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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.

681

2

8.9 earthquake hits Japan

678

3

Accounting for Computer Scientists

520

4

Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)

492

5

Anatomy of a Crushing

490

6

Twitter to developers: no new Twitter clients

451

7

If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?

445

8

Sleep is more important than food

437

9

JavaScript Garden

397

10

Facebook bans Adsense in all applications, driving Google out of Facebook.com

356

Top Ask HN

1

I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage

127

2

I died 2 times, coma, learned how to walk again, code, now I need advice

117

3

Do I hide the fact that I am a sole-founder?

51

4

Please destroy my startup idea so I don't waste time on it

50

5

How long did you stuck with your startup before it is profitable?

41

6

What about taking Hackathons online?

31

7

Review my startup - Jaxified

30

8

Jobs & Startups in Seattle (urgentish)

29

9

Ask HN : Is there an HN for graphic designers (web but mostly print)?

27

10

How to handle clients asking for a design document before hiring.

26

Top Show HN

1

Beginning Android for iOS Developers

197

2

Readability-like API Using Machine Learning

151

3

Home automation and lighting control with Kinect

98

4

My weekend project: Twtspire

73

5

Hacker News in real-time

68

6

Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js

45

7

Bootstrapped, Not Profitable *Yet*, & Proud: Pagify

44

8

Profile.io - Profiles for Developers

41

9

My "semester" project: cab sharing made easy

38

10

Tinfoil Security -- Security For Startups. Launching soon

36

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home

171

2

Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles

141

3

WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year, says CEO

127

4

Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs

120

5

Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+

108

6

Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 converter

106

7

YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate

101

8

Facebook Comments Have Silenced The Trolls — But Is It Too Quiet?

90

9

Earbits (YC W11) Brings A Twist: Online Radio Where Bands Can Pay For Playtime

84

10

Western digital acquires Hitachi Global Storage Tech for $4.3B

84

News [?]

1

Japan's Strict Building Codes Saved Lives

258

2

Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation

181

3

North Korea's Digital Underground

129

4

Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

115

5

Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer

86

6

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

86

7

ZX81: Small black box of computing desire

84

8

The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday

77

9

Venezuela's squatter skyscrapers; as the country declines

65

10

Voyager: Still dancing 17 billion km from Earth

64

Scientific publications [?]

1

How Unique and Traceable are Usernames?

18

2

NASA Open Source Summit 2011

8

3

Geminoid DK: Most realistic android ever?

6

4

BrainDriver: A Mind Controlled Car

1

5

Automatic Wrapper Adaptation by Tree Edit Distance Matching

1

6

A Memory of Webs Past

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Xcode 4 released

55

2

InfoQ: Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks

34

3

Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks

13

4

InfoQ: Hacking Your Organization

12

5

Choosing between portability and innovation

7

6

IBM’s Reference Architecture for Creating Cloud Environments

6

7

Contrasting Haskell & Erlang in peer-to-peer protocol implementation

5

8

Book on Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler

5

9

Ensuring Product Quality at Google

4

10

Apple's Security Coding Guide

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

High court challenge to law that puts public-domain works back under copyright

166

2

JP Morgan: Apple's iPad 2 could cause 'bubble burst' for rival tablets

9

3

IPhone 5 to Get Aluminum Backing, Redesigned Antenna?

8

4

Court Rules Against Privacy in Battle Over Twitter Records

7

5

You’ll shoot your eye out…with a 1MW laser pulse pistol

4

6

IBM to build 10 PFlops supercomputer

3

7

IPhone 5 leaked in engineering images?

3

8

Review roundup: Apple's iPad 2 is best tablet yet, but cameras disappoint

2

9

Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Font Book 3, Emoji support

2

10

Apple Job Listings Hint at Plans for Revamped Online Store

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple - iOS 4.3 Software Update

4

2

Apple iOS 4.3 Software Update available

3

3

Apple’s JointVenture For Business Gets Official

2

4

Popular Science subscription for $5 [through Mar. 6]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Revolution Will Not Be Properly Licensed

3

2

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns

3

3

BitTorrent Legend Surprnova.org Returns as Video Portal

1

Science News [?]

1

Is gravity "left-handed"? If so, why?

14

2

GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

12

3

You can increase your intelligence and 5 ways to do it

10

4

US Mars mission takes pole position

3

5

Eight extremes: The biggest things in the universe

2

6

How to make really good coffee

2

7

Older Parents Are Happier With More Children; Young Parents, With Fewer

2

8

Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms

2

9

A misunderstanding leads to method for making nanowells

2

10

Predicting Riots and the Fall of Dictators

2

Social [?]

1

Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)

492

2

51 hours left to live

322

3

Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See "Bubble" in Technology

163

4

Steve Jobs on Apple's brand strategy in 1997

110

5

Critique our StartupBus pitch video: ChatSpark

17

6

Anyone want to sail through the Gulf of Aden? You might die.

15

7

Reddit: What is your favourite intellectual joke?

14

8

Rails 3.1 will ship with jQuery by default

9

9

Firefox dev team does an IAmA on reddit

8

10

Giant Ant Hill Excavated

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete

152

2

JQuery noise generator

99

3

Sinatra in 8 lines

97

4

Bootstrapping CC (for OSX, using Homebrew)

71

5

LinearML:a programming language designed to write efficient parallel programs.

69

6

Elixir: Simple Object Orientation and charming syntax on top of Erlang

52

7

Developer Preview of Couchbase Mobile - Apache CouchDB for iOS devices

51

8

Scrumblr: Agile Sprintboard Using Node.js + Websockets

45

9

Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9.2

35

10

Git your instant Tweet Convo Wall, supporting 36 Photo Providers

27

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bitcoin Cryptocurrency

17

2

Apple has not made any significant donations to charity since 1997

7

3

The Palomares Incident

5

4

The original poster child for the 2001 dot.com crash was a social media website

5

5

Love Canal: one of the worst environmental disasters in the US

4

6

4

7

The Tunguska Event

3

8

3

9

3

10

Largest earthquakes by magnitude

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What happens when a computer program runs?

3

2

Difference between C++'s STL and "Standard Library"

2

3

Didatic approaches to teach versioning with Git

2

4

An example of how to ask questions

2

5

Idiomatic efficient Haskell append?

2

6

Very small programs to improve programming skills?

2

7

Image manipulation in HTML5 Canvas

2

8

Web SQL Database vs Indexed Database API ... or both?

1

9

A fight between Geeks - how to resolve this?

1

10

What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about?

1

Substack [?]