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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

606

2

Welcome to the new decade

486

3

Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android

452

4

Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph

394

5

Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich

383

6

This document is confidential

358

7

Why Free Plans Don’t Work

318

8

JQuery Mobile Framework Announced

312

9

Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal

275

10

What different sorting algorithms sound like

231

Top Ask HN

1

All startup websites look the same

165

2

Learning Web Design

107

3

How have you learned a speaking language?

95

4

Holy Crap I need an Idea

63

5

What if nothing works out?

58

6

How do you control consulting work and concentrate on startup work?

57

7

What can kill Facebook?

57

8

Review our webapp: AirDropper

55

9

Why do we not have a Wiki yet?

51

10

What problem does Foursquare/Gowalla/Places solve?

50

Top Show HN

1

A new book notification service I just launched

41

2

Stylebot, adapt the web's appearance

6

3

Show HN / Review my startup / MindQuilt : Private Q&A app for knowledge sharing

3

4

SmartPeople, some stats, let's you follow any HN thread

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

175

2

Human-shaped pylons carry electricity across Iceland

155

3

Apple’s App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps

117

4

Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already

109

5

OhLife: A Personal Journal You Might Actually Keep Updating

92

6

Probability Chip

87

7

Skype’s Chief Development Officer Leaves Amid TechCrunch Comment Fiasco

72

8

Tixe, “Exit” Spelled Backwards: Co-Founder Matt Brezina Has Also Left Xobni

70

9

Sun employees competed to see who could file the goofiest patent

60

10

Buxfer's (YC 07) founders work for Facebook. Who works for Buxfer?

52

News [?]

1

Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?

149

2

Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect

134

3

Free Parking Comes at a Price

104

4

Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive

96

5

China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy

88

6

Dogs improve office productivity

58

7

Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s

50

8

How to tell when your boss is lying

47

9

Are Charities Killing African Entrepreneurship?

36

10

Study finds that low fees are best indicator of mutual fund performance

35

Scientific publications [?]

1

Cornell's Ranger Robot Breaks New Walking Record

3

2

NASA Open Letter

3

3

Building the Lego Universe Online

2

4

Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home

1

5

Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate

1

6

Emergence of collective memories

1

7

The iPad, the Kindle, and the Immutable Laws of the Marketplace

1

8

Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Fun with Fingerprint Readers

37

2

The way GitHub helped Erlang and the way Erlang helped GitHub

18

3

Joe Armstrong & Dave Thomas on software craftsmanship

15

4

Id GPLs Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return To Castle Wolfenstein engines

10

5

Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect

3

6

Owning Virtual Worlds For Fun and Profit

2

7

Changing Culture to Enable DevOps

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF to Verizon: Etisalat Certificate Authority Threatens Web Security

77

2

Study: A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia

9

3

US Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations

9

4

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDRAM

2

5

Verizon will stream live FiOS TV over home Wi-Fi to Apple's iPad

2

6

The EFF's SLLUniverse Observatory Project [pdf]

1

7

IOS 4 purportedly references CDMA iPhone 4, next-gen iPa

1

8

Netbook maker reduces shipments due to success of Apple's iPad

1

9

Apple $400: A look at Apple's fundamentals, Part II

1

10

Google TV facing resistance from studios

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Community Promise

1

2

Microsoft Flight (tease of revamped Microsoft Flight Simulator)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway

137

2

How Will You Measure Your Life?

4

3

"The Pirate Bay Really Sucks," Says Co-Founder

3

4

Do computer models promote top-down control?

2

5

How To Download Torrents Anonymously

1

Science News [?]

1

Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights

123

2

A High-Fat Diet Alters Crucial Aspects of Brain Dopamine Signaling

33

3

Brain's wiring: More like the Internet than a pyramid?

30

4

An easy way to boost a paper's citations: Cite and you shall be cited

7

5

Hiding files in Flickr pics will fool web censors

4

6

Reading in a Whole New Way

3

7

Found: World's oldest animal fossils

3

8

Scientists identify DNA that may contribute to each person's uniqueness

3

9

How DNA evidence creates victims of chance

3

10

U.S. Navy Laser Weapon Shoots Down Drones in Test [video]

2

Social [?]

1

Welcome to the new decade

486

2

What different sorting algorithms sound like

231

3

Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.

170

4

Are you rich? If so, how did you get there?

134

5

Posterous is being DDoS'd

84

6

Dear people-who-run-Twitter, whom to follow, whom

75

7

Gabriel (yegg) will be on TWiT tonight @5pm EST talking about DuckDuckGo

37

8

JITB: A Java based Flash player capable of running up to 30x faster than Adobe's

36

9

I have tried to be happy with django, I really have.

35

10

Oracle: How it all began, by Larry Ellison

34

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Map/Reduce in Bash

69

2

An early Clojure implementation in Common Lisp

56

3

Programming Outside of Business Hours

39

4

Infer: Inference and Machine Learning in Clojure

23

5

Send iOS push notifications from the console with Phone-Pipe and Notifo

17

6

Nitrode: A lightweight, super fast HTTP server built on Node.JS

7

7

HAML and SASS versions of HTML5 Boilerplate

5

8

hn-api: Python API for Hacker News

5

9

Github Blog - Design updates

3

10

VocalKit: voice recognition library for iPhone

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."

99

2

Darwin (programming game)

49

3

Hindenburg Omen (Occurred Twice this Month)

40

4

17

5

3

6

Stackless Python

3

7

Fast inverse square root

2

8

Stigler's law of eponymy

2

9

Math: Voronoi Diagram

2

10

The Big Five Personality Traits

2

Blogs [?]

1

Jonathan Rees on OOP

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest language feature

121

2

The Python yield keyword explained

89

3

Understanding Python decorators

56

4

What are the best uses of document stores?

29

5

Daylight saving time and Timezone best practices

4

6

Java for Clojure users

4

7

Differences between Emacs and Vim

3

8

Which LOLCODE interpreter to use? - Stack Overflow

2

9

Understanding Python Decorators

1

10

What the _snowman param in Rails 3 forms is for

1

Substack [?]