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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Today you, tomorrow me

1270

2

What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

521

3

If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming

503

4

Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

486

5

Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map

430

6

Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?

413

7

Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC

395

8

Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent

365

9

The Day MAME Saved My Ass

352

10

Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

341

Top Ask HN

1

How do you cope with loneliness?

158

2

What is a monad?

100

3

How can a programmer learn graphic design from the ground up?

78

4

Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

75

5

Why is there so little innovation in education?

54

6

Is there any market for creative coders?

49

7

Is anyone else tired of reading the same articles?

44

8

Finally have loose change and spare time, but no sense of purpose. Help.

41

9

Favorite payment processor?

41

10

What's it like to work at Oracle?

39

Top Show HN

1

A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"

109

2

Profile Collage for Facebook

77

3

62

4

Flattehn: A Chrome extension to hide points / users until you've voted

61

5

Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy

46

6

I wrote a gopher client and decided to put it on GitHub.

25

7

Node.js apps personal showcase

11

8

RSS reader with bayesian filter

11

9

Hack the new Facebook Profile with BannerBuzz

10

10

TextMunch, a new SMS app to answer the daily question "What to eat?"

9

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

486

2

Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

217

3

BMW Burns Logo onto Cinema-Goers’ Eyes

209

4

Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)

202

5

For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV

172

6

Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"

154

7

Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android

81

8

Google, These Aren’t Really The Best Answers For Users.

76

9

Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks

57

10

The decline and fall of an ultra rich gaming empire

54

News [?]

1

The War on Cameras

173

2

"Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work"

141

3

Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year

118

4

Homeland Security seizes music blog domains

109

5

No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own

95

6

The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web

78

7

The computer programming language known as "open source code"

70

8

Internet start-ups: Another bubble?

69

9

Voyager near Solar System's edge

55

10

A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives

53

Scientific publications [?]

1

A 0.07-Second Power Problem at Chip-Plant Affect Digital Device Availability

22

2

Anatomy of an Internet Hijacking

8

3

Unmasking the "Anonymous" Hackers

7

4

Basis of the undermining effect of monetary reward on intrinsic motivation

5

5

Memristors - The next generation of Chip

4

6

The Rise of Computational Forensics

4

7

WikiLeaks Demonstrates Web Resiliency

3

8

IEEE Spectrum: 3-D Without Four Eyes

2

9

Athlete Robot Learning to Run Like Human

2

10

France Developing Advanced Humanoid Robot

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Security in 2020

111

2

Inside node.js by Ryan Dahl

9

3

Dick Costolo Announces New Funding Round and New Board Members

8

4

Development at the Speed and Scale of Google

4

5

NIST Announces SHA-3 Finalists (Skein is One of Them)

3

6

The kernel and the C library as a single project

3

7

Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malicious Ads

2

8

Ten Most Powerful tweets in 2010

2

9

Reminder: Snake Oil (Schneier, 1999)

2

10

Twitter for Business Launches

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment

172

2

US Army wants to equip all soldiers with an Apple iPhone or Android phone

21

3

HTML5 on Android Samsung Galaxy Tab "disappointing" vs Apple iPad

17

4

Google Latitude comes to the iTunes Store

16

5

Google's Chrome OS assailed as needless, dangerous by critics

8

6

Constructive Direct Action Against Censorship

6

7

Five years of Apple: 2005 iBook to 2010 MacBook Air

3

8

Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment

3

9

Android's weak sales drive Verizon toward Apple's iPhone

3

10

AirPlay Reverse Engineered to Send Video From iOS Devices to Macs

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2

105

2

A list of all Microsoft Trademarks

14

3

Apple’s Mac App Store to Open on January 6

12

4

A review by Peter Norvig on Structure and interpretation of computer programs.

6

5

"Netscape Time", by Jim Clark

3

6

Amazon S3 ups filesize limit from 5 gigabytes to 5 terabytes

3

7

Apple - Feedback on all products & software

1

8

1 year Free Amazon Prime Membership for College Students

1

9

Playmobil Security Checkpoint

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

192

2

Facebook Chat Architecture (Erlang)

106

3

The Cartoon Guide to Löb's Theorem

5

4

Rogers' BitTorrent Throttling Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong

5

5

Apple Accused of Selling Pirate Books On App Store

5

6

MPAA Shuts Down 29 BitTorrent and NZB Sites

3

7

The motivations for a Retweet

2

8

Branding in the Digital Age: You’re Spending Your Money in All the Wrong Places

1

Science News [?]

1

No evidence of time before Big Bang

50

2

"Invisibility cloak" can shield macroscopic objects in visible light

40

3

The moon as you've never seen it before

32

4

Generating Matter and Antimatter from Nothing

25

5

First animal-to-human transplant treatment approved

14

6

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf

5

7

Oldest known computer recreated in lego

3

8

Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to change

3

9

Odyssey orbiter nears Martian longevity record

2

10

Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku

2

Social [?]

1

Today you, tomorrow me

1270

2

Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map

430

3

Hotmail development team on Reddit

105

4

Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks

88

5

Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup

78

6

How I got someone on Ebay to buy something they backed out on after winning

59

7

Looking at the code behind our three uses of Apache Hadoop

32

8

Time lapse of an icon being drawn (in Photoshop)

11

9

LinkedIn is down

10

10

Beautiful, Slow-Motion Engineering Views of a Shuttle Launch

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OOP practiced backwards is "POO"

140

2

RailsAdmin: Rails3 easy-to-use interface for managing your data

81

3

Reia: Friendly, Ruby-style syntax on the Erlang VM

69

4

Doodle.js: Canvas Animation

34

5

22

6

MuTanT: A Poly-ScriptEngine ScriptEngine

13

7

Epiphany, a RESTful micro PHP framework I wrote/use for my startups

13

8

Give the Gift of Github

13

9

Dynamic jquery loading for 3rd party services

10

10

Fastest Strassen's Linked List implementation I've seen

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock

8

2

5

3

4

4

The Rosenhan experiment (confirmation bias in psychiatry)

4

5

Coastline paradox

2

6

2

7

Tidal Acceleration (Earth's rotation slowing down)

2

8

2

9

EFF DES Cracker: "Deep Crack"

1

10

3200 Phaethon - Origin of Geminids

1

Blogs [?]

1

How To Make Wealth (2004)

112

2

Why TV Lost (2009)

55

3

PG on Java - comments from 2001

32

4

Why There Aren't More Googles

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Database development mistakes made by application developers

154

2

Prototype based vs. class based inheritance

35

3

Monads in Scala

18

4

What's the rationale for null terminated strings?

3

5

Answer HN: Tools or Language first

2

6

Advice for C# programmer writing Python

2

7

URL design for an HTTP API

2

8

What are five things you hate about your favorite language?

2

9

Sorting an array of items in order using their frequency of occurrence data

1

10

Great UIKit/Objective-C code snippets

1

Substack [?]