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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations

340

2

Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes.

310

3

Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats

301

4

Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″

299

5

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

286

6

How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable

249

7

Adobe Responds to Jobs

235

8

Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?

215

9

Solving the Alt-Tab Problem

204

10

Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliate links

194

Top Ask HN

1

Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06)

220

2

161

3

Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.

105

4

How did you learn about search engines/text processing ?

46

5

Bad experiences after sharing your idea?

42

6

I Need Career Advice from an Experienced VC or Entrepreneur

34

7

Just finished coding my new startup; need ideas for getting traction

34

8

Who's hiring outside US?

32

9

Which SSL Cert to Buy?

29

10

How much can you spend on IT w/o getting approval?

26

Top Show HN

1

Hacker News like site for South Africa: ZA-Coders

12

2

HN Recap - Daily, ranked list of articles that hit the front page

10

3

streamgraph.js, now on github

7

4

Switcheroo, my Emacs-ido-mode-inspired alt-tab replacement for Windows

6

5

Bolt, my (somewhat dynamic) static website generator

1

6

Simple generator for Rails admin panels

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″

299

2

Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash

107

3

Zencoder (YC W10) Wants To Be The AWS Of Video Encoding

80

4

Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share

73

5

The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man

70

6

Microsoft weighs in: 'the future of the web is HTML5'

48

7

Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project

46

8

Digg Cuts 10% of Staff

44

9

Adobe shows off prototype Android tablet running Air and Flash 'flawlessly'

39

10

H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos

36

News [?]

1

How Did GM Pay Back Its Bailout So Fast? Well, It Didn't...

119

2

Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1

109

3

If the TSA Were Running New York

89

4

Why Everyone is Afraid of Apple

76

5

The Case for Working With Your Hands

56

6

Scribd Will Abandon Flash

53

7

The Pink Floyd Night School

51

8

Is Michael Arrington About To Sell TechCrunch?

43

9

The Rise of Content Farms

41

10

Stock Manipulator, SEC Nemesis -- and 15 (2001)

39

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Robot That Balances on a Ball

118

2

Open-source robotics firm Willow Garage gives away $4 million worth of robots

11

3

Build a Custom-Printed Circuit Board

8

4

Metcalfe's Law is Wrong (2006)

2

5

Video: Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?

215

2

Josh Bloch on the Future of Java

72

3

An In-Depth Look at Clojure Collections

39

4

Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)

22

5

Twitter for Android is released

11

6

Notes from the Collaboration Summit (Linux, IBM, Google, etc.)

10

7

Fun with Secret Questions

6

8

Rhodes 2.0 Is Now Free Under MIT License

4

9

Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls

4

10

Don Reinertsen: 2nd Gen. Lean Product Development: From Cargo Cult to Science

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations

340

2

EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"

76

3

ARM-Based Servers Expected by 2011

31

4

WSJ: Federal antitrust probe about Apple's iAd service, too

20

5

Prototype Apple TV predecessor from 1995 sells for $46 on eBay

17

6

Adobe to respond to Apple by giving employees Android phones with Flash

6

7

Eken M001, 7" Android tablet for $100

5

8

Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"

4

9

Apple's iPad Seen Cannibalizing Netbook Sales

4

10

Intel Cuts Idle Power For Tablets And Smartphones by 50x

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple's Statement on W3C Patent Policy (2002)

32

2

Apple Sells One Million iPads

6

3

Amusing PG book review from 2000

3

4

Amazon VPC now available in the EU region.

3

5

Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

3

6

Online Reputation Research

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

2

2

Steve's thoughts commented and largely proven wrong

1

3

Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit

1

Science News [?]

1

Early humans may have bred with other species – twice

14

2

The secrets of intelligence lie within a single cell

6

3

New development in quantum computing

5

4

Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth

4

5

Laser creates clouds over Germany

4

6

What a shoddy piece of work is man

4

7

Mothers' Depression Can Go Well Beyond Child's Infancy

3

8

Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair

3

9

Neandertal Genome sequenced

3

10

Laser 'tractor beams' to tidy up space junk

3

Social [?]

1

/r/startups - a Reddit for startups

57

2

Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

43

3

Matthieu Ricard shows results of recent experiments with experienced meditators

38

4

Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation (Google TechTalks)

36

5

The Internet in 1969

33

6

BBC Horizon - Psychedelic Science - DMT, LSD, Ibogaine

31

7

Elegant visual way to multiply numbers by hand

28

8

Facebook opening an engineering office in Seattle

22

9

K and Software Engineering

21

10

Palindromic video. Sort of ...

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Voicemail for Hackers

92

2

Subversion clients can now write to GitHub

54

3

A SQL console for your Heroku app

31

4

JQuery Offline : plugin to facilitate working with local storage

28

5

The newly modularized Three20 library

26

6

Clojure on .NET CLR

9

7

zztmmo - classic zzt game engine + node.js + jQuery

8

8

Migrate - db migrations for nodejs

6

9

Hive: Simplified WebWorkers with jQuery

4

10

GitHub adds contributor list to projects

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

(e^(i * pi)) + 1 = 0

41

2

Birthday Paradox

31

3

28

4

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

28

5

27

6

Clarke's three laws

9

7

Curry-Howard correspondence

5

8

Longest recorded sniper hit record

4

9

3

10

Doc Brown was right

3

Blogs [?]

1

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What should a developer know before building a public web site?

5

2

List Comprehensions in Ruby

1

Substack [?]