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Top stories
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
491
2
How real-world corruption works
316
3
Play PacMan at google.com Now.
298
4
American Express fails miserably at basic security
252
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I've Changed My Mind About The iPad
249
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YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund
238
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Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
225
8
Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft
215
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Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function
206
10
What happens to an unprotected human body in space?
195
Top Ask HN
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I sold my company last month for $5m. What do I do with the money?
142
2
What streetsmarts have you learnt?
129
3
Why do I lose interest in every project after 6 months?
127
4
% of Free to Paid?
85
5
How do you begin the process of developing a web application?
84
6
Too much soap opera news as of late?
84
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ASK HN: I'm very tired.... how do I sell my company?
78
8
My co-founder sux. What can I do ?
77
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I don't get this privacy awareness outburst, can anyone please explain?
52
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How do I get out of my unhappy coding job?
52
Top Show HN
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didtheywinornot.com Single Purpose Scores Site
33
2
I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.
16
3
TomBoy, an OSS AAC iPhone App for Autistic Kids
6
4
Funny Tweet Ranking Site, laughlitm.us
4
5
Lists are the next big social content
4
6
Create better Habits using StepSet.com
3
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
225
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Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft
215
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Not just oil: US hit peak water in 1970 and nobody noticed
68
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The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
67
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While You Slept, They Hacked
67
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Is Android fragmented or is this the new rate of innovation?
67
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New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source
60
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Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
59
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Kickin It Old School With A Prepaid Phone
43
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Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3
42
News [?]
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Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it would be
140
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Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In California
128
3
Net Worth of Every U.S. President from Washington to Obama
80
4
Slate's experiment on implanting false memories
72
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Zuckerberg responds to privacy concerns
69
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The Pentagon’s recipe for brownies is 26 pages long
49
7
The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand
46
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Forget Greece: Europe's real problem is Germany
41
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Hypersonic aircraft shatters aviation records
37
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FTC Approves Google AdMob Acquisition
29
Scientific publications [?]
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A high-level 3D visualization API for Java and ImageJ.
3
2
A Molecular Computer That Mimics the Brain
2
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Space Potty Training Secrets Revealed by Astronauts
2
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BP oil slick from space
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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The Twitter Platform
91
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PyPy: the other new compiler project
52
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Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect
26
4
Devious New Phishing Tactic Targets Tabs
2
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VoltDB launches next-generation open-source OLTP DBMS
2
6
Automobile Security Analysis
1
7
History of NSA Computers
1
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Apple URL Scheme Reference
1
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Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale
1
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End-to-End Encrypted Cell Phone Calls
1
Tech blogs [?]
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AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac
32
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Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
23
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Hacking DNA
14
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Head mounted camera tracks with your eyes
9
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Rumour: iPhone Native Development on Windows Visual Studio
3
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Web Browsing Performance on Android 2.2 Hampered by Flash Compatibility
3
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Intel Kills Larrabee GPU, Will Not Bring a Discrete Graphics Product to Market
2
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Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed
2
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Walmart to sell Apple's 16GB iPhone 3GS for $97
2
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Apple Passes Microsoft in Market Capitalization
2
FAANG+ [?]
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My book 'Programming Windows Azure' from O'Reilly is available
55
2
Amazon's Universal Wish List button: add anything on the web to your wish list
17
3
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 free now
1
4
Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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IsoHunt Forced to Shut Down in the US
33
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BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent Protocol
25
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Taking the awkwardness out of a Prenup - A Game Theoretic solution
22
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Semi-supervised recognition of sarcastic sentences in online product reviews
10
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How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution
8
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Why irrationality is a problem of incentives
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Google.com, November, 1998
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The Making of a Corporate Athlete
1
Science News [?]
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Disturbing Scientific Discoveries
50
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Profile: Martin Gardner, the Mathematical Gamester (1914-2010)
22
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8 biologists on the meaning of synthetic life
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Hermits and Cranks: Lessons from Martin Gardner on Recognizing Pseudoscientists
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Events that will change everything (video)
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Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests
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Arizona man is first to take artificial heart home
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Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrong
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A commercial quantum encryption system has been fully hacked for the first time
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'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving
5
Social [?]
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How real-world corruption works
316
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Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function
206
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I am one of the creators of the first "synthetic" bacterial cell. AMA
188
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The latest version of the LittleDog robot
173
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Richard Stallman agrees to do an AMA on reddit
131
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Ballmer Not appearing at WWDC - Microsoft
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DHH: Being at the right time at the right place is not the secret ingredient.
51
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A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter streaming API
42
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Reddit's unpaid "internship" offer is apparently against labor laws
32
10
Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz tells Michael Arrington to F-off
29
Github repos and gists [?]
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Node.net - Node.js implemented in Javascript on the .NET runtime
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XMPP library for node.js
42
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Rails 3 jQuery Setup Script
22
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JUP - Javascript Markup
17
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Google's Pacman Source Code
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App::perlbrew (think rvm, but for Perl)
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PyFaceGraph: A Facebook Graph API Client in Python
4
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MongoDB bindings for Haskell - Mini Tutorial
4
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Pyposterous, a Python API wrapper for Posterous
2
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Libexpat XML SAX parser binding for node.js
1
Wikipedia [?]
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Hedy Lamarr, femme fatale and inventor of spread spectrum communications
65
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Grey goo
40
3
Karōshi, death by overwork
26
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Towel Day is today
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RIP Rudin
2
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Goodhart's law
2
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Gall–Peters projection
2
8
Lucien - the first science fiction writer
2
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Ferret legging, a sport in which ferrets are trapped in a man's pants
1
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Nemi Ships
1
Blogs [?]
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup
24
Stackoverflow [?]
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What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
174
2
Reasons to hate any programming language
83
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New programming jargon you coined
56
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What are your favorite programming-related academic papers?
45
5
Hidden features of Perl?
30
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Show me some cool list comprehensions
1
Substack [?]