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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs
1722
2
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
1006
3
I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
626
4
Do a barrel roll - Google Search
479
5
Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans
472
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Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman
418
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Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
405
8
My offer to Google Reader
402
9
Stop the E-Parasite Act
402
10
Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplate - Extend
388
Top Ask HN
1
Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
304
2
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)
78
3
How Can We Help Make HN a Better Online Community?
59
4
I cannot afford to scale
52
5
How to Be an Entrepreneur in the US, if you aren't American
41
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have you ever marketed the same product under two different names?
34
7
Siri and data sent to servers
21
8
Do you use print() debugging?
15
9
Review my startup - EventSnag
14
10
Some more love for my mad startup made for us all, please
14
Top Show HN
1
Scroll Reddit
239
2
WikiMaze
76
3
my one-day project, Trnsfr
62
4
Getting help with your ideas
58
5
Startup Tools (and who actually uses them)
54
6
SHA1 Checksum Large Files with HTML5 Typed Arrays and Web Workers
45
7
Email open rates are stupid.
23
8
First project and lessons learned
20
9
robonobo - social music streaming & downloading
16
10
My weekend project, Costume Database
15
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage
234
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Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
220
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Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal
217
4
Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary
207
5
520 Days Later: Fake Mars Mission Ready to Return
131
6
Cell-Aging Hack Opens Longevity Research Frontier
101
7
WhiteyPaint Turns Walls Into Whiteboards Without Cramping Your Wallpapers Style
91
8
The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch
90
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Chart.io (YC S10) raises 3.2 million Series A
84
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Kicksend (YC S11) Grabs $1.8M From True Ventures For Dead Simple File Sharing
83
News [?]
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A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs
1722
2
The End of the Credit Card? New Square app: Card Case
243
3
Google threatens to cut ties with Chamber of Commerce over Protect-IP lobbying
209
4
The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands
171
5
Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants
161
6
WikiLeaks: Out of time and money
136
7
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (Its Just So Darn Hard)
96
8
Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work
84
9
Isaacson: The Genius of Jobs
80
10
Crowdfunding bill passes in the House
63
Scientific publications [?]
1
Asteroid set to come closer to the Earth than the moon Nov. 8
115
2
China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships
53
3
Engineering The 10,000 Year Clock
12
4
Discovery: Cosmic Dust Contains Organic Matter from Stars
8
5
Stunning Video of PETMAN Humanoid Robot From Boston Dynamics
8
6
24 Hours at Fukushima
7
7
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming [pdf]
4
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Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
3
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NASA Studying Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' a Reality
3
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Tractor Beams May Actually Work: NASA Studying 3 Methods
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Running a Startup on Haskell
120
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Mac App Store apps must implement sandboxing as of March 2012
77
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The FSF is papering over a binary blob
60
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Core HTML5 Canvas: Mind-blowing Apps in Your Browser
5
5
Worm Turns Unpatched JBoss Servers intoBotnet
4
6
Twitter Blog: Introducing Twitter Stories
3
7
2011 Linux kernel summit surprise: Android code may be merged after all
3
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Finding the Right Data Solution for Your Application
3
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Fortune 500 Gets "F" In Social Engineering Hacking Test
2
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AVM vs Cybits: Router vendor claims customers can't modify GPLed Linux code
2
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies
195
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SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet
76
3
Hidden "Drop Box" feature in Mac OS X Lion lets you sync files across Macs
66
4
IPhone 4S: Anandtech review
63
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Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested
46
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IOS 5.0.1 lets developers to specify files that should remain on device
13
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Siri is experiencing first major outage in the US
8
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Proposed Copyright Bill Threatens Whistleblowing and Human Rights
8
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Apple rumored to be testing new ultrathin 15-inch MacBook
7
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Microsoft reportedly blocked data center guru's move to Apple
5
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon adds 1 free book rental a month for Kindle users with Amazon Prime
40
2
Amazon adds 800 TV Shows, Disney-ABC to Prime Streaming
11
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Kindle Owners Lending Library
7
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Amazon SNS Introduces SMS Text Message Notifications
4
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GarageBand Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch Users
2
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Kindle's Owners' Lending Library: borrow one free book a month with Prime
2
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Amazon's Simple Notification Service gets SMS
2
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Introducing the Kindle Owner's Lending Library (for Amazon Prime customers)
2
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AWS SNS now supports SMS to US numbers
2
10
Amazon introduces the Kindle lending library
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Ambitious iOS Apps by Fraser Speirs
41
2
Piracy is Not Theft: Problems of a Nonsense Metaphor
31
3
Piracy May Boost Sales, Judge Concludes
11
4
Please help with the reasoning, client wants to switch to .NET
7
5
MPAA Lashes Out Against Rogue Cyberlockers
2
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WebPhone - An Open, Editable Idea for a Phone that IS the web
2
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Beautiful Probability
2
8
Akka roadmap to release 2.0 (scala actor lib)
2
9
Ask NH: What happended to this guys?
1
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Avera: The Average Font
1
Science News [?]
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U.S. Education Assessment Shows Modest but Steady Gains in Math Scores
21
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Eyes reveal true hypnotic state for the first time
21
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Mathematically detecting stock market bubbles before they burst
11
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The Heyday of Software Easter Eggs Has Passed.
10
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How fracking for natural gas causes earthquakes
8
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Scientific American archive free until Nov 30th
6
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Scientists and autism: When geeks meet
5
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Brain cells responsible for keeping us awake identified
4
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Prolonged Sitting Linked to Breast and Colon Cancers
4
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Live Longer With Fewer Calories? Key Enzyme Involved in Aging Process Found
2
Social [?]
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DAE think CoffeeScript is ridiculously overrated?
8
2
If Quake was done today
7
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Simulating Game of Life inside a Game of Life
7
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Disturbing: A Girl Turns to Reddit and Youtube To Report Past Abuse
7
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Ira Glass on disappointment and creative work
6
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Hardly Working: Start-up Guys
6
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Judge William Adams beats daughter for using the internet [video]
6
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Angry Birds downloads pass half-billion mark
5
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Working model of Stephenson's pure glass steam engine
5
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Bob Geldof: "Growth rates in Africa higher than in india and china"
5
Github repos and gists [?]
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Introducing GitHub Enterprise
281
2
I Make Dreams Come True
167
3
Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released
165
4
Eloquent JavaScript on GitHub
69
5
Jeremy Ashkenas's proposal for minimalist JS classes
68
6
Stacked views lib for iPad (as in Twitter's app)
45
7
A simple epub reader written with pygtk and pywebkit
28
8
Ruby: Make a static website from your sinatra app with 75loc
28
9
Macvim fork with native file browser
16
10
Access your Event timelines and OAuth tokens through the API - GitHub
11
Wikipedia [?]
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Carl Fisher
54
2
Shakespeare programming language
35
3
Elliptic curve cryptography via Wikipedia
2
4
For you beginners out there that want to get into web development
2
5
Elephant's Dream: CC Animation made using only Open Source Software
2
6
Happy Birthday, Mr. Boole
2
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Esoteric programming languages
1
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Setun - A Russian ternary computer (dated 1958)
1
9
Man or boy test
1
10
Myth of the Flat Earth
1
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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"Testing on iOS device without ADP or jailbreak" -- does answer #2 still work?
2
2
How to Track Email Opens, Clicks, Prints, Skims, and Forwards, Litmus Style.
2
3
Anti-Debugging Tricks
2
4
What is redis and what do i use it for?
1
5
Hello World In Less Than 20 Bytes
1
Substack [?]