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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today

968

2

This is how Visa works

913

3

889

4

Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

842

5

This is a bit f'd, Quora

796

6

Textmate2 Goes Open Source

762

7

Design Tip: Never Use Black

749

8

An Unexpected Ass Kicking

732

9

Dear Mark Zuckerberg

726

10

I Have 50 Dollars

635

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

270

2

Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?

167

3

How to learn Backbone

122

4

Is Google still a cool place to work?

103

5

How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?

100

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)

96

7

Why is "Who is Hiring" not running at the specified time?

53

8

Good iOS Tutorials?

52

9

50

10

Apple closed our entire app store

47

Top Show HN

1

Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

450

2

A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap

352

3

Burner, for temporary phone numbers

314

4

Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

285

5

Business.txt - Standard Proposal

259

6

238

7

SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

229

8

Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

215

9

We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

192

10

See Kickstarter successes and failures

183

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEOs Model? His Cleaning Lady

454

2

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

438

3

Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

315

4

Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident

282

5

Robot cars on public roads? California says yes

262

6

Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

260

7

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills

246

8

Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

243

9

Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates

241

10

Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire

235

News [?]

1

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum

501

2

A Man Walks into a Bank

467

3

Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade

281

4

Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars

260

5

A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr

231

6

Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food

224

7

Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack

219

8

What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All'

216

9

Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News

216

10

Be More Productive. Take Time Off.

200

Scientific publications [?]

1

First full-resolution images of the Martian surface

423

2

NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

263

3

NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites

166

4

Mars rover Curiosity lands today

120

5

Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface

103

6

Curiosity Mars Rover Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight

97

7

First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images

72

8

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Will Spend First Weekend Installing New Software

66

9

Mars Rover Curiosity Survives 'Brain Surgery,' Set for 1st Drive

50

10

Scientists create matter that can dent diamonds

50

Dev Blogs [?]

1

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live

247

2

Rich Hickey: The Value of Values

183

3

Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop

182

4

Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)

163

5

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week'

145

6

Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers

127

7

Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt

86

8

DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system

73

9

Octane minus V8

67

10

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked

65

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account

307

2

Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts

130

3

Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search Results

95

4

War? YouTube app disappears from iOS 6 beta 4 as Apple breaks Googleties

78

5

9th Circuit Dismisses Al Haramain (Warantless Wiretapping) Case

57

6

Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

56

7

IOS 6 Automatically Scales to Fit Taller 1136x640 iPhone Display

37

8

Jury Reaches Verdict in Apple vs. Samsung Trial - To Be Updated

35

9

VMware launches Fusion 5

34

10

Woz Buys $2 Bills in Sheets from the Treasury

25

FAANG+ [?]

1

889

2

Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

335

3

PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon

194

4

Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

150

5

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator

103

6

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

46

7

Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

18

8

Open Source Software used by Apple

5

9

Amazon launches Prime Instant Video

5

10

How NASA broadcasted the Curiosity landing using AWS

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

New York Underground

278

2

The Worst Argument In The World

210

3

Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents

200

4

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government

136

5

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

90

6

Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers

84

7

uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions

69

8

Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion?

57

9

Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale

47

10

Pirate Patch Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink

44

Science News [?]

1

How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

177

2

First evidence for photosynthesis in insects

80

3

Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution

67

4

Do Plants Think?

66

5

Prosthetic retina restores sight in mice after brain's visual code is cracked

65

6

Human cycles: History as science

53

7

Researchers Hack Blood cells into Stem Cells

50

8

Quantum teleportation achieved over record distances

45

9

Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think

45

10

Modern humans may have picked up key genes from extinct relatives

42

Social [?]

1

AMA with Barack Obama

482

2

233

3

Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS

153

4

Hackers got access to Matt Honan's iCloud account by calling Apple Support

75

5

Facebook Designing New Campus

36

6

New Facebook Engineering campus

30

7

Hippie physics student saved Apollo 13, cut out of history cos he had long hair

24

8

Reddit IAMA with the Mars Curiosity team

20

9

DHH shows code from "Basecamp Next" rewrite & reveals their caching strategies

16

10

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

14

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Textmate2 Goes Open Source

762

2

Some performance tweaks

339

3

Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked

320

4

The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

305

5

Github: Notifications & Stars

245

6

Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU

216

7

Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python

175

8

Deploying at GitHub

172

9

Keep a programming journal

166

10

A sudoku solver in 33 lines of Clojure

144

Wikipedia [?]

1

Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project

116

2

Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks

90

3

Maria Montessori

31

4

The Art of Being Right

12

5

Rubber duck debugging

6

6

Companies Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund finds unethical

6

7

Van Emde Boas Tree

5

8

U.S.'s only state-owned bank

4

9

Better Hello, World - Trabb PardoKnuth algorithm

4

10

Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium

118

2

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas [2005]

25

3

The competitive value of time

8

4

You Cant Start the Revolution from the Country Club

8

5

Medium from Obvious Corp

7

6

You Cant Start the Revolution from the Country Club

5

7

4

8

Copyright or creators rights?

4

9

Persuade xor Discover

2

10

Groupon's problem is not its business model

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are the Best hg/Mercurial Extensions?

16

2

Why is < faster than <=?

8

3

The problem with Objective C

7

4

C++ reflection in under 100 lines of code - Stack Overflow

6

5

Everything you know about CSS is wrong (again)

6

6

Why does {} + [] return 0 in Javascript?

5

7

What is this function useful for?

4

8

C++ sequence points and undefined behavior

3

9

Is less than faster than less than or equal to

3

10

Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer

3

Substack [?]