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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

1924

2

Steve's Google Platform rant

1182

3

Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project

798

4

I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.

736

5

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

733

6

IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior

560

7

557

8

Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air

557

9

555

10

518

Top Ask HN

1

What data structure does our brain use?

132

2

Please stop overriding standard browser navigation keys with Javascript.

98

3

Where/How do I learn about credit card payments and payment gateways

90

4

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

64

5

What are your music prototyping solutions?

53

6

What kind of sample Vim plugin should I build in LVSTHW?

31

7

Do you use timetracking at your startup?

24

8

Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?

22

9

Tell me about some good niche online communities you know?

22

10

What web hosting service do you use? (2011 edition)

21

Top Show HN

1

my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.

244

2

Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

214

3

My network connection monitor for Mac

144

4

Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi

141

5

Markdrop drag and drop Markdown previews

67

6

Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users

41

7

Tag Along (my first iPhone app 37 days later)

25

8

my weekend project, a "framework" for IRC apps/bots

24

9

Mouin, a sane way to create native mobile apps

22

10

Send cool postcards - weekend project

12

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity

359

2

Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On

221

3

Everything is getting heavier

142

4

Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era

125

5

Apples iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

123

6

Andreessen Horowitz Joins The Start Fund To Seed YC Companies

122

7

Heres To The Crazy One

97

8

Dennis Ritchie: the giant whose shoulders we stand on

97

9

Y Combinator Is Now Getting Over One Application Every Minute

95

10

The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened

84

News [?]

1

Panic of the Plutocrats

273

2

The Man Who Inspired Jobs

241

3

Unix's founding fathers [2004]

205

4

The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants

132

5

Akamai close to being acquired by Google

128

6

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed

113

7

Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race

111

8

Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

101

9

Google not acquiring Akamai

97

10

Design That Solves Problems for the Worlds Poor

87

Scientific publications [?]

1

Jewish problems

297

2

Taiwanese to Form Patent Bank to Defend Local Companies

33

3

Claim: Algorithm that Solves 3-SAT in Polynomial Time

19

4

Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps: What the electronics industry can learn

18

5

Private Spaceship Factory Opens for Business in Calif. Desert

18

6

Inventing Unix: a May 2011 interview with Dennis Ritchie

10

7

3-SAT in polynomial time, or P=NP

5

8

Measuring the earth with traceroute [Warning: PDF]

3

9

P=NP? 3-SAT "solved" in O(n^2)

2

10

Scientific comparison of Mozart and Salieri

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Dennis Ritchie RIP

208

2

Using A Graph Database To Power The Web of Things

16

3

Google Dart Language and Tools Explained

4

4

ATM Skimmer Powered by MP3 Player (Similar to Square)

3

5

Case Study: Large-scale Pure OO at the Irish Government

2

6

AMD Ports Open-Source Linux Driver To Windows Embedded

2

7

AMD Ports Open-Source Linux Driver To Windows Embedded

2

8

Intel's Brewing A New Linux Driver Release Cycle

2

9

SQLFire: Scalable SQL instead of NoSQL

2

10

Vinoski and Ippolito on Async I/O, Python, Node.js, Web Development in Erlang

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air

557

2

Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform

413

3

Backify Offers 512 GB Free Online Backup Storage

65

4

The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G

50

5

ATT Sells 200,000 iPhone 4S's in 12 Hours

8

6

iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks, beats all smart phones

7

7

iOS chief Scott Forstall profiled as a 'maddeningly political' mini-Steve Jobs

6

8

Guidelines for Securing Open Source Software

2

9

The Bulldozer Review: AMD FX-8150 Tested

2

10

iPhone 4S performance

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup

222

2

iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours

106

3

ITunes 10.5 - iTunes in the cloud and wifi sync

3

4

IOS 5 - 200+ new features for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

3

5

Apple - iOS 5 -Now Available.

3

6

Is Microsoft.com down?

2

7

Microsoft officially closes its acquisition of Skype

2

8

Microsoft Officially Welcomes Skype

2

9

IOS 5 officially out

2

10

iOS 5 now available!

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Stanford AI Class Lecture Notes

146

2

Eureka Ditching DRM Decreases Piracy

3

3

Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final

3

4

The cool way to compile your christmas shopping list

2

5

Patent Violation Lawsuit Against BitTorrent / uTorrent Dropped

2

6

The High Cost of Low Wages

2

7

BBS The Documentary

2

8

Return Of The High Court And Low Court

2

9

Undercover Cops and Politicians Escape BitTorrent Lawsuits

2

10

IPhone 4S Price Plans in the UK

1

Science News [?]

1

Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest

29

2

Self-Replication Process Holds Promise for Production of New Materials

19

3

Single Dose of Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change

13

4

Pain of Ostracism Can Be Deep, Long-Lasting

3

5

Solar lows caused extreme European winters

3

6

Department of Homeland Security has a 'Pre-Crime' Detector

2

7

Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to insights

2

8

Short Sharp Science: Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever

2

9

Carbon nanotube artificial muscle mimics elephant trunk

2

10

An Interactive Periodic Table

1

Social [?]

1

Redditor burnt by Paypal's "Rolling Reserve" feature

244

2

Facebook for iPad

135

3

Steve Jobs: Photo Booth 2005

74

4

Customs Form filled by Apollo 11

54

5

(reddit) YC applications are due, did you apply? If so, what are you building

49

6

Dennis Ritchie passes away

15

7

Qu8k - Carmack Prize Attempt video

11

8

Happy Birthday, Dennis Ritchie (from Penn Jillette)

10

9

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain Unix (Bell Labs)

10

10

Redis creator calls for HN replacement

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript

265

2

Groupon tries to recruit DHH.

189

3

HTML5 (plugin free) web-based terminal emulator and SSH client

155

4

Github's new look: The Code Tab

122

5

Donatello, a pure CSS drawing library

111

6

JSModem for JSLinux

78

7

44

8

JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor

30

9

Deploy to AppHarbor from GitHub

26

10

GitHub: Issues Dashboard for Organizations

22

Wikipedia [?]

1

238

2

Goodstein's theorem - only provable using trans-finites

4

3

Rubber duck debugging

4

4

Timeline of the future in forecasts

4

5

3

6

The specific heat of supercooled helium is

2

7

2

8

India unveils $35 tablet computer.

2

9

The Witch of Agnesi

2

10

.AQ is the TLD for Antarctica

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why Startup Hubs Work

16

2

Paul Graham on "Hacker"

4

3

Redundancy and Power

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is your favourite C programming trick?

132

2

Why is Xcode trying to access 'cs193p.dyndns.org'?

3

3

How did you learn the GNU make tools?

3

4

Twitter revoked cree.py's API keys

2

5

Answer StackOverflow question on how to noSync data on iOS5, extra $200 reward

1

6

How to get Node.js' CPU usage from within

1

Substack [?]