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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Stop SOPA, save the Internet

866

2

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

749

3

Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA

680

4

Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT

670

5

Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

585

6

558

7

Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia

530

8

517

9

Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)

499

10

Stanford to host more online classes

488

Top Ask HN

1

Please stop "This."

101

2

Stop spamming us? (Google Plus)

65

3

Why do big companies tend to only build with Java?

49

4

What's your ratio of time coding to planning?

35

5

Someone wants to resell our SaaS. What can go wrong?

35

6

What are you reading right now?

27

7

I'm about to sell my startup for a lot of $, what next?

23

8

Is Twitter's Blog a Spam site?

16

9

Friends and I are hacking this weekend. What should we build?

15

10

Ask HN:Beautiful Web UIs - how?

14

Top Show HN

1

When is good time to submit a story on HN?

263

2

Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service

129

3

113

4

46

5

My minimum viable side project

45

6

RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

37

7

I gave up on the project I'd been working on, so I open-source'd it

31

8

Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits

31

9

Eventivore - Our Submission to the 36 hour Hacka2thon

29

10

my weekend project, Helplin. Instant Hotline.

25

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

749

2

Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia

530

3

Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly

481

4

Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition

456

5

Jack Dorsey does 8 hours at Twitter, 8 hours at Square daily

237

6

Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines should be under $100

202

7

Planet Earth time lapse photos from the International Space Station

197

8

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

184

9

Galaxy Nexus Review

169

10

Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble

168

News [?]

1

This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

421

2

At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future

241

3

Generation Sell

202

4

Congress: Trading stock on inside information?

185

5

Teaching Good Sex

175

6

What Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla

173

7

Europe's Web Of Debt

140

8

Facebook Tells Salman Rushdie He Has to Go By His Given Name, Ahmed Rushdie

101

9

H. Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Winner for RNA Research, Dies

98

10

This 28-year-old's Iowa startup moves $350 million a year.

92

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Making of Arduino

45

2

Army Hypersonic Weapon Test Success

15

3

Frequent swearing lessens its efficiency as pain-reliever

13

4

Transistor Wars

5

5

Life and Times of Saturn's Giant Storm

3

6

Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says

2

7

Cosmic Fail: Getting into Space Is Still Really, Really Hard

1

8

Watch This Robot Control a Person's Arm Using Electrodes

1

9

Preliminary Analysis of Google+'s Privacy

1

10

Want to Be an Astronaut? NASA Seeking More Space Travelers

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation

79

2

MagLev 1.0 Released

64

3

Strange Loop 2011 Languages Panel

37

4

SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets

8

5

The State and Future of Parallel Javascript in the Browser with RiverTrail

5

6

Google Eclipse Plugin now Open Source

5

7

Google Has Open Sourced Android 4.0

3

8

Google Closure Stylesheets Makes It Easier to Work with CSS

3

9

There's A Patent Issue With Open-Source Doom 3

3

10

Mac OS X Sandbox Security Hole Uncovered

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again

106

2

The Sovereign Keys Project

101

3

Gasse: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS

96

4

Adobe manager puts partial blame on Apple for mobile Flash failure

15

5

EFF Mourns the Passing of Ilya Zhitomirskiy

13

6

Table Salt Could Allow for 18 Terabyte Hard Drives

5

7

Major PC makers plan to concede tablet market to Apple, Amazon in 2012

3

8

Apple reportedly prepped AMD-powered MacBook Air, dropped it at last minute

3

9

Apple's restrictive pre-installed software policy halts NTT DoCoMo iPhone deal

3

10

Samsung wont try to block iPhone 4S sales in South Korea

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Kinect Accelerator

6

2

The Kinect Accelerator

4

3

An old design of the Apple Online Store at apple.com

2

4

Apple recalls 1st generation iPod Nano

1

5

Cards, by Apple: make and send letterpress cards

1

6

Alternate Definition of Irony

1

7

1

8

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

SOPA sponsors break their own laws

257

2

EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures

174

3

Perhaps The Copyright Industry Deserves Some Credit

67

4

RIAA Wants To Shutter Torrent Sites, And More

65

5

The myth of shareholder capitalism (2010)

60

6

OS X Lion Artifacts v1.0

5

7

The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking

5

8

Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull Domain Seizure Add-On

3

9

Joe Biden Opposes SOPA (video)

3

10

ISPs: Blocking The Pirate Bay Violates Freedom of Expression

3

Science News [?]

1

Quantum theorem shakes foundations

128

2

Obese Monkeys Lose Weight On Drug That Attacks Blood Supply of Fat Cells

36

3

The Brain Acts Fast to Reappraise Angry Faces

16

4

Full-disc encryption is too good, complain CSI teams

10

5

Proof found for unifying quantum principle

9

6

Downside of marriage for women: age gap lowers life expectancy

8

7

Strangers Spot People With Compassionate Genes in Seconds

6

8

The Road to Fraud Starts with a Single Step

4

9

Stem cell approach primes immune system to fight cancer

3

10

World's Lightest Material Is a Metal 100 Times Lighter Than Styrofoam

3

Social [?]

1

Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA

240

2

Self-XSS attack explained

69

3

Stanford launching launchpad-class.org and entrepreneur-class.org for startups

11

4

Is it your app or the Tech Crunch article that sucks?

6

5

How conversations with a client always end up.

6

6

David Roberts of PopCap Games: Opening Keynote NWEN Entrepreneur University 2011

4

7

Biden on Internet Freedom = Anti-SOPA

4

8

Notch, maker of Minecraft, coding with hotswap

4

9

Ice Cream Sandwich Face Unlock feature compromised

4

10

Letter to friends and family regarding the recent police violence at UC Berkeley

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

558

2

Williams: Master of the "Come From"

191

3

NodeQuery is a realtime server-side DOM API

102

4

Prey Project for iOS source code released.

46

5

Kibi.js: a client-side web framework in 1,024 bytes

44

6

10

7

Synt - Simplified sentiment analysis in python

8

8

Readability ported to C. 100x faster than JS.

7

9

Aspark, a bloated port of spark.sh in ANSI C for the enterprise

7

10

Download lecture videos of AI class (HTTP proxy and basic resume support)

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

Parrondo's paradox

40

2

40

3

Know about SOPA

2

4

The road to Ithaca

2

5

Conjunction fallacy

2

6

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon for math

2

7

Odds of a random chord exceeding the side of an inscribed equilateral triangle

2

8

Buckminster Fuller

2

9

The Wisdom of Crowds: local knowledge, diversity, independence

1

10

List of Basic Computer Science Topics

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to lose time and money

210

2

Jobs and Wozniak with a Blue Box

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

List of freely available programming books

357

2

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

4

3

Checking in of "commented out" code

2

4

Help me find an appropriate ruby/python parser generator

2

5

Accessing video via bluetooth camera in Android

2

6

Weird Towers of Hanoi Solution

1

7

Tracking Offline Events with Google Analytics

1

Substack [?]