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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I hereby resign

1152

2

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

741

3

Dont Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup

700

4

The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Cant Build iPads in the US

553

5

Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

542

6

Notch's next game is an MMO

523

7

I don't hire unlucky people

521

8

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

471

9

Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads

396

10

Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.

386

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

264

2

Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?

178

3

Computer science for the self taught programmer

156

4

Please be more thoughtful when downvoting

140

5

What did you build in March?

114

6

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)

101

7

How is your Start-Up Chile experience?

82

8

A place to sleep, a laptop, no rsum and a hungry man.

58

9

What service would you pay me 10$ a month for?

57

10

Glut of Mainstream news on HN?

49

Top Show HN

1

Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly

285

2

A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system

153

3

MadeiraCloud lets you draw AWS architecture and clone apps in minutes

84

4

my "My Latex resume" project

54

5

Kinda like posterous?

52

6

Show HN my weekend project - Browse Netflix Watch Instant faster

31

7

zodiac, a new approach to monkey patching in python

31

8

Share rides to Coachella

28

9

Nokia Lumia ad recreated with CSS transforms

26

10

Our video series teaches anyone how to build & deploy a web app

21

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

360

2

Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

302

3

MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it

280

4

A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering

191

5

Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

175

6

We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found

130

7

The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry

128

8

Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL

127

9

The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network

98

10

How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator?

96

News [?]

1

Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts

176

2

What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets?

170

3

Why nations fail

170

4

What Americans Buy

145

5

UK government to monitor email and web use under new laws

133

6

A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness

131

7

Hit Shift key 4x on a NYTimes article and see what happens

123

8

60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?

101

9

Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin

98

10

Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store

94

Scientific publications [?]

1

Printable Robots

25

2

The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge

16

3

You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability

4

4

US students need new way of learning science

3

5

Printable Robots: MIT Project to Let You Design and Fabricate Your Own Machines

2

6

The Future of Robotics and AI Is Open

2

7

The World According to Darpa - IEEE Spectrum

1

8

Organ on (in) a chip.

1

9

NASA - Where is Curiosity?

1

10

Four HUBO Robots Come Together for Beatles Cover

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

A turning point for GNU libc

186

2

Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures

156

3

CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root

101

4

Wayland's X11 support is ready (An Experimental GNOME Shell Running On Wayland)

71

5

Fedora mulls ARM as a primary architecture

32

6

Urgent Fix for Zero-Day Mac Java Flaw

21

7

Twitter: Shutting down spammers

12

8

Icculus Grows Fond Of Open-Source GPU Drivers

8

9

Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

5

10

TextEdit's full (?) source code is available online

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good

34

2

Stanford, Open University surpass 50M downloads on iTunes U

19

3

Apple working on physical game controller for iPads and other iOS devices

8

4

One-Third of U.S. High School Students Now Own an iPhone

5

5

Nearly half of U.S. corporations issuing Macs to employees

4

6

3D printer with insane accuracy uses a DLP projector

3

7

Facebook and Dropbox iOS apps vulnerable to credential theft

3

8

Liquidmetal Technologies filing outlines its $20 million agreement with Apple

2

9

Displaying bubbles in mineral oil - Awesome

2

10

Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in Upcoming Indie Film "Jobs"

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

10

2

Amazon's New Design

10

3

Giant Swiss Army Knife Customer Reviews

7

4

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator

2

5

Amazon Instant Video Now on PS3

2

6

New Tina Seelig book due

1

7

Escape Velocity - from the author of Crossing the Chasm

1

8

New book shows you how to make Lego guns

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours)

110

2

5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion

96

3

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

64

4

MPAA: If Megaupload Gets Data Back Theyll Relaunch

30

5

Kim Dotcom Back Online, Prepares To Release Music Album

20

6

Skill of the Week: Be Specific

5

7

French ODDNS: Decentralized and Open DNS To Defeat Censorship

4

8

The New Science of Building Great Teams

2

9

Draconian Privacy Invasion Bill Continues to Gain Support

2

10

Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has No Desire To Litigate

2

Science News [?]

1

Quantum computer built inside a diamond

59

2

Evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago

42

3

Another Look at "The Limits to Growth"

32

4

Why Quantum Computers Are Better Suited for Enslaving Humanity

16

5

Scientists solving the mystery of human consciousness

9

6

Use of common pesticide, imidacloprid, linked to bee colony collapse

6

7

Mystery of human consciousness illuminated

3

8

'beer goggles' effect: difficulty in ability to discern facial symmetry

2

9

How to use light to control the brain

2

10

The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic

2

Social [?]

1

Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?

198

2

Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic

175

3

What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them?

91

4

69

5

Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic

15

6

XKCD Creates Elaborate Responsive/Location-based April Fool's Comic

13

7

The YouTube Collection

9

8

First SOPA then PIPA, and now: CISPA (Even worst than SOPA)

9

9

Cool Arduino Hack to image thousands of floppy disks

9

10

Droste effect in Conway's Life

9

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages

542

2

The GitHub Styleguide

130

3

C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16

125

4

123

5

Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16

107

6

llgo: compiler for Go, written in Go, using LLVM compiler infrastructure

59

7

Github organization for DCPU-16 implementations

55

8

Backbone.Rel: Backbone lightweight model relationship manager

45

9

Misaki - a Jekyll inspired static site generator in Clojure

40

10

A fork of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3

38

Wikipedia [?]

1

Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties

166

2

7

3

Lambda calculus

4

4

The Wright brothers iterated in a wind tunnel

2

5

Ben Nanonote: Copyleft Palmtop

2

6

Category:Computer keys

1

7

Random Hacks of Kindness

1

8

The REXX programming language

1

9

Clear View Screen

1

10

Planetary nomenclature

1

Blogs [?]

1

Defining Property

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow April Fool's: The Paperclip Unicorn

13

2

How do I find Waldo with Mathematica?

2

3

(Golang) Slab method for ray-box intersection gives false positives for opp. dir

2

4

Who is Responsible for HTTP_Referer (sic) Misspelling in RFC 1945?

2

5

How to allocate 16GB of memory in Go?

2

6

Why Interfaces shouldn't be Prefixed with I

1

7

How to eliminate this type of recursion?

1

8

Programmer Puzzle: Encoding a chess board state throughout a game

1

9

Why do programming competition contestants use C++ and Java?

1

10

GOF pattern implementations found in both Java SE and Java EE API's

1

Substack [?]