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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google

769

2

Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress

658

3

LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things

551

4

Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves

474

5

Google Chrome Hacked?

446

6

441

7

Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion

417

8

The Ballmer Days Are Over

411

9

In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley

399

10

FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue

390

Top Ask HN

1

Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

308

2

Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?

112

3

any of the HNers have kids & work from home?

110

4

Books for soon to be Software Engineers

45

5

Why Would I Write Web Apps In Anything Besides PHP?

32

6

It's 2011. Why is web encryption still coupled with verification?

32

7

french start-up in a difficult situation, looking for feedback/ideas.

32

8

Anyone using Python 3 in production? (2011 Edition)

29

9

Typography—How?

29

10

FB banned our page without any reason

28

Top Show HN

1

New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum

192

2

My new app, Cloak for OSX

41

3

I emailed video game companies about breaking into the industry

27

4

my weekend project Html5Snippets.com

27

5

DeviceReady: Test Your Android App Across 25+ Devices

20

6

Gabriel, a zero-configuration watchdog process

19

7

user generated TL;DRs with a smart scorer

19

8

Fast, free online meetings - use code "hackernews" to play

18

9

Archivist, stream live concerts to your iPhone

11

10

Social Minecraft clone with shooting

11

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google

769

2

Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges

243

3

Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press

167

4

Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email"

165

5

After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commissioner becomes Comcast lobbyist

153

6

Y Combinator Accepts Record 60+ New Startups For Summer 2011

148

7

Gary Vaynerchuk: 99.5 Percent Of Social Media Experts Are Clowns (TCTV)

138

8

Why the new guy can't code

114

9

Unthinking Machines: Artificial intelligence needs a reboot, say experts

94

10

The Tech Press: Screw Them All

94

News [?]

1

The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

250

2

WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize

196

3

An algorithm for the Names at the 9/11 Memorial

153

4

Why Google Does Not Own Skype

147

5

Google lobbies Nevada to allow driverless cars

130

6

The Class that built Apps, and Fortunes

123

7

Samoa to jump forward in time by one day

110

8

How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email

108

9

Depression May Be Foretold in How We Remember

106

10

The New Tech Bubble

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

Fermat's Last Theorem - Is this the marvelous proof?

33

2

A framework for vector-based natural language semantics

32

3

Twitter mood predicts the stock market.

8

4

How China Plans To Send Robots To the Moon

3

5

Fully Programmable 5-ft Personal Robot Unveiled

2

6

Your Security? Not Our Problem, Say Cloud Providers

1

7

Researchers Smash Super-Tough Robot Arm With Baseball Bat

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier: The Dishonest Minority: Security and its Role in Modern Society

170

2

A brief experiment with PyPy

79

3

Jenkins, Hudson and Eclipse

16

4

Zeus crimeware source code leaked

11

5

Evolution of Code Design at Facebook

7

6

Is Your Computer Listed For Rent?

7

7

What's coming in PostgreSQL 9.1

4

8

Zeus Source Code Leaked

2

9

Scale Fail (Josh Berkus on how to build systems that can grow)

2

10

PlayStation Network not to be Restored Before May 31

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

The 'PROTECT IP' Act: COICA Redux

5

2

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

4

3

The Intel Z68 Express Review: A Real Enthusiast Chipset

2

4

Samsung to show off 2560x1600 10-inch tablet display

2

5

Nvidia to Acquire Icera, Adds Software Baseband to its Portfolio

1

6

Previous-gen Apple iPad, iPhone 3GS often outsell new Android devices

1

7

Reader Privacy Bill Passes California Senate

1

8

Apple releases iOS 4.3 WebKit source code after complaints from developers

1

9

Apple looking into senate request for DUI checkpoint app removals

1

10

Music labels expect Apple's 'iCloud' to be gold standard ahead of Google, Amazon

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft to acquire Skype

171

2

First 100% Crowdsourced Book (80 authors)

52

3

Amazon CloudWatch Announces Custom Metrics

3

4

THE book you've being waiting for that can transform your life

3

5

Windows Virtual PC for testing websites in different Internet Explorer versions

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”

236

2

Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay

105

3

U.S. To Introduce Draconian Anti-Piracy Censorship Bill

8

4

Comcast reaches out to assist Pirate Bay

5

5

LimeWire Pays RIAA $105 Million, Artists Get Nothing

3

6

Short 1984 Documentary on Artificial Intelligence

2

7

Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently

2

8

Pirate Bay down for many users [probably technical glitch, not Comcast blocking]

2

9

Movie Streamers Line Up Heavyweight Lawyers To Fight MPAA

1

Science News [?]

1

37

2

Neural Networks Simulate Schizophrenia with Hyperlearning Theory

26

3

Orgasms unlock altered consciousness

9

4

Talk with a dolphin via underwater translation machine

6

5

First evidence that gorillas pass on traditions

6

6

Hackers trick goods out of online shopping sites

5

7

Are scientific reputations boosted artificially?

3

8

Easily distracted people may have too much brain

3

9

Teen Discovers Promising Cystic Fibrosis Treatment

3

10

Human Brains Are Optimally Tuned for the Visual Hunt

2

Social [?]

1

Facebook introduces Two Factor Authentication

18

2

Youtube is so down

13

3

$100k profit/year selling LEGO old sets. Lesson: Penetrate a niche market.

11

4

Google ships Mono with Android 3.1

9

5

Can Bitcoin Be Hacked?

8

6

Facebook launches two-factor authentication

7

7

Eric Brewer joining Google

7

8

IOS app developer threatened with patent lawsuit for in-app purchase

6

9

Google I/O 2011: Learning to Love JavaScript

6

10

Mondonet.org - the next generation (mesh) Internet

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bitcoin iOS app open sourced

123

2

Instapaper like Article Extractor open sourced

103

3

Tagger: a library for extracting relevant tags from text documents

64

4

Campher: Perl embedded in Go

56

5

Haraka - a Node.js mail server

38

6

How to cause utter chaos on Facebook

33

7

An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language

32

8

Accoustic weapon in JavaScript

27

9

Here is a list of all JS Conf 2011 slides

27

10

Brisk = Cassandra + Hive + Hadoop

15

Wikipedia [?]

1

Antifuse, the opposite of a fuse

116

2

Amateur Telescope Making

6

3

Types of software bugs

2

4

Failure of the Morganza Spillway could permanently cut off New Orleans

1

5

Capital gains tax in the United States

1

6

Floating cities on Venus

1

7

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why Nerds are unpopular

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts

153

2

How to thumbnail an image in real-time (line by line)?

14

3

Encoding images into tweets

12

4

Which data structure is this?

9

5

SVN is a dead dinosaur

9

6

Is the blockchain technology used by bitcoin an invention?

8

7

Web scraping etiquette (SO qn)

4

8

How to determine whether a given JavaScript action has been initiated by user

2

9

What Ruby and Rails Developers Ought To Know?

2

Substack [?]