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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
The reverse job applicant
518
2
Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
479
3
Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee
433
4
Apple deprecates Java
386
5
After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?
379
6
PayPal robbed my bank account
378
7
Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP
338
8
My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups
316
9
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
285
10
Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible
279
Top Ask HN
1
Do we no longer support our members?
246
2
starting a career in software dev in my thirties, am I nuts?
88
3
What to do when co-workers don't aspire beyond getting their paychecks?
81
4
What are you working on right now?
78
5
Tips for writing compelling web copy.
71
6
Anyone else doing a non-software startup?
68
7
What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?
68
8
how many years have you "wasted" on failed startups? And any regrets?
63
9
How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?
60
10
Tax Haven for startups?
59
Top Show HN
1
Hacker News, automagically organized
274
2
A/Bingo for PHP
33
3
Condensr.com, Yelp Snippet Summarization
27
4
Correlation between number of facebook likes and winner of an election
8
5
Tuxtorial - Create and share screenshot-based tutorials for Linux.
3
6
My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search
3
7
Coat, a simple weather forecast and clothing suggestion app
3
8
New iPad cooking app - Gourmaide
3
9
Twitter Oauth bookmarklet experiment.
2
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Encode images as audio, and vice-versa in realtime: JACK/Aubio/GD
2
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
155
2
Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect
135
3
Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs
101
4
Developer Joe Hewitt Tears Into Android’s Definition Of “Open”
92
5
Android Chief Andy Rubin Sends His First Tweet — And It’s Aimed At Steve Jobs
87
6
Does the angry blue bird multiply its mass?
84
7
MacBook Air ships without Flash
62
8
Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market
59
9
Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs
56
10
‘Angry Birds’ Developer: We Have Not Sold To EA
56
News [?]
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The Disruptor In The Valley
197
2
Warren Buffett: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Was $200 Billion Blunder
166
3
Video on Steve Jobs personality
103
4
Indian man of 100 goes back to university for PhD
95
5
How to Push Past the Pain, as the Champions Do
91
6
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
82
7
WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?
68
8
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
58
9
The Tools You Really Need to Maintain Your Home
55
10
China Is Said to Halt Exports to U.S. of Some Key Minerals
52
Scientific publications [?]
1
Twitter Predicts DOW
5
2
Darpa Seeking to Revolutionize Robotic Manipulation
3
3
A DIY Telepresence Robot
3
4
A Faster Approximation of Maximum Flow in Undirected Graphs
2
5
Astronaut invents Zero G Coffee Cup [video]
2
6
Researchers Using Rat-Robot Hybrid to Design Better Brain Machine Interfaces
1
7
Twitter mood predicts the stock market
1
8
Darpa wants YOU to improve a $500k 2-armed robot by writing firmware for it
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Apple deprecates Java
386
2
Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition
75
3
Indian OS
72
4
The 2.6.36 kernel has been released
4
5
Functional Languages 101: What’s All the Fuss About?
3
6
Functional Approaches To Parallelism and Concurrency
2
7
The Future of WCF Is RESTful
2
8
'Rocket science' VS 'OS Development'
1
9
Foursquare's MongoDB Outage
1
10
.NET’s Platform Divergence Problem
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Anandtech's Detailed WP7 Review
82
2
Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 spotted
10
3
Sources: Apple to unveil revamped 11.6-inch MacBook Air next week
7
4
Steve Jobs slams Google, RIM, and rival tablet makers on conference call
4
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Steve Jobs: Apple will use $51B for big moves, not 'stupid' ones
2
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RIM: Problems with 7-inch tablets only exist in Apple's 'distortion field'
2
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Jobs and Zuckerberg Reportedly Discussed Ping Over Dinner
1
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Apple.com leaks confirmation of iLife '11, new MacBook Airs, more
1
9
Looks like Apple will be streaming Back to the Mac event today
1
10
Barack Obama and Steve Jobs Meeting Today to Discuss Economy and Technology
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
479
2
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
142
3
Facetime for the Mac
108
4
Mac OS X.7 "Lion" preview
107
5
Apple releases 11.6" Instant-On MacBook Air for $999
63
6
New MacBook Air Specs
27
7
Steve Ballmer E-mail to Employees on Ray Ozzie Transition
23
8
Microsoft announces Office 365
3
9
Apple Q4 results -- live
2
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Apple Mac App Store - Buy, download, and install apps made for Mac.
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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MPAA Copy-Protected DRM Site Hacked By Anonymous
3
2
Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems
3
3
Jason Scott Schools Pirates On Correct Way To Rip His DVD
3
4
Google Creative Lab / 119 slides of art, mashups, interactive installations
2
5
Maxwell's 1873 "A treatise on electricity and magnetism"
1
Science News [?]
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Why complex life probably evolved only once
113
2
Briefing: Cancer is not a disease of the modern world
72
3
No gain from brain training
37
4
New Theory Links Depression to Chronic Brain Inflammation
19
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Ask YC: This is our tech, how can we make this into a product that people want?
16
6
Morality: 'We can send religion to the scrap heap'
13
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Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
8
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Need a Study Break to Refresh? Maybe Not, Say Researchers
8
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Curious mathematical law is rife in nature
5
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In Mandelbrot we trust: The chaos theory of evolution
5
Social [?]
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OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole.
264
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Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP)
153
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It Gets Better: Google Employees
93
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Opera Browser AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit
59
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A robotic curtain that automatically blocks the view of passersby
24
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IOS developer responds to Android Chief about Google OS being open
11
7
Band Gets Instruments Stolen, Plays Song on iPhones
7
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Video Interview with Prolific Angel investor Paige Craig (30 deals in a year)
7
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How can I explain to clients that rankings can't be guaranteed?
6
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David Lynch on Ideas
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.
92
2
MVC, PVC and (¬M)VC
66
3
Wilson, a Django-inspired node.js framework
51
4
Clojure Library for Google App Engine
25
5
PubSubHubbub Subscribing for CouchDB
16
6
jQuery 1.4.3 Released
7
7
MVC, PVC and (¬M)VC
5
8
I heard you like github, so I put a github in your github
3
9
CouchDB Replication to node.js
3
10
Bitly's command line utilities for data analysis
3
Wikipedia [?]
1
The inventor of microfleece refused to patent it.
81
2
Anti-pattern
13
3
How the Enigma cipher was broken
5
4
Proving 0.999 is equal to 1
4
5
Recursion explained
3
6
Apple's Snow White Design Language
3
7
Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
2
8
Beachhead Strategy [Reid Hoffman mentioned it in startup school]
2
9
Cymothoa Exigua
1
10
Mechanism design
1
Blogs [?]
1
The New Funding Landscape
246
2
Beating the Averages
5
3
Hackers and Painters
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?
231
2
Understanding "randomness"
60
3
Throwing cats out of windows
21
4
What are common UI misconceptions and annoyances? - Stack Overflow
7
5
Launch an iPhone app from a webpage
3
6
Buddhism to the rescue
3
7
How to git clone a big project on an unstable connection? - Stack Overflow
2
8
Programming languages to learn
2
9
Understanding "randomness"
2
10
Is Python a beginner language or is it robust?
2
Substack [?]