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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why I Left Google

916

2

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

877

3

New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea

682

4

651

5

Posterous acquired by Twitter

593

6

This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

550

7

Defining Property

544

8

540

9

How Y Combinator Started

534

10

Yahoo Crosses The Line

519

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN:Can I start a company on an H1B visa?

61

2

How could I monetize a programming language?

19

3

Has anyone read "How to create your own freaking programming language"?

18

4

What if I'm not good enough?

16

5

What's Paul Graham's opinion of Clojure?

12

6

Will Y Combinator accept you if you don't come from MIT/Stanford/etc...

11

7

Salary for IT Infrastructure Manager?

11

8

How does LinkedIn know so much about me?

10

9

What does it take to be a YC single founder?

9

10

How much do you spend on web application hosting?

9

Top Show HN

1

Flutter - Control Spotify or iTunes Using Gestures thru Webcam

234

2

I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices

220

3

My new GitHub issue tracker, BugHub

104

4

Commandlinefu.com from the commmandline

103

5

We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.

84

6

TheReelBox, find tonight's movie

79

7

We'll guess competitors keywords,we'll predict your App Store position

68

8

Smooth.js - Turn arrays into smooth functions

46

9

Stack Overflow meets MTurk - Minute Favors

39

10

AnyPerk provides affordable employee perks to startups for free.

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England

195

2

TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content

186

3

The NSA Is Building the Countrys Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

180

4

Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days

176

5

A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work

133

6

Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England

133

7

Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform For Game Hosting

128

8

Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water

123

9

CNN to buy Mashable for $200 million +

107

10

Winning A Bidding War With Facebook, Google Picks Up The Entire Milk Team

101

News [?]

1

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

877

2

540

3

The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists

386

4

Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System

286

5

Arm unveils 1mm x 1mm 32bit chip: "years of battery life"

279

6

The Caging of America

274

7

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

225

8

Lawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs

149

9

Assange 'to run for Australian senate'

114

10

How India Became America

112

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA has mapped the universe

9

2

The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

6

3

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

4

4

How a Nuclear Bomb Could Save Earth From an Asteroid

3

5

A missive on the catastrophic vulnerabilities of the modern electric grid

2

6

Love at first fright: Roller-coaster-induced excitation transfer

2

7

Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard (and Mario is NP-Complete)

2

8

Robo-glove increases hand strength

2

9

Softbank buys Aldebaran Robotics for $100 million

1

10

There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linus on kernel management style (2004)

59

2

Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock

6

3

Martin Odersky on future of Scala

6

4

Cloud Computing As a Man-in-the-Middle Attack

5

5

How Socrates Would Design [Experiences]

5

6

Better, Faster Dashboard on Stripe

4

7

Can Google Be Forced By the FBI to Unlock Users' Phones?

2

8

RDP Exploit Found, Researchers Say Code May Have Leaked From Security Vendor

2

9

Video Shows TSA Full-Body Scanner Failure

2

10

Good Relationships: The Spring Data Neo4j Guidebook

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple A5X likely still 45 nm

9

2

Facebook's (In)conspicuous Absence From the Do Not Track Discussions

8

3

Apple.com rolls out high resolution assets for the new iPad

7

4

1 Retina Display icon has many more pixels than the original Macintosh screen

6

5

Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches 'Fixing Windows 8' Initiative

3

6

TED Talk vs. The Spinning Beach Ball of Death

3

7

Jony Ive gives rare interview on the design process at Apple

2

8

Mozilla considers H.264 video support after Google's WebM fails

2

9

Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use

1

10

Mike Daiseys theatrical piece on Foxconn workers plight is mostly theatrics

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 released

2

2

Hear Eric Ries and Dr Werner Vogels speak on Lean Cloud online event

1

3

New iPad Arrives in the US & Nine Additional Countries on Friday

1

4

Apple support page for the ancient iBook is still live

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Indian Court Orders SOPA-style Blackout of 100+ Music Sites

77

2

JavaScript Performance MythBusters (via jsPerf)

68

3

Y Combinator's First Web Site

65

4

PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing

9

5

How's your (Hacker) Love Life?

6

6

How to Fix Science

6

7

Little Pub in England Being Sued by Hollywood

4

8

Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

4

9

ISPs To Begin Punishing BitTorrent Pirates This Summer

4

10

Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government

4

Science News [?]

1

Algorithm Finds Thousands of Unknown Drug Interaction Side Effects

101

2

Mario is hard, and that's mathematically official

8

3

Correcting Human Mitochondrial Mutations

7

4

How meditation strengthens the brain, new research

7

5

The Split Brain: a tale of two halves

6

6

Early Spring for Mid-Atlantic U.S. Suburbs?

5

7

Should we rewrite the autism rule book?

5

8

US judge rules that you can't copyright pi

4

9

Is the LHC throwing away too much data?

3

10

Ultracold Experiments Heat Up Quantum Research

2

Social [?]

1

IAmA Winner of "The Most Human Human" Award at a Turing Test. AMA

12

2

Yammer Giving 25k Signing Bonus to Yahoo Employees

7

3

DavidSacks: I'm pleased to announce a ...

7

4

IAmA Employee of a state lottery with intimate knowledge of the industry

7

5

A rare look into one of Google's Search Quality meetings

7

6

Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

6

7

6

8

6

9

Paul Graham Keynote PyCon 2012 Video

6

10

How the PyPy JIT works - PyCon 2012 [video]

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Githug - an interactive way to learn how to use git

152

2

Cleaner Hacker News

144

3

Goto decorator for python

124

4

Keymaster.js: micro-library to add keyboard shortcuts

116

5

Node.cs - a C# version of Node.js

85

6

Natural: Natural Language Processing in Node JS

84

7

83

8

Numba - A NumPy aware (LLVM-based) optimizing compiler for Python

66

9

Python Modernize: Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration

34

10

Event Buffering

32

Wikipedia [?]

1

Errors in the Encyclopdia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia

40

2

5

3

3

4

Yerkes–Dodson law

2

5

Placeholder names in different languages

2

6

Judea Pearl -- ACM Turing Award 2011 winner

2

7

Is the universe computable? Digital physics

1

8

Servant Leadership

1

9

1

10

How constant are the physical constants?

1

Blogs [?]

1

Defining Property

544

2

Defining Property

5

3

2

4

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

1

5

E-Commerce Mistakes (1997)

1

6

Summer Founders Program: the original announcement of Y Combinator

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

:-!! what is it in c code?

139

2

Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

138

3

Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

112

4

How to explain callbacks in plain english?

5

5

What is the most efficient way to store thousands of telephone numbers

4

6

How exactly is GLSL's coherent memory qualifier interpreted by GPU drivers?

3

7

What C++ idioms are deprecated in C++11

3

8

Salvatore on "What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?"

2

9

Unnecessary curly braces in C++?

2

10

Unnecessary curly braces in C++?

2

Substack [?]