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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

589

2

"You've angered the hive"

521

3

Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

513

4

Isotope - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

459

5

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

432

6

This may be the best resume I have ever seen

339

7

Hosni Mubarak finally steps down

332

8

Ditch Starbucks and work at the library

330

9

Random Startup Generator

327

10

303

Top Ask HN

1

What kind of personal financial investment do you do?

125

2

Hackers falling in love

106

3

Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS?

78

4

A Syllabus for Modern Web Development?

46

5

How do think tanks make money?

45

6

How to start coding my product?

43

7

What did you have when you applied to YCombinator?

34

8

Seals/certifications are a scam... but are they worth it?

26

9

How do you deal with setbacks / frustrations and self-doubt ?

23

10

How much should we charge for a bespoke version of our site?

21

Top Show HN

1

108

2

Space Gremlin, my christmas project just accepted for the Mac App Store

41

3

Show HN Parents: StarChart.me — Online star chart for kids

32

4

My startup, Compilr, an online IDE & compiler. Has over 30,000 users

24

5

Receivd - Real-time file sharing for families, friends and coworkers

22

6

Real-time Team Collaboration on top of your LinkedIn Social Graph

14

7

TF-IDF based text analyzer

14

8

10

9

Show HN - socl.in

10

10

Comfortable Mexican Sofa - CMS for your Rails 3 apps.

10

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

"You've angered the hive"

521

2

Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

513

3

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

432

4

Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

243

5

Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.

210

6

House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers

181

7

TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Offices

172

8

Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team

167

9

GroupOn, LivingSocial engaging in questionable practices

157

10

YC Partner Harjeet Taggar Gives Insights

136

News [?]

1

UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison

209

2

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal

108

3

Meat-Eating Furniture

93

4

Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'

91

5

A Second Tour as C.E.O.

62

6

Stop the presses: Facebook CTO says news next in social revolution

61

7

In China, alpha males carry designer purses

55

8

Government investigation: No evidence Toyota electronic throttles malfunctioned

54

9

AOL is Buying The Huffington Post

53

10

IPad Makes Space in Japan's Tiny Homes by Removing Bookshelves

49

Scientific publications [?]

1

First-ever images of the entire Sun

70

2

Costly but worthless gifts facilitate courtship

47

3

DARPA's new memristor-based approach to AI

42

4

The $242 Million Software Error

28

5

RoboEarth: A World Wide Web for Robots

4

6

Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices

3

7

NASA Study on Flight Software Complexity

3

8

"Understanding Current Causes of Women's Under-representation in Science"

3

9

Why Unattended Strings Knot (Research Paper)

3

10

Do Mobile Electronics Really Interfere With Flight? They Could

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM

49

2

EHarmony Hacked

9

3

Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

9

4

Classes Are Premature Optimization

4

5

Distributing Bonus to Agile Teams is Like Playing with Dynamite

3

6

Debugging tech conference anti-harassment policies

3

7

Twitter for Android update: new and improved | Twitter Blog

3

8

Layout and Presentation Advice for the UX Designer

2

9

Google Adds Two-Factor Verification to Gmail

2

10

HBGary Federal Hacked by Anonymous

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

The CIA’s amazing bots

71

2

What development board to use

25

3

Free At&t Rollover Minutes

10

4

Apple may eliminate boxed software from their stores.

8

5

How to kill the Arduino? (embrace it)

3

6

Hints of Apple TV gaming platform found in iOS 4.3 beta

3

7

Georgia state senator hopes to replace schoolbooks with iPads

2

8

RIM to craft PlayBook to run Android apps but fears Oracle lawsuit

2

9

Apple Planning Smaller iPhone Priced at $200 Without Contract

2

10

Apple granted patent where carriers bid to provide service to iPhones

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for Mobile Partnership

77

2

Early Preview of Free Software Update for Kindle

2

3

Amazon Route 53

1

4

Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk

1

5

Microsoft Appoints Satya Nadella as President of Server and Tools Business

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to Beat Procrastination

145

2

How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government

77

3

MPAA Snags Google Downloading Torrents, Threatens to Disconnect

25

4

Procrastination: what we know

4

5

Interesting notes on Google disks and file systems

3

6

Procedural Knowledge Gaps

3

7

TorrentButler - A Movie Torrent Site with a slick UI

3

8

IPhone programming videos

2

9

Makers of ‘The Expendables’ Sue 6,500 BitTorrent Users

2

10

Petabox 4 - 650 Terabytes/rack (Internet Archive)

1

Science News [?]

1

Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth

27

2

Kinect hack makes you the Man of Steel

5

3

New algorithm tells website when their security is breached

4

4

Study claims "Brain implants have long-lasting effect on depression"

4

5

The cyberweapon that could take down the internet

4

6

Short Sharp Science: Glass melts near absolute zero

4

7

Forgiveness via iPhone: Church approves confession app

4

8

Nanoprocessing breakthrough

4

9

Without language, numbers make no sense

3

10

Can complexity theory explain Egypt's crisis?

3

Social [?]

1

Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act

154

2

Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (1978)

94

3

I invested three years in a site which failed

88

4

Reddit is hiring. We're looking for 3 rockstar programmers.

67

5

Free London School of Business and Finance MBA lectures

33

6

Facebook Engineering Live Commenting: Behind the Scenes

21

7

IE9 Tops in HTML5 JS Sprite Performance over Chrome

14

8

Watch The Super Bowl 2011 Commercials On YouTube Ad Blitz

11

9

Chernobyl - The Lost Film

8

10

Java is working on the CR-48 laptop

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing the File Finder

157

2

Clojure on Google App Engine

95

3

Why I absolutely love java

77

4

Object Oriented CSS

45

5

Simple Erlang Browser Graphics

34

6

Cook up presentations with Git

34

7

Pull Request Diff Comments - GitHub

34

8

A jQuery Plugin for Comprehensive Animations

27

9

Trinity - A minimalistic Ruby web framework for publishing Linked Data

19

10

Respond.js: min/max-width CSS3 media queries for IE 6-8, and more

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

Kardashev scale

72

2

Delta Debugging

29

3

Non-aggression axiom

2

4

Open Letter to Hobbyists

2

5

Ryukyuan languages

2

6

Surveillance State

2

7

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

2

8

Path dependence

2

9

Sandford Fleming - Inventor of standard time

1

10

War of Currents

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

180

2

Dependency Injection is dangerous for your career

75

3

Offshoring: does it ever work?

68

4

Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

46

5

What Java got right

7

6

What is a good example of recursion other than generating a Fibonacci sequence?

3

7

Mongodb vs. Cassandra

2

8

Cannot Understand Node.JS

2

9

Dynamic vs Static type languages

2

10

Collision Detection algorithms

1

Substack [?]