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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Sugru story

636

2

Doom 3 source released

616

3

What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?

518

4

The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application

495

5

Google.pl's crazy doodle

484

6

Welcome to the new web.

477

7

Open Source (Almost) Everything

435

8

The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia

425

9

Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'

422

10

New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming

381

Top Ask HN

1

How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?

200

2

What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?

131

3

Should I start looking for remote/freelance work outside my country?

60

4

Hacker Finances? / How much do you save each month?

43

5

Ask HN:What are best online sources to learn JavaScript?

26

6

Is this the first time Google has run ads in Chrome Browser?

23

7

Ask HN - how to be a great software test engineer?

23

8

Are ergonomic keyboards really useful?

23

9

Which websites' visual design have inspired you lately?

20

10

How on earth does Posterous make money?

20

Top Show HN

1

tool for commodity traders, brokers and analysts.

104

2

Guided Recipe Creation

77

3

Show HN : My (current) Weekend Project - I am, I do

71

4

my weekend project - stumbleupon for videos

43

5

My weekend project, MealMogul.com

42

6

My iPad Hacker News Client, Hacker News Paper

37

7

Arduino guitar foot pedal controls shipping at Thanks Machine

33

8

Elswr - when it's time to take your business elsewhere

26

9

Calepin - micropublishing for Markdown and Dropbox lovers

23

10

Visualize your LinkedIn profile in a timeline

20

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team

337

2

For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser

274

3

Man Survives Steve Ballmers Flying Chair To Build 21st Century Linux

170

4

How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex

127

5

Microsoft Announces "Kinect Accelerator" to Turn Hacks into Businesses

127

6

Google Just Snuck Most of Chrome OS Onto the iPad

121

7

AT&T withdraws T-Mobile takeover application from FCC

121

8

Peter Thiel: "I Dont Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough"

115

9

Racism and Meritocracy

98

10

The Brilliant Way To Negotiate In Three Easy Lessons

88

News [?]

1

In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam

230

2

Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy

213

3

Groupon falls below $20/share

179

4

Norway: an Eden with wifi

157

5

China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections

96

6

Signal picked up from Russia's stranded Mars probe

88

7

Arson Forensics Sets Old Fire Myths Ablaze

70

8

What They Dont Teach Law Students: Lawyering

62

9

Hacked NASDAQ Servers were running on unpatched Windows 2003

51

10

Groupon Shares Plunge, Trading Close to IPO

47

Scientific publications [?]

1

Battling the Internet Water Army: Detection of Hidden Paid Posters

65

2

11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do

51

3

Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Begin Historic Swim Across Pacific

48

4

Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training

16

5

How The New Mars Rovers Power Supply (Plutonium Dioxide) Works

5

6

Risky Business by Elon Musk

3

7

Journey from Victoria to Endeavour crater

2

8

Quantum Energy Teleportation

2

9

Meet the New World's Fastest Micromouse Robot

2

10

The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Hacked Texan Water Infrastructure Had a 3 Character Password

96

2

Was The 3 Character Password at Hacked Water Treatment Plant A Siemens Default?

18

3

Apple Took 3+ Years to Fix FinFisher Trojan Hole

7

4

The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm

4

5

PhoneGap: Moving to Apache

3

6

Preview of Visual Studio 11: New Programming Language Features

3

7

Web APIs Can Be a Pain

3

8

Agile Modeling: Enhancing Communication and Understanding

2

9

Distributed STM - A New Programming Model for the Cloud

2

10

"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat

152

2

Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher

73

3

Steve Jobs Exhibit on Display at U.S. Patent Office Museum

22

4

Adobe Flash sites rapidly converted to HTML5 for iOS users

10

5

Microsoft says Windows Phones have had Siri-like functionality for over a year

9

6

OCZ Octane SSD Review

4

7

EFF Celebrates the 2011 Pioneer Award Winners

4

8

Unmasking Online Spying in Canada

2

9

Apple Removes Subscription-Based iPad Gaming App from App Store

2

10

Siri vs Windows Phone 7

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon reviews: Pepper spray "amazing human arm de-linker"

7

2

Mark Cuban releases updated blog posts as an ebook about business

4

3

Must read: The Steve Jobs Way by Jay Elliot

2

4

Amazon page for pepper spray

2

5

** U.C. Davis Pepper Spray Now on Sale @ Amazon

1

6

Nikon Coolpix P7000 10.1

1

7

Elastic Load Balancing Now Available On Amazon VPC

1

8

Facedrink, the Social Energy Drink Shot

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More

133

2

MPAA Costs Hollywood More Than US BitTorrent Piracy

124

3

Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown

119

4

Pirate To Join European Parliament As Youngest Member

100

5

Grooveshark Bites Back: Well Fight Universal in Court, Not The Press

99

6

Introducing the Journal (systemd journal)

6

7

Ubisoft Blames Piracy for Non-Release of PC Game "I'm Alive"

5

8

First, let's fire all the managers

3

9

European Court: ISPs Cant Spy on Pirating Customers

3

10

Systemd's Journal: a secure and fast syslog alternative

2

Science News [?]

1

Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation

139

2

Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

125

3

Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression

102

4

Transcranial Stimulation Shows Promise in Speeding Up Learning

70

5

Nature Special: The Autism Enigma

55

6

Experiment proofs a moving mirror can generate light from a vacuum.

2

7

Light created from a vacuum: Casimir effect observed in superconducting circuit

2

8

Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels

2

9

LHC antimatter anomaly hints at new physics

2

10

Research finds HIV-killing compound

2

Social [?]

1

What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?

518

2

Why do humans procrastinate?

262

3

A reddit "AMA" thread with me about the Turing apology

50

4

NewsHour Report On Startup Accelerators In Valley

19

5

Anatomy of Facebook

18

6

Steve Jobs brainstorming at NeXT; Absolute must-see

15

7

Side-by-side comparison of Microsoft's TellMe and Siri (video)

14

8

Amazing hack: Watch a miniature v12 combustion engine being built

13

9

Anatomy of Facebook

12

10

Galaxy Nexus doesn't support USB mass storage

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Doom 3 source released

616

2

90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size

274

3

Proxy server for Siri

208

4

GitHub for Mac 1.1

163

5

Non-terminating compilation in Java

84

6

A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.

82

7

Moka - Minimalist functional python library

51

8

Fast data processing engine written in C

48

9

Stop passing naked dictionaries around: Introducing DStruct for Python

42

10

DBGo: a light-weight relational database engine in Go

39

Wikipedia [?]

1

First president with a CS degree?

13

2

The animal that can survive in space, 273C, 151C and a decade without water

5

3

The English Wikipedia will soon(today) hit 500 million page edits

4

4

Mysterious sounds, reported by the crews of Soviet submarines

3

5

2

6

Gadsby: 50,000 Word Novel Without The Letter "E"

1

7

Fast Inverse Square Root

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Where does email sent to *example.com go?

28

2

Good collection of Algorithms

26

3

Thinking of using regexes for (general) HTML parsing? Read this.

8

4

Mobile Web App Behaves like Native App - How?

5

5

OOP: Do object resemble realworld objects?

2

6

How does Google do the barrel roll?

1

7

Stack Overflow profile pages get a redesign

1

Substack [?]