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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

508

2

Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White

278

3

Pure CSS new 3D effect

252

4

How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac

213

5

Windows 3.1 Online - With Minesweeper

210

6

The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies

206

7

Automate any GUI using screenshots

197

8

IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people

197

9

Adobe, Apple, and Flash

197

10

Geek behaviors present during conversations

183

Top Ask HN

1

A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do?

88

2

Review my app again? Short domain name search

73

3

Cases where software patents have prevented progress?

57

4

Rate my essay, please: On thinking

49

5

I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK?

42

6

Help a YC startup improve your mobile media experience

38

7

How would you make public transit profitable / create more value?

36

8

Best practices for server redundancy?

35

9

Marketing Books for Developers?

35

10

My nephew wants to learn programming. What should I recommend?

26

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

TechCrunch Hacked

126

2

Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility

101

3

Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

93

4

Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International

83

5

Cloudkick (YC W09) Rolls Out Freemium Model For Server Management System

65

6

Slime mold grows network just like Tokyo rail system

51

7

Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes

51

8

McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV

51

9

WakeMate Delays Initial Shipment, Makes Moves To Appease Upset Customers

42

10

Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back.

38

News [?]

1

The logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers

112

2

Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks?

65

3

Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who think they deserve it.

55

4

The best running shoe may be nature's own

54

5

You want more good jobs, spawn more Steve Jobs

51

6

James Patterson Inc: A look at the author who outsells King & Grisham

40

7

The psychology of power: Absolutely

39

8

Why the Obama administration hasn't lived up to its web transparency promises

29

9

The Checklist Manifesto

28

10

The growth of the state: Leviathan stirs again

25

Scientific publications [?]

1

Arxiv: thousands of CS, math, and science articles

2

2

The iPad is Not A Kindle Killer--Blame the Display

2

3

Engineers Race to Restore Communications after Haiti Quake

1

4

NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space

1

5

A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

0MQ: A new approach to messaging

89

2

Schneier on Security: Technology Shouldn't Give Big Brother a Head Start

83

3

Matz on Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design

49

4

Privacy in the Age of Persistence

27

5

Continuous Deployment, In Practice

19

6

Yukihiro "Matz": Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design

8

7

Exploring Dynamism in Programming Languages

6

8

The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected

6

9

How Pair Programming Really Works

3

10

Schneier on Security: More Surveillance in the UK - read comments please

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Panopticlick: browser fingerprinting research

21

2

Some Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Switcheroo

17

3

Apple profits soar 50% on record sales of 3.36M Macs, 8.7M iPhones

5

4

EFF on browsers, entropy, and identification

5

5

Apple now allowing iPhone apps to make VoIP calls over 3G networks

4

6

How to Thrive as a Musician Without Suing Your Fans

3

7

Tomshardware Catches ATI (and 2D rendering in general) with their pants down

2

8

The Apple iPad - Anand's Analysis

2

9

Pple wants to price tablet hardcover bestsellers $13-$15

1

10

A little info on the iPad OS and SDK

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

108

2

iPad SDK (iPhone OS 3.2 beta) available for download

7

3

IPad - Technical Specifications

3

4

Apple reports first quarter results.

2

5

Microsoft fixes IE vulnerability

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Unlimited Free Calling with Google Voice

50

2

Scala for Haskell programmers

8

3

Interview with Erik Spiekermann: Why are typefaces legally defined as software?

4

4

Timeless Identity - there is no 'You' carried through time

4

5

‘Piracy Isn’t Killing Music’ Radiohead’s Guitarist Says

1

6

Hemp for victory

1

7

Microsoft Sues Prominent BitTorrent Tracker For $43m

1

Science News [?]

1

How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

47

2

Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360

38

3

Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

18

4

The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages

11

5

Early humans wiped out Australia's giants

10

6

Learning the art of creating computer games can boost student skills

9

7

Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities (2007)

6

8

Naked apes: Why humans have no fur

5

9

Will NASA retreat from human space exploration?

5

10

Submarine Internet cables could detect tsunamis

3

Social [?]

1

Piracy is a Market Correction.

120

2

Ask Peter Norvig Anything

72

3

Going back to C

66

4

Build your own laser microphone

21

5

YouTube Music Discovery Project

20

6

Loren Brichter on Tweetie

13

7

Keynes vs Hayek, as explained in rap video form

13

8

11

9

Paypal has locked Wikileaks' account

8

10

Tech Details on the Apple Tablet from Jason Calacanis

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Beautiful Failure

71

2

Arel, a composable relational algebra for Ruby

46

3

Explore GitHub (trending/featured repos and podcasts)

39

4

Classic computer science problems solved in JavaScript

33

5

Caponia - an in memory, full text search system in clojure

25

6

Djata: A Django REST Data API App

14

7

Computer Science In Javascript

8

8

Showoff: Presentation software for software developers

4

9

Pattern Matching for Ruby

4

10

Typo fixed = license removal ?

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

26

2

Simo Häyhä - The White Death

3

3

Aquatic ape hypothesis

3

4

Jim Gray lost at sea, 3 years ago.

3

5

Who is GNU founder Richard Stallman?

2

6

Lenna - First Lady of the Internet

2

7

Pixel art scaling algorithms (why your emulator looks better than the real game)

2

8

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

1

9

1

10

Grelling–Nelson paradox

1

Blogs [?]

1

Apple's Mistake

82

2

47

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can you program if you’re blind?

6

2

Polyglot binary that runs both on Windows (sort of) and Linux

1

Substack [?]