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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

610

2

How to Lose Time and Money

467

3

Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm

429

4

348

5

I assume I'm below average

340

6

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50

314

7

Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?

268

8

Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4

247

9

AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card

226

10

Diaspora: One Month In

212

Top Ask HN

1

What's your most interesting life goal currently?

150

2

Lack of self-discipline driving me hopeless. Tips?

132

3

Feedback on Mixest, my HTML5 ironic indie Pandora

111

4

If ideas are worthless, why are some startups in stealth mode?

73

5

Suggestions for mastering vim?

70

6

Does my company with $140,000 annual revenue have any value?

69

7

List of open/public databases

64

8

Managing my own server.

61

9

What's the best feature you've built that no one uses?

59

10

Review my startup - Reputely (Game Mechanics Platform)

58

Top Show HN

1

Created a Job Board for Remote Programming Jobs

23

2

Turn scripts from userscripts.org into Safari Extensions

12

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50

314

2

AP Not Amused By The Woot Story, Tries To Play The Oil Spill Card

226

3

300 actions a minute? Truly mastering StarCraft

142

4

inDinero (YC S10) launches Mint.com for Businesses

115

5

First look: new Ubuntu font boosts Linux typography

95

6

Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers

63

7

Life and death of Microsoft Kin: the inside story

57

8

Flash Ported to iPad

50

9

Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

40

10

Michael Arrington: "We Need More Opinion In News, Not Less"

34

News [?]

1

What the World Eats

63

2

They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)

61

3

Rust in the bread basket

59

4

American Dream is Elusive for New Generation

50

5

Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again

47

6

Drug Submarine Seized In Ecuador Is Huge Leap For Smugglers

46

7

A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space

43

8

Jefferson changed 'subjects' to 'citizens' in Declaration of Independence

40

9

South Korea ends Microsoft's online shopping monopoly

33

10

Russian Math Genius Rejects $1 million Dollar Prize

32

Scientific publications [?]

1

How many zombies do you know?

3

2

NASA Takes Gamers on a Lunar Adventure With New Online Video Game

2

3

The Great Storm: Solar Tempest of 1859 Revealed (2003)

2

4

First Direct Photo of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed

1

5

Cellphone Crime Solvers

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated

32

2

Pirate Bay Hack Exposes User Booty

31

3

The Managed Runtime Initiative

21

4

Johnson (Smalltalk) and Armstrong (Erlang) on the state of OOP

10

5

Why you should write down your passwords

1

6

Tracking Location Based on Water Isotope Ratios

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ubuntu running on a Nexus One

65

2

Developer Earns Nearly $1,400 in One Day With iAds

54

3

OLED hack saves juice on Nexus One

1

4

Robostool follows you to your chair

1

5

Flurry modifies data collection after being called out by Steve Jobs

1

6

Blizzard shortcuts the greater Internet fuckwad theory

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple letter about iPhone 4

212

2

Microsoft – InstaLoad Battery Installation Technology

78

3

Amazon S3 Announces Support for Bucket Policies

14

4

C# Language Specification 4.0

5

5

The Equal Odds Rule, from a particulary good Amazon review

2

6

Hotmail now allows changing email address

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Swedish pirate party to run the pirate bay from inside the Swedish parliament

90

2

Fake Explanations

58

3

Hold off on proposing solutions

43

4

Cryonics As A Large Scale Enterprise

15

5

Glimpse of A.I. with John McCarthy, Nils Nilsson, Edward Feigenbaum (1984)

13

6

Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit"

11

7

Pirate Bay and MegaUpload Escape Domain Seizure by US

9

8

A proposal for a cryogenic grave for cryonics

2

9

24-pin ethernet plugs, 12" disks, and the first networked FPS: Xerox ALTO, 1979

1

Science News [?]

1

Could Boxes of Water Help Reforest the World?

60

2

Air-Purifying Road Surface Eats 45% of NOx Pollution

44

3

Why men are attracted to women with small feet

39

4

The coming shortage of helium and how government policy is creating it.

28

5

It's too late to worry that the aliens will find us

23

6

Left-sided Cancer: Blame your bed and TV?

18

7

Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered

18

8

Beverages Leave 'Geographic Signatures' That Can Track People's Movements

17

9

Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar

17

10

Machine learning revolutionizes software development

13

Social [?]

1

Google employees on Reddit answers questions.

80

2

Android soon to be able to distribute Python apps as .APKs

63

3

Youtube comments susceptible to XSS

56

4

MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

51

5

YouTube Leanback

46

6

Reddit IAMA: former Entrepreneur who built a company w. $50,000 a month turnover

29

7

The State of the Database with Tim Ellis (MixPanel / WePay TechTalk)

26

8

How Google tries to "generate luck"

25

9

What Divvy's Redditing Following License Giveaway Did For Business

23

10

Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in New Orleans

22

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition (ePub)

128

2

Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP.

110

3

Nu: Lisp on Objective C. (think Clojure for Cocoa)

58

4

How GitHub deploys new features

5

5

Structal, a Ruby-like language in PHP

2

6

Sibilant: Lisp for Node.js

2

7

Erlang/OTP sample projects (erl-tutorials)

1

8

Every UTF-8 character, as it would appear in a valid OAuth request

1

9

Gora is an ORM framework for column oriented datastores

1

10

Ssh library for java

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The First Caucasian Samurai

47

2

De Bono's Six Thinking Hats

24

3

7

4

Intergalactic Computer Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6

5

Boustrophedon: Bi-directional Text

4

6

Joshua Abraham Norton

3

7

Simpson's paradox (statistics)

3

8

The Peltzman Effect

2

9

2

10

Wikipedia:Spoken articles

2

Blogs [?]

1

How to Lose Time and Money

467

2

How to Lose Time and Money

3

3

What You'll Wish You'd Known (2005)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stackoverflow, HTML by Regex, topmost answer

105

2

StackOverFlow: Why is Github more popular than Gitorious?

32

3

Do you print source code?

2

4

Simon Marlow explains how and when to tune garbage collector settings

1

5

StackOverflow: Faster ways to move cursor around in a command line.

1

Substack [?]