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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

More Paypal nonsense

858

2

What really happened aboard Air France 447

845

3

Don't Be A Free User

778

4

HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

740

5

Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer

659

6

How Doctors Die

653

7

649

8

Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year

552

9

Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

490

10

The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars

418

Top Ask HN

1

How does one gain expertise in scalability?

48

2

Meeting with VCs tomorrow, what tips should I know?

39

3

What SaaS are you currently paying for?

33

4

I have one day, what should I see in the Silicon Valley?

22

5

Ask HN:Best Development Laptop?

21

6

What interesting non-intuitive things do you know?

19

7

Does Ruby offer better support for learning than Python?

18

8

What lessons you learned in 2011

14

9

What functional programming language should I start with?

13

10

know of any successful app in Google marketplace?

12

Top Show HN

1

"Programming is for Anyone"

102

2

Virtual Angel Investing market (built on AngelList)

88

3

Write and deploy your first web app in 5 minutes, no setup needed

81

4

Errorception - High performance JavaScript error tracking

64

5

300x288 pixel clock using HTML5 canvas and Javascript

48

6

Mobile SDK enables live chat support & visual assist

40

7

my weekend project, understanding the Silk Road anonymous marketplace

39

8

Fire.js: Visual Node.js Development with JSON, MongoDB and Cloudfoundry

23

9

VanityPageMaker - Easiest way to create your own personal brand page

21

10

A friend and my CMU Webapps final project

20

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

'I'm Retiring,' Nintendo's Miyamoto Tells His Staff

174

2

Motorola wins patent suit against Apple in Germany, iPhone/iPad to be banned

161

3

After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, Weve Lost Confidence In PayPal

145

4

Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents

140

5

The Pest Who Shames Companies Into Fixing Security Flaws

93

6

Microsoft Research applying spam-fighting techniques to attack HIV

90

7

Twitter Redesigns Around Four Concepts: Home Timeline, Connect, Discover, Me

84

8

Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0

81

9

Spare Me From Product Guys

80

10

Twilio Raises $17 Million Series C To Expand Abroad

74

News [?]

1

Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children

318

2

The Rise of Developeronomics

277

3

Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review

176

4

Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check 'Asian'

149

5

Clinton Urges Countries Not to Restrict Internet

140

6

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

128

7

Steve Jobs and America's decline

103

8

Seasteading: Cities on the ocean

98

9

Wall Streets Repeat Violations, Despite Repeated Promises

93

10

Bill Gates, China talking about jointly developing nuclear reactor

87

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

319

2

When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?

44

3

When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?

3

4

NASA's Kepler Confirms its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

3

5

The powerful placebo effect: fact or fiction?

2

6

Using Statistical Mechanics to predict consumer response to advertising

2

7

Why dont we have a Framework for the Publication of all Data Products?

2

8

Who's Behind This Chainsaw-Wielding Killer Robot?

2

9

Lunar Eclipse Will Supersize Blood-Red Moon Saturday

2

10

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a cosmic purgatory

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Understanding Java Garbage Collection

76

2

Twitter Blog: Let's Fly

9

3

Releasing Samba 4

5

4

Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You

4

5

Public Java Exploit Amps Up Threat Level

4

6

Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets

3

7

Git surpasses CVS, SVN at Eclipse.org

2

8

Microsoft anti-spam researchers apply their work to finding AIDS virus mutations

2

9

Keeping scala fresher

2

10

IOS/Mac OS X Debugging Magic

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

134

2

Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55"

35

3

Apple's internal policies on employee social networking, blogging, and more

4

4

Apple Pulls Match.com iOS App

2

5

HP CEO rumored to pronounce fate of webOS on Friday

2

6

Motorola wins major injunction against Apple's iPhone, iPad in Germany

2

7

Apple's secret iOS code names inspired by ski resorts

2

8

'Steve Jobs' Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011

2

9

Former Google intern explains why UI lag occurs more often in Android than iOS

2

10

Schmidt predicts developers will prioritize Android over iOS in 6 months

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The raster tragedy at low resolution (1997)

168

2

Amazon Offers AWS Simple Icons for Architecture Diagrams

2

3

Short Stories - A 14 year Old Short Story Sensation Publishes On Kindle

1

4

Amazon.com Help

1

5

Book: Venture Capitalists at Work, by Tarang Shah

1

6

The Solution to the Problem

1

7

Best book on entrepreneurship ever

1

8

Amazon S3 announces Multi-Object Delete

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Kaspersky Dumps Anti-Piracy Group in SOPA Protest

82

2

Funnel Plots and Publication Bias

24

3

Anti-Piracy Group Blackmails ISPs to Censor The Pirate Bay

13

4

RIAA: Piracy is Under Control But Wait Rampant Theft Continues

9

5

RIAA Label Artists & A-List Stars Endorse Megaupload In New Song

7

6

Copyright Trolls Auction Off 90 Million in File-Sharing Settlements

6

7

Feds Seize Domain Names of Korean Movie Portals

5

8

Your use of pronouns reveals your personality

4

9

UTorrent Adds Media Player, Plus Goes Live

4

10

How do you estimate your work? (Quick survey)

2

Science News [?]

1

Biggest telescope starts observations

11

2

Astronomers find 18 new planets

3

3

One-Minute Math: Why you can't comb a hairy ball

3

4

NASA's Voyager hits new region at solar system edge

3

5

Key mathematical tool sees first advance in 24 years

3

6

Helping your fellow rat: Rodents show empathy-driven behavior

3

7

CERN manages expectations around Higgs rumours

2

8

UK to make publicly funded research free to read

2

9

Four Golden Lessons from Steven Weinberg

2

10

The "Internet of Things" Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms

2

Social [?]

1

The HipHop Virtual Machine

86

2

How Dr. Terry Wahls Cured Her Own MS with Dietary Changes

50

3

What is a "mind trick" you know of?

20

4

All startup videos should be like this one - Duolingo

11

5

Alan Kay on stronger and weaker conceptions of computing--and life

9

6

Steve Jobs' world view in a new 46 second clip

9

7

Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook (hour long BBC documentary)

8

8

Came across this 1959 IBM jobs post. So much more compelling than ibm.com/jobs

8

9

On being a woman linux kernel developer

8

10

A Hacker on robbing banks

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Ordered List is a GitHubber

241

2

Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

181

3

Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support

162

4

Wordless: stop writing Wordpress themes like it's 1998.

160

5

Ted Dziuba's take on Hubot

127

6

Appify-UI - Create the simplest possible Mac OS X apps, using HTML5 for the UI

92

7

Amon - web application debugging and monitoring toolkit

84

8

The open source code powering Occupy Wall Street

77

9

CLI curses based monitoring tools

38

10

This a valid email address: t AT lk.

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

5

2

Tuppers Self-Referential Formula

2

3

OPERA neutrino anomaly remains unresolved

2

4

Rule 110: a Turing complete elementary cellular automaton

2

5

Revulsion to human-like robots or The Uncanny valley

1

6

Inferring Context-Free Grammars

1

7

.me replaced .yu

1

Blogs [?]

1

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage (2005)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The single most useful Emacs feature

213

2

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

189

3

Is it possible to create an HTML quine?

2

4

Nant or MSBuild, which one to choose and when?

1

Substack [?]