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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

714

2

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

605

3

Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)

461

4

Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you

421

5

Tell HN: Please stop offering your services

406

6

Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

398

7

Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose

383

8

What We Look for in Founders

362

9

Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers

342

10

A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

310

Top Ask HN

1

Visual Design for Hackers

137

2

136

3

How does having a baby change your life?

127

4

Show me your Half Baked project

126

5

What's the best way for foreigners to incorporate in the States?

110

6

Django Deploy Recommendations

109

7

How do you tune your life?

99

8

How expensive is living in Silicon Valley

90

9

How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

86

10

"Is that work?"

83

Top Show HN

1

I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind

453

2

Couldn't sleep; added 960gs support to jMockups

75

3

415-483-1860 twilio-translator

21

4

TextSlide - SMS Roulette

15

5

I made an RSS feed reader

10

6

HN iGoogle gadget

9

7

Review my startup: shrtn.co - Affiliate based URL shortener

8

8

HNResources.com: directory with HN resources

7

9

Daily writing prompts with node.js

4

10

My new product is finally launched

4

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

605

2

Compared to you, most people seem dumb

209

3

Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent

176

4

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits

176

5

Secret Button Sequence Bypasses iPhone Security

106

6

UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist

104

7

The PlayStation Phone

101

8

Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.

99

9

Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed

81

10

Windows Phone 7: The Ars Review

65

News [?]

1

Game Changers: Jon Stewart [video]

86

2

Think You Know How To Study? Think Again

72

3

Carly Fiorina destroyed the 'HP Way'

67

4

The difficulties of providing 110-volt power to your airline seat

66

5

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

60

6

Cracking satellites for high speed Internet (Feb 2010)

53

7

How Rich Is Rich?

42

8

Apple might acquire Sony?

37

9

How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends

28

10

Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad

24

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

89

2

New Look at Mystery Flashes Reported by Astronauts

3

3

NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

3

4

IEEE Spectrum: Darpa Seeking to Revolutionize Robotic Manipulation

1

5

Bachet's Problem: as few weights to weigh them all

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

An ancient kernel hole is closed

4

2

Functional Design Patterns (video)

4

3

Death by Accidental Complexity

3

4

IPhone Jailbreak Tool Sets Stage for Mobile Malware and Rootkits

2

5

Can Oracle Turn Java Around?

1

6

Gemalto sues Google,Motorola,HTC and samsung over android

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Smallest gaming console ever.

22

2

IPad "Orientation Lock" becomes "Mute On/Off" in software update

16

3

70 LEDs crammed into a pumpkin. Overkill in tutorial form.

4

4

Outlook 2011 for Mac uses Webkit to render HTML

3

5

Apple to Make All New Mac Shipments Flash-Free

2

6

Apple's new 11" MacBook Air a "much faster iPad" or "much slower MacBook Pro"

1

7

Apple's North Carolina data center to open "any day now"

1

8

Ridiculous: Speculation of an Apple Acquisition Drives Sony's Stock Price Up

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon to add "lending" feature to Kindle

143

2

Possibly horrible product, but the best Amazon Customer images and reviews

16

3

Microsoft Brings Games on Demand to the Web With New PC Game Store

2

4

Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2

5

Visual Basic macros are back in Office Mac 2011

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Redis Cluster: a pragmatic approach to distribution

42

2

LimeWire Shuts Down After Losing Court Battle With The RIAA

12

3

Creative media & technnology compilation by Google creative lab

3

4

Leaked Letter Exposes Sarkozy’s Repressive Anti-Piracy Agenda

3

5

What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy? - Harvard Business Review

3

6

BitTorrent Still Dominates Global Internet Traffic

2

7

Angry Developer Transforms Anti-Piracy System Into Music Download Site

1

8

Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"

1

Science News [?]

1

Speed breakthrough in Solving Linear Systems

36

2

Space tourism to accelerate climate change

5

3

Could quantum algorithms shake up Google?

3

4

Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues

3

5

Falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second

2

6

Moving illusions: impossible objects made real

2

7

Not Neutrality? U.S. Weighs Options for Turbo-Boosting Nation's Broadband

2

8

50 ideas to change science forever: Computing

1

9

Doctors Conduct First-Ever All-Robotic Surgery and Anesthesia

1

10

Prizewinning chatbot steers the conversation

1

Social [?]

1

"Nah, who needs another search engine?"

242

2

What algorithm blows your mind? (Reddit compsci)

129

3

I Buy and Sell Domain Names AMA

67

4

How To Sell: A 6-minute video tutorial

32

5

Want to Help Reddit Build a Recommender?

26

6

What doing a Startup feels like

9

7

"My little piece of privacy" - Robotic Curtain

7

8

Mastery vs. Mediocrity (Ben Scofield Ignite talk)

6

9

Fight Club Philosophy

6

10

Most realistic robot face I've seen

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

EA open sources their internal version of STL

89

2

Sidejack Prevention

72

3

Remember twich.me (node.js realtime chat)? Here is the source as promised.

62

4

Ghcjs: Haskell to Javascript compiler

56

5

Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

47

6

Bookmarklet for Reloading just CSS on a page

39

7

Diaspora Security - will this work?

17

8

Sheepsafe (keeps you safe from FireSheep)

9

9

Wingman: An Open Source Things

8

10

Sidejacking 48 popular sites - Complete list

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook

200

2

Qi (programming language)

10

3

WoodGas Cars: 1000 kg of wood = 365L of gasoline, no refining required

6

4

Dazzle camouflage

5

5

The most distant object observed from Earth

4

6

The Knights Templar: Bank, Army, Charity, Logistics, and More

4

7

Dunbar's Number

4

8

3

9

Darwins Thinking Path (pic)

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

What We Look for in Founders

362

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can you program if you're blind?

185

2

What's happening with Arc?

76

3

Is functional programming relevant to web development?

31

4

Defend PHP; convince me it isn't horrible

10

5

What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map?

5

6

StackOverflow: What kind of programming requires math?

3

7

What would make you try (or not try) a new programming language?

2

8

How does Google Maps compute directions

2

9

What algorithm does Google Maps use to compute directions?

2

10

Are games the most complex / impressive applications?

2

Substack [?]