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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

1005

2

Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned

929

3

Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.

915

4

Bored People Quit

834

5

33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto

827

6

A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

813

7

You are not running out of time

691

8

Why I will never pursue cheating again

671

9

Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs

595

10

Google made my son cry

575

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (July 2011)

230

2

Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions

208

3

What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

178

4

Where is the Django community?

143

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011)

87

6

Windows phone dev success/failure stories?

83

7

How many HN members are there?

80

8

What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

78

9

How should I apply for U.S. jobs as a non-resident?

73

10

Would a startup sponsor my visa?

67

Top Show HN

1

I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love

231

2

Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

166

3

A Bitcoin casino with 23 games.

143

4

Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.

116

5

Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

106

6

My first WebGL demo, the first self-extracting PNG ever?

99

7

Laminated Bus Schedules

91

8

83

9

Kondoot - Watch LIVE a day in the life of a startup

78

10

We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

75

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How The Hell Is This My Fault?

473

2

A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life

461

3

The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As Users Home Is Utterly Trashed

428

4

Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry

393

5

Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere

387

6

John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

369

7

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

304

8

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself

296

9

How Stuxnet was deciphered

263

10

Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No.

231

News [?]

1

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

440

2

When Patents Attack

431

3

Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb

314

4

259

5

What Google's Famous Cafeterias Can Teach Us About Health

206

6

Internet predictions from 1982

197

7

It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

194

8

Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel patents (and lost)

189

9

Intellectual Ventures on This American Life

176

10

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

173

Scientific publications [?]

1

Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

167

2

NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans

140

3

What We Lose With the End of the Shuttle Program

70

4

The Hacker Matrix

30

5

STS-135 Live: The Last Shuttle Mission

28

6

A Low Carbohydrate Diet Slows Tumor Growth and Prevents Cancer

15

7

Ultimate physical limits to computation

7

8

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

6

9

Biclustering for Web Usage Mining

5

10

You've Never Seen a Robot Drive System Like This Before

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation

226

2

Linux 3.0 release

188

3

Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes

113

4

Yet Another "People Plug in Strange USB Sticks" Story

108

5

Signs of life from GNU Hurd

76

6

Data Warehousing 101

67

7

Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID

65

8

Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines [pdf]

64

9

Threatening Lawsuit, HBGary Federal Intimidates Aaron Barr Out of DEFCON Panel

44

10

IOS 5 beta 4 is out

42

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment

211

2

Ignored disabled man builds his own damn elevator

107

3

House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Companies Spy on Their Users

82

4

Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook

64

5

AT&T verifies data throttling for top 5% of users

41

6

Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story

16

7

Apple looking to sweeten battery life with redesigned 'jelly rolls'

11

8

IPhone 4 survives 13,500-foot fall from skydiver's pocket

11

9

Lion disables Flash Player hardware acceleration...and More

10

10

Lion Launches Tomorrow, July 20, On Mac App Store

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

113

2

OS X Lion Recovery removes need for physical media

87

3

Peter Molyneux Blames Success on Baked Beans

64

4

Amazon announces unlimited MP3 storage with any Cloud Drive plan

61

5

Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349

55

6

Amazon makes Kindle app Apple compliant by removing one URL link

30

7

AWS releases Ruby SDK

15

8

App Store Volume Purchasing for Business

7

9

Apple Thunderbolt Display

6

10

Transfer of Health Data From Google Health to Microsoft HealthVault

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Doc)

111

2

Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind

99

3

BitTorrent Turns 10: Happy Birthday

98

4

Universal Music accused of using fraudulent DMCA notices as a negotiating tactic

74

5

Google+, or how 120+ people wrote a book at the same time

45

6

New clickjacking attacks expose your Gmail messages & Facebook/Twitter identity

43

7

France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers

34

8

Indian Government Blocks Leading File-Sharing Services

31

9

Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block

31

10

Anti-Piracy Lawyers Find Cheaper Way To Identify BitTorrent Users

25

Science News [?]

1

Why scientific programming does not compute

190

2

Interview with key LulzSec hacker

104

3

Throwing dice gets to the truth about killing leopards

89

4

Is Domestically Produced Ethanol Worth the Cost?

72

5

MIT lab develops glasses that can read another person's emotional state

68

6

Theory suggests wrinkling of wet digits evolved for a reason

42

7

Language may shape human thought

42

8

Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?

41

9

'Fluid cloak' to help submarines leave no wake

31

10

Atmosphere releasing more energy to space than climate models indicate

30

Social [?]

1

Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]

540

2

Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.

237

3

Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)

226

4

Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone

180

5

Why shuttle Atlantis will not be left attached to the ISS

149

6

China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments.

139

7

reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong)

138

8

96

9

"The Darknet Plan" Subreddit dedicated to creating a decentralized VPN

84

10

There is no Jake Frink

74

Github repos and gists [?]

1

296

2

Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU implementations of echo.c

166

3

Bash on Balls: an MVC web framework for Bash, powered by netcat

157

4

A git implementation in pure JavaScript

117

5

TinyVM: A lightweight, fast virtual machine in < 500 lines of ANSI C

112

6

My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby

92

7

ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser

87

8

Bitcoin Android Released

80

9

Khan Academy exercise framework

75

10

Fusker - a NodeJS security system that attacks back

68

Wikipedia [?]

1

Simpson's paradox

173

2

Happy Sysadmin Day

104

3

Wikipedia: Making of Doom

94

4

Rich Hickey's Wikipedia page nominated for deletion

13

5

Excite rejected offer to buy Google for $1 million (in 1999)

7

6

Collective Nouns For Birds

6

7

4

8

Critical theory

3

9

The failed Apple project that led to the acquisition of NeXT

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

224

2

Are Software Patents Evil? (2006)

72

3

Two Kinds of Judgement

3

4

Hackers and Painters Have a Lot in Common

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML

235

2

Emacs follow-mode

218

3

Learn JavaScript

163

4

What is a y-combinator?

127

5

Google +1 tracks mouse movements?

95

6

What is the formal difference in Scala between braces and parentheses?

14

7

Java is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result

11

8

Is Fortran faster than C?

7

9

Creating a memory leak with Java?

7

10

Clean readable code vs fast hard to read code. When is it OK to cross the line?

4

Substack [?]