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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

1309

2

The Next Microsoft

1157

3

Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

1107

4

Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

1032

5

Googles Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoos Chief

966

6

HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character

817

7

The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

693

8

Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon

633

9

The Marco.org Review of John Siracusas Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

631

10

A Dust Over India

621

Top Ask HN

1

I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

213

2

Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)

179

3

Learn Math the Hard Way

165

4

Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?

145

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012)

100

6

Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

94

7

Getting a math degree as a working adult?

77

8

Time to give up on Qt?

73

9

What are app developers buisness models?

70

10

Are there any basic primers for Comp Sci?

61

Top Show HN

1

fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

479

2

Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS

335

3

Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG

301

4

BrainTripping - language model comedy

280

5

gist.io, blogless writing for hackers

275

6

Iorad - the tutorial builder

267

7

Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing

262

8

Music for Geeks and Nerds

214

9

Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac

191

10

Hacker News Comments

183

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

486

2

Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering

400

3

Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself

324

4

DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis

282

5

MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"

265

6

If You Dont Think You Need It, You Havent Seen Greatness

246

7

An iPad Lovers Take On The Nexus 7

227

8

When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'

206

9

Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet

196

10

So, Thats It For Thunderbird

188

News [?]

1

The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

693

2

How Amazons ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail

500

3

Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

312

4

Sal Khan responds to critic

278

5

Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

260

6

The rotten heart of finance

258

7

Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America

251

8

In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software

251

9

"Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea

249

10

HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks

247

Scientific publications [?]

1

CERN scientists to announce proof of Higgs boson found

116

2

Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers

93

3

Mars rover "Curiosity" set for touchdown next week

62

4

Apes With Apps - Ape building a vocabulary of thousands of words with ipad

57

5

A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy

52

6

Robot-Installed Solar Panels Cut Costs by 50%

26

7

Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

20

8

Fatalities from venomous and nonvenomous animals in USA (1999-2007)

8

9

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

6

10

Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

349

2

Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS

295

3

Garzik: An Andre To Remember

229

4

Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law

176

5

Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun

176

6

Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

174

7

So You Want to Be a Security Expert

155

8

About the future of Thunderbird

111

9

Golang at CloudFlare

106

10

Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)

58

Tech blogs [?]

1

Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping

291

2

Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator

265

3

Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program

200

4

EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit

157

5

Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal

150

6

Apples in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker

110

7

Purported photos of new iPhone 5

18

8

Court in OWS Twitter Case Gets it Wrong Again

15

9

9

10

AnandTech 2012 Macbook Air (11" and 13") review

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Career Choice Program

154

2

Apple is back on EPEAT

152

3

Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East

116

4

Amazon Career Choice Program

87

5

The $25,000 PDF at Amazon

30

6

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

23

7

Apple ran out of space on their Microsoft server...

14

8

$50K Birthday balloon at Amazon

9

9

OSX Mountain Lion available on the App Store

5

10

Amazon Flow for Android

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown

214

2

How to say nothing in 500 words

131

3

Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds

103

4

Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA Ineffective Tool Against Music Piracy

83

5

Court Recognizes DMCA Safe Harbor in Universal v Grooveshark Lawsuit

82

6

Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

71

7

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

56

8

RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping

49

9

US Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually

44

10

YouTube-MP3 Fights Google With Lawyers and 220K+ Signature Petition

32

Science News [?]

1

Artificial jellyfish made from silicone and rat muscle (video)

126

2

I was sued for libel under an unjust law

114

3

The Worlds Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication

111

4

Why procrastination is good for you

37

5

How about an Olympic games for enhanced athletes?

36

6

Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts

24

7

Girl Programs Artificial 'Brain' to Diagnose Breast Cancer

12

8

Shining Light Between Drops Makes Thunderstorm Seem Like a Drizzle

6

9

Study reveals Western popular music is becoming more homogenized

6

10

Food Poisoning's Hidden Legacy

5

Social [?]

1

Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

1309

2

What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?

447

3

A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

189

4

Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note

153

5

IAmA Patent Examiner on reddit

84

6

I'm an Engineer for Facebook and am helping build a Facebook office in NYC. AMA

39

7

IAmA Ex-Digg Employee

35

8

Luis von Ahn (creator of CAPTCHA and Duolingo) Reddit AMA

30

9

27

10

Amazing - People tweet pictures of their credit cards

20

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing

324

2

HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

310

3

Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP

273

4

Investing in GitHub

177

5

Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS

177

6

~/.osx updated sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

168

7

GitHub Android App Released

162

8

Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them

160

9

Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today

152

10

Zsh 5.0 released

138

Wikipedia [?]

1

Terraforming of Mars

21

2

Indian Americans: The 1%

7

3

Blood types in Japanese culture

5

4

Knuth-Plass Line Breaking Algorithm

5

5

Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla

4

6

The key to high profits: product differentiation (economic principle)

4

7

Planned obsolescence

3

8

Normalized Google Distance

3

9

Materialism and happiness

3

10

War plan red - US plan for war against Britain and Canada (1930)

2

Blogs [?]

1

Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

225

2

What Happened to Yahoo (2010)

1

3

Made in the USA

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

PowerShell vs. Unix shells

105

2

Login vs Log In

97

3

Pasting Text Into Vim

79

4

Divide a number by 3 without using * / + - % operators

75

5

Why does parseInt(1/0, 19) return 18?

54

6

Apple LLVM 4.0 new features on Xcode 4.4 (Literals)

10

7

Using SQL injection as a feature

5

8

CLI sucks, help me learn it. Parsing Output.

2

9

What does Pure mean, in the context of programming languages and paradigms?

2

10

What is declarative programming?

2

Substack [?]