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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Introducing Word Lens

1297

2

Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome

325

3

Startup Title Junk

298

4

Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report

288

5

Merry Christmas HN

283

6

Netflix: Culture of Fear

282

7

Dropbox hits 1.0

262

8

Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

259

9

Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server

253

10

I didn't really enjoy Y Combinator

248

Top Ask HN

1

Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear

90

2

Why are YC startups so secretive in Job postings?

77

3

Why doesn't HN use SSL/HTTPS for its login form?

54

4

How do you balance college and a startup?

40

5

The ranking algorithm in 'the social network'

37

6

learning web programming vs. tablet programming

37

7

How do you begin to build your new project?

32

8

What skills $100/hour - $200k/year

23

9

What is your programming music?

22

10

chat going up or down?

21

Top Show HN

1

I wrote my own Delicious clone

138

2

Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page

92

3

Our (two) weekend project: 365.io - A photo a day for one year.

49

4

Our app - FourSquare for Beer

27

5

Craigsforms for better craigslist ads

16

6

Said.fm curated & connected audio content. Feedback Appreciated

10

7

Just launched Crikkket, an iOS/Android web app for following The Ashes

9

8

We just launched badges for Khan Academy

8

9

A smarter way to share links

7

10

Making an iPhone game in 10 minutes - Whack a Kitty

7

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

WakeMate review

136

2

Flirting Social Network Likealittle Hits 20M Pageviews In 6 Weeks

120

3

DotCloud (YC S10) Mix and Match Cloud Platform Launches

119

4

AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

111

5

Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts (YC W10)

107

6

Great. Skype is down.

102

7

Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief (April 2010)

95

8

AI Defeats the Hivemind

82

9

Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program

78

10

Microsoft release a Firefox plugin enabling H.264 support

63

News [?]

1

The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing

226

2

A Physicist Solves the City

189

3

The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time

116

4

Why old people make better entrepreneurs than young ones

88

5

Wayne Ting, nearly a billionaire. Or how Facebook won

80

6

Vertical farming: Does it really stack up?

76

7

Reversal on Carbs: Scientists now blame carbohydrates for America's ills

71

8

Columbia University vs the little guy

69

9

Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us

66

10

Don't Glorify Dropping Out

60

Scientific publications [?]

1

Tonight's Lunar Eclipse Comes With a Rare Twist

31

2

New Motion Capture Tech Makes Games Look Like Films

3

3

The 12 Stages of Monday's Total Lunar Eclipse

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security: Recording the Police

126

2

iAd Producer from Apple

113

3

Machine Learning: a Love Story (video)

57

4

Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD

41

5

Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD

40

6

Rich Hickey on Protocols and Clojure 1.3 (video)

9

7

Twitter Blog: Fluther Flocks to Twitter

9

8

How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

7

9

Persistent data structures and managed references

7

10

Netflix in the Cloud (new 1hr talk)

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Obama calls Steve Jobs' success prime example of American wealth

22

2

Apple kicks Wikileaks app out of the App Store

5

3

Motorola hypes its tablet by calling Apple's iPad a 'giant iPhone'

3

4

Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: US Bullies Spain into Proposed Website Blocking Law

3

5

Apple partners with Cherokee tribe to put language on iPhones

3

6

Android, iOS apps skirt privacy policy to share user data with advertisers

2

7

Apple CEO Steve Jobs named Financial Times 'Person of the Year'

2

8

Facebook's Exceptional Approach to Vulnerability Disclosure

1

9

Apple's iOS Engineering Jobs Emphasize Navigation Software Experience

1

10

Controversial Steve Jobs figurine appears to sell for $2,500 on eBay

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Xkcd: volume 0 is #714 on Amazon (20% Profits go to RoomToRead)

34

2

AWS Achieves PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance

26

3

Google Books n-grams data and Apache Hive on Elastic MapReduce

3

4

“FarmVille for Dummies” Is Real and Available for Pre-Order

2

5

Free Internet safety calendar

1

6

The Science of Word Recognition

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

MPAA/RIAA Lobbied Extensively In Favor of Domain Seizures

31

2

10 year timeline of google execs

3

3

End of the middle manager

3

4

Torrentz Dumps .COM Moves to .EU

2

5

Motion Chart (rebranding of software used by Hans Rosling in his TED Talk)

1

6

Failed Utopia #4-2

1

7

Pirate Bay Supreme Court Appeal "Should Consider ISP Liability"

1

Science News [?]

1

Woman With No Fear Intrigues Scientists

69

2

Bamboo Train: How Cambodians hacked together rural transit

48

3

Google Books: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

27

4

Combining Caffeine with Sugar May Improve Concentration

24

5

Let's build Babbage's ultimate mechanical computer

22

6

Robots learn to walk like a senior citizen

14

7

Criminals find the key to car immobilisers

5

8

The Web Turns 20: Web Science Reveals Human Interactions (Pt. 4/4)

4

9

Science: Insights of the Decade

3

10

Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters

3

Social [?]

1

Why I love math

231

2

Facebook Data Team: What’s on your mind?

54

3

Google aquires duck.com and points at own search site

32

4

Why you shouldn't steal a hacker's computer

10

5

Facebook Fellowships

9

6

Kevin Rose wants to buy Delicious and make... Digg

9

7

Michael Jordan's Response To Lebron James What Should I Do Commercial

8

8

Al Jazeera Interview with Julian Assange

7

9

Thank you, Google.

7

10

Why the other line is likely to move faster

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

XSS vulnerability found in Github

69

2

PIRE – really fast single-pass regex matching

34

3

Delicious-like bookmarks on github

16

4

Rails 3.1 will secure passwords out of the box

10

5

Goose - Article Extractor now open source, same as Flipboard/Instapaper

9

6

SWANK Server for Chicken Scheme

5

7

Obfuscate, minify and/or encrypt node.js modules with packnode

4

8

Scrapilicious: A Delicious Scraper built in scrapy (python)

4

9

Clispy: A scheme-like language in 800 lines of C code

4

10

Gitmarks: A web bookmark manager built on git, with Delicious import

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms

208

2

Liquid breathing

37

3

Heilmeier's Catechism: questions for every startup, every project.

35

4

Smoothening complex polygons - Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm

30

5

Tupper's Self-Referential Formula (A Quine for Mathematicians)

7

6

The Uncanny Valley

6

7

Double Cross System

2

8

Paul Erdos: "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems."

2

9

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse

1

10

Sosumi - Apple's Easter Egg Mocking The Beatles (Apple Corps)

1

Blogs [?]

1

Founder Control

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn/read?

110

2

What's your most controversial programming opinion?

27

3

The simplest definition I can give for Big-O notation is this:

2

4

I thought only Javascript was supposed to do surprising stuff like this

2

5

Tell HN: 'bulletproof' font-face hack breaks Android. Here's a working setup.

1

Substack [?]