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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
508
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I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks
490
3
How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
488
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Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
476
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Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
449
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Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
430
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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
430
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Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows
426
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HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)
395
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Is IE9 a modern browser?
378
Top Ask HN
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How Many of You Are Like Me?
156
2
Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work) February 2011.
137
3
Burned out. How can I make the most of a sabbatical leave?
89
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I need advice. Major problems with my business & co-founder
77
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Which of your start up mistakes has taught you the most?
53
6
Self-marketing?
45
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I just thought of a startup, got funding and now I am stuck...
34
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How do I sell my (M)MORPG?
33
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Can we please tone down all the Apple vs. Google vs. MSFT flamewars?
33
10
ASK Hn: Funding a "small" startup in London
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Top Show HN
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Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
460
2
What Do You Think Of My Resume?
141
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I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
80
4
I made an Android app that gives you an extra phone number to give out
67
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My useless but fun laser eyes web app
62
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three.io = available 3 letter .io domains
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A user powered copy editing tool (running on Ars Technica)
56
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Twitter graph monitoring over time, SocialGrapple
50
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We made LinkedList NYC. A weekly newsletter for New York hackers.
49
10
Bug tracker I'm building for web devs & designers
31
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
345
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Why are you people defending Apple?
233
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Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
209
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Quora To Oddly-Named Users: Papers Please
148
5
Greplin (YC W10) Grabs $4 Million From Sequoia For Social Search
138
6
Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy
124
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Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I’m Glad We Did It Anyway
119
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Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia
118
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Twitter Suspends UberTwitter And Twidroyd For Violating Policies
117
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New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck
115
News [?]
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787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing
129
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3D printing could reduce raw material needs by 90%
123
3
Peter Norvig: The machine age
95
4
Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets
91
5
Watson crushes the competition in second round of 'Jeopardy'
88
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Solve Homelessness: Cut Out The Middle Man
87
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Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You
87
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Help wanted — jobless need not apply
68
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Hackers Highlight Offers of Corporate Espionage
62
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Regulators probe Apple 30% subscription plan
48
Scientific publications [?]
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Pictures of NASA's 2005 Deep Impact mission, where we scarred a comet
6
2
Sex On Mars & Mars Pregnancy Risks
3
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BrainDriver: A Mind Controlled Car
3
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Walking Creates A Thirst For Knowledge
2
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Watson Jeopardy computer crushes human opponents but makes embarrassing mistakes
2
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Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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The trouble with volatile
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Moving to Python 3
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The Ada Initiative: Salaries for women to participate in open source
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Societal Security
19
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Interview with Rob Pike on Concurrency/Parellelism (Video)
10
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Orion: Eclipse for the Web
6
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IcedRobot – An OpenJDK-based Fork of Android
5
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Mapping Wikileaks' Cablegate using Python, mongoDB, Neo4J and Gephi
5
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Translating Twitter Into More Languages
3
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Strange Loop Panel: "Non-Relational Data Stores"
3
Tech blogs [?]
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Low-cost video chat robot
36
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Steve Jobs reportedly seen at California's Stanford Cancer Center
10
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Apple exploring all-in-one MagSafe power and data connector
7
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Microsoft paying Nokia billions to adopt Windows Phone platform
3
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IBooks 1.2.1 Detects Some Jailbreaks, Disables iBookstore Purchases in Response
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Verizon iPhone Sales -- Disappointing?
3
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Apple gearing up for major product launch as early as next week
3
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What does the "Track" in "Do Not Track" mean? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
3
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DMCA Copyright Policies: Staying in the Safe Harbors While Protecting Your Users
2
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Apple's new MobileMe cloud will rely on self-storage for streaming - RUMOR
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store
119
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Amazon S3 adds new features for hosting static websites
23
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The Emperor's New Kind of Clothes - A review of NKS
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Windows Phone 7 to get IE9, Multi-tasking and Twitter integration in 2011
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
430
2
Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
3
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Is Your Company Effectively Handling Potential Customers’ Online Queries?
3
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Van Jacobson - Networking Named Content (2009)
2
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Some File-Sharers Leave Trails To Their Front Door
2
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RIAA Labels Spain and Canada As Piracy Havens
2
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BitTorrent Partners With Khan Academy to Distribute Education
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Make your training useful
1
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Record Label Teaches Music Fans BitTorrent
1
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Cases Against Thousands of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Dismissed
1
Science News [?]
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Neurons can operate in reverse
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Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language
67
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HIV as you've never seen it before
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U.S. Science Agencies Targeted for deep Budget Cuts
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Jeopardy-Playing Watson Computer System Could Revolutionize Research
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Bee sensor picks up queen bee's farewell vibes
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Computational science: ...Error
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The Psychological Consequences of Money
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Dealing with Data
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Vacuum has friction after all
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Social [?]
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Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
430
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Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US
267
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Ask IBM's Watson Research Team Anything
106
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Music Hack Day New York Video Recap
16
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Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, CA
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Kevin Rose declares Reddit the winner
10
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CBS files a copyright claim against themselves
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How is this 'real-life' Escher waterfall done?
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N=?NP, Physics, Feynman, and Quantum Computing
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Hackathon 22: Redesigning Facebook's internal image sharing tool
7
Github repos and gists [?]
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Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
476
2
Stuxnet is now on GitHub
248
3
All the external private APIs referenced by iBooks.app version 1.2.1
44
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JSONloops: real-time, multi-user audio sequencer for node.js and the browser
38
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"Move" — a simpler programming language as a subset of JavaScript
38
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GoSpeccy: A concurrent ZX Spectrum Emulator Written in Go
34
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ElephantDB: A database specialized in exporting KV data from Hadoop
28
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New HTML5 + JavaScript report with embedded JSON snapshot technique
23
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Automatic hardware acceleration with jQuery animate
6
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Vim, Python, Git, Mercurial on the CR-48 in ChromeOS
4
Wikipedia [?]
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The Sweden Solar System
195
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Langton's ant
176
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Christopher Monsanto gives up trying to delete PL articles
173
4
HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot
112
5
Michigan left
77
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Rotor ships, aka Flettner ships
31
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The Deletion Review page for Nemerle
4
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We call it "Italian Strike": do only what you're explicitly required to do
3
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The Pirahã - a people who choose not to count ...
2
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A5/1
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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Stackoverflow: Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?
123
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Using git and dropbox together
110
3
How deep does C go?
4
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What are Agile and Scrum development methodology?
3
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How does Lisp let you redefine the language itself?
3
6
Great programming quotes
2
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"Hidden" features of C#
2
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For a good laugh: How can I edit Internet speed?
2
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What do I need to know if I want to accept credit cards on my website?
2
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Should I store a user's birth date?
1
Substack [?]