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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
867
2
Nginx 1.0.0 is out
539
3
The US Government Keeps Harassing a UW Researcher Who Speaks for WikiLeaks
445
4
Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup
436
5
Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
417
6
The Programmer Salary Taboo
416
7
Notice: Experimenting with HN
408
8
Apple AirTunes private key extracted
369
9
Peter Thiel: Were in a Higher Education Bubble
338
10
Mac OS X hidden features and nice tips & tricks
336
Top Ask HN
1
Why can't I make as much as I make?
262
2
How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?
164
3
How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
145
4
What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?
94
5
Help, my $150,000 student debt is ruining my life, and my future
91
6
Tips/secrets for partnering with large businesses?
89
7
Summer Internships in the Bay Area?
75
8
Has anyone had negative experiences with zeromq?
69
9
What are your side projects?
62
10
Review my Startup - http://Cardnap.com
58
Top Show HN
1
Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
273
2
A Y Combinator for Objective-C
94
3
Implementing durability for in-memory databases, on SSDs
39
4
My weekend project for those who obsessively follow AAPL, GOOG & MSFT
38
5
My weekend project, ReVisualizer. It visualizes Tumblr Reblogs.
34
6
Tasskr
18
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HTML5 grid-drawing tool for UI designers
17
8
"LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings
16
9
weekend project, Hawt Cakes
16
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weekend project, +10 Charm. Where should you eat next?
14
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Peter Thiel: Were in a Higher Education Bubble
338
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Screw you. Pay me.
247
3
Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn't my problem
156
4
Run iPhone Apps Directly From Your Browser With Pieceable Viewer
144
5
North Carolina cities mobilize against anti-muni broadband bill
115
6
Friends Dont Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel
98
7
Safari to join "Do Not Track" crowd, leaving Google behind
91
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Cisco To Shut Down Flip Video Business; Will Give Pink Slips To 550 Employees
90
9
Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers
85
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James Dyson's vacuum cleaner required 5,127 prototypes: In Praise of Failure
80
News [?]
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Is Sugar Toxic?
185
2
Three signs you have a management problem. And that problem might be you
184
3
Voyager 1 is on the edge, and so is he
169
4
A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs
167
5
Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees
155
6
Researchers have successfully teleported wave packets of light
132
7
Court says Winklevoss twins must accept Facebook deal
77
8
Meet America's Money Destroyers
43
9
The loudness wars: Why music sounds worse (2009)
42
10
A modest proposal for an interstellar communications network
40
Scientific publications [?]
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Myths About Gagarin's Spaceflight
4
2
Stratified B-trees and versioning dictionaries - future FSs will kick ass
2
3
Finally, a Robot That Can Punch You in the Face
2
4
First Earth-Space musical duet in honour of Yuri G [video]
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Trinity: Microsoft Researchs Hypergraph Database
31
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Schneier's Law
10
3
Will the Rise of Javascript Mean the End of LAMP?
8
4
Schneier on Security: Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks
8
5
Interview with Gaving King about Ceylon Language
6
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Perception and Action: An Intro. to Clojure's Time Model
5
7
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure
4
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SSL and the Future of Authenticity
4
9
Actor Thinking
4
10
Future storage technologies and Linux
3
Tech blogs [?]
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Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order
80
2
The BlackBerry PlayBook Review
35
3
Windows 8 App Store Screens Leaked
24
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Carbon fiber iPad on the way?
19
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Sony Ericsson promotes Android bootloader unlocking
19
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US Mac sales grow 9.6% in Q1 2011 as rest of market drops 10.7%
16
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New book reveals Apple's Steve Jobs mentored Google co-founders
15
8
EFF to San Francisco Entertainment Commission: Dont Turn SF into a Police State
7
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FPGA-based Turbografx 16 clone
4
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IPads will be made in Brazil
3
FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Case Study: BackType
24
2
Ad supported kindle released
15
3
2nd Ed of TCP/IP Illustrated vol. 1
13
4
Amazon offers $25 off ad-supported Kindle
7
5
The new Final Cut Studio
4
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law
76
2
Metrics Metrics Everywhere - Coda Hale at CodeConf
72
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Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music
19
4
Metrics: From Code to Business Value at Yammer (from CodeConf)
4
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Proposal Suggests Browsers Should Block Users From BitTorrent Sites
2
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Dutch Government To Outlaw File-Sharing
2
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Kiwi parliament member listens to K-Pop, wants to make it illegal
2
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Artists Dont Think Piracy Hurts Them Financially, Study Shows
1
9
Kangaroo physics engine
1
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Firefox add-on to route around US Government domain seizures
1
Science News [?]
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When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
48
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Fukushima: Is it really the new Chernobyl?
20
3
Why Creative People Are Eccentric
5
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Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres
3
5
Why Creative People Are Eccentric
3
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How to turn the vacuum into a superconductor
2
7
Can Alcohol Help the Brain Remember?
2
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Study links rest to long-term memory formation in fruit flies.
2
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The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric
2
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Control your phone with a magnetic ring
1
Social [?]
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Dilbert creator outed for using sock puppets on Metafilter and Reddit
39
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Reddit: IAmAn Astronaut who has been to space twice
31
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Remember the "Insecure by Design" Dropbox article? [I] automate[d] the process
24
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YC Y U NO (YC_Y_U_NO) on Twitter
16
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YC w2011 Earbits on This Week in Startups
15
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Catching software pirates the fun way
15
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Authors at Google: Eric Ries "The Lean Startup" (video)
14
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Facebook Engineering: Scaling the Messages Application Back End
13
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$87 Android Froyo Arm 9 capacitive smartphone with camera and GPS
11
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Reddit: Why is Vimeo so much better/smoother than youtube?
11
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub launches Issues 2.0
336
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Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript
316
3
Entrepreneur Manual: Paul Graham's Essays in ePub Format
54
4
Convert JSON to a Unix-friendly line-based format
54
5
HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager
43
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Three.js - Javascript 3D Engine
43
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`gosh` is security theater for piped shell scripts
43
8
GitHub Jobs gets new site, iPhone app, and API
29
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OpenTLD - The predator TLD source code is online
24
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RouteMap, a new open source client/server-side JavaScript URL Mapping Library
19
Wikipedia [?]
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Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable
66
2
50th anniversary of the first human space flight
23
3
Tesseract - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
7
4
List of unsolved problems
5
5
Code Coverage
4
6
Guru Meditation
3
7
Four stages of competence
2
8
Chile's Unidad de Fomento (UF), an inflation-indexed cost accounting
1
9
List of TCP and UDP ports
1
10
An awesome documentary about the birth, and explosion of Pixar Studios
1
Blogs [?]
1
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
15
Stackoverflow [?]
1
The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List
78
2
Writing Maintainable Event-Driven Code
22
3
What is entropy and information gain
4
4
Comparing Haskell's Snap and Yesod web frameworks: the developers speak
3
5
How Ruby object_id assignment works
3
6
Looking for good Django interview questions
1
Substack [?]