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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.

697

2

Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake

673

3

Subject: Airbnb

614

4

Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life

607

5

How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup

504

6

Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors

415

7

Music Theory for Beginners

382

8

Finally, a Startup Visa That Works

329

9

Web developer will work for you for free

327

10

Dudes, this is so not REST

310

Top Ask HN

1

What are your best life hacks?

155

2

What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?

118

3

Who's hiring in Europe?

50

4

sideproject, generating revenue & profit what's next?

46

5

An Acceptable Erlang

28

6

Working from home & depression

25

7

What is the status and future of Jython?

25

8

I don't think I am a good programmer but I keep trying

20

9

learning Ruby/Rails

20

10

My site isn't sexy or social, but I'm very proud of it: what's next?

18

Top Show HN

1

My collection of web-apps that I'm finally comfortable in sharing

238

2

My Node.js two weekend project. Color palettes from Flickr images.

159

3

Keyword Tool to Find Available Domain Names

61

4

ducksboard, a real time dashboard using websockets

41

5

PodCastle - Reddit for podcasts

40

6

A few weeks ago, I started prototyping the Circles concept.

33

7

Student-hacker builds specialized HN Newsfeed for Pulse

31

8

27

9

HackerTable.com, reservations at elusive restaurants (3-day project)

24

10

MindWallet.com Insanely Organized Social Media

19

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Finally, a Startup Visa That Works

329

2

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

238

3

AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down

237

4

Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup

204

5

4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity

185

6

Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming

161

7

The weirdest (but working) iPhone 4 reception trick I have ever heard

151

8

Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

148

9

Etsy users irked after buyers, purchases exposed to the world

142

10

Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X

138

News [?]

1

Don't touch me, I'm British

201

2

Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss

129

3

Before and After pictures of Japan

122

4

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on Japan Aid: Help for the Well-Prepared

107

5

Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock?

98

6

How my childhood friend became an Internet laughingstock.

98

7

Another Inside Job

85

8

A Clever End Run Around the Movie-Streaming Gremlins

81

9

Germany shuts down seven reactors‎ because of Fokushima

77

10

The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28

76

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz

25

2

NASA ISS Live Stream

20

3

Japan Nuclear Accident: Worse than Worst, Again

11

4

Paper on violations of causality (time travel) at LHC

7

5

How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Days on Earth

5

6

Efficient and Playful Tools to Teach Unix to New Students

4

7

Japan's split power frequency leads to rolling blackouts

4

8

Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic

4

9

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of ﬁre in Europe

3

10

Next-Generation Supercomputers

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

FFmpeg Developers Just Forked As Libav

46

2

Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS

14

3

Twitter: One billion tweets per week

8

4

Rustock Botnet Flatlined, Spam Volumes Plummet

5

5

Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

4

6

F#: History, Today, Tomorrow

3

7

Cloud IDE for Java Launched by eXo

3

8

The Evolution of the Erlang VM (video)

3

9

Heresy & Heretical on Open Source, Good and Evil and JSMin (video)

3

10

What is the Future of Apache Harmony?

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

IPad 2: GPU Benchmarked with Impressive Gains

45

2

EFF Seeks Cooperating FOIA Reviewers

22

3

Apple now taking Red Cross donations through iTunes for Japan relief fund

6

4

Full screen web apps fail to use Nitro acceleration in Apple's iOS 4.3

4

5

Guy hacks Times Square screens with iPhone transmitter?

3

6

EFF serves up ~7500 pages of documents obtained via FOIA for Sunshine week

3

7

Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New WiFi Diagnostics tool

3

8

EFF Urges Judge to Reject Dangerous New Copyright Troll Strategy

2

9

Use your iPad 2 as a Refrigerator Magnet

2

10

AnandTech's review of the newest Macbook Pros 13" & 15"

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft IE9 site compares IE9 to Chrome 6

4

2

Amazon VPC Adds Virtual Networking and Internet Access Capabilities

1

3

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Police Return Seized Hardware to Victorious BitTorrent Admin, Trashed

170

2

Successful rationalist community formed in New York City

7

3

5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional

5

4

Ubisoft ‘Pirates’ Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Music From Demonoid

3

5

How to Be Happy

3

6

ISP Proposes Piracy Mitigation, Detection and Punishment Framework

2

7

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Don't Learn from Failure

1

8

Paramount Pictures Partner With BitTorrent Release Movie

1

9

Google’s the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court

1

Science News [?]

1

Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant

94

2

Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life

37

3

Why Fukushima Daiichi won't be another Chernobyl

20

4

Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?

7

5

Beware the fear of Nuclear fear

6

6

Japan's nuclear crisis: The story so far

5

7

Nuclear crisis: The ongoing struggle to cool Fukushima

4

8

One Per Cent: Happier people tweet together

3

9

Giftedness Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Testosterone

3

10

Bilinguals See the World in a Different Way

2

Social [?]

1

"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability"

270

2

Video of reactor 1 at Fukushima plant

176

3

Concrete Poured Into Ant Colony Reveals Insect Megalopolis

66

4

Vi Hart: Pi Is (Still) Wrong

28

5

The American Dream

19

6

Facebook Hacker Cup Finals: A Champion is Crowned

18

7

In other news : Twitter / Error

15

8

Weinre - Debug Mobile Websites from your Desktop

10

9

Times Square video billboards defaced using iPhone transmitter

9

10

A day made of glass

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Unholy: _why's Ruby to Python compiler

130

2

Github'd genome license has interesting restrictions for cloning

54

3

Raphael.js 2.0 beta release is out - GitHub

52

4

Hello Singapore (CDN Experiment)

41

5

A proof that the quicksort algorithm terminates on all inputs

15

6

Introducing Flea - A tiny Lisp written in Ruby

12

7

Write simple and readable synchronous code in nodejs using fibers

10

8

Mach-O loader for linux

10

9

Transparent Git Encryption

4

10

Zen - A hackable X server in 5.5KLOC of CL

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Echelon (signals intelligence)

35

2

Formula of the day: Jeans length

10

3

International Nuclear Event Scale

7

4

A-2 System: The first open source project

7

5

Hasan Ali Khan: A great example of the money drain and inefficiency in the world

4

6

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

4

7

Timeline of the Fukushima nuclear accidents

3

8

Timeline of web browsers

3

9

Endowment Effect

2

10

2

Blogs [?]

1

Subject: Airbnb

614

2

What the Bubble Got Right (2004)

28

3

Paul Graham on Fred Wilson's Airbnb post

7

4

How to Start a Startup [let's read it one more time]

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C

284

2

strtotime() considered harmful?

2

3

Sorting pairs of numbers with swaps

2

4

Are QR-Codes used by customers in Europe/America?

2

5

Redis Auto-completion with Tries

2

6

1

7

The Hidden Features of Scala (SO discussion)

1

Substack [?]