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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Steve Jobs has passed away.

4271

2

Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

1924

3

A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs

1722

4

John McCarthy Has Died

1595

5

Steve's Google Platform rant

1182

6

My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine

1053

7

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

1006

8

Steve Jobs has died

889

9

Amit Gupta needs you

875

10

Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project

798

Top Ask HN

1

What programming blogs do you read daily?

707

2

Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?

305

3

Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

236

4

Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.

219

5

Is brogrammer a sexist term?

174

6

Please review my site "Smoke Signal"

141

7

What data structure does our brain use?

132

8

What Android apps do you use?

106

9

Please stop overriding standard browser navigation keys with Javascript.

98

10

Where/How do I learn about credit card payments and payment gateways

90

Top Show HN

1

A storebuilder contained in a single text area

388

2

KernType, a typography game made with Raphal

267

3

my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.

244

4

Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

214

5

The users behind Hacker News

190

6

Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour

160

7

My network connection monitor for Mac

144

8

Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi

141

9

My table of tools for startups [Google Docs]

138

10

99

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Colbert tribute to Steve Jobs

475

2

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

414

3

Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet

365

4

360

5

Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity

359

6

Tim Cook: "No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death"

358

7

Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer

259

8

Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today

229

9

Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On

221

10

Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston

220

News [?]

1

A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs

1722

2

We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria

613

3

Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs

530

4

printf("goodbye, Dennis");

490

5

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

377

6

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

281

7

Panic of the Plutocrats

273

8

The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors

259

9

In Praise of Bad Steve

259

10

No TV for children under 2, urge doctors

249

Scientific publications [?]

1

Jewish problems

297

2

The Making of Arduino

96

3

Secret No More: Spy Satellite Designer Reveals Life's Work

65

4

World's Most Complex Radio Telescope Snaps Stunning 1st Photo of the Cosmos

54

5

Taiwanese to Form Patent Bank to Defend Local Companies

33

6

The World's First Bitcoin Conference

24

7

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

21

8

Claim: Algorithm that Solves 3-SAT in Polynomial Time

19

9

Private Spaceship Factory Opens for Business in Calif. Desert

18

10

Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps: What the electronics industry can learn

18

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

348

2

Dennis Ritchie RIP

208

3

Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute"

181

4

Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.

175

5

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)

130

6

Running a Startup on Haskell

120

7

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

90

8

The FSF is papering over a binary blob

60

9

The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates

46

10

EFF Data Shows Five CAs Compromised Since June

31

Tech blogs [?]

1

Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air

557

2

Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform

413

3

Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple

349

4

Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back And Its Worse than Ever

235

5

Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies

195

6

The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes

146

7

Steve Jobs to Obama: Youre headed for a one-term presidency

135

8

Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars

108

9

Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2

100

10

Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites

88

FAANG+ [?]

1

Steve Jobs has passed away.

4271

2

Amazon kindle source code

319

3

Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup

222

4

Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World

148

5

IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS

126

6

iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million

109

7

iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours

106

8

Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8

95

9

IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition

64

10

Apple Reports Q4 Results, $108B in annual revenue, $26B in earnings

45

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan

189

2

Stanford AI Class Lecture Notes

146

3

Go version 1 proposal

98

4

Oracle on why you shouldn't use NOSQL (PDF)

94

5

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

86

6

BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

85

7

The Pirate Bay add a domain to bypass court order

83

8

Stanford AI Notes（All Units）

39

9

Belgian ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay

32

10

Security Flaw Links BitTorrent Users to Skype Accounts

28

Science News [?]

1

Why Economic Models are Always Wrong

73

2

Faster-than-light neutrinos face time trial

67

3

Finding puts brakes on faster-than-light neutrinos

30

4

Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest

29

5

Bubonic plague genome: The Black Death decoded

27

6

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

22

7

Eyes reveal true hypnotic state for the first time

21

8

Self-Replication Process Holds Promise for Production of New Materials

19

9

Computer Game Helps Autistic Children Recognize Emotions

15

10

Single Dose of Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change

13

Social [?]

1

Redditor burnt by Paypal's "Rolling Reserve" feature

244

2

I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help

225

3

Facebook for iPad

135

4

Steve Jobs: Photo Booth 2005

74

5

Facebook is showing a real time like count on Mark Zuckerberg's status updates

55

6

Customs Form filled by Apollo 11

54

7

(reddit) YC applications are due, did you apply? If so, what are you building

49

8

Steve Jobs testing Photo Booth in 2005

45

9

Mark Zuckerberg on Steve Jobs

35

10

Mark Pilgrim found and annoyed

30

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on

467

2

GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)

414

3

"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript

265

4

Node-fib: Fast non-blocking fibonacci server

192

5

Groupon tries to recruit DHH.

189

6

170

7

I Make Dreams Come True

167

8

Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations

161

9

HTML5 (plugin free) web-based terminal emulator and SSH client

155

10

An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez

142

Wikipedia [?]

1

John McCarthy Has Died

1595

2

Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act"

268

3

A man died yesterday. He had a huge impact on our lives. Fred Shuttlesworth.

266

4

238

5

79

6

List of Linux kernel names

62

7

54

8

The wikipedia robots.txt

42

9

Curta calculator - hand-held, mechanical arithmetic

42

10

Shakespeare programming language

35

Blogs [?]

1

The Roots of Lisp

291

2

Why Startup Hubs Work

269

3

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

112

4

Why Startup Hubs Work

16

5

9

6

Paul Graham on "Hacker"

4

7

"PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization"

4

8

What made Lisp Different

3

9

Redundancy and Power

2

10

What We Look for in Founders

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is your favourite C programming trick?

132

2

PUT vs POST in REST

125

3

Monte Carlo profiling

85

4

The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident

70

5

Dealing with the invisible scroll bars in WebKit on OS X Lion (Stack Overflow)

6

6

History - Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

4

7

Advantages of stateless programming

4

8

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

3

9

Boost your Android development speed. All Android 3rd-party libraries

3

10

How did you learn the GNU make tools?

3

Substack [?]