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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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It all began with a strange email
861
2
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
802
3
Sublime Text 2.0 Released
794
4
The Silencing of Maya
774
5
A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
764
6
The Recruiter Honeypot
655
7
US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
642
8
Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
636
9
A day in the life of a startup founder
623
10
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system dysfunctional
594
Top Ask HN
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Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
292
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who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
217
3
How to setup a company in U.S. without being there?
185
4
How do you learn to develop exploits?
163
5
What is the best way to promote your startup?
144
6
Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS
127
7
who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
108
8
How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?
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Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2012)
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10
Why is Apple ripping of European users? 1 1$
73
Top Show HN
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movies.io torrent search like it should be
534
2
Easel, web design in the browser
337
3
Script Excel with Python
275
4
A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
259
5
The Bastards Book of Photography
253
6
I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business
239
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vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc
198
8
Redis Dashboard
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Action.io - 0 to Rails in 60 seconds in your browser
188
10
Avatars.io - simple API for integrating avatars into your app or site
175
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
642
2
Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses
440
3
Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants invalid, mansion raid illegal
407
4
MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
368
5
9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
337
6
I don't "get" art
309
7
Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O
307
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DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds
285
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Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists
282
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Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
274
News [?]
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Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests
516
2
How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
446
3
The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.
314
4
Salt, We Misjudged You
308
5
Why Smart People Are Stupid
295
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Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
284
7
How Depressives Surf the Web
217
8
Judge Alsup knows how to play a bluff
209
9
Zero-day Exploit Price List
206
10
Alan Turing's Suicide in Doubt
203
Scientific publications [?]
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Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time
187
2
Math professor's side mirror that eliminates 'blind spot' receives US patent
134
3
Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers
88
4
Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors
77
5
Transit of Venus
60
6
Bitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists Answer to Cash
32
7
Research paper: Interstellar flight is at least 200 years away
29
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X-37B Lands
5
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Using Go to implement optimistic parallel simulations [pdf]
5
10
Old Mars Spacecraft May Recover from Glitch at Red Planet
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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Google launches Compute Engine
440
2
Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year
219
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Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more
210
4
The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
185
5
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy
172
6
Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
154
7
Clojure-powered Startups
136
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Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements
134
9
WWDC 2012 Session Videos
126
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The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
125
Tech blogs [?]
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MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis
151
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Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review
149
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Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS
143
4
Anandtech: Macbook Pro with Retina Display Review
129
5
Getting root on a Sony TV
91
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Intel Announces Xeon Phi Co-Processors
75
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Help EFF Find Out How Your Local Police Agency is Using Drones
47
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Developer's dream come true: New MacBook Airs now support two external displays
40
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The Defensive Patent License and Other Ways to Beat the Patent System
39
10
OpenCV knows where youre looking with eye tracking
38
FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
592
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Microsoft.com New Design Preview
172
3
Apple iOS6 Preview
143
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Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer
143
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Bob Mansfield, Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering, to Retire
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Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros
41
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Microsoft's new Windows 8 Tablet: "Welcome to Microsoft Surface."
32
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AWS Support Expands Free Tier, Adds New Features, Lowers Prices
30
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iCloud Services Down
23
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New Macbook Pro
14
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
180
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Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously + w/o a Torrent client
150
3
Apple Founder Woz Visits Kim Dotcom
125
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Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students from Sharing Textbooks
119
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PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly VPN Provider
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How Long Before VPNs Become Illegal?
101
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Comcast Wins Protest Against Shake Down of BitTorrent Pirates
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Comcast Protests Shake Down of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
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MPAA Using Megaupload Case as Backdoor SOPA, Court Hears
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Dropbox blocks API access for Boxopus over piracy concerns
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Science News [?]
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The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science
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Mysterious electrical bursts warn of material collapse
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Scientists trace a wiring plan for entire mouse brain
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Biologists grow human-eye precursor from stem cells
54
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Astronomers catch asteroid near-miss on video
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Knowledge of fractions and long division predicts long-term math success
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Android app swipes contactless credit card
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Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water
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Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
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Microwaves transmit stock trades faster than fibre optics
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Social [?]
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Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
552
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Civ II game a decade old
460
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Where has all the money in the world gone?
444
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YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"
314
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Folly - The Faceboook open source library
195
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Sebastian Thrun AMA on reddit
170
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How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engine Limitations
148
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What was your "ah ha" moment with Haskell?
108
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Tor Project core members IAmA on reddit
54
10
A Redditor's description of Hacker News
42
Github repos and gists [?]
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Vim clutch
538
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Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)
365
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FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not.
310
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UVA Computer Science professor resigns over incompetence of board
210
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Designing GitHub for Windows
199
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Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
157
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Just open sourced my 10k LOC PHP & MySQL invoicing app
126
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My thoughts on MessagePack
125
9
C10K 2012: Erlang Wins, Go a close second. Java, Haskell, Node & Python fail
123
10
Linux users: watch out for last-gen Intel Atom
117
Wikipedia [?]
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List of Unexplained Sounds
275
2
Betteridge's Law of Headlines
173
3
Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist
142
4
United States Pirate Party
98
5
Sexy primes
27
6
Wikipedia understands unicode in URLs (e.g., )
7
7
List of paradoxes
6
8
Sailing faster than the wind
6
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Eduard Khil (trololo guy) died.
4
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This is the largest organism in the world (6M kg)
4
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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(x / 2) or (x >> 1)?
65
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What factors led to the development of C# in spite of Java
42
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Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
28
4
There's a reason they're called "encodings"
25
5
StackOverflow down?
10
6
Find an integer not among four billion given ones
8
7
Is there a simple compiler for a simple language? (StackOverflow)
7
8
Ide - vim Tutorials - Stack Overflow
6
9
Ruby: The Splat Operator
5
10
Hidden Features of HTML
3
Substack [?]