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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Sacked by a Google algorithm

685

2

Google Engineer bails out student in jail

540

3

Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis

498

4

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison

379

5

Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research

336

6

CoffeeScript hits 1.0 -- Happy Holidays, HN

289

7

What is Traitorware?

255

8

Dead End Jobs: Are You Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

248

9

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

230

10

1960s IT department

228

Top Ask HN

1

I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?

370

2

What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

253

3

Dos & Don'ts of Referral/Invite Programs

53

4

Who/What will do for Prolog what Clojure has done for Lisp?

52

5

What provider do you use for Cloud hosting and why?

47

6

Sub-$1000/mo passive income in 30 days?

40

7

What did you accomplish in 2010?

35

8

please review my tool for rewrite rule testing

32

9

Ask HN:Need Sales Help?

31

10

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Top Show HN

1

Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)

297

2

My first significant project with Backbone.js - a simple online editor

91

3

drag-drop file uploading for the whole web (Firefox/Chrome)

66

4

go back in time and get nostalgic about 2010 with rrrewind.com

22

5

My weekend hack, a Bejeweled bot in Clojure with attempt at AI

14

6

My craigslist erotic section replacement

13

7

My new flight tracker, flightlite.com

11

8

My first weekend project, Wikihowtodo, a to-do list maker.

7

9

Zone, an app for Mac that helps you focus on work

5

10

Pomodroido - a pomodoro timer with a side of game mechanics

4

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle sells $1.8M worth of indie games

102

2

The Rise Of The Hybrid Startup

91

3

Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat Logs)

90

4

Skype banned from China

89

5

2011: The Year Android Explodes

75

6

The A.I. Revolution Is On

75

7

Googlers, get a privacy screen for your laptops

69

8

War for tech talent in NYC

64

9

Seeing Interactive And Weebly Partner, Offer White-Label Websites

55

10

Kinect Hacked to Control Humanoid Robot: First Steps to Avatar

51

News [?]

1

Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]

210

2

The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day

185

3

Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers

102

4

The Internet is a public commons erected on private property

102

5

How David Blaine Held His Breath

91

6

Oooh - I'd kill for a four day week...

84

7

How Disney Uses Technology To Control Crowds In Their Theme Parks

83

8

Income Inequality and the 'Superstar Effect'

79

9

Happy Birthday to the Suit

56

10

Fully functional adults with perfect ("endless") memory

55

Scientific publications [?]

1

Uncertainty Can Increase Romantic Attraction

70

2

Using the Canon Hack Development Kit

31

3

Printable batteries at 400 Watt hours per kilogram

3

4

Better Benchmarking for Supercomputers - IEEE Spectrum

3

5

Hauling 4 to 5 million pounds of explosives

1

6

Chemical trick puts solar cells on Saran wrap

1

7

A sneak peak at the new top processors

1

8

Artificial organ could improve control over diabetes

1

9

Three reasons wind power could wane

1

10

Computer-related Communication Problems Lead to False Arrests in Australia

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter for the greater good: "I will dig you out."

7

2

Languages Come to Javascript VMs: CoffeeScript, StratifiedJS, Emscripten, ...

6

3

Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.8, Rubinius 1.2, MRI 1.8.7 and 1.9.2

2

4

InfoQ: Cloud Computing Trends in 2011

2

5

Exploit Kits Employing Obfuscation to Prevent Analysis

2

6

New Data Stealing Trojan For Android Has Botnet Capabilities

2

7

Russian e-Payment Giant ChronoPay Hacked

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

What is Traitorware?

255

2

EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography

37

3

A hacker’s marginal security helps return stolen computer

33

4

Steve Jobs is Watching You

14

5

IPad tops Mossberg's list of best reviewed products of 2010

4

6

Genachowski Wins on Net Neutrality, Sort of

2

7

Apple expected to hold event by Valentine's Day to announce Verizon iPhone

2

8

Skype 3.0 for iPhone now with Video Calls

2

9

Sightings from the Mac App Store

1

10

Potential PalmPad design

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

109

2

Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live

80

3

Microsoft issues Internet Explorer zero-day warning

25

4

Apple Notebooks - battery care for longer life

6

5

Finding trending topics using Google n-grams data & Hive on Elastic MapReduce

1

6

Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

1

7

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Most profitable movie ever was also most pirated of 2010

36

2

Pirate Apple App Store Innovates With ‘Reverse BitTorrent’

32

3

BotTorrent? Using BitTorrent as a DDoS Tool

3

4

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

2

5

ZeoSync's Press Release (too good to be true datacompression)

1

Science News [?]

1

The progress bar illusion

125

2

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

4

3

Sea Urchins' Self-sharpening Teeth

3

4

Wheel patented in Australia (2001)

3

5

Heat shock protein drives substantial evolutionary changes in short periods

2

6

Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?

2

7

The Internet peak comes into view

2

8

Amygdala at the centre of your social network

2

9

Delaying Sex Makes Better Relationships, Study Finds

2

10

How Trivial Sensations Can Influence Reasoning, Social Judgment and Perception

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook Engineering Puzzles

89

2

Redditors share the way the world was 20 years ago

83

3

How I Met Your Girlfriend (DEFCON 18)

11

4

How a hacker recovered his stolen computer

8

5

Space Saving Furniture will blow your mind - technology meets design

7

6

PS3 Public Keys fail0verflow

6

7

Never steal a hacker's computer

6

8

Inside An 'E-Meter'

6

9

Pwned By the owner (Defcon 18 video)

6

10

Interesting meme on Twitter, #code2010 add yours

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Kod.app is open source

160

2

Gift HN: tund - SSH to your stolen laptop

86

3

Bjoern: A screamingly fast Python WSGI server written in C.

52

4

How to run Apache and Node.js together (the right way)

26

5

The Clay programming language

10

6

Building real time applications with Django, XMPP and StropheJS

8

7

Testosterone, Node.js Synchronous testing for virile http servers

7

8

Redo: a replacement for make based on ideas by djb

7

9

Tobi: Expressive Node.JS functional testing with jQuery

5

10

Nanomaps - A tiny, fast JavaScript tile map client within 7KB

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Full employment theorem

58

2

Why is P3P not used more?

18

3

Obesity in US 1985-2006

14

4

4

5

3

6

Unusual software bugs

2

7

Minitel - A 'Net Before the Internet (1982)

2

8

Clarke's Three Laws

2

9

Corruption Perceptions Index

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking

154

2

Python - How to sort my paws?

107

3

Why must the last part of an Objective-C method name take an argument?

48

4

Getting Started with Redis for Node.js

41

5

Good excuses Not to use version control

2

6

Does using stateful web servers make sense?

1

Substack [?]