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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds

966

2

Facebook open sources its servers and data centers

521

3

Crash Course: Design for Startups

517

4

Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive

516

5

Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

459

6

Before I Die...

442

7

Jason Fried: Why I Run a Flat Company

429

8

Tron Legacy: how the special effects were done

418

9

Larry Page Begins Major Google Reorg: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge

409

10

Physics Engines for Dummies

375

Top Ask HN

1

How to stave off decline of HN?

462

2

Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much

183

3

Programming Problems for Plane Rides

74

4

Recommendations on Learning Photoshop?

62

5

What's the relationship between App Store Top Grossing Rank and Revenue?

51

6

What to read instead of Techcrunch?

50

7

How to give submission a second chance?

49

8

What's the average salary for a Web Python Developer in California?

46

9

What are you working on?

46

10

What podcasts do you watch regularly?

45

Top Show HN

1

my weekend project, Gumroad

390

2

My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

211

3

CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms

179

4

jsgif: A GIF player in JavaScript

126

5

NationBuilder, my startup just launched

106

6

Patternify, a CSS Pattern Generator

74

7

SyncPad on 40 iPads simultaneously

58

8

measure curiosity of your website users

39

9

Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitter 'follow' lists

36

10

I was afraid to launch, so I did. Babolog.

33

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it personal... very personal

206

2

Gmail Motion April Fools' gag inevitably turned into reality using Kinect

144

3

Is gravity not actually a force? Forcing theory to meet experiments

106

4

Google Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees

93

5

Milk: Kevin Rose's New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web

79

6

Pandora app found to be sending DOB, gender and location info to ad servers

72

7

Clever CSS Easter Egg: Search Google For Tilt Or Askew On Your Smartphone

69

8

Ars Technica on GNOME3

67

9

Baydin Closes Its $375,000 Funding Round (In An UberCab, Per Our Suggestion)

62

10

Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook

62

News [?]

1

Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity

164

2

On Tesla's induction motor

154

3

Why Paying Bribes Should Be Legal

105

4

Fighting to Shut Out the Real India

105

5

Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works.

100

6

Ex-Engadget Crew Starting New Site

79

7

Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much thinner than 1914.

76

8

English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries

71

9

Students paying to get internships?

61

10

At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths

51

Scientific publications [?]

1

Boosting brain matter by learning like a child.

5

2

Da Vinci Surgical Robot Folds, Throws Tiny Paper Airplane

3

3

Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima's Fuel Could Still Seep Out

2

4

TurtleBot: Mobile 3D Mapping and ROS

2

5

How Japan's Earthquake Is Shaking Up Taiwan's High-Tech Sector

2

6

Space Junk a Growing Threat for Astronauts in Orbit

1

7

Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite: Wassonite

1

8

What Causes the Poles To Warm Faster Than the Rest of Earth?

1

9

Geminoid Robots and Human Originals Get Together

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Guardian.co.uk Switching from Java to Scala

107

2

70

3

Pinpointing your location to Within 690 Meters

53

4

Detecting Cheaters

10

5

appCode: a new Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS

6

6

Eclipse moves to GitHub

3

7

Substantive List of Companies Affected in Epsilon Breach

3

8

Introduction to GPU Computing

1

9

Lessons Learned From LizaMoon

1

10

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Unqualified Names in the SSL Observatory

66

2

Epic developer calls iPad 2 graphics leap "astonishing"

26

3

The EFF SSL Observatory

17

4

The OCZ Vertex 3 Review (120GB) and the 25/34nm affair

14

5

Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory

5

6

Work for EFF's Activism Team This Summer | Electronic Frontier Foundation

4

7

'Urban Homesteading' is no longer just a movement but a company trademark

4

8

EFF's mass copyright litigation roundup

3

9

Qualcomm's new mobile ARM chipset has breathtaking performance

3

10

Motorola's Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom sales forecast slashed to 100,000 units

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Levy's new book "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"

9

2

Free Kindle edition of "Do the Work", an upcoming Steven Pressfield book

2

3

Microsoft explains how to make PowerPoint decks less crummy

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?

149

2

An Engineer's Explanation of the Fukushima Incident

82

3

Unknown band's album illegally downloaded 100,000 times. Or is it?

42

4

Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the power of community building

5

5

Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success

3

6

Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success

3

7

US Governments Pirate Domain Seizures Failed Miserably

2

8

Youre driving us crazy. Youve got to back off."

2

9

Color.xxx pitch deck stuck in my Google Docs

1

10

"Going platinum on piracy" based on bad numbers

1

Science News [?]

1

Yellow dye 1 could be the key to immortality

17

2

Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers

3

3

Waiting for the Motivation Fairy

3

4

Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force

3

5

IP and Ping Time Based Tracking

3

6

Malaria on the Rise as East African Climate Heats Up

2

7

Copper vrs Stainless in anti-microbial applications

2

8

Fukushima health risks scrutinized

1

9

Magnitude 7.1 Aftershock Disrupts Japanese Efforts

1

10

Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links

1

Social [?]

1

Starting Up Silicon Valley Style

127

2

The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit

115

3

Is McAfee's siteadvisor.com a scam?

84

4

Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story

66

5

I've been working on infinite streaming in Rails 3.1, here is my work so far.

34

6

Speed Up Your JavaScript - Google Tech Talk with Nicholas C. Zakas

26

7

Amazing video showing what it is like to run solo as a blind person

14

8

Sorting algorithms interpreted as Hungarian folk dances

12

9

How Being Labelled Smart Affects People

12

10

USC Researchers implement Gmail Motion with a Kinect

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sshuttle - tunnel all your traffic through ssh

228

2

SICP in ePub format on Github

156

3

Raphters, a web framework for C

144

4

Source for Predator Object Tracking (OpenCV)

115

5

Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux.

104

6

Annyong, a small web server that serves static files from the current directory

34

7

Redis 2.2.3 released

25

8

Xp - agile programming tools in Coffeescript

16

9

Ruby-bigquery-cl integrate your Ruby system to the Google BigQuery web service

12

10

ChitChatRooms : how we earned our #GoogleIO ticket

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

72

2

Earth as a nuclear furnace (geothermal heat is mostly from radioactive decay)

44

3

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

6

4

4

5

Google's April Fool's 2011

3

6

Noisy market hypothesis

3

7

Prizes awarded to the Indian cricket team

2

8

Remote controlled caterpillar mine [1940]

2

9

The ABA Shared Memory Problem

2

10

Fear, uncertainty and doubt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are those little Xcode tips & tricks you wish you knew about 2 years ago?

56

2

Why you should not parse (X)HTML with a Regexp

13

3

You can be breaking the law using pt for font-size

5

4

Who has the BEST documentation you have ever seen?

2

5

What ever happened to TextMate 2?

2

6

Are there any provable real-world languages?

2

7

Best Possible Configuration for a Programming Desktop

2

8

Library for tree/graph search?

1

9

simplified outline on how Google processes your sites

1

Substack [?]