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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide

588

2

Trouble In the House of Google

461

3

Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

438

4

Dating Denial of Service attack

390

5

NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

383

6

RIP Bill Zeller

370

7

Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions, 2010 edition

339

8

Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search

327

9

New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit"

318

10

Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation

295

Top Ask HN

1

Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)

170

2

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

130

3

How to step up my coding skills?

95

4

How can I quit talking myself out of my own ideas?

81

5

Are you a solo creator?

79

6

Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition)

71

7

Does Y Combinator participate in A and beyond rounds?

39

8

Anyone interested in meeting other HNers?

38

9

Best way to introduce a young girl to computers?

35

10

Where do deadpool founders go?

21

Top Show HN

1

Google search blacklist

119

2

Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus

61

3

Wrote Arduino ruby prototyping API gem on new year (my first gem)

51

4

Show HN our weekend project: an email based productivity log

20

5

OpenCirclez (Feedback welcome)

15

6

Taketake Pre-Launch

11

7

Disguise webpage text to appear as though you are in Visual Studio

11

8

Want to learn C? Join this class on my website as we work through K&R

10

9

My November(++) Project. Facebook Stream Reader for Mac

10

10

Chatroulette Spy

8

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google

222

2

Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop

185

3

Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' Honeycomb (video)

160

4

Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft

138

5

People will never line up for Android phones

138

6

Amazon’s Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details

120

7

Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California

112

8

Business Models That Rocked 2010

98

9

Zynga buys Flock

73

10

Is tomorrow Armageddon for Mac developers?

72

News [?]

1

NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

383

2

Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation

295

3

Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women

242

4

Facebook hype will fade

192

5

Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future

179

6

The Rise of the New Global Elite

149

7

Retracted autism/vaccine study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds

133

8

Facebook-Goldman: Where Is the S.E.C.?

130

9

Goldman docs: Facebook income $355m, revenue $1.2bn (first 9 months of 2010)

76

10

A tale of two expats

68

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Less Mighty Wind - Three reasons wind power could wane

16

2

The President and the E-Word

6

3

NYC BigTime CityTime Fraud Charges Ripples On

4

4

Pilot's Spilt Coffee Helps Trigger False Terrorist

3

5

200,000 Credit and Debit Card Holders Double-Billed

3

6

Voice Over IP: Setting Phone Service Free

2

7

Martian Odyssey: Rovers Set to Celebrate 7 Years on Red Planet

1

8

2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

1

9

Top 11 Technologies of the Decade

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Eavesdropping on GSM Calls

30

2

Twitter for Mac

7

3

Twitter Blog: Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record

4

4

4

5

‘White House’ eCard Dupes Government Employees

3

6

The Challenge In Delivering Open-Source GPU Drivers

3

7

Intel Will Work On Better Linux Timing For Ivy Bridge

3

8

LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

2

9

Intel Sandy Bridge Linux Graphics? It's A Challenge

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Wins Landmark Ruling Freeing Promo CDs for Resale

58

2

Apple to expand CPU design group beyond iPad A4

56

3

Anandtech's Sandy Bridge review

8

4

Another iPhone Alarm Bug: Non-Recurring Alarms Broken, Beginning 1/1/2011

5

5

Chopper 2 Grosses Nearly $30,000

5

6

Printable mecanum wheel (reinventing the wheel)

5

7

Specs and performance on Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors

4

8

Reports of Mac App Store piracy emerge on launch day

2

9

Apple License Restriction Said To Be Under Restricted License

2

10

Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Mac App Store: Open for Business

204

2

Windows 8 to support ARM, System on a chip, architectures

81

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

198

2

Tools for startups along their lifetime

53

3

In Praise of Boredom

34

4

Why I will no longer be trading on the Intrade prediction markets

11

5

The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship

6

6

Html5.com - A lucky guess?

4

7

Play your video files in Google Docs

4

8

Preparing for the Big Mobile Revolution

3

9

Cleaning Up Online Conversation

3

10

The Control Group for Science

2

Science News [?]

1

2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?

11

2

Neandertals’ extinction not caused by deficient diets, tooth analysis shows

10

3

Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago

5

4

Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying

3

5

Nano squid skin: DOD awards $6M for metamaterials research

2

6

Cocaine Analog Coupled to Disrupted Adenovirus: A Cocaine Vaccine

2

7

Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life

2

8

Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots

2

9

How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed

2

10

Corals provide evidence of changes to oceanic currents

2

Social [?]

1

Dating Denial of Service attack

390

2

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc

125

3

Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

124

4

How to build a social entertainment website

74

5

"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."

60

6

11

7

IPhone Alarm Not Working anymore

10

8

AT&T You Will Ads From 1993 - Amazingly accurate predictions

10

9

Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc

7

10

Homeless man with golden radio voice

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

List of languages that compile to JS

96

2

The project manager from hell (integrates with Git)

68

3

New Years Resolution: Learn (e)Lisp?

50

4

Typhon is a Python implementation for the Rubinius (ruby) VM

50

5

Riak 0.14 is out

48

6

Recent Services Interruptions

23

7

Introducing Nemo: A Pythonic Haml

19

8

Create AES256 encrypted loop devices (.img files) under Linux

12

9

Gollum - Wiki Built on Top of Git

8

10

New Github error pages

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Open Source Cola

69

2

List of unsolved problems in mathematics

11

3

List of common misconceptions

7

4

List of data structures

3

5

MoleCool: The coolest molecule

3

6

The Salad Oil Scandal

3

7

2

8

Military Dolphins

1

9

Daisyworld - The Computer Simulation

1

10

Emac vs vi Editor war,wikipedia

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals

80

2

Why are scripting languages not suitable as shell languages?

6

3

Code-Bowling, the worst code that still works and might be found in the wild

6

4

C Vs Lisp Conceptually

5

5

What kind of knowledge do you need to invent a new programming language?

5

6

Is there any way to put malicious code into Regex?

4

7

Stack Overflow - What problems have you solved using artificial neural networks?

4

8

Why are scripting languages not suitable as shell languages? (One Answer)

3

9

What should every programmer know?

2

10

Java tail call elimination cheat

2

Substack [?]