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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1203

2

Hunting Down My Son's Killer

1120

3

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time

989

4

Please don't learn to code

734

5

Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright

713

6

Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox

710

7

Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case

698

8

Recursive Drawing

686

9

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

677

10

663

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

241

2

Favorite HN threads of all time

233

3

My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

231

4

How do you stay productive after work?

146

5

What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

138

6

losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1

134

7

I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked

103

8

Who is using Go language?

93

9

45 Dutch students are visiting Berlin. Can we visit your startup?

85

10

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)

81

Top Show HN

1

my Mac app just got fireballed

430

2

Habit List - my first iOS app

279

3

Simperium, a realtime data layer

206

4

I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

187

5

My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration

180

6

My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

173

7

Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee

169

8

A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

161

9

HackerNew for Chrome

147

10

My first web app, DailyDo.it

137

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

302

2

Jury rules Google violated copyright law, Google moves for mistrial

283

3

Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money

241

4

Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text

235

5

Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845

229

6

This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation

219

7

Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesnt Suck

202

8

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads

195

9

Why One of Silicon Valleys Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet

175

10

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

157

News [?]

1

Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

577

2

The frequent fliers who flew too much

543

3

Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown

396

4

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

322

5

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

300

6

The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

289

7

Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'

258

8

The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)

217

9

Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow

211

10

I appeared on CNN this morning to talk about why I'm not buying Facebook (CISPA)

210

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow

378

2

SpaceX Launches Capsule on Historic Space Station Trip

157

3

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

136

4

Iterated prisoner's dilemma contains evolutionary opponent dominating strategies

91

5

Korean and Russian scientists plan to clone woolly mammoth

66

6

SpaceX/ISS fly-under, coverage starts at 11:30 pm PDT

55

7

SLAC results disagree with the Standard Model

42

8

Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk

23

9

Quantum computer leap

22

10

IEEE Spectrum special report on the Future of Money

21

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

234

2

Firefox finally plugs the leak

223

3

Windows On ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too

183

4

Stripe open-sources Einhorn

163

5

FreeBSD 10 to use Clang, GCC will be deprecated

163

6

Vert.x JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

160

7

Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

100

8

Serious high-performance and lock-free algorithms (by LMAX devs)

99

9

NVIDIA Announces Open-Source CUDA Compiler

80

10

Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

76

Tech blogs [?]

1

Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car

295

2

Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?

175

3

Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms

154

4

And the privacy invasion award goes to

103

5

Megaupload User Asks Court for Files Back. Again.

87

6

RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

41

7

Dropbox fixes app rejection issue, complies with Apple's rules

40

8

The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

12

9

Apple Releases iOS 5.1.1 with HDR, AirPlay, and Safari Syncing Bug Fixes

7

10

Apple reportedly in talks to acquire German HDTV maker Loewe

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360

12

2

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop Apps

6

3

Amazon announces RDS for SQL Server

2

4

Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming

2

5

Remind HN: iPhone Mockup Rules of Design

2

6

Apple's Datacenters to Run on 100% Renewable Energy

2

7

Monitor Your AWS Charges with Billing Alerts Using Amazon CloudWatch

2

8

Amazon cloud drive desktop app for windows and mac

2

9

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App for Windows and Mac

2

10

Outdoor IP Camera from Agasio

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google's Code Editor

297

2

Judge: An IP-Address Doesnt Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)

280

3

Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt.

189

4

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record

179

5

Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN

107

6

Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic

87

7

BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds

69

8

.Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic

58

9

BitTorrent Is The New Radio, Says Counting Crows Frontman

50

10

Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon

30

Science News [?]

1

Touch by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things

176

2

Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%

168

3

Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight

115

4

Roulette beater spills physics behind victory

73

5

Ketamine Improved Bipolar Depression Within Minutes, Study Suggests

73

6

Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Conjecture

68

7

Hubble to use moon as mirror to see Venus transit

27

8

Quantum physicists show small bit of randomness can be amplified without limit

22

9

Why 'eureka' moments happen when you arent trying

16

10

Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution

15

Social [?]

1

IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA

453

2

Mark Zuckerberg married

284

3

Most popular browser missing (Chrome)...

268

4

Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

155

5

Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy

112

6

Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast"

95

7

Redditor: Am I a scumbag for automating my manual work and making more money?

86

8

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA

69

9

Stephen Wolfram IAmA On Reddit (3pm EST)

48

10

Guy steals iPhone, forgets to turn of Photo Stream. Owner posts to Facebook

35

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub for Windows

539

2

Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

534

3

Latency numbers every programmer should know

263

4

Say hello to Octicons

245

5

Github: United States Code

219

6

Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

205

7

On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code

203

8

Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans

202

9

Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project

185

10

Git Subtree merged into mainline git

112

Wikipedia [?]

1

Timeline of the far future

291

2

Satellite killed by trajectory patent

191

3

XOR Linked List

150

4

"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome

142

5

Curse of dimensionality

88

6

List of emerging technologies

76

7

Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World

65

8

Malbolge (programming language)

40

9

Facebook: 29 Acquisitions and Counting - Who is next?

9

10

IBM Simon, World's First Smartphone From 1993

8

Blogs [?]

1

What You Can't Say (2004)

2

2

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

2

3

The Age of the Essay (2004)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Getting the closest string match

168

2

What should every programmer know about security?

158

3

How can you program if you're blind?

115

4

What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?

108

5

How do I get started with Node.js

83

6

Setting Google Analytics to not use cookies

57

7

Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

43

8

Find running median from a stream of integers

42

9

What is the best way to solve an Objective-C namespace collision?

28

10

Merge multiple lines in Vim

28

Substack [?]