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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Where can I fly for how much?

668

2

Why I Sold Zappos

526

3

How to make McDonalds french fries

396

4

333

5

There Are No Famous Programmers

303

6

The Value of Ideas

285

7

Linus vs C++, again

275

8

"You Don't Understand Ordinary People" - Feynman Gives Advice to Wolfram

264

9

Become a morning person. How to end insomnia for $520.99

256

10

My 2 Bucks on Pricing

228

Top Ask HN

1

Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?

236

2

How do I become smarter?

149

3

How do I get started freelancing?

98

4

What are your best life hacks/best tools in life/time savers?

81

5

accounting resources for startups?

38

6

Alternatives to Google Analytics

37

7

So What Universities Are Good?

32

8

Review my startup Readness.com - a last.fm for news [chrome/fb connect]

32

9

Help us create a startup in the gaming space

29

10

Are you still an information addict?

26

Top Show HN

1

Browse, submit and rate interesting Wikipedia articles

10

2

the technology and the game I am working on for months

5

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

New York Times Forces Apple to Pull Popular ‘Pulse’ iPad Newsreader

183

2

Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010

108

3

We Lose A TechCruncher To Y Combinator

105

4

AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros

86

5

Investing in Russia? Better hire body guards and hunker down

77

6

SproutRobot Sends You Seeds And Tells You When To Plant Them

75

7

Apple's "evil/genius" plan to punk the web and gild the iPad

73

8

Here’s How The Government Can Fix Silicon Valley: Leave It Alone

72

9

U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

64

10

Titan's atmosphere oddity consistent with methane-based life

61

News [?]

1

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?

140

2

115

3

The men who stare at airline passengers

74

4

How Soros Broke the Pound

60

5

Dropbox: Files Without Borders

59

6

Graphic: Methods That Have Been Tried to Stop the Leaking Oil

48

7

Twenty-five years later, the first convictions in the Bhopal disaster

40

8

Is a college education worth the money?

40

9

Daring to Discuss Women in Science

38

10

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

36

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Athens Affair

36

2

Information Theory and Statistical Physics - Lecture Notes

35

3

[1004.1001] The Graph Traversal Pattern

4

4

Out-of-Control Satellite Threatens Other Nearby Spacecraft

2

5

Japanese Satellite Begins Flight to Test Space Age Parts

2

6

The structure and function of complex networks

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter launches own shortener t.co

151

2

Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems (DabbleDB, Trendly)

92

3

Googler Drops Windows Zero-Day, Microsoft Unhappy

73

4

Safari 5 Extension Development

55

5

48

6

John Hughes on Why Functional Programming Matters

37

7

Aditya Agarwal in a 1 hour presentation on scale at Facebook

26

8

Lambdas in Java: An In-Depth Analysis

4

9

Towards a Universal VM

2

10

Terrorists Placing Fake Bombs in Public Places

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

157

2

Apple allows analytics data collection, but not for Google

42

3

AdMob Chief Responds to Apple's New Developer Terms

37

4

Safari 5 to be launched at WWDC with Safari Reader?

34

5

Prevent Your Yahoo Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network

5

6

AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering

2

7

Safari 5 to be launched at WWDC with Safari Reader?

2

8

WWDC Software Notes: Safari 5, Xcode 4, iTunes 9.2

2

9

Aerial Footage of Apple's $1b North Carolina Data Center

1

10

Apple Design Awards for iOS Devices Announced

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

178

2

Iphone 4.0 official video

119

3

63

4

Hayek's Road to Serfdom #1 on Amazon Today

42

5

Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote

36

6

Amazon announces AWS Management Console S3 support

19

7

New iPhone accessibility features - screen reader, bluetooth braille devices...

2

8

Safari 5's Features

2

9

Fredrick P Brooks : The Design Of Design, Essays from a computer scientist

2

10

According to Apple, Safari is the only HTML5 Compliant Browser

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Mega-Money World Of MegaUpload

63

2

The Visualization Trap

19

3

A series of lectures from Robert Sapolsky - Biology and Human Behavior [video]

11

4

Google Threatens To Shutter BitTorrent Tracker Fail-Safe

2

5

The AI in a box boxes you

2

6

Subverting a friendly AI

2

7

WikiLeaks Embraces Torrent and Magnet Links

2

8

Your intuitions are not magic

2

9

Wikileak Founder Julian Assange's Archived Blog

0

Science News [?]

1

Can You Swim Faster in Water or Corn Syrup?

38

2

Crocodiles Ride Ocean Currents for Ocean Travel

37

3

What art can teach us about the brain

28

4

Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel?

23

5

23andMe Blunder: Genome scan customers sent the wrong results

23

6

Humans Naturally Think in Logarithms, Not Linearly

10

7

Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster

8

8

Cory Doctorow: My computer says no

3

9

Scientists Uncover Protein That Thwarts Tumor Invasion

3

10

A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces

2

Social [?]

1

The First Falcon 9 Launch

125

2

The Future of UI

118

3

BigPipe: Pipelining web pages for high performance

90

4

Stanford Machine Learning Course

79

5

Good Lisp code to read

79

6

Just open sourced an Android input method I worked for a few weeks...

66

7

Google IO VC Panel

54

8

Freedom In Fashion: No IP, No Patents, No Licensing

53

9

IAmA theoretical physicist. Ask me anything (via reddit)

50

10

David Heinemeier Hansson's Rails 3 keynote at RailsConf

42

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Native port of ZFS for Linux

59

2

Twitter is experimenting with Redis

34

3

Cohorts: a simple, purely Javascript split test framework

25

4

Escape_utils - Faster string escaping routines for your ruby apps

11

5

Why build a site? Why do your customers care?

8

6

Git Reference Site

3

7

Faster pussycat kill kill

3

8

DeepOpenStruct - Simple data structures from complex nested data in Ruby

2

9

VsVim: Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2010

2

10

Ilya Grigorik's PoC- rails 3, ruby 1.9, async AR + single thin server

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

227

2

No U-Turn Syndrome (NUTS)

73

3

What do Bill Gates and Richard Stallman have in common ?

71

4

Kensington Security Slot

26

5

The Man Who Saved the World: Stanislav Petrov

9

6

Banana equivalent dose

6

7

Robert Morris was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1990

4

8

Fisher–Yates (Knuth) Shuffle

4

9

Error detection and correction (information theory)

3

10

Wartime trickery

3

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Do programmers need a union?

19

2

Algorithm to calculate a page importance based on its views / comments

6

3

Similiaries between type classes in Haskell and interfaces in Go?

2

4

How do programmers work together on a project?

1

Substack [?]