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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Android – Now Ported On The iPhone

494

2

367

3

Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day

361

4

HTML5 presentation

316

5

How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers

309

6

SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud

270

7

The scariest pricing idea ever. That works.

264

8

100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.

251

9

McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

249

10

Android Tries Harder

237

Top Ask HN

1

What SaaS apps have a great UI ?

52

2

Does anyone else miss "Ask HN?"

43

3

What code have you read recently?

37

4

Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google?

36

5

Frameworks for real-time collaboration in a web application?

33

6

What percentage of YC startups make it?

32

7

How to be a responsible single founder?

29

8

Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast?

29

9

What is the advantage of a formal CS degree for an entrepreneur?

23

10

Review my startup: rapidly share memories on HippoCamps

18

Top Show HN

1

23

2

Super Hacker News adds one page browsing & keyboard navigation to HN

10

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day

361

2

App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire

126

3

Why the 13" MacBook Pro didn't get a Core i5 upgrade

84

4

$3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti

84

5

This Is Apple's Next iPhone

78

6

Apple Rejects Kid-Friendly Programming App

63

7

IPhone 4G: Proof

57

8

Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists

53

9

Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”

52

10

Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.

48

News [?]

1

Most Digital Photocopiers Save Every Page Ever Scanned

197

2

A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit

140

3

The centuries-old struggle to play in tune

84

4

Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation

81

5

Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?

80

6

Woman Gives Her Autistic 9-Year-Old Marijuana

76

7

72

8

Google Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Travel Software Maker ITA

62

9

Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System

62

10

First they came for Hitler... Youtube takes down Hitler parodies

58

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images

59

2

Hacking Ticketmaster

16

3

Flawed Computer Models Add To European Flight Delays

11

4

Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks

5

5

IEEE Spectrum's ranking of the world's most valuable patent portfolios

4

6

PCBs aren't so hard to make and needn't break the bank

3

7

MUD: Massive, Unordered, Distributed data

1

8

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Video Decode Acceleration framework available on Mac OS X 10.6.3

22

2

Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Political Assassinations

4

3

IBM and the labors of TurboHercules

3

4

Deceptive Simplicity: Sinatra Turns 1.0

2

5

Adam Wiggins on Building Heroku on Top of Amazon EC2

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

70

2

Apple in advance discussions to adopt AMD chips

29

3

SproutCore debuts new HTML5 web development tools

29

4

Adobe slips mobile Flash Player 10.1 to second half of 2010

14

5

Inside iPhone OS 4.0: Multitasking vs Mac OS X, Android

4

6

Steve Jobs Approves Which Apple Employees Can Carry Pre-Release iPhones

4

7

Google buys mysterious firm run by former Apple employees

3

8

EFF Backs Yahoo to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search

2

9

Apple Demands Prototype iPhone Back

2

10

Rumor: Apple to buy ARM for $8 billion?

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

IPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30

4

2

Silverlight 4 released

1

3

Apple reports second quarter results

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Short Studies On Excuses

156

2

Forkolator Manifesto

2

3

2

Science News [?]

1

Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition

50

2

No gain from brain training

38

3

Under Threat, Women Bond, Men Withdraw

8

4

Solar Activity Linked to Cold Winters in UK

7

5

Schrödinger's cash

4

6

Materials Science: The Future of Metals

3

7

Health insurers make big bucks from Big Macs

3

8

Subliminal Cues Can Empty Wallets

2

9

Scientists Measure Atomic Nudge

2

10

How the brain keeps tabs on two tasks at once

2

Social [?]

1

Optical illusion of motion

131

2

SimCity Player Spends 3 years on optimal city design

121

3

Innovation in rail travel: The train that never stops at a station

107

4

Dan Meyer dissects the flaws of math textbooks (video)

81

5

Copying a hotel keycard onto an NYC MetroCard

60

6

Another lovely Google Chrome ad - Extensions

41

7

My how far you have come, Apple.

37

8

CSV dump of reddit voting data

30

9

Bump Key How-To

25

10

IPad taken apart then re-assembled in under four minutes

17

Github repos and gists [?]

1

The Use Case for Blocks

40

2

Let's make a "type the code listings" book for kids.

39

3

Smart HTTP Support - GitHub

35

4

For shits and giggles: Binary search on queue (see comments for explanation)

11

5

Brute force backtesting of zroc indicator in Q

7

6

Jath - declaratively transform XML to JS objects

6

7

A Modal Interface Combining Gestures and Direct Manipulation

6

8

Facebook Python SDK

4

9

Mapreduce in a bash script

1

10

Redis-cluster Design doc

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Jakarta Incident, or Rebooting 747 Engines In Flight

52

2

Why less competent may rate their own ability higher than more competent

44

3

Comb Sort - Just As Good As Quick Sort

31

4

Paradox of hedonism: Pursuing happiness leads to misery

10

5

"Go west, young man!" - Mean population center of the US

10

6

Knights of the Lambda Calculus

8

7

List of Tesla patents

6

8

NAME (dispersion model) - used to model the volcanic ash cloud

3

9

Earth's magnetic field 1590 - 1990

2

10

The EURion constellation: how photocopiers avoid counterfeiting

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

You Cannot Parse HTML with Regular Expressions

30

2

'Use the right tool for the job'

5

3

Tricks to get "in the zone"

5

4

How do you pronounce the word 'Tuple'? Just like the song.

5

5

What every JavaScript programmer should know?

4

Substack [?]