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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog

1611

2

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

1021

3

There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.

732

4

TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story

724

5

Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

708

6

How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies

645

7

Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub

645

8

Eight years today

632

9

GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.

579

10

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

471

Top Ask HN

1

Finding work for a significant other

92

2

Any other devs seeing decreased android downloads from March 7th on?

30

3

Is there any point in using mailto: links any more?

26

4

good looking "nerdy" t-shirts?

25

5

I'm an Economics prof. & I need your help teaching about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA

24

6

What is the point of karma?

19

7

How many hours do you sit in front of a computer per day?

17

8

Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doesn't see "well"?

15

9

anyone interested in going to Thailand to work on a startup?

15

10

Quitting a well paid job

14

Top Show HN

1

I wrote a guidebook on everything I know about applying to Y Combinator

172

2

GPS + Calendar + Traffic = always on time

128

3

Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app

118

4

Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

94

5

Petridish.org,a kickstarter for scientific research

76

6

Password validity hinting

58

7

A way for entrepreneurs to connect with business problems to work on

54

8

web-based music player built with Node and CoffeeScript

52

9

Holy shit Lycos still exists

47

10

git clone, git pull with no central repository

45

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'

356

2

Kara Is Self-Aware

244

3

Loopt acquired by payment card provider for $43.3m in cash

197

4

Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

175

5

Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public

160

6

Chute (YC W12) Launches A Twilio For Photos

159

7

IE9 pwn2owned with 0-day with exploit working back from IE6 to IE10 on Windows 8

142

8

Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon

103

9

How Google set a trap for Pwn2Own exploit team

96

10

At hacking contest, Google Chrome falls to third zero-day attack

89

News [?]

1

A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp

387

2

Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?

296

3

Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France

237

4

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

196

5

How easy is it to buy YouTube views? $46 for 20,000 easy.

138

6

Electronic Arts bringing back SimCity franchise after 10-year absence

122

7

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say

115

8

Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days

102

9

Dating Site for Married Couples

101

10

The iPad Is Unbeatable

97

Scientific publications [?]

1

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

16

2

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

10

3

Giant Solar Flare, Everyone Panic

5

4

NASA - Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle

4

5

Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids

3

6

Speech jamming gun (arxiv article)

2

7

Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Survives 1 Year in Orbit

2

8

SpeechJammer: Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback

1

9

Launch Madness at Wallops in March - "Five in Five"

1

10

Robotic satellite gas attendant poised for space test

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Nvidia Is Joining The Linux Foundation

119

2

Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R

4

3

Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey

2

4

Twitter Blog: The road to Super Tuesday in Tweets

2

5

The Story of Read-Only Collection Interfaces in .NET

2

6

Stuffing PHP With Mono, .NET

1

7

A look at Visual Basic 11

1

8

Unigine Releases New Heaven For Linux

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution

105

2

HTTPS Everywhere Now Available For Chrome

11

3

Apple's massive 'iPad 3' air freight deal with DHL shaking up shipping rates

11

4

Apple iWallet, new patent granted.

7

5

Apple announces new iPad with 3.1M-pixel Retina Display, 4G LTE, voice dictation

6

6

Ubuntu 12.04 will bring OS-level privacy options

5

7

A Tale of Two Encryption Cases

4

8

EFF Urges Supreme Court to Take Stand on Abstract Patents

4

9

In-Depth with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

3

10

Apple snuck Sensegs groundbreaking haptic display technology into iPad 3?

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple releases Ipad 3

285

2

Apple announces the new iPad

13

3

The new iPad technical specifications

10

4

Apple Launches New iPad

6

5

25 Billion App Store Downloads

6

6

Introducing the new iPad

5

7

The New Ipad (Video)

5

8

5

9

5

10

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay

251

2

Bayes' Theorem Illustrated

158

3

Self-cleaning macros in Scala

17

4

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming

8

5

DMCA: Horrors of a Broad and Automated Censorship Tool

4

6

BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid

3

7

3

8

Hotfile As Bad As Megaupload, MPAA Tells Court

3

9

Its Official: US Demands Extradition of Megaupload Suspects

2

10

Companies that Launched at Launch 2012

2

Science News [?]

1

Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40

176

2

LSD helps to treat alcoholism

108

3

Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked - 6 bit bytes

91

4

Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components

3

5

AI designs its own video game

3

6

Study: Facebook profile beats IQ test in predicting job performance

2

7

Computer modelling: Brain in a box

2

8

Gorilla joins the genome club

2

9

How Scientific Publishers' Current Licenses Impede Text Mining

2

10

Cracking brain memory code

2

Social [?]

1

Stephen Wolfram does an AMA

119

2

What is 'Space' expanding into?

67

3

Facebook is down in Northern Europe

25

4

Stephen Wolfram AMA

18

5

17

6

The UX Effect of Touch Latency on Tablets, Demonstrated by Microsoft

6

7

Did you notice the book being read in the Dollar Shave Club spot?

6

8

NLP_class, algo-class and crypto-class are now live

5

9

Best explanation of public key encryption ever

5

10

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub

645

2

Responsible Disclosure Policy

312

3

How Homakov hacked GitHub & the line of code that could have prevented it

305

4

SSH Key Audit on Github (required)

291

5

The Evolution of a Python Programmer

251

6

A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar

176

7

npm (Node's package manager) leaks all user password hashes and salts

151

8

Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation

131

9

Codakido, Lua/SDL programming environment for Kids, with C64-alike editor

97

10

Graphene: A D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit

95

Wikipedia [?]

1

Work aversion disorder

18

2

Hofstadter's law

4

3

Where "Spam" comes from

3

4

The First Woman Programmer

3

5

Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm

2

6

The 1-9-90-Rule of Internet culture

2

7

EURion constellation

2

8

Electromigration

1

9

Sturgeon's Law - "ninety percent of everything is crap"

1

Blogs [?]

1

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

1021

2

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

7

3

How to do what you love

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

108

2

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Bit Shifting

100

3

Difference Between URL and URI

94

4

How did Scirra get HTML5 audio so perfect in Construct 2?

3

5

Good way to crash any page with jQuery

3

6

What algorithms could be used to rank popular blog posts in blog aggregator?

2

7

Haskell Recursion Patterns, FTW

2

8

ZODB in real life?

2

9

How to explain callbacks in plain english?

2

10

2

Substack [?]