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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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If this then that
663
2
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
597
3
Linux is now hosted on GitHub
558
4
Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
467
5
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
461
6
Are jobs obsolete?
433
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My job is to watch dreams die
396
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Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever
348
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Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
344
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Don't dumb girls down
338
Top Ask HN
1
How do you promote your web apps?
291
2
How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?
201
3
I think My code isn't Good enough
138
4
What do you use to test Frontend code?
55
5
tiny VMs
47
6
How would you save Yahoo and bring it back to top place ?
44
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Boss fired me. How to warn former employer about him?
36
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Should we be considering a HN 9/11 ban?
32
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Am I getting a fair deal?
31
10
Copy & Undercut. Should I do this?
29
Top Show HN
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Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan
291
2
Bitcoinica - Advanced Bitcoin Trading Platform
122
3
BidOnMyDay, bid to have me fly to you and do anything
111
4
Realtime Keyboard Heatmap with heatmap.js
94
5
Ernie's, Click & Collect Groceries
68
6
LightWrite, A Free Online WriteRoom Clone
45
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Arduino-based current sensor. My first electronics project.
33
8
Insync - use GDocs like Dropbox
29
9
Notational `ls` - Never get lost in code again (hour long hack)
28
10
Use Twitter to register domain names
24
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
301
2
Michael Arrington: Editorial Independence
211
3
Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game
170
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Lanyrd (YC W11) Secures $1.4m In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social
128
5
Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries' Radical New Theory
92
6
How to See a Supernova This Weekend From Your Backyard
87
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The Complete Guide To Freemium Business Models
74
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Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity
73
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Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages
72
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SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38
71
News [?]
1
Are jobs obsolete?
433
2
Share of Income Gains by Quintile - Great Depression til Now
317
3
The Sugary Secret of Self-Control
234
4
The $700 Million Yogurt Startup
220
5
EU votes to extend music copyright to 70 years
128
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Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others
109
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Groupon IPO on hold
95
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Do happier people work harder?
93
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Microsoft online services hit by major failure
85
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HTC Sues Apple Using Patents Obtained From Google Last Week
66
Scientific publications [?]
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NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites
5
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NASA images of the Apollo 12,14 and 17 sites
4
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The dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
2
4
Understanding Social Influence in Recommender Systems
2
5
A hybrid SQL/JavaScript self-replicating two-stage quine worm prototype
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Clojure and the Web
18
2
One Hundred Million Voices
4
3
Interview of Opa's Tech Lead
3
4
Kernel.org Attackers May Have Slipped Up
2
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Rent-a-Bot Networks Tied to TDSS Botnet
2
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Qt Is Likely To Use The V8 JavaScript Engine
2
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Whos Behind the TDSS Botnet?
2
8
Cybercrime Profits Approaching Those Of The Drug Trade?
2
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Steve Denning on Customer Delight
1
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Texas Instruments Has New Open-Source Driver
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Google plotted to give Motorola early advantage over other Android licensees
11
2
Millions of DiRT 3 Steam Keys Leaked
6
3
Find My iPhone helps find wreckage of Chilean plane crash
4
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Judge Characterizes Lawsuits as Massive Collection Scheme
4
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Patent Reform Set to Become Law, But Will Make Few Meaningful Changes
3
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Qubes OS: a better OS security model
2
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Mac OS X install base grows to over 6% worldwide, 13% in the US
2
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Baidu forks Android to introduce its own mobile OS for China
2
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Dell partnering up with Baidu to produce tablets, phones
2
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Foxconn said to be producing 150k iPhone 5 units per day
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Save on Select Back-to-School Essentials
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Database Of U.S. Internet Pirates Will Be Decentralized
5
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FBI / IFPI Teach How To Bust Private Torrent Sites
4
3
Getting the Best out of your Gmail
4
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Europes Odd Anti-Piracy Stance: Send Money to the US
3
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Who Needs LimeWire? Open Source Groovejaar's in Town
3
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Russian Minister: YouTube and Google Should Be Shut Down - Copyright...
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How to read 501(c)(3) charity filings: example, Edge.org
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Results from the Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament
2
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Hackerspaces: Book that documents where the movement was in 2008
2
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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
1
Science News [?]
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Structured Homeschooling Gets an A+
11
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Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks
10
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How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial
9
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A very Turkish coup
3
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Dolphins [may] call each other by name
3
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The 24/7 lab
3
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Evolutionary theory can make street life better
2
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Experimental demonstration of a single-molecule electric motor
2
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Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution
2
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Electrified bacteria kills uranium
2
Social [?]
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My job is to watch dreams die
396
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire with a modern U.S. Marine MEU?
36
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Pinboard founder idlewords no longer able to post on HN?
10
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Jacob Appelbaum: attackers got certs for *.*.com and *.*.org
8
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JavaScript: The Good Parts - Google Tech Talk (Video)
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Wikileaks cable read in congress, reveals US approved of Iraq invasion of Kuwait
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5 Reasons The Chromebook Might Be Doomed
5
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Only about 4% of the AI class expressed interest in Facebook profile support
4
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I'm a VC
4
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Miss USA 2011 — Should Math Be Taught In Schools?
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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Linux is now hosted on GitHub
558
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Linus Torvalds now on GitHub
317
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~/.osx a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion
289
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Giving away my Rails 3.0 book. Code examples also available on Github.
206
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Kernel module for advanced rickrolling replaces open() call
172
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TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.
105
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Paladin, a new JS 3D game engine by Mozilla
94
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Asset Pipeline for Sinatra
84
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GitHub - Shiny new commit styles
73
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Node.js vs jRuby vs Java (Nobody cares about your technology) ...
67
Wikipedia [?]
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Crypt of Civilization
71
2
Cargo Cult
8
3
Falsificationism and Falsifiability
3
4
Ash-sha`b yurid isqat an-nizam
2
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Internet Explorer (4/5) for Unix
2
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Shepard tone
2
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knot (Bowen knot)
2
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Coffin corner (aviation)
2
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Radio Broadcast About Fictional Alien Invasion Caused Panic (1938)
1
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Extreme engineering: The Strait of Gibraltar crossing
1
Blogs [?]
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Revenge of the Nerds
1
2
The Patent Pledge
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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How Google +1 Widgets "Break Out" of their IFRAMEs
109
2
Knockout.js vs Backbone.js
46
3
Google API for Google Docs, requesting a list of documents 400 Bad Request
2
4
CSS Selectors parsed right to left. Why?
1
5
Developers Gone Wild: New Java Bug Exposed
1
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Regular expression to search for Gadaffi
1
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Java Static methods or Singleton, which one to choose?
1
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Finding rectangle nearest to point
1
9
Challenge: can you port MiniProfiler to Ruby on Rails
1
Substack [?]