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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Introducing Word Lens
1297
2
Today you, tomorrow me
1270
3
A new approach to China
1145
4
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
1098
5
Google Beatbox
1028
6
Thoughts on Flash
962
7
Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story
776
8
P ≠ NP
740
9
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
10
Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
714
Top Ask HN
1
Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
441
2
What were your naivetés in your twenties?
391
3
I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
370
4
How to become a millionaire in 3 years?
313
5
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
304
6
Offer of Employment retracted
271
7
Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
258
8
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?
253
9
My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
247
10
Do we no longer support our members?
246
Top Show HN
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I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind
453
2
I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
318
3
Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)
297
4
Hacker News, automagically organized
274
5
HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
221
6
I wrote my own Delicious clone
138
7
My project for this weekend (with source)
120
8
A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"
109
9
My latest pet project, pydroid
109
10
Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?
97
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
1098
2
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
3
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
605
4
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels
558
5
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
486
6
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
361
7
Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"
360
8
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
352
9
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million
323
10
Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50
314
News [?]
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Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
436
2
How Fake Money Saved Brazil
377
3
U.S. Discovers Est. $1 Trillion of Minerals in Afghanistan
354
4
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
342
5
WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy
341
6
Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.
331
7
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
325
8
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion
313
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Too many laws, too many prisoners
293
10
How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?
292
Scientific publications [?]
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Yacc is dead
154
2
Anybots launches QB proxy robot
151
3
Engineering Is Not Science
134
4
NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
130
5
A Robot That Balances on a Ball
118
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NASA to announce 'intriguing planetary system' discovery on Thursday
94
7
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
89
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IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"
88
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The Fastest Helicopter on Earth
78
10
How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds
75
Dev Blogs [?]
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The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
420
2
Apple deprecates Java
386
3
Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
215
4
Close the Washington Monument
211
5
The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]
195
6
It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux
192
7
Wiretapping the Internet
162
8
IPhone =/= Debian app
152
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Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized
152
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Twitter launches own shortener t.co
151
Tech blogs [?]
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Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
340
2
Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
266
3
What is Traitorware?
255
4
TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit
249
5
Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum
211
6
EFF: Say No to Online Censorship
189
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EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
187
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It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime
178
9
Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
172
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EFF: How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly
167
FAANG+ [?]
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Thoughts on Flash
962
2
Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
479
3
Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
464
4
Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
290
5
Microsoft's Guide to Humor
252
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Apple letter about iPhone 4
212
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Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
200
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Amazon introduces new service: Simple Notification Service
199
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Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
197
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Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
191
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Google Engineering Management Mistakes
296
2
Textarea, You Are A Sunken Nothing
250
3
Business School is a Joke
223
4
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
221
5
Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate
192
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Intellectual hipsters and meta-contrarians
188
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U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More
172
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Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent
157
9
September 26th is Petrov Day
156
10
Short Studies On Excuses
156
Science News [?]
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Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight
185
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More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart
174
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One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot
146
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The progress bar illusion
125
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Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights
123
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Damning verdict on doctor who linked vaccine and autism
116
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Why complex life probably evolved only once
113
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Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass
109
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Nobel prizewinner: We are running out of helium
104
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Publish your computer code: it is good enough
96
Social [?]
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Today you, tomorrow me
1270
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Welcome to the new decade
486
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Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07
439
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Facebook intern visualizes friendships, draws world map
430
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Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer
335
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Photoshop CS5's new "Content-aware Fill"
325
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How real-world corruption works
316
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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
293
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This link says it's from YouTube but it's not
277
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"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."
268
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Evolution of a Python programmer
366
2
Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript
246
3
GitHub adds Organizations
223
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Cause of today's Github outage
214
5
GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0
204
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Github 404 page
192
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Sneakernet: 99% offline file sharing network
182
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The Tree Slider - GitHub
182
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A Collection of Useful .gitignore Templates
171
10
"Please take this down and write your own book."
170
Wikipedia [?]
1
Banana equivalent dose
470
2
Today is Programmer's Day
240
3
Xz
232
4
The Buzzer
227
5
Primer (film)
225
6
Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms
208
7
Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook
200
8
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
174
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List of Common Misconceptions
169
10
Illegal prime
152
Blogs [?]
1
What Happened to Yahoo
687
2
The Top Idea in Your Mind
650
3
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
470
4
How to Lose Time and Money
467
5
Tablets
387
6
What We Look for in Founders
362
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Founder Control
302
8
Organic Startup Ideas
273
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The New Funding Landscape
246
10
An interview by a 7th grader
243
Stackoverflow [?]
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How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.
252
2
What's the shebang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?
231
3
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
196
4
How can you program if you're blind?
185
5
I’m graduating with a CS degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.
180
6
How do emulators work and how are they written?
176
7
What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
174
8
Plain english explanation of Big O
155
9
How to hide thinking at work so that the non-programmers don't suspect slacking
154
10
Database development mistakes made by application developers
154
Substack [?]