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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
2
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
1196
3
Twitter Bootstrap
1034
4
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
776
5
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
756
6
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
736
7
Jonathan's Card
723
8
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
713
9
Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior
642
10
13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
639
Top Ask HN
1
Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
278
2
How can I do something meaningful?
272
3
What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?
230
4
Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook
207
5
A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?
129
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
114
7
Any good Macbook Air alternatives?
84
8
Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)
64
9
Client wrote returned check for over $10,000. How to report him?
53
10
Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs?
50
Top Show HN
1
Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
782
2
Like Button for Hacker News
557
3
We made a spam-free lyric search engine
289
4
a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface
211
5
My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall
178
6
New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
157
7
I shipped my first product
155
8
An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application
108
9
Crash into Python
105
10
CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive
100
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
1196
2
Its Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad
434
3
Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
355
4
Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile
291
5
New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer
285
6
Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far
212
7
$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet
208
8
Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps
198
9
Facebook Wins Worst API in Developer Survey
186
10
GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code
179
News [?]
1
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
2
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
756
3
Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
601
4
US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger
365
5
Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company
320
6
Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
293
7
The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good
242
8
Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad
241
9
58,000 Sign Up for Stanford AI Course
221
10
Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.
210
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
236
2
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
168
3
Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
149
4
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog
105
5
NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
77
6
Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease
68
7
Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, ... a meta-analytic review
25
8
NASA Researcher: If Aliens Kill Us All Its Because We Deserve It
6
9
NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft
5
10
MIT, You're Not All That
4
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
174
2
Undeletable Cookies
154
3
Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain
69
4
JStat: Statistical JavaScript Library
37
5
Google's Native Client forges ahead
35
6
Android and the GPLv2 death penalty
33
7
How would you move 211 Tons of Gold?
31
8
Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
28
9
Microsoft to Pay $200k for Innovative Defense Tech in Blue Hat Prize Program
18
10
Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11
14
Tech blogs [?]
1
Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple
280
2
How to put your logo in a QR code
252
3
Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online
134
4
Official Steve Jobs biography set for November 21 release
122
5
Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011
117
6
Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021
105
7
Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States
61
8
Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement
49
9
Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern
46
10
AT&T Eliminating $10 Text Messaging Plan for New Customers
37
FAANG+ [?]
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Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
157
2
AWS Post-Mortem
143
3
Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies
118
4
Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache
52
5
AWS launches 2011 start-up challenge
24
6
Chromebooks now available on Amazon ($350 - $450)
9
7
A Graphic Novel Biography of Feynman
7
8
Microsoft Camera Codec Pack - View RAW files with free codec
6
9
Apple - Press Info - Letter from Steve Jobs
5
10
Global AWS Start-Up Challenge 2011
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Rational Home Buying
163
2
200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States
139
3
Foxs 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
97
4
Is Copyright Only For the Big Guys?
47
5
Are You Guilty If Pirates Use Your Internet? Lawyer Says No
39
6
Lets create a collaborative Book List on Computer Science & Programming
38
7
Programmers Survey
36
8
Public consultation on UK's Digital Economy Act was a sham
31
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Censorship Fail Reveals Big Music ISP Spying Plan
29
10
"Shatter"ing the Windows Message Passing Architecture and Security Model
29
Science News [?]
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Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?
145
2
Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns
100
3
Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space
74
4
Inside IBM's cognitive chip
67
5
Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder
61
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Antiproton ring found around Earth
45
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Where did viruses come from?
34
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IBM unveils microchip based on the human brain
33
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New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites
33
10
Women's quest to be 'romantically desirable' conflicts with scientific pursuits
12
Social [?]
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Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)
369
2
How to remove yourself from all background check websites
231
3
Are you a Facebook employee?
185
4
Facebook has your complete phonebook
94
5
The Real Deal about Jonathans Card
72
6
Android 95.2% market share in South Korea
67
7
QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
19
8
Facebook silently blocking sharing of Google+ invite links?
17
9
Reddit's IAmA Moderator Shuts Down Subreddit
16
10
John Carmack on Software Reliability, Code Analysis, and Functional Programming
16
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Edit like an Ace
409
2
Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
405
3
Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement
249
4
Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript
161
5
TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more
114
6
Crazy easy dialogs for iOS devs: QuickDialog
63
7
WordPress, Git-ified
63
8
Crustache is a fast C implementation of Mustache
53
9
Racket intro projects: start hacking on and with Racket
51
10
GitHub Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded
49
Wikipedia [?]
1
Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep
98
2
Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?
64
3
List of Important Publications in Computer Science
55
4
Greenspun's Tenth Rule
13
5
Muphry's law
8
6
The rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped.
7
7
K computer
7
8
Tim Cook
6
9
Answer Set Programming
6
10
lp0 on fire
5
Blogs [?]
1
The Patent Pledge
618
2
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
114
3
Return of the Mac (2005)
90
4
Why nerds are unpopular?
13
5
Mind the Gap
12
6
Great Hackers
3
7
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
3
8
Paul Graham on Capital Gains [2006]
2
9
How to Present to Investors [2006, rev. 2007, 2010]
2
10
What you can't say (2004)
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
417
2
The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication
316
3
What is in your .vimrc
192
4
Understanding Python Decorators
125
5
Advanced tricks with vim registers
113
6
Is learning Assembly Language worth the effort?
87
7
Fastest sort of fixed length 6 int array
79
8
What is a metaclass in python?
77
9
Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
76
10
Are DOM tree elements global variables?
46
Substack [?]