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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

463

2

Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer

418

3

IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight

366

4

Bill Gates, Hero

351

5

Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

318

6

Diaspora Developer Release

308

7

Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs

288

8

This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes

280

9

Damning Zuckerberg IMs confirmed

251

10

Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

240

Top Ask HN

1

Do you use programming tricks in real life too?

87

2

Can anyone connect us with a venue for 400 people tommorow in MV/PA

78

3

What have you built with Erlang?

72

4

What do you perceive as worth spending money on?

69

5

How did you get your first paying customer?

68

6

What % of Y Comb startups either become profitable or successfully exit?

62

7

Do you encrypt your laptop's hard disk?

60

8

Review my startup CanYouCode.com

57

9

Am I the only one who's not in love with Google Instant?

54

10

What makes a job posting attractive?

53

Top Show HN

1

Elect.io, my side-project that provides objective candidate information

16

2

My Weekend Fun Project - Pure-CSS Emoticons

5

3

my weekend project, stalk Twitter/foursquare/myloc.me user

2

4

Decomposr, optimize your keywords for Google Instant Search

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

240

2

Museopen to set classical music "free"

172

3

Status Of CrunchPad Litigation

148

4

Google fired engineer for breaking internal privacy policies

137

5

Gamers make faster decisions than nongamers, just as accurate

99

6

Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game

90

7

Confirmed: Google Me coming this Fall

73

8

Twilio Slashes Prices As It Looks To Further Boost Growth

66

9

Google Fights Back In Battle For Talent

65

10

Kill Whitey- It’s the right thing to do.

60

News [?]

1

Chunking & Gridding - Why parents can't do math today

123

2

The Face of Facebook

114

3

What parents worry about vs what they should worry about

95

4

Myths about prostitution

75

5

Brooks: America’s brightest minds have been abandoning technical enterprise

73

6

Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent

62

7

3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution

60

8

Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree

55

9

Microbes ate BP oil deep-water plume

52

10

Why I Quit My CTO Job At Facebook And Started Quora

43

Scientific publications [?]

1

IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"

88

2

On the Complexity of Processing Massive, Unordered, Distributed Data

4

3

UCLA Builds Fastest Graphene Transistor Yet

3

4

Fine structure constant may not be the same throughout the universe

3

5

HP Ramps up Memristor development

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

38

2

Is Apple Now Blocking Contributions To GCC?

36

3

CoffeeScript - JavaScript the Good Parts

36

4

Exploring Lisp on the JVM

24

5

A Better Twitter

4

6

A Brief Introduction to the Java and .NET Patent Issues

3

7

Big Ball of Mud, Still the Most Popular Software Design

3

8

Free Software Foundation Offers Grudging Support to Google in Patent Case

2

9

An Introduction to ØMQ (ZeroMQ)

2

10

10 Suggestions for the Architect of an Agile Team

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk

50

2

India's $35 Android 7-inch Tablet to Hit in January

6

3

Password exploitation classes online

4

4

Foxconn's founder says: "We're making 137,000 iPhones per day"

3

5

Launchpad programming with Linux

3

6

Apple clamping down on App name squatters

2

7

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 sent to manufacturing

2

8

Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture Exposed

2

9

Google Voice making an App Store comeback?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Anarchist Cookbook authors hopes for discontinuation (read the author review)

44

2

Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides

3

3

New Book: Creating Interactive Fiction With Inform 7

2

4

IE9 Beta Released

2

5

IPad in business

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

4

2

How to write like Groupon...

4

3

Memetic Hazards in Videogames

3

4

Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It

2

5

Indie Game Dev Embraces Pirates Instead Of Fighting Futile War

2

6

Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction

2

7

Steps to Achievement: The Pitfalls, Costs, Requirements, and Timelines

1

8

Hackers Target and Exploit Pirate Bay Ad Server

1

9

London Business School Case Study: Red Bull

1

Science News [?]

1

Gene discovery could yield treatments for nearsightedness

2

2

Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping

1

3

Artificial skins detect the gentlest touch

1

4

Eureka How moments of genius happen

1

5

Zeros to heroes: Bayes's probability puzzle

1

6

Study: Why Women Prefer 'Chill' Guys

1

7

Hearts Seem to Heal Slowest for Grouchy Pessimists

1

Social [?]

1

121

2

Interest: Senior engineer confirms Apple working on MacRuby for iOS

79

3

The real GDrive is here

70

4

Meet the new Twitter

43

5

This Week in Startups: Steve Huffman, Co-Founder of Hipmunk (YC S10)

21

6

World's Bravest Hacker - Amazing Video

12

7

Today we’re launching a new Twitter.com

11

8

New Twitter UI Revealed (FF to 1:11 to see it)

10

9

Soda Pop Stop - Niche Business Insights

9

10

Paypal have returned the money "stolen" from Minecraft developer Notch

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Emokit: Hacking the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface

86

2

5 minutes Lisp in Python

21

3

Paul Irish: Things To Do When IE9 Beta Comes Out

18

4

Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagger in 300 lines of Clojure From Scratch

3

5

Diaspora project public release

3

6

All vim-scripts from vim.org on github

3

7

Examples from _why's Poignant Ruby Guide in Coffee-script

2

8

A better way to display footnotes - using jQuery and Markdown

2

9

Diaspora Bug #8: Facebook has a majority market share

2

10

Ruby MongoDB driver is now 2-3x faster with Phusion team commits

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Today is Programmer's Day

240

2

Fabrice Bellard

73

3

"Easily had an IQ between 250 and 300"

7

4

3

5

Domino Computer

3

6

Google founders couldn't spell Googol?

3

7

Eternal September

2

8

Progressive Chess

2

9

List of oldest companies

2

10

Engineer's Day - India

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What problems have you solved using genetic algorithms/genetic programming?

77

2

Peak detection in a 2D array

69

3

Pg's "roots of lisp" Lisp eval function - adding defmacro

8

4

Boolean operation "trick"

3

5

What is (functional) reactive programming?

3

6

Usage of Python at Google

1

7

Automatic text translation - Stackoverflow

1

8

What problems have you solved using genetic algorithms/genetic programming?

1

Substack [?]