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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired

1090

2

In defense of the Google chef

975

3

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

821

4

Don't use MongoDB

695

5

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

591

6

Watch Me Make Mistakes

588

7

Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

583

8

Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee

521

9

The Social Graph is Neither

423

10

Steve Jobs's Real Genius

407

Top Ask HN

1

Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship

148

2

Someone else made a "Pro" version of my app. What can I do about it?

90

3

Why all these funding of filesharings sites?

34

4

I was just acquired by Google. What should I expect?

29

5

What would you do differently if you could go back to college again?

17

6

Ask HN - Any interesting side projects you can share?

17

7

Examples of beautiful C code?

16

8

What is your development setup?

12

9

I'm non-technical, going to my first hackathon.

11

10

Has anyone been where I am? Bunt out?

11

Top Show HN

1

An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

299

2

AI tool reads privacy policies, tells you which sites sell your info.

141

3

Random Google Street View

92

4

My 24-hour project, instacss.com

87

5

My app in 4 weeks is done

77

6

1M Song Dataset dev in 10 mins

75

7

ClassPager lets teachers send reminders and run live Q&A over SMS.

67

8

The reverse package manager

46

9

Bookmark iPhone apps (weekend+ project)

38

10

Top forty hottest songs everyday from Twitter

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

591

2

Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV

247

3

Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release

190

4

The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network

151

5

Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27

146

6

Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead

125

7

Codecademy adds jQuery lessons and scratchpad

116

8

Warner Bros: We issued takedowns for files we never saw

115

9

Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours

92

10

Parse, The Heroku For Mobile, Raises $5.5 Million Series A

87

News [?]

1

Steve Jobs's Real Genius

407

2

Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers

321

3

Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)

222

4

EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.

210

5

AI are taking jobs

181

6

Goldman's new money machine: warehouses

178

7

Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best

160

8

Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100 replies

131

9

Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated

128

10

The Tyranny of Meritocracy

98

Scientific publications [?]

1

Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

94

2

NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

69

3

IFling: UCSD's Latest Ball-Flinging Robot Is 100% More Flingy

15

4

A New Way for Robots to Balance on Two Feet

5

5

Next-Generation ASIMO Robot Unveiled by Honda Robotics

5

6

Pancake Flipping is Hard (NP-Hard)

3

7

Fukushima and the future of nuclear power

2

8

NASA's Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands

2

9

Creepy Crawly Slug Robot Has Tank Treads for Skin

1

10

Sometimes great works fit on one page

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

RIP Apache Harmony

56

2

Fake Documents that Alarm if Opened

39

3

Node.js Now Runs Natively on Windows

8

4

CloudFlare now includes SSL with every paid plan

6

5

Git: A Tale of Three Trees by Scott Chacon

4

6

Experimental Code Published For Virtual CRTCs

2

7

Schneier, Full Disclosure a 'Damned Good Idea' (2007, worth rereading)

2

8

Apple Drops Researcher From Dev Program Over iOS Bug Demo App

2

9

Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector Goes Native on Linux

2

10

3 Mobile App Development Problems and Some Ways to Solve Them

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

RGB laser projector is a jaw-dropping build

78

2

Apple's Siri seen cutting Google out of valuable mobile ad views

44

3

U.S federal investigators to collect private records of three Twitter users

39

4

Google Chairman tells US senators Apple's Siri could pose 'competitive threat'

33

5

'Lost' 70-minute interview with Steve Jobs coming to select theaters in November

23

6

Enable hidden Android-like autocorrect keyboard bar for iOS 5

7

7

The Stop Online Piracy Act: A Blacklist by Any Other Name Is Still a Blacklist

3

8

Steve Jobs could be first posthumously-named Person of the Year

3

9

Nvidia 's Tegra 3 Launched: Architecture Revealed

3

10

Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Thoughts on Flash

12

2

Our bootstrapped indie project is the top card game on Amazon

6

3

Announcing the new US West (Oregon) Region

4

4

Amazon.com: a curious reader's review of A Million Random Digits

4

5

Thoughts on Flash

2

6

AWS global infrastructure location interactive map

2

7

Enjoy every sandwich

2

8

Kindle Owners' Lending Library

1

9

Power your Startup with Amazon Web Services

1

10

Amazon goes 'Public Library' (for prime customers)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Warner Bros. Admits Sending HotFile False Takedown Requests

75

2

Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court Order

54

3

The Pirate Bay Trademark Handed To Alcohol Entrepreneur

29

4

1001 PredictionBook Nights

4

5

The Codex Seraphinianus available under CC license

3

6

ThePirateBay to BPI & MPA: “Thanks yet again for the free advertising”

2

7

How much do you make? - Ruby Developer Income Survey

2

8

World Bank dataset of employment requirements for 183 countries

2

9

Do We Believe Everything We're Told?

1

10

Too Controversial: Pirate Party Banned From Gaming Exhibition

1

Science News [?]

1

Ambitious project to develop biological equivalent of operating system

39

2

Brain parasite directly alters brain chemistry

2

3

Wronger than wrong

2

4

A life full of passion that led to two Nobel prizes

2

5

Most common stars are more life-friendly than thought

1

6

CultureLab: A tour through our self-delusions

1

7

Network theory reveals patterns in Supreme Court votes

1

8

Dragon offers ticket to Mars

1

9

Weird world of water gets a little weirder

1

10

Single molecule nanocar takes its first spin

1

Social [?]

1

Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital

181

2

Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords

101

3

A preview of Khan Academy's CompSci editor by John Resig

14

4

Myths about static code analysis

9

5

OccupyCal - Police brutality at UC Berkeley

9

6

Will.I.Am on Risk (Boom)

5

7

Key Strobe/Sproutcore team members jump ship?

5

8

12 Year Old iPhone App Developer (Ted Talk 4:34mins)

4

9

DynDNS is down. DDOS Attack

4

10

Original design gangsta

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.

223

2

BicaVM: A JVM in JavaScript

64

3

Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Backbone.js on Rails'

57

4

Clojure Conj Slides

46

5

/web/null eats your HTTP

45

6

Git.io: GitHub URL Shortener

9

7

Aspect-Oriented Programming in Coffeescript using Combinator Birds

8

8

My weekend project: Ruby static bugfinder

7

9

C++ Standard Draft source on GitHub

6

10

Coffee guard caat Jessie - template for portable HTML5 game

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

183

2

11

3

2

4

Wife Acceptance Factor

2

5

Electric-steam locomotive

2

6

SHA 3 hash function competition

2

7

Ben Franklin effect

2

8

The Soul Theorem

1

9

Streaming music predates the Internet.

1

10

Dichroic filter: very high accuracy thin-film interference color filter

1

Blogs [?]

1

Watch Me Make Mistakes

588

2

How to Make Wealth

153

3

2

4

Ten E-Commerce Mistakes

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Exchange is down

6

2

2011 Stack Overflow Moderator Elections

3

3

Convert vim search to search and replace without retyping regular expression

2

4

Registers and pasting yanked text into vim command line

1

Substack [?]