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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

592

2

Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code

569

3

Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)

543

4

Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 (video)

526

5

Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth

513

6

Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.

496

7

Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right

469

8

Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

410

9

Natalie Portman - Scientist

388

10

The blind man who taught himself to see

388

Top Ask HN

1

How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

188

2

Who's Hiring? (March 2011 Edition)

80

3

Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (March 2011 Edition)

79

4

I'm renovating a house, what clever stuff should I build in?

66

5

Bitcoin mining: anyone doing it?

51

6

How is work/life balance at Google and Facebook for Software Engineers?

32

7

How does Google make money off of Android?

32

8

Who's Hiring (March 2011)

30

9

Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing

24

10

Who's looking for a job? (March 2011 Edition)

21

Top Show HN

1

"Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Twilio

216

2

I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

122

3

Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio

95

4

Review My Startup - PaperPhobic

63

5

My weekend project, a graphics/cellular automata playground

56

6

Invite to try fiesta.cc - effortless mailing lists

51

7

I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

44

8

HipsterVision.org - funky geolocation instagram image search

41

9

Textmob - My simple Twilio + GroupMe app

27

10

Set up a 4 node Cassandra cluster in under 2 minutes

27

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google demos driverless cars

169

2

Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anyone Who Visited GeoHot Site

153

3

Gmail accidentally resetting accounts

143

4

Custora (YC W11) Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention

141

5

What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

123

6

Noteleaf (YC W11) Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A Whole New Level

120

7

Live from Apple's iPad 2 event

116

8

The Haves and Have-Nots: The True Story of a Reader Suddenly De-Invited from TED

113

9

Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In Dotcloud (YC S10)

113

10

Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down

103

News [?]

1

Natalie Portman - Scientist

388

2

Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work

232

3

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

139

4

The Experience Economy

88

5

How Germany Became the China of Europe

76

6

Marcus du Sautoy's "Brief History of Mathematics" (10 MP3 episodes)

60

7

Testing Google's New Algorithm: It Really Is Better

55

8

Senators to Debate Patent Bill

54

9

The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'

50

10

Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You

41

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bedside Cancer Detector

43

2

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study [pdf]

13

3

"Capitalist Science"

5

4

2

5

Article: NASA Solar Sail Visible Over Parts of U.S. and Canada

2

6

With Elfoid, you can carry the uncanny valley in your pocket

2

7

Obama Speaks Live to the Discovery/ISS Crew (5:03pm ET)

2

8

Scheduler Vulnerabilities and Attacks in Cloud Computing

2

9

Boston Dynamics Building Fast-Running Robot Cheetah, New Agile Humanoid

1

10

The Plastic Processor

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down

119

2

Scala at Twitter

55

3

Rob Pike on Google Go: Concurrency, Type System, Memory Management and GC

51

4

Disgruntled Programmer Accused of Sabotaging Arcade Game Classic

40

5

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

12

6

Intrapreneurship at Google

11

7

Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation

9

8

Innovation at Google

3

9

The Security Mindset (2008)

2

10

Scaling with MongoDB

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing

85

2

EFF takes a look at the 2011 Patent Reform Act

69

3

10.7 Lion drops support for PowerPC applications

41

4

2-bit full adder using just thirty six 555 timers

18

5

If 'App Store' trademark is generic, so is Microsoft's 'Windows,' Apple argues

8

6

Could 2011 Be The Year? A Look at the 2011 Patent Reform Act | EFF

7

7

This is iOS notifications done right

5

8

OSX Lion with feature to put your signature in PDFs

5

9

Security firm details new Trojan written for Apple's Mac OS X

5

10

Apple may surprise with near immediate availability of iPad 2 next week

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

IPad 2 Official Specs

122

2

IPad 2 Keynote video

5

3

Microsoft Makes Native Languages More Accessible to often underserved cultures

3

4

Elements of Computing Systems - Building a Modern Computer from 1st Principles

3

5

Steve Jobs: "It's not a case -- it's a cover."

3

6

2

7

Apple Unveils iPad 2 - Coming March 11

2

8

2

9

Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Compact 7 (aka Microsoft tablet OS?)

1

10

Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable

195

2

Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don’t Exist

130

3

49

4

Hosting Company: Anti-Pirates Stole $138,000 In Kit & Hijacked Our Email

2

5

Capitalism for the Long Term

1

6

BTDigg, The First ‘Trackerless’ Torrent Search Engine

1

7

Swebits BitTorrent Tracker Shuts Down Following Uploader’s Arrest

1

8

Exploring the interface between technique and creativity

1

9

BitTorrent Inc. Releases Dummy Proof Download Client

1

10

Government 'Pirate' Honeypot

1

Science News [?]

1

Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

85

2

Genetic treatment closes door on HIV

43

3

A drug that can make your old memories like new

38

4

Cannabis and Psychosis

12

5

Why Johnny can't hypothesize: A discussion about math and science education

11

6

Two planets found sharing one orbit

6

7

Placebo effect works both ways

6

8

Scientists tracked thousands of British children for 65 years

6

9

Optical microscope that could see viruses

3

10

Parents rationalize economic cost of kids by exaggerating parental joy

3

Social [?]

1

Ken Jennings takes AMA questions on Reddit

207

2

Hybrid Incremental MySQL Backups

57

3

AskHN Any idea who is behind this caustic (and rather funny) Twitter account?

22

4

Chain of Fools: Upgrading through every major version of Windows

20

5

Popular free apps from android market injected with malware, republished

9

6

21 android apps ripped off, exploits added and republished. 200k d/ls.

8

7

Hybrid Incremental MySQL Backups

8

8

Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate (1969) [video]

7

9

Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place

7

10

Does anyone own a profitable niche blog that they enjoy running? (/r/web_design)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Evil.css: an evil stylesheet for injecting into unsuspecting users' webpages

109

2

posix-spawn: a faster fork+exec for ruby

56

3

JQuery plugin dynamically changes your images to placeholder kittens

56

4

Still Committing Like Crazy

48

5

pybloomfiltermmap - Fast Python Bloom Filter using Mmap

31

6

How to roll out your own Javascript API with V8

30

7

Large-scale social media analysis with Hadoop (Python)

9

8

Total Github user count and velocity

9

9

Textmate Like Editor Inside Chrome

8

10

Ligament.js connects backbone models with relational associations

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hiding Nobel prizes in plain sight

220

2

Impossible colors

90

3

The Pioneer Anomaly

52

4

Thing (listening device)

49

5

German tank problem

28

6

Banana equivalent dose

8

7

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre

5

8

James while John had had had ... had had had had a better effect on the teacher

3

9

North American video game crash of 1983

2

10

Erdős–Bacon Number

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

244

2

What is tail recursion?

8

3

Why can't there be an “ultimate” programming language?

3

4

SproutCore vs Cappuccino (2010)

2

5

How to specify the programming language of a code sample in HTML

2

6

The Zen of Python

2

7

Learn some Python hidden features

1

8

Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer

1

9

Node.js and CPU intensive requests

1

Substack [?]