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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
2026
2
Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
1153
3
PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
988
4
Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
938
5
Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
909
6
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
857
7
Why I'm a Pirate
845
8
Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
744
9
The Five Stages of Hosting
738
10
Google, what were you thinking?
735
Top Ask HN
1
Who is Hiring? (January 2012)
262
2
Who's looking for employment?
185
3
How do I start freelancing?
181
4
What successful startups started as "Show HN"?
154
5
Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what?
150
6
why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
145
7
Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed
116
8
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)
112
9
Webapps you can't live without?
97
10
How can I self-evaluate my programming skills?
91
Top Show HN
1
We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit
397
2
Scrollorama
395
3
my database engine for GPU
359
4
I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this
330
5
How I built a self-driving (RC) car.
300
6
Craigslist Car Search
228
7
HackPad is the best wiki ever
206
8
SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"
178
9
A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle
175
10
Collection of CSS Creations
163
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
938
2
SOPA livesand MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
439
3
Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking
405
4
The author of SOPA is a copyright violator
377
5
Death sentence for Iranian web programmer
366
6
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game
321
7
YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
302
8
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
259
9
Why Dont Smartphones Have A Guest Mode?
241
10
Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees
240
News [?]
1
A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.
482
2
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
437
3
I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?
370
4
How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
367
5
Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
334
6
The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
332
7
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
278
8
Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th
268
9
The Rise of the New Groupthink
239
10
Average Is Over
220
Scientific publications [?]
1
Language effects and power differences in social interaction [PDF]
18
2
iPad Survives Fall From Edge of Space in Jaw-Dropping Video
12
3
Pac-Man is NP-hard
9
4
Crew members on ISS answer questions
6
5
Good-bye, Wheelchair, hello Exoskeleton
6
6
Chinas Homegrown Supercomputers
5
7
Spaceflight error: X-37B not spying on Tiangong-1
5
8
Dinosaur-Like Tails Make Terrestrial Mobile Robots More Agile
4
9
Mystery Surrounds Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane's Landing Plan
3
10
Spain's SOPA Law: How It Works And Why It Won't
3
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
329
2
Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures
51
3
The Evolution of Lisp
44
4
Linux 3.1.10 released; 3.1 kernel series reached end of life.
41
5
Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity
27
6
British Tourists Arrested in the U.S. over a Tweet
22
7
Twitter introduces targeted censorship
20
8
CoffeeScript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"
7
9
"Functional Thinking" by Neal Ford
7
10
Mozilla Prepares a Separate Firefox Release for the Enterprise
6
Tech blogs [?]
1
New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
231
2
Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Digital Devices
222
3
Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter
124
4
U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship
109
5
EFF asks: Who's flying unmanned aircraft in the US?
71
6
Apple becomes No. 3 PC maker in US with industry-leading 21% growth
66
7
EFF: Biometrics in Argentina, Mass Surveillance as a State Policy
59
8
The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy
50
9
EFF's 2011 Holiday Wish List
36
10
Why Android isn't gaining on Apple in the Enterprise
24
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit
280
2
AWS Storage Gateway
102
3
Public datasets on AWS
98
4
Best Amazon review for Programming in C (non-affiliated link)
29
5
New Ender novel released today... wait, ebook ETA in 2013?
10
6
New Amazon design
8
7
AWS Announces DynamoDB
8
8
Free HTML5 Kindle Book
7
9
2012 CES Keynote Live
6
10
Apple - Supplier Responsibility
5
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
389
2
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
293
3
Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law
264
4
Feynman on explanations
201
5
The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car
199
6
The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography
164
7
US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison
154
8
Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets
152
9
MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files
131
10
RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses
110
Science News [?]
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The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance
111
2
Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India
85
3
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper
71
4
Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain
67
5
Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics
66
6
Do scientists really need a PhD?
52
7
Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly
47
8
Graphene: Supermaterial goes superpermeable
47
9
Arsenic life does not exist after all...
42
10
Thinnest silicon-chip wires refuse to go quantum
41
Social [?]
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A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students
413
2
Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.
264
3
US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"
245
4
Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA
212
5
Senator Marco Rubio drops support for PIPA
212
6
List of 61 senators refusing to meet and discuss PIPA/SOPA
211
7
Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life
170
8
Explaining Gdel's Incompleteness Theorem to a Twelve Year Old
155
9
Living in China, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet
122
10
Galaxy Nexus Power Analysis: Why chargers can't keep up with navigation
119
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations
594
2
Id Software Open Source releases on GitHub
305
3
Twss.js
298
4
Search: .lenght - Github
259
5
Google at GitHub
240
6
Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility
199
7
Open Source Visitor.js
195
8
Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites
161
9
Open-source Dropbox alternative powered by Git
142
10
MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications
142
Wikipedia [?]
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Wikipedia blackout page
498
2
ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
405
3
Wikipedia Is Black
86
4
Inner-platform effect
78
5
Wikipedia blackout notice now on all English Wiki articles.
60
6
Unlambda
44
7
Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template/macro language
25
8
The Alan Turing Year 2012
20
9
Wikipedia - Thank You for stopping SOPA
18
10
What's 1 mile wide, 300 miles long, and taking 14 hours to pass a single point?
13
Blogs [?]
1
Schlep Blindness
592
2
A Word to the Resourceful
454
3
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
291
4
A Word to the Resourceful
8
5
The Hundred-Year Language (2003)
7
6
Schlep Blindness
7
7
An Alternative Theory of Unions (2007)
4
8
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
3
9
Paul Graham about Web Startups almost 5 years ago
3
10
Ideas for Startups
3
Stackoverflow [?]
1
C# to take a breaking change in version 5
155
2
Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk
151
3
Hidden features of Python
131
4
Hidden Features of Java
125
5
Hidden features of C#
124
6
Matrix Multiplication in Clojure vs Numpy
66
7
How to choose an open source license for an app
16
8
Hidden Features of Python
14
9
Efficient represention for growing circles in 2D space?
13
10
Why do browsers not use SRV records?
8
Substack [?]