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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

1793

2

TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement

1046

3

Cool, but obscure Unix tools

534

4

You can increase your intelligence

511

5

My daughter was first sued in the womb

469

6

"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

463

7

Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA

389

8

Honestly.com Not acting so honestly

387

9

Stallman's Dystopia

343

10

BankSimple: We have cards

338

Top Ask HN

1

How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

364

2

Where can I find iPhone UI Templates for purchase?

42

3

Want your site/blog to be featured in our new app?

39

4

Is there a "show us your work" for job hunting managers?

30

5

At what point does being a loyal early hire become a poor choice?

29

6

what happened to LastPass?

24

7

I need equity advice.

24

8

Who are working on young open-source projects? (or know such?)

23

9

How to get hired as an inexperienced developer?

21

10

How do I find a software best practices mentor / coach?

20

Top Show HN

1

This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.

98

2

Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness

90

3

JavaScript implementation of Spotify client (Chrome only)

65

4

Chatbox adds missing file comment & collaboration feature to Dropbox

47

5

Requesting feedback on my side-project chatteranalytics.com

45

6

Later Locker: for content that sucks on your mobile phone

23

7

my checkin scheduler

17

8

Summarizing popular HN articles

17

9

Freebie finding site using interesting algorithm

14

10

lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr"

12

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups

228

2

Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America

200

3

Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There

180

4

Fly Like You're Rich With Social Flights (And Private Planes)

179

5

New bill upgrades unauthorized Internet streaming to a felony

145

6

Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too

133

7

Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone

129

8

Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Role Model. Reid Hoffman Is.

120

9

The Chilling Story of Genius in a Land of Chronic Unemployment

113

10

How Piracy Made 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller

101

News [?]

1

The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours

256

2

How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?

225

3

Patriot Act extended four more years, USA in fourteen year state of emergency

145

4

America's License Raj

143

5

Bill Gates says he advocated Skype takeover

73

6

In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers

60

7

Hacking Small Town America

59

8

Positive Black Swans: How to fund research so that it generates great ideas

51

9

What the Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.

48

10

Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous

45

Scientific publications [?]

1

Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language

124

2

"A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics

117

3

Remind HN: STS-134, Space Shuttle Endevour's last launch is at 8:56AM ET

45

4

Why HN should continue hiding vote counts: social influence makes us dumber

4

5

Ideas Wanted for DARPA 100-Year Starship Project

3

6

Awesomely Bad Ideas: Teaching a Robot to Sword Fight

2

7

Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Code of Nao Robot

2

8

Transistor Aging - Measuring the degradation of microprocessors

2

9

Twitter mood predicts the stock market

2

10

The Tempest in the Machine

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Scale Fail (part 1)

176

2

Frickin' Awesome: CloudFlare Automatically Learns How to Stop DDoS Attacks

79

3

Erlang Inventors Talk Language Future

23

4

Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

23

5

Mike Lee: Making Apps That Don’t Suck

8

6

Twitter Misson:Permission

6

7

CloudFlare, the Free CDN, Now Powering 2,000 Page Views Per Second

5

8

Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software

4

9

Functional Programming: A Pragmatic Introduction

3

10

Abstractions at Scale, Our Experiences at Twitter (presentation by marius)

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Defend Its Developers

125

2

EFF on new electronic privacy bill - government will need to get warrants

64

3

Qualcomm bringing augmented reality SDK to iOS - LOOKS AMAZING

3

4

Dear Instapaper:Safaris Reading List feature is going to be a competitor.

2

5

IOS apps with in-app purchasing not being approved by Apple

2

6

Nuance and Apple partnership is all but confirmed: Lion uses Nuance speech

1

7

Transforming robot is more than meets the eye

1

8

Anand's tour of VIA's server farm and hand-soldering of CPUs

1

9

Apple Store 2.0 revealed

1

10

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Review: Take Off Your Ti

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft offering free xBox 360s to students buying new laptops

6

2

Facebook and Microsoft team up against Child Pornography

5

3

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (book)

2

4

Amazon rolls out 'Like' buttons for personalized recommendations

1

5

SAP and BusinessObjects on Amazon EC2

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Want to own a book? Buy a hard copy. Amazon, Apple, B&N eBooks are only licensed

75

2

What is Mathematical Prociency (James Milgram, Stanford University)

8

3

The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Cave (with pic)

6

4

Download, Stream and Share Torrents With Fetch.io

6

5

How hot is your Innovation?

2

6

French Hadopi 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Company Hacked

2

7

French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert

2

8

Google Boss: We’ll Fight Anti-Piracy Blocking Laws

2

9

Pirate Party Servers Raided by German Police, 2 days before state elections

2

10

Effective Scholarship

1

Science News [?]

1

You can increase your intelligence

511

2

Why do people resist the idea that carbs are worse than fat?

140

3

Scientists Achieve Optical Invisibility

63

4

First habitable exoplanet discovered?

59

5

Legalizing Marijuana Will Help the Environment

11

6

Magnetic Monopoles Detected In A Real Magnet For The First Time

11

7

First habitable exoplanet?

5

8

Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers

3

9

The brain is shaped by bacteria in the digestive tract

2

10

Seven technologies to disrupt the next decade

2

Social [?]

1

Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

18

2

Facebook email is live

17

3

VC Mark Suster on where great ideas come from.

11

4

Hmmm: 2009 Bail out = $700B, investment in VC funds in 2009 = $15B

9

5

Google I/O 2011: How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by VCs (Video)

7

6

We all are trapped in "filter bubbles"

7

7

Sydney Morning Herald writer arrested for story

6

8

Facebook's robots.txt

5

9

Chris Sacca's College Commencement Address

5

10

Nuclear boy scout builds a nuclear reactor in a shed

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Unix shell written in Google Go

84

2

A conversation about open source licenses

69

3

Node.js training exercises, in CoffeeScript

56

4

GitHub Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner on Founder.ly

32

5

Stop writing milliseconds and hating JavaScript's setTimeout & setInterval

21

6

A minecraft map viewer implemented in pure Javascript and WebGL

18

7

The dead simple, done right, distributed file system. (Redis-based)

17

8

OpenVoice - A GoogleVoice clone developed in Rails.

9

9

Drib: open source packaging and deployment script

6

10

Nice little Eliza implementation in Haskell [github]

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Art Gallery Problem

39

2

Democracy Distribution of the World

29

3

Befunge, a programming language designed to be hard to compile (and read)

5

4

Unix Millennium Bug, Y2K38, Y2.038K

4

5

Buttered cat paradox

3

6

Due to a programming error, the results of the 2012 DV lottery were rescinded

3

7

Hungarian notation

2

8

Police do not have a responsibility to provide protection to individuals [1981]

2

9

Lenticular printing

1

10

The Sword of Damocles (Virtual Reality)

1

Blogs [?]

1

Great Hackers (2004)

2

2

A Fundraising Survival Guide

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Explanation of Paul Graham's points on "What made Lisp Different" article.

11

2

Best comments in source code

10

3

Sort latitude and longitude coordinates into clockwise ordered quadrilateral

7

4

Probabilistic profiling by stack sampling

4

5

Ant build script: automatic version numbers (major, minor, revision)

1

Substack [?]