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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Patio11 says Hello Ladies

696

2

How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

609

3

At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

572

4

561

5

Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?

520

6

Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

490

7

Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers

484

8

Confirmed: Samsung is not shipping keyloggers

446

9

Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong

393

10

AIDS vaccine in final testing

373

Top Ask HN

1

Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?

291

2

Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

280

3

Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?

197

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (April 2011)

89

5

Automated trading on April 1

82

6

I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

71

7

Quitting in the middle of the project?

45

8

Depression, Loss of Motivation, Feeling Lost. Please Help

40

9

Do you automate most of your routine tasks?

31

10

Looking for feedback on my spare time project, Booklends.com

25

Top Show HN

1

My 6 Weeks Project, MultiplayerChess.com

78

2

RepoPlay - Instant replay for repo commits (+looking for internship)

55

3

LocalGo - bit.ly for addresses

50

4

Create a simple SMS to-do list for your music. (alpha)

26

5

The Daily Cramp A daily reminder to master her monthly cycle

19

6

DealPage - Aggregation of all Group Buying Daily Deal Sites

16

7

Snack Words - Real-time, Multi-player Word Game for iOS

16

8

My 4-hour project, why it failed

16

9

My one-hand keyboard software. Based on muscle memory, learn in ~5 min.

15

10

The lengths I will go to in order to find a technical co-founder

14

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively

312

2

Slice HD: you will hurt your fingers on your iPad

305

3

Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique

213

4

With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social As Do Google Ads

165

5

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing (Wired UK)

145

6

Friends don't let friends get into finance

136

7

Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders

128

8

RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases

124

9

Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about )

122

10

Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm”

112

News [?]

1

How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick

173

2

Paul Baran, one of the engineers who created ARPAnet, has died

122

3

This pill used to cost me 10c/pill, now it's $5/pill. I take it 3x day.

104

4

How one guy turned his C&C skills into millions with online poker

103

5

Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view

100

6

We should stop running away from radiation

97

7

Buffett Says Social-Networking Sites Overpriced Ahead of Public Offerings

68

8

Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot

67

9

Inside Seized Drug-Smuggling Submarines

58

10

Cellphones Track Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know

50

Scientific publications [?]

1

Robots Are the Next Revolution, So Why Isn't Anyone Acting Like It?

94

2

Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Spaceflight Cheaper

20

3

Are We Getting Overly Reliant on GPS-intensive Systems?

17

4

Impact of January GPS glitch on US military slowly being revealed

15

5

Study: physical clutter negatively affects your ability to focus

9

6

Why We Should Build Humanlike Robots

3

7

Shapelets: A New Method to Measure Galaxy Shapes

2

8

Japanese Robot Surveys Gymnasium Too Dangerous for Rescue Workers

1

9

The weak password problem: chaos, criticality, and encrypted p-CAPTCHAs

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Introducing /run

238

2

WWDC sold out in ten hours.

93

3

Twitter removing the #dickbar from the iPhone app

20

4

Introducing /run

13

5

Debate: What’s the Reason For MySpace’s Decline?

9

6

InfoQ: MacRuby Roundup: Ruby Apps Show Up in Mac AppStore

7

7

InfoQ: Hadoop Futures at Structure Big Data

5

8

WWDC 2011 Announced: June 6-10

5

9

USENIX LEET '11: Attacking and Defending the Tor Network

5

10

Restaurant fined under Massachusetts data privacy law

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

What Location Tracking Looks Like

107

2

Nintendo hacked to fit inside an NES cartridge

9

3

Music Synthesized from Conway's Game of Life

4

4

Amazon's Cloud Drive faces music industry backlash

4

5

Apple to kick off Worldwide Developers Conference June 6 in San Francisco

2

6

Continued lines for Apple's iPad 2 create 'shock and awe,' sales forecasts surge

2

7

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to deliver Scene Kit framework for 3D apps

2

8

Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking

2

9

2

10

Mobile Carrier Delays Harm Internet Security

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

258

2

Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive

156

3

Apple announces WWDC: June 6-10, preview of OS X & iOS

39

4

Microsoft offers two free eBooks if you download IE9

4

5

Amazon releases Cloud Music Player for web and Android

2

6

Amazon Cloud Drive

2

7

Amazon Cloud Player Released

2

8

Microsoft Ready to Turn Advertising Upside Down

2

9

Books that influenced clojure (note the hammock at the end)

1

10

Amazon.com: Appstore for Android

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

It's Time to Fix HTTPS

373

2

Entrepreneurs and the Cult of Failure

21

3

Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline

6

4

A Business Model Canvas as a gdocs template, save & start planning

4

5

Quid: Using semantic clusters to locate opportunity

3

6

Awesome designer is looking for a full time position at a startup in SF.

3

7

5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes

2

8

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

2

9

Failure Chronicles

1

10

Increasing Readability and Efficiency in Common Lisp [ps]

1

Science News [?]

1

Universal Property of Music Discovered

126

2

Vi Hart: Every school should replace calculus with recreational math

108

3

'Virus-eater' discovered in Antarctic lake

60

4

Best-ever quantum measurement breaks Heisenberg limit

49

5

Why Escalators Bring Out the Best in People

15

6

Let the geek worship begin

6

7

Can we capture all of the world's carbon emissions?

5

8

Structure of DNA repair complex reveals workings of powerful cell motor

4

9

Messages on Twitter don't spread through a predictable set of influential hubs.

4

10

NASA probe returns first-ever orbiter photo of Mercury

3

Social [?]

1

Christopher "moot" Poole, Founder of 4chan doing an AMA on Reddit

58

2

Osdev: a SubReddit devoted to operating system development

43

3

How A Differential Gear Works

24

4

Google Tech Talk: "All Questions Answered" by Donald Knuth

12

5

Color CEO explains how/why they raised $41M

10

6

What Hackers choose for their UK Census Job Title

9

7

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons shooting elephants

9

8

My friend made an iphone game, just felt like sharing it, HUNGRY MONSTRS [VIDEO]

9

9

HipHop for PHP: More Optimizations for Efficient Servers

9

10

SmartBird: lifelike robot bird

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Turning Nginx into Full-Stack Web Application Platform (By Taobao.com)

50

2

Inline PHP-FPM Server Running on Node.js

47

3

PushState + ajax = pjax

45

4

Clint: Python Command-line Application Tools

44

5

Re: My Space - Making .NET a Star Performer

39

6

ThingSpeak: an open source "Internet of Things" API

38

7

Github, the future of book publishing?

28

8

Open source API for sensor/application/geolocation data logging

18

9

Socket.io jquery plugin

9

10

New MacRuby game (tetris inspired) with source

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

Proof-of-work system

40

2

Magical Thinking

23

3

Happy Birthday Richard Dawkins

16

4

Operation Cornflakes (WWII)

3

5

Microsoft Comic Chat

2

6

Mathematical beauty

2

7

Stigler's law of eponymy

2

8

2

9

2

10

Gosmacs: Gosling's Emacs

1

Blogs [?]

1

Cities and Ambition [2008]

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Small C Projects

113

2

Most common one-line bugs in C?

62

3

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

28

4

ACM is 95% original content

5

5

C++ - Upgrading from Qt 4.2.1 to Qt 4.6.1 changed the fonts - Stack Overflow

2

6

How do you pronounce Git?

2

7

Are HTML Meta tags still important?

2

8

The "guess the number" game for arbitrary rational numbers?

2

9

Great programming quotes

1

Substack [?]