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Top stories
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Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
1103
3
A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
1065
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
693
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Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works
671
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Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
641
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The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers
631
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GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers
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StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns.
590
10
Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe
563
Top Ask HN
1
I really need your help (resolved)
191
2
Your code editor, black on white or white on black?
102
3
Better 1st person (My Photos) or 2nd (Your Photos)?
60
4
My Congressman invited me to meet re: SOPA, what would you tell him?
35
5
Best Intro Programming Book?
26
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Working Memory And Understanding
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Feedback on our new landing page?
20
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We were told our idea is amazing, but our startup is failing - what now?
19
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Help Is it worth rebranding (trademark infringement)?
19
10
What you achieved this year?
18
Top Show HN
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I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
612
2
My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry
165
3
Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to write, run, and share code online
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4
My weekend project: Play Zork on Twitter
21
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Disrupting the hypnosis industry
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VisitHere: One Tweet, One Place.
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QR code to allow iOS devices to easily connect to your wifi network
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8
Beauty Contest for Virtual Life - Digital Art Project (lurepet.com)
10
9
A Pinboard for Entrepreneurs, Skillow
10
10
Try out our real-world programming challenges
9
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
1716
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Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA
418
3
Official list of SOPA supporters
288
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GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support
261
5
YouTube Says Universal Had No Right to Take Down Megaupload Video
147
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Scribd Protests SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear
125
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Google pays $18 million to shutter Apture, CloudFlare clones it in 12 hours
112
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GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA
95
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Priceonomics (YC W12) Tells You What Everything is Worth
94
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Why Science is Failing Us
90
News [?]
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Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No
350
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N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
324
3
Killing the Internet to save Hollywood
302
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SOPA vote is now December 21
244
5
VW deactivates employee email outside working hours
182
6
What really caused the eurozone crisis?
161
7
New particle observed at LHC
150
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Looking for a Place to Die
125
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Y Combinator's Graham Discusses Start-Up Industry
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San Francisco team wins paper shredder puzzle prize
84
Scientific publications [?]
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Is there life inside black holes?
2
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Is There a Moores Law for Energy Efficiency?
1
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Technical design for the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now
1
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NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
1
5
Here's How Santa Preps For X-Mas
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mirah for Android Development
9
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Humble Indie Bundle #4 Cracks Two Million Dollars
3
3
The Node.js Ecosystem - Frameworks, Libraries and Best Practices(2010)
2
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Quality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?
2
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Researchers Warn of New Windows 7 Vulnerability
2
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Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone
1
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SSL on App Engine workaround
1
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Dynalink: Dynamic Linker Framework for Languages on the JVM
1
9
2011: The Year of the DDoS
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Sovereign Keys, EFF's proposal to replace the certificate authority model
126
2
Anandtech: AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review (28nm, new architecture)
55
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Siri hacked to play piano
15
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Analyzing Carrier IQ Profiles
8
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Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border
7
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1976 letter calls 21-year-old Steve Jobs a hard bargaining, secretive 'joker'
7
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Apple investigating fuel-cell-powered MacBooks
3
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Apple's 15 years of NeXT
2
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OS X 10.7.3 Beta Reveals Active Work on 'Retina' Display Support for Mac
2
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RIM now worth less than Apple's App Store alone
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple - Ergonomics - Introduction
50
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Read this book: The Art of Readable Code
7
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Pick up a Playmobil TSA-style checkpoint playset for the kids this Xmas
2
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24 Programmers, 3 Years, 4,732 Bugs, and 1 Quest for Transcendent Software
1
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Monopolizing Knowledge: Can real knowledge be found other than by science?
1
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Quirky, Yes. Hopeless, No: Help for Your Aspergers Child
1
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Kinect used in Health Care to Monitor Mobiity of Seniors
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer
151
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Google doc listing companies that Support SOPA
29
3
Concurrency in Go (or, Erlang done right)
28
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses
26
5
What was the most Badass JavaScript demo of 2011?
17
6
RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents
7
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“Spanish Napster” Victorious As Court Rejects Major Label Copyright Case
6
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses
6
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From Rogue To Vogue: Megaupload and Kim Dotcom
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File-Sharing 3 Strikes Killed in Ireland, Government Promises Site Blocking
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Science News [?]
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New kind of metal in the deep Earth
85
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One-Minute Physics: How to detect a neutrino
6
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Flavor network and the principles of food pairing
5
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Mysterious nodding syndrome spreading through Uganda
3
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Paint-on solar cells developed
3
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How scientists determine the age of stars.
2
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Crucial Advances in 'Brain Reading' Demonstrated
2
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why the world won't end on December 21, 2012
2
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Single cell endoscope: Nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells
2
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Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget
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Social [?]
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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
1103
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Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"
423
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Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.
316
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Why have CPUs been limited in frequency to around 3.5Ghz for so many years?
252
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Redditors pledging to donate thousands to Wikimedia if they dump GoDaddy
237
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Reddit: Help us raise awareness about SOPA in the mainstream and local media
167
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List of best free online learning sites
142
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Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA #2
49
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First Round Capital Holiday Video 2011 - Rebecca Black Parody
13
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Neil deGrasse Tyson planning another AMA for Saturday. Bring good questions.
13
Github repos and gists [?]
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Backbone.js Fundamentals
286
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CoffeeScript is not a language worth learning
213
3
Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js
152
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GitHub releases their CI server, Janky
133
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Apple Lossless Decoder in Coffeescript
79
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Await and Defer in Coffeescript core
75
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Fibur gives you full concurrency during your I/O calls in Ruby 1.9
50
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Gaug.es for iPhone
23
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Lambda calculus with Church encoding in C
11
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List of data visualization JavaScript projects hosted on Github
9
Wikipedia [?]
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Background of .plan files: the 1977 Finger Protocol
19
2
Help break my "proof" of p = np... i can't find the error
12
3
You should read Elon Musk's Wikipedia article.
6
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1 2 + 3 4 + = 1/4
5
5
Kim Jong Il's likely successor
4
6
Heilmeier's Catechism
3
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Diamond Anvil - Creating More Than 3,000,000 Atmospheres Pressure
2
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
2
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Microcanonical ensemble
1
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Kim Jong-un wikipedia (North Korea heir apparent)
1
Blogs [?]
1
How to Start a Startup (PG: 2005)
2
Stackoverflow [?]
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Where's Waldo?
405
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Why is one loop slower than 2 in C?
189
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What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
130
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How do I tell Git to ignore “.gitignore”? [2009]
5
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How does AWS know which instance im SSH:ing into?
2
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The difference between SOAP and REST
1
Substack [?]