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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.

915

2

33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto

827

3

You are not running out of time

691

4

Why I will never pursue cheating again

671

5

Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs

595

6

Greece defaults

492

7

A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life

461

8

Nginx established as a company

457

9

Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement to the FBI

449

10

Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)

441

Top Ask HN

1

Where is the Django community?

143

2

What are some great examples of a Minimum Viable Product?

78

3

What do you do on the weekends?

57

4

What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?

57

5

What are some examples of software patents used for good?

43

6

Can I visit your startup?

35

7

Anyone else miss not having a downvote button?

34

8

Strategy for password reset email vs URL to reset pwd

28

9

Are there any startups hiring developers based overseas?

27

10

Modern Resume Style/Formatting

22

Top Show HN

1

I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love

231

2

A Bitcoin casino with 23 games.

143

3

My first WebGL demo, the first self-extracting PNG ever?

99

4

Laminated Bus Schedules

91

5

I built an app to improve your Vocabulary

65

6

How Obama's budget proposal affects you (Weekend Hack)

46

7

Purify, a Tumblr theme powered by Isotope

25

8

BetAnnoyer, you owe me bro (app I created)

23

9

Taskyo: Access Google Tasks on your mobile device

19

10

whEnroute - a 3 week Haskell time-routing web app

13

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life

461

2

John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

369

3

Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No.

231

4

Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive

214

5

Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble

210

6

Refuse to be terrorized (2006)

205

7

135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0

203

8

LulzSec Redirects The Sun Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

193

9

The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America

174

10

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

118

News [?]

1

The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress

440

2

Explosion in central Oslo

157

3

Should scientific articles be available free online?

137

4

How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won

125

5

Indian Official Puts Public Webcam in Government office

102

6

Work for post-materialists

102

7

Girls sweep at Google Science Fair

101

8

Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google

87

9

How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America

86

10

A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search

83

Scientific publications [?]

1

STS-135 Live: The Last Shuttle Mission

28

2

Ultimate physical limits to computation

7

3

Stanford's 'JediBot' Tries to Kill You With a Foam Sword

3

4

NASA monograph: flight simulation with analog computers

2

5

Final Shuttle Landing

2

6

Shuttle re-entry as seen from the ISS (jpeg)

2

7

Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations

1

8

Robot Babies: Cute or Creepy?

1

9

Unstoppable Robot Eats Landmines for Breakfast

1

10

Thinking Small(er)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux 3.0 release

188

2

Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes

113

3

IOS 5 beta 4 is out

42

4

Researchers Develop Proxy-Less Anonymity System

41

5

InfoQ: Adam Wiggins on Building Heroku on Top of Amazon EC2

28

6

Is There a Hacking Epidemic?

6

7

Semantic MediaWiki: Toward smarter wikis

5

8

Gnu Hurd tested, with Benchmarks vs Linux

4

9

Another sad day: Oracle acquires Ksplice

3

10

Google Code Gets Git

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

IPhone 4 survives 13,500-foot fall from skydiver's pocket

11

2

Lion disables Flash Player hardware acceleration...and More

10

3

Lion Launches Tomorrow, July 20, On Mac App Store

10

4

China's Fake Apple Stores

4

5

Apple set to release Lion, new MacBook Airs as soon as Wednesday

4

6

Google's Schmidt: Apple responding to Android with lawsuits, not innovation

4

7

Early Benchmarks Reveal New MacBook Air Rivaling High-End 2010 MacBook Pro

4

8

EFF Campaign Increases the Number of Tor Relays by 13.4%

4

9

Computer Search and Seizure: A Three-Panel Cartoon

3

10

Apple's smartcover knockoff by Samsung's accessory supplier.

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

113

2

OS X Lion Recovery removes need for physical media

87

3

Apple Thunderbolt Display

6

4

Transfer of Health Data From Google Health to Microsoft HealthVault

5

5

Amazon Simple Email Service Announces Attachment Support

4

6

Brad Feld's new Book- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

3

7

Best cover ever in the history of programming books

3

8

Kindle Textbook Rental

3

9

Apple updates MacBook Air (Thunderbolt, faster CPU, backlit keyboard)

3

10

Lion Downloads Top One Million in First Day

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Universal Music accused of using fraudulent DMCA notices as a negotiating tactic

74

2

Google+, or how 120+ people wrote a book at the same time

45

3

Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block

31

4

Indian Government Blocks Leading File-Sharing Services

31

5

UTorrent To Launch a Paid Version

6

6

Google Helps Italians to Unblock Their Favorite Torrent Site

5

7

ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay

3

8

Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win

2

9

Psychology review: 'How to Be Happy'

2

10

High Court Judge Threatened Over Pirate Bay Injunction

2

Science News [?]

1

Collider sees tantalizing hint of Higgs

10

2

Finding good information on the internet

5

3

Daily pill might end HIV epidemic (free reg req.)

4

4

Burt Rutan's flying car takes to the air

3

5

Robots use Kinect to understand our world

3

6

The case for parallel universe

3

7

Quantum magic trick shows reality is what you make it

2

8

Research reveals dynamics behind magical thinking and charismatic leadership

2

9

The human paradox that is common sense

2

10

Researchers identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA

2

Social [?]

1

Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.

237

2

reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong)

138

3

"Why I will never pursue cheating again" post taken down

17

4

Stop Making Sprites

9

5

SF police at its worst. Thanks god for camera phones.

6

6

Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4

4

7

Facebook's .js tool for measuring end-user RTT and DNS latencies

4

8

"Facebook is the new MySpace"

4

9

Optical illusion.girls turn ugly.focos on the + in the center of the video.

4

10

A Visit to id Software (1993)

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

296

2

Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU implementations of echo.c

166

3

Bash on Balls: an MVC web framework for Bash, powered by netcat

157

4

Fusker - a NodeJS security system that attacks back

68

5

Use pythonbrew to manage multiple python installations

49

6

Postman - a JavaScript message bus

19

7

MineSweeper on batch-files (+framework)

8

8

Facebook's Syntactical grep

8

9

blitz.io node.js client

6

10

Motion.js realtime synchronization between multiple clients and server(s)

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia: Making of Doom

94

2

4

3

Address space layout randomization (ASLR)

2

4

Paradox of hedonism

2

5

About auto transportation

1

6

VroniPlag Wiki: Crowd documents plagiarism in Phd theses of German politicians

1

7

Tacit Collusion

1

8

1

9

About Auto Transportation

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Learn JavaScript

163

2

Creating a memory leak with Java?

7

3

Is Fortran faster than C?

7

4

Best OS to deploy a low latency Java application?

2

5

Updating a postmodern row in a more functional way

2

6

Best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

2

7

SO question: Licensing a rewrite from GPL to MIT (yes, you can?)

1

8

Why would someone design a RESTful API with 'API' in the URI?

1

9

Flask vs webapp2 for Google App Engine

1

Substack [?]