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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story

776

2

Google Kills Wave

712

3

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech

360

4

This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach

275

5

Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

274

6

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

269

7

The Future of Startup Funding

241

8

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub

238

9

Depression-era color photos

234

10

Zed Shaw: "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" with R

227

Top Ask HN

1

I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs

208

2

Best Startup City - Outside the USA?

158

3

Does anyone still use IRC?

149

4

Where do you host your webapp?

135

5

Recommend me a Podcast

127

6

What annoys you?

81

7

Is the "adult space" a career-killer?

75

8

passing the torch on userscripts.org

71

9

What are you working on (hacking)?

69

10

What is a talent acquisition like?

64

Top Show HN

1

swytch.net - my attempt at a social network

7

2

my weekend project, Upcoming Events

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls

146

2

Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut?

127

3

Rapportive (YC S10) Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator & Others

120

4

China to build giant buses that cars can drive under

116

5

Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games

101

6

“Good On Video” Is The New “Good On Paper” With HireHive (YC S10)

87

7

Live Long And Prosper with FutureAdvisor (YC S10)

84

8

How To Get an Article on TechCrunch, A Case Study

77

9

Frenzy As Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Raises Round For New Startup

71

10

Microsoft and Ballmer not getting the iPad

61

News [?]

1

Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority

166

2

Peter Norvig on Being Wrong

164

3

High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay

151

4

Rise of the telepresence robots

134

5

F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law

94

6

As We May Think (1945)

77

7

NYT article on deal between Verizon and Google is inaccurate. Original source.

67

8

Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat

63

9

Wikileaks Must Be Stopped

61

10

Intuit lobbies against California's free tax filing service

54

Scientific publications [?]

1

Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home

31

2

The Future of Social Networking is the Surveillance State

2

3

Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro unveils strange telepresence android

1

4

The Revolution Yet to Happen

1

5

NASA puts off space station repair until Friday‎

1

6

The Emerging Scholarly Brain

1

7

North Polar Layers of Mars

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux 2.6.35 is out

80

2

Schneier on UAE to Ban BlackBerrys

77

3

LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure

60

4

Realtime Linux: academia v. reality

52

5

InfoQ: Justin Sheehy on Riak

30

6

EmotionML: A new W3C markup language for expression emotions

17

7

Perl 6 -- Too Bloated to Survive? (Core Devs Discuss)

8

8

The Hurd: GNU's quest for the perfect kernel

4

9

Eavesdropping Smartphone Apps

3

10

Discovering Who To Follow

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Experiment: Can You Mine Gold From Old Motherboards?

70

2

The EFF SSL Observatory

39

3

Study finds 14% of free iPhone apps can snoop contacts

2

4

RIM attempts to create Apple-like buzz with BlackBerry Torch event

2

5

DOJ Pushing to Expand Warrantless Access to Internet Records

1

6

DIY picture frame better than store bought

1

7

Intel's 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link

1

8

RIM plans to counter Apple's iPad with 'Blackpad' in November

1

9

FaceTime over 3G [video]

1

10

Defcon 18 badges

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Active Interview Case Study

3

2

3rd Generation Kindle Announced for $189

2

3

Amazon Just Announced The Newest Kindle

2

4

Amazon.com: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

2

5

New Kindle - $139

1

6

The Microsoft .LNK patch is finally live

1

7

Microsoft's patch for the .LNK vulnerability (2286198) is out *now*

1

8

Amazon.com: Uranium Ore: Industrial & Scientific

1

9

First interactive Kindle content available

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

U.S. Copyright Group ‘Steal’ Competitor’s Website

22

2

Netscape Communications First Press Release (1994)

14

3

How Will You Measure Your Life?

5

4

Classic Texts in Computer Science

5

5

2

6

Youtube in 2005

1

7

Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies

1

Science News [?]

1

What happens when coal is gone?

24

2

Women Attracted to Redshirts, Research Shows

5

3

Laughing rats and ticklish gorillas: Joy and mirth in humans and other animals

4

4

Underground Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern

3

5

New solar energy conversion process could double solar efficiency of solar cells

2

6

Male modesty not appreciated by female or male interviewers, study suggests

1

7

Toyota Recall Might Be Caused by Cosmic Rays

1

8

Illusions: Colors Out of Space

1

9

Size isn't everything: The big brain myth

1

10

Solving protein folding by playing a computer game

1

Social [?]

1

Reddit: I stopped using a task killer to see if there's a difference. It's huge.

101

2

Nokia doesn't get it - The Truth about N97 [video]

61

3

Yelp Hackathon results in an iPad-powered KegBot

46

4

Philippe Starck: Why design?

35

5

Eric Schmidt On Google Wave's Death Video

25

6

Google Tech Talk: Three Cool Things About The D Programing Language

19

7

Silicon Valley Founder Institute List

15

8

Posterous is Down

9

9

Angular: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps

5

10

Google Tech Talk - Three Cool Things About D

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch

80

2

A book about Git, hosted on Github

38

3

V8-GL: A Toolkit for creating Desktop Hardware Accelerated Graphics with JS

13

4

Perl 6 on GitHub

5

5

Mongrel2 got mirrored on github.

2

6

Re-suggest.el - a simple regexp-based command suggestion minor mode for emacs

1

7

Easily create dynamic and robust sandbox environments from Ruby on OSX.

1

8

Design your own JavaScript with weepy's kaffeine

1

9

Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading

1

10

Vimjolts's vimjolts at master - GitHub

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

50

2

Oliver Heaviside -- Self Learner Who changed the face of Electrical Engineering

11

3

Sussman Anomaly: Why naive goal-based planning is hard.

6

4

Tarski's undefinability theorem

4

5

Best alternative to a negotiated agreement

3

6

Anything worth knowing about CS can be found within 3 jumps from this page

3

7

3

8

Boltzmann brain paradox

3

9

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Future of Startup Funding

241

2

How to Start a Startup (2005)

60

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Alan Kay: Significant new inventions in computing since 1980?

12

2

[Stackoverflow] What’s your biggest fear as a programmer?

7

3

Useful GCC flags for C

2

4

Why programming competition contestants use C++ and Java?

2

5

Do you think compiled languages have reached their EOL?

2

6

Code Golf: Connecting the dots

1

Substack [?]