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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010)

367

2

Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4

327

3

Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million

316

4

Hacker Monthly #2 is out

298

5

Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast

247

6

Bee Sting Theory of Poverty

235

7

NY hotels trying to outlaw short-term home sublets (i.e. AirBnB)

227

8

Stop complaining and pay programmers more

227

9

GitHub adds Organizations

223

10

Solitude and Leadership: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone

200

Top Ask HN

1

What were your naivetés in your twenties?

391

2

How can I get better at design?

163

3

ASK HN: How do you motivate a lazy co-founder?

107

4

What kind of advertising have you tried that worked?

87

5

How do I turn 100K into 1 million?

84

6

How to get the first 10 users?

73

7

Why do RSS Readers (mostly) suck?

63

8

Best book(s) to learn about the basics of economics?

61

9

So what was Knuth's "earthshaking announcement"?

61

10

Anyone Hiring Remotely?

58

Top Show HN

1

Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

95

2

mail2brain, email attachment timesaver

44

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Microsoft by the Numbers

170

2

Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

136

3

Palantir Raises $90 Million

115

4

Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers

90

5

Tapulous acquired by Disney

83

6

IPhone 4: the Ars Technica review

72

7

Steve Jobs Responds To The Antenna Issue: Hold It Different Or Use A Case

60

8

Seeing Interactive (YC W10) Raises Seed From Baseline & Lerer Ventures

58

9

The $0.001 DIY iPhone 4 Antenna Fix

58

10

Staying Credulous: On Not Letting Being 40 Get In The Way

52

News [?]

1

That Misery Called Meditation

137

2

Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late

120

3

A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret

97

4

The Third Depression

65

5

Do-It-Yourself Downsizing: How To Build A Tiny House

65

6

When Capitalism Meets Cannabis

61

7

Are dating websites past their prime?

59

8

The Enemy Within

53

9

Single Chinese facility has more DNA sequencing power than the entire USA.

39

10

Russian Spies Hid Secret Codes in Online Photos

36

Scientific publications [?]

1

Stealing Millions 25 Cents At A Time

71

2

GraphLab: A New Framework for Parallel Machine Learning

31

3

The Trouble With Multicore

11

4

Artificial Immune Systems (2010)

2

5

Breakthrough in Capturing Lost Energy in Solar Cells

1

6

IEEE Spectrum: Free the Radio Spectrum

1

7

Russian Spies Thwarted By Old Technology?

1

8

The VoIP Steganography Threat

1

9

Journalist finally gets that eyecam working

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion

12

2

Hacker Scare Story - They're After Your Blender

8

3

Hacking the Papal Election (2005)

2

4

Microsoft Announces IIS Express – A New Built-In Web Server for Visual Studio

2

5

Droppin 0day on 0day droppers

1

6

Security Trade-Offs in Crayfish

1

7

Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Anandtech's iPhone 4 review

44

2

Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 Signal Issue: 'There are no reception issues'

34

3

AnandTech: The Real Story on iPhone 4's Antenna

11

4

Multitouch using water

5

5

Pornographers next to dump Flash for HTML5

4

6

Nokia N900 Apps

3

7

Now you see me, now you don’t, face detection scripts

2

8

HD Video Decoding on GPUs with VLC 1.1.0

1

9

"Bionic Cat": cat with 4 bionic legs

1

10

Complete iWork Pages for iPhone Walkthrough

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle for Android

45

2

The New Kindle DX "Graphite"

12

3

Amazon databases down? (e.g., shopping carts, adv search page)

8

4

IPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million

6

5

3

6

Tell HN, read this: The Design of Design - Essays from a Computer Scientist

2

7

Microsoft InstaLoad: battery direction no longer matters

2

8

Kindle for Android

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Unknown knowns: Why did you choose to be monogamous?

15

2

Pirate Bay’s Founding Group ‘Piratbyrån’ Disbands

6

3

The VC Shakeout

5

4

Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It

3

5

The Visualization Trap

3

6

The first and only true story of his adventures, Jesse James Jr. 1875

1

Science News [?]

1

One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot

146

2

The grandmother factor: Why do only humans and whales live long past menopause?

33

3

Element 114 on the brink of recognition

12

4

Programmable Matter Folding Like Origami

9

5

Schrödinger's kit: Tools that are in two places at once

2

6

Self-Assembling Nanodevices That Move and Change Shape on Demand

1

7

Shipping Lanes, Road Networks

1

8

Genetic Inspiration Could Show the Way to Revolutionize Information Technology

1

9

Programmable Matter

1

10

Movies shouldn't have better science, because science is complicated

1

Social [?]

1

199

2

Where does a tree get its mass? Richard Feynman explains.

94

3

How Divvy got to #1 on reddit for just $14

58

4

I'm embarrassed for RIM: Blackberry 6 sneak peak.

56

5

Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker Cone [video]

47

6

Ugly Common Lisp Data Type Questions

29

7

Becoming a civic hacker

27

8

Entrepreneurs can change the world

26

9

David Harvey: Crises of Capitalism (RSA Animate)

20

10

YouTube adds Video Editor

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub adds Organizations

223

2

Store.js - cross browser local storage without using cookies or flash

155

3

VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption

111

4

Github listens and lowers price for Organizations

100

5

Clj, a Clojure REPL and package management system by David Edgar Liebke

75

6

Intro to NetworkX (Python lib for net analysis) by Drew Conway & Aric Hagberg

31

7

Performance testing with boomerang from Yahoo [source]

4

8

DropFuse - FUSE based fs for DropBox linked folders

2

9

2

10

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Common Misconceptions

169

2

How Apple avoids paying taxes in CA

110

3

66

4

Starfish Prime, outer space nuclear test

41

5

The Two Generals' Problem (wikipedia)

34

6

Disambiguation (disambiguation)

8

7

Rosenhan experiment (1973)

7

8

Mappings Between Written and Spoken Words in Natural Languages

4

9

Cosmic Latte: Google's Top-Ads Color

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

Lisp as a secret weapon

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Languages we call "Haskell"

8

2

Career day in kindergarten: how to demonstrate programming in 20 minutes?

2

3

Solve this problem

2

Substack [?]