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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

1290

2

Farewell Stack Exchange

1212

3

Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive

919

4

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

808

5

14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

789

6

Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter

762

7

Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours

690

8

Ubuntu for Android

690

9

ASCII interactive fluid animation

652

10

Producer vs. Consumer

640

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (February 2012)

260

2

Help a Hacker Out

257

3

What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?

220

4

JavaScript Dev Tools

121

5

What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

121

6

How to move away from Gmail

117

7

Have you taken 6 months to 1 year break to do self study?

98

8

How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?

81

9

What would you work on, if money was of no concern?

66

10

How do you hire contractors?

58

Top Show HN

1

Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books

522

2

Github for Designers

404

3

Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site

403

4

Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

393

5

Themes for Bootstrap

349

6

Favicon alert bubbles

270

7

Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack

178

8

My afternoon project - a pleasant viewer for the "who is hiring?" posts

177

9

Wireshark as a web app

159

10

Cron.io - Sharing a by-product. Should this be a full service?

147

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately

424

2

Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

383

3

Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years

316

4

Instagram Founders Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram

294

5

Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest

289

6

Interesting Windows Desktop UI Concept

289

7

If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

277

8

272

9

Gigabit Internet for $80

271

10

Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)

240

News [?]

1

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

597

2

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

457

3

Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch

373

4

Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctors eyes

346

5

Stripe raises $18 million from Sequoia

306

6

V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore

291

7

The Fifty is awake again

271

8

Reuters totally clueless about the meaning of "hacking"

213

9

Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle

196

10

Facebook Is Using You

192

Scientific publications [?]

1

Sebastian Thrun wants to teach you how to program a self-driving robotic car

56

2

Sex differences in intimate relationships (pdf)

52

3

The Haskell road to logic review

42

4

India's premature $50 tablet little better than a prototype

27

5

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors

15

6

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

9

7

Function call overhead benchmarks with Matlab, Octave, Python, Cython and C

7

8

Boston Dynamics AlphaDog Quadruped Robot Begins Outdoor Assessment (Video)

4

9

Bypassing verified boot security in Chromium OS

3

10

Why I'm Wagering $100,000 on Quantum Computing

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

386

2

Another Piece of the Stuxnet Puzzle

149

3

Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release

111

4

The Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet?

107

5

WebSockets versus REST?

91

6

Stripe blog: New webhooks

83

7

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

69

8

New Features in Xcode 4.3

66

9

Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling

65

10

Ubuntu on ARM faster than some Atoms?

44

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database

450

2

Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

392

3

A swarm of micro-quadcopters

166

4

Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

120

5

Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads

99

6

Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors

47

7

A Look at Enterprise Performance of Intel SSDs

43

8

Understanding AMD's roadmap and new direction

38

9

Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically redesigned MacBook Pros

37

10

Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for $9.99

32

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

458

2

Visual Studio 11 Beta released

54

3

Download the free Messages Beta - iMessage Beta

36

4

Amazon Simple Workflow Service

14

5

Amazon Simple Workflow NASA JPL case study

13

6

8

7

25 Billion App Countdown - Apple

8

8

"qqqq ... qqq" is a strong password according to Microsoft

5

9

Machine Learning for Hackers

4

10

The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure

252

2

Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down

177

3

Pirate Bay Founders Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected

160

4

You Cant Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists

154

5

All the documents that Google deleted from Google Groups, saved by Archive Team

147

6

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released From Prison

101

7

My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination

100

8

BitTorrent Piracy Doesnt Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds

76

9

Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges

75

10

74

Science News [?]

1

Teller Reveals His Secrets

598

2

Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus

228

3

$900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano

119

4

Magnetic recording breakthrough reported

101

5

Why Do Cells Age? Extremely Long-Lived Proteins

69

6

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

65

7

Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective

63

8

Earth's clouds are getting lower, NASA satellite finds

39

9

Most reported power laws lack statistical support and mechanistic backing

30

10

Origin of photosynthesis revealed

29

Social [?]

1

Producer vs. Consumer

640

2

How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis

364

3

Reddit: a necessary change in policy

171

4

Former Zynga Engineer doing AMA on reddit

151

5

Stick with Microsoft WPF (et al.) or jump ship?

48

6

Frank Zappa Explains the Decline of the Music Industry

23

7

Wikileaks Releases Insurance File

17

8

Want to code for the devil?

12

9

StartupBus parody video of billionaire

11

10

Formation flying nano-quadcopters ready to take over your living room

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub: About This Week's Availability

178

2

Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon

170

3

The Great Web Framework Shootout On GitHub

164

4

YSlow is now open source

136

5

Atea: a free minimalistic status bar time tracker for MacOS in Clojure

133

6

Node.native - Node.js in C++0x

133

7

Clojure Implemented in Pure Python

119

8

118

9

HNHalfLife aims to increase discussion half-lives on Hacker News

105

10

LLVM Clojure Bindings

100

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia's list of lists of lists

195

2

Orders of magnitude

5

3

4

4

Koch snowflake - Wikipedia

4

5

3

6

You don't know how much you suck at something until you are good at it.

3

7

3

8

Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements

3

9

Mathematical fallacy

2

10

Hedy Lamarr: Actress and inventor of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system.

2

Blogs [?]

1

How to do what you love

6

2

A Word to the Resourceful

2

3

Olin Shivers: History of T

2

4

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Using HTML5/Canvas/Javascript to take screenshots

162

2

What exactly is RESTful programming?

117

3

How does Apple find dates and times in emails?

106

4

General principles for good URI design for RESTful and HTTP applications

95

5

Do browsers parse javascript on every page load?

78

6

Maintaining Large Binary Resources in Git

48

7

:- what is it in c code?

14

8

Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

10

9

Is Lua interesting, from a programming language design perspective?

8

10

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers

6

Substack [?]