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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Enough Is Enough

1019

2

This Guy Has My MacBook

732

3

How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company

645

4

Y Combinator Numbers

498

5

Skype protocol reverse engineered, source available

447

6

Loren wants to work at Airbnb

416

7

You don't get shit you don't ask for

382

8

Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code

377

9

Try to digest the Groupon story

365

10

Previewing Windows 8 (Video)

360

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

322

2

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)

89

3

Want to join a startup as a developer, looking for a mentor

46

4

If you think ideas are not worth a dime then post yours here

46

5

Help I think I'm being patent trolled

40

6

What books are you reading

28

7

What kind of spam/SEO gaming is this?

27

8

Did my poor choice in higher education hurt my career permanently?

26

9

How do I short a stock?

19

10

Which web apps you pay for suck?

18

Top Show HN

1

IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant

192

2

I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS.

102

3

Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months

87

4

Interviewing devs made easy

63

5

40

6

Todos: Backbone.js example + Google App Engine (Python)

37

7

36

8

BetterYoo - Recurring Reminders In Your Pants

30

9

Shadow Cities - Location Based MMO for iPhone

29

10

Canvas Glue, get the most out of reading and researching on the web.

23

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men

275

2

Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation

246

3

The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal

201

4

Apple to unveil iCloud Monday, June 6

122

5

A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions

118

6

Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (w/ video)

115

7

Julian Assange scoops top journalism prize

94

8

U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right

81

9

The 'oh sh_t' moment that Nokia decided to abandon MeeGo

78

10

Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace

75

News [?]

1

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

335

2

Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (2000)

221

3

Regulation, not technology is holding back driverless cars

160

4

Your Commute Is Killing You

122

5

Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password

95

6

Parallel programming is the focus of increasing interest

86

7

Germany to be nuclear-free by 2022

80

8

The reverse brain drain

74

9

College is a waste of time

71

10

Debating the Value of College in America

61

Scientific publications [?]

1

Under the Hood at Google and Facebook

7

2

5 Technologies That Will Shape the Web

5

3

Under the Hood at Google and Facebook

4

4

The Making of Diaspora

4

5

Campus Life at Facebook and Google

2

6

Hacker culture is alive and well at Facebook

2

7

Google vs. Facebook: Where would you rather go for lunch?

2

8

The Making of Diaspora

2

9

Facebook Philosophy: Move Fast and Break Things

2

10

Lockheed Martin buys quantum computer for $10 million

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Scale Fail (part 2)

85

2

Object-oriented design patterns in Linux kernel, part 1

48

3

Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate

30

4

Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation

22

5

How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance

18

6

11

7

Twitter introduces the Follow Button

5

8

Gmail Hackers, Believed to be Located in China, Phished Victims for Months

4

9

Rustock Author May Be Former Google Hopeful

4

10

Is Google Wallet Secure? What You Need to Know

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers

100

2

Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks (with technical details)

74

3

EFF Files Petition Opposing Proposed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

66

4

Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing

37

5

The EFF Tor Challenge

6

6

Google, Apple renew partnership for maps, search in iPhone

4

7

iCloud icon revealed.

4

8

4

9

Big Media Tramples On Constitutional Rights to Protect Antiquated Business Model

4

10

Flash - Technology vs Politics (Video: Mossberg interviews Adobe CEO)

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Previewing Windows 8 (Video)

360

2

Hacker's Delight

2

3

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race

2

4

Here comes iCloud

1

5

Windows Azure Pricing Calculator

1

6

Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Action and habit

161

2

UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights

65

3

US P2P lawsuits show signs of 'pirate honeypots'

42

4

It Is Everyone’s Duty To Defy Unjust Laws

20

5

Archive.org - Free Greatful Dead Music

8

6

SceneTorrents: The Untold Story of Raids and Arrests

4

7

UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights

4

8

In the last 10 years, we've learnt a lot. -- Apple

2

9

Google Viewer (docs) available as a stand alone service

2

10

Arrested File-Sharing Admins Face Jail, $700,000 Fines

1

Science News [?]

1

Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery

90

2

How language shapes thought

62

3

Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born, Says New Survey

40

4

The thermodynamics of negative entropy: bounds on heat generated by computers

14

5

The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation (1985)

4

6

An Epidemic of False Claims

2

7

Biomarkers Often Exaggerated in Highly Cited Papers

2

8

When the multiverse and many-worlds collide

1

9

Human cannonball astronaut: My rocket is my clothes

1

10

Study suggests hard to read fonts may increase reading retention

1

Social [?]

1

How Facebook pushes updates to the site

215

2

Behavioral reprogramming (overcoming social anxiety)

108

3

Zed vs Github... to the death

18

4

Building "Windows 8" - A first look at the new "Windows 8" user interface

13

5

Vivek Wadha: "You learn little by writing code."

9

6

Weird Windows 386 promo video

6

7

The Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS

6

8

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)

5

9

Prof. Andrew Ng on the future of AI and Robots

5

10

Sucks to be Canadian...

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub: Block the Bullies

251

2

Safari extension to hide Bitcoin stories on HN

182

3

Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack

86

4

Django on Heroku running with Celery

79

5

How to get shell access with a .htaccess file

75

6

Parallaxing Illustrations with jQuery

63

7

+ 507 additions, - 24,624 deletions

61

8

VimAck: A port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature for MacVim.app

50

9

Javascript to CoffeeScript converter

39

10

Simple Type Inference in 21 Lines of Clojure

36

Wikipedia [?]

1

32

2

Most web servers can only handle 10,000 connections

5

3

This really highlights what is wrong with Wikipedia:

3

4

World ipv6 day is in a week's time

2

5

Sieve of Eratosthenes

2

6

Ipv6 privacy concerns

1

7

HN History: 21 Killed in Molasses Flood

1

8

Critical theory

1

9

Gentzen Calculi

1

10

Fixed point combinator, the origin of the name "Y Combinator"

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to properly use UTF-8 in Perl

55

2

How does Google Analytics measure site speed?

41

3

How to solve an everyday problem with pure functional programming

22

4

Best Stack Overflow Question Ever

20

5

Modern Perl and UTF-8

13

6

Subversion is an architectural dead-end

6

7

Is it "bad" to store XML in a database?

3

8

Understanding randomness

3

9

Indie data structures

2

10

What to do when one of your users 'screws up' your application

1

Substack [?]