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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute

988

2

Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

731

3

Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers

594

4

Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations

594

5

This is why I don't give you a job

585

6

Resolutions for programmers

521

7

A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

482

8

Python for Humans

427

9

TVs are all awful

416

10

A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students

413

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (January 2012)

262

2

Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what?

150

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012)

112

4

How can I self-evaluate my programming skills?

91

5

What's your experience with remote working? as employees/employers?

88

6

Is there a repository of failed startups (re-usable startups idea)?

75

7

Best blogging platform?

48

8

Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US)

46

9

What did you create in 2011?

25

10

Please, how do I now power my laptop?

20

Top Show HN

1

395

2

How I built a self-driving (RC) car.

300

3

During the last week, I built a SPDY server.

85

4

My weekend project, DailyPag.es

67

5

58

6

Damn Simple Carpooling

53

7

Classes for javascript that you'd actually use

52

8

Tofu -- (Yet another) C web framework

49

9

My (late) holiday hack: SOPAOpera.org

39

10

How eventual is eventual consistency?

28

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Dont Smartphones Have A Guest Mode?

241

2

The way people copy each other's linguistic style reveals their pecking order

175

3

Hackruiter (YC S10) Launches Hacker School

170

4

Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000

152

5

Steve Wozniak's FusionIO: 1 Billion IOPS with software improvement

130

6

Mathematicians Solve Minimum Sudoku Problem

123

7

Tech’s Relationship With Depression, Suicide and Asperger’s

103

8

Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

96

9

HBO to Netflix: Were taking our ball & going home

80

10

Boxer is a Slick App That Brings DOS Gaming to Your Mac

74

News [?]

1

A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

482

2

I was on BloombergTV talking SOPA today - how'd I do?

370

3

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See

332

4

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

278

5

How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body

217

6

Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right

174

7

Man Embraces Useless Machines, and Absurdity Ensues

142

8

Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism

139

9

The Economist on Intel versus ARM

97

10

The Critics Rave... for Microsoft?

79

Scientific publications [?]

1

Language effects and power differences in social interaction [PDF]

18

2

Spaceflight error: X-37B not spying on Tiangong-1

5

3

Dinosaur-Like Tails Make Terrestrial Mobile Robots More Agile

4

4

GRAIL-A Spacecraft Arrives at the Moon

2

5

NASA Propulsion Experiment Provides Data for More Efficient Jet Engines

2

6

Quadrantids Will Create Brief, Beautiful Show on Jan. 3-4

2

7

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works (Oct 2011)

2

8

NASA Open Government Plan

2

9

In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law—and move beyond it

1

10

The mystery of missing heritability (Eric Lander et al.)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures

51

2

CoffeeScript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"

7

3

3

4

Damien Katz' interview on abandoning Apache CouchDB

3

5

Genode OS Gets An Ambitious 2012 Roadmap

2

6

Losing The Cops In A Foot Chase? There's An App For That

2

7

Springsource Founder: Things I Wish I'd Known

2

8

Iterative and agile approaches have statistically the same success rates

1

9

Lilupophilupop SQL Injection Attack Tops 1 Million Infected URLs

1

10

Survey Suggest Most Americans are Media Pirates

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own

231

2

EFF's 2011 Holiday Wish List

36

3

PostSecret Pulls iOS App Over Abusive Submissions

19

4

Apple trying to stop sale of Steve Jobs action figure

6

5

Apple's Internal 'GameStore' Testing App Accidentally Appears in App Store

3

6

Tom's Hardware Web Browser Grand Prix VIII

2

7

Apple TV Hacked to Run iOS Apps at Full Screen (source story)

2

8

The next ten years of Mac OS X

2

9

SOPA: A Guide to In-Person Meetings with Your Congressional Representatives

2

10

AnandTech - Nokia Lumia 800 Review

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Best Amazon review for Programming in C (non-affiliated link)

29

2

"Startup: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Running a Business"

1

3

Finally, a CoreAudio Book Coming April...

1

4

Microsoft sues Comet for producing 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law

264

2

US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law

28

3

File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden

21

4

BitTorrent Releases New Share Application

9

5

You Dont Have To Support Piracy To Hate Bullying & Extortion

7

6

MPAA Joins RIAA in Monstrous Jammie Thomas Appeal

5

7

Turn Any WordPress Site Into A BitTorrent Tracker

4

8

Guessing the Teacher's Password (2007)

4

9

Zut Alors French Government Deny BitTorrent Piracy Allegations

2

10

File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden

2

Science News [?]

1

Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain

67

2

Do scientists really need a PhD?

52

3

Moore's Law may work for years to come due to quantum anomaly

47

4

Thinnest silicon-chip wires refuse to go quantum

41

5

An Eye for Genius: The Collections of Gertrude and Leo Stein

7

6

Low reporting of clinical trial data in key U.S. database

5

7

The man who saves Stephen Hawking's voice

4

8

New Synthetic Molecules Treat Autoimmune Disease in Mice

4

9

How crossword puzzles mess with your mind

3

10

Eight lazy ways to lose weight

2

Social [?]

1

A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students

413

2

Facebook intimidates developer, bans him and his code for life

170

3

Galaxy Nexus Power Analysis: Why chargers can't keep up with navigation

119

4

ASUS will release a bootloader unlocking tool for the Transformer Prime

45

5

Announcing Facebooks 2012 Hacker Cup

7

6

There are 800 YC founders.

7

7

Tanks that turn invisible

6

8

Facebook Announces Details for Its 2012 Hacker's Cup

6

9

A graph of Twitter post lengths from 1 million tweets

6

10

One guy hacked his Kinect and Wii to create a cat-brushing robot

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations

594

2

Open Source Visitor.js

195

3

Open-source Dropbox alternative powered by Git

142

4

Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 additions, 15,896 deletions)

78

5

PHP Profiler to optimize & speed up your applications

55

6

An actually usable .NET virtual machine in javascript

53

7

CLI tool for GitHub Issues

52

8

Nginx 0mq transport layer for communicating with upstream servers

49

9

Js.js - A JavaScript interpreter in JavaScript

44

10

Node.js sandbox - executes untrusted JavaScript for embedded scripting

39

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Alan Turing Year 2012

20

2

What's 1 mile wide, 300 miles long, and taking 14 hours to pass a single point?

13

3

Same number of English words of French origin as Latin

4

4

Interplanetary Transport Network

2

5

Foreign accent syndrome

2

6

Qi (lisp dialect preceding Shen) being deleted from wikipedia

2

7

1

8

The Holographic Versatile Disc

1

9

Hopcroft–Karp algorithm

1

10

Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Hundred-Year Language (2003)

7

2

Paul Graham about Web Startups almost 5 years ago

3

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to choose an open source license for an app

16

2

Why is good UI design so hard for some Developers

4

3

3

4

Which key value store is the most promising/stable?

3

5

Display all cron jobs scheduled for all users in every possible location

1

Substack [?]