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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1028

2

Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

687

3

Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

586

4

Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

437

5

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit

429

6

387

7

Thanks HN: Goodbye, Golden Handcuffs

347

8

WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy

341

9

HN Office Hours

340

10

Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

313

Top Ask HN

1

Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

179

2

What advice messed up your life?

131

3

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (December 2010 Edition)

121

4

Any high frequency trading hackers

114

5

How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

68

6

What are current trends in webdeveloping?

67

7

64

8

What's your favorite online-backup tool?

53

9

Please upvote good questions in comments

50

10

Tell me about your hacker space. (I'm building one in Beijing.)

47

Top Show HN

1

Gamification.org - Open Source Game Mechanics

76

2

New Lisp data structure

62

3

Fulltext Search for the Leaked US Embassy Cables

42

4

Cyberspace - my new web browser for iOS

41

5

Syncpad, like Facetime but for drawings

34

6

29

7

Buffer - My November Sprint App

28

8

HN Unread Comments v1.1 released (chrome extension)

20

9

Kaleidoscope Changesets for Git, SVN, Hg and Bzr

12

10

stk8.co, a multiple URL shortener.

10

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest

176

2

WikiLeaked Cables Confirm China’s Politburo Was Behind Google Hacking Incident

145

3

Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial

142

4

Wikileaks kicked out of Amazon's cloud

125

5

After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch

124

6

WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List

119

7

Inside the Fortified, Nuke-Proof Bunker that's Now Hosting Wikileaks

100

8

Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

89

9

Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS

88

10

Australia blocks access to Wikileaks, $11K/day fine for linking to it (2009)

87

News [?]

1

WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy

341

2

The Men Who Stole the World

139

3

A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web

114

4

Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks

107

5

Many teachers...grading...for compliance - not for mastering course material

85

6

You are no longer free to move around the country

84

7

How Germany got it right on the economy

81

8

Wikileaks says it is under attack

75

9

Cult phenomenon game builds confidence, creates opportunities

65

10

Missing the point of WikiLeaks

63

Scientific publications [?]

1

154

2

NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

130

3

pre-Big-Bang activity evidence

51

4

Thoughts on what the X-37B was doing in space?

23

5

NASA holds press conference to discuss finding that impacts search for life

21

6

Using the Canon Hack Dev. Kit -- Enables Cameras to Perform Neat Tricks

14

7

NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical (Official)

12

8

NASA 'alien life' announcement streams live from 2pm EST (7pm GMT)

7

9

Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism

3

10

Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Close the Washington Monument

211

2

Schneier on Security: Software Monoculture

46

3

Causing Terror on the Cheap

41

4

Yehuda Katz Discusses SproutCore

38

5

Joe Armstrong About Erlang (interview)

30

6

TTY-based group scheduling (the 200+ line linux patch that does wonders)

17

7

Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect

14

8

TTY-based group scheduling

13

9

100 days of IPv4 left

12

10

Rich Hickey: Persistent Data Structures and Managed References (2009)

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum

211

2

Secrets of the "New Music Industry"

29

3

A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy

29

4

Women want Apple's iPhone, men prefer Google Android, Nielsen finds

17

5

Cydia hack enables Airplay in all apps

12

6

Sony adopts, then drops, Cocoa-like GNUStep

6

7

Windows Phone 7 developers fear platform flop

3

8

Steve Jobs: AirPlay Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011

3

9

Gap using iPod based point of sales systems

3

10

Next iPad to have USB per European Regulation?

2

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures

221

2

U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

172

3

Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People

119

4

OCR by uploading images to Google Docs

66

5

Julian Assange's old blog

5

6

How Effective are Groupon Promotions for Businesses?

5

7

How to save the world

3

8

Capitalizing on the Underdog Effect

2

9

Senate committee passes bill to quash file-sharing websites

2

10

US Gov't Responds to Domain Seizures, Ignores the Big Question

2

Science News [?]

1

Very realistic CGI

25

2

The Top 10 Daily Consequences of Having Evolved

21

3

The Antikythera Mechanism: Animation and Analysis [video]

16

4

When Small Numbers Lead to Big Errors

10

5

The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved

7

6

How to create temperatures below absolute zero

6

7

The Web is (not) dead...if you believe Scientific American, not Wired

6

8

Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen

5

9

It's Conway's Game of Life - Only Much, Much Bigger

3

10

Discovery Triples the Number of Stars in the Universe

3

Social [?]

1

The Full Stack, Part I

243

2

So, I looked at Plesk's 404 Page

89

3

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats

24

4

Near-nude woman in wheelchair at TSA checkpoint

10

5

[video] Guy Builds his own Instrument and Plays Amazing songs.

10

6

Wikileaks currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack

10

7

James Gosling on Apple, Apache, Google, Oracle and the Future of Java

9

8

Doodling in Math Class: Snakes and Graph Theory Doodles

8

9

Peter Sunde to setup alt root server to compete with ICANN

7

10

Tower OS X git client now generally available

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Why Emacs is great - SLIME repl for developing in-browser javascript

95

2

Someone Copied the SNAP Source Code to Github Before Sony Pulled it Down

82

3

Github: Free micro plan for a month

79

4

Libgit2: a Git Linkable Library - GitHub

72

5

Self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler in 384 lines of Lisp

66

6

RubyDrop - A Ruby-based Dropbox clone that uses Git as a backend

55

7

lazymake: make for the rest of us - GitHub

15

8

Scraping and Extracting the Cablegate HTML in Python

8

9

Ssync: Optimised S3 Sync Tool using the power of Unix

6

10

Bit.ly File Storage

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

Big Five personality traits

7

2

Apple's Knowledge Navigator [1987]

4

3

International standard ISO 5218: 1 - male, 2 - female

3

4

Radical Transparency

2

5

2

6

Black Swan theory

1

7

Bracewell probe

1

8

Conway's Game of Life

1

9

1

10

Julian Assange Early Childhood Hacking

1

Blogs [?]

1

387

2

4

3

How to Disagree

3

4

The New Funding Landscape

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do I install Arc to get a Hacker News clone website?

49

2

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained (humor)

6

3

Django forms (or models) based on XML instead of ORM

2

4

How can I use Python for large scale development?

2

5

How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application?

2

6

How to organize a Rails App?

1

Substack [?]