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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Time to end the war on drugs
905
2
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
813
3
GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA
692
4
Bullshit
651
5
Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th
557
6
I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...
521
7
My uncle's factorization algorithms
420
8
John Carmack on the importance of Static Code Analysis
405
9
Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues
390
10
Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy
377
Top Ask HN
1
Best book you read in 2011
336
2
I just got my first team lead. What should I do?
89
3
Where do HN people hangout online?
88
4
is it possible to earn a living US wage at oDesk?
76
5
Lifehacker mentioned my app & traffic boosted. How to keep momentum?
73
6
What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?
72
7
Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?
50
8
Your predictions for 2012?
39
9
What music do you like to listen to while you program?
24
10
What's a great email deliverability service?
19
Top Show HN
1
We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader
153
2
Redis/ruby-based realtime event-tracking
148
3
The Honeybadger
147
4
Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept)
84
5
An iPad app to teach kids how to program
57
6
My weekend project, realtime log viewer in Flask
55
7
multicasting video chat site I built over xmas break
47
8
virtualjoystick.js : to emulate joystick on touch screen
39
9
SOPA Sponsors
33
10
Hacker News without leaving your terminal
24
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Desperation: Go Daddy calling customers, begging them to stay
170
2
Facebook no longer supports IE7
138
3
Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
111
4
GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block
107
5
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties
93
6
How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur
84
7
Site that lets you record and automatically phone-blast SOPA supporters for you
75
8
Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile
72
9
Insynchq : A Google Docs-Loving Dropbox Rival
68
10
Hawking looking for technical help to maintain and improve his speech system
67
News [?]
1
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
376
2
Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days
232
3
Decades later, a Cold War secret revealed
183
4
Ending the Infographic Plague
151
5
"Small-claims flash mob" - Car owner takes legal fight away from lawyers
128
6
Voyager 1 Speeds Toward The Brink Of Interstellar Space
121
7
Reddit Users to Target Supporters of SOPA in Congress After GoDaddy
118
8
How SOPA Could Ruin My Life
115
9
The Myth of Japan's lost Decade
98
10
The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us
92
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA Announces Plans for Human Exploration of Deep Space
60
2
E-Books from NASA
55
3
Debugging 8.6 Billion Miles From Earth
3
4
How NASA's GRAIL Probes Will Map the Moon's Gravity (Infographic)
2
5
Cheaters in the Steam Community Gaming Social Network
1
6
NP Complete Problems and Physical Reality
1
7
A game of dreidel lasts O(n^2) spins [pdf]
1
8
Discovering novel computer music techniques by exploring short programs
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
The Lean Startup Frenzy
38
2
Porting Angry Birds to HTML5 (video)
8
3
Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter (video)
6
4
Merry Christmas from the TSA
6
5
DVCS-autosync, a free Dropbox alternative
6
6
IT Tech unemployment stands at 2.7%
2
7
On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
2
8
WPS Flaw Can Lead to Compromise of Router PINs
2
9
Concurrent Caching at Google [video] (in-memory caching for the JVM)
2
10
Thinking About Software Security Holistically
2
Tech blogs [?]
1
Tom's Hardware's take on SOPA
144
2
Rumor: Apple wants to launch 'iPad 3' on Feb. 24 birthday of Steve Jobs
5
3
IP over LEGO train carrier
4
4
2011 in Review: Defending Location Privacy in Courts and Congress
2
5
Hackers claim Siri port to iPhone 4 avoids copyright infringement
2
6
Apple wants to offer television subscribers customized channel lineups
2
7
So you wanna learn FPGAs…
2
8
Argentina blocks iPhone sales in bid to strengthen economy
1
9
Apple could collect $10 for every Android device sold, expert says
1
10
#MoveYourDomain to Protest the Internet Blacklist Bills
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Ad: Santa using Siri
3
2
Best Christmas Gifts for Computer Hackers
1
3
Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson - The Best Book of All Times
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Ron Paul speaks against SOPA
288
2
Megaupload to Universal: You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do
118
3
Companies supporting SOPA: their web address, Twitter, contact email and phone
111
4
So You Want to Save the World
109
5
While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent
53
6
Why “Safe Harbor” Laws Are Disastrous For Free Speech
37
7
BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched For in 2011
8
8
Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
5
9
Court Order Blocks BitTorrent, Megaupload and More
3
10
SOPA Accountability (Spreadsheet)
3
Science News [?]
1
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
242
2
Supercomputers: New device could bring optical information processing
20
3
Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind
11
4
Badwater Basin: Death Valley microbe may spark novel biotech and nanotech uses
6
5
Chinese 'water army' hijacks online product reviews
5
6
3D printing: The world's first printed plane
4
7
Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers
3
8
Anything Boys Can Do...
2
9
Data mining: A Correlation for the 21st Century (Science Mag)
1
10
Festive medical myths
1
Social [?]
1
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
813
2
3.3 million e-mails between the most powerful men are about to be released.
308
3
While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act
273
4
Salman Khan of Khan Academy AMA on reddit
230
5
6 month read-through/discussion of Gödel, Escher, Bach starting 1/17 on Reddit
228
6
An email I received from Jimmy Wales regarding SOPA
96
7
The Perl 6 Coding Contest
38
8
Verifed GoDaddy Employee is conducting an AMA on reddit right now
37
9
How money corrupts Congress. Lessig speaks at Google
10
10
Knuth's Christmas Tree Lecture - "Bayesian Trees and BDDs"
9
Github repos and gists [?]
1
My uncle's factorization algorithms
420
2
"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
82
3
Bats: TAP-compatible testing for Bash
41
4
JQuery Parse: Dead simple way to save data
35
5
Domain Profiler
26
6
Bookmarklet Loader
8
7
Pixen 3.5 - Pixel Art Editor for Mac
7
8
Ryanb/ruby-warrior
6
9
Feedback wanted: nodeJS framework for HTTP and Socket connections = actionHero
6
10
The upcoming war against general purpose computing (transcript)
4
Wikipedia [?]
1
Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy
377
2
Exploding head syndrome. I kid you not.
19
3
Computer controlled plan economy, in the 70s
2
4
Donald Knuth's "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures" - Illustrated
1
5
Albert Einstein's brain
1
6
Topological proof that there are infinitely many primes
1
7
Korean charset KPS-9566 has special characters for Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il
1
8
War of Currents (Edison vs Tesla)
1
9
Church encoding
1
Blogs [?]
1
The Other Road Ahead
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10 in JavaScript
159
2
What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code?
73
3
Sorted String Table or B+ Tree for Database Index
2
4
What is the coolest thing you can do in 10 lines of simple code?
2
5
What is the opposite of 'parse'?
1
6
Why can't I use Record.all.destroy in Rails?
1
Substack [?]