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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1112

2

Enough Is Enough

1019

3

658

4

I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday

657

5

Advice From An Old Programmer

639

6

Kind of Screwed

601

7

Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78

581

8

The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid

572

9

My Email Canary

571

10

Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon

559

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

322

2

What documentaries are worth watching?

155

3

My Startup is Going to Die Because I Messed Up

154

4

Advice for a young, self-taught programmer

135

5

Poor Job Posting? "Our office is too big.."

131

6

Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?

121

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)

89

8

How much time did you invest in your startup until ramen profitable?

76

9

Who's using Google App Engine?

69

10

I want to learn how to code. Can anyone tell me how to start learning?

68

Top Show HN

1

HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

352

2

roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

228

3

Log.io (Realtime log monitoring, powered by node.js + socket.io)

204

4

My weekend project, QR-codes for everybody

196

5

Can anonymous chat within identified groups create better discussions?

163

6

Google Charts done in Canvas, side project

141

7

I wrote a co-founder equity calculator over the weekend

133

8

Overlap.me - a new way to meet people & share your identity online

110

9

Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)

90

10

Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months

87

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus

421

2

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

383

3

Google+ Project: Its Social, Its Bold, Its Fun, And It Looks Good

285

4

Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive

282

5

IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than flash

262

6

Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell

260

7

1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.

217

8

Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA

215

9

Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29

204

10

Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government

202

News [?]

1

Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78

581

2

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

335

3

What to Say To Someone Who is Sick

232

4

Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000)

221

5

For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation

212

6

DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels

206

7

Revisiting 'Zork': What We Lost in the Transition to Visual Games

177

8

Why is there only one human species?

161

9

How to steal a Russian airport

159

10

Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy

158

Scientific publications [?]

1

How I Learned to Live Google-free

126

2

Perfect eavesdropping on a quantum cryptography system

40

3

Beautiful pictures of Endeavour docked at ISS taken from departing Soyuz

40

4

A Fusion Thruster For Space Travel

37

5

The Black Swan and the Bell Curve

30

6

23

7

The Freedom Box Alternative to Facebook

20

8

Under the Hood at Google and Facebook

7

9

First Graphene Integrated Circuit

6

10

From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory

6

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Guts of Android

118

2

On LulzSec, Censorship & CloudFlare

98

3

Apple posts WWDC2011 session videos

93

4

Scale Fail (part 2)

85

5

The lsm command for Latent Semantic Mapping

73

6

Phoronix successfully git-bisects Linux power regressions for ~15% improvement

49

7

Object-oriented design patterns in Linux kernel, part 1

48

8

Special collection of freeware tools for system administration

44

9

Microsofts Silence is Infuriating .NET Developers

42

10

High Performance Web Apps with Snap and Haskell

23

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions

215

2

Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free

213

3

EFF and Bitcoin

142

4

Financial Times Won't Give Apple A Cut, Drops iOS for Web App

122

5

Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode

94

6

50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced

74

7

EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

66

8

Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing

37

9

EFF on the Lodsys patent claims

28

10

Switzerland Network Testing Tool

23

FAANG+ [?]

1

Previewing Windows 8 (Video)

360

2

AWS drops bandwidth pricing

268

3

111

4

New biography of Steve Jobs comes out March 2012

25

5

Peter Norvig's review of SICP on Amazon

19

6

Books Every Geek Should Read

10

7

Why Does Apple Still Have An IE6 Screenshot on its Quicktime Download Page?

9

8

Final Cut Pro X

9

9

99 cents eBook on survival techniques for "slow start" entrepreneurs

7

10

Final Cut Pro X - Answers to common questions.

6

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Action and habit

161

2

Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.

98

3

UTorrent / BitTorrent Sued For Patent Infringement

73

4

UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights

65

5

Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order in Malaysia

47

6

US P2P lawsuits show signs of 'pirate honeypots'

42

7

Freedom in the Fifty States - An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom

29

8

Contracting out an API - comments on the spec, or even a bid?

14

9

How students in Indian colleges are taught programming

10

10

Google Expands Piracy-Related Keyword Filter

7

Science News [?]

1

New ice age? Don't count on it

125

2

A field guide to bullshit

80

3

A pulse no longer necessary for life

68

4

Human cell becomes living laser with jellyfish protein.

43

5

Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born, Says New Survey

40

6

Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong

38

7

The Beer Archaeologist

35

8

Men Have a Biological Clock Too

24

9

City living affects neural social stress processing in humans

22

10

The thermodynamics of negative entropy: bounds on heat generated by computers

14

Social [?]

1

Redditor Explains Why Apple Continue Making Frail Power Cables

347

2

Sal Khan has started videos about Python

320

3

Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives

272

4

Amen: the world's most famous sample and the rise of the musical copyright

233

5

Jedberg leaves reddit

207

6

Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction.

158

7

A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at least once in your career

135

8

Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note

129

9

Reddit's possible solution to famous Zodiac cipher

112

10

Behavioral reprogramming (overcoming social anxiety)

108

Github repos and gists [?]

1

1112

2

658

3

GitHub: Block the Bullies

251

4

PDF Reader in JavaScript

218

5

Safari extension to hide Bitcoin stories on HN

182

6

GitHub open sources Linguist

151

7

SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js

127

8

Language.js - A fast PEG parser written in JavaScript

100

9

Scala moving to Github

97

10

Collection of classic computer science algorithms written in JavaScript

95

Wikipedia [?]

1

Keynesian beauty contest

80

2

Happy Birthday, Alan Turing

76

3

32

4

13

5

HN as a credible source in Wikipedia?

12

6

Quine (computing)

10

7

Hundredth Monkey Effect

8

8

Wikipedia deleting Programming Language articles again

6

9

The Mirror Test

6

10

Greater Fool Theory

5

Blogs [?]

1

Save Bistro Elan

77

2

The Other Road Ahead [2001]

16

3

AirBnB and the quest for early VC investment

6

4

Better Bayesian Filtering

2

5

PG Essay from 2004: What the bubble got right.

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...

415

2

Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?

152

3

What does the C++0x standardized memory model mean?

135

4

Good Haskell source to read and learn from

116

5

A Node.js hacker asks what Haskell can do to stay relevant.

90

6

How do JavaScript closures work?

80

7

Gcc compile error with 2GB of data

71

8

StackOverflow: What are your favorite Vim tricks?

39

9

Why is my Scala code running slow?

26

10

Best Stack Overflow Question Ever

20

Substack [?]