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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A real person, a lot like you

624

2

Congratulations Patrick

400

3

U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks - Details on intimidation attempts

304

4

The Collapse of Complex Business Models

278

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241

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go to xkcd.com: The webcomic XKCD now has a command prompt

224

8

My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers

224

9

Why you should never pay more than $10 for an HDMI cable (Infographic)

210

10

The almost-magical "content aware fill" plugin from a few days ago...on gimp.

194

Top Ask HN

1

Interesting (Non software) books?

118

2

What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

74

3

How do you solve hard problems if you can't make incremental progress?

65

4

How do you test your web applications?

56

5

please review my app - html to pdf API

52

6

Bootstrapping a Startup Alone

45

7

What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?

44

8

New project, pick.im, A Freelancer Marketplace

42

9

Can we get a "hide story" button?

42

10

What are your AdWords Ratios?

42

Top Show HN

1

autolib, the last Python library you'll ever need

13

2

My Hacker News widget for Chumby

1

3

Review my startup: 99Audit, a data analysis service via email

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

RethinkDB (YC S09) Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives

114

2

Not April Fools: New Zealand Proposing Software Patent Ban

72

3

Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions

57

4

Pro-China Astroturfers

53

5

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos

43

6

IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

39

7

Just 90 People Preorder Doomed JooJoo Tablet, 15 Return It

36

8

Quora Has The Magic: BenchMark Invests at $86 Million Valuation

33

9

Introducing The Do-It-Yourself CrunchPad Kit [video]

32

10

The Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions

29

News [?]

1

Stephen Fry meets Steve Jobs

91

2

David Pogue’s Review of the iPad from 2 Angles

68

3

The Fall of Mexico

66

4

There's only one homeless man left in Times Square

48

5

YouTube's original sin

43

6

Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclaimed computer game

42

7

The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)

41

8

13 year old prodigy claims age discrimination by UConn

41

9

Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job

37

10

More Doctors Giving Up Private Practices

35

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Most Disturbing Presentation of the Year

48

2

Hacking March Madness

5

3

Haptics Gaming Vest Simulates Punches, Gunshots

3

4

DIY Turing Machine, in the Classic Style

3

5

NASA Overspends on Bagels, Soda at Conferences

2

6

Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur

2

7

Agents, Bookmarks and Clicks: A topical model of Web traffic

1

8

Are humanlike robots creepy? Watch this and decide for yourself

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)

95

2

Resetting PHP6 (or: Unicode claims another victim)

61

3

NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA Driver

52

4

DSLs in JavaScript

8

5

Write Down Your Password

2

6

Tweaking the Twitter homepage

2

7

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

2

8

Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost

1

9

Side-Channel Attacks on Encrypted Web Traffic

1

10

Chris Wanstrath on GitHub

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple sued over multitouch

61

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Hope you reserved your iPad. Apple just ran out.

31

3

Mass litigation as a revenue stream

9

4

Apple tweaked iPhones to lessen strain on AT&T network - report

7

5

IPhone case rehabilitation

1

6

Rumors of a Verizon-compatible CDMA Apple iPad persist

1

7

Apple's iPhone 4.0 to support multitasking via Expose-like interface

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

New Book by Fred Brooks - The Design of Design

45

2

Apple featuring HTML5 sites

24

3

IPad Guided Tours are up

18

4

Steve Ballmer: Search Marketing Expo West Keynote

1

5

"The Design of Design" by Fred Brooks

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same

8

2

Warner Bros Recruits Students to Spy on Pirates

5

3

Sprint Developer's Guide for HTC EVO 4G Android Smartphone (gdoc)

3

4

Eight Things Executives Hate About IT [From Harvard Business Review]

3

5

Age and the Entrepreneur

1

Science News [?]

1

Being Funny: How Steve Martin got his act together

92

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Animal Lovers: Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality

21

3

Extreme stress has effect on DNA

10

4

Revealed: why hot water freezes faster than cold

8

5

Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

5

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Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes

5

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Neuroscientists Influence People’s Moral Judgments by Disrupting Brain Region

3

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Paralysed limbs revived by hacking into nerves - New Scientist

3

9

Do Experiences Or Material Goods Make Us Happier? (2009)

2

10

Tweet: Scientists decode songbird's genome

2

Social [?]

1

Today was my last day @ Yahoo. I made a video to commemorate the occasion.

56

2

Thousands of private fotos leaked, privacy disaster for Quiptxt.com users

55

3

Ed Catmull of Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small

30

4

Chat Roulette Piano Improv #2 (Merton returns)

8

5

Tell HN: DODD is trying to Kill StartUps...follow for info

6

6

Earth 100M years from now

5

7

Social Media Revolution - Interesting Videographic to gain Perspective

5

8

$49 FPGA board with 500 MBps IO bandwidth

4

9

Move Over iPad, Make Way for the dPad Tablet

3

10

Korea's newest humanoid robot Hubo II (video)

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub announces subversion support

138

2

GitHub moves commit notes inline

59

3

Rails 3 Beta 2 released

46

4

Syntax coloring for the Clojure REPL

18

5

A datastore library on Google App Engine for Clojure

16

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Bup - git based (git inspired) backup tool

14

7

Mustache templating system for PHP

11

8

Significant Whitespace

9

9

Pismo: extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

8

10

Highway to the Danger Zone: Meet Kenny Dialoggins

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

TRIZ: a methodology for generating innovative ideas and solutions

35

2

The Trachtenberg System for mental arithmetic

27

3

The Hedonic Treadmill

22

4

Bacteria in clouds

18

5

A list of April Fools' Day RFCs

17

6

Capgras Delusion

16

7

Cycling in Copenhagen

8

8

3000 robotic probes float 2 km deep in the ocean

6

9

4

10

Tell HN: the Milky Way has 16 smaller galaxies orbiting it

4

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Best of Stack Overflow: Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

17

2

Scala 2.8 collections library a case of the longest suicide note in history

4

3

Stack Overflow question: How to deal with a program that's become self-aware?

1

Substack [?]