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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I was once a Facebook fool

1368

2

Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

1236

3

Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

929

4

Bring a stick man to life.

849

5

689

6

If this then that

663

7

This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

656

8

Git Is Simpler Than You Think

597

9

Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

590

10

Linux is now hosted on GitHub

558

Top Ask HN

1

Small product, single founder success stories?

325

2

How do you promote your web apps?

291

3

Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

244

4

How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?

201

5

I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?

189

6

good, quick algorithms course to prepare for big tech interviews?

139

7

I think My code isn't Good enough

138

8

European startup looking for a service for recurring billing

93

9

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

83

10

Has anybody here ever successfully started a videogame company?

82

Top Show HN

1

HackerThings - Products for hackers

360

2

Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan

291

3

Write a sort, watch it go

288

4

PickHealthInsurance.com

231

5

Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website

204

6

188

7

Fluid iPad App Concept

177

8

Pulse A simple pulsating indicator.

159

9

Check out the 23" Android 'tablet' I made for $600

155

10

Kerning.js Take control of your web typography

153

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit

313

2

TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over

301

3

Amazons Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. Ive Seen It, Played With It.

299

4

Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses

297

5

Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence

211

6

Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm

173

7

Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game

170

8

$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud

157

9

Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun?

155

10

Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars

146

News [?]

1

Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

929

2

Are jobs obsolete?

433

3

Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet

384

4

Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now

317

5

Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.

283

6

The Sugary Secret of Self-Control

234

7

The $700 Million Yogurt Startup

220

8

Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)

212

9

Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations

153

10

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

151

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System

136

2

Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program

98

3

I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing

37

4

Space Junk Problem Is More Threatening Than Ever, Report Warns

31

5

Local-time effect on small space-time scale

27

6

35 years of orbital launchers

21

7

Financial Trading At The Speed Of Light

20

8

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

20

9

Results of fasting 382 days with no food

9

10

Is the universe really expanding? Scientist thinks otherwise

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

1236

2

Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins

262

3

Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now serving malware

168

4

The letter that started AMD's Open-Source Strategy

18

5

Clojure and the Web

18

6

Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia

17

7

InfoQ: WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32

8

8

Freakonomics Author, Stephen Dubner on Bug Bounties and Rat Farming

6

9

Where Perl 5 is Headed

4

10

How Online Privacy Has Become an Oxymoron

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Investigation: Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?

119

2

Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review

82

3

Join EFF in Demanding a Digital Upgrade to 25-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Law

70

4

Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?

62

5

Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)

53

6

Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed

52

7

FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones

47

8

Listen to EFF's Courtroom Arguments Against Warrantless Wiretapping

46

9

EFF details post-Bilski confusion on what is too "abstract" to patent

24

10

Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch

15

FAANG+ [?]

1

David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon

170

2

Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

140

3

IPad in Business: St. Louis Urgent Cares

94

4

Amazon Route 53 Reduces Hosted Zone Pricing

58

5

The Lean Startup is now available

10

6

Amazon.com Updated: Kindle Fire

8

7

Amazon Redesigns Website

6

8

Why is a used Python book on Amazon cost over $200?

6

9

Samsung pays Microsoft in cross-patent license agreement

5

10

Amazon Signs Deal With Fox

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

File Hosting Service Hotfile Sues Warner Bros. For Copyright Fraud and Abuse

210

2

A History of Bayes' Theorem

147

3

Indie Game Devs Post Own Game on The Pirate Bay

128

4

Today is Petrov Day

50

5

Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25% in Sweden

45

6

Idiot's guide to viewports and media queries

45

7

Go's Concurrency Constructs on Single-Chip Cloud Computer

41

8

Pirate Service Makes Textbook Rentals Last Forever

40

9

Our technology document (Google Doc)

18

10

Tool ideology (Subversion)

15

Science News [?]

1

Single psilocybin dose may make lasting personality change

186

2

It's Time to End the War on Salt

152

3

Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico

150

4

A Brief History of the Brain

48

5

Scientists discover 'hidden' code in DNA evolves more rapidly than genetic code

44

6

Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal?

33

7

Texas holds firm on physics closures

16

8

Structured Homeschooling Gets an A+

11

9

Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet

11

10

Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks

10

Social [?]

1

My job is to watch dreams die

396

2

Facebook Timeline

309

3

Reddit user explains aging vs cancer

198

4

Check Out The New Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8

111

5

A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly

98

6

Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire with a modern U.S. Marine MEU?

36

7

Ubuntu Unity Dev Team AMA

35

8

BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: "The Collapse Is Coming"

22

9

Facebook gets redesigned

19

10

20 short videos on building distributed applications with node.js and hook.io

19

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Linux is now hosted on GitHub

558

2

Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source

448

3

GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

368

4

Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

317

5

~/.osx a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion

289

6

SICP optimized for Kindle

237

7

Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js

218

8

Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

217

9

Giving away my Rails 3.0 book. Code examples also available on Github.

206

10

A resume template in TeX

194

Wikipedia [?]

1

Programmers' Day

407

2

One-electron universe

166

3

P vs NP on simple english wikipedia - feedback, please

89

4

Crypt of Civilization

71

5

List of company name etymologies

66

6

One instruction set computer

66

7

62

8

Scenery nerds and systems nerds: MIT's Model Railroad Club

25

9

12

10

Computer-controlled socialist economy gets destroyed on 9/11... 1973

10

Blogs [?]

1

PG's Rarely Asked Questions

293

2

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

55

3

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (2006)

3

4

It's Charisma, Stupid (2004, updated 2006)

2

5

Why Nerds Are Unpopular [2003]

2

6

The Island Test (2006)

2

7

Revenge of the Nerds

1

8

The Patent Pledge

1

9

How to Fund a Start-up

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow Scala Tutorial

135

2

How Google +1 Widgets "Break Out" of their IFRAMEs

109

3

Why aren't and valid Javascript variable names?

84

4

Knockout.js vs Backbone.js

46

5

How do you fallback to a local stylesheet if your CDN fails?

12

6

Javascript: ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10

10

7

CoffeeScript-like language for C/C++?

6

8

Short and useful Python snippets - Stack Overflow

5

9

Machine learning in OCaml or Haskell?

5

10

How can a time function exist in functional programming?

3

Substack [?]