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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody

736

2

The Patent Pledge

618

3

Learn Vim Progressively

605

4

Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal

534

5

Google Correlate by Drawing

469

6

First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed

381

7

US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger

365

8

Early Photos of Y Combinator

363

9

The "overlearning the game" problem

357

10

You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999

354

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

244

2

A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?

129

3

Any good Macbook Air alternatives?

84

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

83

5

Is there something like HN for successful entrepreneurs?

50

6

Why don't we use subtitled films/tv to train speech recognition?

29

7

Various "Make Contact" sites for HNers

25

8

How many applications do YC startups hiring usually get via HN post?

23

9

What's your favorite UI Mockup tool?

22

10

How to find a room in SF to rent?

16

Top Show HN

1

Like Button for Hacker News

557

2

We made a spam-free lyric search engine

289

3

My personal project, animated and narrated children's storybooks

93

4

My weekend project (split screen surfing)

70

5

My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify

69

6

Simple version control for designers

54

7

`Nide` - open source IDE built in 48 hours for Node.JS Knockout

46

8

readfa.st - learn to read faster

44

9

PHP does Meta Programming too

43

10

Heatwave - our node.js knockout project

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Amazons Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. Ive Seen It, Played With It.

299

2

Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon

160

3

Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan

124

4

Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects

118

5

What Kills Startups? A study.

95

6

BitTorrent users don't "act in concert," so judge slashes mass P2P case

82

7

Index Ventures Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox

72

8

Groupon Co-founders invest $4M in fast-growing E la Carte (YC S10)

68

9

Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed?

64

10

Launchpad Toys (YC S11) Looks To Create The Next Generation Of Learning Toys

60

News [?]

1

US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39 Billion Merger

365

2

Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black?

118

3

Why Advertising Works, Even When You Think It Doesn't

109

4

A hero, but not to his family

106

5

Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years

90

6

U.S. Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages

76

7

Masked Protesters Aid Time Warners Bottom Line

72

8

Every generation gets the self-help guru it deserves

69

9

Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders

63

10

The Embarrassing Naked Photos On Your Stolen Laptop May Not Belong To The Thief

58

Scientific publications [?]

1

Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator

168

2

Space Junk Problem Is More Threatening Than Ever, Report Warns

31

3

Report: Russia Identifies Cause of Rocket Launch Failure

3

4

Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator

3

5

25 Microchips That Shook the World

2

6

Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women's Interest in Engineering? (audio)

2

7

Commotion Wireless: digital communication in the face of an Internet shutdown

2

8

An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System

2

9

Astronauts May Evacuate Space Station in November, NASA Says

1

10

Chatbot Tries to Talk to Itself, "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Location Awareness Programming Guide [iOS]

3

2

Black Hat: SSL and the Future of Authenticity

3

3

Linux - kernel.org compromised

3

4

Inspiring talk: Why Program by Hand when you can Automate it?

3

5

New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

2

6

Hackers Push Sipvicious VoIP Tools In Malicious Attacks

2

7

Coordinated ATM Heist Nets Thieves $13M

2

8

Cross-platform Mobility: The Rise of Mono in the Enterprise

2

9

InfoQ: AeolusA New Open Source Multi-cloud Management Solution

2

10

Mesa Kills Old Hardware Support: No More 3dfx Voodoo

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Best SSDs For The Money: August 2011

117

2

Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?

62

3

Listen to EFF's Courtroom Arguments Against Warrantless Wiretapping

46

4

Steve Jobs' biological father wants to finally meet son

7

5

Iranian Man-in-the-Middle Attack

7

6

Apple Puts Legacy Final Cut Studio Back on Sale

6

7

Apple loses another iPhone prototype

6

8

HP's confounding call to build more TouchPads likely due to obligations

4

9

Why IP Addresses Alone Don't Identify Criminals

3

10

Apple Claims Key Android Framework 'Inspired' by Andy Rubin's Work at Apple

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Chromebooks now available on Amazon ($350 - $450)

9

2

Why is a used Python book on Amazon cost over $200?

6

3

Amazon Refreshes Its Design

2

4

ITunes Match now available in beta

1

5

Tell HN: 18 Kurt Vonnegut Kindle books for $3.99: Any recommendations SF lovers?

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Rational Home Buying

163

2

A History of Bayes' Theorem

147

3

Is Copyright Only For the Big Guys?

47

4

Lets create a collaborative Book List on Computer Science & Programming

38

5

Programmers Survey

36

6

"Shatter"ing the Windows Message Passing Architecture and Security Model

29

7

Bayfiles: The Pirate Bay Founders Launch File-Hosting Site

28

8

Copyright Infringement and Theft The Difference

25

9

Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities

23

10

Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee

15

Science News [?]

1

Inside IBM's cognitive chip

67

2

Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal?

33

3

Quantum computer chips pass key milestones

6

4

Working Together In "War Rooms" Doubles Teams' Productivity, Researchers Find

5

5

New power wave heads out to sea

4

6

Researchers discover origin of the Black Death

3

7

Meat without Slaughter - 6 months to "bio-sausages"

3

8

Floating in Dead Sea for 20 minutes help diabetics

2

9

Why Pacific Hurricanes Hit the Americas So Rarely

2

10

Cloud formation may be linked to the Sun's cosmic rays

2

Social [?]

1

Ubuntu Unity Dev Team AMA

35

2

CEO Stands Behind His Product: Bulletproof Glass

12

3

Google on underscores vs. dashes in URLs

12

4

Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike [video]

6

5

An inspiring & beautiful talk by Caroline Casey on moving beyond our limits

6

6

Khan-like videos for Machine Learning and Probability Theory.

6

7

IAMA Jon Finkel

5

8

Wikileaks releases 60gb of unredacted cable traffic, encryption keys

5

9

Timelapse: Creating a Game in 48 Hours

5

10

Wacom Inkling Makes Vector Graphics From Pen & Paper Drawing [video]

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Automate download, install, config of IE-only VM's with VirtualBox (Linux/OSX)

217

2

Keymaster.js: painless keyboard shortcuts for javascript

161

3

Port scanner written in x86 assembly (32-bit)

55

4

Crustache is a fast C implementation of Mustache

53

5

Racket intro projects: start hacking on and with Racket

51

6

Node devs leave bug in url.parse() citing browser history

42

7

R vs Python for simple interactive data analysis

40

8

Host Apple Software Updates on the hardware and OS of your choice.

39

9

Sprockets 2.0.0 released (Ruby/Rack asset packaging)

38

10

libtap - Testing library for C, implementing the Test Anything Protocol.

29

Wikipedia [?]

1

Scenery nerds and systems nerds: MIT's Model Railroad Club

25

2

Answer Set Programming

6

3

Mathematica uses the Rule 30 Cellular Automaton as a PRNG.

4

4

2

5

2

6

Copyright length in different countries

2

7

Kelly Criterion

1

8

1

9

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Patent Pledge

618

2

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (2006)

3

3

What You Can't Say [2004]

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is learning Assembly Language worth the effort?

87

2

Javascript: ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10

10

3

The Definitive Guide to Forms-Based Website Authentication

4

4

How can a time function exist in functional programming?

3

5

Python and JavaScript - difference in handing newlines and semicolons?

2

6

How do I translate assembly to binary?

2

7

Examples of application of Fages' theorem to answer set programming?

1

8

Which is the biggest thing to get into?

1

9

Is RVM production ready? - Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]