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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

362

2

Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"

360

3

315

4

What iPads Did To My Family

270

5

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

250

6

China drops Dropbox

246

7

Thursday = Thor's day

245

8

My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel

236

9

For loops help - comp.lang.c

233

10

Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested

222

Top Ask HN

1

Care to share your average Android Market daily revenues?

75

2

Please review my Mac App

59

3

Massive vulnerability on Twitter?

57

4

Any health tips?

45

5

Brainstorming alternative Facebook models

40

6

Free Programming eBooks

39

7

Can we bold the original poster's username in comments?

29

8

Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News wiki?

27

9

Might as well start with SQL and migrate to NoSQL later

22

10

How would you make Emacs do this?

22

Top Show HN

1

iPad port of my sheet music app Etude

94

2

Talking to your customers made easy.

24

3

maskedmail: craigslist style email anonymizer web service

16

4

My notes from the Web 2.0 Expo

8

5

My weekend project - CuteAdoptablePets.com

6

6

what do you think of our new web app, PrioritizeMyWork.com?

5

7

parking ticket reminder webapp I built

4

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"

360

2

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

250

3

$10 Million Round For Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (YC W08)

158

4

The Lost Tribes of RadioShack: Tinkerers Search for New Spiritual Home

99

5

Iron Man 2's Secret Sauce: 3-D Printing

83

6

Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live

81

7

Nowmov (YC W10): Sit Back, Relax, And Watch An Endless Stream of Videos

72

8

OneSocialWeb: We’re Ahead Of Diaspora In The Creation Of An ‘Open Facebook’

62

9

Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk

57

10

Digg’s Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things

51

News [?]

1

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook

190

2

Full Version of Metropolis Found

117

3

Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S.

71

4

Data, data everywhere

63

5

What has Apple got against Eastern Europe?

56

6

The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek

52

7

Homeless, But Enjoying Hawaii On $3 A Day

49

8

Roulette Russian: The teenager behind Chatroulette

47

9

Net-Worth Obsession

42

10

How to Pack For 10 Days In a Carry-On

42

Scientific publications [?]

1

Laser Fence Zaps Mosquitoes In Flight

37

2

Andrew Viterbi, invented Viterbi algorithm, co-founded Qualcomm

3

3

When engineers genes collide

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux

192

2

Worst-Case Thinking

113

3

Graph Databases, NOSQL and Neo4j

7

4

Cory Doctorow Gets Phished

6

5

Have We Lost the Desktop Security Battle?

2

6

New Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) eats more power than Windows 7

1

7

QCon Presentation on Sustainable TDD by the Co-Author of jMock

1

8

Binary Analysis: automatically check your gadgets for GPL violations

1

9

[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.6.3 vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 Benchmarks

1

10

If You See Something, Say Something

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia

77

2

Steve Jobs Tells Germans to Blame Their Government for iPad Price Difference

29

3

Apple Gives Tribute to Newton with New 'What is iPad?' Ad

29

4

WWDC sells out in eight days

2

5

IPhone market share grows to 16% at expense of BlackBerry

2

6

Android Smartphone Sales Exceed iPhone

2

7

Nintendo boss calls Apple 'the enemy of the future'

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Press Release: UK iPad availability and pricing

1

2

Ten One Design - Pogo Sketch Stylus for iPhone 3G, 3G S

1

3

Microsoft Live@edu - competitor to Google Apps Edu edition

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

"Sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content"

84

2

32

3

Fabrik - A Visual Programming Environment From Apple (1988)

26

4

Google Docs: use of an URL parameter is a violation of intergalactic law

24

5

Google and the perils of optimization by proxy in social systems

5

6

May 6 Crash S&P Pit Audio

1

7

Lotteries: A Waste of Hope

1

Science News [?]

1

More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

174

2

Jupiter loses a stripe.

64

3

Talking seriously with children is good for their language proficiency

56

4

The bugs that will give us free power while cleaning our sewage

33

5

Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

31

6

MDMA used in treating PTSD

24

7

Become a wage slave to software

4

8

Army of smartphone chips could emulate the human brain

3

9

Tattoos may be evidence of high-quality genes in men

3

10

Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

3

Social [?]

1

Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry

138

2

How did Facebook guess my email address?

126

3

103

4

Mini Cannon Firing and Destroying Targets

62

5

Proof that Telstra Bigpond is Throttling Youtube Bandwidth in Australia (video)

51

6

Flash for Android running fairly well on the Nexus One

44

7

Data Parallel Haskell Talk by Simon Peyton Jones

34

8

GrooveShark AMA on Reddit

34

9

The HTML5 and Flash Debate from a Flash Developer's Perspective

31

10

Youtube launch beta video rentals

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub's email correlation for authorship

43

2

ALL code is ugly

43

3

What does this JS do?

29

4

JQuery now works server-side in node.js

14

5

Localtunnel -- instantly set up a public tunnel to your local web server

9

6

FlashCache - a general purpose writeback block cache for Linux

8

7

GitHub Issues, Cappuccino Style

3

8

Introducing cssgen: CSS generation in clojure

2

9

Download all your tagged photos on Facebook using a Ruby script I wrote

2

10

Consistent Hashing in Ruby

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia's getting a new look

46

2

Wikipedia's new look

24

3

"Malamanteau", a self-powered notability?

10

4

Dunning–Kruger effect

9

5

Starwisp - hypothetical unmanned interstellar probe design

8

6

New nominee to United States Supreme Court

7

7

Design elements and principles

4

8

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

4

9

Wikipedia gets major redesign

3

10

Letter to Russia with krokozyabry

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

I’m graduating with a CS degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.

180

2

Programming Vernacular

4

Substack [?]