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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1112

2

Advice From An Old Programmer

639

3

Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon

559

4

Myths About Introverts

424

5

JavaScript mp3 decoder allows Firefox to play mp3 without flash

402

6

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

383

7

376

8

AOL Exposed: A Former AOL Employee Speaks Out

369

9

It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.

361

10

How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL

356

Top Ask HN

1

Advice for a young, self-taught programmer

135

2

How much time did you invest in your startup until ramen profitable?

76

3

How do I start with Machine Learning?

50

4

Best Practices on creating video for a startup?

22

5

Best day/time to post question to HN?

22

6

Any material on algorithms for a stock exchange simulation game?

22

7

Please review my startup, www.cloudorado.com

22

8

Possible to recover from being a frustrated mediocrity for 30+ years?

21

9

What programming language was ______ written in?

20

10

Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.)

19

Top Show HN

1

roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

228

2

My weekend project on the Mac App Store

34

3

My summer project - simulated CPU built from NAND gates

17

4

Weekend project - a WebGL Orrery

17

5

My open-source liquid handler ( biohacking )

16

6

BugSense is a free bug tracking tool for mobile apps. Would you use it?

11

7

I built a service to find cool people on Github

9

8

Instant object recognition

7

9

Review my site: Moviemail, get emailed the day a movie is released

6

10

Facebook video chat, web based and iPad app.

3

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

383

2

Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive

282

3

Facebook PR: Tonight We Dine In Hell

260

4

1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.

217

5

Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham

181

6

Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. Im With You.

154

7

(debunked) PayPal vulnerability allows access to any account within 30 seconds

140

8

Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

130

9

Hacking the system: how to land meetings with anyone you want

122

10

Exposed: Facebooks Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing)

96

News [?]

1

What to Say To Someone Who is Sick

232

2

DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels

206

3

125

4

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

82

5

Which tech giants will still be around after 100 years?

73

6

The Economist Debates: Are we in a new tech bubble?

68

7

China's 'Wealth Drain': New Signs That Rich Chinese Are Set on Emigrating

62

8

China: Vote as I say

62

9

Greenspan Says Greece Default Almost Certain, May Trigger U.S. Recession

49

10

Self-quantifiers: Silicon Valley types who treat their bodies like computers

46

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Black Swan and the Bell Curve

30

2

The Freedom Box Alternative to Facebook

20

3

First Graphene Integrated Circuit

6

4

Kilobots Are Cheap Enough to Swarm in the Thousands

3

5

Libyan Rebels Making Armed Robots From Power Wheels Toys

2

6

Next Generation Mars Rover 'Curiosity'

2

7

American and German Robots Hook Up, Make Bavarian Sausage Breakfast Together

1

8

Japanese Ministry of Self-Defense Spends $1000 on Flying Robot Soccer Ball

1

9

A Living Laser - Researchers construct a laser with fluroescing kidney cells

1

10

U.S. Senator Calls Robot Projects Wasteful. Robots Call Senator Wasteful

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Microsofts Silence is Infuriating .NET Developers

42

2

CDNJS, the peer-reviewed JavaScript CDN, finds a long term home with CloudFlare

6

3

PathScale Open-Sources The EKOPath 4 Compiler Suite

4

4

Fingerprint scans from 6 feet away

3

5

Yet Another Way to Evade TSA's Full-Body Scanners

3

6

The guts of Android

2

7

Apache votes to accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2

8

Obama Cybersecurity Chief: Other Nations Key To Securing Cyberspace

2

9

Tim Bray on the Web vs Native Debate

2

10

On Building Evolvable Systems

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode

94

2

50% of iPhones Brought to Genius Bar Have Never Been Synced

74

3

EFF on the Lodsys patent claims

28

4

How Canonical automates Linux package compilation

6

5

High-schooler builds 8-bit/64k homebrew computer using only TTL chips

4

6

27-Inch iMac Core i7 With SSD Is Fastest Mac Ever

4

7

3

8

Apple and Nokia settle all patent disputes, Apple to pay on-going royalties

3

9

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Reviewed In Depth

3

10

Intel SSD 710 and 720 Series Specifications Revealed

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Peter Norvig's review of SICP on Amazon

19

2

Microsoft old school page

2

3

Turbocharge Windows development with more than 170 free and open source tools

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Freedom in the Fifty States - An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom

29

2

Contracting out an API - comments on the spec, or even a bid?

14

3

How students in Indian colleges are taught programming

10

4

Google Censorship Initiative Thwarted by Gee No Evil Add-On

4

5

Streaming Site Admin Fights Extradition To U.S. Piracy Charges

3

6

"What I need is a User's Magazine." [1983]

2

7

Managing Yourself: The Paradox of Excellence

1

8

Bitstorm: The Worlds Most Simple BitTorrent Tracker

1

Science News [?]

1

New ice age? Don't count on it

125

2

A pulse no longer necessary for life

68

3

Human cell becomes living laser with jellyfish protein.

43

4

Men Have a Biological Clock Too

24

5

Sleep on It Is Sound, Science-Based Advice, Study Suggests

6

6

Millions in Africa saved from meningitis by 50 cent vaccine

4

7

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Approaches Protoplanet Vesta

3

8

3

9

We're All Mutants: The Average Human Has 60 New Genetic Mutations

3

10

Nighttime Lights Clarify Economic Activity

2

Social [?]

1

Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives

272

2

Jedberg leaves reddit

207

3

Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves

103

4

We're five members of the Google Docs team - ask us anything

83

5

Andrew Ng: Machine Learning in Robotics

62

6

Hardly Working: Start-up Guys

43

7

LulzSec takes down cia.gov

14

8

Why you always initialize on declaration

12

9

What is Open? A simple description of APIs -- Great Video

11

10

Hardly Working: Start-up Guys

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

1112

2

PDF Reader in JavaScript

218

3

Language.js - A fast PEG parser written in JavaScript

100

4

Scala moving to Github

97

5

Collection of classic computer science algorithms written in JavaScript

95

6

Localtunnel: Quickly expose your local web server to the Internet

91

7

What if cucumber and jQuery had a baby?

52

8

Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server

47

9

Domaincli: purchase domains directly from your terminal

16

10

My first Flask extension: Flask-Bcrypt

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

Keynesian beauty contest

80

2

Quine (computing)

10

3

Greater Fool Theory

5

4

St. Petersburg paradox: Infinite expected value, but a mediocre buy anyways

4

5

Most decorated war dog of World War I

4

6

2

7

All of Sony's Formats

2

8

The Concorde grew 1 ft longer when supersonic, due to heat from air compression

2

9

Children with this virus average 50 lbs heavier than those with no signs of it

2

10

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What does the C++0x standardized memory model mean?

135

2

Why is my Scala code running slow?

26

3

When is the right time to introduce high availability for web site?

17

4

Use HTML5 History API to remove GA/Urchin tracking URLs after they're used.

4

5

What distribution do you get from this broken random shuffle?

2

6

In Vim, why can't I remap keys to w?

2

7

Why does the server in a websocket request have to answer a challenge?

2

Substack [?]