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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

867

2

Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days

854

3

In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 19492011

662

4

Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone

616

5

Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage

588

6

The nightmarish SOPA hearings

579

7

RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest

536

8

STFU About What Women Want

501

9

Trillion-frame-per-second video

451

10

I'm starting to think LEGO is evil

391

Top Ask HN

1

small startups, what do you use for health insurance?

79

2

Review my startup, gtrot.com

46

3

Does this kind of arrogance get job applications?

45

4

How to overcome strong feelings of worthlesness and inadequacy

38

5

Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

37

6

The perfect 20-50 people office network setup?

18

7

How do you get your employees to care?

16

8

Is Desktop Software Dead?

14

9

Open source projects on GitHub that need junior level help?

14

10

Is there a web framework as 'good' as Rails for Clojure?

13

Top Show HN

1

Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA Protest Live Stats

160

2

66 combinations of website Easter eggs, choose your destiny.

66

3

A new way to consume the social web

65

4

Visualizing Postmates' first 1000 deliveries in San Francisco

56

5

multimethod.js - a Clojure-inspired multimethod library for JavaScript

48

6

my weekend+2d project: Web hosting for Dropbox

47

7

UpOut, Discover fun NOW. (featured on TechCrunch)

27

8

Badger.com, a new domain registrar, needs beta testers (1 free domain)

24

9

JSPkg.com - host javascript packages (like gemcutter for js)

22

10

Clickpath query language

22

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll)

299

2

Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber

235

3

Stop Telling Women To Do Startups

189

4

Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree

160

5

UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own

141

6

SOPA Vote Delayed

135

7

Fake App Becomes Real

130

8

Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital

114

9

The $100k green card

103

10

MixRank (YC S11) Raises $1.5M from Mark Cuban, 500 Startups

99

News [?]

1

The nightmarish SOPA hearings

579

2

When Truth Survives Free Speech

264

3

Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"

202

4

A Reddit tattoo in thanks for bone-marrow-transplant flash fundraiser

127

5

Facebook is Hiding Your Mail

120

6

The Real Story Behind Apple's 'Think Different' Campaign

118

7

Why big companies fail to keep talent

117

8

Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate

108

9

The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water

96

10

New York vs San Francisco in fight for tech start-ups

91

Scientific publications [?]

1

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches

103

2

Software Realistically Adds 3-D Objects to Old Photos

96

3

Mathematics of Gambling Revisited: under realistic assumptions

4

4

Free markets have costs: repeal of uptick rule led to Citigroup bear raid

3

5

How to gamble if you are in a hurry [pdf]

2

6

Diagnostic accuracy of canine scent detection in lung and breast cancers

2

7

Air France Flight 447's Final Minutes Reconstructed

2

8

Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes

1

9

NASA Engages Public With New Custom Internet Radio Station

1

10

Research: Crowdsourcing in China mostly used for manipulating public opinion

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds

62

2

Development at the Speed and Scale of Google

34

3

Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala

14

4

What every programmer should know about memory [2007]

8

5

The Mapping Dilemma (David Nolen)

6

6

InfoQ: D1 is Being Discontinued in 2012

3

7

Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages

3

8

Do hackers take the holidays off?

3

9

More on the Captured U.S. Drone

2

10

Multiple Vulnerabilities Haunt Long List of PLC Modules

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

273

2

EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ

114

3

How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries

106

4

Widespread iTunes and iCloud Apple ID Outage

6

5

Apple accused of feeding intellectual property to 'patent troll'

3

6

Samsung Drops iPhone 4S Germany Patent Suit

3

7

Fiscal Q1 2012: Apple's biggest earnings blowout in history

2

8

Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism

2

9

Microsoft releases Kinectimals game, SkyDrive storage for iOS

2

10

Apple Hires UI Designer Who Helped Mock Up Leaked Siri Design

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The book Steve Jobs read every year

6

2

AWS for Brazilians

6

3

AWS launches South America (Sao Paulo) Region

4

4

Amazon reviews by John Carmack

2

5

Bezo's wishlist

2

6

Ancient Society (Classics of Anthropology)

1

7

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

1

8

Over the years, I've closely followed the career of Kevin Mitnick...

1

9

Announcing the Amazon's AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA

244

2

I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent

211

3

Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”

178

4

Wikipedia Considers Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA

153

5

Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

146

6

French Presidents Residence Busted For BitTorrent Piracy

115

7

Megaupload Video Reinstated

63

8

Universal abuses YouTube-takedown tool, blocks song promoting Megaupload

45

9

Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties

37

10

Donate to the Internet Archive using bitcoin

6

Science News [?]

1

Why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell

76

2

Doorway to Blame for Room Amnesia

30

3

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals

30

4

Biggest telescope starts observations

26

5

What if there is no Higgs boson?

24

6

Few Allergies in Unstressed Babies

24

7

House-hunting honey bees work like complex brains

12

8

Ostrich penis clears up evolutionary mystery

4

9

Bank says no? Ditch the bank borrow from the crowd

4

10

The hippocampi of London taxi drivers swell as they learn the city's streets

3

Social [?]

1

In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites

265

2

Getting a job in software development: A Reddit discussion round-up

157

3

Facebook releases HHVM, 60 percent faster than its current PHP interpreter

154

4

Rep. Zoe Lofgren doing a SOPA-related AMA on Reddit

92

5

Louis C.K. does an IAmA on Reddit

17

6

Was "#GodIsNotGreat" pulled from Trending Topics?

14

7

This guy will run against the Congressman who introduced SOPA. Support him

10

8

I'm a VC (music video)

9

9

Facebook open-sources HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP

8

10

Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech [video]

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

166

2

Interactive shell to a running Python process

142

3

Make your STDERR red

132

4

Python URL manipulation made simple.

93

5

Humanhash: Human-readable representations of digests

85

6

Pure python html templating using with statements

82

7

Sproutcore 2.0 renamed to Ember.js - GitHub

60

8

Redis server built in Erlang

49

9

Slanger: An open implementation of the Pusher protocol written in Ruby

45

10

BackboneJS ToDo list example with Spring 3.1 (no xml config) and MongoDB

34

Wikipedia [?]

1

RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest

536

2

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

6

3

Liskov substitution principle

3

4

Lojban, a human language based on predicate logic

2

5

2

6

Grover's algorithm

2

7

Wikimedia Foundation pledges support for a SOPA Initiative

2

8

Monty Hall problem

1

9

Logical Hexagon

1

10

A very simple Image format

1

Blogs [?]

1

350

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Metaclasses in Python

153

2

Strangest Language Features

126

3

Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the web browsers?

121

4

Should I be using Backbone and client-side templates, like Mustache?

4

5

Is it possible to build a comparatively fast untyped lambda calculus machine?

3

6

What is the easiest way to make a C++ program crash?

2

7

What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?

2

8

What's the easiest way to make a c++ program crash

2

9

2

10

Why does sizeof(x++) not increment x

1

Substack [?]