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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down

459

2

SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower

422

3

Goodbye, Google App Engine

362

4

Hacker's Guide to Tea

294

5

My Y Combinator interview.

269

6

PG on the cover of Forbes

262

7

I Quit Hacker News

261

8

Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole

260

9

Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend

255

10

Who is living off their startup fulltime?

254

Top Ask HN

1

Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Apple?

134

2

Any web startups using Java?

119

3

Is there a hippie commune for hackers?

97

4

My lifetime mentor died. How to move on?

76

5

Favorite pointer tricks in C?

62

6

which obscure Github projects have you found useful?

58

7

What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use?

55

8

what was your first programming gig, and how much did you actually know?

53

9

Would you like to see a book on Racket?

52

10

Ask HN Successful Startups: How did you find your first customer?

49

Top Show HN

1

A successful penny-auction bot

74

2

We just launched a Bayesian-Based Sentiment Tracker

42

3

my new app is fast user switching for the iPad (sort-of)

38

4

My side project - SnapRobot

24

5

My Fast CSS Sprite Generator

22

6

Show HN - My side project: Thingist

21

7

Pepbot, disposable email service with a twist

19

8

Are you a Climber? Thrutched, Version 2

15

9

Djangy, Heroku for Django - anyone use this?

10

10

My way of searching Youtube

6

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole

260

2

Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border

174

3

Make Facebook Angry, And They’ll Censor You Into Oblivion

156

4

Worst gadget ever? Ars reviews a $99 Android tablet

148

5

Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs

147

6

Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes

142

7

Zediva Streams Movies From Physical DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal

83

8

Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques

65

9

Fabricly (YC W10) launches threadless for fashion and raises money

57

10

Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers

52

News [?]

1

PG on the cover of Forbes

262

2

Bill Gates: End teacher bonuses based on master's degrees and seniority

131

3

Paychecks Exposed: Google, Apple, Facebook and More

117

4

Dutch Women work less, have a big gender pay gap, and they love it

105

5

U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release

90

6

What good is Wall Street?

90

7

Sculptor Dangles Clues to Stubborn Secret in CIA's Backyard

71

8

"God help you. You're on dialysis."

71

9

Google Offered To Buy Twitter For $2.5-$4 Billion

65

10

Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service

57

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX receives first-ever FAA license for commercial reentry

67

2

Small Polish company leads the world in crystalline gallium nitride quality

65

3

What Has Riled 96 Prominent Internet Engineers and 49 Law Professors?

46

4

Moneta: A mind made from memristors

10

5

Memristor neuronal simulation (MoNETA)

6

6

NASA Expanding Tests of Star Wars-Inspired "Droids"

3

7

Twitter mood predicts the stock market

3

8

Engineering is not science

3

9

The spread of innovations in social networks

2

10

Engineering Is Not Science

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized

152

2

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns

46

3

Strange Loop 2010 Panel: The Future of Programming Languages

43

4

Schneier on TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash

25

5

Bruce Schneier: TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash

17

6

Book Excerpt and Interview: The Joy of Clojure

16

7

Novell sold to Attachmate

3

8

Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect

2

9

Image Of the Day: The Internet Hijack That Wasn't?

2

10

Towards simpler userspace tracing in Linux.

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

How to Complain About TSA’s Invasive Screening Procedures

36

2

Angry Birds maker apologizes for Android fragmentation issues

27

3

Apple Poaching Enterprise Sales Staff From Research in Motion

20

4

EFF Tool Offers New Free Protection Against 'Firesheep'

4

5

Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon MSM8960: 28nm, dual-core, 5x Performance Improvement

2

6

In Data Portability Deathmatch, Users Lose Out

2

7

Mac pricing gives Apple top dollar share in U.S. home PC market

2

8

Apple Buys HP's Former Campus In Cupertino

2

9

Apple increases iPad orders, decreases CDMA iPhone build plans

1

10

Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

143

2

iOS 4.2 Software Update for iPad, iPhone and iPod

27

3

3

4

Find my iPhone now free for newer devices

2

5

Amazon.com: Give Kindle Books as gift

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Film companies sue lawyer who helped ‘BitTorrent’ defendants

16

2

Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, a cross-platform object scripting language

7

3

Cached Thoughts

2

4

What I've learned from Less Wrong

1

5

The Trouble with Salespeople

1

Science News [?]

1

Tim Berners-Lee: Long Live The Web

90

2

Distant Galaxies Confirm Dark Energy's Existence and Universe's Flatness

28

3

Gene therapy for metastatic melanoma in mice produces complete remission

22

4

Chronic High Cholesterol Diet Produces Brain Damage

5

5

Bering in Mind: What's so premature about premature ejaculation?

4

6

Long Live the Web

3

7

New York State Begins Planning for Sea Level Rise

3

8

The Uncertainty principle and Nonlocality found to be linked

2

9

Well-known molecule may be behind alcohol's benefits to heart health

1

10

Vitamin D deficit doubles risk of stroke in whites, but not in blacks

1

Social [?]

1

Kid's awesome marble run around the outside of his room.

31

2

UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating

23

3

IAmA venture capitalist.AMA

16

4

Pixar "It Gets Better" video

10

5

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

9

6

Star Trek UI on Home Computer

8

7

"It Gets Better" — Love, Pixar

7

8

Video interview with Salman Khan, of Khan Academy

6

9

Claymation explanation of pointers in C from Stanford

6

10

What You Don't Know About Ron Conway

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates

171

2

Git as a NoSQL datastore

84

3

Org mode for vim

42

4

David Pollak's new book, Simply Lift

11

5

Node-mpd, a Node.JS client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

10

6

What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile

8

7

Firefox and Chrome Plugins for Rackspace Cloud Servers (Alpha)

6

8

Simple message passing with node.js and rabbitmq

6

9

Coffeescript 0.9.5 released

4

10

HCSS: markup for CSS

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Traf-O-Data: Bill Gates' 1st startup

4

2

DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device)

3

3

2

4

Hero Scientist: Norman Borlaug (saved more than billion from starvation)

2

5

I wonder what's down there

2

6

McNugget numbers

1

7

1

8

Continuous integration software

1

9

List of Unit Testing Frameworks

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to do what you love (2006)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What should a developer know before building a public web site?

196

2

Hidden limitations of Google App Engine

28

3

JavaScript closures and recursion

14

4

What statistics should a programmer (or computer scientist) know?

2

Substack [?]