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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
1793
2
TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
1046
3
Osama bin Laden Is Dead
915
4
Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
769
5
This Guy Has My MacBook
732
6
Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
658
7
How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
645
8
Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad
628
9
The Last Post
596
10
John Resig joins the Khan Academy
576
Top Ask HN
1
How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
364
2
Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
321
3
Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
308
4
Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?
112
5
any of the HNers have kids & work from home?
110
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (May 2011)
96
7
How do I minimize the taxes from selling my startup?
83
8
TED like sites/videos?
75
9
What are your productivity hacks?
71
10
Who is riding his weekend project straight to profitability?
58
Top Show HN
1
New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum
192
2
IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant
192
3
Machine learning cheat sheet
164
4
I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS.
102
5
This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.
98
6
Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness
90
7
My embeddable C/C++ webserver
82
8
Minimal Lisp in ~70 lines of Haskell
75
9
Gitalytics.com - Quicker Way to check someone's github profile
75
10
I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)
68
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
769
2
Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid
280
3
The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men
275
4
Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
274
5
After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses
268
6
Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine ever invented
261
7
Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation
246
8
Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges
243
9
Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups
228
10
Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds
225
News [?]
1
Osama bin Laden Is Dead
915
2
Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
407
3
Was LinkedIn Scammed?
386
4
1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen
264
5
The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours
256
6
The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".
250
7
Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
244
8
How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?
225
9
WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize
196
10
Anatomy of a Fake Quotation
171
Scientific publications [?]
1
Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth
158
2
Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language
124
3
"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics
117
4
Working memory at 5 is a better predictor of academic outcome than IQ [abstract]
69
5
Remind HN: STS-134, Space Shuttle Endevour's last launch is at 8:56AM ET
45
6
Fermat's Last Theorem - Is this the marvelous proof?
33
7
A framework for vector-based natural language semantics
32
8
Gecko-Inspired Window Washing Robot is Powered Entirely by Water
21
9
NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016
13
10
Twitter mood predicts the stock market.
8
Dev Blogs [?]
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Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts
286
2
Scale Fail (part 1)
176
3
Schneier: The Dishonest Minority: Security and its Role in Modern Society
170
4
A brief experiment with PyPy
79
5
Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop DDoS Attacks
79
6
Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate
30
7
Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"
23
8
Erlang Inventors Talk Language Future
23
9
How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance
18
10
Jenkins, Hudson and Eclipse
16
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Defend Its Developers
125
2
FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records
106
3
Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers
100
4
Doctors use copyright assignment in patient contract to stifle bad reviews
79
5
Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks (with technical details)
74
6
EFF on new electronic privacy bill - government will need to get warrants
64
7
Apple Store 2.0
43
8
Amazon's New Mac Download Store Takes On Apple's Mac App Store
33
9
Samsung ordered to show its new prototypes to Apple
22
10
Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store
20
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft to acquire Skype
171
2
Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game
140
3
Apple Announces New iMac With Quad-Core Processors & Thunderbolt I/O
57
4
First 100% Crowdsourced Book (80 authors)
52
5
Amazon launches RDS for Oracle
45
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New Quad Core iMacs
8
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Microsoft offering free xBox 360s to students buying new laptops
6
8
Facebook and Microsoft team up against Child Pornography
5
9
Amazon CloudWatch Announces Custom Metrics
3
10
Reviews Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Black Swan author)
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”
236
2
Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
105
3
U.S. Government Starts New Round of Pirate Domain Seizures
81
4
Want to own a book? Buy a hard copy. Amazon, Apple, B&N eBooks are only licensed
75
5
Leaked ACTA Lobby Letter Reveals Hollywood Pressure On EU
69
6
It Is Everyone’s Duty To Defy Unjust Laws
20
7
"Collapse is baked into the economic DNA and is therefore guaranteed to occur."
10
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Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull Domain Seizure Add-On [Mozilla denied]
9
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Archive.org - Free Greatful Dead Music
8
10
What is Mathematical Prociency (James Milgram, Stanford University)
8
Science News [?]
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You can increase your intelligence
511
2
Why do people resist the idea that carbs are worse than fat?
140
3
Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery
90
4
Scientists Achieve Optical Invisibility
63
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How language shapes thought
62
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First habitable exoplanet discovered?
59
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Wall Street Journal Leak site expects you to own the copyright
43
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Fix the PhD
37
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Neural Networks Simulate Schizophrenia with Hyperlearning Theory
26
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Journal rejects studies contradicting precognition
23
Social [?]
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HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
398
2
How Facebook pushes updates to the site
215
3
Ryan Dahl (Creator of Node.js) is doing an IAMA on Reddit
165
4
John Resig, creator of jQuery, AMA.
154
5
Jerome Svigals doing an AMA on Reddit right now
25
6
The guy who accidentally livetweeted the Osama raid
20
7
Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)
18
8
Zed vs Github... to the death
18
9
Facebook introduces Two Factor Authentication
18
10
Facebook email is live
17
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions
185
2
Bitcoin iOS app open sourced
123
3
Byte-saving techniques in JavaScript
109
4
Instapaper like Article Extractor open sourced
103
5
Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack
86
6
A Unix shell written in Google Go
84
7
How to get shell access with a .htaccess file
75
8
A conversation about open source licenses
69
9
EVE Online submits DMCA takedown to GitHub
66
10
Tagger: a library for extracting relevant tags from text documents
64
Wikipedia [?]
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Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse
116
2
The Art Gallery Problem
39
3
Democracy Distribution of the World
29
4
Osama bin Laden's hideout compound
20
5
Yes, you can make it work by doing just a little everyday
14
6
Osama bin Laden dead.
7
7
Amateur Telescope Making
6
8
Befunge, a programming language designed to be hard to compile (and read)
5
9
Most web servers can only handle 10,000 connections
5
10
Unix Millennium Bug, Y2K38, Y2.038K
4
Blogs [?]
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The python paradox
20
2
Why Nerds are unpopular
3
3
Great Hackers (2004)
2
4
A Fundraising Survival Guide
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts
153
2
How to properly use UTF-8 in Perl
55
3
How does Google Analytics measure site speed?
41
4
How to solve an everyday problem with pure functional programming
22
5
How to thumbnail an image in real-time (line by line)?
14
6
Modern Perl and UTF-8
13
7
Encoding images into tweets
12
8
Explanation of Paul Graham's points on "What made Lisp Different" article.
11
9
Best comments in source code
10
10
Which data structure is this?
9
Substack [?]