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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Wikileaks: Something is up

407

2

Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week

359

3

Photoshop CS5's new "Content-aware Fill"

325

4

A new approach to China: an update

286

5

China's instructions on reporting on Google

275

6

Unix recovery legend

220

7

Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton

219

8

Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

200

9

Kurt Vonnegut: I want to share with you something I’ve learned.

200

10

How I Ran An Ad on Fox News via Google TV Ads

198

Top Ask HN

1

154

2

What's the most simple way to accept monthly subscription fees?

109

3

I'm way too shy, please help

72

4

What advice would you give college students about starting a business?

63

5

Any alternatives to Mixpanel ?

46

6

I use and love Python. What's the best book to learn C ?

43

7

36

8

How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa?

31

9

26

10

YC interviewees coming from outside US

25

Top Show HN

1

My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

18

2

Show HN : I created a PHP Hacker News Clone in 2 hours

18

3

omgmetoo, our startup project - a free/busy mobile friend tracker

11

4

Please review my new side project [www.Schmeebs.com]

8

5

my echo nest + lastfm + spotify hottt artists site

8

6

My first website: A story sharing website for cubicle workers

4

7

My new app - Penolo: Sketch & Share on Twitter

2

8

Kraftwerk - Python WSGI deployment tool

2

9

What I did with Notifo

1

10

Helvetireader: A New Flavor

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The World's most Ingenious Thief

185

2

Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

175

3

Duck Duck Go is starting to get coverage

96

4

Notifo (YC W10) Is A Simple Mobile Notifications Platform For Anything

93

5

Crocodoc (YC W10) Sets Its Sights On Adobe Acrobat With New Update

65

6

Secrets of the Nexus One's screen: science, color, and hacks

59

7

Genocide and Jedi: Why the Sith may be Right

55

8

Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL

49

9

DMCA for All: Full ACTA Text Leaks

46

10

Colourlovers (YC W10) Mixes With ColorSchemer And Adds To Twitter’s Palette

46

News [?]

1

China's instructions on reporting on Google

275

2

GoDaddy pulls out of China too

190

3

House Passes Health Care Reform

152

4

America’s Real Dream Team

66

5

Marijuana legalization will be on California ballot

58

6

The Startup Visa Act Must Be Stopped

51

7

$1 Million Question - Will Math Expert Accept Prize?

50

8

In Changing China, Being 'Suicided' or 'Harmonized'

40

9

An iPhone App to Sidestep AT&T

40

10

Indian Students Compete for Plum Colleges

34

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bacteria Bots Build Tiny Pyramid (with video)

3

2

The Electronic Display of the Future

1

3

Three-Dimensional Cloaking Device Operates at Terahertz Frequencies

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol

27

2

State of Twitter Spam

8

3

Simulating a bot-net with 10 million nodes

5

4

Digg and Reddit Have Joined the NoSQL Camp

2

5

1

6

The confusion of the first years of the Fedora Project (an IRC dialogue)

1

7

Agile Documentation: Is There Clarity?

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Anandtech: Battle of the $125 SSDs

16

2

New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates

5

3

Palm WebOS, Pre and Pixi – Where Are We Now?

3

4

Analyst says Apple will enter HDTV market in next 4 years

3

5

Apple adds 'Gift This App' option to App Store

2

6

Check Out EFF's Favorite Books

2

7

Windows Phone 7 Series: The AnandTech Guide

1

8

IPhone is gobbling up PSP and Nintendo portable gaming revenue

1

9

IPad's iBookstore App should play nice with Project Gutenberg

1

10

Opera submits iPhone browser to Apple for App Store review

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Java

27

2

Amazon announces AWS SDK for Java

3

3

Kindle Reader App now available on Mac

2

4

Move your existing Windows licenses to EC2

2

5

Breaking the time barrier - temporal software engineering

1

6

Is San Diego West of Reno? (Answer found in the editorial review of this book)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Column: Why Businesses Don’t Experiment

2

Science News [?]

1

Cancer genes silenced in humans

60

2

Exposed: green consumers' dirty little secrets

37

3

Team of scientists puts visible object into quantum ground state

22

4

Men Take More Risks When Pretty Women Are Around

21

5

Neptune may have swallowed a planet

17

6

High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar

11

7

Happiness ain't all it's cracked up to be

4

8

The universe is a quantum computer?

4

9

The Psychology of Taboo Tradeoff

2

10

How to Erase Fear -- in Humans

2

Social [?]

1

Photoshop CS5's new "Content-aware Fill"

325

2

Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton

219

3

The Onion cut 66% of their bandwidth by upstream caching 404s

127

4

The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us

116

5

Douglas Adams Talk - Parrots the Universe and Everything

47

6

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

47

7

The Internet of Things

18

8

Robotic fish powered by fuel cell consumes ~10mW

17

9

Broadcast your runs & rides live as you do them

13

10

Sorry about that

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bye Bye Flash: GitHub's Network Graph is now Canvas

149

2

After many revisions, I present my "pocket planner". I hope HN finds it useful

88

3

Linenoise - A minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement

83

4

Introduction to Lisp Macros in Clojure (via HTML Templating as analogy)

19

5

RSense bundle for TextMate

14

6

Jsawk is like awk, but for JSON

6

7

JQuery UI is now using Google Closure

5

8

Labrepl: Follow along with the Clojure Studio from Hickey and Halloway

4

9

Cyclone - A Tornado clone built on top of Twisted

2

10

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The 1987 Max Headroom Pirating Incident

15

2

Functional Fixedness - The Candle Problem

10

3

5

4

Robin Milner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3

5

Denisova hominin

3

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]