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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I was once a Facebook fool

1368

2

Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

929

3

Bring a stick man to life.

849

4

This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

656

5

A First Look at BankSimple

465

6

Very cool, but very creepy, open source project

449

7

Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source

448

8

How Github uses Github to build Github

382

9

GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

368

10

What Netflix Could Have Said This Week

352

Top Ask HN

1

Small product, single founder success stories?

325

2

good, quick algorithms course to prepare for big tech interviews?

139

3

What do people do with the code from failed startups?

45

4

best language for hiring?

41

5

Where/How can I learn more about general webapp maintenance?

40

6

how is browser geolocation so precise?

28

7

Non-technical people, how did you learn to code?

27

8

How can I motivate my talented dev to give a shit?

20

9

How do you get over the pain of refund requests?

19

10

Is it feasible to use redis as the only datastore?

18

Top Show HN

1

Pulse A simple pulsating indicator.

159

2

Check out the 23" Android 'tablet' I made for $600

155

3

Kerning.js Take control of your web typography

153

4

We measure classroom confusion

132

5

Crowd² - A viral marketing campaign creator I wrote in 72 hours

104

6

Taking the Emmys by Storm (screencast on how to develop with Storm)

88

7

My Technical Blogging book for hackers and founders is now in Beta

74

8

A drag drop webpage builder in 10k HTML/JS/CSS

68

9

Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs

68

10

How we built a TTS-powered tool for learning spelling/foreign languages

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses

297

2

$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud

157

3

Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun?

155

4

Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars

146

5

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (2009)

139

6

Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant

113

7

Salesforce buys Assistly for $50M in cash

99

8

Obama Signs Patent Reform Bill

93

9

Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+

80

10

Google+ Suddenly Looks Pretty Busy For A Ghost Town

75

News [?]

1

Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

929

2

My Familys Experiment in Extreme Schooling

147

3

Why two men committing the same crime get different chances at a parole

142

4

Not Sharing Is Caring

133

5

Richard Dawkins: A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy

124

6

Meg Whitman to be named new HP CEO

90

7

Startup company succeeds at hiring autistic adults

89

8

HP Board Said to Weigh Ousting Apotheker as CEO

78

9

Why Silicon Valley Is Running Scared From Health Care

65

10

CEO: Red Hat potentially first billion dollar OSS company in 2012

45

Scientific publications [?]

1

Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program

98

2

Local-time effect on small space-time scale

27

3

35 years of orbital launchers

21

4

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

20

5

Financial Trading At The Speed Of Light

20

6

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

4

7

Practical Quantum Computers Creep Closer to Reality

3

8

In Things We Trust? Towards trustability in the Internet of Things

2

9

Exploiting Skype to Reveal BitTorrent Users [pdf]

2

10

Architects Using Robots to Build Beautiful Structures

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The letter that started AMD's Open-Source Strategy

18

2

Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia

17

3

Freakonomics Author, Stephen Dubner on Bug Bounties and Rat Farming

6

4

An interesting take on three emerging Cyber Threats.

4

5

InfoQ Explores: REST

3

6

New Attacks on SSL Breaks Confidentiality Model

3

7

The State of Gentoo

3

8

Schneier: An Interesting Software Liability Proposal

3

9

Lessons Learnt Migrating a Very Large and Database into a "Classic" NoSQL

3

10

Intel Unveils JavaScript Extension that Adds Parallel Processing Capabilities

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Investigation: Is Your SSD More Reliable Than A Hard Drive?

119

2

Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed

52

3

EFF details post-Bilski confusion on what is too "abstract" to patent

24

4

Microsoft to take 30% cut of Metro apps under Windows 8

15

5

Apple's iPhone has 89% retention rate, next nearest hardware is HTC at 39%

7

6

Ivy Bridge to Support Ultra High Resolution 4096x4096 Screens

4

7

Well-known iPhone jailbreak hacker visits Apple campus for unknown reasons

4

8

iPhone, iPad now represent 83% of WiFi mobile devices; PCs shift into minority

4

9

Amazon Media Event Set for September 28th, Tablet Announcement Expected

3

10

Microsoft to take 30% cut of Metro apps under Windows 8 (Will itunes be affected

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

IPad in Business: St. Louis Urgent Cares

94

2

Possiplex: Ted Nelson's autobiography

2

3

Apple Releases Major Update and Free Trial for Final Cut Pro X

2

4

2

5

Amazon - AWS mobile SDK

1

6

Microsoft to offer cheap hardware, software to students from low-income families

1

7

Open Specification Promise

1

8

Lean Startup by Eric Reis - highly recommended

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Go's Concurrency Constructs on Single-Chip Cloud Computer

41

2

Our technology document (Google Doc)

18

3

The Economics of (Killing) Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits

7

4

Pirate Party Enters Berlin Parliament After Historic Election Win

5

5

Your inner Google

3

6

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

3

7

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

2

8

Girls Are Not Into The Pirate Bay, Or BitTorrent

2

9

UTorrent Adds Android, iOS, PS3 and Xbox Integration

2

10

Req for Feedback: Universal Binary JSON Specification

1

Science News [?]

1

Scientists discover 'hidden' code in DNA evolves more rapidly than genetic code

44

2

Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet

11

3

Dimension-hop may allow neutrinos to cheat light speed

7

4

Life-like cells are made of metal

4

5

Smartphone Battery Life Could Dramatically Improve With New Invention

3

6

Unbridled ingenuity at Maker Faire

2

7

A Tale of Math Treasure

2

8

Shake, Rattle and Power Up? New Device Generates Energy from Small Vibrations

1

9

Top tips for communicating - pitches, ideas, science, anything.

1

10

Belief in 'Da Vinci Code' Conspiracy May Ease Fear of Death

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook Timeline

309

2

20 short videos on building distributed applications with node.js and hook.io

19

3

Facebook gets redesigned

19

4

Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All Demos (1968)

16

5

This reddit user writes alternative texts for posted images

14

6

Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal co-founder) doing an AMA on Reddit

10

7

Facebook Subscribers CTR

9

8

Qwikster: well, that's awkward...

7

9

Soon Node.js will not be bound to 1GB memory limit thanks to new v8 GC

6

10

The Lean Startup By Eric Ries - Official Video Trailer

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source

448

2

GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

368

3

A resume template in TeX

194

4

Payment processing for Django

161

5

scales: Greplin's new open source Python server metrics library

77

6

Cocoapods: An Objective-C library package manager

66

7

Flickr-like ticket server in ~100 lines of Perl (~8k tickets/s)

18

8

Supervisord.js: Node.js Library for Supervisord

15

9

Grub-fuse bridge. (ro-)ReiserFS on MacOSX and more.

12

10

You can learn from this gitconfig file

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Decision Fatigue

6

2

The AarneThompson system for classifying folktales

5

3

List of changes in Star Wars re-releases

4

4

4

5

The McGurk Effect

3

6

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

3

7

Extreme points of Earth

2

8

The Snow White Design Language

2

9

Dijkstra's Shunting-yard algorithm

2

10

Bit Rot - Your software, data can actually decay or degrade over time

1

Blogs [?]

1

PG's Rarely Asked Questions

293

2

Why Nerds Are Unpopular [2003]

2

3

The Island Test (2006)

2

4

How to Fund a Start-up

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why aren't and valid Javascript variable names?

84

2

How do you fallback to a local stylesheet if your CDN fails?

12

3

Is there a better answer for this Python/Django interview question than my own?

2

4

What jQuery fixes

2

5

Why is WinRT unmanaged? (or why Windows 8 is embracing COM)

1

6

What is the worst class/variable/function name you have ever encountered?

1

7

How does the new Windows 8 Runtime compare to Silverlight and WPF?

1

8

Understanding jQuery queue

1

Substack [?]