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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

1049

2

Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface

824

3

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

812

4

Good riddance, PayPal

699

5

Black Swan Farming

694

6

Meeting A Troll

665

7

Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?

655

8

Everything's broken and nobody's upset

648

9

AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types

634

10

A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

611

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

389

2

How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

306

3

How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?

185

4

How do you find clients?

146

5

How does an experienced freelancer get work?

137

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)

125

7

What are your failed projects / ideas?

83

8

Can I visit your tech business in NY City?

82

9

what is a good spot to work in New York?

78

10

How to deal with losing interest in your passion?

78

Top Show HN

1

We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

510

2

296

3

Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

227

4

Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

213

5

Ejecta, A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas Implementation for iOS

185

6

Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game

183

7

MemStash - Commit things to memory

163

8

Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game

153

9

EasyPost - the Stripe for postage

152

10

Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]

148

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups

453

2

Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5

388

3

Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there

332

4

Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

304

5

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies

269

6

Hardware is dead

248

7

Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite

220

8

Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5

218

9

Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: I hate it and I dont agree with it

217

10

No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices

208

News [?]

1

Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways

344

2

Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo

312

3

New Apple maps app under fire from users

297

4

A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD

286

5

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

273

6

How Google Builds Its Maps

272

7

What's a $4000 Suit Worth?

245

8

Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High

236

9

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

234

10

Rethinking Sleep

232

Scientific publications [?]

1

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

105

2

Weve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

76

3

Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs

71

4

Study: Intelligent Cars Could Boost Highway Capacity by 273%

68

5

Researchers propose a way to build the first space-time crystal

52

6

Yahoo closes $7.6 billion deal with Alibaba Group

38

7

Japan Commits to Eliminating Nuclear Power

35

8

"MapReduce is Good Enough" by Twitter scientist

34

9

PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones

18

10

Did That Rent-To-Own Computer Spy on You?

15

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe in Canada

346

2

SHA-3 to Be Announced

239

3

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

239

4

Stripe partners with Chilling Effects

174

5

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)

169

6

Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support

118

7

Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features

109

8

</CaptureTheFlag>

82

9

70

10

70

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval

214

2

The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

175

3

Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures

167

4

New study affirms that fewer copyright restrictions benefit the economy

130

5

Why you cant read 9to5Mac on Instapaper

117

6

700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by high school senior

64

7

ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer's home

53

8

Arduino Cell phone

50

9

Apple will no longer license aftermarket power adapters for iPhone 5

49

10

Is this a first? Google voluntarily censors anti-Islam video in Libya, Egypt

45

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

611

2

259

3

Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

240

4

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million

63

5

iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 Now Available

61

6

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

42

7

Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live

37

8

Amazon Allows For Reselling of Reserved EC2 Instances

17

9

iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours

11

10

New iPod Nano looks like Nokia Lumia!

10

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

313

2

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

265

3

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

163

4

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

159

5

Python Cheat Sheet

138

6

Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done

90

7

Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished?

61

8

Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody

60

9

French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though Hes Innocent

59

10

Researchers Expose Locations of Pirate Bay Uploaders

34

Science News [?]

1

Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers

389

2

Entire field of particle physics is to switch to open-access publishing

240

3

A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan

163

4

Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

120

5

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

111

6

How to confuse a moral compass: Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal

91

7

82

8

It Takes 275 Water Molecules To Make Ice

65

9

Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test

64

10

Quantum teleportation over 143kilometres using active feed-forward

59

Social [?]

1

144

2

Removing Fake Likes

33

3

Photos from inside North Korean Ryugyong Hotel

24

4

Gangnam Startup Style - Silicon Valley Loves PSY

23

5

Reddits database DOESN'T has only two tables.

17

6

9Gag "Repost Machine" Explained

13

7

Losethos submits OS to reddit, answers questions

10

8

Monitoring cache with Claspin

10

9

Creators of Bootstrap Leaving Twitter

9

10

Advice on being smart

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs

571

2

473

3

Introducing the Command Bar

408

4

How we keep GitHub fast

385

5

Rich Hickey: extensible data notation

217

6

GitHub availability this week

195

7

Bootstrap Toggle Buttons

177

8

Slate: Tiling window management for OS X

168

9

Github redesigns Profiles

165

10

The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

155

Wikipedia [?]

1

The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain

474

2

Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues

99

3

ToomCook multiplication

54

4

The story of Timothy Dexter

46

5

Valve is worth approximately $8,500,000.00 per employee

30

6

Clock on iOS6 iPads is an homage to a 1944 design by Hans Hilfiker

23

7

19

8

Cubic mile of oil

15

9

10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII

11

10

Why Isn't Labor Day Celebrated on May 1st in the United States?

7

Blogs [?]

1

Black Swan Farming

694

2

Startup = Growth

579

3

Java's Cover (April 2001)

180

4

A False Dichotomy

7

5

Black Swan Farming

7

6

Are Software Patents Evil? (06)

5

7

The XOXO Internet

5

8

What Happened to Yahoo (2010)

3

9

Was the strategy wrong, or the execution? Web vs. Native at Facebook

2

10

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

iOS6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results

68

2

IOS 6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results

18

3

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

13

4

IOS6 Safari caches POST requests

5

5

How does Dropbox sync photos in background?

5

6

POST AJAX requests are now broken in iOS 6

4

7

Why is my program slow when looping over exactly 8192 elements?

4

8

How to detect if you're inside an eval call in JavaScript

3

9

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

2

10

Haskell Parsec vs Yacc/Bison/Antlr: why and when to use Parsec?

2

Substack [?]