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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bored People Quit

834

2

A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

813

3

Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

569

4

Code.Google.com now supports git

440

5

Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on Google Plus

436

6

My experiences as a Recruiter on Hacker News

398

7

Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in

361

8

Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?

354

9

PuTTY 0.61 released

336

10

Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts

330

Top Ask HN

1

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

63

2

What is the first thing you do before starting a new project?

39

3

My iOS app got pirated, what to do now? Raging? Nothing? Partying?

29

4

Successful Outsourcing for MicroISV's

29

5

A helping hand please

20

6

Best Books for Learning Web Design?

18

7

Best product demo videos, which studio, & how much?

17

8

Who's using graph databases and for what?

17

9

Any Christian software engineers here?

15

10

Should startups do PR?

15

Top Show HN

1

My weekend project, Startup Tees

53

2

My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

46

3

O'Reilly using our new contest software to giveaway full JS bookshelf

38

4

Neovella turns writing into a team sport, publishes the best

28

5

ChatVoting - American Idol-like voting for everyone

22

6

Design Patterns for Startups

18

7

A new way to like your videos and songs

17

8

114,444 Google+ profiles indexed and organized. What do you think?

13

9

Making time tracking for freelancers not suck - Paydirt

12

10

gotypecast.com - be interviewed by anyone

10

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself

296

2

How Stuxnet was deciphered

263

3

Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics

199

4

"Very bold or very dumb": data caps don't apply to ISP's own movie service

176

5

Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation

158

6

First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking

140

7

The new Pandora: Slick new HTML5 design

123

8

Wi-FiHacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

114

9

Google Earned Over $9 Billion In Revenue In Q2

113

10

MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $2.1 Million From Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel And More

111

News [?]

1

What Google's Famous Cafeterias Can Teach Us About Health

206

2

Italy and the euro: On the edge

135

3

Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry

119

4

Former GM exec, Bob Lutz: Fire the MBAs and let the engineers run the show

111

5

My social network helped diagnose a rare disease that our doctors missed.

83

6

Antitrust officials probing sale of patents to Googles rivals

69

7

How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class

52

8

Driven off the Road by M.B.A.s

52

9

Study of Alpha Male Baboons Shows Its Stressful at the Top

49

10

Picking the Lock of Google's Search

47

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Hacker Matrix

30

2

Succeed in life? Self-control more important than intelligence

3

3

Do Robots Take People's Jobs?

3

4

First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet In Front of the Sun

2

5

Live video of the shuttle docking with the ISS

2

6

Freaky Robot Mouth Learns to Sing

2

7

Eating more fat makes you want more fat

1

8

Nobel prize pretendent

1

9

Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch for the First Time in a Decade

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Yet Another "People Plug in Strange USB Sticks" Story

108

2

Growing CloudFlare

39

3

Google+ Technological Details

38

4

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

19

5

Innovation at Google

5

6

One Million Registered Twitter Apps

4

7

Twitter for Android Now with Push Notifications and Multiple Accounts

3

8

How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

3

9

How to Buy Friends and Deceive People

2

10

Compile-time Verification, It's Not Just for Type Safety Any More

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5th Amendment

211

2

Did Microsoft steal the Kinect?

6

3

Microsoft shoots down Windows Phone 7 tablet hopes, says tablets are PCs

5

4

Vodafone femtocells hacked, root password revealed

5

5

New York artist investigated over Apple Store spyware project

4

6

Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables face recall over licensing issues

3

7

The FBI's New ID System: Bigger and Faster but Much Worse for Privacy

3

8

iOS 5 to unlock Bluetooth Capabilities of the Apple TV

3

9

Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion

2

10

Use a virtual dressing room with Kinect

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS releases Ruby SDK

15

2

App Store Volume Purchasing for Business

7

3

Amazon announces AWS SDK (gem) for Ruby

4

4

CEO's Biography Reading List

2

5

A Dance With Dragons released

2

6

Feynman graphic novel

2

7

Steve Ballmer: Imagine Cup 2011

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers

34

2

Google+ Tips and Tricks

6

3

120+ people wrote a book at the same time

6

4

The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography

4

5

Google+ Tips and Tricks Manual: For the people, by the people.

2

6

RIAA Starts Going After BitTorrent Sites

1

7

TVShack: The Human Cost of Extradition, a Mothers Story

1

8

Googles Anti-Piracy Filter Is Quite Effective

1

9

Specialization is for insects, hyperspecialization is for... humans?

1

Science News [?]

1

Coffee and tea consumption reduce MRSA risk

7

2

Too many tasks: top academic scientists are administrators

5

3

Health care that is fairer, more rational, and more affordable

2

4

The Neurobiology of Bliss--Sex in the brain

2

5

Single-cell biological lasers

2

6

Mining social networks to predict your app choices

1

7

Categories rule: High-order brain centers pave the way for visual recognition

1

8

Hacked Hardware Has Been Sold in the U.S.

1

9

Artificially grown tooth transplanted into mouse

1

10

Citizen Science : research projects which invite you to contribute

1

Social [?]

1

Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone

180

2

Why shuttle Atlantis will not be left attached to the ISS

149

3

China: High GDP, 64 million empty apartments.

139

4

There is no Jake Frink

74

5

IAmThe server engineering lead at foursquare. Ask Me Anything.

43

6

Facebook Design Getting All Hipster

39

7

LittleBigPlanet 2 Code Swarm

21

8

Getting the Google+ Feed for any profile in JSON

19

9

Syrian hacker, entrepreneur, and blogger arrested in Syria - PLEASE SUPPORT

12

10

S3 is down right now (16:30 PST)

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A git implementation in pure JavaScript

117

2

My weekend project: MongoDB implementation in Ruby

92

3

Wii-js, interact with Nintendo Wii via Javascript

52

4

GfxCardStatus - Utility for unibody Macbook Pro

33

5

Google+ Most Recent Sorting Bookmarklet

10

6

Another Update to JSLinux - The browser-based Linux. It has now networking

9

7

My first github project: BlackBerry Address Book to CSV

8

8

You need to sign a CLA to contribute a typo patch to Zend

7

9

Discussion on porting node's JSDOM to the Browser

6

10

Bazinga - Incremental tests for Python

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Rich Hickey's Wikipedia page nominated for deletion

13

2

Collective Nouns For Birds

6

3

Comparison on Application Virtual Machines

3

4

Double Irish Arrangement

2

5

2

6

2

7

2

8

Heesch's problem

2

9

Happy 8th Birthday to the Mozilla Foundation

2

10

Maurice Douglass

1

Blogs [?]

1

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

224

2

Hackers and Painters Have a Lot in Common

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is a y-combinator?

127

2

Google +1 recording mouse movement

4

3

Question about Rails and Backbone.js

2

4

Best practices for designing a command line interface

1

5

Most efficient algorithm for determining if X out of N inputs are true

1

6

The guess the number game for arbitrary rational numbers

1

Substack [?]