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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1335

2

Codename: Obtvse

873

3

Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%

555

4

Frustro: The Impossible Typeface

547

5

Ever heard of "Low orbit server stations"?

474

6

'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students

456

7

From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)

450

8

Writing and Speaking

409

9

386

10

Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You

385

Top Ask HN

1

more sites like HN

178

2

do founders get a salary after raising angel round?

87

3

The hardest job you'll ever have.

38

4

I'm a Developer, I make good money, Where do I put it?

24

5

How do you motivate yourself? Don't you get tired of?

22

6

Why did YC fund two startups that do exactly the same thing?

18

7

How much of your personal capital $$ have you invested in your startup?

17

8

What questions did you wish you asked before accepting your current job?

14

9

Does Anyone Write Code With an iPad?

13

10

Why do I find it so difficult to learn to code?

12

Top Show HN

1

This up votes itself

3381

2

A Way To Hack HN's Karma

466

3

Tired of entering map directions on iPhone? I've streamlined it

181

4

KytePhone turns any Android into a kids-friendly phone

163

5

Meme generator for hipsters

143

6

Q&A for HN users

138

7

Free Unlimited Private File Sending (Beta)

119

8

Worldle- 24 Hour real time boggle HTML5 hackathon game

90

9

Ham, a fast PHP router/microframework I hacked up last night

86

10

Chat with HN users while you visit HN

70

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

358

2

Facebook: Legal action against employers asking for your password

315

3

Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

308

4

Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)

248

5

Pair (YC W12) is a Path for the Two of Us

208

6

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

196

7

With EveryArt (YC W12) you don't have to be afraid of commissioning art

171

8

Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems for $775 million

148

9

CEO dares Microsoft to sue him over virtual desktops that flout licensing

140

10

GPS ruling is "hard" on the FBI—and that's a feature, not a bug

120

News [?]

1

60 Minutes: Elon Musk and SpaceX [video]

306

2

James Cameron's entirely new submarine

179

3

Are jobs obsolete?

156

4

Why Top Talent Leaves

138

5

Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Google

135

6

Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students

122

7

Slavery's last stronghold

122

8

Pay your employees more

104

9

The Benefits of Bilingualism

104

10

France announces crackdown on people reading extremist Web sites

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to hang a picture using n nails such that removing any k nails makes it fall

126

2

"Fixing the Brain With Computers": conversation with neurosurgeon R. Bucholz

8

3

Robotics Trends for 2012

4

4

Why Kiva Is Worth $775 Million to Amazon

4

5

IRobot and Willow Garage Debate Closed vs. Open Source Robotics

2

6

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the ICARUS detector

1

7

Open Source Comes to Textbooks

1

8

Slime molds choices of the most rational motorways

1

9

Robotics Trends for 2012

1

10

Human Gets Top of Head Cut Off by Robot, Survives

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Git project seeks discussion on "push" change

321

2

Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images

100

3

AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code

90

4

Jetty gets 'SPDY'

85

5

Ember.js - Rich Internet Applications Done Right

74

6

Talk Of GCC 5.0 To Be Modular, More Like LLVM

70

7

Stripe: Introducing Answers

55

8

Can the NSA Break AES?

7

9

Twitter turns six

7

10

Rich Hickey Speaks on Datomic at Clojure/West

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay

109

2

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Declined to Join Apple

65

3

Ex Apple TV Engineer: New Apple TV UI is actually one Jobs threw away years ago

56

4

Safari vulnerability in iOS 5.1 allows URL spoofing

48

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Anandtech review of NVidia's new GPU architecture

16

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French President Sarkozy Sees Opportunity for Censorship, Seizes It

11

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Steve Jobs Tried to Hire Linux Creator Linus Torvalds to Work on OS X

9

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Cinavia DRM: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Blu-rays Self-Destruction

5

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Fedora 16 And GNOME Shell: Tested And Reviewed

5

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China Surpasses U.S. iOS and Android Activations

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

197

2

New iPad Tops Three Million

77

3

Apple Conference Call

69

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Amazon CloudFront Lowers Minimum Content Expiration Period

27

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Amazon.com redesign

18

6

Amazon RDS 60 Day Free Trial

3

7

PHP and Git Deployment for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

2

8

Project Detroit: Reimagining an American Classic

2

9

AWS Summit 2012 NYC

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger

211

2

Megaupload Seizure Order Null and Void Says High Court

170

3

Google Defends Hotfile in Court

94

4

Worlds First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action

44

5

To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flying Drones

34

6

Sqoot Kills Own Hackathon with Sexist Perk

19

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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

10

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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

7

9

Pirating UK Student to be Extradited to the US

5

10

Judge: BitTorrent Downloads Are Protected Anonymous Speech

5

Science News [?]

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A camera that can see around corners

151

2

Early exposure to germs has lasting benefits

45

3

Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads

10

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Who Was Casanova?

5

5

Marine worm rewrites Theory of Brain Evolution

4

6

How to see around corners

3

7

Cassini sees Saturn stressing out Enceladus

3

8

Venice hasn't stopped sinking after all

2

9

A novel nanofluidic technology for DNA manipulation and measurement

2

10

Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed

2

Social [?]

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IAmA NASA Astronaut who recently returned to Earth and I am new to reddit

158

2

Help Reddit build a recommender

151

3

Google bans reddit client from Play Store for "sexually explicit material"

138

4

Facebook will take action to protect the privacy and security of their users

130

5

Reddit bot that tracks the removal of political links

12

6

NASA code formally proven as deadlock free; later crashes due to a deadlock

8

7

Minecraft Scientific/Graphing calculator

8

8

Sexist hack-a-thon marketing goes bad (real bad) for Sqoot

8

9

SimCity's upcoming GlassBox simulation engine

7

10

Pdf.js will be available in Firefox Nightly builds starting tonight

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PHP source code now hosted on Github

136

2

Pysandbox - a configurable Python sandbox

58

3

Seamless SPDY support for existing web servers (SPDY-HTTP reverse proxy)

52

4

Promotional materials alienate and offend people

25

5

Strong Parameters for Rails: Mass assignment in the controller

25

6

GitHub Styleguide - CSS, HTML, JS, Ruby

11

7

DEAR FRIEND IN GOD

9

8

My one night hack: Two-way gateway between Flowdock and IRC

9

9

MacBook Pro Battery Life hacks: 10 hours projected use

9

10

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Python syntax and semantics

10

2

Natural nuclear fission reactor

2

3

Karatsuba Algorithm - Ingenuity at best

2

4

1

5

Phage Theraphy: A virus fueled alternative to antibiotics

1

6

Karatsuba algorithm

1

7

Patience sort - an O(n log n) worst case sort

1

Blogs [?]

1

Writing and Speaking

409

2

Writing and Speaking

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is tail call optimization (2008)?

35

2

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

28

3

Why are reads from CouchDB so slow? (1.5MB/s or thereabouts)

2

4

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

2

5

Unit testing C Code, several useful frameworks

2

6

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

2

7

GLSL texelFetchOffset works with isampler2D but not usampler2D?

1

8

What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?

1

9

What is the point of DBNull?

1

10

Differences between Play Framework 1.0 and 2.0

1

Substack [?]