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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

464

2

Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"

375

3

How to keep someone with you forever

372

4

Google Instant Search Released

371

5

There is a Horse in the Apple Store

338

6

Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

290

7

Don't make your Android app free for 1 day

287

8

Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

254

9

Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App

236

10

How a startup responds when a giant arrives

235

Top Ask HN

1

Who's hiring? (September 2010)

176

2

What habits made you a better programmer?

138

3

Best resources to learn SEO?

135

4

How much do founders pay themselves?

105

5

Contract/Consulting Gigs (September 2010)?

63

6

Who here struck out on their own without a plan?

55

7

54

8

An academic web app idea, anyone interested?

53

9

9to5/Consulting/Startup, where are/were you most happy?

51

10

The Price is Right.. or is it?

50

Top Show HN

1

Streak.ly tracks what you do daily and I'd love feedback on the concept

54

2

ImpromptuDo.com the real time location based activity partner finder

15

3

My Food Pairings Mobile App

8

4

Pocket Prospectus - White label iPhone app for universities/colleges

4

5

Google "hacker news", see one user's suggestion implemented.

3

6

I hacked together a little Safari extension to improve HN

3

7

Bandidate, my first useful app

3

8

Groupie, my life's greatest achievement (for the iPhone)

2

9

Digg Clone for Fantasy Football

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With

169

2

As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

143

3

Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science

114

4

Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz

84

5

Cardpool (YC W10) Introduces Instant Redemption, Attracts Super Angels

80

6

Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down

78

7

Could Tiny Somaliland Become the First Cashless Society?

66

8

Visual Website Optimizer: Run A/B Tests On Your Site

63

9

HDR video accomplished using dual 5D Mark IIs

57

10

This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt

39

News [?]

1

She tried 960 times

108

2

The Secret of Self-control

94

3

Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits

90

4

Will America’s universities go the way of its car companies?

85

5

Oracle Hires Mark Hurd As Co-President

77

6

How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship

64

7

Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer

63

8

Religious Outlier

61

9

Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

48

10

Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire

47

Scientific publications [?]

1

Another TV Technology Bites the Dust

5

2

Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3

4

3

Asteroids Passing Near Earth Wednesday

3

4

NASA App HD for iPad

2

5

Monitoring how flocks walk can prevent attacks by mad chickens

2

6

Get on the Optical Bus

2

7

Marvin Minsky's Telepresence Manifesto

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

82

2

Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System

38

3

Consumerization and Corporate IT Security

5

4

Android: the return of the Unix wars?

4

5

CloudBees introduces Hudson-as-a-Service

4

6

App Store Review Guidelines

4

7

Twitter Blog: The Evolving Ecosystem

3

8

Confessions of A New Agile Developer

3

9

App Store Review Guidelines

3

10

Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Little known iTunes 10 benefit

69

2

What Craigslist's "Adult Services" Decision Means for Free Speech

49

3

EFF: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records

37

4

Is Sarah Palin a Computer Criminal? (according to Facebook)

5

5

ARM Aims at Intel, Cortex A15 Headed for Smartphones, Notebooks and Servers

5

6

Apple Spent $1 Million on Google Ads

3

7

Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Does NOT Have Vibration

2

8

Apple's iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform

2

9

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac to launch Sept. 14 with 80 new features

1

10

Encrypt the Web with HTTPS Firefox extension

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

464

2

Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

290

3

The Science of Word Recognition

90

4

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Preview Beta

21

5

Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours

7

6

Science fiction best sellers are mostly romance novels

3

7

The iOS 4.1 Software Update

3

8

IOS 4.2 Software Update coming in November

2

9

Freakonomics: The Movie pre-theatrical release on Amazon VOD

1

10

IPod + iTunes Timeline

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Humans are not automatically strategic

92

2

Netflix Polls BitTorrent Habits of Leaving Customers

3

3

Highly Maintainable, Efficient & Optimized CSS

3

4

UTorrent Linux Server Released, Client Coming Soon

1

5

How Any BitTorrent User Can Collect Lawsuit Evidence

1

6

1

Science News [?]

1

Angry Feedback May Boost Creativity For Some

5

2

CERN collides with a patent reality

5

3

'Jailbreak' Bacteria Can Trigger Heart Disease

3

4

Researchers discover oxidation-resistant bacterium's defense mechanism

3

5

Science scorned

3

6

Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination

2

7

Money can buy you happiness. Up to a point.

2

8

Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests

2

9

'Slow Light' on a Chip Holds Promise for Optical Communications

1

10

Open-source personal robotics seeks a community to make it affordable

1

Social [?]

1

Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964

27

2

Video of Knuth as an undergrad programmer, circa 1959

17

3

Bizarre and impressive YouTube ad campaign

8

4

Twitter XSS (do not click that bit.ly link)

7

5

Google hints at launching a major search feature tomorrow

6

6

"It looks like you're writing a business plan"

5

7

Are you programming for fun?

4

8

Speaking in Code: Teaching Blind and Visually Impaired Students to Program

4

9

Ask Jason: Is it wise to build a platform on someone elses code?

4

10

Facebook Session Hijacking Demo

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sentry, Disqus' near realtime logging app for Django

62

2

Job Description as runnable python UnitTest

46

3

41

4

OmniTweet - An experimental minimalist Twitter Client for Google Chrome

32

5

I made a ruby library for accessing hacker news - check it out!

10

6

Html5witch: Python HTML5 generation library

8

7

Real-time streaming of Wolfram Alpha queries

2

8

Autojump: a cd command that learns

2

9

2

10

Inploy, easier Rails deployment

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Patriot missile software failure, 28 soldiers died. Fix: reboot the system

110

2

Wikipedia lets you create books

106

3

3

4

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

2

5

A number far too large for the observable universe to contain.

2

6

Numeronyms. Or, wtf does Mozilla i18n mean?

2

7

2

8

White Holes, the opposite of Black Holes

1

9

Great Man theory

1

10

ZModem (Or; why I had resumable downloads on my dial up modem in the 80s)

1

Blogs [?]

1

High Resolution Fundraising

8

2

The Future of Startup Funding

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How does Google Instant Search work?

4

2

How do I politely decline building stuff for relatives/friends?

3

3

Suggestions for detecting an online poker cheat?

2

4

How is the new google logo (dynamic balls) implemented?

1

5

Best program you have written in assembly language, so far?

1

Substack [?]