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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines

318

2

Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

314

3

Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined

281

4

Solving turnover (unusual dailywtf)

276

5

I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly

274

6

Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby

235

7

Richard Feynman on getting laid: "You Just Ask Them?"

212

8

If I Launched a Startup

196

9

VMware: the new Redis home

196

10

Care about search privacy? Duck Duck Go no longer logs IPs.

189

Top Ask HN

1

Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)

200

2

Are you a single founder ?

82

3

Who got rejected in earlier cycles of YC application and made it anyway?

80

4

How do you fight procrastination?

70

5

How many of you founders are girls ?

62

6

Is functional programming really worth it?

58

7

What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts

51

8

How would you invest $50,000?

46

9

Experience earning side income with elance, oDesk, RentACoder, etc?

40

10

Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

39

Top Show HN

1

I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

318

2

My weekend project - minimotivation.com

78

3

Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

55

4

Weekend Project - Japanese Wordsearch Builder

17

5

The result of donating 8 hours design time

11

6

My Twitter/Disqus mashup that I threw together. (www.choip.me)

5

7

Show HN - My stupidly simple RSS reader

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Carnegie Mellon student shows that 64 pixels is enough for Mario (video)

137

2

YC-Funded Data Marketplace is an Amazon for Structured Information

133

3

YouTube Defense: Viacom "Secretly Uploaded" Content, And They Tried To Buy Us

91

4

iPhone App Digitizes Sheet Music, Teaches You Piano

76

5

Hacker Disables Over 100 Cars Remotely

48

6

The Key To Gmail: Sh*t Umbrellas

44

7

Bradford Cross: Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom

43

8

New Chatroulette Stats: 13% are Perverts

41

9

Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System

37

10

New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android

31

News [?]

1

We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die

142

2

Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

100

3

Gorbachev: Perestroika Lost

81

4

Success of a Marriage in 15 Minutes?

79

5

Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show

76

6

The Dropout Economy

63

7

How Real are the Defects in Toyota's Cars?

50

8

Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover

37

9

The Most Expensive Cities in the World

33

10

We see so well because of snakes?

29

Scientific publications [?]

1

The C Object System: Using C as a High-Level Object-Oriented Language

62

2

Creatine supplementation improves brain performance in vegetarians [pdf]

33

3

A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills

31

4

NASA perplexed by galaxies heading in a particular direction

28

5

Japanese image scanner lets you digitize a book by rapidly flipping its pages

3

6

On-Chip Routers Could be a Choke Point for Future Chips

2

7

Information-Sharing and Privacy in Social Networks

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters

70

2

API Design Maxims by Joshua Bloch, 2008 (no flash needed)

31

3

How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps

21

4

Twitter Announces @Anywhere

18

5

Stuart Halloway on Clojure and Functional Programming

7

6

De-Anonymizing Social Network Users

4

7

USB Combination Lock

4

8

Charlie Miller on Mac OS X, Pwn2Own and Writing Exploits

3

9

How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

2

10

Ten million and one penguins: modeling emergent botnet behavior

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Amazon releases Kindle App for Mac OS X

22

2

How the IRS uses Social Media Sites

21

3

Google China Uncensors Tiananmen Square Info

19

4

Roughly 10% of Microsoft employees said to be iPhone owners

3

5

Former P.A. Semi chief leaves Apple for chip startup - report

3

6

In-depth look at Dell's M6500 mobile workstation

3

7

EFF : use of social networking sites for investigations (criminal or otherwise)

3

8

New "Smart Meters" for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk

2

9

Apple sees 98% iPhone growth as Microsoft, Google prepare for battle

1

10

Apple COO Tim Cook awarded $22 million bonus

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple's Tribute to Jerome B. York

96

2

Kindle zealots trash bestseller to spite publisher's lack of e version

3

3

Amazon Readers Shorting non ebooks

3

4

Windows Phone 7 development tools

2

5

Microsoft announces Windows Phone tool set

1

6

Sneaky & Clever, Microsoft Small Business Offer

1

7

Jwaala Online Banking Benefits after ASP.NET MVC Replaces Ruby on Rails, Linux

1

8

Elevation of Privilege (EoP): Microsoft's IT security card game

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

First write the crushing counterargument, then conclude with mockery.

19

2

Lobbyists Asking Obama To Support Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law

1

3

How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset

1

Science News [?]

1

Belief in the Brain: Sacred and secular ideas engage identical areas

16

2

First quantum effects "seen" in visible object

6

3

'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke

3

4

Human arm transmits broadband

3

5

Failure prediction of dotcom companies using neural network–genetic programming

1

6

Keeping math whizzes off the street--Off Wall Street, that is

1

7

New CU-Boulder hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification

1

8

God Helps with Personal Decisions, Most Americans Say

1

Social [?]

1

Still Face experiment: What happens when a mother shows no response to a child?

135

2

Example of Subliminal Advertising

68

3

Arial Font is Bullshit

40

4

A Dramatic Demonstration of the Power of Mental Frames by Simon Singh [video]

36

5

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide (TED)

30

6

I'm a YouTube software engineer working on the video player

27

7

Everyday Looper Tutorial by Ed

21

8

Alpha particle detector, made from a webcamera.

16

9

Sketching on the iPhone

12

10

Google: The Beast File

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Committing like Crazy - GitHub

85

2

Functional HTML templating with Clojure+Enlive+Compojure

69

3

Cloudlets: universal images for the cloud

6

4

GitHub Followers count in your site

5

5

Joe Armstrong's Erlang libs

3

6

MVC on node.JS with MVC.js

2

7

Facebook client library in Clojure

2

8

Node.js WebWorker API Implementation

1

9

Get achievements for using git.

1

10

Android developments with Duby

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Project Cybersyn: real-time computer control of a planned economy (1970-1973)

56

2

XeTeX: A modern LaTeX with proper OpenType and Unicode support

47

3

27

4

24

5

Up to date list of departures & closures at Sun

12

6

Wikipedia dwm article deletion: No consensus

9

7

Dunning–Kruger effect

9

8

Daylight Saving Time this weekend, like it or not

3

9

The Timeline of Web Development Technologies, 1990-2009

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Programming FAQ

54

2

Return of the Mac

16

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Which mobile platform should I target?

2

Substack [?]