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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

684

2

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

558

3

What Happens At Y Combinator

549

4

Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

508

5

Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either

428

6

I’m done building Facebook apps for clients

348

7

Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

331

8

Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie

317

9

Products For People Who Make Products For People

281

10

IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version

267

Top Ask HN

1

My startup failed. $9k in debt and need to pay most of it in 12 days.

180

2

Is being an introvert okay?

138

3

After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?

120

4

Why isn't Plan9 popular?

96

5

Any bar owners?

65

6

Please help a virgin blogger.

58

7

Is it worthwhile for a startup to use a professional designer?

53

8

Are mobile phones on a plane taking off or landing really dangerous?

52

9

SEO checklists and what to do next?

49

10

Why are web startups slow to expand abroad?

47

Top Show HN

1

Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation.

70

2

my regular expression example match generator

46

3

Instant Search for iPad

10

4

Review our public website?

10

5

an order-preserving JSON encoding (so byte-order == value-order)

7

6

My evening fun project, see your facebook friends most popular links

3

7

show unread comments on HN (chrome extension)

2

8

sexy ubuntu notifications for alpine mail

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

558

2

Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch

251

3

Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

200

4

There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly

188

5

Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?

147

6

I Can’t Work Under These Conditions

141

7

AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway

139

8

Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School

137

9

FBI drives for encryption backdoors

120

10

Finger-Pointing, Emails, Deleted Tweets, Rage. AngelGate Is Far From Over

118

News [?]

1

Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

331

2

Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them?

208

3

Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall

130

4

U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet

103

5

"Toxie," NPR's adopted 'toxic asset,' is dead

101

6

The tricks behind nature documentaries

91

7

US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth

90

8

You Can't Kick Me Off Facebook, I Quit

83

9

Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men

70

10

Real v. Imagined wealth distribution in the US

69

Scientific publications [?]

1

Sony Cable Could Free Design of Portables

4

2

California tracks school kids with RFID

3

3

On the vacuum fluctuations, Pioneer Anomaly and Modified Newtonian Dynamics

2

4

Climate change research still rejected by legislators

2

5

Rope Robot Used to Research Optimal Sleep-inducing Movement

2

6

Imitation Black Hole Seen On Earth Using Lasers and Glass

2

7

Deterministic Methods to Find Primes - from Polymath4

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Wiretapping the Internet

162

2

IOS 4.2 Beta 2 Now Available to iPhone and iPad Developers

4

3

JSRs: What Lies Beneath

3

4

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

3

5

The Fledgling Initiative

2

6

New Attack Against ASP.NET

2

7

Fighting Layout Bugs

1

8

Tweets in your media, media in your Tweets

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee

137

2

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee

3

3

Apple shuts flagship Beijing store as iPhone 4 scalpers run amok

3

4

IPhone 4 Launches in China to Thousands

2

5

Tell Your Senator: No Website Blacklists, No Internet Censorship

2

6

Tiny Cray-1 courtesy of an FPGA

2

7

Apple Policy Changes End EU Antitrust Probe

1

8

Goldman Sachs: Apple planning thinner iPad with camera, mini USB

1

9

First look: Unboxing Apple's new $99 Apple TV with streaming HD content

1

10

Apple plans to push HTML5 by creating new, 'innovative' websites

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle for the Web

81

2

Security vulnerability in all supported releases of Windows

2

3

The first Amazon Web Services Tech Summit

1

4

Install WordPress for Windows

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarians

188

2

September 26th is Petrov Day

156

3

BitTorrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing

58

4

Wikipedia Adds BitTorrent Powered Video Streaming

25

5

Research summary: When and how to use caffeine to be more productive

7

6

ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Law Firm Torn Apart By Leaked Emails

3

7

Celebrate Petrov Day by not destroying the world

3

8

VNC as an anti-procrastination tool

3

9

Defend Your Research: Commercials Make Us Like TV More - Harvard Business Review

2

10

Politics as Charity

1

Science News [?]

1

Relativity comes down to Earth

17

2

Re-inventing the Leaf: Artificial Photosynthesis to Create Clean Fuel

16

3

Beyond god and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian'

11

4

How to be happy (but not too much)

8

5

Lifelong Exercising Yields Sensational Results

6

6

Random Numbers Generated Out of Nothing

4

7

In Science We Trust: Poll Results on How You Feel about Science

3

8

Research integrity: Sabotage

3

9

A little aspirin may prevent colon cancer

3

10

Vitamin D found to influence 200 genes, interacts with DNA (Oxford)

3

Social [?]

1

IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;dr version

267

2

Details on today's Facebook outage

108

3

Notch (the Minecraft Developer) Answers Your Questions

89

4

Ask Notch (the developer of Minecraft) anything

36

5

IAmA HS teacher. This is a list of "suggestions" we got in our mailboxes today

30

6

16 bit ALU in MineCraft

27

7

IAMA: We are members of the IE9 product team (for real now)

18

8

Free, online: papers from this week's ICFP 2010 in Baltimore

14

9

CouchDB and SQlite merging technologies to create a JSON QL

13

10

Where Good Ideas Come From

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sammy - jQuery based RESTful evented framework

64

2

TellHN: My Weekend Project (GAE Reverse Caching Proxy)

30

3

Vapor.js - A new JavaScript framework from the author of script.aculo.us

20

4

Why I Write Concept Software

7

5

Mock a mockingbird combinators in Ruby

6

6

HTML5 Cross browser Polyfills

3

7

This ruby code needs refactoring

2

8

A JavaScript web console

2

9

2

10

Slablet: jQuery/CSS UI Framework for iPad

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The "If By Whiskey" speech

83

2

53

3

16

4

4

5

Trivium (education)

3

6

The concept album that effectively killed the cyberpunk literary genre

3

7

Zeckendorf's theorem

2

8

Hyperbolic Discounting [behavioral economics]

2

9

Up to 37% chance of 9+ earthquake on entire west coast within 50 years

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

So you think you know pointers?

62

2

Confessions of your worst WTF moment

29

3

Frame Buster Buster ... buster code needed

1

4

A good host that supports windows 2008 & PostgreSQL?

1

Substack [?]