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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Light Table - a new IDE concept

1561

2

Mosh: SSH for 2012

882

3

Facebook acquires Instagram

818

4

PHP: A fractal of bad design

750

5

9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video

596

6

Dont work. Be hated. Love someone. (2008)

454

7

500px Terms of Service

454

8

Awesome jQuery File Upload

385

9

Testing like the TSA

377

10

Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation

353

Top Ask HN

1

Dealing with pre-launch competitors

19

2

Why is there still no Python-based blog engine alternative to WordPress?

17

3

Could a faster Prolog have succeeded in industry?

12

4

have you had a bad experience trying to learn or use Haskell?

9

5

ratio of unit/functional tests to monitoring checks

8

6

How should a startup handle a security breach?

7

7

Moving off PHP with Meteor? What are the issues?

6

8

Are there any mature HTML5/canvas libraries?

6

9

How do non-English speakers learn programming?

6

10

How is religion affecting (if at all) the common hacker's life?

5

Top Show HN

1

Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

1362

2

Firebase, a scalable real-time backend

503

3

Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

338

4

We built real MMO Asteroids

192

5

I'll e-mail you in the morning if it's going to be a beautiful day.

110

6

Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X

90

7

67

8

Git (& Jekyll) backed websites anyone can edit. Beta

60

9

Word Wars- HTML5 real time word game

58

10

Microryza, crowdfunding research AND sharing results

57

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox

263

2

Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times

235

3

EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools"

167

4

Instagrams founder, a marketer who learned to code at night

132

5

Firebase Does for Apps What Dropbox Did for Docs

121

6

A hacker creates his own version of Google Project Glass

119

7

How To Scale A $1 Billion Startup (Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger)

107

8

First look: Qt 5 makes JavaScript a first-class citizen for app development

101

9

Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs

99

10

Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

93

News [?]

1

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83

307

2

Death to MS Word

174

3

The Most Dangerous Gamer

159

4

US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices

158

5

A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?

133

6

Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet

130

7

The Crisis in American Walking

114

8

Earthquake of magnitude 8.7 strikes off Sumatra, Indonesia

100

9

Dental X-Rays linked to Brain Tumors

76

10

Google (as a company) is more popular than Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple

69

Scientific publications [?]

1

'Monolith' Object on Mars? You Could Call It That

14

2

Vie Physarale: Evaluation of Roman roads with slime mould

7

3

Nanotubes stay cool when conducting, have potential applications in CPUs

6

4

Research Paper shows Facebook Valuation is in a Bubble

3

5

[pdf] Proof of Innocence, or how a Physicist gets out of a traffic ticket.

3

6

The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Is Open

2

7

[pdf] Vision Paper: Towards an Understanding of the Limits of Map-Reduce

2

8

Project Icarus: Son of Daedalus, Flying Closer to Another Star

2

9

How to implement logic gates using crabs

2

10

How the sinking of the Titanic sparked a century of radio improvements

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Remote root hole in Samba

98

2

Rich Hickey on Clojure 1.4's Extensible Reader, ClojureScript

76

3

Event Driven Programming in Clojure

67

4

Andrei Alexandrescu: Generic Programming Galore Using D

31

5

"Raise the Crime Rate"

5

6

Vim: From Essentials to Mastery

4

7

Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack

3

8

The Post-Agile Way

3

9

CloudFlare - Introducing: I'm Under Attack Mode

3

10

Presentation: CoffeeScript JavaScript Evolved

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple CEO Tim Cook Spotted at video game designer Valve headquarters

70

2

QArt codes, the better way to put picture in a QR code

55

3

Extremely rare Apple Macintosh 128K with 'Twiggy Drive' listed for $100K on eBay

36

4

Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps

4

5

Apple granted motion to intervene in Lodsys patent dispute

3

6

High Performance Touchscreens

3

7

Famous designer says Apple will reveal 'revolutionary' product within 8 months

3

8

Advanced compass/accelerometer library for Arduino

2

9

Designer Philippe Starck Says Working on 'Revolutionary' Product with Apple

2

10

Getting 12 year olds to learn assembly programming

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

$50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2

29

2

Amazon Introduces CloudSearch, Scalable Full-Text Search

6

3

Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health

2

4

The Ultralight Startup is Available (jasonlbaptiste's book)

2

5

Android Cookbook

1

6

1977 Creative Computing Book on Kindle

1

7

Amazon Cloud Search

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

120

2

Pirate Party Ordered to Shut Down Pirate Bay Proxy

89

3

Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

40

4

Tell Obama to Promise SOPA 2.0 Never Gets Written

39

5

US Govt. Objects To Megaupload Hiring Top Law Firm

11

6

Censoring The Pirate Bay is Useless, Research Shows

10

7

Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins

6

8

BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen On BitTorrents Future

5

9

Police Make Arrest, Hunt Admins Of 500,000 Member File-Sharing Site

5

10

MPAA / RIAA might Boost Cyberlocker and VPN Revenues

4

Science News [?]

1

Computer Scientist Leads Way to next Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

33

2

Tiny hitchhikers attack cancer cells

14

3

Sparks Fly Over Shoestring Test Of Holographic Principle

7

4

Waiting for Landauer, only two decades left

5

5

Ballmer Peak study: intoxication facilitates creative problem solving

5

6

Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield

4

7

Backing up the biosphere

4

8

Scientists Create Crab Powered Computers

3

9

Endre Szemerdi wins Abel Prize

3

10

Artificial photosynthesis breakthrough: Fast molecular catalyzer

2

Social [?]

1

Facebook acquires Instagram

818

2

John Cleese on how to be creative

26

3

Notch to fight illegal Minecraft distributor in Quake

12

4

Great hacker story, way to make me cry at work

9

5

Twitter informs Fame they are violating TOS

8

6

This explains why technical books are all ridiculously thick and overpriced

7

7

Microsoft released their augmented reality glasses prototype right away..

7

8

Facebook Messenger for Windows is out

6

9

CJDNS Author: Our sights are set higher than Tor

6

10

How Facebook site release/deploy process works

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Try right clicking GitHub's logo

344

2

Backbone.js Fundamentals

251

3

Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)

248

4

LLVM backend for DCPU-16

94

5

Try pressing 'm' on github

82

6

Node-Qt: Build native apps using Node.js + Qt (Windows, Mac, Linux)

78

7

JavaScript caching framework for client side caching in the browser

62

8

Rails core killed ActiveResource

51

9

Minecraft on DCPU-16

46

10

44

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

3

2

The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata

2

3

1

4

The world wonders

1

5

1

6

Conditional Baptism

1

7

Daniel M. Lewin - co-founder of Akamai and first victim of 9/11 attacks

1

Blogs [?]

1

4

2

The Power of the Marginal (2006)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming?

147

2

Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm explained in plain English

75

3

Why artificially limit your code to C?

32

4

Useful Node.js resources in one place

3

5

Explain Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm in plain english? - Stack Overflow

3

6

How many levels of pointers can we have?

2

7

C# - Why is this F# code so slow?

2

8

How does CSS triangle shapes work?

2

9

How to emulate 'cp --update' behavior on Mac OS X?

1

10

Weird C program performance

1

Substack [?]