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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google made my son cry

575

2

Nobody Understands REST or HTTP

518

3

User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer

501

4

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

472

5

XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public

459

6

What every programmer should know about time

440

7

Warren Buffett: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes.

430

8

Learn C The Hard Way

416

9

Why I read Hacker News even though I understand very little of it

369

10

Very clever story telling using HTML and Javascript...

336

Top Ask HN

1

I need a friend but I'm having trouble

45

2

How do sites such as Flipboard scale out their social data aggregators?

26

3

Would you pay $1K to have your web app prototyped?

20

4

Is there a search engine which understands regular expressions?

19

5

If you could change one thing on the Web, what would it be?

19

6

Braintree (payments gateway) alternative for startups outside the US?

19

7

Once you have the skills, how do you start getting freelance jobs?

17

8

Review My Startup - KickoffLabs.com

16

9

Who is Looking for a Co-Founder? (July 2011)

16

10

Is JavaScript Java.next()?

15

Top Show HN

1

83

2

My first web app

63

3

iOS Theme for jQuery Mobile

49

4

Our HTML5 Game Engine, with live demo

42

5

Weekend project - VS2010 CoffeeScript syntax highlighting

38

6

I made this: ShoutFast

30

7

Denso - An Instapaper for Video

28

8

Show HN:Non-Anonymous Chat

28

9

Use your mac as an alarm clock without any special alarm clock apps

26

10

College2Startup delivers startup jobs to your inbox

25

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends

190

2

Quartzy (YC S11) Brings Order To Science Lab Supply Cabinets

134

3

ZeroCater (YC W11): Lunch At The Office Doesnt Have To Be A Complete Pain

130

4

Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

100

5

Google is quietly testing Google+ for Domains

92

6

Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan

82

7

YouTube Unveils Slick Experimental Redesign, Codenamed Cosmic Panda

80

8

Why Mark Zuckerbergs First Public Response To Google+ Is The Right One

65

9

Facebook Engineer Builds Google+ Inspired Facebook Hack

62

10

Facebook Video Chat v. Google Hangouts: Its No Contest

58

News [?]

1

Internet predictions from 1982

197

2

Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel patents (and lost)

189

3

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

173

4

All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)

153

5

Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.

120

6

Dump your fluorescents and incandescents for this amazing new LED bulb

94

7

Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley

80

8

Portugal drug law shows results ten years on, experts say

76

9

Why Facebook can't match Ravelry, the social network for knitters.

65

10

Youth unemployment: The outsiders

65

Scientific publications [?]

1

Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

167

2

What We Lose With the End of the Shuttle Program

70

3

A Low Carbohydrate Diet Slows Tumor Growth and Prevents Cancer

15

4

Biclustering for Web Usage Mining

5

5

You've Never Seen a Robot Drive System Like This Before

5

6

Robot Soccer Players Learning Fancy Human Skills

2

7

Robot Vacuum Sucks Up Radiation at Fukushima Plant

2

8

Breaking GSM with Rainbow Tables

2

9

The History of NASA's Space Shuttle [video]

1

10

Two Faces of Hacking: 2-axis (Impact/Innovation) Classification of Hacking Cases

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation

226

2

Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID

65

3

Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines [pdf]

64

4

Rhino is About to Get a Lot Faster

21

5

CouchDB and Erlang: Mobile and Flexible

6

6

Email spam volumes down almost 90% y-o-y?

3

7

Yet More Trouble with REST APIs?

3

8

Twitter Town Hall Meeting with President Obama

2

9

Eclipse Jubula: Automated Functional Testing Tool

2

10

Fun Writing Compilers

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story

16

2

Playing chess on a microcontroller

4

3

Apple Cuts iAd Fees

4

4

AnandTech review of Promise Pegasus R6 & Mac Thunderbolt

4

5

It's Back: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Returns from the Grave

2

6

Apple Preparing 'Thinner and Lighter' iPhone for Third Quarter Launch

2

7

Apple snags 50% of handset industry profits ahead of first 100M iPhone year

2

8

Spotify Accepting Signups for US Launch

2

9

Facebook, Skype team up for video calling to compete with Apple's FaceTime

2

10

Inside look at Nortel auction reveals battle of wills between Apple, Google

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon announces unlimited MP3 storage with any Cloud Drive plan

61

2

Password Checker: Using Strong Passwords

3

3

Import/Export for Amazon EBS

2

4

Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock botnet Takedown

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind

99

2

BitTorrent Turns 10: Happy Birthday

98

3

New clickjacking attacks expose your Gmail messages & Facebook/Twitter identity

43

4

"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics"

20

5

David Grant aka Starchys Unusually Exciting Resum

11

6

Researchers Improve BitTorrent Download Speeds

4

7

Music Rights Groups Raided By Police, Bosses Arrested For Fraud

3

8

Italian TelCo to Give Itself Power to Block Websites Without Any Legal Process

2

9

Want Google+ for your Business? Sign-Up Here

2

10

Harder Better Faster Stronger on Cello

1

Science News [?]

1

Why scientific programming does not compute

190

2

Interview with key LulzSec hacker

104

3

MIT lab develops glasses that can read another person's emotional state

68

4

Kaggle contest aims to boost Wikipedia editors

21

5

Protecting protestors with photos that never existed

3

6

Business and Regulation Models Can Bring Medicines to World's Poor

2

7

Second to Fourth Digit Ratio: A Predictor of Adult Penile Length

1

8

The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience

1

9

Soviet Space shuttle was safer than NASA

1

10

One Day to Go to Final Shuttle Launch: Friday, June 8th 11:26AM

1

Social [?]

1

Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)

226

2

"The Darknet Plan" Subreddit dedicated to creating a decentralized VPN

84

3

Construder - A Minecraft-inspired OpenGL game in Perl

67

4

Augmented Reality 3d Video on iPad with Kinect

58

5

Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future

45

6

Facebook+Skype Video Calling

39

7

Facebook Live Product Announcement

31

8

Start your own circle (best ad so far for Google+?)

24

9

Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store (Movie

19

10

YouTube Cosmic Panda redesign experiment

13

Github repos and gists [?]

1

TinyVM: A lightweight, fast virtual machine in < 500 lines of ANSI C

112

2

Bitcoin Android Released

80

3

Contract based programming (Python)

49

4

Slugr.js: Bundle Node.js apps into a single executable file

45

5

Backbone.js and Django

45

6

Why Haskell is suited to IO

32

7

CoffeeScript / Node.js - ticksort

26

8

Termite: A generic distributed compilation system in Go

20

9

CoffeeScript to Lua in the making

6

10

A better time-based UUID format (inspired by Snowflake)

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

3

2

The Art of Being Right (Schopenhauer, 1831)

3

3

3

4

Critical theory

3

5

Literate Programming

2

6

Wikipedia page containing the new rating system

2

7

Quine - A program which produces a copy of its own source code

1

8

Counting on Your Fingers - in Binary

1

Blogs [?]

1

Two Kinds of Judgement

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML

235

2

What makes OMeta special?

4

3

Clean readable code vs fast hard to read code. When is it OK to cross the line?

4

4

Git makes the filesystem its Bitch

3

5

Efficient Linux sockets (DMA/zero-copy)

2

6

Magic? delete and delete [] the same in Visual C++?

2

7

Maximum size of a method in Java?

1

8

High level code highlights intent, hides implementation

1

9

Is a debugger the mother of all evil?

1

10

IE(8) and JavaScript variable hoisting

1

Substack [?]