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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
454
2
Top Programming Fonts
436
3
Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
407
4
HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
398
5
Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek And What We Did About It
388
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Was LinkedIn Scammed?
386
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The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
341
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Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly
320
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Its OK to make an extra $2k per month if youre a programmer. Heres how.
319
10
Chrome has transcended version numbers
314
Top Ask HN
1
Who is riding his weekend project straight to profitability?
58
2
Whatever happened to the no-politics rule?
51
3
What startups have you bought things from?
32
4
$7000 per month freelancing
25
5
What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?
23
6
Designers, please open up the library of stuff you've collected
23
7
What happens to old developers?
23
8
Review my startup: http://sparkwall.me
18
9
My first startup offer
18
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I had more friends before Facebook. Anyone agree?
17
Top Show HN
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I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)
68
2
Watchlater it's Instapaper for Videos
52
3
dmangame - a python AI game
47
4
Shoplove - A women's high street store aggregator
20
5
Hacker News Reader for the iPad
16
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My game, "Venture Crapital"
14
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JoystiCC Turns Friends into Game Pieces
13
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Less Work, More Golf
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Business/Idea guy who built something to learn how to do it
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Briquette, a Mac OS X client for 37signal's Campfire app
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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
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Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act
192
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Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's den," rips into lions
187
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Y Combinators Paul Graham: Were Looking For People Like Us
185
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Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us"
184
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Squares Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers
180
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London Is Gonna Be Pissed, But We Prefer Berlin for Startups
143
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What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters
120
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Inmates forced to farm gold online in Chinese prisons
116
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Uber CEO: I Think Ive Got 20,000 Years Of Jail Time In Front Of Me
112
News [?]
1
Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
407
2
Was LinkedIn Scammed?
386
3
1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen
264
4
Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
244
5
Woman earns college degree two decades after complete memory loss
128
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Laser puts record data rate through fibre: 26 terabits per second
105
7
When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed
95
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Our superficial scholars
75
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Twitpic makes deal with news agency to sell users' uploaded photos
75
10
NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover
73
Scientific publications [?]
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Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth
158
2
Gecko-Inspired Window Washing Robot is Powered Entirely by Water
21
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NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016
13
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Female teachers math anxiety affects girls math achievement
5
5
Using the bernoulli effect to walk on walls
5
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Memristors... Made of Blood?
4
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NASA to announce new planetary science mission (Mars, Titan, or a comet?)
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Nix NASA Completely, Apollo Astronaut Says
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Female teachers math anxiety affects girls math achievement
2
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NASA announces OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sampling mission, launch date 2016
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linus Talks Of Linux 2.8 Or Linux 3.0; Ending Linux 2.6
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Twitter announces Tweetdeck acquisition
6
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Russ Olsen on "Eloquent Ruby"
5
4
1000 Year old Design Patterns: Talk By Ulf Wiger
4
5
New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret
3
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Libcloud becomes Top-Level-Project
3
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Inside a Malicious PDF Attack
2
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Three Questions for Billy Brumley on the OpenSSL Timing Attack
2
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Featherstitch: Letting apps express FS consistency requirements
1
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An Introduction to D and Visual D
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Store 2.0
43
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Amazon's New Mac Download Store Takes On Apple's Mac App Store
33
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Samsung ordered to show its new prototypes to Apple
22
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Corporate Mac sales surge 66%
17
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Microsoft retracts Ballmer's Windows 8 in 2012 comments
17
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Apple to add build-to-order Mac options to 'Apple Store' iOS app - rumor
7
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Rumor: Apple testing new MacBook Air powered by same A5 processor as iPad 2
4
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Mac OS X security expert Charlie Miller addresses MAC Defender malware
2
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Apple obtains over 200 Freescale Semiconductor hardware patents
2
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Apple Granted Access to Unreleased Samsung Hardware in Patent Suit
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Orson Scott Card's Amazon Review of Ender's Game
140
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Amazon launches RDS for Oracle
45
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Reviews Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Black Swan author)
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"Let's price Lady Gaga's new album at $0.99" = "Let's melt Cloud Drive's face"
2
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Amazon RDS with Oracle available now (May 23rd)
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Amazon Route 53 now with ELB, Weighted Round Robin support and SLA
2
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Amazon Launches "Mac Downloads" Store
2
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Steve Jobs to deliver WWDC 2011 Keynote
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Amazon Launches 'Mac Downloads' Store
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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U.S. Government Starts New Round of Pirate Domain Seizures
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"Collapse is baked into the economic DNA and is therefore guaranteed to occur."
10
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OneSwarm: The Privacy Aware BitTorrent Client
6
4
ICE Seizes More Domains Today, Admin Says Well Be Back
3
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The Metagame Paradox
3
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Draconian Anti-Piracy Censorship Bill Passes Senate Committee
3
7
Hollywood Beefs Up Injunction Against Pirate Bay Founders
2
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$6k per person to cryopreserve everyone?
2
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Why I Love Gema (the perfect language for text manipulation)
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Epistemic Viciousness: Needed to lead a group, but enough to blind them
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Science News [?]
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Happy Guys Finish Last, Says New Study on Sexual Attractiveness
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New 3D map shows the universe in greatest detail yet
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As time goes by, it gets tougher to 'just remember this'
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Electron Is Surprisingly Spherical, Say Scientists Following 10-Year Study
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New Bacteria Lives on Caffeine
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Sense of smell led to our big brains
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Musicians' Brains Highly Developed
3
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Hands-Off Training: Google's Self-Driving Car
3
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NASA art remembers 50 years of space exploration
2
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First images from Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets
2
Social [?]
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HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
398
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8hrs Hacking A Clojure 3d Game Compressed Into 1min
16
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Huffman Has No Immediate Plans to Sell Hipmunk (Bloomberg interview)
10
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Skype crash again...
8
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Automagic Image Resizing by Seam Carving (video)
7
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A typical day of air traffic Each dot represents an airplane [video]
5
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You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
5
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Clavier Expects Zynga Valuation to Rise With an IPO
4
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Josh Berkus: "Scale Fail" how to be sexy like Twitter and Reddit
4
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The power of wording...
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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Byte-saving techniques in JavaScript
109
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EVE Online submits DMCA takedown to GitHub
66
3
Reptyr - Reparent a running program to a new terminal
58
4
Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript
47
5
Nvidia Optimus support for Linux
31
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Mongrel2 is now officially on Github
29
7
Introducing STFU: Command line C# projects
24
8
Given a list of regexes, generate all possible strings that matches all of them
17
9
On-line source browser for Rack applications
9
10
Robots.txt Parser for node.js written with Coffee Script
7
Wikipedia [?]
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Yes, you can make it work by doing just a little everyday
14
2
Mealy machine
3
3
Joseph Kittinger's Parachute Jump from 102,800 ft (31,333 m)
2
4
Sociocracy
2
5
Steve jobs is Arab.
2
6
Towel Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2
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Systemantics (how systems work and fail)
2
8
Estimating the energy of an atomic bomb from a movie of the explosion
2
9
Umami, the fifth basic taste
2
10
The Development History of Duke Nukem Forever
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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What things didn't you know you needed but are now very glad you have?
2
2
JQuery Input Range Slider
2
3
Books on RPG IV for a Ruby programmer?
1
4
Using a piano keyboard as a computer keyboard
1
Substack [?]