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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

740

2

What Happened to Yahoo

687

3

"My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."

417

4

Common Programmer Health Problems

394

5

The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave

331

6

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

319

7

"God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"

276

8

How to Take a Walk

273

9

10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

258

10

Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing

250

Top Ask HN

1

Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?

158

2

Tips for Hackers having Kids?

136

3

What Vim Plugins do you use?

127

4

Who is currently broke due to being in a startup?

112

5

Why did Twitter succeed?

103

6

How do I ask for a salary increase?

93

7

How would you store 5TB of data for 50 years, untouched?

78

8

What is an alternative to Google? Really.

75

9

What smartphone to get right now?

70

10

List everything you know that is good/bad for our brains.

69

Top Show HN

1

My social music app

13

2

The real time community search engine

12

3

LivGiv - Be more than a Face in a Book

9

4

Show hn: Photo based captcha

3

5

Another Spaced Repetition Flashcard App

2

6

Recommend your favourite books, get recommendations in return

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey

246

2

Burning man defeats PayPal

200

3

StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom

196

4

Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

179

5

Sharpie reinvents the pen with liquid pencil

175

6

A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse

172

7

Why we need to abolish software patents

143

8

Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth

94

9

Google Unveils Awesomely Fast And Accurate Voice Actions For Android

89

10

AdGrok (YC S10) Simplifies Keyword Bidding And More On Google AdWords

82

News [?]

1

In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)

127

2

Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity

125

3

Megan McArdle: The Great Stock Market Myth

103

4

Do you have a different personality when you speak a different language?

89

5

Goldman's traders use a proprietary programming language called "Slang"

77

6

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? (NYT tool)

70

7

Computer says no

69

8

The rich are different from you and me

69

9

The Politically Incorrect Guide To Ending Poverty

67

10

Executive Leaves Apple After iPhone Antenna Troubles

58

Scientific publications [?]

1

Nuclear Reactor Renaissance

52

2

Intel Brings Integrated Silicon Optics Closer

3

3

8 page summary of synchronic computation

2

4

Senate Approves NASA Bill, Extra Space Shuttle Flight

1

5

ISS Repair Space Walk: A Glimpse Into the Station's Future

1

6

NASA - 'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Pushing Our (Tweet) Button

58

2

Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

8

3

A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data

5

4

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

3

5

Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips

3

6

Google And Facebook's Privacy Illusion

3

7

"If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" [2006]

2

8

More Brain Scans to Detect Future Terrorists

1

9

How to GET a Cup of Coffee

1

10

InfoQ: A Crash Course in Project Management

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal

187

2

$500k Selling Camera+ pulled from AppStore over 'Easter Egg'

79

3

Apple opens "Try Before You Buy" section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy

35

4

IPod touch with two cameras, Retina Display said to arrive soon

22

5

AT&T warns exclusivity for 'a number of attractive handsets' will end

11

6

Next Apple TV to be renamed iTV, drop 1080p, gain apps - rumor

9

7

EFF on Google/Verizon: While it has substantial dangers, it should be considered

3

8

Quad Xeon 7500, the Best Virtualized Datacenter Building Block? - AnandTech

2

9

Apple invention would create custom comic book from game experiences

2

10

Apple opens "Try Before You Buy" section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Start-Up Challenge 2010

47

2

Amazon CloudFront Adds Default Root Object Capability

24

3

Microsoft launches a PC vs Mac website

12

4

AWS Python Developer Center

5

5

Mac Pro - Now up to 12 cores of processing power.

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing

250

2

TorrentReactor Buys and Renames Russian Town

30

3

Google Prediction API: Machine Learning as a Service on the Cloud

4

4

Is this the world's first blog post?

2

5

Data mining with Cascalog & Hive

2

6

Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens

2

Science News [?]

1

Date of First Known Human Tool Use Pushed Back 800,000 years

29

2

The better your heart pumps, the slower your brain ages.

14

3

Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence

7

4

Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

6

5

Networks of human minds are taking citizen science to a new level

4

6

Low-fibre western diets deter 'good bacteria'

4

7

Linked networks can be more vulnerable than single networks.

4

8

Giant balloons could clear out space junk

3

9

One Night Of Sleep Not Enough To Make Up Deficit

3

10

The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler

3

Social [?]

1

I'll save you the time of getting an MBA..

248

2

DNSMadeEasy under major (over 50Gbps) DDoS Attack out of China

110

3

Reflecting on 3 Years At Facebook

87

4

Chimpanzee hack (video)

64

5

We are wanderers... - Carl Sagan

56

6

Engine Yard Co-Founder leaves / big news end of month

30

7

Find the longest path (song about P vs. NP)

10

8

Former engineer comments on "What Happened to Yahoo"

6

9

OSCON 2010: Karen Sandler, "Free Software on Medical Devices: Unchain My Heart"

3

10

Building Web Reputation Systems (talks about downvoting)

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis

145

2

Webshell for node.js

38

3

Comex @ github: "the code behind the second incarnation of jailbreakme.com"

16

4

Wikileaks attack data by year and type, over Afghanistan regional map

12

5

Final by Default

12

6

Clojure like language for flash.

6

7

NodeGame: Shooter - Asteroids like multiplayer using Node.js and WebSockets

4

8

Redshiftgui - open source alternative to f.lux, gui port of redshift

3

9

Ringo-evented - a JVM based alternative for Node.js built on Netty

3

10

Django middleware to convert images to DATA uris

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Two Envelopes Problem

112

2

44

3

Irony punctuation

30

4

C++0x (upcoming C++ standard, includes lambda functions)

19

5

Matrix chain multiplication

9

6

Sapir–Whorf hypothesis applied to computer languages

6

7

The Hailstone Sequence

6

8

List of confidence tricks

4

9

Hawthorne Effect

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

What Happened to Yahoo

687

2

The Future of Startup Funding

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to survive maintaining a monster you created

6

2

Big-O for Eight Year Olds?

2

3

Can one language be better than another?

2

4

The Zen of Ruby

2

5

What are the best RSS feeds for programmers/developers?

1

Substack [?]