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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…

1098

2

Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

684

3

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

558

4

What Happens At Y Combinator

549

5

Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

529

6

Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

508

7

Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

464

8

What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

463

9

Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either

428

10

Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer

418

Top Ask HN

1

Offer of Employment retracted

271

2

My startup failed. $9k in debt and need to pay most of it in 12 days.

180

3

Who's hiring? (September 2010)

176

4

What do you want to tell Microsoft?

164

5

What's the big deal with startups anyways...

154

6

Is being an introvert okay?

138

7

What habits made you a better programmer?

138

8

Best resources to learn SEO?

135

9

Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

131

10

After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?

120

Top Show HN

1

Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation.

70

2

Streak.ly tracks what you do daily and I'd love feedback on the concept

54

3

my regular expression example match generator

46

4

Elect.io, my side-project that provides objective candidate information

16

5

ImpromptuDo.com the real time location based activity partner finder

15

6

Instant Search for iPad

10

7

Review our public website?

10

8

My Food Pairings Mobile App

8

9

an order-preserving JSON encoding (so byte-order == value-order)

7

10

Facster.com technology demonstration

6

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…

1098

2

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

558

3

Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch

251

4

Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

240

5

Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

200

6

There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly

188

7

Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

173

8

Museopen to set classical music "free"

172

9

Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With

169

10

Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

162

News [?]

1

Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

331

2

Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

208

3

The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)

192

4

NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company

164

5

A computer virus with an entirely new purpose

150

6

Bots playing the market make some bizarre patterns

131

7

Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall

130

8

William Gibson: "Google's Earth"

124

9

Chunking & Gridding - Why parents can't do math today

123

10

NPR bought a toxic asset to watch it die. They call her "Toxie"

120

Scientific publications [?]

1

IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"

88

2

The Fastest Helicopter on Earth

78

3

New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution

14

4

Another TV Technology Bites the Dust

5

5

Telepresence: A Manifesto

5

6

Sony Cable Could Free Design of Portables

4

7

On the Complexity of Processing Massive, Unordered, Distributed Data

4

8

Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3

4

9

UCLA Builds Fastest Graphene Transistor Yet

3

10

California tracks school kids with RFID

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Wiretapping the Internet

162

2

PostgreSQL 9.0 Is Now Available

132

3

Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

82

4

I’ll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please

40

5

Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System

38

6

'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

38

7

CoffeeScript - JavaScript the Good Parts

36

8

Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC?

36

9

Exploring Lisp on the JVM

24

10

Twitter Blog: All about the "onMouseOver" incident

20

Tech blogs [?]

1

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee

137

2

Little known iTunes 10 benefit

69

3

Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement" Bill

64

4

"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk

50

5

What Craigslist's "Adult Services" Decision Means for Free Speech

49

6

EFF: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records

37

7

Flash is faster, better, stronger than HTML 5 on phones?

33

8

Apple buys face recognition company Polar Rose

26

9

Apple's Jobs says 'onerous terms' kept Facebook ties out of Ping

26

10

Funding, and Distributing Software to Activists Against Authoritarian Regimes

23

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

464

2

Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

290

3

The Science of Word Recognition

90

4

Kindle for the Web

81

5

Anarchist Cookbook authors hopes for discontinuation (read the author review)

44

6

Official Microsoft response to ASP.NET padding side channel flaw

28

7

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Preview Beta

21

8

Amazon lowers high memory double and quadruple XL instance prices

12

9

Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours

7

10

Books that influenced Clojure

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarians

188

2

September 26th is Petrov Day

156

3

4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites

122

4

Humans are not automatically strategic

92

5

BitTorrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing

58

6

4Chan To Target RIAA Next

44

7

Wikipedia Adds BitTorrent Powered Video Streaming

25

8

Bruce Eckel: Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing (2003)

24

9

Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament

15

10

Research summary: When and how to use caffeine to be more productive

7

Science News [?]

1

Ten unlikely ideas that changed the world

35

2

Ways artists 'hack your brain'

26

3

Blood disorder cured – a first for gene therapy

22

4

Relativity comes down to Earth

17

5

Re-inventing the Leaf: Artificial Photosynthesis to Create Clean Fuel

16

6

Beyond god and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian'

11

7

How to be happy (but not too much)

8

8

PARC 'office of the future' - 40 years later

7

9

Lifelong Exercising Yields Sensational Results

6

10

CERN collides with a patent reality

5

Social [?]

1

IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version

267

2

121

3

Details on today's Facebook outage

108

4

Notch (the Minecraft Developer) Answers Your Questions

89

5

Interest: Senior engineer confirms Apple working on MacRuby for iOS

79

6

The real GDrive is here

70

7

Meet the new Twitter

43

8

Ladies & Gentlemen, Jessica Livingston is on Twitter (PG beware)

40

9

Ask Notch (the developer of Minecraft) anything

36

10

IAmA HS teacher. This is a list of "suggestions" we got in our mailboxes today

30

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Twitter knew about onmouseover flaw a month ago

141

2

Three.js: JavaScript 3D engine for canvas, svg, and WebGL

93

3

Emokit: Hacking the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface

86

4

Sammy - jQuery based RESTful evented framework

64

5

Sentry, Disqus' near realtime logging app for Django

62

6

Job Description as runnable python UnitTest

46

7

41

8

Sinatra clone in PHP

35

9

OmniTweet - An experimental minimalist Twitter Client for Google Chrome

32

10

30 minutes Lisp in Ruby (direct link)

31

Wikipedia [?]

1

Today is Programmer's Day

240

2

Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died. Fix: reboot the system

110

3

Wikipedia lets you create books

106

4

The "If By Whiskey" speech

83

5

Fabrice Bellard

73

6

Learned helplessness

63

7

53

8

16

9

15

10

Wikipedias list of emerging technologies

12

Blogs [?]

1

High Resolution Fundraising

127

2

High Resolution Fundraising

8

3

The Future of Startup Funding

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

127

2

What problems have you solved using genetic algorithms/genetic programming?

77

3

Peak detection in a 2D array

69

4

So you think you know pointers?

62

5

Confessions of your worst WTF moment

29

6

What's Wrong with Stack Overflow: Social Over Substance

9

7

Pg's "roots of lisp" Lisp eval function - adding defmacro

8

8

How do I politely decline building stuff for relatives/friends?

5

9

How does Google Instant Search work?

4

10

Boolean operation "trick"

3

Substack [?]