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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why GNU grep is Fast

512

2

A letter to my students

462

3

Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

335

4

Apple's attention to detail

335

5

Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million

323

6

The Start-up from Hell

295

7

290

8

Call phones from Gmail

264

9

Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years

260

10

Is There Anything Good About Men?

250

Top Ask HN

1

I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. Now what?

64

2

How did you meet your cofounder?

64

3

Review a startup - Grafighters

54

4

How does marriage affect the creation of a (successful) startup?

54

5

What is a non-developer to do?

52

6

can a company do too much OSS?

52

7

What happens when your startup fails?

45

8

Do you meditate?

42

9

What is your new idea routine?

38

10

How can you be rational and still believe in free will?

33

Top Show HN

1

My <canvas>-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker

73

2

31

3

prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

10

4

pooshr - What pushes you?

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million

323

2

Chart Your Growth With Chart.io (YC S10)

108

3

Ginzametrics (YC S10) Aims To Bring Simplicity To SEO Software

101

4

Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet Draws Throng Of Investors

101

5

Meditation boosts part of brain where ADD, addictions reside

97

6

Koduco (YC S10) Is Bringing Old-School Fun To Multiplayer iPad Games

91

7

Skype Etiquette

91

8

Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control

88

9

AngelPad: Seven Ex-Googlers Are About To Launch A New Incubator

81

10

The dirty little secret about Google Android

80

News [?]

1

The Most Isolated Man on the Planet

206

2

The Management Myth (2006)

103

3

No visa required

91

4

"the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians"

81

5

Math Lessons for Locavores

67

6

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape

65

7

A Side Effect of Digital Devices: Brain Fatigue

53

8

Newly discovered jazz recordings show why copyright laws need to be revisited

52

9

Facebook says it owns "book", suing startups using [generic]book.tld

51

10

"Android Tools Are Horrendous, OS Is Hideous," FB iPhone Dev Joe Hewitt Tweets

50

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA to announce 'intriguing planetary system' discovery on Thursday

94

2

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star

8

3

First sensor to directly measure speed uses algorithms from fruit-fly

5

4

NASA Expanding Tests of Star Wars-Inspired "Droids"

2

5

arXiv.org bulk PDF access over Amazon S3 (experimental)

2

6

Two planet transit

2

7

Cyborg Fly Pilots Robot Through Obstacle Course

2

8

NASA's "intriguing planetary system" press conference @ 1pm EDT

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Will HTML5 be Secure Enough?

2

2

Schneier on Security: Detecting Deception in Conference Calls

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple seeking to patent spyware

83

2

Digg founder says Apple iTV launch in September will 'change everything'

33

3

Acer exec says Apple's 'closed' iPad will drop to 20% market share

24

4

Jury Invalidates One of EFF's 'Most Wanted' Patents

11

5

Musopen Wants to Give Classical Music to the Public Domain

5

6

Amd discloses bobcat and bulldozer

4

7

Steve Jobs isn't conviced new Apple TV will be a mainstream hit

4

8

Apple Patent Application on Detecting 'Unauthorized' iOS Device Usage

3

9

Nokia buys analytics firm to compete with Apple's App Store

2

10

“E-Personation” Bill Could Be Used to Punish Online Critics

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent

157

2

Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go

2

Science News [?]

1

Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium

104

2

People really don't like unselfish colleagues

57

3

Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera

7

4

Harvard confirms misconduct by morality researcher

3

5

Altruism can be explained by natural selection

3

6

Clinical trial confirms effectiveness of simple appetite control method: water

2

7

Malware Implicated in Fatal SpanAir Plane Crash

2

8

How technology created humans

2

9

How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth's Resources, Made Interactive

2

10

What's going on in the brain when we experience déjà vu

2

Social [?]

1

Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

335

2

Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview)

154

3

Machine Converts Plastic Back into Oil

69

4

The Last Exorcism Marketing on ChatRoutlette

48

5

Berkeley - The Future of Robotics (Sexy)

38

6

Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

26

7

10

8

This is how image manipulation should always have been [video]

7

9

Ezra is now working at VMware

6

10

OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ruby's Date/DateTime classes rewritten in C.. 20-200x perf improvement

79

2

Notes on Writing Good Commit Messages

22

3

Little git extras

7

4

List of Node.js Modules

5

5

Open-Transactions

3

6

JavaScript Grows a Mustache

2

7

Functional Koans (in Erlang, Clojure, F#, Scala)

2

8

Countries and Subdivisions SQL file (made a quick script)

2

9

Eyes of Wood, Hands of Stone, Heart of Paper

1

10

LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes in Safari/Chrome + autoreload on other changes

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Zooko's Triangle

23

2

16

3

A Message From Earth

5

4

4

5

Arecibo message

3

6

3

7

3

8

The Hollywood Stock Exchange

2

9

How to search text in O(n) time. (Used in GNU grep)

2

10

Various Limits to Computation

2

Blogs [?]

1

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

File IO in Every Language

32

2

What's frustrating with XML?

28

3

I've found my software as cracked download on Internet, what to do?

9

4

File I/O in Every Programming Language

6

5

Do you test private methods?

3

6

Pros and cons of XML and JSON

3

7

Should I use Ruby 1.9.2/Rails 3 with my new web app?

2

8

Can abstract thinking be taught?

2

9

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

2

10

How do you educate your teammates without seeming condescending or superior?

1

Substack [?]