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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance

596

2

An Open Letter to Apple on the Readability App rejection

478

3

Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

431

4

Solving The Hacker News Problem

407

5

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2

401

6

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago

377

7

Pattern: A web mining & natural language processing system for Python

356

8

Geohot seeking donations for legal defense against Sony.

336

9

Calculus Revisited - a complete self-study calculus course from MIT OCW

332

10

You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)

320

Top Ask HN

1

Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?

156

2

Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?

123

3

Obtaining initial users for a startup

119

4

what lifestyle business could I help to create for my mom?

78

5

Review my investment website startup, StockYoyo.com

56

6

Good experiences of being acquired by a large company?

31

7

Hackathon at Launch?

30

8

Help me prepare for my interview with Ward Cunningham

30

9

Startup from icy centre of Canada hoping to meet SV Hackers and YC Alum

26

10

I got screwed and now im looking for a place to do my internship in.

25

Top Show HN

1

HackerBooks.com

351

2

Breakup Notifier

264

3

Remote Jobs (our answer to "Who Is Hiring Remote Workers?")

217

4

I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50

98

5

My weekend project, written on Friday and Today

79

6

SiteSupport.com - Remote Desktop For Webbased Applications

67

7

Engelbart's Chorded Keyboard - Built at SHDH42 yesterday

43

8

LifeEnsured, privately manage your on-line life after you pass.

36

9

A different interface for reading Hacker News

36

10

Sparkmuse, story and beta of my side project

31

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your Browser, Without The Hassle

213

2

Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook

189

3

Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore

185

4

Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath

145

5

Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?

142

6

DrChrono (YC W11) Makes The iPad A Doctor’s Best Friend In The Exam Room

136

7

Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

133

8

Amazon launches Prime instant videos, unlimited streaming for Prime subscribers

118

9

Engineers Recruit Engineers With Hackruiter (YC S10)

114

10

95

News [?]

1

Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance

596

2

The lost art of pickpockets

137

3

YouTube Says It's in Negotiations to Stream Live NBA, NHL Games

77

4

Google tries new angle on hiring

73

5

Harvard Scientists Create Hand-Held Device to Detect Cancer at Bedside

68

6

Jilted in the U.S., a Site Finds Love in India

65

7

The Arab uprisings of 2011 are like the European revolutions of 1848

57

8

Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment

54

9

When the Internet Nearly Fractured, and How It Could Happen Again

32

10

Teachers unions are not the reason many schools suck

28

Scientific publications [?]

1

Game Design: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science

12

2

Terence Tao: What is good mathematics?

5

3

Remind HN: space shuttle Discovery has its last launch at 4:50 ET today

4

4

NASA Launch (TV)

3

5

New development in quantum computing research

3

6

PaperBricks: An Alternative to Complete-Story Peer Reviewing

2

7

Nose Works Like a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

2

8

Your next camera will be 3D... or maybe the next one

2

9

Coveting thy neighbors fitness as a means to resolve social dilemmas

2

10

How Robonaut 2 Will Help Astronauts In Space

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Azul Garbage Collector

73

2

Google Revamps Native Client

7

3

"the IT security industry is now in mortal danger of losing its soul."

4

4

The Lesson of Stuxnet and Aurora: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned

3

5

Hackers stole $63,000 from a Kansas car dealership

3

6

JDK 7 Developer Preview, but Licensing Concerns Persist

3

7

Winning the War But Losing Our Soul

2

8

San Jose shows the world how to play serious Innovation Games

2

9

SpamIt, Glavmed Pharmacy Networks Exposed

2

10

Intel announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite (BITS)

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault

156

2

Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta

93

3

Steve Jobs Email Suggests In-App Subscriptions Don't Apply to SaaS?

78

4

AnandTech Motorola Xoom Review

68

5

Apple 'Safe Deposit Box' Patent Revealed Ahead of Mac OS X Lion

41

6

Measure earth’s rotation with PlayStation Move

23

7

Steve Jobs gave Russian President an AT&T iPhone, still locked

21

8

New MacBook Pro lineup with ThunderBolt, quad-core CPUs released

12

9

The End of the Copyright Trolls' Business Model?

5

10

Android: strong handset sales but minority position in software sales

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

320

2

New MacBook Pro series

276

3

Windows 7 SP1 is out

108

4

New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume

102

5

AWS CloudFormation: BeanStalk with custom stacks

80

6

Introducing AWS CloudFormation

38

7

Kindle 3.1 update adds real page numbers

5

8

Amazon Prime Now Includes Free Instant Videos

2

9

Lion Server is part of standard OS X Lion

2

10

Introducing AWS CloudFormation

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Gets Involved in Bittorrent Search Lawsuit

22

2

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview

9

3

Ability to React

3

4

Internet Archive's S3 like server API

3

5

Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases

3

6

Generalizing From One Example

2

7

Hacker News circa 2007

2

8

Study: Experts Are More Persuasive When They’re Less Certain

1

9

Everything we know about procrastination

1

Science News [?]

1

Can Open Source R&D reinvigorate Drug Research?

4

2

FCC disregards GPS interference, allows LightSquared to ramp up power anyway

3

3

Starless planets may be habitable after all

2

4

The unknown fault that caught out Christchurch

2

5

Illusion 'cloak' makes you see what's not there

2

6

Evolution isn't easy, even in Galapagos

1

7

Keystroke Logging Software

1

8

Social Anxiety More Likely than Depression to Keep People Unemployed

1

9

Toward Computers That Fit on a Pen Tip

1

10

A green way to cap an old landfill

1

Social [?]

1

Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

431

2

Redditors earning $100k+ a year, what are your secrets to your success?

193

3

Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?

193

4

New privacy policy written for 'Regular People'

32

5

Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

31

6

Machine Learning Video Lectures (Stanford)

8

7

Interview with Leah Culver of Convore (YC W11)

6

8

Android Activations Visualization

6

9

Sarcastic Ipad 2 review

6

10

How Google Innovates. (51 Minute Presentation)

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

How We Made Github Fast (2009)

166

2

Use git+github in the classroom

117

3

rbtrace: like strace, but for ruby code

101

4

Turn off ri and rdoc generation by default

86

5

Inception Movie explained using the C language

62

6

Multi-user real-time heatmaps with HTMLCanvas Open Source

33

7

Haystack: A small utility helping to protect your searches

20

8

Mobile Boilerplate Beta released

9

9

C++ Cartesian Products

8

10

Node.js Bittorrent client in 401 sloc

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hofstadter's law

94

2

Singular Value Decomposition

13

3

6

4

Binomial proportion confidence interval

2

5

Mind hacks: Method of loci

2

6

"A crew member entered a zero ... causing the ship's propulsion system to fail"

2

7

The birthday paradox

2

8

Anaphora (linguistics)

2

9

The best browser ever

2

10

Dr. Nakamatsu: Most Prolific Inventor in the World

1

Blogs [?]

1

Ask PG: How to Start a Startup

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp

43

2

What can Lisp do that Lua can't?

3

3

How do you add Fb Oath2 Permissions to Django?

2

4

Understanding Python Decorators

2

5

Real life examples of GoF Design Patterns

1

6

I'm just going to leave this here...

1

7

How "low" does C go as a "low-level" language?

1

8

Twitter image encoding challenge

1

Substack [?]