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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app

378

2

Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network

269

3

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.

265

4

AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."

259

5

How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter

248

6

199

7

Paul Graham on Mixergy, today 2pm EST/11am PST

192

8

Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt

188

9

-2000 Lines Of Code

179

10

Stop Piping Cats

178

Top Ask HN

1

improving your design skills?

140

2

129

3

Do you need angel funding?

125

4

Steady 4-5% on $5 million?

78

5

Are you looking to fund startups?

50

6

Review my startup: Cashier Live

40

7

How can I get my hourly rate from $65 to $125 in the next 90 days?

38

8

What became of Steve Yegge's "Rhino on Rails"?

33

9

Please review my web app to help startups get free PR

33

10

Would you submit this paper with its literal title?

32

Top Show HN

1

PatchBin.com - Pastebin for patches + comments + code review.

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million

125

2

TechCrunch Intern Admits To Asking For Compensation For Writing Posts

89

3

IBM demonstrates manufacturing process for creating 100GHZ graphene transistors

72

4

4chan's moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010

67

5

Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits

57

6

21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men

54

7

The War on Interruptions: When Change is Hard

45

8

AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challenge Intel in laptops

34

9

Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises Seed Funding From Max Levchin And Michael Birch

33

10

MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta Steps Down

31

News [?]

1

An end to frivolous patents may finally be in sight

102

2

Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?

96

3

Keep doing that and you'll go blind

95

4

Fire Your Relatives. Scare Your Employees. And Stop Whining.

66

5

How Google Buzz Is Disruptive

60

6

Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone

51

7

America's 250th DNA exoneration: How often is wrong person sent to prison?

48

8

From prisoner to Supreme Court practitioner

35

9

New errors in IPCC climate change report - Telegraph

27

10

German family granted political asylum in U.S. over home schooling

26

Scientific publications [?]

1

Conficker is Alive: Isolated Greater Manchester Police System For 5 Days

1

2

[1002.1651] Drake Equation for the Multiverse

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier has a new book coming out - Cryptography Engineering

58

2

Schneier on Security: All Subversive Organizations Now Must Register

49

3

Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer

16

4

Apple disallows use of geolocation by iPhone app devs just for ads

15

5

LCA: How to destroy your community

5

6

World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector

4

7

New Attack on Threefish

4

8

Email Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil addresses

2

9

Twitter Blog: Super Data

2

10

Linux.conf.au: Hackability for disability support devices

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google's Super Bowl ad shows the need for search privacy

33

2

Know Before You Go: Tickets May Come at a Higher Price Than You Realize

6

3

MacBook Pro Core i7 caught GeekBenching itself

1

4

Hardware based randomness for Linux

1

5

Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models

1

6

Make Your Own (Paper) iPad

1

7

TPM crytography cracked

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Versioning Feature for Amazon S3 Now Available

39

2

Vulnerability in Microsoft Paint Could Allow Remote Code Execution

3

3

List of Essays Written by Bill Gates

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Foldl and foldr considered slightly harmful

48

2

Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment

2

3

ICFP09: Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution by Guy Steele

2

4

Torrent Sites Blamed For Twitter Attack

1

Science News [?]

1

Sun-powered water splitter makes hydrogen tirelessly

30

2

Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills

27

3

The entropy force: a new direction for gravity

23

4

Ale is good, make no bones about it

5

5

Nature's hot green quantum computers revealed

3

6

The Advantages of Being Helpless: Human brains are slow to develop

3

7

With a little help, water can freeze as it heats up

2

8

My Big Fat Geek Wedding

2

9

Rob Hopkins: Getting over oil, one town at a time

1

10

Scientists Make A Quantum Computing Leap Forward

1

Social [?]

1

XHP: A New Way to Write PHP (from Facebook)

134

2

I made $622,322.96 in 2009 from affiliate marketing.

130

3

I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.

128

4

Google's Parisian Love Superbowl Ad

120

5

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

88

6

Pharaoh's snake

77

7

Video explaining how a differential gear works

69

8

Live Google event about Google Buzz

40

9

Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (Reddit Video Interview)

22

10

How to get on TechCrunch

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Clojure for .NET

57

2

A Note on the Recent GitHub Outages

30

3

Hn-api: a simple, ad-hoc Python API for Hacker News

23

4

Ruby Library for Google Buzz

16

5

Evolution of a Ruby Programmer

8

6

Hs-gchart - Haskell wrapper for the Google Chart API

3

7

Introducing status.github.com

3

8

SQL query tool/library for static files in Python

2

9

Gtkdial: dial from every gtk app

1

10

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Fundamental attribution error

30

2

Controversies over the term Engineer

17

3

Recently re-written HSL/HSV wikipedia article: feedback welcome

7

4

Number stations

3

5

Embedding Pictures in Music

3

6

List of Cognitive Biases (and explanations)

3

7

Van Gogh was 32 years old when he painted his first major work.

3

8

Elephant in Cairo algorithm

2

9

Superformula - Parametric shapes

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why are double sided polymorphic relationships lacking in Rails?

2

2

Favorite Django Tips & Features

1

Substack [?]