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Top stories
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I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
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Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
1060
3
Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
871
4
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
711
5
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo
565
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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
491
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Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
438
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Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2
436
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Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
430
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Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT
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Top Ask HN
1
How Would You Architect Around Potential AWS Failures?
86
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Review my startup, http://UpOut.com
83
3
Review my startup - Lean Designs Website Builder
47
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when should and shouldn't you open source a project?
46
5
Experienced C programmer, new to web, which language/framework to use?
43
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How can I (illegal immigrant/programmer) get legal status in US?
37
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ASK HN: Review my startup Joint. Group chat + IM over your Twitter network.
32
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Review my bootstrapped startup, Moment Garden
26
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Contacted by a potential acquirer. How much data do I share with them?
26
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Experience bringing a sales guy onboard?
25
Top Show HN
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Hacker Typer [joke]
158
2
Codr.cc - Etherpad meets Pastebin Meets Notepad.cc: live code sharing
133
3
Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos
86
4
Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze
69
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Review my project: Git Code Press, blogging via git
30
6
Show HN:Bitcoin parody site - we use carrots.
20
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co.vu Free Domain Name with easy dns setup and more. Invite code - hn
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I'm building a github for guitarists and bass players
16
9
my weekend project, Swapshot!
13
10
No More Open Tabs Left at the Bar
13
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
413
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Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works
257
3
Were In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble
183
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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
170
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Google acquires TalkBin (YC W11)
127
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Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up too late
122
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A GeekDads 8-Year Old Daughter Reinvents Chess
105
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Anime Site Treats Piracy as Market Failure
104
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Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps
90
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Nintendo confirms launching new console in 2012, playable at E3
85
News [?]
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Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazon R&D
320
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Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think
144
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Warren Buffett is now betting against the US dollar
95
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Show Us the Data. (Its Ours, After All.)
55
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Delicious founder on site's potential: 'The time has passed'
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Bitcoins featured in Forbes
38
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Lessons from California: The perils of extreme democracy
38
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Facebook investors look for exits
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Should every child be made to play chess?
31
10
BBC Radio 4: Mathematics Program Collection
27
Scientific publications [?]
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Information Physics: The New Frontier
57
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Study: IQ test results are higher among those who really want high scores
38
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Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
25
4
Gulf Spill One Year Later: Lessons for Robotics
18
5
NASA - Chicken Fat Fuel Emissions Look Cleaner, Greener
2
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Virtual-Reality Scent System Fools Flavor Sense
1
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Sarcos Robot Can Mimic Your Terrible Dancing (w/vid)
1
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What is special about the divisors of 24?
1
9
Beehackers - Beekeeping engineers bring cheap widgets to a 19th-century craft
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linux Power Usage Regression in 2.6.38+
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Forget Epsilon, Fear the Angry Bird
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Is the U.S. Over-Hyping the Risk of Cyber War?
6
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Evolution of Code Design at Facebook
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Searching the Social Graph in Real Time
3
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A report from the (not only) MySQL conference 2011
3
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Innovation lessons from Neural Networks: Searching Without Objectives
2
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Introducing the Ceylon Project
2
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Is China Woefully Ill-Equipped to Defend Their Cyber Infrastructure
2
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High power usage new linux-kernels (2.6.37+)
2
Tech blogs [?]
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Googles secret perk? A private hackerspace
193
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
146
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Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
127
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New FBI Documents Provide Details on Government's Surveillance Spyware
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EFF's fair use win over Righthaven: it's hard out here for a troll
63
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Apple Purchases iCloud.com for $4.5 Million
28
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Steve Jobs on iOS Location Issue: 'We Don't Track Anyone'
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Anandtech Reviews the Eee Pad Transformer
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FCC law requiring all phones to track users has been on the books since 2001
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RIM, Motorola post dismal figures for their iPhone, iPad competitors
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FAANG+ [?]
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AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
380
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Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)
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IPhone 4 in white
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White iPhone -- Available Tomorrow (04/28)
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AWS Architecture Center
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White Iphone 4
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Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 is Free
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White iPhone is here
2
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AWS Architecture Center
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Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US
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Lisp lore: a guide to programming the Lisp machine
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Need Speed? Slow Down
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The Case for Executive Assistants
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Why Sony Shutdown The Playstation Network (speculation)
3
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Mini-camp on Rationality, Awesomeness, and Existential Risk
2
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US Govt. Uses Seized Domains for Anti-Piracy Video
2
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Cell phones should talk to satellites in emergencies
2
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Learned Blankness
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Looking for critiques on my RoR / ubuntu / RVM / Git dev enviro setup
1
Science News [?]
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Up close and personal with an active volcano
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What Defines a Meme
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Scientists Abuzz Over Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected at LHC
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Weight Loss Improves Memory, According to Researchers
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Mathematical model reveals how tattoos age
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Ultrafast fibre optics set new speed record
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Reform the PhD system or close it down
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Results of entanglement made visible to human eyes
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World's most powerful lasers get the green light
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Scientist learns the secret of royal jelly by creating mutant super flies
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Social [?]
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John Resig's CSS optimization for F7U12 SubReddit (more than 6x improvement)
146
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Inside Facebook Messages' Application Server
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PSX-Scene.org Mod Explains Real Reason Why PSN is Down
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Awesome TEDx talk: more Duolingo details from reCAPTCHA founder
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Video: Paul Allen on Gates, Microsoft
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Don't fuck with a hacker's machine
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Secret to Learning Electronics - Fail and Fail Often
6
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Tumblr Restores danah boyd's Site
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This is the most interesting professor in the world
4
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Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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The Merge Button
251
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Forking with the Edit Button
99
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Perl script to dump the urls submitted by an HN user
25
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New Issues and Gist API
25
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Opensource Map-based CouchDB chat for your site
23
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Oh-my-zsh gets big performance updates
18
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Thunderhub: "What happens if you give commit access to absolutely anyone?"
12
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SugarSkull: very small, highly purposed client side router in javascript
11
9
Meteo: Ning's real time analytics tool opensourced
7
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Locker - the "me" platform
6
Wikipedia [?]
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42% of US college graduates never read another book after college
30
2
Petrodollar Warfare -- AKA the "Oil Currency Wars"
13
3
Cymothoa exigua
8
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The Inventor's Paradox
5
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Monstrous Moonshine
5
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List of acquisitions by AOL - Wikipedia
4
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The Centurion Card
2
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Fermi paradox: why haven't we made contact?
2
9
Ask YC: Do you use mind maps? When are they most useful?
2
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The Viral Symphony
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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What does your .gitconfig contain?
76
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What are some interesting uses of high order functions?
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What are your legal obligations when storing personal data & credit card info?
1
Substack [?]