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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

2316

2

Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired

1090

3

In defense of the Google chef

975

4

Stop SOPA, save the Internet

866

5

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

821

6

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

802

7

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

749

8

Don't use MongoDB

695

9

Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

682

10

Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA

680

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (November 2011)

304

2

How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?

200

3

Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship

148

4

What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?

131

5

Please stop "This."

101

6

Someone else made a "Pro" version of my app. What can I do about it?

90

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)

78

8

Stop spamming us? (Google Plus)

65

9

Should I start looking for remote/freelance work outside my country?

60

10

I cannot afford to scale

52

Top Show HN

1

Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos

421

2

An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

299

3

When is good time to submit a story on HN?

263

4

239

5

AI tool reads privacy policies, tells you which sites sell your info.

141

6

Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch

131

7

Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service

129

8

elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis)

124

9

Use Dojo to learn, build, and deploy web apps

115

10

113

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

749

2

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

591

3

Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia

530

4

Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly

481

5

Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition

456

6

US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook

425

7

Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team

337

8

For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser

274

9

Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

247

10

Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square daily

237

News [?]

1

This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

421

2

Steve Jobs's Real Genius

407

3

Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers

321

4

The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case

243

5

At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future

241

6

In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam

230

7

Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)

222

8

Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy

213

9

EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.

210

10

Google threatens to cut ties with Chamber of Commerce over Protect-IP lobbying

209

Scientific publications [?]

1

Asteroid set to come closer to the Earth than the moon Nov. 8

115

2

Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

94

3

NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

69

4

Battling the Internet Water Army: Detection of Hidden Paid Posters

65

5

China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships

53

6

11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do

51

7

Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Begin Historic Swim Across Pacific

48

8

Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet

48

9

The Making of Arduino

45

10

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

16

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password

96

2

Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation

79

3

Mac App Store apps must implement sandboxing as of March 2012

77

4

MagLev 1.0 Released

64

5

RIP Apache Harmony

56

6

Fake Documents that Alarm if Opened

39

7

Strange Loop 2011 Languages Panel

37

8

Was The 3 Character Password at Hacked Water Treatment Plant A Siemens Default?

18

9

SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets

8

10

Node.js Now Runs Natively on Windows

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat

152

2

Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again

106

3

The Sovereign Keys Project

101

4

Gasse: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS

96

5

RGB laser projector is a jaw-dropping build

78

6

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher

73

7

IPad disrupting global DRAM market, causing chipmakers to lose billions

70

8

Hidden "Drop Box" feature in Mac OS X Lion lets you sync files across Macs

66

9

IPhone 4S: Anandtech review

63

10

Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested

46

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon adds 1 free book rental a month for Kindle users with Amazon Prime

40

2

Amazon App Store's Free App of the Day is Perceived As Probable Spyware

36

3

Thoughts on Flash

12

4

Pepper spray reviews on Amazon

8

5

Kindle Owners Lending Library

7

6

Amazon reviews: Pepper spray "amazing human arm de-linker"

7

7

Our bootstrapped indie project is the top card game on Amazon

6

8

The Kinect Accelerator

6

9

Mark Cuban releases updated blog posts as an ebook about business

4

10

The Kinect Accelerator

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

SOPA sponsors break their own laws

257

2

EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures

174

3

Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More

133

4

MPAA Costs Hollywood More Than US BitTorrent Piracy

124

5

Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown

119

6

Pirate To Join European Parliament As Youngest Member

100

7

Grooveshark Bites Back: Well Fight Universal in Court, Not The Press

99

8

BitTorrent Defense Lawyer Joins Copyright Trolls

87

9

Warner Bros. Admits Sending HotFile False Takedown Requests

75

10

Perhaps The Copyright Industry Deserves Some Credit

67

Science News [?]

1

Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation

139

2

Quantum theorem shakes foundations

128

3

Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

125

4

Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression

102

5

Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning

70

6

Nature Special: The Autism Enigma

55

7

Ambitious project to develop biological equivalent of operating system

39

8

Obese Monkeys Lose Weight On Drug That Attacks Blood Supply of Fat Cells

36

9

U.S. Education Assessment Shows Modest but Steady Gains in Math Scores

21

10

How to be popular

17

Social [?]

1

I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make

594

2

What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?

518

3

Why do humans procrastinate?

262

4

Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA

240

5

Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

181

6

Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords

101

7

Self-XSS attack explained

69

8

A reddit "AMA" thread with me about the Turing apology

50

9

NewsHour Report On Startup Accelerators In Valley

19

10

Anatomy of Facebook

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

802

2

Doom 3 source released

616

3

558

4

Introducing GitHub Enterprise

281

5

90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size

274

6

I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.

223

7

Proxy server for Siri

208

8

Williams: Master of the "Come From"

191

9

Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

165

10

GitHub for Mac 1.1

163

Wikipedia [?]

1

183

2

40

3

Parrondo's paradox

40

4

Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident

18

5

First president with a CS degree?

13

6

11

7

The animal that can survive in space, 273C, 151C and a decade without water

5

8

The English Wikipedia will soon(today) hit 500 million page edits

4

9

There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal

3

10

Mysterious sounds, reported by the crews of Soviet submarines

3

Blogs [?]

1

Watch Me Make Mistakes

588

2

How to lose time and money

210

3

How to Make Wealth

153

4

The Submarine (2005)

3

5

2

6

Jobs and Wozniak with a Blue Box

2

7

Ten E-Commerce Mistakes

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

List of freely available programming books

357

2

Where does email sent to *example.com go?

28

3

Good collection of Algorithms

26

4

Thinking of using regexes for (general) HTML parsing? Read this.

8

5

Stack Exchange is down

6

6

New programming jargon

5

7

Mobile Web App Behaves like Native App - How?

5

8

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

4

9

Pure functional programming is not a panacea for parallelism

3

10

2011 Stack Overflow Moderator Elections

3

Substack [?]