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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight

1005

2

Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned

929

3

Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]

540

4

Webdesigners: please make text readable

460

5

When Patents Attack

431

6

The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As Users Home Is Utterly Trashed

428

7

Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry

393

8

Auditor's response to "Our security auditor is an idiot" (Update 3)

390

9

Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

347

10

The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice

336

Top Ask HN

1

What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

178

2

How many HN members are there?

80

3

How should I apply for U.S. jobs as a non-resident?

73

4

What has been your least profitable side/weekend project to date?

56

5

Any new HN Meetups globaly? Please update Google Doc...

29

6

Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford, MIT, etc?

29

7

what would happen if the US defaulted?

28

8

How do I make the transition from being a Python beginner?

19

9

How do I get traffic on a shoe-string budget?

18

10

What are some real problems that need to be solved?

16

Top Show HN

1

Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.

116

2

Kondoot - Watch LIVE a day in the life of a startup

78

3

We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

75

4

Enter a message, delivery at a random time up to 6 months from now

64

5

Mojofiend giving away free coffee to San Francisco residents

64

6

Recently Read - The easiest way to share a good book with your friends

20

7

My 10 minute non-project: Get a weekly digest of emails from any source

19

8

Comet server w/end project, barely breaks a sweat at 1000msg/s

12

9

review my site Cohaico

9

10

My Weekend Project - Sending a blog to your Kindle

9

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As Users Home Is Utterly Trashed

428

2

Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry

393

3

Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Cant Be Dodged

189

4

Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

172

5

On Safety: A Word From Airbnb

160

6

Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst

135

7

Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono (YC W11) iPad App

132

8

Dropbox Leases Giant New SF Office, Plans To Grow To 400+ Employees

129

9

Burt Rutans Boomerang Safety Through Asymmetry

128

10

Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says

116

News [?]

1

When Patents Attack

431

2

Vandalised home puts pressure on Airbnb

314

3

259

4

It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

194

5

Intellectual Ventures on This American Life

176

6

Apple now holding more cash than USA

149

7

Norway’s Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society

142

8

50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99

140

9

Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader

84

10

Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?

79

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans

140

2

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

6

3

Face Recognition System Causes Problems for Massachusetts Drivers

4

4

China and the ISS

2

5

Are we alone? Maybe so.

2

6

New York City Pilots Smart Traffic Management System

2

7

Higher Order Programming to Mine Knowledge for a Modern Medical Expert System

1

8

Life might be rare despite its early emergence on Earth

1

9

Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Signs of life from GNU Hurd

76

2

Data Warehousing 101

67

3

Threatening Lawsuit, HBGary Federal Intimidates Aaron Barr Out of DEFCON Panel

44

4

Timely Tweets: Now Easier to See

6

5

NumPy and SciPy for .NET

5

6

Apple laptop batteries can be bricked/hacked.

4

7

Iran still suffering effects of Stuxnet

3

8

ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript

3

9

InfoQ: NoSQL Netflix

3

10

Timely tweets now easier to see

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ignored disabled man builds his own damn elevator

107

2

House Committee Approves Bill Mandating That Companies Spy on Their Users

82

3

Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook

64

4

AT&T verifies data throttling for top 5% of users

41

5

Apple looking to sweeten battery life with redesigned 'jelly rolls'

11

6

A Case for Pseudonyms

7

7

Logitech Slashes Google TV-Based Revue to $99 as Returns Exceed Sales

5

8

Google Books ejected from App Store

5

9

Apple's $76B in cash reserves surpasses US government operating balance

4

10

PayPal users mistakenly charged as much as $4,000 for Mac OS X Lion

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Peter Molyneux Blames Success on Baked Beans

64

2

Chromebooks on sale at Amazon for $349

55

3

Amazon makes Kindle app Apple compliant by removing one URL link

30

4

Visual Studio LightSwitch launches

4

5

New novel by Neal Stephenson, titled Reamde, is coming this September

3

6

Microsoft committed to invest $100 million in SUSE Linux

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

SQL Injection Pocket Reference (Google Doc)

111

2

Anti-Piracy Lawyers Find Cheaper Way To Identify BitTorrent Users

25

3

Former Google CIO: LimeWire Pirates Were iTunes Best Customers

22

4

It Was Never About The Money, Stupid

9

5

Hotfile to Sue Warner Bros. For Abusing Its Anti-Piracy Tool

4

6

Pirate Party Launches Movie Download Sites As Declaration of War

3

7

"PSD is not my favorite file format"

2

8

31 Laws of Fun (required reading for would-be utopia builders)

2

9

Anti-Piracy Lawyers Rip Off Work From Competitor

2

10

Diglo: Social Networking For Avid File-Sharers

2

Science News [?]

1

Is Domestically Produced Ethanol Worth the Cost?

72

2

Language may shape human thought

42

3

Should we worry about what the LHC is not finding?

41

4

Can Positive Thinking Be Negative?

8

5

Mathematical medallist Cdric Villani: Seducing CEOs and socialists

4

6

Are you a zombie?

3

7

Southampton engineers fly the world's first 'printed' aircraft

3

8

Chance favors the concentration of wealth

2

9

For Shifts in Belief, 10 Is the Magic Number

2

10

Dolphins Showing an Incredible Ability to Heal

2

Social [?]

1

Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]

540

2

Weekend/Side Project 101: Inspiration

29

3

Microsoft creates "The GMail Man"

13

4

Gmail Man - Microsoft Ad

13

5

Matropolis: Scientists of the World Unite (aka "The Matlab/Python wars")

13

6

I'm rolling a b2b startup. Let me know what you think:

12

7

Facebook launches “Facebook for Business”

11

8

New Sub-Reddit Finally Has Me Learning On The Site

10

9

Facebook Moves an Elephant (or 30 PB of data)

9

10

Who is the real Google Guru?

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser

87

2

Khan Academy exercise framework

75

3

Progressive Internet Explorer

61

4

Domainr Command Line Script makes picking a new one easier than ever

36

5

DocPad: static website generator in CoffeeScript and Node.js

31

6

Push It - Pure CSS Push Buttons

24

7

Carapace - wrap a shell around any node.js process

18

8

OCR sodoku solver for iOS

8

9

Mozilla's Playdoh is a web application template based on Django

7

10

PyPy can talk to MySQL with PyMySQL

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Simpson's paradox

173

2

Happy Sysadmin Day

104

3

Excite rejected offer to buy Google for $1 million (in 1999)

7

4

The failed Apple project that led to the acquisition of NeXT

3

5

Mutation testing

3

6

Bill Gates 1.0: Traf-O-Data

3

7

Historical income tax rates

2

8

Oldest University in the World

2

9

List of pangrams

2

10

TanenbaumTorvalds debate

1

Blogs [?]

1

Are Software Patents Evil? (2006)

72

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Emacs follow-mode

218

2

Google +1 tracks mouse movements?

95

3

What is the formal difference in Scala between braces and parentheses?

14

4

Does XCode 4 support Erlang syntax highlighting and code completion?

2

5

For vs Enumerator.each in Ruby

2

6

What is the worst commit message you have ever authored?

1

7

Is there anything in Java close to the parallel collections in Scala?

1

8

I am integrating recommendation engines to Google spreadsheets ,any pointers?

1

9

Looking for some excellent resources on the linux networking internals

1

Substack [?]