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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Outlawed by Amazon DRM

1426

2

The Future of Markdown

869

3

Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

677

4

672

5

Tell HN: Let's Be Civil

661

6

Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution

624

7

Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

590

8

Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

582

9

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

577

10

Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

576

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

250

2

Your best passive income sources?

234

3

What did the really successful programmers do differently?

215

4

Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?

174

5

Learning to write good JavaScript

160

6

What's your startup's analytics setup?

130

7

What is this? 158268a350000000

125

8

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)

112

9

Can I visit your startup in SF?

89

10

Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?

66

Top Show HN

1

I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it

500

2

We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

451

3

Meet your cardboard buddy.

233

4

I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites

180

5

UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

166

6

Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

149

7

Introducting C+

143

8

Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game

142

9

my weekend project, Quotably

134

10

A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

132

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org

517

2

How a Google Headhunters E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

467

3

Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

445

4

How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others

314

5

Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night

300

6

Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center

265

7

I am calling you from Windows: A tech support scammer

239

8

Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

215

9

Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius

196

10

Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections

192

News [?]

1

Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?

480

2

A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space

399

3

Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

336

4

The island where people forget to die

332

5

My son is schizophrenic. The reforms that I worked for have worsened his life.

317

6

The lactose-tolerance mutation

316

7

Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota

284

8

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

271

9

The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled

243

10

FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted

238

Scientific publications [?]

1

ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST)

176

2

First SpaceX launch to supply Space Station is next Sunday

138

3

Homemade thermal camera

84

4

A dialog on quantum gravity (2003)

64

5

Physicists extend special relativity

59

6

Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in U.S. Election

45

7

NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect Gravitational Waves

21

8

Long-term effects of Cannabis

15

9

Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test

11

10

Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous marketplace

8

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Button (beta)

279

2

Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)

237

3

How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL

217

4

Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

192

5

186

6

Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

174

7

170

8

When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?

165

9

Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7

117

10

Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim

113

Tech blogs [?]

1

Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving

219

2

USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung

213

3

AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review

195

4

AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014

122

5

ARM's Cortex A57 and Cortex A53: The First 64-bit ARMv8 CPU Cores

81

6

Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K Nvidia GPU Cores

76

7

Pulse jet tea kettle

65

8

Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel

59

9

Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January)

59

10

EFF Wins Renewal of Smartphone Jailbreaking Rights

59

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.

576

2

Scott Forstall leaves Apple

461

3

259

4

Windows 8 Arrives

251

5

Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage

201

6

AWS outage summary

158

7

Apple posts its UK apology to Samsung

94

8

Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD

85

9

Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

75

10

Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6 Enables Seeing in the Dark

54

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement

158

2

Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof

144

3

Six-Strikes Independent Expert Is RIAAs Former Lobbying Firm

137

4

RIAA Failed To Disclose Experts Lobbying History to Six-Strikes Partners

120

5

Pirate Bay Founder Wins Back Passport from Swedish Embassy

87

6

Symbian, a post-mortem

84

7

Microsoft Bans Halo 4 Pirates, and Some Idiots Absolutely Deserved It

63

8

File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers

51

9

The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime

50

10

Hurricane Hackers Project

38

Science News [?]

1

The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue

142

2

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge

108

3

Empathy represses analytic thought and vice versa

103

4

Your Fat Needs Sleep Too

71

5

Language learning makes the brain grow, Swedish study suggests

66

6

Cassette tapes are the future of big data storage

49

7

Scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

48

8

Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It?

43

9

Wall Street's thirst for water: a market for water will drive up food prices

29

10

Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline

19

Social [?]

1

Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users

154

2

How to Model Viral Growth: The Hybrid Model

54

3

How to Model Viral Growth: Deriving the Viral Carrying Capacity

52

4

A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956

44

5

Facebook Graph API exploit that let's you pump up to 1800 'Likes' in an hour

23

6

Hacking a crowd of 430 hackers with 1720 balloons

14

7

Launch Pad author live Q&A about life inside YC

11

8

Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay [video]

11

9

How McDonalds fries are made.

10

10

Black Girls Code

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

216

2

Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site

195

3

GitHub Game Off

192

4

Pattern - Web Mining Python lib

179

5

Missing the Point of Promises

157

6

The Django Book is getting updated

155

7

ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file

115

8

NSQ: Realtime distributed message processing at scale (in Go)

105

9

Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla)

104

10

$.url() - A simple, lightweight url parser for jQuery

96

Wikipedia [?]

1

332

2

270

3

Illegal Numbers

179

4

97

5

Toba catastrophe theory

64

6

Kane Kramer is credited with inventing the digital audio player in 1979

63

7

38

8

Mercury-Redstone 1 - The four inch flight

36

9

20

10

Tom Preston-Werner (this page has been deleted)

16

Blogs [?]

1

The Hardware Renaissance

445

2

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)

66

3

Silicon Valley Prefers Obama 2 to 1

57

4

Kevin Rose: What I Learned Building a Product Team

20

5

Dont Buy Something Unless Youve Wanted it Three Times

6

6

What I Learned Building LittleIpsum

5

7

The Hardware Renaissance

4

8

The desire to know it all in programming

2

9

Paul Graham on presidential elections: It's Charisma Stupid [2004/2006]

2

10

The Other Road Ahead (2001)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

577

2

Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM

141

3

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

112

4

Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior?

81

5

Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk?

58

6

Is a glossy or matte LCD screen better for long coding sessions?

34

7

Xkcd style graphs in Matlab

25

8

Why not port the Linux kernel to Common Lisp?

8

9

What is the name of this operator: --?

8

10

Synchronization on local variables in Java

6

Substack [?]