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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

658

2

I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday

657

3

Kind of Screwed

601

4

The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid

572

5

DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble

543

6

TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court

483

7

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

470

8

Why I've built an alternative to Github

463

9

How to Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design

449

10

Team Fortress 2 now free forever

421

Top Ask HN

1

How do Tumblr & Posterous make money?

56

2

Beta users flocking over to competitor

44

3

Does Your Startup Improve Lives?

44

4

Any alternative to JavaScript in sight?

41

5

Is their any large scale, real life Node.js app?

36

6

Your opinion on Kickstarter as a source of initial funding?

30

7

Found security flaw in site, what should I do?

24

8

What natural languages do you learn?

21

9

Why are there arrows beside usernames in comments?

19

10

how to spend your (early) 20s?

18

Top Show HN

1

HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

352

2

I wrote a co-founder equity calculator over the weekend

133

3

HN GeoIP Search: Find who and what on HN is near you

23

4

TestingAndroid.com: Test Your Android App Across Several Devices

18

5

I created a feature I wanted in Google Maps

18

6

Find the right Radio Stations to play your Ads (prototype)

18

7

Backbone JS Key-Value Observing

11

8

Awesomes.fm keeps track of songs you "awesome" on Turntable.fm

7

9

soundsofmychildhood.com lets you share your childhood sounds

5

10

A little tool to generate CSS for bits of a spritesheet

5

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census

190

2

BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck

150

3

Editorial: Dear Nokia, you cannot be serious

117

4

PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+

103

5

MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $417K From Lerer And SV Angel

81

6

Lawmaker wants 4G carriers to disclose throttling and speed

80

7

Dropbox passwords optional for four hours

79

8

Admin of irc.lulzsec.org Arrested in UK

74

9

Mark Suster: Raise Money Now So When The Partys Over Youre Sitting Pretty

72

10

Earbits (YC W11) Snags $605K From Charles River Ventures And Others

66

News [?]

1

Why is there only one human species?

161

2

Skype Fires Executives, Avoiding Payouts

136

3

The Brain on Trial

114

4

Life lessons from the very wealthy

107

5

Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work here, too.

106

6

Comparing Indian states with countries

105

7

House approves major overhaul of patent system

89

8

Hammocks Make Sleep Easier, Deeper

88

9

US nuke regulators weaken safety rules to keep old reactors running

74

10

The Bitcoin Crash

63

Scientific publications [?]

1

Perfect eavesdropping on a quantum cryptography system

40

2

Developing Machine Learning for Markets

5

3

Twitter mood predicts the stock market [pdf]

3

4

Obama Commanding Robot Revolution, Announces Major Robotics Initiative

3

5

What's Really New About Chromebooks?

2

6

The Moon and the Magnetotail

2

7

"Java's Forgotten Forebear"

2

8

NASA - Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication

2

9

These termite robots will eat, I mean, build your next house

1

10

Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple posts WWDC2011 session videos

93

2

The lsm command for Latent Semantic Mapping

73

3

Special collection of freeware tools for system administration

44

4

High Performance Web Apps with Snap and Haskell

23

5

Protecting Private Information on Smart Phones

21

6

Researchers Graph Social Networks to spot Spammers

19

7

Agile's Teenage Crisis?

3

8

Busy Java Developers Guide to Flex

3

9

Scareware Takedown By FBI, International Authorities Results in Two Arrests

2

10

WWDC 2011 - Videos online

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF and Bitcoin

142

2

Switzerland Network Testing Tool

23

3

EFF Asks Supreme Court to Protect "First Sale" Rights

6

4

New York Post website blocks iPad Safari users to force app.

4

5

Jail time for computer access violating company policy? EFF says bad decision

4

6

Analyst: Android US smartphone share drop to continue

3

7

Apple rumored to be working on iOS-powered HDTVs for late 2011

3

8

Apple's 'directional audio' concept is like multitouch for the ears

3

9

Troll Fail: Righthaven Smacked Down Again (EFF on how RH is in trouble)

2

10

Harden Up: Can We Break Your Password With Our GPUs?

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Final Cut Pro X

9

2

99 cents eBook on survival techniques for "slow start" entrepreneurs

7

3

Google I/O 11 Attendees Receive Samsung 3G Chromebook Emails

4

4

The New Web Designer's essential library

3

5

HP's TouchPad available for pre-order on Amazon

3

6

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

3

7

MobileMe transition and iCloud

3

8

Apple releases Final Cut Pro X

2

9

Summary of the Amazon SimpleDB Service Disruption

1

10

Vintage startup book: The Four Steps to the Epiphany [amzn]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.

98

2

UTorrent / BitTorrent Sued For Patent Infringement

73

3

Google Help Rap

3

4

2

5

File-Hoster Returns With Guns Blazing After Police Raids

2

6

Site Admin To Pay $185,000 Damages For Providing Keywords

2

7

Before You Make That Big Decision...

1

8

Open Wi-Fi Is Not a Crime, BitTorrent Case Judge Hears

1

9

YouTube Embed Royalty Results In Public Outrage

1

10

Your Name Here (1960)

1

Science News [?]

1

A field guide to bullshit

80

2

The Beer Archaeologist

35

3

City living affects neural social stress processing in humans

22

4

Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity

9

5

Excessive Internet use affects physical structure of teenage brains

7

6

Bipolar kids: Victims of the 'madness industry'?

4

7

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Natural Selection and Evolution

3

8

New Study Finds HIV Achilles Heel

2

9

Dazzling Photographs of Earth From Above

2

10

Using evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, NY

2

Social [?]

1

Amen: the world's most famous sample and the rise of the musical copyright

233

2

Bank of Canada: The New $100 Note

129

3

Reddit's possible solution to famous Zodiac cipher

112

4

Theoretical limit to how hard it can rain

102

5

Starcraft in a bar? TwitchTV promoting social Starcraft in San Francisco

79

6

Tribe meets white man for the first time

44

7

XFS, ext and per-inode mutexes

43

8

Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman on 20 years of Linux

40

9

Reddit SysAdmin is ready for your questions.

40

10

BitCoin FlashCrash

34

Github repos and gists [?]

1

658

2

SocketStream: a real-time web framework for Node.js

127

3

Sony officially 50% of all GitHub's DMCA notices

71

4

Boilerplate Boilerplate

27

5

Paperjs: scriptographer ported to javascript

27

6

Bagel: Large-scale graph processing on Spark

23

7

Ozma Released: Scala + Mozart/Oz

22

8

Charles Petzold's Programming Windows code samples translated to the D language

12

9

GitHub API v3: 190 methods

8

10

Weekend Project: MasterSpore a Simple Cluster Control/Deploy tool for EC2

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

Happy Birthday, Alan Turing

76

2

HN as a credible source in Wikipedia?

12

3

Hundredth Monkey Effect

8

4

The Mirror Test

6

5

Opera celebrating today: Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine

4

6

Origin of the Referer header misspelling

2

7

List of common misconceptions

2

8

1

9

Synsepalum dulcificum - berries that cause sour foods consumed to taste sweet.

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

Save Bistro Elan

77

2

PG Essay from 2004: What the bubble got right.

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...

415

2

Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?

152

3

Good Haskell source to read and learn from

116

4

A Node.js hacker asks what Haskell can do to stay relevant.

90

5

How do JavaScript closures work?

80

6

WebSockets is available for almost every browser in the wild

4

7

Rails 3.1: Asset pipeline nightmare with Sass

3

8

Rosetta Stone: Lambda expressions

2

9

Why can't I set a cookie and redirect?

2

10

What should every JavaScript programmer know?

1

Substack [?]