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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

2316

2

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

802

3

Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

682

4

Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

640

5

I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make

594

6

Python Ecosystem - An Introduction

490

7

US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook

425

8

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

395

9

Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

381

10

Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but Its Not Clear Why

380

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

285

2

How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?

281

3

How has your life changed after selling your startup?

81

4

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2011)

44

5

44

6

What will you do when you're 40 and still unsuccessful?

39

7

Have you hacked your nutrition?

38

8

Why was the article "Don't Just Ask" killed?

32

9

What percentage YC companies raise an A round?

22

10

Hacker-Travelers, please share your techniques and experience.

20

Top Show HN

1

Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos

421

2

Version 1.1 of our $99 hackable Bluetooth smartwatch

131

3

elegant open-source pastebin server (node.js & redis)

124

4

Use Dojo to learn, build, and deploy web apps

115

5

Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

103

6

a Lisp that uses JSON instead of S-expressions (in .js)

68

7

BugCam: Add Video to Your Bug Reports

50

8

Keep track of earning expenses better than excel sheets

30

9

Open source Android app building a network of barometers

26

10

Please review my new Server-Side JavaScript/CoffeeScript servers

23

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook

425

2

Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS

299

3

Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours

166

4

Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator

164

5

Researchers Video Shows Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

145

6

Amit Gupta Could Have Marrow Transplant by End of Year

131

7

Apple: We Don’t Use Carrier IQ… In Most Of Our Products… Anymore.

130

8

Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups

125

9

The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum

111

10

Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls

110

News [?]

1

If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?

254

2

'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night

176

3

Google rips Senate's online piracy bill: 'This is what is wrong with Washington'

153

4

Want jobs? Encourage immigration

142

5

Coding - the new Latin

135

6

Brain Gain: The Underground World of Neuroenhancing Drugs

123

7

Documents Reveal TSA Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers

121

8

Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate

105

9

Water-pump failure in Illinois wasn’t cyberattack after all

105

10

Inside McKinsey

102

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

115

2

Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet

48

3

Video: Watch Flying Robots Build a 6-Meter Tower

5

4

7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars

4

5

NASA 'Curiosity' Rover Mars Launch [video]

3

6

Fire Burns Differently in Space, Space Station Experiment Shows

3

7

DECENT: Decentralized architecture for enforcing privacy in social networks

2

8

New NASA Rover May Climb 3-Mile-High Martian Mountain

2

9

Airborne cellphones and electronics are more of a risk than you think - IEEE

2

10

Freaky Boneless Robot Walks on Soft Legs

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

LLVM 3.0 released

5

2

That newfangled journal thing: leaving the Unix tradition behind

3

3

Is Cyber Monday Real?

3

4

DataMapper on Innispan: Clustered NoSQL

2

5

DataMapper on Innispan: Clustered NoSQL

2

6

Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

2

7

Twitter Acquires Mobile Security Firm WhisperSystems

1

8

Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development

1

9

Ql.io - declarative aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs

1

10

IBM Chief Scientist for Software Engineering to launch TV Series on Computing

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

IPad disrupting global DRAM market, causing chipmakers to lose billions

70

2

Long Term Privacy with Forward Secrecy

5

3

Apple pulls iTether from iPhone App Store

4

4

Glass Touch Keyboard looks Star-Trek-ish

3

5

Arduino weather-station to Internet bridge - Hack a Day

3

6

Siri clones demonstrate vast technical lead Apple enjoys with iPhone 4S software

2

7

Apple pulls iTether for iPhone

2

8

ITether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee

2

9

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Attempts to Ban Obscene Words from Texts

2

10

Building a digital camera from scratch

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon App Store's Free App of the Day is Perceived As Probable Spyware

36

2

Pepper spray reviews on Amazon

8

3

IPad in Business Environments

2

4

Can now "rent" Kindle editions from Amazon?

2

5

New Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Options Now Available

2

6

What Our Searches Tell Us About 2011: Bing Releases Most-Searched Terms

1

7

Books by Paul Graham

1

8

#NewRelease Understanding Disease: Obesity #AndroidApp Now available in Amazon

1

9

#NewRelease Understanding Disease: Stroke #AndroidApp Now available in Amazon

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

381

2

Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign

124

3

BitTorrent Defense Lawyer Joins Copyright Trolls

87

4

Undiscriminating Skepticism

52

5

Anti-piracy group uses musician's music without permission on anti-piracy ad

20

6

Google's Internet Identity Research

12

7

DNS Seizures Take Out MegaUpload

8

8

UTorrent Plus Goes on Pre-Sale for $24.95

5

9

'The Pirate Bay Dancing' Add-On Killls DNS and IP Blockades

4

10

Encyclopedia of Windows Privilege Escalation

4

Science News [?]

1

How to be popular

17

2

Entangled diamonds vibrate together

10

3

Scientists and Engineers More Likely to Have Autistic Children

8

4

Quantum entanglement of two diamonds at macroscopic scale

7

5

Genetically modified mosquitos can eradicate them from the planet

7

6

Life began with a planetary mega-organism

6

7

Dreaming takes the sting out of painful memories, research shows

5

8

Climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide more limited than extreme projections

5

9

The Wipeout Gene: Genetically modified mosquitoes already secretly released

4

10

Why Women Live Longer

2

Social [?]

1

I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make

594

2

Wall Street and hedge fund analyst: "Financial markets are rigged"

47

3

Uncle Bob Martin denied entry into the UK

11

4

A sysadmin's $2.5 million mistake

11

5

The Duolingo video. Private beta started today.

7

6

Blazing fast node.js: 10 performance tips from LinkedIn Mobile

6

7

Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition

6

8

Can we now agree Spotify doesn't help artists?

6

9

Duolingo intro video. Learn languages for free combined with social translation

6

10

I run Digital Blasphemy AMA

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

802

2

How to build a data mining web app?

176

3

Linus: please write good git commit messages

149

4

Making Coffeescripts Whitespace More Significant

138

5

Path(v2) fly out menu already recreated and open sourced.

121

6

NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github

97

7

DesktopBootstrap: like Twitter Bootstrap, but for desktop apps

61

8

Yammer moving away from Scala

38

9

Why Yammer is moving away from Scala

24

10

Yammer moving back to Java from Scala

23

Wikipedia [?]

1

Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident

18

2

There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal

3

3

A new breed of discovery - and it works

3

4

The longest suicide note in history

2

5

The Lucifer Project

1

6

Would Curiosity's success mean we're closer to the Great Filter than we think?

1

7

1

8

1

9

Augustine's laws

1

10

Mark Twain's 176th birthday

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Submarine (2005)

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

New programming jargon

5

2

Pure functional programming is not a panacea for parallelism

3

3

How to constrain the number of records allowed? (Wow, serious SQL guruage)

2

4

Parsing HTML with Regex

2

5

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

2

6

New programming jargon

1

Substack [?]