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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

679

2

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

584

3

W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled

370

4

Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building

357

5

How Facebook Ships Code

344

6

DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)

334

7

Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

320

8

Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO

311

9

Easing into SICP

299

10

How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop

286

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?

341

2

Do you meditate? How/Why?

184

3

I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

94

4

Share your experience with a non YC or Techstars incubator.

88

5

Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail

85

6

Reasonable equity for early employees?

65

7

Ask HN : Which opensource project for beginner python developer

65

8

Deaf wannabe entrepreneur faces networking issues. How to work with it?

50

9

Review my winter break project (statusdot - hosted website status pages)

38

10

Review My Startup: Skinnyo - Weight loss challenge community

28

Top Show HN

1

Pocket - my first app ever

99

2

A Wiki written in 80 lines of JavaScript

79

3

WerdMerge: A Portmanteau Generator With Phonemes

71

4

New Punchd website (like foursquare for the masses)

52

5

Hacker News with tweets from your friends (yc.backtype.com)

44

6

I'm offering consulting for non-technical folks and startups

31

7

Chalkboard, a better way to plan/spec software projects

28

8

Hypervisor toolkit for low cost dual core Cortex-A9 platform

22

9

MadPattern: explore the 17 planar tilings with vector art

21

10

Edit Text, See Relevant Images. ~200 Lines Of JavaSript

19

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

584

2

DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)

334

3

Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO

311

4

Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to whack Netflix

157

5

AppHarbor (YC W11): "Azure Done Right"

153

6

Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online

151

7

Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number

121

8

Jailed Pirate Party member becomes Tunisian government minister

92

9

PS3 Portal 2 to come with free PC/Mac version, cross-platform play

76

10

$26.7 Billion Revenue; 7 Million iPads, 16 Million iPhones Sold

70

News [?]

1

Brisbane floods: before and after

178

2

Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?

143

3

Development and testing of the Stuxnet worm

137

4

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

112

5

Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave

92

6

Vivian Maier: A life's work seen for first time

89

7

Dog learns over 1,000 words

81

8

Report: iPhone 5 Will Be 'Completely Redesigned'

76

9

Bruce Schneier: Google And Facebook's Privacy Illusion

69

10

Notes of a native tiger son: it's a weird time to be Asian-American

68

Scientific publications [?]

1

Discovery of Teleportation in Time

3

2

NASA - A First Look at Flight in 2025

2

3

Digital Music Renaissance

2

4

US power grid becoming steadily less reliable

1

5

IRobot Scooba 230: How It Works

1

6

[arxiv] SafeVchat: Detecting Obscene Content and Misbehaving Users

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Open-Source Projects Are Getting Ripped On Amazon

65

2

Danchev found hospitalized in Bulgaria, local news report

47

3

JDK 7 is Feature Complete

33

4

Stuxnet Authors Made Several Basic Errors

25

5

ATM Skimmers, Up Close

24

6

Extensive Benchmarks Of Amazon's EC2 Compute Cloud Performance

18

7

Cliff Click on Azul's Pauseless GC, Zing, JVM Languages (video)

9

8

9

9

Python Wins Tiobe's Language of the Year Award for 2010

4

10

Exciting Linux kernel release - 2.6.38

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws

146

2

IPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution

40

3

Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency

4

4

Mass exodus of executives continues at Microsoft

4

5

Apple inks new iPhone deal with AT&T, all exclusive contracts now over

3

6

Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?

2

7

IPhone, iPad leading Android in mobile enterprise adoption

1

8

XBMC ported to A4-based Apple TV, iPad, iPhone 4, brings apps, 1080p

1

9

Apple now the largest mobile phone vendor in the world by revenue

1

10

How vague secondary liability doctrines hinder technology innovation

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

132

2

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

45

3

AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta)

10

4

Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Beta)

5

5

"Accelerated Disruption", by Eric Lefkofsky

2

6

Microsoft WebMatrix

2

7

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - graphing calculator released for free

2

8

Microsoft Corporation - New web site preview

2

9

The Startup Game - autobiography of one of the first venture capitalists

2

10

Steve Jobs steps away from Apple

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Crowdsource HN: Resources for making your next website.

116

2

BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol

72

3

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

23

4

Detailed notes from StartupLessonsLearned conference 2010

10

5

Still Waiting for the Revolution: A Conversation with Alan Kay [2002]

9

6

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge

8

7

Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments

4

8

A short analysis of the proposed Comcast/NBC merger. Criticism welcomed.

2

9

2

10

Decentralized bit torrent

1

Science News [?]

1

Malaria caught on video breaking and entering into red blood cell

136

2

Robots evolve both bodies and brains for robust walking

27

3

New math theories reveal the nature of numbers

14

4

Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth

13

5

The New Peer Review: Trial by Twitter

10

6

Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?

5

7

Why You're Probably Less Popular Than Your Friends

5

8

Engineered chickens can't pass on flu

4

9

Scientists develop 3-D model of the ionosphere F-region

3

10

LCD Projector Used to Control Brain and Muscles of Tiny Organisms Such as Worms

2

Social [?]

1

List of JavaScript Game Engines

110

2

WePay just built a new feature inspired by and for redditors

101

3

Mark Pilgrim Ask Me Anything on Reddit

100

4

Genetic Algorithm Car Physics

77

5

Why am I required to pay for both text *and* data. Is it a scam?

31

6

New 3D technology without glasses (what could possibly go wrong?)

9

7

Programmers must learn licensing or I will kill them all

7

8

Reuters: Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes medical leave of absence

5

9

Ted Williams, homeless man with the golden voice, goes viral again

5

10

'I tried Emacs' song

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Redirect a running process output to a file and log out

121

2

Git-powered wikis improved - GitHub

87

3

Maptail.js geoips your tail -f to a map

65

4

Ruby's rmagick Gem looking for a maintainer

51

5

280North/Cappuccino modules list comes to life

47

6

Dumbo - Python module that allows you to easily write and run Hadoop programs

39

7

My first 'successful' open-source project (js continuous integration) hits 1.0.0

21

8

Eddy - Super-light PHP 5.3 Web App Framework

20

9

Manage multiple Heroku environments w/ Katana

16

10

(Norvig's (Lisp) Interpreter (Ported to CoffeeScript))

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

5

2

Wikipedia: Computational complexity of mathematical operations

4

3

Incarceration in the United States

3

4

Epistemological anarchism

3

5

Sonic Black Holes

3

6

If you split the brain, you will get two consciousness?

2

7

Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket - exciting new intrasolar engine

2

8

List of digital forensics tools

1

9

Delayed sleep phase syndrome

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How do emulators work and how are they written?

132

2

GET vs POST in terms of security

72

3

How to Smell Difference Between Humans & Robots - Annoying Captcha Forms

31

4

Why PHP is (still) the easiest web programming language to learn

15

5

Which programming language is manageable by an 11 year old kid?

5

6

The Options for Storing Hierarchical Data in a Relational Database

5

7

Stack Overflow now accepting nominees for 2011 moderators

3

8

Why null == null is true but null >= null is false in C#

2

9

What can C# do that VB.Net can't?

2

10

Would you recommend starting from HTML5 & CSS3 for beginners?

2

Substack [?]