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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Evolution of a Python programmer

366

2

Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

342

3

I want privacy because I break the law

320

4

Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source

315

5

Things I've learned at Google so far

264

6

Life Below 600px

232

7

No, you can't do that with H.264

222

8

Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, first interview since 1989

197

9

Tinkerer’s Sunset

196

10

Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites

189

Top Ask HN

1

Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?

152

2

Looking for interns / entry level?

113

3

Where are all the Python jobs?

73

4

Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?

53

5

Getting started with Clojure

40

6

Please review our redesigned Web App, GradeMate

38

7

What's the current state of NoSQL ?

38

8

Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham

32

9

What's your problem?

28

10

Anyone went from PHP to Python?

26

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites

189

2

Steve Jobs calls Google's "Don't be evil" mantra "Bullshit" and Adobe "Lazy"

125

3

Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy

106

4

Symbian Operating System now open source

85

5

Engadget - We're turning comments off for a bit

79

6

Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad

70

7

Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images

46

8

Google adds multitouch to Nexus One browser, maps, and gallery

45

9

Tesla Is Going Public

45

10

Italy looking to kill user-generated content sites

42

News [?]

1

Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

342

2

Courts determine Australian ISPs not liable for users piracy.

69

3

More exercise better in long run

62

4

Hitchins: North Korea is even weirder and more despicable than you thought

62

5

Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by Department (Infographic)

54

6

British nukes were only protected by bike locks

48

7

Hundreds of Quakes Are Rattling Yellowstone

33

8

Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism

31

9

A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift

31

10

Beef Bowl Economics

29

Scientific publications [?]

1

Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight

20

2

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks

16

3

Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy

11

4

No Moon Trips: Obama's Space Vision a 'Paradigm Shift'

3

5

Solving a Hamiltonian Path Problem with a bacterial computer

3

6

NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications

3

7

Dream Jobs 2010

2

8

IEEE Spectrum: How Hard Should It Be To Stop a Runaway Luxury Car?

2

9

DIY Eye in the Sky

2

10

New Hubble camera photographs unusual comet inside solar system

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

China Internet Network Information Center accepted as a Mozilla root CA

68

2

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp

44

3

Anonymity and the Internet

32

4

Verizon MiFi Device Hacked

23

5

Schneier on Security: Online Credit/Debit Card Security Failure

15

6

InfoQ: Adam Wiggins on Heroku

9

7

Security and Function Creep

6

8

IPhones Vulnerable to New Remote Attack

3

9

Twitter introduces Hovercards

3

10

New Security Enhancements in Chrome.

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Seven "Corporations of Interest" in Selling Surveillance Tools to China

4

2

The iPad has Adobe's Flash on Apple's video

1

3

Abstracting the iPad filesystem

1

4

IMFT samples 2-bit 25nm NAND, available in SSDs by Q4

1

5

NVidia GF100 (Fermi) Cards Finally Named: GTX 480 & GTX 470

1

6

The x86 instruction proprietary extensions: a waste of time, money and energy

1

7

Amazon has Acquired Touchco - A Multi-Touch Company

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

A new kind of review - inspired by Stephen Wolfram's book

63

2

Amazon indicates they'll accept Macmillan's terms

58

3

Amazon lowers outbound data charge by 2 cents

31

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

HN Internships + Potential Interns [gdoc]

99

2

Being an expert takes time, not talent (2007)

8

3

Presentation from Scala Enthusiasts talk on foursquare's use of scala and lift

3

Science News [?]

1

Damning verdict on doctor who linked vaccine and autism

116

2

Barefoot Running

44

3

How Humans Ran Comfortably and Safely Before the Invention of Shoes

30

4

Kids & Social Rejection: Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected

12

5

I, virus: Why you're only half human

9

6

Nanotube dye makes wearable batteries

8

7

Global warming by carbon-cycle feedback significantly less than thought

7

8

Peter Atkins on writing textbooks

6

9

Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge

4

10

Maze-Solving Oil Drop

4

Social [?]

1

I found this secret code while geocaching. What could it mean?

56

2

Inkless and tonerless rewritable printer

22

3

U1 Hybrid iPad from Lenovo

21

4

Gates and Jobs look into the future of personal computing (2007)

18

5

Dave Ungar at Stanford U: Self language creator on its history and influence

16

6

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? [video]

15

7

Working at (Google Vs Microsoft)

12

8

Voronoi tessellation in linear time

11

9

Steve Jobs giving an in-house speech at Apple, circa 1997

10

10

Hacker News in Chrome OS Tablet Concept Vid

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Evolution of a Python programmer

366

2

Deleting omgs out of Rails

37

3

Rails 3.0.0.beta

28

4

A Difficult Distraction

23

5

A new sandboxing JavaScript framework: FuseJS

13

6

How many lines of Java would this take?

8

7

Cube5: Webkit CSS based 3D cube layout.

7

8

A literate programming fork of the Emacs Starter Kit

6

9

LaTeX templates for common document classes

5

10

Script/* commands removed in Rails 3

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

174

2

124

3

Wikirace - Wikipedia

38

4

Immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks

36

5

Non-blocking synchronization

21

6

Global Internet Usage

2

7

Google Chrome has "native support" for greasemonkey scripts

2

8

2

9

Hundred Flowers Campaign

2

10

Central Limit Theorem, prevalence of the normal probability distribution

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

"I thought we were ready - I thought it was time."

7

2

Why did java have the reputation of being slow?

5

3

Are Passwords on Modern *nix Systems Still Limited to 8 Characters?

3

Substack [?]