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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
756
2
Jonathan's Card
723
3
Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
482
4
5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
465
5
Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming
423
6
How to Level Up as a Developer
376
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For the love of God, YC companies-to-be stop posting ambiguous job description
369
8
Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages
342
9
Xkcd Password Generator
341
10
AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers
335
Top Ask HN
1
Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook
207
2
Client wrote returned check for over $10,000. How to report him?
53
3
Is it okay to build a startup in ASP .NET?
45
4
Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.)
34
5
what are some good resources to understand economics?
26
6
Why punish popularity?
25
7
Ask HN single founders: How do you go on vacation?
21
8
Hiring scam?
19
9
Average start-up salary & equity (Silicon Valley)?
19
10
Feedback on project
19
Top Show HN
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I shipped my first product
155
2
My First Commercial Game Is Now Online
96
3
Our new ridesharing site, BurningManRides.com. Feedback?
91
4
A Chrome extension that adds moustaches to every face on the web
89
5
Proxino - optimize and monitor your javascript
86
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We built Callroulette, a chatroulette for phones
75
7
My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion
69
8
LazyMeter is the only to-do list you'll finish every day
60
9
My first chrome extension based on an HN thread.
32
10
Perspective for Men
28
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook Wins Worst API in Developer Survey
186
2
Kicksend (YC S11) Launches To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze
178
3
Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
175
4
Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You
175
5
Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance
157
6
Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client into Chrome
157
7
Envolve (YC S11) Launches An API For Real-Time Chat
155
8
Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs
151
9
MobileWorks (YC S11) is a Hands-Off Mechanical Turk
151
10
Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
144
News [?]
1
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
756
2
Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
293
3
DEF CON: The event that scares hackers
192
4
In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban
154
5
Who stole the Mona Lisa?
145
6
Trojan T-shirt targets German right-wing rock fans
139
7
Bloomberg Risk Takers: Elon Musk Documentary
122
8
LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads
103
9
The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind
100
10
How to be a faster writer
100
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
236
2
$500 IED-detecting R/C truck
2
3
NASA Practices Lifting Shuttles at Airports
2
4
Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity
2
5
NASA Creates Human Exploration And Operations Directorate
2
6
NASA Lauches Jupiter Probe (Juno)
1
7
The Two Faces of Hacking
1
8
IEEE Geek Life: DIY Workbench Essentials
1
9
Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites From Space
1
10
Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS Languages
174
2
Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain
69
3
Security Flaws in Encrypted Police Radios
28
4
Lack of Software Engineers Bears Risks
10
5
Should the Web be Encrypted?
10
6
Adam Wiggins: Heroku's Evolution to a Polyglot Cloud OS
7
7
Clojure: The Art of Abstraction
5
8
New Twitter features
5
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DEFCON Round Up: The Good, The Bad and The Underage
3
10
An Introduction to Scala for Java Developers
2
Tech blogs [?]
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How to put your logo in a QR code
252
2
Spain: Linking to Copyright Infringing Material Not Infringement
49
3
Google rushing out Android 4 "Ice Cream Sandwich" to counter iPhone 5
10
4
Motorola signals intent to begin patent action against other Android licensees
9
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Google suppressing evidence Android willfully infringed upon Oracle's Java
8
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British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship
7
7
AMD to Enter RAM Market with Radeon-branded DDR3
5
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Hacking QR codes for fun and profit.
4
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EFF: Protect Innocent Third Parties Accused of Patent Infringement
3
10
Apple Threatened to Abandon Intel Chips over Power Consumption
3
FAANG+ [?]
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A Graphic Novel Biography of Feynman
7
2
Apple offering gift cards for old Windows PCs and displays
4
3
The Microsoft BlueHat Prize
2
4
The Science of Word Recognition
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States
139
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Are You Guilty If Pirates Use Your Internet? Lawyer Says No
39
3
Why epidemiology refuses to reduce a ~80% false positive rate
14
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Domain Seizures Do Not Violate Free Speech, U.S. Court Rules
3
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Super 8 Screener Leaks – With Howard Stern’s Name All Over It
3
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New and Old RIAA CEOs Agree: “We’re Beating Piracy”
3
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When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying — What Then?
2
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite
1
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200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued In The United States
1
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U.S. Anti-Piracy Police Kept Secret From The Public
1
Science News [?]
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Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space
74
2
Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder
61
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New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites
33
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Fruitful harvest of unseeded rooftop colonies
3
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Tracking Crime in Real Time
3
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Research Reveals Genetic Link to Human Intelligence
3
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A tiny trapdoor opens a new way to date the past
3
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Gene Therapy on T-Cells Successfully Fights Leukemia (N=3)
2
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Scientist develops virus that targets HIV: Using a virus to kill a virus
2
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Smart Skin: Electronics That Stick and Stretch Like a Temporary Tattoo
2
Social [?]
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Facebook has your complete phonebook
94
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The Real Deal about Jonathans Card
72
3
John Carmack on Software Reliability, Code Analysis, and Functional Programming
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Facebook's new Messenger app
15
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John Carmack QuakeCon 2011 Keynote
11
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Carmack on "why static analysis": The very best programmers always make mistakes
10
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QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
9
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EC2 US-East is down
9
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffet on Taxing Rich People
7
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JonathansCard loaded with up to $5,000 by Socialize
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement
249
2
PouchDB (Portable CouchDB JavaScript implementation)
49
3
Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone
40
4
Are JS loaders snakeoil?
37
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Causes open sources Buffet, a Ruby testing framework.
23
6
Gem install lolcat
14
7
Timed: a command-line time tracker (written in Python)
10
8
Check if poo and ass are available
6
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"My disgust at Google's ineptitude here knows NO bounds"
5
10
Responsly.js: A set of CSS3/JS responsive widgets
5
Wikipedia [?]
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule
13
2
Muphry's law
8
3
The rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped.
7
4
K computer
7
5
August 27, 2011 is the ten-year anniversary of IE6
4
6
Sayre's Law
4
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Ron Rivest's ThreeBallot voting system
3
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Why People Riot)
3
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Two-factor theory of job satisfation
2
10
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms by Sir Isaac Newton
1
Blogs [?]
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)
114
2
Return of the Mac (2005)
90
3
Great Hackers
3
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What you can't say (2004)
1
5
Cities and Ambition (2008)
1
6
How to Make Wealth
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication
316
2
Understanding Python Decorators
125
3
Advanced tricks with vim registers
113
4
What is a metaclass in python?
77
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a[5] == 5[a]
21
6
Learning Lisp - Why?
14
7
Speed comparison C vs Python vs Erlang vs Haskell
7
8
Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance
4
9
Most common mistakes in C# development for experienced C++ programmers
2
10
Nice algo, try to crack
1
Substack [?]