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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

647

2

Hacker Monthly #1 is here

641

3

Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er

455

4

Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

357

5

Perfect email regex finally found

310

6

What To Do With Your Millions

291

7

PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively

281

8

Google ditches Windows on security concerns

260

9

Why are the east of cities usually poorer?

260

10

Cells. A massively multi-agent Python programming game.

228

Top Ask HN

1

At 34, do I go back to college or not?

59

2

Overcoming engineer/developer bias against SEO

51

3

What to do about a boring job ?

48

4

Non-tech solo founder scored $100k to develop product. Finding a dev?

48

5

Any interest in learning how startups actually work?

45

6

As a non-US resident, how do I accept CC payments on my website?

39

7

Ask HN's FPGA users: FPGA tool woes & wants?

37

8

How do you advertise without spending money?

36

9

Dead man coding.

31

10

As a non-expert, what would you do to solve the oil leak in the Gulf?

29

Top Show HN

1

Songbird's first music visualizer

7

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users

140

2

Opera parodies Google's Chrome speed tests mercilessly (video)

110

3

Tesla’s Elon Musk: “I ran out of cash”

108

4

India vows to sabotage ACTA

97

5

Steve Jobs's thoughts on the Internet in 1996

93

6

Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible

85

7

Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google

81

8

Wikileaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor

78

9

Wind-Powered Car Travels Downwind Faster Than The Wind

73

10

Apple: Make a desktop, your iPad app is toast

71

News [?]

1

Google ditches Windows on security concerns

260

2

Top kill fails to plug leak

140

3

Library of Congress holds conference on origins of portolan charts

75

4

Are Today’s ‘Entrepreneurs’ Actually the Unemployed?

69

5

BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago

41

6

Loopt: Turning Consumer Loyalty Into a Cellphone Game

37

7

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange

29

8

How a Soccer Star is Made

29

9

Homeowners in Foreclosure Find a Rent-Free Approach

27

10

This Woman Has $97K in Student Loans. Who's to Blame?

22

Scientific publications [?]

1

Hacking a Ferrari

6

2

Monkey controls advanced 7-degrees-of-freedom robotic arm with its thoughts

2

3

IEEE 2010 Medal of Honor: Viterbi

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

117

2

How Google Uses Linux[2009]

39

3

The State of JRuby

29

4

LWN.net: A note from your editor

5

5

Absorbing Scala in the Java Ecosystem [video]

4

6

Jim Coplien: DCI Architecture, OOP, Agile and User Interface

2

7

Joe Armstrong: Message Passing Concurrency in Erlang (video)

2

8

Devious New Phishing Tactic Targets Tabs

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Robotic quadcopter acrobatics like nothing we’ve seen

95

2

IPhone 4 to have dense IPS display

42

3

"YouTube Is UsTube"

32

4

Intel MIC: 22nm, 50+ Cores, Larrabee for HPC Announced

3

5

Adobe announces magazine digital publishing platform for Apple iPad

3

6

Penguin's vision of their iPad future | 9 to 5 Mac

2

7

Apple iPhone Web marketshare outgrows Google Android in May

2

8

Foxconn suicides: Company promises 20% wages hike

1

9

Steve Jobs in Opening Interview Session at D8 Conference

1

10

Verizon may be testing 4G iPad

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Peter Norvig's book reviews on Amazon

126

2

Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk

116

3

Apple sells 2 million iPads in less than 60 days

1

4

Microsoft really talking at WWDC? Launching Expression Studio 4 on the same day?

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Bayes' Theorem Illustrated (My Way)

94

2

What's a disease? Or: shoud fat/shy/alcoholic people be blamed or treated?

91

3

Three Worlds Collide (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

66

4

UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally

15

5

Loki: A promising plan gone terribly wrong [2002]

4

6

The Philosophy of Misdeed

3

7

How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution

1

8

A Different Spin on Ambiguity

1

9

Measuring Optimization Power[2008]

1

10

Creating a HyperCard for the iPhone/iPad using HTML 5

1

Science News [?]

1

Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth

46

2

Study: Coffee unrelated to alertness, Stimulating effects may be illusion

45

3

Eat less, live longer?

44

4

Tacit knowledge: you don't know how much you know

18

5

Rise of the replicators

5

6

Airport security: Intent to deceive

2

7

Instantaneous velocity in Brownian particles observed: Einstein said impossible

2

8

Douglas Hofstadter on Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life

2

9

Aircraft smashes record for longest 'scramjet' flight

2

10

Largest Supercomputers to Simulate Life on Earth

2

Social [?]

1

Opera browser is much faster than a potato

226

2

201

3

IAmA: I sell an app for iPhone and Android. I make $10k per month.

121

4

Man builds working computer inside LittleBigPlanet video game (2008)

114

5

Sculptris 1.0 video

82

6

Is Twitter censoring #flotilla?

58

7

International Space Station Tour

53

8

Erik Naggum's library is for sale

37

9

Could an atomic bomb stop the Gulf Oil Leak?

30

10

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Async JS in Nginx

45

2

Stevedekorte's vertex.js

38

3

Template for creating compojure projects on google app engine

14

4

Http-console - simple, intuitive http console for node.js

9

5

Annotating Clojure programs with todo items

4

6

Donald Knuth Interview 2006

3

7

Facebook Android SDK

1

8

Twitter's Profile - GitHub

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

225

2

In 1979, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill went on for 10 months at about the BP rate.

88

3

Fractional calculus

45

4

Parrondo's paradox: A losing strategy that wins

43

5

Wage Slavery - Applicable to [Nearly] Everybody?

27

6

Dancing Links (A very useful hack by Knuth)

21

7

Prediction from the past: America will disintegrate in June 2010

9

8

Nuclear Football

8

9

Parrondo's paradox

4

10

The Forer effect

3

Blogs [?]

1

What Python Fixes

67

2

The Age of the Essay

17

3

How to Make Wealth

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What real life bad habits has programming given you?

24

2

What real life good habits has programming given you?

4

3

Calling “other” ImageMagick commands through Imagick?

1

4

Why hasn’t functional programming taken over yet?

1

Substack [?]