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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Osama bin Laden Is Dead

915

2

Workers Leaving the Googleplex

683

3

Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad

628

4

596

5

John Resig joins the Khan Academy

576

6

Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25

514

7

Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure

463

8

Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

412

9

Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody

407

10

Startups Are Hard

403

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

321

2

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (May 2011)

96

3

Can you recommend some directories to list your app?

95

4

How do I minimize the taxes from selling my startup?

83

5

TED like sites/videos?

75

6

What are your productivity hacks?

71

7

Does never having a "real" job hurt me

48

8

Cheap Bulk Storage?

48

9

Have you written a book?

42

10

______ is to Python as K&R is to C?

41

Top Show HN

1

Machine learning cheat sheet

164

2

My embeddable C/C++ webserver

82

3

Minimal Lisp in ~70 lines of Haskell

75

4

Gitalytics.com - Quicker Way to check someone's github profile

75

5

Restaurant POS system built completely on iOS

50

6

crawl a website and store it in S3 from your browser

42

7

YC Interview Demo - What do you want to know about YC interviews?

40

8

Show HN my Hackathon Project: Visual Craigslist w/ HN's algorithm

39

9

App for sharing your weekly schedule

35

10

What if JIRA (Atlassian Bug tracker) had Achievements?

35

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid

280

2

After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses

268

3

Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine ever invented

261

4

Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds

225

5

How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

185

6

LikeALittle's Ridiculous Hacker House

157

7

56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate

145

8

Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million $50 Million

125

9

Wikileaks cables reveal US pressuring Canada on IP enforcement

123

10

Last chance: let the FDA know why you want direct access to your own genome

121

News [?]

1

Osama bin Laden Is Dead

915

2

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation

171

3

52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right

131

4

How to Beat High Airfares

127

5

The Wall Street Journal Launches a WikiLeaks Competitor, SafeHouse

88

6

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

70

7

Raspberry Pi: A 15/$25 computer to inspire young programmers

61

8

Air France flight data recorder recovered

59

9

University to bypass expensive database

53

10

Russia's First Floating Nuclear Power Station

44

Scientific publications [?]

1

Working memory at 5 is a better predictor of academic outcome than IQ [abstract]

69

2

NASA's Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories

4

3

'Suddenly I Heard a Roar From the Ground'

2

4

Twitter mood predicts the stock market

2

5

A Japanese Roboticist's Account of 16 Days After the Earthquake

1

6

America's First Spaceship: Project Mercury [Infographic]

1

7

Intel Transistors Enter the Third Dimension

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts

286

2

Webmachine and RESTful Web Frameworks with Justin Sheehy

10

3

IonMonkey: Mozillas new JavaScript JIT compiler

5

4

Advanced Persistent Tweets: Zero-Day in 140 Characters

3

5

LastPass Asks Users To Change Password After Probable Breach

3

6

Does Microsoft Need Bug Bounties?

3

7

InfoQ: What Is Enterprise Architecture?

2

8

OpenID Warns of Serious Bug in Some Implementations

2

9

Google and Oracle Case Reduced

2

10

Puppet Labs Releases Faces, Relicenses Puppet Under Apache 2.0

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records

106

2

Doctors use copyright assignment in patient contract to stifle bad reviews

79

3

Apple's Upcoming 'Reading List' to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater

28

4

Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store

20

5

TrueCrypt 7.0a's Performance, Analyzed

14

6

82% of US tablet market owned by Apple's iPad, The Daily loses $10M

6

7

A Syrian Man-In-The-Middle Attack against Facebook

6

8

Apple Mac OS X, iOS makes 3.5x profit over Microsoft Windows

4

9

Lawsuit accuses Apple, others of 'conspiring' to keep employee wages low

3

10

Rumor: Apple plans to move laptops from Intel to ARM processors

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Announces New iMac With Quad-Core Processors & Thunderbolt I/O

57

2

New Quad Core iMacs

8

3

Pilots are playing WoW during long flights

1

4

MyHabit: Amazon's new Fashion Website

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As A Personal Favor To Movie Official

193

2

Leaked ACTA Lobby Letter Reveals Hollywood Pressure On EU

69

3

Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull Domain Seizure Add-On [Mozilla denied]

9

4

Why The Copyright Industry Isnt a Legitimate Stakeholder in Copyright

7

5

More Bandwidth Doesn't Matter (Much)

6

6

So You've Changed Your Mind

5

7

Piracy Politics Fuel Internet Censorship

5

8

Google Wins Anti-Piracy Filtering Lawsuit, Filters Anyway

5

9

IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says

2

10

Managing Yourself:Extreme Productivity,

2

Science News [?]

1

New order of animals discovered?

141

2

Wall Street Journal Leak site expects you to own the copyright

43

3

Journal rejects studies contradicting precognition

23

4

Trust Me, I'm a Scientist

22

5

Omega-3s in the blood may boost risk of aggressive prostate cancer

13

6

Paper Computer Shows Flexible Future

7

7

Robot can catch a ball with ease

6

8

One Per Cent: How will the feds crack bin Laden's hard drives?

5

9

Data leak in service that stores your passwords

4

10

Covert hard drive fragmentation embeds a spy's secrets

3

Social [?]

1

Ryan Dahl (Creator of Node.js) is doing an IAMA on Reddit

165

2

John Resig, creator of jQuery, AMA.

154

3

Jerome Svigals doing an AMA on Reddit right now

25

4

The guy who accidentally livetweeted the Osama raid

20

5

Need a last minute ticket to NodeConf?

10

6

Linode Fremont, CA servers down

10

7

Jason Calacanis on What He Would Do Differently Next Time

9

8

"I have Dissociative Identity Disorder. AMA"

9

9

Why the other line is likely to move faster

7

10

If All Speeches Were Like This, I'd Pay More Attention To Politics

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

185

2

Electronic Arts is using Erlang

60

3

Poetics: The first native implementation of CoffeeScript on the Rubinius VM

57

4

CoffeeScript Compiler for Windows

28

5

21

6

Yet another AWK competitor - C++

19

7

PHP API Framework

18

8

Zero-config reverse proxies: HTTP SPDY 0MQ

17

9

Quick and simple PHP Twitter login for your site, ideal for your weekend project

14

10

Ordered atomic broadcast capabilities to Riak

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

Osama bin Laden's hideout compound

20

2

Three men make a tiger

9

3

Key signing party

7

4

Osama bin Laden dead.

7

5

Assassination Politics (by Jim Bell) + Bitcoin = ?

5

6

Asperger Syndrome

2

7

Unusual software bugs

2

8

Dunning–Kruger effect

2

9

Doomsday argument

2

10

Gdel's Completeness Theorem

1

Blogs [?]

1

The python paradox

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Source code listing something like the pragmatic programmer books with LaTeX

10

2

Using Classes in C++

6

3

Choose the order of your parameters to make the best use of currying

4

4

SO: Can a type system distinguish between different units of dimension?

2

5

What are some architectural reasons to use node.js aside from scalability?

2

6

How to rotate my paws?

2

7

Obtaining GPS data and filtering it for improvements.

1

Substack [?]