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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My winter break project — Silk

687

2

Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks

620

3

Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome

579

4

Steve's story - Google employee #13

440

5

For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

415

6

MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners

383

7

Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.

306

8

Learning Advanced JavaScript

302

9

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

300

10

There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work

273

Top Ask HN

1

Tell me about your failed startup.

117

2

Please give us feedback on our (anti-social) tool thinkery.me

49

3

What software do you use for your startup?

49

4

What are your favorite books of 2010?

40

5

Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper?

36

6

Can I use Linkedin profile instead of resume for my job applications?

26

7

Any Polish developers or entrepreneurs on HN?

22

8

Review my side project

22

9

How to change the world with no profit model

21

10

What's the geekiest joke you know?

21

Top Show HN

1

cubeduel (our side project)

95

2

3DTin - 3D modelling in browser

62

3

My first start up (30 days in)

29

4

Math.ly (MVP) Do you think there's a market for something like this?

28

5

7courses, the recipe manager.

23

6

Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

22

7

My Weekend Project - Multiplayer TicTacToe

20

8

Just launched our side project Precorder, new way to record iPhone vids

18

9

My weekend project: A classifier that classifies text as stupid/clever.

14

10

My silly twist on the Facebook Like button

8

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans

239

2

Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

202

3

Bitterness, Anger And Betrayal At MySpace

132

4

Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter

127

5

So Who Really Owns Facebook? (Chart)

125

6

The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist

114

7

Verizon iPhone 4

107

8

Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness

91

9

Google already knows its search sucks (and is working to fix it)

88

10

Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud

75

News [?]

1

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

167

2

Why our best officers are leaving

82

3

What Went Wrong at Borders

69

4

Mother, Superior?

67

5

Twitter Beta-Tests a Spine

63

6

Clarium Loses 90% From Peak After Thiel Hedge Fund Has Third Losing Year

53

7

Did Bankers Rob the Middle Class?

51

8

AMD CEO resigns unexpectedly

50

9

Should employees buy their own computer?

44

10

Chernobyl: Environmental dead zone or eco-haven?

36

Scientific publications [?]

1

Thunderstorms create antimatter

122

2

Scientific Evaluation of Charles Dickens [pdf]

3

3

Robotic exoskeleton demoed at CES

2

4

4 Million Vodafone Customers' Personal Details May Have Been Exposed

2

5

Earth Thunderstorms Hurl Antimatter Into Space | AAS, 2011

2

6

Top 20 Robot Videos of 2010

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Security Threat of Forged Law-Enforcement Credentials

97

2

Guy Steele: "How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not"

73

3

Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala

47

4

IOS 4.3 Beta is now available to developers

9

5

Steve Vinoski on CORBA after discovering Erlang

6

6

LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

6

7

Attacking High Frequency Trading networks

5

8

Chris Houser Discusses Clojure

4

9

Broadcom joins the Linux Foundation

4

10

Stealing SIM Cards from Traffic Lights

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site

90

2

Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone

85

3

New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3

68

4

Apple to cut down on 'free'apps that rely on external subscriptions?

7

5

EFF calls on Google, Yahoo and Facebook to protect Tunisian activists

7

6

IDC: Apple hits 8.7% share as fastest growing PC maker in US 4Q sales

4

7

VLC for iOS removed from the App Store

3

8

Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86

3

9

iOS GameCenter hacked

2

10

FCC Launches Open Internet Apps Challenge

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

iTunes 10 Billion App Download Countdown

8

2

Apple’s unsolicited idea submission policy

7

3

Steve Ballmer on Bob Muglia leaving Microsoft

5

4

Paul Graham's Amazon Profile - Reviews and Wishlist

2

5

Bypass new Mac App store using old URLs for open source: Emacs, etc.

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Chrome Release Cycle

149

2

Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

45

3

How to Fix Capitalism

10

4

Managing Yourself: Stop Holding Yourself Back

6

5

Simpson's Paradox

4

6

Tunisian Govt. Hacks Gmail and Facebook Accounts of Freedom of Speech Activists

2

7

Details on Chrome's super-quick release cycle

2

8

Record Labels To Pay $45 Million for Pirating Artists’ Music

2

9

Branches of Rationality

2

10

Techniques for probability estimates

1

Science News [?]

1

Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Regeneration Through a Single Gene Deletion

117

2

The antidepressant reboxetine: A headdesk moment in science

99

3

Secret businesses aimed to exploit vaccine fears, British Medical Journal finds

63

4

Prion disease can spread through air

27

5

Being Poor Can Suppress Children's mental abilities, study finds

22

6

Comic Sans helps you learning?

12

7

Regional Dialects Are Alive and Well on Twitter

12

8

Laser to disorient pirates

10

9

Cosmology standard candle not so standard after all

7

10

New Subatomic Particle Could Help Explain the Mystery of Dark Matter

5

Social [?]

1

World IPv6 Day: Solving the IP Address Chicken-and-Egg Challenge

24

2

Facebook: tools are top priority

14

3

Minecraft just passed one million copies sold

10

4

Suster on how to approach, pitch and powerpoint a VC

8

5

How a Linux programmer puts a child to sleep

8

6

I saw a book entitled "Die GNU Autotools" - it was in German

8

7

"So this SEO expert walks into a bar.."

7

8

How Not to Do Startup Valuation Projections

6

9

Minecraft crosses 1,000,000 units sold mark

5

10

Jake Appelbaum is detained by CBP again; this time with no electronics.

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"

94

2

Mining-the-Social-Web (Python)

79

3

GameBoy Color Emulator in JavaScript

32

4

mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services

30

5

WhiteProxy: only allow yourself the Internet that's relevant

26

6

Clojurejs - A naive Clojure to javascript translator

23

7

3D GitHub Badge with Pure HTML/CSS - GitHub

21

8

Scopeleaks.js: detect variables leaking into the global scope

17

9

Minimongo: A micro-ORM for MongoDB & Python

11

10

The commit that makes MongoDB faster (humor)

10

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Man Who Was Hit By A Proton Beam

60

2

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp

47

3

8-Circuit Model of Consciousness

12

4

On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia will turn 10

6

5

Hofstadter's law

3

6

Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths'. A Hypertext Novel?

2

7

2

8

Hydridic Earth theory

2

9

Wikipedia security policies

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Python Paradox

160

2

Microsoft is Dead

97

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Which one will execute faster, if(flag==0) or if(0==flag)?

50

2

Monad in plain English?

4

3

When to use Vanilla Javascript vs. jQuery?

3

4

Maximum number of characters using keystrokes A, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

2

5

How is Megastore different from BigTable?

2

6

How can you use Python in Vim?

2

7

Building a category/tag feature for 7bks.com using the Amazon BrowseNodes API

1

8

Better software if we treated our creations as our children?

1

Substack [?]