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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion

1196

2

Twitter Bootstrap

1034

3

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

639

4

How Browsers Work

633

5

Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich

601

6

Dear procrastinator

557

7

Spin.js, a pure JS spinner

540

8

Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free

513

9

WebGL Water Simulation

456

10

Its Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

434

Top Ask HN

1

How can I do something meaningful?

272

2

Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)

64

3

Do you contribute to open source projects with your real name?

35

4

Books on overcoming shyness

35

5

Career Change to something without computers

31

6

Anyone working on something in the Senior-Care market?

28

7

Voice over IP solutions?

24

8

Will working on my own hurt my career?

24

9

Looking for a free, excited young programming intern? I'm right here!

18

10

Hacker in need of ideas?

18

Top Show HN

1

Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code

782

2

a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

211

3

New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)

157

4

Crash into Python

105

5

CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive

100

6

my collaborative drawing webapp

96

7

Our photo print & ship library for iOS

89

8

My user-friendly outbound firewall for Mac

74

9

Test Post/Get endpoints easily from your browser

54

10

Easily compare legal documents with DocCompare

50

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion

1196

2

Its Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

434

3

MarketBrief (YC S11) Makes Obtuse SEC Documents Human-Friendly

175

4

Apple, Its Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps

162

5

How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app

154

6

2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take On The World

139

7

Science Exchange (YC S11): A Central Database For Core Research Facilities

133

8

Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5

126

9

Cant Wait (YC S11) is a mobile social network for movie trailers

120

10

If Were Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too

112

News [?]

1

Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich

601

2

Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company

320

3

58,000 Sign Up for Stanford AI Course

221

4

The 50 Best Websites of 2011

200

5

False confessions

176

6

90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (or CMD + F)

159

7

"When you're done talking, stop"

138

8

Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward

126

9

The Queensway Syndicate: tens of billions in revenue; unknown owners.

117

10

How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung?

83

Scientific publications [?]

1

Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease

68

2

Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, ... a meta-analytic review

25

3

NASA Researcher: If Aliens Kill Us All Its Because We Deserve It

6

4

Pigeons Perform Optimally on a Version of the Monty Hall Dilemma

2

5

Flood-it is NP-hard

1

6

The network of global corporate control

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Undeletable Cookies

154

2

JStat: Statistical JavaScript Library

37

3

Does Chrome Burn Through More Power Than Firefox?

7

4

Making apps that don't suck [video]

6

5

Checkpoint/restart (mostly) in user space

4

6

4

7

Android Malware Found Stealing Texts, Intercepting Calls

2

8

Beam.js: Erlang Meets JavaScript

2

9

Beware of Juice Jacking - Malware via Charge Stations

2

10

How the Google-Motorola Deal May Affect Android Security

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Official Steve Jobs biography set for November 21 release

122

2

AT&T Eliminating $10 Text Messaging Plan for New Customers

37

3

City of Cupertino posts further details, renders of Apple mega-campus

30

4

EFF: BART Pulls a Mubarak in San Francisco

16

5

Photos of a Prototype MacBook Pro with Integrated 3G Cellular Modem

11

6

Gyroscope-based smartphone keylogging attack

8

7

Apple seeds IOS 5 beta 6

4

8

Open WiFi and Liability for Copyright Infringement: Setting the Record Straight

4

9

Apple predicted to 'strike back' at Google with purchase of Nokia or RIM

2

10

Publishers Decide They'd Rather Pay Songwriters Than Lawyers

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Post-Mortem

143

2

Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies

118

3

Windows XP will be 10 years old next week

2

4

Canonical Hacker's Library

1

5

Top Business & Investing books of 2011

1

6

About Internet Scams & Fraud

1

7

Notes on Fermat's Last Thm: Req's 1 yr of uni math & some interest in formulas

1

8

AWS Foursquare Case Study

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation

20

2

Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds

3

3

MPAA Lobbies For Wall Street Reform

2

4

UTorrent Breaks 100 Million Monthly Users

2

5

Apple’s iTunes Sued By Artist for Pirating Music

1

6

Google launches catalog search (2001)

1

7

EBays Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change

1

8

Facebook Malware Now Spreads Using BitTorrent, But Dont Panic

1

9

Wireless/Networking Guy seeking to join IT Consulters to grow business

1

Science News [?]

1

Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns

100

2

Where did viruses come from?

34

3

Women's quest to be 'romantically desirable' conflicts with scientific pursuits

12

4

First life: The search for the first replicator

5

5

Microsoft finds holes in top-secret encryption key

4

6

William Gibson on cities

4

7

The hidden meaning of pronouns in your writing

4

8

Benefits of the Open Source Software Market Identified

3

9

Time need not end in the multiverse

3

10

Robot 'Mission Impossible' wins video prize

1

Social [?]

1

Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

369

2

Android 95.2% market share in South Korea

67

3

Facebook silently blocking sharing of Google+ invite links?

17

4

Early Interview with Mark Zuckerberg (2005)

15

5

How do trains stay on their tracks? Not what you may think. [video]

8

6

Bank of America to Rick Perry: "We will help you out"

7

7

Sesame Street's idea of a VC meeting room

6

8

Stanford Student Jacob Boehm missing in Malaysia

5

9

Scour.net/Uber founder recounts Ovitz's heavy delivering death threat

5

10

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Edit like an Ace

409

2

Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay

405

3

Crazy easy dialogs for iOS devs: QuickDialog

63

4

WordPress, Git-ified

63

5

Petrify - A flexible static site generator for node.js

36

6

ROC, a Redis Object Collection for Ruby

19

7

ApplePy: An Apple ][ Emulator in Python

12

8

Github gratitude issue

12

9

CoffeeShit: Because Script Happens

10

10

Rvm's 'obnoxious' cd override is now off by default

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Important Publications in Computer Science

55

2

3

3

Luddites - social movement against industrial revolution

3

4

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

2

5

The Do What The Fsck You Want To Public License

2

6

O visa - US Visa for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability

2

7

Eternal September

1

8

Project Athena: The accident that invented the modern computing experience

1

9

1

Blogs [?]

1

Paul Graham on Capital Gains [2006]

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?

76

2

Are DOM tree elements global variables?

46

3

Beautiful Code: Is there a better way of writing v = (v == 0? 1 : 0);

20

4

What does the for(;;); at the front of AJAX response do?

7

5

Programming languages - What ever happened to APL? - Stack Overflow

4

6

Int a[] = {1,2,}; Weird comma allowed. Any particular reason?

3

7

Confused by nature of JS SDK Facebook Events

2

8

JQuery challenge - draw tally marks on click event

2

9

Benefits and disadvantages in the approaches of C#, Java and Scala to closures

2

10

Nodejs or envjs - dynamic jquery tmpl

1

Substack [?]