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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A Big Case of Oops

395

2

Your high IQ will kill your startup

384

3

I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air

310

4

“It turns out”

257

5

Crazy or Disciplined?

252

6

Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000)

243

7

Achievement Porn

219

8

OK Go's new music video, featuring an insane Rube Goldberg machine

218

9

Perfect example of real-life hacking

208

10

Joel Spolsky On Why He Is Quitting Blogging

193

Top Ask HN

1

What are you working on tonight?

75

2

A martial art for a programmer

58

3

An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one?

46

4

How can you make a user experience addictive?

34

5

Discovering new music?

30

6

Please review my new site

28

7

MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?

22

8

Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup)

20

9

Psychology research on value perception of different pricing models?

17

10

Is it me or does NBC simply not get the whole online thing?

17

Top Show HN

1

my story generator using answer-set programming

7

2

Backtype's (YC S'08) Twitter tracking lags far behind Tweetmeme

5

3

My company released a new iphone App

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Ubuntu introduces new theme and branding

122

2

Don’t “Pull A Patzer” And Other Lessons Learned On Our Trip Down Sand Hill Road

49

3

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

48

4

We're so good at medical studies that most of them are wrong

46

5

Can Entrepreneurs be Made?

42

6

BBC blocks open source video players

40

7

Apple stepping up pressure on music labels to snub Amazon

37

8

‘Google’ Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code

35

9

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Circa 1986

34

10

Coby $85 Smartbook Feels Like a Hundred Bucks

33

News [?]

1

Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica

75

2

Depression’s Upside

74

3

Human-flesh Search Engines in China

59

4

End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It

59

5

Weaponizing Mozart

58

6

6 Months, $90,000 and (Maybe) a Great Idea

52

7

How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America

49

8

Apple Sues Nexus One Maker HTC

49

9

Apple admits use of child labour in China

40

10

Company reaps $25,000,000 hacking TicketMaster & others . . .

36

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds

75

2

Are birds smarter than mathematicians?

15

3

A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud

9

4

This Car Runs on Code

8

5

NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon's North Pole

6

6

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days

4

7

Is It Real, or Is It Randomized?: A Financial Turing Test

3

8

$1 Million Prize For Anyone To Prove Cause of Toyota's Runaway Cars

3

9

The genome is software and evolution is a software developer

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rails 3 presentation by Yehuda Katz

27

2

Dean Wampler on Programming Languages (Scala, Clojure, Java and Ruby)

10

3

Apple's patent attack (details on the patents involved)

9

4

Microsoft Warns of New IE Code Execution Flaw

3

5

T.J. Campana on the Waledac Botnet Takedown (mp3 podcast)

1

6

More on the Al-Madhouh Assassination

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections

135

2

Valve Leaks Teaser Images for Announcement of Steam (and Games) for Mac

55

3

Apple taken to task for reporting partners' child labor violations

37

4

Browser Shootout: IE vs. FF vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. Opera

29

5

Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA

3

6

Getting the LED out

2

7

AMD, Intel, And Nvidia In The Next Ten Years

2

8

Apple recruits former Microsoft, Mozilla security chief (Window Snyder)

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle For BlackBerry Is Finally Here

2

2

Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day

69

2

What is Bayesianism?

64

3

One Café Chain’s Facebook Experiment

8

4

Managing Our Way to Economic Decline - 1980 Harvard Business Review article

1

5

Pirate Bay Buyer Offered Millions to Mininova

1

Science News [?]

1

Hydrocarbons Can Superconduct, Too

6

2

Scientific American: Does the US Produce Too Many Scientists?

5

3

A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces

3

4

CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?

3

5

How to be a genius (2006)

2

6

Sea level spike?

2

7

Cat Fleas' Journey Into The Vacuum Is A 'One-way Trip'

2

8

Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics

2

9

The brain scanner that feels your pain

2

10

Optical system promises to revolutionize undersea communications

1

Social [?]

1

OK Go's new music video, featuring an insane Rube Goldberg machine

218

2

Here's how you really use your iPhone

141

3

Piano music visualized on a logarithmic spiral

92

4

Try Haskell now with interactive tutorial

54

5

Working with Mark Zuckerberg

45

6

Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview 1959

36

7

Tim Bray resigns from Oracle/Sun

24

8

Peter Norvig answers reddit's questions (Ask Me Anything video interview)

23

9

Reddit interviews Peter Norvig

17

10

Three Strange Definitions of Computer Programming from Edsger Dijkstra

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A rant about Ruby 1.9 String encoding

86

2

Introducing GitHub Compare View

72

3

Ruby official mirror on Github

44

4

Github: Interesting Repositories

39

5

Tell HN: I wrote a Ruby lib to access Hacker News.

33

6

Stuart Halloway's clojure-presentations

19

7

GitHub Branch Lists

16

8

Querulous, Twitter's Scala library for SQL databases

15

9

Example Clojure Webapp In A Gist

6

10

Project to easily generate image galleries

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Kim Ung-yong: The man with the highest IQ

106

2

Piet is a programming language, whose programs look like abstract art.

99

3

Father of the moderm tiling WMs proposed for deletion in Wikipedia.

92

4

64

5

List of fallacies

59

6

Curiously recurring template pattern

3

7

3

8

Gini Coefficient

2

9

Canada-EU Free Trade & Labour Movement Proposal

2

10

Google celebrates Vivaldi's birthday...Wikipedia page vandalized all day

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What single discovery has given you the greatest boost in productivity?

2

Substack [?]