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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

357

2

Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.

344

3

Realism in UI Design

324

4

A successful Git branching model

268

5

Personalized Porn [SFW]

238

6

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

227

7

Learning About Statistical Learning

208

8

Why I Feel Like a Fraud

197

9

Bill Gates's new website: The Gates Notes

194

10

You've been Yelped

157

Top Ask HN

1

Review my site - devcheatsheet.com

186

2

I made $24k over the last month. Now what?

132

3

What's your favorite scientific paper?

67

4

Rate My Startup - LetMeGo: Let lodgings bid for your stay

45

5

Is a .net domain good enough?

43

6

How do you juggle time spent on learning vs. time building things?

42

7

Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps

36

8

What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects?

34

9

Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup?

32

10

What are the best links that we've missed?

28

Top Show HN

1

My Snake-implemetation, how I taught myself GLSL

24

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

132

2

Dropbox (YC S07) Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce

102

3

The Open Secret

60

4

Climate Change Authority Admits Mistake

54

5

Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict

49

6

MeetingMix (YC S08) Gets Your Co-Workers To Cut To The Chase

43

7

Biggest grossing Bollywood film about engineering geeks

40

8

31

9

Why you should start a company in… New York

30

10

Posterous Jumps On The Revenue Wagon; Signs Coca-Cola for Promo Site

29

News [?]

1

Why Poor Countries Are Poor

129

2

The stray dog ecosystem of Moscow

119

3

When work doesn't pay for the middle class

100

4

85

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Obama: Patent office's system is 'embarrassing'

80

6

Amazon Fires Missile At Book Industry, Launches 70% Kindle Royalty Option

75

7

71 percent of top colleges still have policies that severely restrict speech

72

8

NYTimes to start charging for access to their website.

63

9

TSA Pays Blogger to Mock People Harassed by TSA

63

10

Suppose The Earth Got Saturn's Rings...

57

Scientific publications [?]

1

[0712.1598] The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks

2

2

[0903.5082] Quantum Darwinism

2

3

Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers

1

4

[0909.3777] Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact

1

5

[1001.2172] The complex network of global cargo ship movements

1

6

On the Origin of Gravity

1

7

Bayesian posterior probabilities: revisited

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Would you have spotted the fraud?

118

2

LCA: How to destroy your community

55

3

The Midlayer Mistake (Kernel Design Pattern)

25

4

Schneier on Security: Ray McGovern on Intelligence Failures

14

5

TSA Logo Contest

14

6

$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft

6

7

Google Go : A Primer

4

8

Schneier on Security: Fixing Intelligence Failures

3

9

Schneier on Security : Fixing Intelligence Failures

3

10

Google vs. China

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple in position to increase acquisition activity in 2010

1

2

CES 2010 TV Trends - 3D, Ridiculously Thin and Connected

1

3

NVIDIA’s GF100 (Fermi): Architected for Gaming

1

4

Apple tablet called iPad ?

1

5

Apple sees tablet as one device shared by the whole family

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle Development Kit

101

2

Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public

25

2

Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions

12

3

OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free

9

4

A proof that penguins rule the universe

6

5

Normal Cryonics

2

Science News [?]

1

The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages

80

2

Wii board comparable to 100x more expensive physio "force platforms"

27

3

Get ready for China's domination of science

15

4

Size of Brain Structures Predicts Success of Video Gamers

14

5

Brain 'entanglement' could explain memories

11

6

The dangers of a high-information diet

9

7

Songs in the key of life: What makes music emotional?

9

8

Sperm, more social and sporty than we ever thought

5

9

Research: Even obviously manipulative compliments are remarkably effective

4

10

Wii board performs comparably to $18,000 board for the rehab of stroke patients

4

Social [?]

1

Microsoft blatantly hung up on us - so this is how to crash IE8

72

2

Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars

44

3

The Secret Life of Chaos (BBC documentary)

35

4

New subreddit for open APIs and datasets

34

5

Floppy Drive Reverb. Recording Analog Audio on Floppy Disks

23

6

Kolmogorov complexity using Prolog (a video series)

14

7

Bill Gates joins Twitter and reaches 66K+ followers in less than an hour

13

8

Google yanks OSVDB's Checkout account without notice

7

9

Scareware Purveyors Take Advantage of Haiti Earthquake (Video)

4

10

The Secret Life of Chaos

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site

63

2

Twitter open source tool for large-scale deploys using BitTorrent

16

3

Bitswiki, a simple but useful wiki using Rails.

3

4

HumaneBrick: Ruby's WEBrick for sane people

3

5

Dgraph - dependency graph lib for Clojure

2

6

GitHub for the Rest of Us

2

7

Clojure Allegrograph RDF store Client Interface

1

8

Vim plugin runs ruby tests and shows pass/fail with a green or red bar

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The repetitive and boring gameplay in WoW is probably intentional.

34

2

Dunning-Kruger effect

33

3

25

4

24

5

11

6

Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Hlubi, Phuthi and Ndebele

8

7

Avatar close to passing Titanic after less than 6 weeks

4

8

Avoid some common pitfalls

2

9

Enercon, NSA Echelon used to spy on US competitor

1

10

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Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]