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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox

710

2

The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

677

3

Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen

525

4

Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

523

5

Android Ported to C#

507

6

RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS

472

7

Want good programmers? Then pay them.

472

8

How text editing on the iPad should be

432

9

Introducing DuckDuckHack

407

10

The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto

376

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

241

2

45 Dutch students are visiting Berlin. Can we visit your startup?

85

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)

81

4

Best practices when pitching your startup to Techcrunch, Mashable etc?

59

5

Socialcam spamming Facebook newsfeeds and growing virally as a result?

33

6

Can you help me out of Adwords API purgatory?

19

7

30, 45 or 60-day free trial conversion rates?

19

8

How to get first 1,000 users?

16

9

Linux laptop distro of choice?

16

10

Alternative to Ubuntu?

15

Top Show HN

1

Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

543

2

Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

162

3

Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar

143

4

Teach Yourself To Code

98

5

Server installs simplified (and built from source)

78

6

Weekend project - Gitscore

61

7

QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs

47

8

Pinterest + iTunes + Youtube Mashup

42

9

Boost your productivity with Trello, Hipchat and Github

41

10

made giving.github.com for collaborative meaningful coding

41

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

302

2

Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money

241

3

IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even

152

4

The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness

141

5

I'm leaving the Internet for a year

134

6

Facebook Stops You From Posting Irrelevant Or Inappropriate Comments

124

7

How LinkedIn built its new iPad app

124

8

1859's "Great Auroral Storm"the week the Sun touched the earth

111

9

Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft

108

10

Pair (YC W12) raises $4.2M round of funding

101

News [?]

1

Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'

258

2

High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

249

3

Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany

148

4

Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School

148

5

How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids

138

6

Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue to Show

134

7

Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection

105

8

Mozilla slams CISPA, says the bill "infringes on our privacy."

86

9

Apple responds to NYT: "We're among top payers of U.S. income tax"

84

10

Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

78

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Dawn of Haiku OS

251

2

Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed Into a Closet?

58

3

'Supermoon' Alert: Biggest Full Moon of 2012 Occurs This Week

6

4

Plasma Rocket Could Travel to Mars in 39 Days

6

5

I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper

3

6

The computational complexity of Minesweeper

2

7

Light-Field Photography Revolutionizes Imaging

2

8

Quadrotors use SLAM to navigate outdoors all by themselves

2

9

Robot Learns to Microwave Frozen Dinners, Robotics Research Can Stop Now

2

10

Black Hole Caught in Act of Swallowing Star

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

234

2

Vert.x JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

160

3

GCC and static analysis

74

4

Functional Languages 101: Whats All the Fuss About?

60

5

The return of the Unix wars?

22

6

Apple Developer ID and Gatekeeper

12

7

Researcher Causes Endless Restart Loop on Samsung TVs

5

8

Lock-free Algorithms

5

9

Cloudflare Outage Post-Mortem

4

10

The Developer-Tester Divide

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

How Apple minimizes its corporate tax burden

7

2

Records unsealed for dajaz1.com seizure, reveal that US Customs <3 RIAA

3

3

Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac

2

4

Apple's 1984 Internal Inspirational Video with Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt

2

5

Apple and Samsung Claim 99% of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors

2

6

Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking

2

7

EFF raises $7500 in 24h on Reddit to fight CISPA

1

8

Apple hits new high with 8.8% of world mobile phone market

1

9

Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast

1

10

'Self-Combusting' iPhone on Airplane Due to Screw Lost in Botched Repair Job

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Introducing Developer ID and Gatekeeper

6

2

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop Apps

6

3

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App for Windows and Mac

2

4

Amazon cloud drive desktop app for windows and mac

2

5

Why the Kindle Will Fail [Kindle eBook]

1

6

Microsoft buys stake in Nook, college textbook business

1

7

FarmVille for Dummies

1

8

"Redis: The Definitive Guide" release delayed until April 2013

1

9

Amazon Cloud Drive for desktop

1

10

Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Judge: An IP-Address Doesnt Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)

280

2

Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN

107

3

Pirate Bay enjoys record traffic on the back of news that UK ISPs must block it

7

4

DoT, India Orders Blackout of Vimeo, TPB, kat.ph and more

7

5

U.S. Labels Canada a Piracy Haven

5

6

Megaupload Prosecution Is Lawless and Unconstitutional, Law Professor Says

4

7

India Orders Blackout of Vimeo, The Pirate Bay and More

3

8

How effective is online activism?

2

9

Why haven't web apps taken off yet?

2

10

1

Science News [?]

1

Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%

168

2

Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution

15

3

Why Light Touching Can Double Your Chances of Getting a Date

6

4

Venus to Appear in Once-In-A-Lifetime Event

4

5

Global warming: New research blames economic growth

2

6

Astronomers Have Detected Arsenic and Selenium in Ancient Star for First Time

2

7

Mobs rule for great tit neighbors

2

8

Move over graphene, silicene is the new star material

2

9

Study Reveals Why Lefties Are Rare

2

10

Bullet time' signals to stop cyber attacks on grid

1

Social [?]

1

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA

69

2

Facebook's Security Enginner ad

25

3

Michael Arrington is the new CEO of Yahoo

24

4

Facebook, show me your code

8

5

National Switch to Google+ Day

5

6

Learn a new Language with Language Immersion for Chrome(youtube)

5

7

Chrome DevTools Timeline's new Frame Mode

5

8

Demo of iPad keyboard improvement

4

9

My Twitter Story, How a simple, 16 year old grabbed over 5 million followers

4

10

How It's Made: videos of the manufacture of everyday objects

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans

202

2

Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T

191

3

Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project

185

4

Git Subtree merged into mainline git

112

5

110

6

Remote exploit found in all WooThemes

90

7

Hello world in every programming language

85

8

ReactiveCocoa for a better world

78

9

Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript

62

10

Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS

59

Wikipedia [?]

1

XOR Linked List

150

2

DunningKruger effect

6

3

The expulsion of the population was for establishing a US base on Diego Garcia

5

4

2

5

Project Cybersyn

2

6

2

7

Bill Gates started a company named Traf-O-Data before starting Microsoft

2

8

Halfway between a plant and animal. What is it?

1

9

1

10

Man's Search for Meaning

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Top of My Todo List by Paul Graham

6

2

What You Can't Say (2004)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Getting the closest string match

168

2

QLPreviewController crashing after few seconds and after dismissing it.

2

3

OpenGL's glClear() causes Access Violation (0xc0000005) in Windows 7

2

4

How to detect SwiftShader WebGL renderer in Chrome 18?

2

5

Authorization of Google Drive using JavaScript

2

6

DLL-linking via Windows cgo/gcc/ld freeglut works, glfw not.

1

7

Confused over C++ Stack Usage

1

8

Building GLFW with MinGW64 gcc entry-symbol warnings & linker errors

1

9

Writing an iOS app purely in C

1

10

Twitter OAuth dynamic Callback URL.

1

Substack [?]