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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
1236
2
Facebook is scaring me
546
3
Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals.
545
4
Hey Google, I want my cache links back
508
5
Logging out of Facbook is not enough
468
6
I want to pay for TextMate 2
449
7
"Algorithm" is not a four letter word
440
8
How to Rock an Algorithms Interview
435
9
Introducing Amazon Silk
422
10
Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.
417
Top Ask HN
1
European startup looking for a service for recurring billing
93
2
Has anybody here ever successfully started a videogame company?
82
3
What API to the physical world do you wish existed?
66
4
We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck
56
5
Founding a startup in New York City?
53
6
Would you build a startup from open source?
25
7
Is it ok to start a Delaware Corp solely to accept payments?
18
8
Acquisition failed, company has our IP / knowledge
18
9
What can I sell in Times Square?
17
10
Is there a HN for the humanities?
15
Top Show HN
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HackerThings - Products for hackers
360
2
Write a sort, watch it go
288
3
I built a tool I wanted to have, but didnt exist
115
4
TweetBoard.me
114
5
I built a webapp to help web "designers" create logos and fonts quickly
96
6
textlaundry.com
84
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Pytroj - Infect .pyc files
51
8
I'm releasing a series of OS iOS/Mac apps to show how they're built
38
9
Lisense, simple web app for rating readability of any license
35
10
TidyFinder
34
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit
313
2
Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm
173
3
Microsoft security tools nuking Chrome browser
123
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AVOS Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
120
5
Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire"
106
6
Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All
85
7
Tutorial: OS X automation with MacRuby and the Scripting Bridge
74
8
Googler Builds Site That Shows You What Top Tech Companies Pay
72
9
Facebooks iPad App Has Been Done Since May, But They Wont Release It
62
10
Windows Phone does transmit location information without user consent
62
News [?]
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Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
384
2
Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)
212
3
Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations
153
4
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
144
5
The cloud's my-mom-cleaned-my-room problem
120
6
The world economy is heading towards a black hole unless bold action taken
107
7
Amazon Has High Hopes for Its iPad Competitor
94
8
Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task
93
9
Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Indefinitely
55
10
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
46
Scientific publications [?]
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I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing
37
2
Is the universe really expanding? Scientist thinks otherwise
5
3
Boston Dynamics' AlphaDog Quadruped Robot Prototype on Video
3
4
The Top Programming Languages
2
5
The Ten Thousand Kims
2
6
NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About Planet Mercury
2
7
Possible clock sync issue as explanation of the neutrino velocity anomaly
2
8
Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science
1
9
Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher
1
10
China to Launch 1st Space Lab Module on Thursday
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
1236
2
Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now serving malware
168
3
DHS Thinks Some SCADA Problems Are Too Big To Call "Bug"
3
4
US residents can now accept credit card payments with stripe.com
3
5
Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway
2
6
Behind the Numbers of Mozilla's Bug Bounty Program
2
7
Crypto Legend Ron Rivest On Fixing SSL, APTs and The Future Of Security
2
8
Java Profiling Open Source Tools
2
9
A New Data Exchange Mechanism in Windows 8
1
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Is VIA Back To Playing With Linux, Gallium3D?
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Join EFF in Demanding a Digital Upgrade to 25-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Law
70
2
Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch
15
3
Given a choice, 46% of Citrix employees picked Macs
12
4
The new iPhone...
10
5
Python on a microcontroller
8
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Toilet paper printer made from scrap parts
5
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On Newspapers, Public Discourse, and the Right to Remain Anonymous
3
8
AnandTech: Hands-on With The Galaxy Tab 8.9
2
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New iPhone... Finally
2
10
Amazon estimated to lose $50 per Kindle Fire sold
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi
140
2
Amazon Route 53 Reduces Hosted Zone Pricing
58
3
Amazon.com Updated: Kindle Fire
8
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Samsung pays Microsoft in cross-patent license agreement
5
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Amazon Signs Deal With Fox
4
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Jeff Bezos on the Kindle Fire
3
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Amazon signs streaming deal with Fox
2
8
Amazon Route 53 Reduces Hosted Zone Pricing
2
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"will establish secure connection from cloud to the site on your behalf"
2
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Amazon Silk Terms & Conditions Reveal 'Off-Cloud' Mode
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Today is Petrov Day
50
2
Idiot's guide to viewports and media queries
45
3
Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25% in Sweden
45
4
Pirate Service Makes Textbook Rentals Last Forever
40
5
$10 Music Piracy Fine: A Fair Deal Or Just Another Cheap Trick?
7
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The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love
2
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Record-Breaking BitTorrent Lawsuit Decimated
2
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What Matters in Scientific Software Projects [video]
1
9
Who are MCGIP (and Why are They Suing for Other Peoples Movies?)
1
10
About Google Docs Offline
1
Science News [?]
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Single psilocybin dose may make lasting personality change
186
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It's Time to End the War on Salt
152
3
A Brief History of the Brain
48
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Texas holds firm on physics closures
16
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Twitter Mood Map Reveals World's Emotions
6
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Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum
4
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Engineers can build a low-carbon world if we let them
3
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Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos? Physics Luminaries Voice Doubts
3
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Remains of Satellite May Never Be Found, NASA Says
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Mercury not like other planets
2
Social [?]
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BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: "The Collapse Is Coming"
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Tesla, SpaceX and PayPal Co-Founder Elon Musk Responds to Reddit IAmA Questions.
13
3
Character Animator's Animated Pitch for a job at Pixar
10
4
Samsung Doesn't Copy Apple
9
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James Gosling Interview - Ruby can't scale as good as Java (2008) [video]
9
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AMA: Sued for over $1.2mil and now being bullied by Craigslist & their lawyers.
8
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Trader's confession: I've been dreaming for this market crash for 3 yrs [video]
7
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Government doesn't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world
7
9
Patio11's Google Tech Talk: What Engineers Don't Know We Don't Know
7
10
The Full Kindle Fire Presentation by Jeff Bezos
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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SICP optimized for Kindle
237
2
Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js
218
3
GitHub adds a dashboard showing all issues for all your projects
129
4
A git plugin for Sublime Text 2
127
5
Sudoku Solver in 140 bytes
119
6
A JavaScript NES Emulator
31
7
Wp-cli - A command line tool to do work on a Wordpress from the command line.
12
8
The thank-me-later pull request
6
9
Free RPG engine for fun or profit in GitHub
5
10
Hook.io
5
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of company name etymologies
66
2
One instruction set computer
66
3
Meta-jokes
62
4
Tree hacker
12
5
Our world is turning into the one depicted in Ray Bradbury's "The Murderer"
10
6
Computer-controlled socialist economy gets destroyed on 9/11... 1973
10
7
Elo rating system
4
8
Dynamic inconsistency
2
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"Y combinator"
2
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Y Combinator is a "fixed point combinator" in lambda calculus
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stack Overflow Scala Tutorial
135
2
What's stopping me from using arbitrary tags in HTML?
2
3
What's the difference between Git and Mercurial?
1
Substack [?]