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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
1716
2
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
1103
3
A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
1065
4
Time to end the war on drugs
905
5
Suicide
867
6
More Paypal nonsense
858
7
Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
854
8
What really happened aboard Air France 447
845
9
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
813
10
Don't Be A Free User
778
Top Ask HN
1
Best book you read in 2011
336
2
Who is Hiring? (December 2011)
285
3
How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?
281
4
I really need your help (resolved)
191
5
Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
102
6
Fundamental texts for serious web engineers?
95
7
I just got my first team lead. What should I do?
89
8
Where do HN people hangout online?
88
9
How has your life changed after selling your startup?
81
10
small startups, what do you use for health insurance?
79
Top Show HN
1
I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
612
2
My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry
165
3
Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA Protest Live Stats
160
4
We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader
153
5
Redis/ruby-based realtime event-tracking
148
6
The Honeybadger
147
7
"Programming is for Anyone"
102
8
Virtual Angel Investing market (built on AngelList)
88
9
Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept)
84
10
Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online
83
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
1716
2
Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA
418
3
Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS
299
4
Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll)
299
5
Official list of SOPA supporters
288
6
GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support
261
7
Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber
235
8
Stop Telling Women To Do Startups
189
9
'I'm Retiring,' Nintendo's Miyamoto Tells His Staff
174
10
Desperation: Go Daddy calling customers, begging them to stay
170
News [?]
1
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
579
2
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
376
3
Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No
350
4
N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
324
5
Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children
318
6
Killing the Internet to save Hollywood
302
7
The Rise of Developeronomics
277
8
When Truth Survives Free Speech
264
9
If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?
254
10
SOPA vote is now December 21
244
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
319
2
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix
115
3
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches
103
4
Software Realistically Adds 3-D Objects to Old Photos
96
5
NASA Announces Plans for Human Exploration of Deep Space
60
6
E-Books from NASA
55
7
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?
44
8
Video: Watch Flying Robots Build a 6-Meter Tower
5
9
Mathematics of Gambling Revisited: under realistic assumptions
4
10
Debugging 8.6 Billion Miles From Earth
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
198
2
Understanding Java Garbage Collection
76
3
Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds
62
4
The Lean Startup Frenzy
38
5
Development at the Speed and Scale of Google
34
6
Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
14
7
Twitter Blog: Let's Fly
9
8
Mirah for Android Development
9
9
What every programmer should know about memory [2007]
8
10
Porting Angry Birds to HTML5 (video)
8
Tech blogs [?]
1
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
273
2
Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood
225
3
Tom's Hardware's take on SOPA
144
4
Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino
134
5
Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model
126
6
Full color laser TV
124
7
EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ
114
8
How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries
106
9
Anandtech: AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review (28nm, new architecture)
55
10
Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55"
35
FAANG+ [?]
1
The raster tragedy at low resolution (1997)
168
2
Apple - Ergonomics - Introduction
50
3
Read this book: The Art of Readable Code
7
4
The book Steve Jobs read every year
6
5
AWS for Brazilians
6
6
AWS launches South America (Sao Paulo) Region
4
7
Apple Ad: Santa using Siri
3
8
Amazon Offers AWS Simple Icons for Architecture Diagrams
2
9
Pick up a Playmobil TSA-style checkpoint playset for the kids this Xmas
2
10
New Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Options Now Available
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
381
2
Ron Paul speaks against SOPA
288
3
Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA
244
4
I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent
211
5
Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”
178
6
Wikipedia Considers Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA
153
7
Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer
151
8
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox
146
9
Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign
124
10
Megaupload to Universal: You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do
118
Science News [?]
1
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
242
2
New kind of metal in the deep Earth
85
3
Why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell
76
4
Doorway to Blame for Room Amnesia
30
5
2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals
30
6
Biggest telescope starts observations
26
7
Few Allergies in Unstressed Babies
24
8
What if there is no Higgs boson?
24
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Supercomputers: New device could bring optical information processing
20
10
House-hunting honey bees work like complex brains
12
Social [?]
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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
1103
2
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
813
3
Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"
423
4
Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.
316
5
3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.
308
6
While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act
273
7
In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites
265
8
Why have CPUs been limited in frequency to around 3.5Ghz for so many years?
252
9
Redditors pledging to donate thousands to Wikimedia if they dump GoDaddy
237
10
Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit
230
Github repos and gists [?]
1
My uncle's factorization algorithms
420
2
Backbone.js Fundamentals
286
3
Ordered List is a GitHubber
241
4
CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning
213
5
Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
181
6
How to build a data mining web app?
176
7
Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live
166
8
Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
162
9
Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.
160
10
Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js
152
Wikipedia [?]
1
RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest
536
2
Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy
377
3
Background of .plan files: the 1977 Finger Protocol
19
4
Exploding head syndrome. I kid you not.
19
5
Help break my "proof" of p = np... i can't find the error
12
6
You should read Elon Musk's Wikipedia article.
6
7
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
6
8
Fan death
5
9
1 2 + 3 4 + = 1/4
5
10
Kim Jong Il's likely successor
4
Blogs [?]
1
Trolls (2008)
350
2
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage (2005)
2
3
How to Start a Startup (PG: 2005)
2
4
The Other Road Ahead
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Where's Waldo?
405
2
The single most useful Emacs feature
213
3
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
189
4
Why is one loop slower than 2 in C?
189
5
Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript
159
6
Metaclasses in Python
153
7
What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
130
8
Strangest Language Features
126
9
Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the web browsers?
121
10
What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code?
73
Substack [?]