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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects

487

2

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

470

3

Will it optimize?

357

4

Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for education

325

5

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong

309

6

What's wrong with 1975 programming

293

7

Too many laws, too many prisoners

293

8

Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.

285

9

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

284

10

Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.

266

Top Ask HN

1

My brain refuses to think, what should I do?

247

2

Share a gem. Teach me and you.

194

3

Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.

147

4

Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)

111

5

I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

110

6

Who needs a job?

96

7

Food hacks for eating well?

81

8

How fast do you code?

78

9

Selling my first company - need help with the process

75

10

What's been your best investment?

74

Top Show HN

1

Vittyo, Roll your own video store

36

2

GridCentric - High Performance Cloud Computing

10

3

Show HN : Review our product for conducting online coding tests

8

4

Web^2, a tiling window manager for the Internet

2

5

Deepwater Horizon oil spill infographics in HTML5

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Big Bang Abandoned In New Model of the Universe

185

2

GazeHawk (YC S10) Does Eyetracking With Web Cams

149

3

GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects

105

4

Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I’ll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption

82

5

The Search Engine Backlash Against 'Content Mills'

81

6

New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only, $189 3G, available August 27th

71

7

Gamestop acquires Kongregate

66

8

There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash

65

9

Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse

61

10

Robot needs 50 tries to learn how to flip pancakes.

58

News [?]

1

Too many laws, too many prisoners

293

2

What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D

175

3

Tweet Less, Kiss More

111

4

The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents

100

5

US rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it

78

6

75

7

A special report on debt: Repent at leisure

69

8

The Tyranny of the Credit Score

62

9

What's Wrong With the American University System

55

10

Intel Paid Dell $4.3 Billion to Pad Earnings From 2003 to 2006

41

Scientific publications [?]

1

Top countries by robot density (Graph)

65

2

Purely Functional Structured Programming

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Xcode 4 public preview - Single window, LLVM 2.0, streamlined editing

136

2

The end of the road for the Nexus One

24

3

EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Benchmarks

22

4

Ralph Johnson, Joe Armstrong on the Future of Parallel Programming

13

5

Node.js Frameworks

10

6

InfoQ: Neo4j: NOSQL and the Benefits of Graph Databases

5

7

Benchmarking LLVM & Clang Against GCC 4.5

1

8

Apple opens up iAds for app developers

1

9

Alleged Mariposa Botnet Author Nabbed

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.

266

2

Apple Takes on Droid X With Latest Smartphone Antenna Video

23

3

U.S. Government to Explicitly Allow iPhone Jailbreaking

3

4

Apple job listing hints at 'revolutionary' new Mac OS X 10.7 feature

3

5

Microsoft officially unveils key Office 2011 for Mac features

2

6

Apple's future iPhones may offer 3D recording of places, objects

2

7

Steve Ballmer: 'Apple sold more iPads than I'd like them to sell'

2

8

Prototyping briefcase

1

9

In Perfect 10 v. Google, Round 3 Goes to Google: No Sloppy DMCA Notices

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Magic Trackpad

156

2

New Kindle Wifi: $139 3g: $189

10

3

Apple - iPhone 4 Case Program

5

4

Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4

4

5

Internet Explorer 8 Optimized For Amazon.com

2

6

Beauty outside. Beast inside

1

7

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization (2007)

20

2

Fight Zero-Sum Bias (possible evolutionary explanation)

11

3

BitTorrent Releasers Are The New Kids On The Piracy Block

10

4

Interview: aXXo, The Most Popular DVD Ripper on BitTorrent

4

5

"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" (Larry Niven)

2

6

Show Your uTorrent Peers in Google Maps

2

7

Pirate Party offers servers for Wikileaks

2

8

The effects of glial cells in cognition may have been largely overlooked

1

9

Only 0.3% files legal on BitTorrent report is bogus

1

10

Google: Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Distributed Systems [2009]

1

Science News [?]

1

Quantum mechanics flummoxes physicists again

16

2

Urban Air Pollutants Can Damage IQs before Baby's First Breath

13

3

Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men

12

4

We humans can mind-meld too

5

5

The Largest Organism on Earth

3

6

Successful Conversations Involve Mind Melds, Study Reveals

3

7

US food waste worth more than offshore drilling

3

8

Study finds Liberals/Atheists more intelligent

1

9

Art's Bold New Direction

1

10

Human urine shown to be an effective agricultural fertilizer

1

Social [?]

1

Reddit costs $33k/month to operate?

125

2

I need a software that ....

85

3

Google tech talk on Node.js

84

4

Bach on a mobius strip

53

5

Talent vs Attitude

11

6

Rob Pike's OSCON 2010 keynote speech, "Public Static Void"

10

7

Zuckerberg interview with Sawyer

9

8

Be like Stallone: As told by Anthony Robbins (The Rocky Story)

4

9

Slow motion lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames/sec.

4

10

Youtube "star" calls out all startups

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Step 1) Install pyre2 2) import re2 as re 3) 10x faster regex

97

2

Monocle - An async programming framework with a blocking look-alike syntax

55

3

A mini redis in 411 lines of Python

35

4

"An Ode to Inception" (written in c)

19

5

Collaborative Filtering Plugin for Rails

16

6

Bigdis, Redis' ugly brother

14

7

A mind-bending simulation of the movie Inception, in C and ASM.

10

8

Typrtail -- Adding some fun to your log tails

9

9

Gruber's updated URL-matching Regex

7

10

Apricot - a simple Hpricot Clone for nodejs

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Free Will Theorem

33

2

Boustrophedon Order

24

3

Michael Larson - The man who reverse engineered a game show

7

4

Ishmael (a philosophical novel, 1992)

6

5

Wikipedia list of software anti-patterns

5

6

Elon Musk: Founder of Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors

4

7

Arimaa - Board game to put AI in trouble

2

8

The Radioactive Boy Scout

2

9

Mercury Delay-Line Memory

2

10

R.I.P. Daniel Schorr

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

470

2

First Priority: Core Language

4

3

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Array Vs. Linked List

5

2

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't and vice versa

3

3

Can I get PHP to stop replacing ‘.’ characters in $_GET or $_POST arrays?

2

4

What exactly is Arel in Rails 3.0?

1

5

Assist HNer: Hashing SSNs and other limited-domain information

1

6

How to find an entry-level job after you already have a graduate degree?

1

7

Why do Java programmers love Scala and shy away from Clojure?

1

Substack [?]