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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

John McCarthy Has Died

1595

2

My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine

1053

3

Amit Gupta needs you

875

4

Codify: native coding environment for iPad

541

5

Give this company a child's drawing and they'll make it into a stuffed toy

530

6

Protect IP Renamed E-Parasites Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America

487

7

Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

448

8

Hacker News Needs Honeypots

444

9

Nest - The Learning Thermostat

425

10

GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)

414

Top Ask HN

1

Is brogrammer a sexist term?

174

2

Why don't more UK graduates want to join start-ups?

45

3

Postmates - Free deliveries in San Francisco

35

4

Bootstrapped and profitable - what would you like to know?

21

5

How to avoid going blind

20

6

How do you keep track of your ideas?

15

7

What do you wish someone would build? (ie: free ideas to hack on)

14

8

12

9

What's up with invisible threads?

12

10

Which online communities would you recommend for startup founders?

12

Top Show HN

1

A storebuilder contained in a single text area

388

2

Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.

96

3

iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on

68

4

Bookmarklet to Visualize Hacker News Polls

58

5

Think Like (a) Git, a quasi-tutorial

54

6

Kippt.com - Bookmarking made simple

47

7

Angry Birds + Your Tweets * Infographic = TweetSheet

43

8

draughtsman, a webserver for front-end devs

43

9

Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++

34

10

Thotly - An Anonymized Layer On Your Local Reality

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

414

2

360

3

Mass-scale Cold Fusion either becomes reality or proved a scam today

229

4

How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley

192

5

Wikileaks Is Running Out Of Cash

176

6

iPod godfather and ex-iPhone team launch previously stealth startup

170

7

House takes Senate's bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse

162

8

Hands On: Indias $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America

156

9

Codecademy (YC S11) Raises $2.5 Million To Teach You How To Code

127

10

Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'

117

News [?]

1

Will Dropouts Save America?

185

2

179

3

You are the nth person alive on earth

133

4

Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013

102

5

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

77

6

In College, Working Hard to Learn High School Material

74

7

How the Patriot Act stripped me of my free-speech rights

71

8

Facebook confirms first data center outside US on edge of Arctic Circle

56

9

Man vs. Machine: Seven Major Players in High-Frequency Trading

47

10

A Silicon Valley School That Doesnt Compute

45

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Making of Arduino

96

2

Amateur Rocketeers Chase $10,000 Launch Prize Offered By John Carmack

4

3

Someone (probably) solved the Goldbach conjecture

4

4

The Making of Arduino

3

5

HyQ Quadruped Robot From Italy Can Trot, Kick

3

6

Hobby Robot Rides a Bike the Old-Fashioned Way

2

7

STor: Social Network based Anonymous Communication in Tor

1

8

A Microgrid That Wouldnt Quit

1

9

Flat-face approximations of invisibility cloaks with planar metamaterial layers

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute"

181

2

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)

130

3

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

90

4

The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates

46

5

EFF Data Shows Five CAs Compromised Since June

31

6

760 other organizations hit by RSA attackers

22

7

Facebook Patent to Track Users Even When They are Not Logged In to Facebook

15

8

John McCarthy on Elephant 2000, Lisp, Ruby and the Computer Industry

9

9

The Coming Storm

3

10

Google Report Shows It Complied With 93% of U.S. Law Enforcement Data Requests

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back And Its Worse than Ever

235

2

The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes

146

3

Grab your own images from NOAA weather satellites

88

4

Toshiba announces 2560x1600 6.1" display

68

5

Chrome 15 Released to Stable Channel

12

6

How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked?

9

7

Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch Fox News is an incredibly destructive force

8

8

Slide to Unlock? Patented

8

9

Mobile Display Pixel Density

7

10

Steve Jobs' Lack of License Plate Explained

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Productivity Future Vision

7

2

Steve Jobs [Kindle Edition]

5

3

BizSpark Licenses on AWS

4

4

Steve Jobs is "shipping" on kindle (reading now)

2

5

I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight

2

6

Breaking the Time Barrier: The Temporal Engineering of Software

1

7

Steve Jobs' biography available for pre-order

1

8

Presentations in Action (Jerry Weissman) (Kindle Ebook; Free for limited time)

1

9

AWS console adds SES support

1

10

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

86

2

Piracy and Copyright Challenges in 1841 Mirror Those of Today

23

3

German Pirate Party Riding the Wave of Success

10

4

How to Beat Procrastination

9

5

Better Disagreement

8

6

Poll/Form: What is your religion?

7

7

MPAA Lists “Notorious” Pirate Sites To U.S. Government

6

8

Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

4

9

Clayton M. Christensen - How will you measure your life?

3

10

Markets are Anti-Inductive

2

Science News [?]

1

Why Economic Models are Always Wrong

73

2

Bubonic plague genome: The Black Death decoded

27

3

Computer Game Helps Autistic Children Recognize Emotions

15

4

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time

7

5

Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will

7

6

IBM Simulates 4.5 percent of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain

6

7

Kilo, mole, kelvin, and ampere finally being linked to universal constants

5

8

The Goddess Goes Home

4

9

Neuroconomics study reveals how we make decisions

4

10

The capitalist network that runs the world

4

Social [?]

1

Invite HN: Unofficial Post Startup School BBQ at the PA Hacker House

24

2

HN'er DanielBMarkham's daughter talks about her vending machine business [video]

21

3

Another PayPal horror story: Gameolith, the linux game shop.

10

4

Japan Develops Spherical Flying Machine [video]

8

5

Google engineer builds PC from scratch

8

6

Facebook Takes Away Eclipse IDE's Page and Hands It Over to Twilight

8

7

The definitive Thorium guide. Energy we will never run out of

7

8

Twitter account pretends it's 1939 and is tweeting events of WWII in real time

7

9

Guido van Rossum on the History of Python

7

10

The Evolution of John McCarthy (Evolutionary Algo with Lisp Code)

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)

414

2

A JavaScript H.264 decoder

140

3

Let me see your Lisp implementation. Here's mine.

117

4

JSON.sh: a JSON parser written in bash

87

5

Fredit: Let collaborators edit your Rails front-end through the web browser

46

6

Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler

30

7

dynosaur: scale and administer your heroku apps via sms

22

8

Hubot Twilio Adapter

20

9

My script that spams a Google Form with Urban Dictionary terms and definitions

12

10

Terminal pixel art

11

Wikipedia [?]

1

John McCarthy Has Died

1595

2

List of Linux kernel names

62

3

The wikipedia robots.txt

42

4

Project MK-ULTRA

4

5

McCarthy 91 Function

2

6

2

7

Unsolved problems in Physics

2

8

List of emerging technologies

1

9

1

10

Happy birthday Bill Gates

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Roots of Lisp

291

2

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

112

3

What made Lisp Different

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

PUT vs POST in REST

125

2

The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident

70

3

History - Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

4

4

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

3

5

How Can PyPy Beat CPython?

2

6

What is the purpose of a stack?

1

7

Google using X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN for search

1

Substack [?]