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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad

704

2

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

684

3

Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

511

4

Cached OkCupid Article: Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating

490

5

I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.

485

6

Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k

425

7

Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe

418

8

So Long and Thanks for all the Bits

404

9

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

373

10

Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.

359

Top Ask HN

1

Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)

218

2

What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?

197

3

Just got $200k from an angel, where do I stick it? Savings? CDs?

118

4

Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

95

5

What is legally required to run a small service-based web application?

77

6

I dropped out. How do I continue my CompSci education?

58

7

my startup got acquisition interest, what's next?

45

8

Where are all the London hackers working on startups?

43

9

Ask HN - Review my startup: Localmind

37

10

I think I've been scammed - what now?

37

Top Show HN

1

My 4-hour project, already profitable

323

2

my new project, an anti-snub dating site

119

3

Hacker News Map 2011

77

4

Self-documenting online JavaScript snippet editor

26

5

A Better Bing.com Cloned in 15 minutes

18

6

HackerBuddy.com

14

7

Publ.ca - Instant and Beautiful Web Publishing

11

8

What Would Hacker News Say?

11

9

Stylebot Social, share custom styles for sites

9

10

Cue Me - Simple e-mail reminders

9

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k

425

2

Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code

334

3

Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid

254

4

Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur?

196

5

Apple responds: we want a cut of Amazon, Sony e-book sales

162

6

Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)

155

7

As Egypt Erupts, Al Jazeera Offers Its News for Free to Other Networks

151

8

WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam

144

9

Interview: Heroku Founder Talks About $250M Salesforce Acquisition

127

10

Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face In Front Of Us

118

News [?]

1

Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)

322

2

Why you shouldn't bother with an MBA

116

3

How IKEA is structured to minimize tax and maximize control

116

4

US states: If they were countries

114

5

20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of

112

6

Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store

89

7

Capturing a Full Day in a Single Photograph

76

8

Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

70

9

What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us?

69

10

Reporter's first person account in Egypt: "You will be lynched"

68

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System

60

2

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors

7

3

Evolutionary Mechanics: engineering principles for flexibility given uncertainty

4

4

Ray Kurzweil's stunning tech prophecies & close inspection

2

5

Aging increases inattentional blindness to the gorilla in our midst

2

6

Next Generation Supercomputers (via IEEE)

1

7

Special Report: Dream Jobs 2011

1

8

NASA - NASA Selects Explorer Mission of Opportunity Investigations

1

9

Correlated genotypes in friendship networks

1

10

Ready to Trade in Your Computer for a Phone?

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IPv4 address exhaustion and the end of the open net

61

2

A Linux Compiler Deathmatch: GCC, LLVM, DragonEgg, Open64, Etc...

35

3

Final IPv4 Blocks Allocated

33

4

Hacking HTTP Status Codes

8

5

Unhosted web applications: a new approach to freeing SaaS

6

6

Keeping Punxsutawney Phil's Website Online Through Groundhog Day Traffic Flood

5

7

Jury Says it's Okay to Record the TSA

5

8

Id Tech 5 Engine To Be Open-Source?

4

9

ATM Skimmers That Never Touch the ATM

4

10

Lift-JRuby Integration Bridges the Gap Between Ruby and Scala

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Electronic Frontier Foundation Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations

213

2

Wireless electricity enables next generation of annoying packaging

85

3

IPad 2 screen, fresh from China

25

4

Intel recalling Sandy Bridge processors

9

5

Apple's 4% mobile market share rakes in over half the industry's profit

5

6

In-app purchase recurring billing is coming to iOS.

4

7

Netgear CEO rails on Apple's Steve Jobs, praises Android

3

8

A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy

3

9

54% of Verizon's Android, Blackberry users to switch to iPhone, survey says

3

10

Apple launches "In-App-Subscriptions"

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon RDS to support Oracle as well as MySQL

17

2

Oracle Database 11g coming to Amazon RDS

2

3

Oracle and Amazon RDS

2

4

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Optimal Employment

123

2

U.S. Seize (Spanish) File-Sharing Site That's Declared Legal in Spain

14

3

Porn Industry Follows in RIAA’s Footsteps with Lawsuits

2

4

Debian and FSF (15 Years Ago)

2

5

US Seizes Sports Streaming Sites in "Super Bowl Crackdown"

2

6

MegaUpload targeted by Porn Industry

1

Science News [?]

1

Egypt comes back online after government backs down

70

2

Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?

40

3

Under stress, men tend to withdraw socially while women seek emotional support

4

4

Neutron star seen forming exotic new state of matter

3

5

Bug to spider: I will control your offspring's sex

2

6

PirateBox lets you share files with anyone close by

2

7

Moderate aerobic exercise in older adults shown to improve memory

2

8

What do you think of triple your fresh insight by electric brain stimulation?

2

9

Controversy in Classrooms over Permitting Teens to Genetically Modify Bacteria

2

10

Top crucial questions in social science

2

Social [?]

1

Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

145

2

Some perspective on exactly how badly ISPs in Canada are overcharging for data

71

3

Looking for Hackers in Orlando, FL

13

4

Xtranormal on Lean Startup Junkies

7

5

Robot orders scone - leaves nice tip

7

6

Facebook improves their secure (https) service

6

7

Live from Google's February 2nd Android Event

6

8

Wael Ghonim, a Head of Marketing at Google: "We are all ready to die"

5

9

Hacker News Tips

4

10

Video: Netscape Mozilla Documentary circa 2000

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here.

188

2

XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform

132

3

92

4

Announcing CodeConf 2011 (GitHub is putting on a conference)

57

5

Load.js: A small script to lazily load js

38

6

Slice: A Clojure library for writing composable slices of html, css, and js

35

7

Convert NIB Files to Objective-C Code

34

8

A Question about CSRF JSON hijacking

27

9

Github's Refreshed Pull Request Discussions

21

10

Browser-require.js brings "require" to the browser (just like node)

17

Wikipedia [?]

1

Waggle dance: how successful foraging bees recruit others to join them

7

2

Cognitive bias: Ambiguity effect

5

3

Factorial number system

3

4

"All rights reserved"

2

5

Ephemeralization: Technology does more and more with less and less.

1

6

Robot jockey for camel racing

1

7

Man's Search for Meaning

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to Disagree

109

2

Why Nerds Are Unpopular

6

3

4

4

You weren't meant to have a boss (rev June 2008)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

I'm graduating with a CS degree but I don't feel like I know how to program

191

2

Top Bad Practices in PHP

7

3

Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

5

4

Lisp and Erlang Atoms, Ruby and Scheme Symbols. How useful are they?

4

5

Javascript Collision detection

2

6

[SO qn] Capabilities for Lua: what experience is there?

2

7

Using git+dropbox together

2

8

How can I know which parts in the code are never used?

1

9

Best way to publish an e-mail address without being attacked by spammers?

1

10

How to calculate Big O notation from piece of code

1

Substack [?]