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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

470

2

Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...

443

3

Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic

380

4

The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger

371

5

Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland

369

6

Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available

369

7

This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep

354

8

The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

353

9

Implementing the auto-buying bot from xkcd #576

333

10

Just buy this one

289

Top Ask HN

1

What do you use?

116

2

Has anyone hacked their homes?

96

3

So I got first two paid customers, now what?

89

4

Etiquette at conferences?

62

5

How do founders end up broke?

58

6

What martial arts do you practice? What do you recommend?

56

7

Any good math jokes?

54

8

Review my webapp PCPartPicker: pick parts, build a pc, compare prices

51

9

Do you think intuition is as valuable as rational thinking?

51

10

What are your regrets?

49

Top Show HN

1

Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?

97

2

Our little html5/js dungeon crawler.

71

3

A/Bingo for ASP.NET

32

4

Critique my pro football (NFL) data webapp

29

5

my first ever coding project (7bks.com)

25

6

Manage your time, automatically, with Location Pie (my side project)

19

7

Findsimilar.info - my weekend project

15

8

Review My Startup, PlusConf - Online conferences

10

9

My "weekend" project

10

10

Checkout my command-line Mint using Ruby and Ledger

10

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google: Facebook Can’t Import Our User Data Any Longer Without Reciprocity

175

2

Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data

116

3

Genetic Secret to AIDS Immunity Found

83

4

Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

76

5

Facebook Slaps Google: “Openness Doesn’t Mean Being Open When It’s Convenient”

72

6

Give Us Our Data, Facebook

71

7

Apache Foundation to vote down Java 7, protesting Oracle abuses

69

8

Google points finger at Facebook hypocrisy, blocks Gmail import

68

9

Niklas Zennstrom: What I’ve Learned

63

10

Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API

63

News [?]

1

The Great Cyberheist

130

2

Mystery Missile Launch Seen off California Coast

109

3

Leading scientists say backscatter X-ray may be far more dangerous than thought

91

4

Diet hacker data point

80

5

For Cats, a Big Gulp With a Tiny Touch of the Tongue

72

6

Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free

71

7

The mysterious illness striking down old cars

62

8

Man in disguise boards international flight

57

9

Teen Promoter Raking in Cash w/Drug and Alcohol-Free Parties

50

10

Later: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?

48

Scientific publications [?]

1

42 feet per gallon

46

2

NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy

5

3

Beyond Dean Kamen: The case for simpler prosthetics

1

4

The highest resolution image ever of M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Changing Passwords

93

2

SSH: Use Password or Public-Private Keys?

49

3

The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?

33

4

Strange Loop 2010: "Machine Learning: A Love Story" by Hilary Mason

12

5

Compiler Benchmarks Of GCC, LLVM-GCC, DragonEgg, Clang

7

6

Twitter Blog: Twitter + Ping = Discovering More Music

5

7

Glibc change exposing bugs (or how memcpy can bite you back)

4

8

Microsoft Open Sources F#

3

9

Full report from the 2010 Linux kernel developer's summit

3

10

Crowdsourcing Surveillance

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Toshiba Introduces MacBook Air 'Blade-Type' SSDs to Mass Market

34

2

Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st

20

3

Adobe Flash contributes largest number of security patches in OS X 10.6.5

8

4

You Can Now Donate Bitcoins to the EFF

7

5

Amazon Offers 70-30 Revenue Share to Magazine and Newspaper Publishers

4

6

The Strange, Unpredictable World of Copyright Damages

3

7

Bank of America, Citigroup testing iPhone to replace BlackBerry

3

8

Internet Censorship Bill is Delayed, For Now

3

9

Test shows Apple's iOS 4.2 further improves iPhone 3G performance

2

10

Previewing AMD's Brazos, Part 1: More Details on Zacate/Ontario and Fusion

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple to abandon their XServe line

59

2

Amazon.com got a full theme refresh and looks great

47

3

Apple ditches XServe

6

4

Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

2

5

"Smart Food: Diet and Nutrition for Maximum Brain Power"

2

6

The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss

2

7

Amazon CloudFront Updates: Use CloudFront with any storage server, SLA available

2

8

Introducing Amazon S3 Multipart Upload

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BitTorrent Records

104

2

LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team

15

3

Anonymous DDoS Takes Down The United States Copyright Office

4

4

LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team

3

5

Five Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records

2

6

UTorrent Apps Arrive, Plus Free Movies and Privacy Features

2

Science News [?]

1

NASA's Fermi telescope finds giant structure in our galaxy

8

2

Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests

4

3

The Arctic Shifts to a New Climate Pattern in Which "Normal" Becomes Obsolete

3

4

New statistical model moves human evolution back 3 million years

3

5

Blocking Stress Hormone Improves Memory In Old Mice

3

6

Blood vessels recovered from T. rex bone (from 24 March 2005 but new to me)

2

7

Iain M. Banks: Upload for everlasting life

2

8

The sight of meat makes men less aggressive

2

9

DNA reveals origins of first European farmers

2

10

Alpha males take greater risks: Study links finger length to behavior

2

Social [?]

1

27bslash6 responds to complaints by posting users personal information on reddit

28

2

Coderaid - "Raid" for helping OSS projects

19

3

Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up

14

4

YouTube - Kinect open source driver demo

12

5

So you want to start a web startup?

11

6

John Carmack on the Mac App Store

10

7

A very real and sad start up story

8

8

How to hack football (only works on the middle school level)

7

9

Twitter Places (a.k.a. foursquare)

6

10

Super Mario Opens Firefox

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

"Please take this down and write your own book."

170

2

A new way to think about programs

130

3

Clojure port of WebMachine released

46

4

Health.js: CPU usage streaming and notification for Node.js

30

5

Simple script lets you spam all developers on GitHub using their API

16

6

Sizzle: A compiler + runtime for Google's Sawzall language, optimized for Hadoop

11

7

Learn You An Ruby, a mix of LYAH and LPTHW

7

8

Default .gitignore Files

6

9

6

10

Tagalog: a faster way to develop, a better way to log

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Cool stuff you can do with netcat

126

2

The Magical Number 7 plus or minus 2

21

3

Commonplace Book

15

4

Airline sex discrimination seating controversy

9

5

Haidinger's brush

4

6

3dfx, sold to nvidia in 2000

4

7

Happy Diwali to all

2

8

Scunthorpe problem

2

9

Chinese Room Argument & Artificial Intelligence

2

10

List of company name etymologies

2

Blogs [?]

1

156

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

147

2

Why doesn't this code simply return a to z as the output?

59

3

What is the best way for a non-CS major to obtain credibility as a programmer?

26

4

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

8

5

When is OOP better suited for?

4

6

Windows CMD script won't do Ackermann properly

2

7

Python based Web Crawlers

2

8

Edit Distance Algorithms

1

9

OOP in a purely FP context

1

Substack [?]