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Top stories
1
The Top Of My Todo List
675
2
Light Table Is On Kickstarter
606
3
Valve Employee Handbook
567
4
Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
528
5
Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
491
6
Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next
396
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Meteor is now MIT licensed
386
8
Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)
377
9
A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1
365
10
This Is 2016 Not 2012
354
Top Ask HN
1
How can Non-US founders open a bank account in the US?
73
2
Rejected from YC? Who are you?
67
3
OLAP and Reporting that feels like 2012
50
4
MacBook Pro still preferred laptop for non-MS development?
31
5
What if usernames were only visible after you have voted on a comment?
17
6
Becoming an iPhone app Dev.
14
7
Why are comments disabled on the job posts?
13
8
If we're in a bubble, how do we take advantage of it?
13
9
Rejected from YC? Want to try an experiment?
12
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Favourite startup demo video and production techniques.
12
Top Show HN
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Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads
189
2
Help me launch a weekly HN podcast
102
3
Bridge, a cross-language RPC messaging system
101
4
Spacetime locates a contact on a map by texting them a link to click on
87
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Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites
85
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Tasskr. Re-written for the 5th time.
61
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Working on my wife's idea
58
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PubUp, "Hacker News" for researchers & scientists
40
9
PinView - Your Facebook Feed as a Pinterest View
37
10
We use Github Gists to store user data
33
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
329
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Going With The Flow: Googles Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking
259
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Linus talks about Apple laptops, Linux distributions, his work
207
4
Company backed by James Cameron & Google founders may mine asteroids
195
5
Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
180
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Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app
179
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Zuckerberg negotiated Instagram deal without Facebook board approval
133
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An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram
122
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CIAs Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies Cover
118
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If You Have A Smartphone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move
117
News [?]
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Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future
254
2
UK moves to restrict Internet freedom
238
3
Amazing optical illusion or "glitch in the Matrix"?
214
4
Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.
185
5
SpaceX's Dragon ship set for station visit
177
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Can you make yourself smarter?
116
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Spain Is Doomed
109
8
Did Someone Order an Instant Bridge?
98
9
Coursera raises $16M
86
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IPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)
70
Scientific publications [?]
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Cassini successfully flies over Enceladus
37
2
An Interview With Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton
26
3
Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space
20
4
Novel chemical reaction has set the chemistry world abuzz
6
5
Physicists turn to Maxwells equations for self-bending light
4
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The science of mind reading is further along than you might think
4
7
Estonian robots boost global online clothing market
3
8
Nanosponges soak up oil again and again
3
9
Asteroid sites hint at life on Mars
2
10
Null models for network data
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Stripe Gallery
183
2
Introducing the Innovators Patent Agreement
20
3
Web 2.0: A Collection of SetTimeouts
5
4
Modern C++ vs Managed Code: Performance vs Productivity
5
5
Who uses Stripe?
4
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Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver Published
3
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Accountability - Not Code Quality - Makes iOS Safer Than Android
3
8
Crash-only Design
3
9
Erlang - software for a concurrent world (2008)
3
10
Searching Without Objectives
2
Tech blogs [?]
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The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It
57
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Will Industry Agree to a Meaningful Do Not Track?
20
3
SOPA is back
12
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Nokia reports $1.7 billion loss, "challenging" market for new Windows Phone 7
3
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The Impending Cybersecurity Power Grab Its not just for the United States
3
6
Building a computer with discrete transistors
2
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Including Your Location
2
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Rumor: Apple's next iPhone to have glass replaced with Liquidmetal
2
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Free formed circuit protected by a brick of crystal clear resin
2
10
Communicating from anywhere with a SPOT Connect
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
AWS Marketplace
198
2
Introducing the AWS Marketplace
8
3
AWS Architecture Diagrams
3
4
AWS Marketplace
2
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The Kinect Accelerator is now in session
1
6
Live Stream from AWS Summit
1
7
Introducing AWS Marketplace
1
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AWS Markeplace: Server Software for Amazon Web Services
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AWS Marketplace: Server Software for Amazon Web Services
1
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AWS Marketplace: Server Software for Amazon Web Services
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says
183
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Kim Dotcom responds to the latest procedural error
64
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Megaupload Worked On A Multi-Billion Dollar IPO
61
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MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt
54
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How To Make VPNs Even More Secure
53
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ISPs Have to Identify Alleged Pirates, EU Court Rules
38
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US: Megauploads Hosting Company Might be Sued Next
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Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says
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Kiwi ISP Issues First Music Piracy 3rd Strike, Movie Biz Cant Be Bothered
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Video: Cory Doctorows Keynote Pirate Party Conference 12
5
Science News [?]
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Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
104
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Is It Possible to Build an "Unsinkable" Ship?
39
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World's Fastest Random Number Generator from 'Sounds of Silence'
21
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Cancer-Fighting Goodness Found in Cholesterol, Study Suggests
20
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Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron
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Bloated website code drains your smartphone's battery
8
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The Perils of Paying for Status
5
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Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron
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Memory in Adults Impacted by Versions of Four Genes
2
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How selective hearing works in the brain: 'Cocktail party effect' explained
2
Social [?]
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From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
324
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Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles
158
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$100k per month running Drop-Ship product websites
39
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Life of a C-List entrepreneur (could be any of us)
14
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IKEA Uppleva or IKEA beat Apple to the TV disruption business
12
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Reddit as a City-State (by Reddit CEO)
10
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IKEA creates an all in one entertainment system
8
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Matz talk about MRuby
6
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Coachella's Tupac hologram heralds a new era in posthumous performances
5
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Peter Norvig; Dimensions of Programming (video)
5
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
528
2
Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly)
377
3
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: insanely stupid code
277
4
Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine
266
5
mruby
171
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An easier way to create GitHub repositories
85
7
Semicolon.js
74
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Dcpu-lisp: a static Lisp that compiles to DCPU-16
67
9
Async, embeddable HN share button
61
10
NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM
51
Wikipedia [?]
1
Darwin (1960s programming game)
45
2
Billion laughs - "DoS" attack on XML parser
5
3
Guess 2/3 of the Average
3
4
Googlewhack
2
5
Wikipedia claims one user has made 1,000,000 edits in seven years
2
6
6 key principles of persuasion by Robert Cialdini
1
7
Pirate Game (mathematical theorem)
1
8
Euprymna scolopes
1
9
Embarrassingly Parallel
1
10
Face recognition through eigenvectors
1
Blogs [?]
1
The Top Of My Todo List
675
2
Apple's Mistake
6
3
Inspirational reading for those rejected for YC
1
4
The Top of My Todo List
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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A definitive guide for parsing numbers with regular expressions
7
2
How would you recognize a Coca-Cola can in a noisy image?
6
3
Algorithm improvement for Coca-Cola can shape recognition
5
4
How do you count cardinality of very large datasets efficiently in Python?
4
5
Python: difference between datetime.datetime.now vs datetime.datetime.utcnow
3
6
No more shebangs.
2
7
SED adds new line at the end
2
8
Daylight saving time and timezone best practices
2
9
Using git together with dropbox
1
10
Understanding metaclasses (Python)
1
Substack [?]