
94
2
Nuclear Reactor Renaissance
52
3
Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home
31
4
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star
8
5
How I Became a QB Telepresence Robot for a Week
5
6
First sensor to directly measure speed uses algorithms from fruit-fly
5
7
Cornell's Ranger Robot Breaks New Walking Record
3
8
Intel Brings Integrated Silicon Optics Closer
3
9
NASA Open Letter
3
10
Two planet transit
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux 2.6.35 is out
80
2
Schneier on UAE to Ban BlackBerrys
77
3
LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure
60
4
Pushing Our (Tweet) Button
58
5
Realtime Linux: academia v. reality
52
6
Fun with Fingerprint Readers
37
7
InfoQ: Justin Sheehy on Riak
30
8
The way GitHub helped Erlang and the way Erlang helped GitHub
18
9
Joe Armstrong & Dave Thomas on software craftsmanship
15
10
Id GPLs Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return To Castle Wolfenstein engines
10
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
187
2
Apple seeking to patent spyware
83
3
$500k Selling Camera+ pulled from AppStore over 'Easter Egg'
79
4
EFF to Verizon: Etisalat Certificate Authority Threatens Web Security
77
5
Experiment: Can You Mine Gold From Old Motherboards?
70
6
Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month
70
7
AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year
63
8
The EFF SSL Observatory
39
9
Apple opens "Try Before You Buy" section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy
35
10
Digg founder says Apple iTV launch in September will 'change everything'
33
FAANG+ [?]
1
Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
56
2
AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010
47
3
Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event
35
4
Amazon CloudFront Adds Default Root Object Capability
24
5
Microsoft launches a PC vs Mac website
12
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AWS Python Developer Center
5
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
4
8
Active Interview Case Study
3
9
Mac Pro - Now up to 12 cores of processing power.
3
10
Amazon.com: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing
250
2
Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent
157
3
TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway
137
4
TorrentReactor Buys and Renames Russian Town
30
5
Iranian Government Runs Public Warez Server
26
6
Netscape Communications First Press Release (1994)
14
7
The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra
5
8
Classic Texts in Computer Science
5
9
How Will You Measure Your Life?
5
10
Google Prediction API: Machine Learning as a Service on the Cloud
4
Science News [?]
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Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights
123
2
Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium
104
3
People really don't like unselfish colleagues
57
4
A High-Fat Diet Alters Crucial Aspects of Brain Dopamine Signaling
33
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Brain's wiring: More like the Internet than a pyramid?
30
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Date of First Known Human Tool Use Pushed Back 800,000 years
29
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Quantum cryptographic systems cracked by lasers, leaving no trace
22
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The better your heart pumps, the slower your brain ages.
14
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Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera
7
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An easy way to boost a paper's citations: Cite and you shall be cited
7
Social [?]
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Welcome to the new decade
486
2
Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
335
3
Steve Jobs explains branding
260
4
I'll save you the time of getting an MBA..
248
5
What different sorting algorithms sound like
231
6
Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video]
209
7
Paul Graham is now tweeting
204
8
Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.
170
9
Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview)
154
10
Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
140
Github repos and gists [?]
1
GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0
204
2
Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis
145
3
GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch
80
4
Ruby's Date/DateTime classes rewritten in C.. 20-200x perf improvement
79
5
Map/Reduce in Bash
69
6
I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck
64
7
An early Clojure implementation in Common Lisp
56
8
Rails 3.0 final coming
45
9
Programming Outside of Business Hours
39
10
Webshell for node.js
38
Wikipedia [?]
1
Two Envelopes Problem
112
2
"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."
99
3
Darwin (programming game)
49
4
P versus NP
44
5
Hindenburg Omen (Occurred Twice this Month)
40
6
Irony punctuation
30
7
Zooko's Triangle
23
8
C++0x (upcoming C++ standard, includes lambda functions)
19
9
Groupthink
17
10
Terence Tao
16
Blogs [?]
1
What Happened to Yahoo
687
2
The Future of Startup Funding
241
3
Jonathan Rees on OOP
9
4
Java's Cover
3
5
The Future of Startup Funding
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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Learning to write a compiler
128
2
Strangest language feature
121
3
The Python yield keyword explained
89
4
Understanding Python decorators
56
5
File IO in Every Language
32
6
What are the best uses of document stores?
29
7
What's frustrating with XML?
28
8
Alan Kay: Significant new inventions in computing since 1980?
12
9
I've found my software as cracked download on Internet, what to do?
9
10
File I/O in Every Programming Language
6
Substack [?]