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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?

277

2

Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours

273

3

A prescient footnote

261

4

World War II was totally unrealistic

255

5

247

6

The truth about cold water

244

7

Reddit needs help

235

8

235

9

Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand

229

10

Old Spice on Twitter

210

Top Ask HN

1

Modern web design resources?

111

2

Why should I care about Clojure?

100

3

Is it feasible to do high-frequency trading as an individual?

91

4

How did you 'accidentally' make money?

86

5

What are you working on today?

86

6

Best Philosophical Books?

80

7

Please help a frustrated Mid-Career (?) Developer!

77

8

How do you deal with suicidal thoughts ?

75

9

How did you learn about the design/architecture of backend systems ?

58

10

What to do with this meme?

53

Top Show HN

1

TextMate CSS3 Bundle

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games

171

2

1000Memories: A Loved One Has Passed Away. What’s Your Digital Strategy?

130

3

Arrington Gets an Anybot

121

4

Brazil to penalize anyone who "hinders or impedes" fair use rights

114

5

Full Trailer For Facebook Movie ‘The Social Network’ Hits The Web

113

6

Judge draws parallel between music sharing and unlicensed public performance

71

7

9th Circuit Guts "First Sale" Rights

69

8

The power of Apple's FaceTime commercial

54

9

Remember When We Were All Supposed To Quit Facebook?

41

10

Crocodoc (YC W10) Closes Angel Round, Launches New Document Collaboration Tools

39

News [?]

1

The Turn (1993)

146

2

Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant

91

3

An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself

81

4

Senior Apple engineer told Jobs antenna could fail

69

5

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher

67

6

An Economy of Grinds

67

7

Is Gravity Real? A Scientist Takes On Newton

59

8

Ideas Having Sex

57

9

Pics from 8th graders successful 100k foot high flight, $200 ballon

51

10

Google’s Do-It-Yourself App Tool

51

Scientific publications [?]

1

Can Kevin Costner's Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup?

4

2

Paris Puts the Bicyclette First

3

3

How a B student landed an A+ job in the toy industry

2

4

Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro

2

5

NASA - NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

2

6

Computational capacity of the universe

2

7

Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory

2

8

What's really on your integrated circuit?

2

9

NASA finds planet more unusual than the rest

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory

129

2

Doug Lea Discusses the Fork/Join Framework

6

3

Internet Kill Switch

6

4

Simon Marlow on Multicore Programming in Haskell

5

5

@earlybird: Ready to Fly

1

6

Caller ID Spoofing on the Android

1

7

Talk about China's InfoWar history gets 0wned.

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

36

2

Apple acquires online mapping company Poly9 - report

25

3

A letter from Jason Calacanis, the owner of Hack a Day

20

4

A complete guide to virtualization (all types, in-depth)

16

5

The iPhone 4 Redux: Analyzing Apple's iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue

5

6

IPhone 4 Drop Test with Bumper Case Shows Little Protection

3

7

DIY Head Mounted Display done well

1

8

Microsoft's KIN: A Eulogy

1

9

Apple Releases First Beta of iOS 4.1 and iPhone SDK 4.1

1

10

IOS 4.1 Includes iPhone signal bar changes

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

One year of Amazon Prime free for students

104

2

New iPhone 4 FaceTime commercials

3

3

Elevation of Privilege (EoP) card game

3

4

Microsoft Taps Peter Lee as New Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How Will You Measure Your Life?

8

2

Hacker News Google docs

5

3

The VC Shakeout The cycle is broken

3

4

What a liberal arts education is good for

2

5

Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing [2003]

1

6

The Maxivision movie projector system, called "400% better" by Ebert.

1

Science News [?]

1

The Willpower Paradox

91

2

Chinese bioscience: The sequence factory

5

3

Exercise Suppresses Appetite By Affecting Appetite Hormones

2

4

The Dirty Truth about Electric Cars & Hybrids

2

5

Aircraft completes first solar-powered night flight

2

6

Mechanical Engineers Rock Out On Guitars They Construct Themselves

1

7

The Universe. Part Pringle, part vuvuzela, and named after a Star Trek character

1

8

Researchers use robot to determine how human strangers develop trust

1

9

Male Voice Good Indicator of Physical Strength

1

10

Surprisingly regular patterns in hurricane energy discovered

1

Social [?]

1

Old Spice on Twitter

210

2

PG's Hackers & Painters is O'Reilly's $10 ebook deal today

65

3

WikiLeaks will Not be abandoned.

61

4

I am a neuropsychologist. Ask me (almost) anything.

56

5

Demo about mixing HTML5, CSS3, WebGL

49

6

David Cameron & Mark Zuckerberg discuss spending initiative on Facebook

20

7

YouTube: Velocity Micro introduces the $199 Cruz Reader Android Tablet

17

8

George Carlin ~ The American Dream

4

9

Which company's stock would you buy?

4

10

Berkeley CS 61A - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

JQuery offline released

115

2

Scheme in Ruby.

50

3

Meet Nodeload, the new Download server

49

4

Moneta - a unified interface to key/value stores

38

5

GitHub Compare View goes cross repository

33

6

Getline - A Python Library to Get Text from the Console

25

7

GitHub: Yesterday's Outage

14

8

JavaScript in Lisp

9

9

9

10

GoLightly - A customisable virtual machine written in Go

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

Garden path sentence

124

2

89

3

Bokononism: a fictional religion based on harmless untruths

24

4

14

5

Lotus Agenda: the app that failed because it gave users too much choice

7

6

6

7

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

5

8

Kill screen (video game bugs)

2

9

List of unsolved problems in computer science

2

10

Turtles all the way down

2

Blogs [?]

1

How to Lose Time and Money

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

148

2

Great programming quotes

68

3

Difference between F5, Control F5, Click+Reload in various browsers

41

4

Stack Overflow: Defend PHP - convince me it isn't horrible

40

5

What kinds of software development are in high demand? (Greg Kuperberg)

25

6

What is the best functional language for scientific programming?

19

Substack [?]