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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

DuckDuckGo is blowing up

1199

2

927

3

908

4

A Woman’s Story

701

5

There's no speed limit (2009)

689

6

Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

678

7

Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request

619

8

The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men

613

9

Please do not take down the Sality botnet

571

10

Go version 1 is released

557

Top Ask HN

1

Best Python web framework

112

2

This is my first open-source project. Feedback?

68

3

Do you invest in the stock market?

53

4

What are some small to medium size blogs covering startups?

48

5

Should you downvote based on disagreement alone?

36

6

Apple filed to patent an app concept that I released a year ago.

34

7

How do you convince your bosses to use the right tools?

27

8

YC applications are up. Did you submit?

21

9

Denied US Visa As I am too young to be a CTO, Now What?

18

10

Help? Breaking into the App Store top 100.

18

Top Show HN

1

Open Source emulator in Javascript that runs Linux

63

2

My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

53

3

API Jobs, a new job site focused on APIs

33

4

Quip - Annotate any online video

32

5

WYSIWYG-editing Markdown with Hallo Editor

31

6

Save millions on cloud computing costs

28

7

Let's all connect on LinkedIn

24

8

Let's all connect on LinkedIn (deprecated - see new HN post)

22

9

Our Startup Weekend Project

20

10

I'm a non-hacker "idea guy" and my weekend project took 1,670 + days

19

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

414

2

99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet

204

3

Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of 2050 a scary place

146

4

Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates

135

5

Ark (YC W12) launches a modern people search engine

131

6

Death of a Data Haven (the story of Sealand)

128

7

I'm sick to death of Android

100

8

Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses

99

9

Why Groupon is poised for collapse

98

10

Why geeks need to learn how to delegate

95

News [?]

1

Batman's Real Story

396

2

James Cameron begins deepest dive

325

3

Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rockets

275

4

Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture

261

5

10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the 10 Note

205

6

How I survived a plane crash

192

7

Bruce Schneier debates former TSA boss

191

8

For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

152

9

The Mighty Mathematician Youve Never Heard Of

151

10

The Missing 20th Century: How copyright protection makes books vanish

111

Scientific publications [?]

1

Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Robot Demonstrates Astonishing Jumping Skills

7

2

Mathematical Constraints on Financially Viable Public Policy

2

3

Why Watching Movie Tweets Won't Tell the Whole Story

1

4

Squishy robots may move and manipulate objects in new ways

1

5

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics

1

6

They Know Where You Live

1

7

RoboBonobo: Giving Apes Control of Their Own Robot

1

8

Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Robot Demonstrates Astonishing Jumping Skills

1

9

Edge-preserving self-healing: keeping network backbones densely connected (pdf)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request

619

2

Is Agile Stifling Introverts?

125

3

MasterCard, Visa Warn of Processor Breach

65

4

ZeroMQ Forked by its Creators

9

5

Valve Software developing for linux

7

6

Bruce Schneier: What specific harms has post-911 airport security caused?

7

7

Titanic, COBOL and the 100 Year Platform

3

8

Glibc steering committee dissolves; eglibc may be reintegrated

3

9

Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts

3

10

Intel Looks To Be Working On Open-Source GPGPU

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu

344

2

16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft

263

3

Zero-day exploit sales should be key point in cybersecurity debate

7

4

Google earns 80% of its mobile revenue from iOS, just 20% from Android

6

5

83-Year Old Suing Apple Over Glass Doors at Retail Stores

5

6

Mike Daisey apologizes for his exaggerations & falsehoods involving Apple

4

7

New Patent details Apples work with high refresh rate LCD technology HDTVs

4

8

New NCTC Guidelines Gives Authorities Vast Access to Private Info of Innocent

3

9

French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforcement Use of National Biometric Data

2

10

Apple's 3D camera concept would capture & recreate images

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

IOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (3rd Edition)

8

2

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating & Avoiding Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

4

3

Amazon Kindle store disables sales to America

3

4

AWS Cloud for Start-Ups & Developers | NYC

2

5

How Microsoft led a raid on the Zeus botnet

1

6

Bill Gates Speech Transcript - Scalability Day 1997

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

377

2

Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why

255

3

French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales

97

4

RapidShare Declared Legal In Court, With a Twist

53

5

Megaupload Drops Mega Song Lawsuit to Focus on Nonsense US Charges

30

6

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

4

7

An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics

4

8

Pirate Parties International Conference Takes Place Next Month

3

9

Spanish RIAA Sues Blogging Professor for Defamation

2

10

Computer & Technology Television Programs of the 1980's and 1990's

2

Science News [?]

1

Ability to learn is affected by the timing of sleep

147

2

New imagery shows brain neurons are arranged in 2D sheets

61

3

The Higgs Boson of Biology: Alien Life

9

4

Human brain is basically wired at neat right angles

8

5

Imaging study finds neural connections form regular grid

5

6

Hidden layer of genetic information affects protein production

5

7

Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack

4

8

Open Access—Pass the Buck

4

9

Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing

3

10

Differences in Brain Function for Children With Math Anxiety

3

Social [?]

1

CEO of Symantec talks about Startups, Google Fiber and Leadership

37

2

Has anyone had experience using Founder2be?

15

3

11

4

Don't Talk to Cops

8

5

An Inside Look at Google's Self-Driving Cars

8

6

Egor Homakov, github's 'hacker', hints at next attack.

7

7

SpiderOak IAMA/AUA on reddit.com

7

8

The latest thing in pair programming is Spooning by Bitbucket

7

9

Google Maps 8-bit for NES

6

10

MIX: A compiler from SQL to Erlang code using Amazon DynamoDB

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OSX For Hackers

463

2

175

3

Simple - An Obtvse clone written in Python

136

4

Finally a unified Python solution for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 (oh and Ofly) consumers

78

5

Download Coursera videos in batch

70

6

DataKit: It's like Parse, just open source. Written in node.js and ObjC.

52

7

TLC, a tiny lua cocoa bridge

49

8

Tesseract is now Crossfilter

46

9

Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

24

10

GitHub Style Guide: "Write new JS in CoffeeScript."

21

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of cognitive biases

100

2

Curse of knowledge

73

3

List of common misconceptions

4

4

Just World Hypothesis

2

5

2

6

What is Entrepreneurial Effectuation?

1

7

Worse is Better

1

8

List of file formats

1

9

1

10

Seagull manager

1

Blogs [?]

1

Writing and Speaking

5

2

Programmer's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

3

3

The Word "Hacker" (2004)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why you should always use gzip instead of deflate compression

99

2

Examples of beautiful Javascript

91

3

Why do we need "? extends" in Java

31

4

Merging two python dictionaries

8

5

Run code after each failed test in ruby Test::Unit

4

6

Clarification on apparent contradictions regarding weakly typed languages

4

7

Skewed: a rotating camera in a simple CPU-based voxel raycaster/raytracer

2

8

Awesome explanation on how Java passes arguments by value not by reference

2

9

What is a metaclass in Python

2

10

Differences between isinstance() and type() in python

2

Substack [?]