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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

1638

2

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

776

3

Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior

642

4

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)

632

5

610

6

If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?

608

7

512

8

Why Arabic is Terrific

495

9

Walking on a cube-shaped planet

440

10

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

417

Top Ask HN

1

What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?

230

2

Help me get a job before I'm in dire straits?

26

3

What books have changed the way you think?

22

4

On which project you're working right now?

19

5

Recommend a book on Machine Learning and/or Graph Theory?

19

6

When is the best time to bring on a co-founder?

16

7

How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN?

14

8

can a user be silently censored here?

13

9

Any Solutions to the "Porn Problem"?

12

10

SEO vs. Branding with Domains (keyword.net vs. prefix+keyword.com)

11

Top Show HN

1

Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript

71

2

nyan-mode.el - Nyan Cat for Emacs (my first real Emacs minor mode)

69

3

I am building a next-gen browser

66

4

business plan forecasting (our new app)

64

5

Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel

45

6

Save reading time with the TL;DR PLZ bookmarklet

43

7

type to me, old-school unix talk for the web

43

8

Cilantro ("About.me for restaurants"). Feedback wanted.

38

9

Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?

26

10

Build custom designed CMS sites in the browser without any coding

25

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours

355

2

New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

285

3

GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code

179

4

Netherlands judge rules Samsung Galaxy S, S II violate Apple patents, bans sales

170

5

Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses

148

6

GroupMe acquired by Skype

142

7

Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup

140

8

Why Apple employees avoid getting in the elevator with Steve Jobs

134

9

The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts

111

10

Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision

103

News [?]

1

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

1638

2

Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.

210

3

Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA

156

4

Is That Review a Fake?

150

5

Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding

144

6

The economics of good looks

134

7

What You Don't Get About the Job Search: Voices of the Jobless

106

8

How dead is dead?

91

9

DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertising Dollars

83

10

Eric Schmidt criticises education in the UK

73

Scientific publications [?]

1

Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog

105

2

NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow

3

3

Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog

3

4

NASA to build solar sail, communications laser for outer space

3

5

The Rescue of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory

2

6

Planet Discovered, Made Entirely of Diamond

2

7

Nasa's Image of the Day - Irene

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Android and the GPLv2 death penalty

33

2

How would you move 211 Tons of Gold?

31

3

Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11

14

4

Smalltalk IDEs Come to the Browser

8

5

Liberate Your EveryDNS Records

6

6

CloudFlare Provides Zero Day Fix for Zero Day Apache Killer Exploit

6

7

Tweaks To Extend The Battery Life Of Intel Linux Notebooks

3

8

Apache DoS Bug Resurfaces, Spurring New Attacks

3

9

Schneier on new AES attack

2

10

Clojure: Towards The Essence Of Programming

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple

280

2

Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021

105

3

Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern

46

4

Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly

30

5

Apple's iOS unaffected by malware; Android exploits surge by 76%

28

6

HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale

26

7

Authorized Steve Jobs biography will include resignation details

12

8

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Will Stay On As Chairman

10

9

Join Us for "Patent Trolls and You: EFF Virtual Boot Camp for App Developers"

6

10

Salesforce CEO gave up the 'App Store' trademark for advice from Steve Jobs

5

FAANG+ [?]

1

Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached

157

2

Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache

52

3

Apple - Press Info - Letter from Steve Jobs

5

4

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple

2

5

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

2

6

Programming background books list

1

7

Apple updates management roster

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Foxs 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge

97

2

Software developer! Help a startup, check out Flowdock & take a survey

14

3

Anti-Piracy Bill Set To Cost Taxpayers $47m To 2016

9

4

The Failed Battle To Stop The Worlds First Camcorder Pirates

8

5

German Pirate Party On Course to Election Win

3

6

Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

3

7

Google Docs, Not Found

3

8

The first Foursquare hackathon will be in Paris

2

9

Foxs 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge

2

10

3n+1 NoSQL Database Benchmark

2

Science News [?]

1

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

145

2

IBM unveils microchip based on the human brain

33

3

It's time to end the war on salt.

4

4

Pain-free way of tackling dental decay reverses acid damage and re-builds teeth

4

5

Can Math Beat Financial Markets?

4

6

Is That My Hand?

3

7

Russian rocket failure to ground human launches

3

8

Scientific American: The Top Cities for Technology

2

9

TSP in real life: Researchers Tell Umpires Where to Go

2

10

How stress damages DNA

1

Social [?]

1

Reddit's IAmA Moderator Shuts Down Subreddit

16

2

Portal: No Escape

14

3

Haskell, functional programming for imperative programmers. Reddit University.

13

4

Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech

10

5

Steve Jobs Resigns

10

6

Microsoft offers free phones to webOS devs

8

7

Physicists Dr. Michio Kaku: America Has A Secret Weapon (H1B Visas)

8

8

GT vs F1 speed comparison

7

9

This will mess with your mind - Non-Euclidean Level Design (Portal 2 Version)

7

10

Tomorrow turkish redditors will be lost, due to governmnet

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more

114

2

Think you're a ruby guru? Help solve this non-trivial RSpec bug

36

3

UDID Alternative for iOS5

30

4

An in-progress JRuby port of notch's 48 hour "Ludum Dare" game competition entry

25

5

Dealing with encodings in Ruby is a pain in the ass, let us help you

8

6

7

7

Our goal is to make collaborative editing the standard on the web

6

8

Python app auto-sends HN articles to Kindle & Readability

4

9

My alternative to Selenium, meet Ghostbuster

4

10

Autocompaction for CouchDB

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?

64

2

6

3

5

4

Hans Litten - The Man Who Crossed Hitler

4

5

Ram's 10 Principles of Good Design (Apple Design Chief's Main Influencer)

3

6

Wikipedia:United States Education Program

3

7

Completely unintuitive: The Cantor Function

2

8

2

9

Great poem: Desiderata

2

10

Einstein refrigerator

2

Blogs [?]

1

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)

3

2

How to Present to Investors [2006, rev. 2007, 2010]

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

417

2

What is in your .vimrc

192

3

Fastest sort of fixed length 6 int array

79

4

Find an integer not among four billion given ones - Stack Overflow

15

5

Which one is more likely to succeed: clojure or arc?

12

6

What Do Project Managers Do All Day?

6

7

Fastest way to list all primes below N in Python

5

8

Searching for Gadaffi

5

9

MySQL retrieve column names where data_type = decimal(12,5)

2

10

[Stack Overflow Post] Why doesn't my Python script work?

2

Substack [?]