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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria

613

2

24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook

569

3

Video: Quantum Levitation

567

4

Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant

556

5

Dizzying but invisible depth

538

6

printf("goodbye, Dennis");

490

7

OpenClassroom: Free video courses from Stanford University

484

8

Signs that you are a bad programmer

449

9

Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents.

440

10

Jwz: Google's pseudonym support "obvious bullshit"

434

Top Ask HN

1

What programming blogs do you read daily?

707

2

Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.

219

3

Please review my site "Smoke Signal"

141

4

Open-source alternatives of Gmail?

71

5

Ask HN : Where Does VC Money Really Go?

69

6

Can I Help You with Anything?

63

7

Getting back into the working world with a negative track record

58

8

Is it improper to invite ex-coworkers to join your startup?

29

9

Why are more Startups using Python over Ruby?

26

10

How does your startup charge customer credit cards?

25

Top Show HN

1

The users behind Hacker News

190

2

Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour

160

3

validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library

98

4

TouchBase (re-imagining the iPhone calendar)

92

5

BackboneScreencasts.com

71

6

Easily monitor your Google Analytics metrics with Leftronic

48

7

DJS - Media Distribution with no server-side code

23

8

My iOS5 app using CoreImage and Twitter integration

22

9

Launching my product in Japan

16

10

What movie to see in theaters, powered by Hunch

14

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Massive 15-year Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer

259

2

Dropbox Said No To “Nine-Digit” Acquisition Offer From Steve Jobs

215

3

The Great Tech War Of 2012

116

4

Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users

116

5

Kurzweil's rebuttal to Paul Allen

101

6

Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe

100

7

Khan Academy Triples Unique Users To 3.5 Million

93

8

After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong

87

9

Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund Back Social Address Book Everyme (YC S11)

86

10

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Leaked: Image, Specs And Launch Date

84

News [?]

1

We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria

613

2

printf("goodbye, Dennis");

490

3

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

377

4

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

281

5

No TV for children under 2, urge doctors

249

6

What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report

233

7

Why Finlands schools are great (by doing what we dont).

219

8

211

9

182

10

We Can All Become Job Creators

134

Scientific publications [?]

1

Secret No More: Spy Satellite Designer Reveals Life's Work

65

2

The World's First Bitcoin Conference

24

3

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

21

4

Are Minds Computable?

3

5

The most informative abstract ever (re: speeding neutrinos)

3

6

DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites

2

7

Neutrinos not faster than light after all

1

8

The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations

1

9

Robot Scoops Some Poop

1

10

Touring SOFIA: NASA Opens Doors to Airborne Observatory

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

348

2

Storm: Distributed and Fault-tolerant Real-time Computation

10

3

Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail

7

4

Announcing the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011

3

5

iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011

3

6

Mobile Attacks and Defense

2

7

ElasticSearch - A Distributed Search Engine

2

8

Gigabyte's ASPM Motherboard Fix: Use Windows

2

9

Sabayon 7 vs. Ubuntu 11.10 Performance

1

10

Ex-Software Pirate Cracks Cybercriminal Wares

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple

349

2

Steve Jobs to Obama: Youre headed for a one-term presidency

135

3

Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars

108

4

Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2

100

5

OCZ's Octane SSD - 1TB in a Consumer Drive

74

6

Steve Jobs: Im going to destroy Android, because its a stolen product.

62

7

Apple director says Steve Jobs told team not to ask "What would Steve do?"

59

8

I was wondering why there was secret service at Stanford on Sunday

9

9

EFF Gets Straight Privacy Answers From Amazon About New "Silk" Tablet Browser

7

10

Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else)

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon kindle source code

319

2

Remembering Steve Jobs: A Million Tributes From Around The World

148

3

IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS

126

4

iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million

109

5

Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8

95

6

Apple Reports Q4 Results, $108B in annual revenue, $26B in earnings

45

7

Steve Jobs is GONE Apple Homepage goes to iPhone. 4S

9

8

Chromebooks now available

2

9

Kindle Format 8, Now With HTML5 and CSS3 Support

2

10

Kinect Makes Learning Playful with Sesame Street and National Geographic

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BitTorrent Throttling Internet Providers Exposed

85

2

Stanford AI Notes（All Units）

39

3

Security Flaw Links BitTorrent Users to Skype Accounts

28

4

DRM Needs To Be Banned Because It’s Toxic

9

5

DRM Needs To Be Banned Because It’s Toxic

9

6

NYC Hackers/Designers: give back (and recruit) to NYC college students

5

7

Google Boots FrostWire From Android Market, But Why?

3

8

Startup PR List - People to email when starting

3

9

Google-Backed File-Sharing Empire Cancels NASDAQ IPO

2

10

A great startup PR list - Blogs, Lists, Influencers

2

Science News [?]

1

Finding puts brakes on faster-than-light neutrinos

30

2

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

22

3

Too much undeserved self-praise can lead to depression

4

4

Study: Standard cosmological model may be wrong

4

5

Dark Matter Mystery Deepens

4

6

IQ can rise or fall significantly during adolescence, brain scans confirm

4

7

Nature journal subscription sale (from $10-50)

3

8

Thai floods mean big loss to Western Digital exports

3

9

Robot builds its own body from sprayable foam

3

10

Humans like to work together in solving tasks -- chimps don't

2

Social [?]

1

Quantum levitation: quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field

18

2

Guido van Rossum's talk at Dropbox last night on the history of Python

13

3

Microsoft's New Store Opening #Fail

10

4

Quantum Levitation

8

5

Quantum Levitation

7

6

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Launch live on Youtube

6

7

Anyone know more about this? And where can I buy one?

5

8

Microsoft Store opening, queuers admit they only want free concert tickets

5

9

Google / Samsung's Ice Cream Sandwich event live stream [video]

5

10

Proggit Thread on Faster TCP Slow Starts

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

170

2

Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations

161

3

An HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery by Antirez

142

4

Work has started on Ruby 2.0

78

5

GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub

59

6

J3D - javascript webGL engine

43

7

Tiny JavaScript DOM selection library for modern browsers and IE5-8

23

8

Hiding the web, one page at a time

19

9

Modern HTML Presentations with deck.js

13

10

Git-garden - display your git branches in an orderly manner

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

FRACTRAN - the esoteric programming language invented by John H Conway

4

2

List of cognitive biases

4

3

Oxford Electric Bell

4

4

3

5

Whitespace (programming language)

3

6

List of emoticons

3

7

The only way to win is to betray your playing partner

2

8

2

9

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

"PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization"

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Monte Carlo profiling

85

2

Dealing with the invisible scroll bars in WebKit on OS X Lion (Stack Overflow)

6

3

Advantages of stateless programming

4

4

Boost your Android development speed. All Android 3rd-party libraries

3

5

Throwing the fattest people off of an overloaded airplane.

2

6

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

2

7

Help Required in Google GTFS for developing an app

2

8

Python Interpreter vs Java Virtual Machine

1

9

The very first question on Stack Overflow

1

10

Help With Javascript Matrix Calculator

1

Substack [?]