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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

689

2

Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together

590

3

Google Flight Search

504

4

New Boston Globe website design

422

5

Programmers' Day

407

6

Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time

384

7

Be Careful when Speaking to Federal Agents - 18 U.S.C. Section 1001

382

8

378

9

Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows

364

10

The New Apple Advantage

360

Top Ask HN

1

I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?

189

2

Current freelancer and consulting rates survey

82

3

My side project. Is it useful?

80

4

I need you but have no money. What can I offer you instead?

64

5

What % of your job interviewees pass FizzBuzz type questions?

49

6

1 minute Survey About Open Source Software in Your Products

37

7

Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.)

30

8

What happened to the YCreject class?

18

9

How to get good at math if you are too bad with math

17

10

30 yr old+ Startup Founders

14

Top Show HN

1

PickHealthInsurance.com

231

2

Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website

204

3

188

4

Fluid iPad App Concept

177

5

PyCloud, a Python IDE in the web browser with interactive tutorials

126

6

Stack Parts - a way to find possible parts for your stack

81

7

61

8

IRC for GMail Apps

60

9

Simple User Icons

57

10

Color Picker Pro, Open Source Color Picker for Mac Os X

54

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Windows 8 for tablet hands on

145

2

Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware

142

3

AeroFS (YC S10): Its Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall

126

4

Arrington now officially out

115

5

Facebook Launches Twitter-Like Subscriptions

91

6

Are You Building The Right Product?

85

7

10gen raises $20m for MongoDB

82

8

In-Car Algorithm Could Rapidly Dissolve Traffic Jams

82

9

How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years

74

10

YC Office Hours at TC Disrupt [Live]

72

News [?]

1

Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.

283

2

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

151

3

In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column

128

4

Thorium Reactors

109

5

Two thousand years in one chart

94

6

Air Battery Would Last 2.5s on Machine with 1990's Efficiency

90

7

Google buys 1,000 patents from IBM to defend Android

80

8

Saipan claims ComputerLand founder owes taxes

73

9

Google removes religious organizations from non-profit discount list

65

10

Newly Discovered Planet: Hot, Muggy And (May Be) Livable

63

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System

136

2

Results of fasting 382 days with no food

9

3

Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking

3

4

Huge Defunct Satellite to Plunge to Earth Soon, NASA Says

2

5

Dead NASA Satellite Falling From Space, But When & Where?

2

6

NASA's GRAIL Mission Lifts Off

2

7

Letter from Space on September 12, 2001

2

8

Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion, and Reputational Ramifications

1

9

Tatooine-like planet (orbits two suns) discovered by NASA

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins

262

2

InfoQ: WinRT: An Object Orientated Replacement for Win32

8

3

Where Perl 5 is Headed

4

4

How Online Privacy Has Become an Oxymoron

4

5

GlobalSign Says Web Server Was Hacked, But No Signs of CA Breach

4

6

The Linux 3.1 Kernel May Have A New Logo

3

7

Windows 8 Replaces the Win32 API

3

8

The Fight Over Merging Drivers Back Into X Server

2

9

A Discussion With Neal Gafter on the Future of Java

2

10

Apache HTTP server 2.2.21 (security and bug fix)

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review

82

2

Metro IE10 will be "Plug-In Free" (no Flash, no Silverlight)

53

3

FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones

47

4

No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library

10

5

AnandTech - ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now

7

6

Windows 8, A Pre-Beta Preview

6

7

Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat

3

8

Google upped its bid for Motorola by $3B in one day to close deal

2

9

Copyright Trolls: From the Ashes of Righthaven

2

10

Verizon, AT&T introduce new prepaid plans

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon

170

2

The Lean Startup is now available

10

3

Amazon Redesigns Website

6

4

Microsoft Reimagines Windows, Presents Windows 8 Developer Preview

3

5

Rich Hickey's bookshelf on books that inspired Clojure

1

6

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

File Hosting Service Hotfile Sues Warner Bros. For Copyright Fraud and Abuse

210

2

Indie Game Devs Post Own Game on The Pirate Bay

128

3

Tool ideology (Subversion)

15

4

I Dont Care About Your Profits, And It Enrages Me That You Think I Should

13

5

Happy Birthday Pirate Bay, You’ve Just Turned 8 Years Old Today

8

6

Court: ISP Not Responsible When Subscribers Infringe Copyrights

6

7

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

5

8

Pirate Party Launches Facebook For Movies

4

9

Embracing Complexity

2

10

Villagers create 'living' crossings by training roots across a river

2

Science News [?]

1

Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico

150

2

New Chemical Reagent Turns Mouse Brain Transparent

2

3

Take the visual Turing test

2

4

Publish like a Pro [Nature]

2

5

Evolution: Selection for positive illusions

2

6

Researchers find magnetic brain stimulation appears to make lying more difficult

1

7

A surprising theory about global variations in intelligence

1

8

Powerful magnets hamper our ability to lie

1

9

Give geo and genetic engineering a fair trial

1

10

New Speech Synthesis Could Make Roger Ebert Sound More Like Himself

1

Social [?]

1

Reddit user explains aging vs cancer

198

2

Check Out The New Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8

111

3

A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more user friendly

98

4

Reddit: This company didn't pay their bill, so I changed their website.

12

5

Cornell's standing desks study: Are we passing around a misleading sound bite?

12

6

FaceBook's login hack for people who leave CAPS LOCK on.

10

7

Bitcoin crashes below the $5 mark, loses 35% of its value

7

8

Entrepreneur builds solar bottle lights to help his impoverished community

6

9

A "Stanford Quality" online MS (in CS) for $2k? (Tweet by Sebastian Thrun)

6

10

Reddit AMA: Guy who made thousands of dollars selling used socks on Ebay

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ligament.js, the smallest, lightest-weight JS MVC Framework

94

2

TodoMVC - A common demo application for popular JavaScript MVC frameworks

89

3

Puffer - A Rails 3.1 Admin Interface

58

4

Eyeball.js - Lightweight Javascript MVC Framework

28

5

A JavaScript library to handle keyboard events

21

6

Simple continuous integration server written with NodeJS and CoffeeScript

17

7

Towards a Cleaner Gmail, A Google Chrome Extension & Experiment

15

8

The Totally Unofficial Ruby coding style guide

13

9

Awesome Modelbinding For Backbone.js

12

10

Three20: a collection of iPhone UI classes

12

Wikipedia [?]

1

Programmers' Day

407

2

One-electron universe

166

3

P vs NP on simple english wikipedia - feedback, please

89

4

5

5

TIL Bootstrapping originally referred to an "absurdly impossible feat."

5

6

Legendre's constant

2

7

2

8

Andrica's conjecture

2

9

Internet of Things

1

10

Adhocracy "operates in opposite fashion to a bureaucracy"

1

Blogs [?]

1

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

55

2

It's Charisma, Stupid (2004, updated 2006)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

CoffeeScript-like language for C/C++?

6

2

Machine learning in OCaml or Haskell?

5

3

Short and useful Python snippets - Stack Overflow

5

4

How do you get by without a Mouse?

2

5

Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10

1

6

Enable pressing tab to search in Google chrome on my website - Stack Overflow

1

7

How to stop CouchDB to create document revisions when updating counters

1

8

Sometimes 73/100 = 0 (and not 0.73)

1

9

Who touched my git assume-unchanged bit?

1

Substack [?]