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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google algorithm change launched

688

2

My winter break project — Silk

687

3

Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

679

4

Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks

620

5

Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide

588

6

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

584

7

Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome

579

8

Trouble In the House of Google

461

9

Steve's story - Google employee #13

440

10

Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

438

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?

341

2

Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)

218

3

What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?

197

4

Do you meditate? How/Why?

184

5

Review RentPost.com

179

6

Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

170

7

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

130

8

Just got $200k from an angel, where do I stick it? Savings? CDs?

118

9

Tell me about your failed startup.

117

10

How to step up my coding skills?

95

Top Show HN

1

Google search blacklist

119

2

Pocket - my first app ever

99

3

Fqwiki - Qwiki cloned with a single HTML file

96

4

cubeduel (our side project)

95

5

A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript

79

6

Hacker News Map 2011

77

7

WerdMerge: A Portmanteau Generator With Phonemes

71

8

EDW, quantitative analytics, machine learning.

70

9

3DTin - 3D modelling in browser

62

10

Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus

61

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

584

2

Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k

425

3

DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)

334

4

Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO

311

5

Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier

302

6

Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

239

7

Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google

222

8

Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

202

9

Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?

196

10

Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop

185

News [?]

1

NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

383

2

Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation

295

3

Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women

242

4

Facebook hype will fade

192

5

Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future

179

6

Brisbane floods: before and after

178

7

The piece of paper that fooled Hitler

169

8

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

167

9

The Rise of the New Global Elite

149

10

Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?

143

Scientific publications [?]

1

Thunderstorms create antimatter

122

2

A Less Mighty Wind - Three reasons wind power could wane

16

3

The President and the E-Word

6

4

NYC BigTime CityTime Fraud Charges Ripples On

4

5

Evolutionary Mechanics: engineering principles for flexibility given uncertainty

4

6

Discovery of Teleportation in Time

3

7

Pilot's Spilt Coffee Helps Trigger False Terrorist

3

8

200,000 Credit and Debit Card Holders Double-Billed

3

9

Scientific Evaluation of Charles Dickens [pdf]

3

10

NASA - A First Look at Flight in 2025

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials

97

2

Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not"

73

3

Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon

65

4

Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala

47

5

Danchev found hospitalized in Bulgaria, local news report

47

6

JDK 7 is Feature Complete

33

7

Eavesdropping on GSM Calls

30

8

Stuxnet Authors Made Several Basic Errors

25

9

LibreOffice 3.3 Officially Released

24

10

ATM Skimmers, Up Close

24

Tech blogs [?]

1

Electronic Frontier Foundation Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations

213

2

Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws

146

3

When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site

90

4

Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging

85

5

Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone

85

6

New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3

68

7

EFF Wins Landmark Ruling Freeing Promo CDs for Resale

58

8

Apple to expand CPU design group beyond iPad A4

56

9

Google "not happy" with slow Android app sales

56

10

IPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution

40

FAANG+ [?]

1

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

438

2

Mac App Store: Open for Business

204

3

Apple.com gets a redesign

145

4

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

132

5

Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures

81

6

Introducing Kindle Singles

46

7

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

45

8

AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta)

10

9

iTunes 10 Billion App Download Countdown

8

10

Apple’s unsolicited idea submission policy

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More

217

2

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

198

3

Chrome Release Cycle

149

4

Crowdsource HN: Resources for making your next website.

116

5

BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol

72

6

Tools for startups along their lifetime

53

7

Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

45

8

In Praise of Boredom

34

9

EZTV Introduces BitTorrent RSS Standard, With Magnets

26

10

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

23

Science News [?]

1

Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell

136

2

Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Regeneration Through a Single Gene Deletion

117

3

The antidepressant reboxetine: A headdesk moment in science

99

4

Secret businesses aimed to exploit vaccine fears, British Medical Journal finds

63

5

Prion disease can spread through air

27

6

Robots evolve both bodies and brains for robust walking

27

7

Being Poor Can Suppress Children's mental abilities, study finds

22

8

Single Worm Neurons Remotely Controlled with Lasers

19

9

New math theories reveal the nature of numbers

14

10

Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth

13

Social [?]

1

Dating Denial of Service attack

390

2

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc

125

3

Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

124

4

List of JavaScript Game Engines

110

5

WePay just built a new feature inspired by and for redditors

101

6

Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit

100

7

Genetic Algorithm Car Physics

77

8

How to build a social entertainment website

74

9

"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."

60

10

HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites (and interesting browser performance analysis)

52

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Python

197

2

Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here.

188

3

Redirect a running process output to a file and log out

121

4

List of languages that compile to JS

96

5

"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"

94

6

Git-powered wikis improved - GitHub

87

7

Mining-the-Social-Web (Python)

79

8

The project manager from hell (integrates with Git)

68

9

Maptail.js geoips your tail -f to a map

65

10

Pro scraping with Node.JS

60

Wikipedia [?]

1

Open Source Cola

69

2

The Man Who Was Hit By A Proton Beam

60

3

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp

47

4

Swarm intelligence

37

5

Soviet version of the Space Shuttle

33

6

8-Circuit Model of Consciousness

12

7

List of unsolved problems in mathematics

11

8

Wardenclyffe Tower a.k.a. the Tesla Tower

10

9

Waggle dance: how successful foraging bees recruit others to join them

7

10

List of common misconceptions

7

Blogs [?]

1

The Python Paradox

160

2

How to Disagree

109

3

Microsoft is Dead

97

4

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do emulators work and how are they written?

132

2

Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow

83

3

Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals

80

4

GET vs POST in terms of security

72

5

How to Manage CSS Explosion

63

6

Which one will execute faster, if(flag==0) or if(0==flag)?

50

7

How to Smell Difference Between Humans & Robots - Annoying Captcha Forms

31

8

Why PHP is (still) the easiest web programming language to learn

15

9

NoSQL, interpreted as "Not Only SQL" and used in conjunction with MySQL

9

10

Code-Bowling, the worst code that still works and might be found in the wild

6

Substack [?]