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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others

525

2

Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07

439

3

How I got sued by Facebook

336

4

The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

333

5

Best Writing Advice for Engineers I've Ever Seen.

318

6

Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad

273

7

Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right

269

8

Announcing WebKit2

232

9

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO & AdWords

212

10

A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad

201

Top Ask HN

1

Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)

201

2

got any food hacks?

133

3

How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development?

62

4

How did you learn about stock market/trading investing ?

61

5

Would you use a cord bank?

41

6

What tools do you use?

36

7

From what countries do people use HN beside USA?

35

8

I'd like to find Co-Founder(s) / Developers

28

9

How do you feel when you see "ninja" or "rock star" in a job post?

22

10

input on the idea please?

21

Top Show HN

1

I just hacked together an app to map broadband speeds.

23

2

A webapp for sharing cocktail napkin drawings

4

3

Weekend project, "I love you, but"

1

4

my little pre exams project

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

IPhone OS 4.0 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer

166

2

Ars Technica reviews the iPad

114

3

Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”

80

4

Apple Purchases Another Processor Design House

62

5

Scrabble for the iPad: the best $1,000 you ever spent on a board game

61

6

Top VCs Debate Rising Startup Valuations [video]

48

7

iPad wifi connectivity problems

37

8

Mixpanel (YC S09) Lands Chinese Social Game Developer Five Minutes

34

9

Twitter Predicts Box-Office Sales Better Than a Prediction Market

34

10

IPad Case Moleskine

30

News [?]

1

IPad is Steve Jobs’ final victory over Steve Wozniak

144

2

America is about to undertake "its biggest transformation in decades"

106

3

US court rules against FCC on net neutrality

89

4

I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?

82

5

‘Suicide’ Query Prompts Google to Offer Hotline

77

6

I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?

65

7

Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say

65

8

Thomas Friedman: Start-Ups, Not Bailouts

58

9

Is Apple destroying a generation of tech whizzes?

33

10

Window Farming: Do it yourself veggie garden in your window

31

Scientific publications [?]

1

Hiroshi Ishiguro: The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself

16

2

Predicting the Future with Social Media

2

3

Economists and Financial Analysts: Physics Envy May Be Hazardous To Your Wealth

2

4

First test flight scheduled for X-37B mini shuttle

1

5

Building Androids In Order to Understand Humans

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security : Privacy and Control

40

2

Scaling Clojure Web Apps with Google AppEngine

37

3

8

4

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

3

5

Support large repositories.

2

6

Open source biotechnology - and the challenges to making it happen

2

7

Over 60% of registered Twitter accounts come from outside the US

2

8

Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple rejected iPad app for using pinch to expand gesture

58

2

Apple's Ipad - The AnandTech Review

6

3

Performance comparison: iPad's A4 vs. Nexus One's Snapdragon

2

4

AMD's 12-core Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon

2

5

Apple's iPad - horrible ergonomics

2

6

7.5M iPhones estimated sold in Q1 2010, users stay in Apple ecosystem

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon introduces new service: Simple Notification Service

199

2

Was Proust a Neuroscientist? May be not

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Existential Angst Factory (2008)

18

2

The Myth of Shareholder Capitalism.

15

3

Welcome to the False Recovery

6

4

UTorrent Download Speeds Beat Vuze By 16%

1

Science News [?]

1

Half the people in human history who reached the age of 65 are alive now.

95

2

How Random Matrix theory sheds a light on the laws underlying reality.

35

3

How your brain remembers the future

22

4

A Complex Tic-Tac-Toe Puzzle Falls Thanks to Blog Comments

13

5

13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings

5

6

Mind over matter? How your body does your thinking

4

7

Is our universe inside a wormhole inside a black hole inside its own universe?

4

8

How do morals change?

1

9

Innovation: Only mind games will make us save power

1

10

Resurrection Fern

1

Social [?]

1

Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07

439

2

New sub-reddit devoted to datasets

89

3

Robot that autonomously folds a pile of towels

75

4

Pixar Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes

68

5

Pcubee - 3d display io

59

6

IPad + Car = pretty cool car hack

56

7

Scoble and Eric Ries on how to ship software that rocks customer's lives

53

8

Ideas for your next web app?

48

9

Wikileaks co-founder speaks about the "Collateral Murder" video

32

10

A three-dimensional tribute to Conway's "Game of Life"

28

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gizzard - Twitter's open source framework for creating distributed datastores

69

2

Chromakode's xkcdfools at master - GitHub

13

3

Mysql2 - A modern, simple and fast Mysql library for Ruby, binding to libmysql

13

4

iGesture: Event-driven gestures and multi-touch for web applications

7

5

The Don't Be a Dick License

3

6

The Github East Coast Tour

2

7

Rick Olson is a GitHubber

2

8

Ytljit, an experimental Ruby native bytecode compiler

2

9

Bashwords --- a small utility I wrote to aid my vocabulary

2

10

Sandbar, a new Clojure web library.

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging

28

2

St. Petersburg paradox

4

3

R.I.P. Ed Roberts

3

4

Fooled by Randomness

2

5

Neuroscience of Free Will

2

6

Immortal Jellyfish: The Turritopsis Nutricola

2

7

Hedge (linguistics)

2

8

An iPad clone that has Flash, Firefox, filesharing, and a keyboard

1

9

Homomorphic Encryption (Private Cloud Computing)

1

10

.local is special

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Twitter image encoding challenge

7

2

How can you tell if a person is a programmer?

2

3

Create, sort, and print 100 random ints in the fewest chars of code

2

4

Hacker News style ordering algorithm in Linq-To-SQL

1

Substack [?]