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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Recursive Drawing

686

2

The frequent fliers who flew too much

543

3

Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

534

4

My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie

516

5

CSS arrow please

512

6

I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k

472

7

469

8

IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA

453

9

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++

373

10

Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

364

Top Ask HN

1

My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

231

2

I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked

103

3

Experienced programmer, beginner to iOS (objective-C). Where to begin?

28

4

How to get productive with the JVM in 48h?

22

5

proper etiquette on submitting your own stuff

21

6

Best Git GUI For Windows?

18

7

Programming jobs for the mathematically inclined.

17

8

Money management

16

9

What startups write C heavily?

13

10

So is it easier to raise money than find a job?

13

Top Show HN

1

my Mac app just got fireballed

430

2

Simperium, a realtime data layer

206

3

My first web app - Resumonk - A beautifully simple resume builder

173

4

A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

161

5

HackerNew for Chrome

147

6

I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

124

7

Want to learn design? Try Design Lab.

120

8

A/B testing for iOS and Android

117

9

Test Drive The RubyMotion Console From Your Browser

84

10

Wovyn, physical world sensors for developers

78

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Jury rules Google violated copyright law, Google moves for mistrial

283

2

Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text

235

3

Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845

229

4

Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesnt Suck

202

5

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads

195

6

Why One of Silicon Valleys Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet

175

7

Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB

154

8

Oracle loses on fair use; Only rangeCheck left (w/o new trial)

115

9

SpaceX announces deal to shuttle tourists to private space stations

113

10

This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like

110

News [?]

1

The frequent fliers who flew too much

543

2

I appeared on CNN this morning to talk about why I'm not buying Facebook (CISPA)

210

3

Who Wants To Buy Honduras?

140

4

An Effort To Bury A Throwaway Culture One Repair At A Time

129

5

Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?

114

6

Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase

113

7

Germany's Pirate Party Looks to Win More Seats

107

8

Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO

104

9

HBO CEO: "...an internet-based model [for TV] is just a fad"

90

10

Im An Article About The Internet That You Repost On The Internet

88

Scientific publications [?]

1

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

136

2

Mars Rover Opportunity Survives Harsh Martian Winter to Rove Again

7

3

NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien "Super Earth"

5

4

New nanostructure for batteries can keep 10x more charge

4

5

Title: The Refractive Index of Silicon at Gamma Ray Energies

3

6

It's Official: Physics is Hard

3

7

California, US to bank millions in taxes on Facebook IPO

2

8

Humanoid Robot Can Keep Its Balance After Getting Kicked

2

9

Open Source Robotics Foundation Officially Announced

2

10

Japanese Humanoid Robot Can Keep Its Balance After Getting Kicked

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox finally plugs the leak

223

2

Windows On ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too

183

3

Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

100

4

NVIDIA Announces Open-Source CUDA Compiler

80

5

Mozilla Firefox: Rolling Out HTTPS Google search

57

6

Microsoft to C99 Developers: Use ISO C++

48

7

Linux I/O Scheduler Comparison On The Linux 3.4 Desktop

15

8

Panel: Multicore, Manycore, and Cloud Computing

4

9

BufferBloat: Van Jacobson new AQM - CoDel

4

10

Windows on ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?

175

2

And the privacy invasion award goes to

103

3

Dropbox fixes app rejection issue, complies with Apple's rules

40

4

Apple Releases iOS 5.1.1 with HDR, AirPlay, and Safari Syncing Bug Fixes

7

5

Apple reportedly in talks to acquire German HDTV maker Loewe

6

6

Minecraft Creator Notch Says EA is Destroying Gaming

5

7

Apple Finally Adds Attribution for OpenStreetMap and Others in iPhoto for iOS

4

8

Dangerous Implications of Treating APIs as Copyrightable

4

9

More Retina Resolution Icons on the latest Lion Update

2

10

Wristwatch measures your perception of time; also tells time

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon announces RDS for SQL Server

2

2

Monitor Your AWS Charges with Billing Alerts Using Amazon CloudWatch

2

3

AWS Billing Alerts

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record

179

2

Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Requests Pardon

30

3

Pirate Bay Censorship Judge is Corrupt, Claims Pirate Party Founder

4

4

Verizon Refuses to Identify Alleged BitTorrent Pirates

3

5

Tumblr Sued for $5 Million Over Pirating Users and Employees

2

6

Five More Dutch ISPs Given 10 Days To Censor The Pirate Bay

2

7

The Lengthening Arm of Uncle Sams Pirate Justice

1

8

Unblocking The Pirate Bay The Hard Way Is Fun For Geeks

1

9

Unblocking The Pirate Bay The Hard Way Is Fun For Geeks

1

10

Tumblr Sued for $5 Million Over Pirating Users and Employees

1

Science News [?]

1

Touch by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things

176

2

Roulette beater spills physics behind victory

73

3

Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Conjecture

68

4

Hubble to use moon as mirror to see Venus transit

27

5

Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf

9

6

DSM 5: Psychiatry's "Bible" Gets an Overhaul

3

7

Epidemiologists put social media in the spotlight

3

8

Free-floating planets in the milky way outnumber stars

2

9

The power of cool: Whatever became of Starlite?

2

10

Give users some freedom of expression (but not too much) to boost interaction.

1

Social [?]

1

IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA

453

2

Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy

112

3

Redditor: Am I a scumbag for automating my manual work and making more money?

86

4

The First Buenos Aires Hacker News Meetup in 908 days is tonight

35

5

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

9

6

Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects

5

7

This is the 1st time in all history where lifespans started to go down [video]

5

8

Miniminecraft implemented in Minecraft

4

9

Richard Stallman collapses, ambulance called

4

10

Mozilla upgrading Firefox 3.6 users to Firefox 12 (automatic update, unprompted)

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

534

2

Say hello to Octicons

245

3

Emscripten - LLVM (bitcode) to JavaScript Compiler

91

4

Plumbum: Pythonic Shell Combinators

75

5

Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion

60

6

Backbone.offline allows your Backbone.js app to work offline with localStorage

54

7

Github's modifications to Twitter's TwUI pulled into master

49

8

The Making Of Octicons

46

9

New Git Homepage

36

10

Twitter Ambrose: Real-time viz of Hadoop workflows

33

Wikipedia [?]

1

Timeline of the far future

291

2

Earth's location in the universe

6

3

6

4

Dreyfus model of skill acquisition

4

5

List of Famous Programmers

2

6

Today: World LOL Day.

1

7

What is LOA, and why should you care?

1

8

1

9

Haxioms and the "Delta model"

1

10

Timeline of the far future

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What should every programmer know about security?

158

2

What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?

108

3

Are Databases and Functional Programming at odds?

25

4

How to find list of possible words from a letter matrix

6

5

Can GLSL macro expansion do this?

3

6

How to organize large Node.js projects?

3

7

What are the popular web-ready functional programming languages?

2

8

Generate word documents using workbooks (in a way mailmerge never could)

2

9

How to avoid null statements in Java

1

10

How to find list of possible words from a letter matrix [Boggle Solver]

1

Substack [?]