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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius
382
2
Google Prediction API
355
3
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
325
4
Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
321
5
Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried
296
6
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
293
7
'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
280
8
An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)
279
9
The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
275
10
Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
268
Top Ask HN
1
HN Alternatives?
210
2
Who's hiring in Europe?
106
3
How to get major bloggers write about my bootstrapped startup?
80
4
Hacker Hobbies?
76
5
Do you recognize this approach to programming?
74
6
Publish in peer-review journal without affiliation?
74
7
successful, transparent bootstrappers?
68
8
Non-programming part time jobs?
68
9
Jumping into Android Development
68
10
How to get a U.S. Visa (and work on your own startup)?
54
Top Show HN
1
My version of facebook search
2
2
CubeOut - remake of classic game Blockout in HTML 5
2
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
207
2
Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud
201
3
Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O
169
4
Google Previews Chrome Web Store — An App Store For The Web
99
5
Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight
87
6
The Gloves Are Officially Off: Google Vs. Apple
83
7
Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep.
79
8
Skype Screen Sharing Is A Huge (And Free) Productivity Tool
72
9
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger's
68
10
IPhone App Sales, Exposed
52
News [?]
1
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
325
2
An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)
279
3
Tradebot had zero trade-lose days in last 4 years
109
4
Plan B - Skip College
80
5
Caring for Your Introvert (2003)
78
6
Barack Obama's rant against technology: Don't shoot the messenger
66
7
The Enemy Within: What is Conficker's Botnet For?
55
8
Computer program writing great, original works of classical music
49
9
The Teenage App Tycoons
44
10
How an Indian Entrepreneur Learned to Love Paying Bribes
42
Scientific publications [?]
1
Anybots launches QB proxy robot
151
2
A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchronization of Cows
33
3
Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Data Sets
7
4
Microsoft Shifts Robotics Strategy, Makes Robotics Studio Available Free
7
5
Optical Transistor is a Step Toward the Quantum Internet
6
6
A Molecular Computer That Mimics the Brain
5
7
A working memory test battery for MATLAB.
5
8
Atlantis final mission, live launch @ 2:20pm EST
4
9
This Car Runs on Code
3
10
Backyard Star Wars - Jordin Kare's Laser Mosquito Barrier
2
Dev Blogs [?]
1
How We Moved From Microsoft ASP.NET to Rails and NoSQL
110
2
Write Down Your Password
23
3
Microsoft’s Experiments with Software Transactional Memory Have Ended
12
4
Clojure in the field (presented by Stuart Halloway)
7
5
What is Open Graph?
2
6
Militarized Marine Mammals
2
7
The cpuidle subsystem - Doing nothing is complicated
1
8
Software Liabilities in the UK
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net
64
2
Mac OS X Portal Performace
21
3
Internet Tethering for AT&T Customers to Finally Arrive with iPhone OS 4.0?
9
4
A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
6
5
Steve Jobs missed out on $10 billion from stock options adjustment
2
6
Sports Illustrated HTML5 version on Google I/O
2
7
Historic Apple Prototypes: Apple Mouse, Cube, Mac Tablet
1
8
Wireless iPhone sync software rejected by Apple from App Store
1
9
Adobe-Apple war on Flash reminiscent of PostScript struggle
1
10
AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Anger at Kindle pricing victimizes ratings of new Turow bestseller
26
2
Apple releases New MacBook models
2
3
Apple launches iTunes/App Store affiliate program
2
4
Microsoft compares IE6 to nine-year-old milk
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
The Pirate Bay goes down after legal pressure
83
2
Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute
51
3
Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P
38
4
The Math of When to Self-Improve
7
5
Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices
5
6
MPAA Worries About Pirating U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
4
7
Delivering Cheese With The Greatest of Ease: Details of PBworks release process
3
8
The Social Coprocessor Model
2
9
Defend Your Research: Imitation Is More Valuable Than Innovation
1
10
Newzbin shuts down after court defeat
1
Science News [?]
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Scientists Find 'Baffling' Link between Autism and Vinyl Flooring
61
2
Living in denial: When a sceptic isn't a sceptic
53
3
Mathematicians solve 140-year-old Boltzmann equation
48
4
Gravity-defying ramps take illusion prize
44
5
Ray Guns Near Crossroads to the Battlefield
10
6
How Long Will the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Last?
8
7
The Tragedy of the Commons
5
8
Trying to eradicate a disease is a waste of money: researcher
2
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Tiny sensors in cell phones to map toxins in real time
2
10
New deep-sea cables needed to protect global economy
2
Social [?]
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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
293
2
17 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (1965)
98
3
8-bit StarCraft
94
4
Reddit's Server HTTP response header is is "'; DROP TABLE servertypes; --"
78
5
Google IO streaming live
66
6
Clean up the oil spill with hay
61
7
Facebook and Zynga Enter Into Long-Term Relationship
60
8
A Fast Wait-Free Hash Table that Scales Linearly to Hundreds of Threads
59
9
A "life-changing" invention from the West Bank
59
10
BP oil slick
49
Github repos and gists [?]
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Faker.js - generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser
37
2
Node.js + Resque = crazy delicious
21
3
Node.js - Python bindings
3
4
Selfcontrol - Block servers for a specified period of time
2
5
RAC - RabbitMQ Administration Console
2
6
Square launches Android API
2
7
Penumbra: Overture and HPL1Engine Code Opened
1
8
GitHub's new build status indicator
1
9
Uploadd: A minimal upload server powered by Rainbows (includes Rails plugin)
1
Wikipedia [?]
1
Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
93
2
Things you shouldn't do: Two pointers in one field.
42
3
List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing Casio watches
26
4
Iannis Xenakis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
18
5
Patterns in the history of science
7
6
Dunbar's Number
6
7
Mpemba effect
3
8
Dovecote
2
9
Braess's paradox
2
10
Amazing story of how to fool the military
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How do emulators work and how are they written?
176
2
Using Javascript to Programmatically Untag Facebook Photos?
22
Substack [?]