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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

549

2

The hell that is a restaurant website

286

3

School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

275

4

270

5

Ask YC/HN Archive

254

6

237

7

Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"

230

8

Business School is a Joke

223

9

No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")

215

10

209

Top Ask HN

1

Gmail alternatives?

124

2

Review my app: Wappr

70

3

How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest?

52

4

Relationship between HN and Scribd?

49

5

Cloning a US startup for a european country ?

41

6

What do you use to monitor your web application?

37

7

Great tech entrepreneurs who saw success in their mid 30s?

30

8

Who are the Alpha Geeks you follow?

25

9

Review my first Rails app? Pitchforked

24

10

Review Our Idea (Achievements for the web)

21

Top Show HN

1

My project for this weekend (with source)

120

2

Meet the new Ajax IM (with Node.js)

95

3

My 2-Hour Twilio App

57

4

My Weekend Project -- A Clone of HN Built on Pligg

18

5

My 30 minute Aardvark clone

5

6

Interview Engine

5

7

SMS My TV Show (find out when your show is on next)

4

8

Unit Testing in VS2010 (Native C++)

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

CardPool (YC W10) Wants To Buy And Sell Your Unused Gift Cards

103

2

‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months

91

3

Sarah Silverman is brilliant

82

4

Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape

82

5

Windows Mobile 7 Series

78

6

Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

65

7

The 7 words that could improve Copyright

63

8

63

9

Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation

59

10

In Praise of Online Obscurity

34

News [?]

1

3 Tesla workers die in E. Palo Alto plane crash

125

2

A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services

92

3

Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (2003)

78

4

America's Jobless Future?

69

5

Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish

58

6

At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly

44

7

The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture

38

8

In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature

37

9

Why Orwell Endures

35

10

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall

27

Scientific publications [?]

1

Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters

14

2

Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind

7

3

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

6

4

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

5

5

Steganography via VoIP

5

6

Wireless Sensors That Live Forever

4

7

This Car Runs on More Lines of Code Than an F-35

2

8

Effective leadership in competition

2

9

Fermionic entanglement that survives a black hole

1

10

On the Complexity of Envy-Free Cake Cutting

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3

140

2

Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring

6

3

The State and Future of JavaScript

3

4

‘Time Bomb’ May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight

8

2

A tour inside Western Digital

5

3

You Bought It, You Own It: Vernor v. Autodesk

4

4

Music Journalism is the New Piracy

2

5

New York Times has internal war over iPad edition prices

2

6

App Store developer interest nearly triples from Apple iPad hype

1

7

Report Profiles Secrecy at Apple's Asian Manufacturing Partners' Facilities

1

8

Jobs' Wall Street Journal Visit Reportedly Included Arguments Against Flash

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon introduces Kindle for BlackBerry

2

2

Tell HN: A book about Twitter that isn't full of bullshit.

1

3

Windows Phone Image Gallery

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Business School is a Joke

223

2

You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof

55

3

Nathan Myhrvold: Funding Eureka

20

4

The Principal Programming Paradigms

3

5

POV magazine 100 top websites (1999)

1

Science News [?]

1

Poor Teen Sleeping Due To Lack Of Blue Light?

44

2

Humour is a far more complex process than primeval pleasures like sex or food

37

3

Iran showing fastest scientific growth of any country

31

4

The key to regenerating bodies

20

5

Starship pilots: speed kills, especially warp speed

15

6

Typos may earn Google $500m a year

7

7

Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system

7

8

Off-the-shelf camera hacked to grab high-speed video

6

9

A gene for Alzheimer's makes you smarter

5

10

Engineer creates unique software that predicts stem cell fate

2

Social [?]

1

Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

56

2

Jessica Livingston - Authors @Google - Founders at Work (2007)

53

3

Linus Torvalds on git (video)

50

4

Facebook Data Team: Relationships and Happiness

45

5

CCC Fake Fingerprint

43

6

Twitter releases their in-house open-source projects

21

7

Ideal for Valentine's Day: Lover's Cups from the MIT Media Lab

20

8

First Episode Of HBO's How To Make It In America (Entrepreneurship Themed Show)

19

9

CubeStormer: Rubik's Cube solving machine built out of legos

8

10

Today's XKCD is now a real Facebook group

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Javascript + DOM in your ruby, the simple way

35

2

Leiningen 1.1.0 Released

30

3

CyberLisp: A Lisp to JavaScript compiler

14

4

Synch-ing utility between OmniGraffle and Django models.

3

5

Repository of Open Source Icons

2

6

Ripple: Ruby client library for Riak

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

83

2

16

3

Shibumi - is beauty that makes an artist of the viewer

3

4

Fast breeder reactor

2

5

We Live in Public

1

6

Hardy–Weinberg principle

1

7

Porter five forces analysis

1

8

1

9

Củ Chi tunnels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1

Blogs [?]

1

209

2

Hackers and Painters

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Real Men don't use debuggers

13

Substack [?]