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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google algorithm change launched

688

2

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

438

3

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap

423

4

Why 3D doesn't work and never will.

411

5

JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] )

403

6

How (not) to write Factorial in Java

387

7

OAuth Will Murder Your Children

380

8

Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier

302

9

Always pay your web developers

299

10

Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)

290

Top Ask HN

1

Review RentPost.com

179

2

Review DocumentCloud.org

92

3

How to credibly demonstrate self-taught skills/knowledge?

67

4

Ask HN:How to fire a client who is a scamming gullible people through your work?

63

5

What do you use to organize e-books and research papers?

47

6

What company were you at when the dot-com bubble burst in mid 2000?

33

7

Hacker to Hobbyist to Entrepreneur?

33

8

How do you handle an impersonator?

20

9

How do you politely decline a project?

17

10

What do you think of our new domain name generator?

15

Top Show HN

1

Fqwiki - Qwiki cloned with a single HTML file

96

2

EDW, quantitative analytics, machine learning.

70

3

Turning my Dashboard widget into a profitable iOS app

48

4

Fireworks Mobile iPhone Prototyping Suite

38

5

My first MVP - A Tea Search Engine

24

6

Tweet A Stranger, my little web experiment

20

7

PilarHQ, The Posterous of Customer Support

14

8

GrooveBud - my weekend project

11

9

bmrk.it - a simple bookmarking service

6

10

My first web app - SociaLeaks.com - wikileaks for the social scene

5

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier

302

2

Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring

148

3

How the FBI raided Anonymous

144

4

Why I Don’t Buy the Quora Hype

132

5

Who is Mark Bao? Meet the 18-year old entrepreneur behind Threewords.me

108

6

Netflix: ISPs who charge by the gigabyte are ridiculous

96

7

Sean Parker: "The Social Network" is a complete work of fiction

95

8

Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion

94

9

Kinect is fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history

92

10

LinkedIn to File for IPO Today

90

News [?]

1

The piece of paper that fooled Hitler

169

2

Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs

122

3

The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks

105

4

In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks

99

5

47% of the world’s wealthy people are entrepreneurs

87

6

How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan or out-Sony'ed Sony

80

7

Is Facebook making us sad?

79

8

Ex-Spy Runs His Own Private C.I.A.

68

9

Your Lying Eyes: The Illusions of Kokichi Sugihara

50

10

Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points

50

Scientific publications [?]

1

Cloud Robotics FTW

2

2

The Pocketable PC - Is Your Phone Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

2

3

Will Betelgeuse Really Become a Second Sun?

1

4

Autom, the Robot That Helps You Lose Weight

1

5

Fluid intelligence increases with training on working memory

1

6

Researchers build super strong robot hand, looks just like the Terminator's

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

LibreOffice 3.3 Officially Released

24

2

The Tweets Must Flow

7

3

Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting

5

4

Asynchronous, Event-Driven Web Servers for the JVM

3

5

Agile Methods and Startup Companies (2007, but Inspired on Founders at Work)

3

6

Ready for Cyberwar?

3

7

Brute-force Safe-cracking

2

8

Blizzard Still Has a World of Warcraft Linux Client

2

9

Leveraging libdispatch from JVM

2

10

Forty Years of Fun with Computers

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google "not happy" with slow Android app sales

56

2

Surveillance Self-Defense International

16

3

Miniature 555 timer controlled segway

5

4

Insight into Steve Jobs' Product-Centric Approach in 1985 Interview

3

5

Mozilla Leads the Way on Do Not Track

2

6

Verizon will offer only $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone 4 users

2

7

Foxconn to retail Apple products in China, plans 500 stores

2

8

Apple investigating hover gestures as multi-touch alternative

2

9

Netflix says Apple TVs streaming more of its movies than iPads

1

10

AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

438

2

Apple.com gets a redesign

145

3

Introducing Kindle Singles

46

4

Microsoft WebMatrix

5

5

10 Billion Apps Downloaded

4

6

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

4

7

Apple.com's subtle redesign

2

8

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

1

9

InstaLoad: Battery Installation Technology Overview

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More

217

2

EZTV Introduces BitTorrent RSS Standard, With Magnets

26

3

The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry

17

4

The Real Hacker News

4

5

UI/UX tutorial for Engineers please critique

3

6

The Myth of Shareholder Capitalism

2

7

US Case Against Hundreds of BitTorrent File-Sharers Dismissed

2

8

Swedish ISP anonymizes all users to avoid legal logging mandate

2

Science News [?]

1

Single Worm Neurons Remotely Controlled with Lasers

19

2

Entanglement achieved in silicon, QC a possibility.

13

3

The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news

4

4

Kinect used to create holographic video of Princess Leia

2

5

How Might Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant Be Affecting His Health?

2

6

Neurons lose information at ~1bit/second

2

7

Deep meaning in Ramanujan's 'simple' pattern

2

8

Amygdala volume and social network size in humans

1

9

Cloud Computing—What's in It for Me as a Scientist?

1

10

Artificial retinas help robot balance a pencil

1

Social [?]

1

HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites (and interesting browser performance analysis)

52

2

Do you think Cyberpunk came true?

19

3

Amazon password truncation flaw for old accounts

11

4

A Physicist tells the story of approaching the event horizon of a black hole...

10

5

HTML5 Game Benchmark

8

6

IBM Centennial Film: They Were There

6

7

A guy who got into IIT and Google.

6

8

IBM Centennial Film

5

9

Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov Discuss Technology, Progress

5

10

How to keep a Social News Site good

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Greplin (YC W10) open sources 10-15x faster protocol buffers for Python

197

2

Pro scraping with Node.JS

60

3

Long stacktraces for V8 (Chrome and Node.js) implemented in user-land JavaScript

22

4

Rails split tester (A/B testing plugin)

7

5

Example database-driven web application in Go

7

6

Clojure machine learning lib - bradford/infer

5

7

LESS CSS pre-processor in PHP

5

8

LimeJS - HTML5 game framework for web and iOS

4

9

MEMP : Mac, EnginX, MySql and PHP

4

10

PHP Wrapper for Amazon Simple Email Service

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Swarm intelligence

37

2

Soviet version of the Space Shuttle

33

3

Wardenclyffe Tower a.k.a. the Tesla Tower

10

4

Comics Code Authority

6

5

2

6

Pareto principle

2

7

2

8

The Robustness Principle

1

9

List of common misconceptions

1

10

XOR swap algorithm - swap two numbers without a temporary variable

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow

83

2

How to Manage CSS Explosion

63

3

NoSQL, interpreted as "Not Only SQL" and used in conjunction with MySQL

9

4

Make an application that adds two inputted numbers together

4

5

Google Code + SVN or GitHub + Git

2

6

Maximum Number of As using only n of the keystrokes ^A, ^V, and ^P.

1

7

Someone finally found a fix for Chrome's anti-aliasing issues with text-shadow

1

Substack [?]