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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Light Table - a new IDE concept

1561

2

I hereby resign

1152

3

"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."

1028

4

Mosh: SSH for 2012

882

5

Facebook acquires Instagram

818

6

How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill

763

7

PHP: A fractal of bad design

750

8

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

741

9

Dont Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup

700

10

Incredibox - Background music for programming.

682

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

264

2

Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?

178

3

Computer science for the self taught programmer

156

4

Please be more thoughtful when downvoting

140

5

What did you build in March?

114

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)

101

7

How is your Start-Up Chile experience?

82

8

How can Non-US founders open a bank account in the US?

73

9

Rejected from YC? Who are you?

67

10

Help - I've hit a wall.

60

Top Show HN

1

Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

1362

2

Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

543

3

Firebase, a scalable real-time backend

503

4

Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

338

5

Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly

285

6

iPG - YC Interview Simulator

285

7

We built real MMO Asteroids

192

8

Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

189

9

Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

162

10

A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system

153

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

360

2

Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix

352

3

Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]

329

4

Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

302

5

MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it

280

6

The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168

270

7

Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox

263

8

Going With The Flow: Googles Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking

259

9

Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times

235

10

Linus talks about Apple laptops, Linux distributions, his work

207

News [?]

1

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83

307

2

Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future

254

3

High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

249

4

At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers Hero

242

5

UK moves to restrict Internet freedom

238

6

Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"?

214

7

Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.

185

8

SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit

177

9

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes

177

10

Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts

176

Scientific publications [?]

1

Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled

339

2

The Dawn of Haiku OS

251

3

Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed Into a Closet?

58

4

Cassini successfully flies over Enceladus

37

5

An Interview With Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton

26

6

Printable Robots

25

7

Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space

20

8

The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge

16

9

'Monolith' Object on Mars? You Could Call It That

14

10

Asymmetric Field Reversal Found on the Sun

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A turning point for GNU libc

186

2

183

3

Firefox 12 released

157

4

Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures

156

5

Gabe Newell Talks Linux Steam Client, Source Engine

131

6

CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root

101

7

WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)

99

8

Remote root hole in Samba

98

9

Outwitting the Prisoner's Dilemma

80

10

Rich Hickey on Clojure 1.4's Extensible Reader, ClojureScript

76

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple CEO Tim Cook Spotted at video game designer Valve headquarters

70

2

The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It

57

3

QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code

55

4

First Gigabit Wi-Fi Routers Ready to Launch

54

5

The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review: AnandTech

49

6

Extremely rare Apple Macintosh 128K with 'Twiggy Drive' listed for $100K on eBay

36

7

Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good

34

8

Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone

27

9

Will Industry Agree to a Meaningful Do Not Track?

20

10

Stanford, Open University surpass 50M downloads on iTunes U

19

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Marketplace

198

2

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

61

3

$50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2

29

4

Amazon's New Design

10

5

The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

10

6

Introducing the AWS Marketplace

8

7

Giant Swiss Army Knife Customer Reviews

7

8

Introducing Developer ID and Gatekeeper

6

9

Amazon Introduces CloudSearch, Scalable Full-Text Search

6

10

Send to Kindle for Mac

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says

183

2

Megauploads Kim Dotcom Gets $750,000 Back

132

3

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

120

4

Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours)

110

5

5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion

96

6

Pirate Party Ordered to Shut Down Pirate Bay Proxy

89

7

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

64

8

Kim Dotcom responds to the latest procedural error

64

9

Megaupload Worked On A Multi-Billion Dollar IPO

61

10

MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt

54

Science News [?]

1

Secret Computer Code Threatens Science

104

2

Quantum computer built inside a diamond

59

3

Almost 7 million birds perish at communication towers in North America each year

58

4

Another barrier to fusion falls?

55

5

Evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago

42

6

Is It Possible to Build an "Unsinkable" Ship?

39

7

Computer Scientist Leads Way to next Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

33

8

Another Look at "The Limits to Growth"

32

9

World's Fastest Random Number Generator from 'Sounds of Silence'

21

10

Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief

21

Social [?]

1

Facebook acquires Instagram

818

2

From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months

324

3

Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?

198

4

Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic

175

5

Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles

158

6

What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them?

91

7

69

8

Tips to succeed as a programmer (Facebook engineering Notes)

63

9

$100k per month running Drop-Ship product websites

39

10

John Cleese on how to be creative

26

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

542

2

Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement

528

3

Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)

377

4

Try right clicking GitHub's logo

344

5

Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: insanely stupid code

277

6

Django is now (officially) on GitHub

270

7

One-line Tree In Python

268

8

Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine

266

9

Backbone.js Fundamentals

251

10

Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)

248

Wikipedia [?]

1

Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties

166

2

Darwin (1960s programming game)

45

3

7

4

The expulsion of the population was for establishing a US base on Diego Garcia

5

5

Billion laughs - "DoS" attack on XML parser

5

6

Lambda calculus

4

7

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

3

8

Guess 2/3 of the Average

3

9

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Top Of My Todo List

675

2

Apple's Mistake

6

3

The Top of My Todo List by Paul Graham

6

4

4

5

The Roots of Lisp

2

6

The Top of My Tod List - Paul Graham

2

7

Defining Property

1

8

The Power of the Marginal (2006)

1

9

Inspirational reading for those rejected for YC

1

10

The Top of My Todo List

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app

531

2

What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming?

147

3

Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm explained in plain English

75

4

Why artificially limit your code to C?

32

5

Stack Overflow April Fool's: The Paperclip Unicorn

13

6

A definitive guide for parsing numbers with regular expressions

7

7

How would you recognize a Coca-Cola can in a noisy image?

6

8

Algorithm improvement for Coca-Cola can shape recognition

5

9

How to write an iOS app purely in C

4

10

How do you count cardinality of very large datasets efficiently in Python?

4

Substack [?]