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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I love you, dad

1080

2

Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again

970

3

Thinking the unthinkable

949

4

Google Maps for iOS

814

5

Page Weight Matters

705

6

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

698

7

Apple - Think Twice

697

8

Youre not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.

695

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669

10

Notch trying jsFiddle

650

Top Ask HN

1

Best books you read in 2012

355

2

What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?

287

3

A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

232

4

Who is hiring? (December 2012)

210

5

what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?

191

6

How do you escape CRUD jobs?

166

7

Did YC accept anyone without an idea this round?

151

8

Salary Increases Over Time

100

9

Do coding coaches exist?

84

10

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)

80

Top Show HN

1

Analytics.js The analytics API you've always wanted

313

2

Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor

288

3

Interactive SICP

273

4

264

5

How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website

236

6

Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming

200

7

Ember Table by Addepar

188

8

roots - a toolkit for advanced front-end dev

183

9

Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching

160

10

box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM

160

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum

578

2

Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year

439

3

Google Maps becomes the App Stores most popular free app in 7 hours

421

4

How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

380

5

Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright reform memo

274

6

Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu spyware because it tracks searches

233

7

Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator

215

8

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas

204

9

Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong

185

10

Apple kills a Kickstarter project

175

News [?]

1

A Pickpocket's Tale

520

2

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

512

3

An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]

366

4

Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says

343

5

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

291

6

Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91

284

7

Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal

280

8

The hum that helps to fight crime

225

9

Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street

215

10

Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

208

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...

217

2

AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames

178

3

Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

108

4

Computers: It's time to start over.

60

5

NASA Eyes Mission To Icy Jupiter Moon Europa To Gauge Habitability

35

6

Steve Mann warns Google Glass can cause "brain damage"

30

7

Polynomial time factoring algorithm using Bayesian arithmetic

18

8

Taiwan engineers defeat limits of flash memory

13

9

Oxygen nucleus with twice as many neutrons shown to be stable

7

10

License Plates, Cameras, and Our Vanishing Privacy

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks

199

2

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

194

3

A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux

155

4

Feudal Security

128

5

CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web

105

6

Stripe adds two-factor auth

73

7

The solitaire encryption algorithm (1999)

64

8

GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

62

9

Booting a Modern Linux Desktop in Just ~200MB

41

10

CloudFlare's new web protocol speeds up dynamic web performance

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'

254

2

EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill

222

3

160 Mac Minis, One Rack

208

4

First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It

129

5

Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA

107

6

The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis

90

7

USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple's 'Steve Jobs Patent' on the iPhone

76

8

Apples Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

64

9

Some new iMacs marked as being 'Assembled in USA'

57

10

Making graphene with a DVD burner

48

FAANG+ [?]

1

John Resig's Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja has been released

150

2

Post-mortem of Christmas Eve Amazon ELB outage

85

3

AWS Data Pipeline

74

4

Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview)

67

5

Apple rolls out new status page for Services, Stores and iCloud

45

6

Amazon Instant Video on Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

26

7

Apple iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million

10

8

Announcing EBS snapshot copy

5

9

Download my free ebook today only

3

10

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Node.js

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

531

2

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy

190

3

1983 Radio Shack Catalog

187

4

ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: Were Not The Internet Police

166

5

Make a Donation to the Internet Archive

160

6

Startup ideas spreadsheet

139

7

Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies

138

8

Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000

138

9

"I've got nothing to hide" and other misunderstandings of privacy

127

10

Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent

106

Science News [?]

1

Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

128

2

City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites

108

3

WiFi Signals Caught on Camera

95

4

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

58

5

Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?

57

6

MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics

54

7

Decay: Physics students at LHC produces a zombie flick set in CERN

38

8

Genetically modified salmons approved by the FDA

34

9

Souped-up immune cells force leukaemia into remission

30

10

Dan Ariely Talks Creativity And Dishonesty

30

Social [?]

1

The Product Manager's Lament

72

2

Is Facebook down?

71

3

Rebuilding Facebook for Android

60

4

Things Bosses Wish They Could Tell Employees

52

5

Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts

52

6

Facebook: Your Year in Review

38

7

Hacker News: Poison and to be avoided

23

8

NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all posts stored

21

9

A career mistake that capable people make

19

10

The TSA as we know it is dead - here's why

17

Github repos and gists [?]

1

If youre trying to hack/deface a website, dont submit a pull request

472

2

You can now create files on GitHub

321

3

Welcome to a New Gist

267

4

Better Rails errors

246

5

Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes

214

6

Downtime last Saturday

195

7

GitHub now has Issue Attachments

187

8

PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP

161

9

Netflix open sources resilience engineering library

147

10

A static website generator in Python

134

Wikipedia [?]

1

238

2

Moravec's paradox

188

3

Bernoulli discovered e by studying a question about compound interest

49

4

Banach-Tarski paradox

47

5

CipherSaber - A 'political' encryption cipher

38

6

Magic Roundabout

35

7

34

8

Shakespeare (programming language)

33

9

The deadliest school massacre in US history occurred in 1927

18

10

PermianTriassic extinction event

17

Blogs [?]

1

Tenth Grade Tech Trends

288

2

What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

226

3

212

4

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

208

5

What Languages Fix (2002)

37

6

How To Do Philosophy (2007)

32

7

The Five NYC Taxi Drivers who Refused My Fare

30

8

Revenue Doesnt Matter

27

9

Fixing our social sharing tools

14

10

The Word "Hacker" (2004)

14

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How deep are your unit tests?

57

2

What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?

55

3

Why does this C program compile?

43

4

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

8

5

What is a real programming language?

6

6

Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords?

3

7

What is your best programmer joke?

3

8

Optimizing Haskell Code: parallel arrays, GC params: 30% faster

2

9

Stack Overflow triggers Google Chrome malware detector

2

10

Typescript wins over Dart on Stackoverflow

2

Substack [?]