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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog

1611

2

1335

3

DuckDuckGo is blowing up

1199

4

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

1138

5

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

1021

6

927

7

Why I Left Google

916

8

908

9

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

877

10

Codename: Obtvse

873

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

265

2

more sites like HN

178

3

Best Python web framework

112

4

Finding work for a significant other

92

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)

92

6

do founders get a salary after raising angel round?

87

7

This is my first open-source project. Feedback?

68

8

Ask HN:Can I start a company on an H1B visa?

61

9

Do you invest in the stock market?

53

10

What are some small to medium size blogs covering startups?

48

Top Show HN

1

This up votes itself

3381

2

A Way To Hack HN's Karma

466

3

Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail

301

4

Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

234

5

I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices

220

6

Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it

181

7

I wrote a guidebook on everything I know about applying to Y Combinator

172

8

KytePhone turns any Android into a kids-friendly phone

163

9

Meme generator for hipsters

143

10

Q&A for HN users

138

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

414

2

Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

358

3

Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'

356

4

Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password

315

5

Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

308

6

Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional

249

7

Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)

248

8

Kara Is Self-Aware

244

9

Pair (YC W12) is a Path for the Two of Us

208

10

99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet

204

News [?]

1

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

1138

2

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

877

3

540

4

Batman's Real Story

396

5

A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp

387

6

The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists

386

7

James Cameron begins deepest dive

325

8

60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]

306

9

Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?

296

10

Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System

286

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to hang a picture using n nails such that removing any k nails makes it fall

126

2

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

16

3

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

10

4

NASA has mapped the universe

9

5

"Fixing the Brain With Computers": conversation with neurosurgeon R. Bucholz

8

6

Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Robot Demonstrates Astonishing Jumping Skills

7

7

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

6

8

Truth about Defibrillators - too many fail at crucial moment

5

9

Giant Solar Flare, Everyone Panic

5

10

NASA - Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request

619

2

Git project seeks discussion on "push" change

321

3

Is Agile Stifling Introverts?

125

4

Nvidia Is Joining The Linux Foundation

119

5

Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images

100

6

AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code

90

7

Jetty gets 'SPDY'

85

8

Ember.js - Rich Internet Applications Done Right

74

9

Talk Of GCC 5.0 To Be Modular, More Like LLVM

70

10

MasterCard, Visa Warn of Processor Breach

65

Tech blogs [?]

1

Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu

344

2

16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft

263

3

Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay

109

4

Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution

105

5

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Declined to Join Apple

65

6

HTTPS and Tor: Working Together to Protect Your Privacy and Security Online

62

7

Ex Apple TV Engineer: New Apple TV UI is actually one Jobs threw away years ago

56

8

Safari vulnerability in iOS 5.1 allows URL spoofing

48

9

Anandtech review of NVidia's new GPU architecture

16

10

HTTPS Everywhere Now Available For Chrome

11

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple releases Ipad 3

285

2

Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

197

3

New iPad Tops Three Million

77

4

Apple Conference Call

69

5

Amazon CloudFront Lowers Minimum Content Expiration Period

27

6

Apple: 514,000 US Jobs Created

25

7

Amazon.com redesign

18

8

Apple announces the new iPad

13

9

The new iPad technical specifications

10

10

IOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition)

8

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

377

2

Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why

255

3

Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay

251

4

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

211

5

Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident

185

6

Megaupload Seizure Order Null and Void Says High Court

170

7

Bayes' Theorem Illustrated

158

8

Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model

103

9

French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales

97

10

Google Defends Hotfile in Court

94

Science News [?]

1

Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40

176

2

A camera that can see around corners

151

3

Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep

147

4

LSD helps to treat alcoholism

108

5

Algorithm Finds Thousands of Unknown Drug Interaction Side Effects

101

6

Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked - 6 bit bytes

91

7

New imagery shows brain neurons are arranged in 2D sheets

61

8

Did the Titanic sink because of an optical illusion?

59

9

Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits

45

10

Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads

10

Social [?]

1

IAmA NASA Astronaut who recently returned to Earth and I am new to reddit

158

2

Help Reddit build a recommender

151

3

Google bans reddit client from Play Store for "sexually explicit material"

138

4

Facebook will take action to protect the privacy and security of their users

130

5

Stephen Wolfram does an AMA

119

6

Neil deGrasse Tyson Doing an IAmA on Reddit

95

7

What is 'Space' expanding into?

67

8

CEO of Symantec talks about Startups, Google Fiber and Leadership

37

9

Facebook is down in Northern Europe

25

10

Stephen Wolfram AMA

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub

645

2

OSX For Hackers

463

3

Responsible Disclosure Policy

312

4

How Homakov hacked GitHub & the line of code that could have prevented it

305

5

SSH Key Audit on Github (required)

291

6

The Evolution of a Python Programmer

251

7

A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar

176

8

175

9

Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

152

10

npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts

151

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of cognitive biases

100

2

Curse of knowledge

73

3

Errors in the Encyclopdia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia

40

4

Work aversion disorder

18

5

Python syntax and semantics

10

6

5

7

List of common misconceptions

4

8

Hofstadter's law

4

9

Where "Spam" comes from

3

10

The First Woman Programmer

3

Blogs [?]

1

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

1021

2

Defining Property

544

3

Writing and Speaking

409

4

Writing and Speaking

9

5

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

7

6

Defining Property

5

7

Writing and Speaking

5

8

Programmer's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

3

9

How to do what you love

2

10

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

:-!! what is it in c code?

139

2

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

138

3

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

112

4

108

5

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting

100

6

Why you should always use gzip instead of deflate compression

99

7

Difference Between URL and URI

94

8

Examples of beautiful Javascript

91

9

What is tail call optimization (2008)?

35

10

Why do we need "? extends" in Java

31

Substack [?]