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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

An iOS Developer Takes on Android

713

2

That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story.

607

3

SICP is Under Attack

562

4

How The Hell Is This My Fault?

473

5

Our Commitment to Trust & Safety

413

6

How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit

400

7

Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere

387

8

When patents attack Android

383

9

Free online version of Stanford's Fall 2011 Intro to AI course

380

10

Games company claims their graphics are 100,000x better

379

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

278

2

Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions

208

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)

114

4

Windows phone dev success/failure stories?

83

5

Would a startup sponsor my visa?

67

6

When was the last time you used big-o in a web app?

49

7

Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee?

49

8

who launched something in July?

38

9

How do you collect delinquent payment for contract work?

36

10

Should I go freelance? Right now?

33

Top Show HN

1

My weekend project - preview TV sizes on your wall

178

2

Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

166

3

An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application

108

4

Weekend Project - Create Simple Android mockup

106

5

iPhone word game I created in 5 days - Word Fever

61

6

Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts

61

7

My weekend project - Chessboard picture recognition

50

8

Our Django Dash project: Proposalmatic

36

9

Curenote, a health community for solving health problems

17

10

CloudSwag.com - prepaid Amazon EC2 Gift Certificates

16

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How The Hell Is This My Fault?

473

2

Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere

387

3

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

304

4

Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile

291

5

Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far

212

6

$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet

208

7

Parse (YC S11): A Heroku For Mobile Apps

198

8

Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee

133

9

IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other patent trolls

112

10

Google Announces Plans To Bake Android-Like Web Intents Into Chrome

107

News [?]

1

The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good

242

2

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad

241

3

Update: Internet Explorer IQ story was bogus

204

4

Groupons Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth

158

5

Patents against prosperity

157

6

Why Facebook and Google's Concept of "Real Names" Is Revolutionary

120

7

NYT Crossword editor: "I was willing to endure a life of poverty to do this."

101

8

Airbnb victim describes crime and aftermath

86

9

Earth may once have had two moons

73

10

Chronic fatigue syndrome

70

Scientific publications [?]

1

Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free

149

2

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

77

3

NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft

5

4

MIT, You're Not All That

4

5

Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers

3

6

Debris From Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Found in Texas

2

7

Can Robots Wage War Without Us?

2

8

Juno mission to Jupiter due to launch 12:25 EST -- live launch blog

2

9

Does this journal article break the record for number of authors?

1

10

Machine Learning Markets

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google's Native Client forges ahead

35

2

Microsoft to Pay $200k for Innovative Defense Tech in Blue Hat Prize Program

18

3

Developments in Facial Recognition

6

4

Massive Injection Campaign Affecting More Than Six Million Pages

4

5

How Facebook's Facial Rec. is creating a Minority Report-like Privacy Meltdown

3

6

Teens, Lulz and Morality: Making Sense of Anonymous

3

7

Securing Mobile Devices May Be an Impossible Task

2

8

Fake Antivirus Industry Down But Not Out

2

9

IBM to Unveil Secure Open Wireless System at Black Hat

2

10

Richard Hipp on UnQL

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online

134

2

Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States

61

3

FileVault full disk encryption overhead on Lion

18

4

HTC Announces Web-Based Bootloader Unlock Tool

14

5

Encrypt the Web with HTTPS Everywhere

3

6

ICloud Error Pages

3

7

Apple seen merging iOS, Mac OS X with custom A6 chip in 2012

3

8

Apple Reveals iCloud Pricing

3

9

Skype for iPad goes live, has video and audio calling over both 3G and WiFi

2

10

Court: Shutting Down Speech Doesn't Cause a Substantial Hardship

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS launches 2011 start-up challenge

24

2

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack - View RAW files with free codec

6

3

Global AWS Start-Up Challenge 2011

4

4

An Interface for Your Living Room

3

5

2

6

Microsoft Announces $200,000 Security Prize

2

7

Direct connection from EC2 to your own machines hosted on site in Ashburn, VA

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Public consultation on UK's Digital Economy Act was a sham

31

2

Censorship Fail Reveals Big Music ISP Spying Plan

29

3

Could Quantum Computing Kill Copyright?

21

4

Van Halen & M&M's - Crazy or Crazy Smart?

4

5

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

2

6

Quite a lot of these OS X usability issues were eventually fixed

2

7

Teaching Computer Security Trough Science Fiction

2

8

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

2

9

23,238 Alleged ‘Expendables’ Downloaders Walk Free

2

10

UK Government Abandons File-Sharing Website Blocking Plans

2

Science News [?]

1

Throwing dice gets to the truth about killing leopards

89

2

Antiproton ring found around Earth

45

3

'Fluid cloak' to help submarines leave no wake

31

4

Atmosphere releasing more energy to space than climate models indicate

30

5

Existence: are we holograms?

14

6

US Internet providers hijacking users' search queries

10

7

3D printing: The world's first printed plane

4

8

Physicists Simulate the End of Time

4

9

UFO Found on Ocean Floor?

4

10

Sex on the brain: What turns women on, mapped out

4

Social [?]

1

How to remove yourself from all background check websites

231

2

Are you a Facebook employee?

185

3

QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote

19

4

Facebook opens up the Ads API (Part of the Marketing API now)

13

5

Microsoft: We offered Google a joint bid; they said no.

12

6

Redditor creates MS-office skin for Reddit

9

7

Making Atoms instead of polygons in games in "Unlimited Detail"- Euclideon

8

8

CoffeeScript 1.1.2 released

8

9

Brad Smith: Microsoft Asked Google to Bid Jointly on Patents

6

10

Warren Buffett's little hack to solve the U.S. budget deficit

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded

49

2

JSIL: CIL to Javascript Compiler

48

3

Installers for GCC on OSX Without all of XCode

34

4

Put.js: CSS selector-based function for creating and manipulating the DOM

25

5

Teleport - opinionated server setup with Ruby

23

6

Namespaced TCP/TLS Sockets in Node.js

15

7

Apoptosis Gem - Which lines in your project need to die?

10

8

MySQL--Replication - Peer-to-peer based, multi-master replication for MySQL

9

9

Masked Identifier adds non-incrementing IDs to ActiveRecord objects

9

10

City_distribution_in_HN_jobs - GitHub

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep

98

2

Impostor syndrome

2

3

Graham's Number

2

4

Oldest construction in the world pre-dates all civilizations

2

5

JohnsonLindenstrauss lemma - Wikipedia

1

6

The Secretary Problem - an Optimal Stopping Problem

1

7

Operation Northwoods: a series of false-flag proposals from 1962

1

8

Christmas Tree Packet

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why nerds are unpopular?

13

2

12

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Java is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result

11

2

How-to articles for iPhone development and Objective-C

3

3

How serious is the Java7 Solr/Lucene bug?

2

4

While(1) vs for (;;) Is there a speed difference?

2

5

What are the objective differences between Emacs and Vim?

1

6

Canonical list of Xcode Environment Variables

1

7

How should I architect my (mostly) text-based game server?

1

8

How does LMAX's disruptor pattern work (concurrency)

1

9

Writing specifications for hobby projects?

1

10

Why must we define both == and = in C#?

1

Substack [?]