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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Top Idea in Your Mind

650

2

How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer

428

3

Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police

398

4

One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen

377

5

I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

299

6

My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

264

7

Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

248

8

My Google Interview

228

9

High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)

227

10

Useful things you can make SSH do

214

Top Ask HN

1

Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?

441

2

Music while coding

102

3

anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

102

4

Tips and Tricks to Save Money While Running a Startup

79

5

Review my status board startup

78

6

Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?

74

7

What proficiency does one need to start freelancing?

74

8

Loosing Faith - the startup killer

64

9

Resources for finding short term projects?

61

10

Would you play a distributed, programmable MMO?

60

Top Show HN

1

HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you

221

2

http://hackerbra.in - fast and smart hacker news

9

3

My Greg's Pulse. Get text message updates when stuff online changes

4

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google pulls plug on Nexus One

126

2

Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month

121

3

LightSquared: new national 4G network under construction, no telcos involved

106

4

Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers

98

5

Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users

98

6

PagerDuty (YC S10) Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down

94

7

The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs

93

8

Optimizely (YC W10) Makes It Remarkably Easy to A/B Test

80

9

Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview

65

10

Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’

56

News [?]

1

The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)

133

2

To retire comfortably, under-40 workers need to seriously bulk up savings

88

3

Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract

76

4

Homeowners Use Airbnb to Dodge Foreclosure

75

5

Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?

61

6

R.I.P. David Blackwell

60

7

American Murder Mystery (2008)

46

8

When kings and princes grow old

43

9

Bye-Bye, Batteries - Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source

42

10

Apple's condescending iPhone 4 press conference.

42

Scientific publications [?]

1

Pattern Recognition in Texts Using Complex Networks

18

2

The Trouble with Multicore

11

3

Robot head Flobi designed to dodge uncanny valley

2

4

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

1

5

Forensic identification using bacteria

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

On the scalability of Linus

82

2

Steve Vinoski on Erlang and Rest [[video interview]]

4

3

Economic Considerations of Website Password Policies

3

4

Russian Intelligence Gets Source Code to Windows 7

2

5

The state of Python's mercurial migration

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Court: Violating T.O.S Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be

35

2

Analyzing Apple’s iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue

31

3

San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant

19

4

Gizmodo/Chen reaches deal with San Mateo DA, search warrant withdrawn

14

5

Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store (For Now)

2

6

Apple, google, and others sued by patent troll for email spam detection method

2

7

Apple to Offer Free Cases for iPhone 4 Customers

1

8

Apple has 'Verizon cell sites on campus'

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs

197

2

Smartphone Antenna Performance

6

3

Microsoft Codename "Dallas"

2

4

IPad Available in Nine More Countries This Friday

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden

55

2

How Will You Measure Your Life?

38

3

How Will You Measure Your Life?

19

4

U.S. authorities shut down WordPress host with 73,000 blogs

16

5

Excellent talk by SICP author Gerry Sussman

3

6

Importance of Startups in Job Creation

3

7

What to Know Before Debating Type Systems

1

Science News [?]

1

Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass

109

2

Nature thinks we could safely wipe mosquitoes off the face of the earth.

38

3

Why music is good for you

3

4

How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness

2

5

Grow-your-own approach to wiring 3D chips

2

6

Green machine: A salty solution for power generation

2

7

Twitter mood maps emotional states of America

2

8

Astronaut for hire: Space tourism will help science

2

9

Can you teach yourself synaesthesia?

1

10

Embedded Technologies: Power From the People

1

Social [?]

1

Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months

194

2

Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (2008)

188

3

This is how you pitch a new piece of technology.

132

4

Twitter feed of Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points

71

5

Reddit programming FAQ

47

6

Animated Antennagate Spoof

46

7

43

8

41

9

I gladly donated to reddit but I won't pay for it

38

10

Languages and Lambdas: The Mathemagic of Programming [Class on UniOfReddit]

29

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Leiningen 1.2 Released (Clojure build tool & more)

43

2

Boardwalk: Port of _why's Park Place using Sinatra and MongoDB.

20

3

Node-inspector - NodeJS debugger extension for Google Chrome

5

4

Gist: more concise output in Python

3

5

LRJew: An LRU efficiency simulator

2

6

bash.org clone built on Sinatra

2

7

Initial support for Oauth2 and Facebook Graph with the python tornado framework.

2

8

Spirit - An OSS iPhone(iOS3) Jailbreak

1

9

Mirage: OCaml on the Cloud

1

10

Simple JSON-web browser in 200+ lines of Python (gopher-ng)

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Dagen H: The day Sweden switched to the right hand side of the road

50

2

Steve Yegge is a "non-notable programmer"

43

3

17

4

Banach-Tarski paradox

3

5

General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)

3

6

3

7

Using a ham radio, you could listen to a disembodied spacesuit circling Earth.

2

8

List of common misconceptions

2

9

Alternative DNS root

2

10

Itanium Sales Forecasts Versus Actual

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Top Idea in Your Mind

650

2

Principles for Making New Things (2008)

46

3

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Plain english explanation of Big O

155

2

How can I get addicted to programming?

87

3

Ask YC: When will FaceTime be open?

15

4

Python: If x is list, why x += "ha" works, while x = x + "ha" throws exception?

5

5

What's your take on GO?

1

6

Hidden Features of JavaScript

1

7

In C++, any general guidelines for handling memory allocation/deletion?

1

8

A regex that checks for primes

1

Substack [?]