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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Showoff
794
2
Amazon Web Services are down
550
3
Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
549
4
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
414
5
IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
410
6
The unofficial Google shell
389
7
Fooling myself to work
352
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"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'
348
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
342
10
AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling
341
Top Ask HN
1
how to become a morning person?
151
2
ASK HN: What methods do you use to gain early customers for your startup?
112
3
I hate the code in my popular open source app; do I put it on my resume?
92
4
What does a non-programmer bring to a 2-3 person startup team?
81
5
Does anyone else misread the 'time since comment' as karma now?
43
6
How do you do graphic design?
39
7
Why not fix JavaScript?
33
8
Economics community website?
29
9
How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?
29
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Favorite hacker movie
26
Top Show HN
1
made a html5 game, polished it many many times
210
2
An isometric marble run build in CoffeeScript
134
3
Amazon EC2 instance comparison table
120
4
my boilerplate CSS code for new designs, written in Less.
104
5
weekend project, Readstream
62
6
A designer friend and I made ffffallback.com for testing fallback fonts
55
7
Our app built at the Startup Weekend SanJose in 48 hours: Shout A Tweet
54
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Garden Madness, a flowery HTML5 game
52
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my new project, an app to tell your friends what you need
44
10
SocialSign.me - About.Me for Your Email Signature
40
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
283
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Dropbox Hits 25 Millions Users, 200 Million Files Per Day
199
3
Square's Disruptive Payment Service About to Get A Huge Retail Boost from Apple
162
4
Court rules Linux kernel infringes on patents. Lawsuit avalanche to follow.
149
5
Venuetastic (YC W11) Makes Booking Event Spaces a Breeze
115
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Righthaven reeling: secret doc could doom a copyright troll
88
7
How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters
80
8
Moving bikes stay upright but not for the reasons we thought
78
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Google Video shutting down, disabling public downloads on April 29
75
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Andreessen Horowitz Leads $1.75M Round In Freebie Marketplace Listia
74
News [?]
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
342
2
My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)
303
3
Working Best at Coffee Shops
247
4
A Patently Obvious Problem
105
5
Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (1999)
99
6
How do people in different countries spend their time?
94
7
The education bubble: Tech progress may reduce the demand for high-end jobs
91
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Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated
89
9
Gut Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Say
84
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Larry Page and Wall Street: Who needs who?
52
Scientific publications [?]
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Are We Giving Google More Than We Get?
24
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Robots Enter Fukushima Reactors, Detect High Radiation
15
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NASA Space Shuttle Contractor Announces Layoffs for 2,800 Workers
2
4
Hiding Information in a Stream Control Transmission Protocol
2
5
How to Watch Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch
2
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Is this China's answer to BigDog?
1
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Videos of PackBots Inside Fukushima Reactors Released
1
8
Performance under stress
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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The Tweets of San Francisco
4
2
Oracle ceases commercial support for Open Office
2
3
NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond
2
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Anyone wanting a Chinese govt mail account best strike while the iron's hot.
2
5
Time to Patch Your Flash
1
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Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks
1
7
Hierarchical RCU (Read-copy update) fast concurrent reads with many processors
1
8
Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
1
9
Congressman calls on Apple to explain iPhone Tracking
1
Tech blogs [?]
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EFF explains why Righthaven's copyright assignment is a sham
30
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Intel Patents 'Multiplying Two Numbers'
17
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Righthaven Defies Court, Ignores Domain Name Ruling
9
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Android fans accuse Apple of copying Samsung first
8
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Court Rejects Argument That All First-Time Email Hacking Offenses Are Felonies
4
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Mac sales up 25% in Americas, 76% in Asia
3
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Google's Lack of Transparency and Openness in the Android Market
3
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White iPhone 4 shows up in Verizon's inventory
2
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'HTTPS Now' Campaign Urges Users to Take Active Role in Protecting Net Security
2
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EFF on legal and due process problems with mass copyright litigation
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Announcing Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront
26
2
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
20
3
(Joy of) Clojure Bookshelf
17
4
Official Microsoft "XP Death" countdown timer - only for Windows7/Vista
7
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Kindle edition is more expensive than Hardcover for the book - In The Plex
3
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AWS Summit 2011
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Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule
2
8
Apples Final Cut-specific 404 page
2
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Office365 goes public beta
1
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PBS Delivering Over One Petabyte Of Video Monthly With Amazon CloudFront
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Monopoly Lawyers Shouldn’t Write Monopoly Laws
40
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
9
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Offense versus harm minimization
3
4
ISPs Challenge to UK Digital Economy Act Rejected
2
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Blue Ocean Strategy
2
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Hold Me, Use Me, Free Me
1
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File-Sharers Await Official Recognition of New Religion
1
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The Best Way to Name Your Product 2.0
1
9
How Will You Measure Your Life?
1
Science News [?]
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Reform the PhD system or close it down
71
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Low voltage brain stimulation can double mental performance
28
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What is a PhD Really Worth?
14
4
The Neuroscience of the Gut
9
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Nature's "The Future of the PhD" special issue. Subscription required.
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Material that can be fixed with light
3
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Fix the PhD
3
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What Defines a Meme?
2
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Education: Rethinking PhDs
2
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Riderless bicycle can be self-stable without gyroscopic or caster effects
1
Social [?]
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Joel Spolsky is doing an IAmA on reddit
208
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Thoughts on Software Quality
66
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Jedberg on Reddit's most recent outage
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Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours
47
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Barack Obama Facebook Live
26
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RestSharp > Shamwow
18
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Different sorting methods demonstrated by folk dancers
9
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Livestream for President Obama at Facebook HQ
9
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Meet Charlie (I want a video like this for my startup)
9
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The complete FizzBuzz solution
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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A PHP clone of Panic's status board
128
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SPDY server on node.js
99
3
GitHub passes 2M repos, 1M projects
93
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Lispy - Code-as-data in Ruby, without the metaprogramming madness.
88
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Pure python bitcoin miner to understand how it works
70
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Android location service cache dumper.
66
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Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc ...
66
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Append-only B+ Tree on Node.js
37
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Rolling out the Redcarpet
35
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Certificate Authority implemented in Ruby
34
Wikipedia [?]
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Fallacies of Distributed Computing
137
2
Circle-Ellipse Problem
21
3
Rock in Opposition was a movement of 70s bands united against the music industry
4
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DunningKruger effect
3
5
The regular expression denial of service
3
6
Matching pursuit
2
7
Number Form: A mental picture of numbers
2
8
Physics of the curveball (the Magnus effect)
2
9
The "Bush hid the facts" bug
2
10
Dead Drop
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Good resources for learning HTML5 Websockets
12
2
Why is there no base class in C++?
2
3
How to manage CSS Explosion
1
4
How to pass through the GFW?
1
5
How does a haskell compiler works?
1
Substack [?]