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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Banana equivalent dose

470

2

U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan

354

3

Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call

330

4

After 15 years of practice..

310

5

Rent a White Guy

275

6

You're Doing It Wrong: CS in the real world

273

7

Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

270

8

SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry

260

9

An interview by a 7th grader

243

10

Writing great documentation

243

Top Ask HN

1

158

2

Why do I always waste time on the weekends?

123

3

How come so many of you know about stocks/finance ?

112

4

I feel my dream slipping away

108

5

Please explain short selling?

95

6

where do you get your SSL certificates?

77

7

Trading Algorithms

72

8

I'm 20 and I need advice.

70

9

What are problems that need to be solved?

69

10

Let's Revive PG's /ideas.html discussion

61

Top Show HN

1

our (bootstrapped) Real Time Analytics + Social Media Monitor Startup

8

2

I released an update to my Mac App.

2

3

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry

260

2

No, The U.S. Didn’t Just ‘Discover’ a $1 Trillion Afghan Motherlode

125

3

India makes good on vow to sabotage ACTA

124

4

Treehouse launches (YC S08)

79

5

How To Transition From A Free To A Paid Service

62

6

Twilio Releases OpenVBX, An Open Source Google Voice For Businesses

61

7

Is Entrepreneurship Just About the Exit?

59

8

Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future

55

9

FanPulse (YC S10) Launches Web App In Time For The World Cup

52

10

Dropbox proud to be Mac, looking forward to iOS 4

45

News [?]

1

U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan

354

2

Rent a White Guy

275

3

IBM's Watson AI trumps humans in "Jeopardy!"

194

4

Nifty Freeway Interchange Design

129

5

How oil did not corrupt Norway

120

6

Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving

108

7

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

84

8

The Velluvial Matrix

78

9

The Case for Calling Terrorists Nitwits

74

10

A Modest Proposal: A King and Queen for America

73

Scientific publications [?]

1

Man replaces his false eye with bionic camera eye

12

2

Delta Rocket Family Celebrates 50 Years of Durability

3

3

How To Destroy a Black Hole

2

4

Clinical Experience of a Diet Designed to Reduce Aging

2

5

A Counterexample to the Hirsch Conjecture [Preprint]

2

6

Measuring single electrons with a vibrating probe

1

7

NASA's Terra Satellites Sees Spill on May 24

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

WWDC10 videos are here and are available free.

147

2

Schneier on Filming the Police

77

3

Apple makes all WWDC 2010 videos available for developers

36

4

Twitter Launches Twitter Places and API

34

5

Azul Systems To Open Source Significant Technology in Managed Runtime Initiative

33

6

What's Happening with Twitter?

14

7

Architexa aims to make UML quick and easy

4

8

Schneier on Security: What is a Hacker?

3

9

Dating Recordings by Power Line Fluctuations

3

10

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple relaxes 3.2.2 rule, allowing Lisp and other languages in apps

28

2

Android meets Arduino - Hack a Day

13

3

Apple reveals iPhone 4 has 512MB RAM, doubling iPad - report

7

4

Motorola Droid X to challenge iPhone 4's Retina Display?

4

5

OnLive's Gaming-on-Demand Service Demoed on an iPad

3

6

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg trashes iPhone

2

7

Apple expected to have 100M iPhone subscribers by end of 2011

2

8

1

9

AT&T sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders as Best Buy halts white pre-orders

1

10

Open Letter to Facebook: More Privacy Improvements Needed

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple releases newly designed Mac Mini

94

2

Supplier Responsibility at Apple

12

3

"Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" by Tony Hsieh

2

4

iPhone4 Preoder

1

5

ITunes 9.2 ready for download

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to explain Euler's identity using triangles and spirals

79

2

Hackers Wanted leaks: director Sam Bozzo on BitTorrent and the movie industry

18

3

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters

3

4

The Big Idea: How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution

2

5

BitTorrent Live Stream Brings Film Festival to Gaza

1

6

Director Sam Bozzo On BitTorrent and the Movie Industry

1

7

UTorrent Launches Remote Control for iPhone

1

8

Huge Security Flaw Makes VPNs Useless for BitTorrent

1

Science News [?]

1

First replicating creature spawned in life simulator

73

2

World's first plastic antibody works in mice

42

3

20

4

Pulses of darkness let digital data travel farther

4

5

Stress detector can hear it in your voice

3

6

Can People Become Experts without the Experience?

2

7

Did a 'sleeper' field awake to expand the universe?

2

8

Refashioned rat livers could boost transplants

1

9

Want to find your mind? Learn to direct your dreams

1

10

Is the Standard Model of the Universe Wrong?

1

Social [?]

1

Segway by Honda

127

2

Portal 2 trailer

95

3

Giant Lego MindStorms Robotic Chess Board

52

4

"Fog Cannon" fills a room to prevent burglary

45

5

Richard Dawkins interviews Steven Pinker

40

6

Playlist of YouTube videos linked from top 1024 HN stories

29

7

Five secrets to a killer elevator pitch (video)

28

8

Facebook's Q&A product hits beta

12

9

Philip Zimbardo: The Secret Powers of Time

11

10

USB Typewriter for iPad

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sneakernet: 99% offline file sharing network

182

2

Get notifications from Github with Notifo

30

3

Hijs — simple, fast javascript highlighting for the browser.

5

4

Labrepl: an environment for learning the Clojure language.

3

5

Replaylib - Python module lets you record HTTP sessions for offline unit testing

3

6

Murder: decentralized code deployments using BitTorrent

3

7

Translate.js - a javascript babel fish for node.js and the browser.

2

8

Slide just open sourced a bunch of code on Github

2

9

Colors.js - get color and style in your node.js console like what

1

10

Say.js - TTS (text to speech) for node.js. send text from node.js to speakers

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Banana equivalent dose

470

2

The oldest, continuously running, independent business in the world?

83

3

Kwangmyong, the North-Korea-Wide-Web

45

4

Random numbers need not be uniform

25

5

When did you last use one of these?

18

6

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

14

7

Kahan summation algorithm

10

8

Doomsday Argument (probabilistic estimate of humanity's future)

7

9

Dunning-Kruger Effect: Incompetence Leads To Confidence, Competence To Doubt

7

10

The First Modern Economy

5

Blogs [?]

1

An interview by a 7th grader

243

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the most poorly named application out there?

2

2

Remember the issue with Hashtables in Haskell? Fixed.

2

3

Does lookaround affect which languages can be matched by regular expressions?

1

Substack [?]