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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Thoughts on Flash

962

2

The case of the 500-mile email

434

3

HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

313

4

Jobs on Flash: Hypocrisy So Thick You Could Cut it with a Knife

309

5

Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw

270

6

Ubuntu 10.04 Released

267

7

Not Even In South Park?

257

8

Police raid Gizmodo editor's house

257

9

Microsoft's Guide to Humor

252

10

Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt]

247

Top Ask HN

1

Are you an information addict?

121

2

I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please

112

3

Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns?

78

4

Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

73

5

Your Dev Environment

53

6

I accidentally downvoted a good comment. What now?

51

7

Do you look down on non-entrepreneurs?

50

8

What's the best way to get started with Vi(m)

49

9

What is ridddlr.com?

42

10

Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestructing email aliases.

41

Top Show HN

1

CanvasMol molecule viewer (JS + canvas demo)

72

2

I wrote a natural language parser for coffee drinks

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Police raid Gizmodo editor's house

257

2

India's copyright proposal: DRM circumvention OK if no intent to infringe

120

3

Build Your Own Cellular Network

106

4

PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Joins Group Payments Startup WePay (YC S09)

100

5

What should I do with my life?

88

6

Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.

84

7

TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges

65

8

WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars

57

9

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers

54

10

Chinese Startups: How they differ from US

53

News [?]

1

HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

313

2

Not Even In South Park?

257

3

Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

178

4

93% of 2006 AAA-rated subprime mortgage-backed securities now rated junk

149

5

The Data-Driven Life

121

6

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

115

7

Living With a Computer (1982)

70

8

He’s start-ups' best friend

62

9

A physicist argues that information is at the root of everything

57

10

54

Scientific publications [?]

1

Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Astonishing Discoveries

6

2

Rocket Racing League demos X-racers & augmented reality raceway in the sky

3

3

Better Baking Puts the "Super" in Chip-Scale Supercapacitor

3

4

Humanoid Robot Mahru Mimics a Person's Movements in Real Time

2

5

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Hubble [pictures++]

1

6

NASA Hubble Documentary Now Available Online in HD

1

7

IEEE Spectrum: Evidence for Intrinsity in the iPad

1

8

Public debates driven by incomplete scientific data

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

This year, Mac apps are no longer eligible for the Apple Design awards

119

2

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp [video]

26

3

Apple announces WWDC dates (June 7-11)

23

4

Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect

10

5

Exploring Dynamism

6

6

Twitter acquires Cloudhopper

4

7

JSR 292 and the Multi-lingual JVM

2

8

Seat Belt Use and Lessons for Security Awareness

2

9

Punishing Security Breaches

1

10

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant

57

2

IPhone takes 72% of Japanese smartphone market

25

3

AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed

4

4

Apple Preparing to Issue Developer Seeds of Mac OS X 10.6.4?

1

5

Lenovo ThinkPad L-Series: The Greenest ThinkPad Ever

1

6

Wii remote-controlled balancing wheelchair

1

7

Android on the iPhone?

1

8

FF Believes Search and Seizure of Gizmodo Editor's Computers Was Illegal

1

9

RIM unveils BlackBerry OS 6 with iPhone-like multitouch

1

10

System Encryption: BitLocker And TrueCrypt Compared

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Thoughts on Flash

962

2

Microsoft's Guide to Humor

252

3

Remember Babylonian Twins? It's now on Apple's top suggested games for iPad

23

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

HN frontpage 3 years ago

152

2

Top 50,000 paying Adsense keywords (purchased from a shady looking website)

105

3

Top Algorithms in Data Mining

60

4

How I Did It: Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO

56

5

Notes from Startup Lessons Learned Conf

44

6

”Child Pornography Is Great,” Anti-Pirates Say

12

7

Google’s CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO

5

8

"The Right Way to be Fired": HBS Review v. Mark Suster's 'job hoppers' post

4

9

Too busy to think about life

3

10

Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence

2

Science News [?]

1

How to manipulate people with font type?

49

2

Maxed out: How much can a human lift?

24

3

When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?

24

4

Whale poop is vital to ocean's carbon cycle

18

5

Why soldiers get a kick out of killing

14

6

Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

14

7

Maxed out: How long could you hold your breath?

4

8

Who needs high-speed broadband?

4

9

Proposals for changes to the system for controlling the export of technology

3

10

U.S. Food Still Tainted with Old Chemicals (like DDT)

2

Social [?]

1

Hong Kong architect turns shoebox apartment into 24 rooms

223

2

Genius redditor created a multiplayer 2d game, where everybody edits the world

129

3

Aves Engine: HTML/JavaScript Game Engine

78

4

Clear animation on how the SVM "kernel trick" works

60

5

IAMA founder of NewsTilt, a YC startup trying to reinvent journalism.

39

6

Keynote on memristors by R. Stanley Williams of HP Labs

35

7

Steam for linux testapp thingy

20

8

Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0

15

9

How does TinEye work ?

9

10

Stephen Wolfram's TED Talk: Computing a theory of everything

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Three.js: Javascript 3D engine

118

2

Node.js fanout pubsub server for real-time apps

54

3

Jstle: a terse Javascript language for RDF graphs

9

4

A static c++ brainf*k compiler using c++0x features in 200 nearly readable lines

7

5

Build Your Own Programming Language with JavaScript (Slides + Code)

5

6

Add threaded comments to Rails in only 7 lines of code: has_threaded_comments

3

7

Slick - Fast standalone JavaScript CSS Parser/Selector Engine

3

8

Has_opengraph: easily publish opengraph data from your models

2

9

HN iPad app github repo

2

10

"Dia" - sandbox an application or block of ruby code on Mac OSX

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Genaille-Lucas rulers

6

2

Erdős–Bacon number

6

3

Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency

3

4

Lorem ipsum Explained

3

5

Generative Modeling Language

2

6

Core rope memory - NASA software woven into memory in factories

2

7

1

8

EURion constellation (It's on the new $100 and the one in your pocket)

1

9

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

Organic Startup Ideas

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

StackOverflow: "Please explain some of Paul Graham’s points on Lisp"

6

2

Given two lines on a plane, find integer points closest to their intersection

2

Substack [?]