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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Remind HN: Vote

454

2

350

3

Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right side is HTML5.

349

4

The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19

311

5

The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket

311

6

Use Vim Like A Pro

300

7

Google Engineering Management Mistakes

296

8

How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

292

9

Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache

290

10

8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

286

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

213

2

Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

157

3

Anyone else here struggle with the alcohol?

116

4

Anyone been acquired by Google who can talk about it?

114

5

Your Non-Glorious Startup Success

88

6

What charts javascript library to use?

84

7

Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?

82

8

What are you reading right now?

79

9

How do I give my son a head start?

70

10

Avg. replaced Karma in top bar?

65

Top Show HN

1

a compiler from Python syntax to JavaScript syntax (like CoffeeScript)

32

2

Instant Movie/TV Search

31

3

Gundo (my Vim undo tree visualizer)

7

4

Android keyboard + Unofficial Google Scribe API

3

5

Cool Halloween MailChimp Login

3

6

TextDrop - text editor for Dropbox

2

7

A Foursquare clone written in Django.

2

8

I made an Instagr.am spoof

2

9

Craigslist Instant

1

10

Activities/Discounts site for Moms

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Are You A Pirate?

282

2

At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us

259

3

Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense

187

4

Microsoft picks HTML5 over Silverlight for Internet apps

179

5

WorkFlowy (YC S10) launches a better way to organize your brain

172

6

Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana

168

7

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York

122

8

Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back

103

9

Disneyland with the Death Penalty

94

10

Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook

93

News [?]

1

How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

292

2

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

259

3

U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents

140

4

Marijuana Legalization Fails in California

128

5

Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'

120

6

Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself

94

7

It’s Morning in India

93

8

How to Build a Data Startup

78

9

Believe the Hype About India and China

75

10

Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself

64

Scientific publications [?]

1

Robotic Gripper Made from Coffee-Filled Balloon Picks Up Anything

2

2

Now you can also call Obi-Wan on the hologram machine. Sort of

2

3

Geminoid F: New Smiling Female Android

1

4

Detecting imminent landslides with sound

1

5

Testing a biomedical implant to reduce severe vertigo

1

6

Oops: unknown man's photo attached to Georgia arrest records dating back to 1983

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers

52

2

Schneier on Security: Cargo Security

49

3

Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines

35

4

Five Years Of Linux Kernel Benchmarks: 2.6.12 Through 2.6.37

27

5

New Orleans Mayor Wants to Scrap Surveillance Cameras

22

6

Schneier on Security: Halloween and the Irrational Fear of Stranger Danger

21

7

New Crop of Self Hosting IDEs: RedCar and JRuby, Cloud9 IDE and Javascript

3

8

The Business of Botnets

3

9

Class Action Suits Target Google, Facebook, Zynga

3

10

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air battery life by 2 hours

73

2

Tiny USB business card

64

3

Google founders wanted to hire Steve Jobs as company's first CEO

24

4

IPhone 3Gs users attempt class action suit

12

5

E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy

5

6

Futuristic 3D mouse originally Arduino powered and 3D printed

3

7

Shocking: Did the W3C Sell Out to Microsoft?

3

8

IDC: Apple passes RIM to become No. 4 global mobile phone vendor

2

9

Steve Jobs: No USB 3 ‘at this time’

1

10

DHS Singles Out EFF et al. FOIA Requests

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft releases Regex Fuzzer

3

2

"Rules of Work - Expanded Edition" Free on Kindle

2

3

Hgiyiyi: Amazon test page has 11 customer reviews

2

4

Apple - Downloads - Development Tools - Silverlight

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Engineering Management Mistakes

296

2

Google Homepage Circa 1997

44

3

Leaked DVD Screener of The Social Network A BitTorrent Hit

30

4

Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy

7

5

Finding Competitive Advantage in Adversity

7

6

Working at Google vs Working at Meetup (Updated)

4

7

5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes (by Piaw Na)

3

8

Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine

1

Science News [?]

1

Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

35

2

A new kind of neutrino?

19

3

Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi

9

4

Mental function improves after certain kinds of socializing

8

5

First whole human liver built in lab

7

6

Children really do see things differently

6

7

Love is Great for Creativity, Sex for Analytical Thinking

4

8

The telescope that ate astronomy

3

9

Facebook data shows race trumped by social origins in friendship

3

10

Advance could change modern electronics

3

Social [?]

1

Good YC Applications, More Interviews

111

2

From the guy who makes SMBC to the guy who keeps hacking SMBC

73

3

GitHub is now SSL only

51

4

WePay and DailyBooth Hackathon

48

5

Community for Lisp Game Development

30

6

Angel Dave McClure discusses Angelgate, Y Combinator & investment thesis

19

7

Appleseed, a Diaspora alternative, goes public

7

8

How Fast Light Leaves Earth (Video)

5

9

Tom Peters: Pissed-Off People Drive Innovation

4

10

Chris Slowe is leaving reddit

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

IBM Open Sources Multi-core Smalltalk VM

111

2

Please fork, contrib & push Paython (Payments in Python) forward

87

3

Minecraft server built in Node.js

48

4

Yahoo Open Sources S4 Real-Time MapReduce Framework

42

5

Ward Cunningham's DSL for teensy microcontrollers

21

6

Face Detection with HTML5 & JavaScript

11

7

Cli Twi - dead simple Twitter client

11

8

Phone-based RPG built on Twilio

4

9

Node.js based UglifyJs is faster than YUI Compressor and GCL

3

10

Handlers - Convention-over-configuration Javascript for rails' views

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

3

2

Leaning toothpick syndrome

3

3

Flynn Effect: Average IQ increasing about 3 points per decade

3

4

Jumping the shark

2

5

1

6

Work-to-rule strike

1

7

You can use wikipedia to investigate strange Unicode characters

1

8

Asch conformity experiments

1

9

1

10

System archetypes

1

Blogs [?]

1

Design and Research

4

2

Hijacking is Buffer Overflow

3

3

Ideas for Startups (2005)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

48

2

Is my data normalized?

4

3

Hidden Features of Java

2

4

What are php nested functions for?

1

Substack [?]