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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA

909

2

Google, what were you thinking?

735

3

A simple guide for getting started with git

657

4

638

5

Schlep Blindness

592

6

Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope

552

7

Good bye, Google Maps thanks for all the fish

523

8

This photograph is free

519

9

Google's Kenyan ripoff?

450

10

This Photograph Is Not Free

427

Top Ask HN

1

why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?

145

2

Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed

116

3

Effective communication methods with remote employees.

37

4

Early employee salaries for startups in The Netherlands / Europe?

36

5

Legality of a Jan 18 SOPA blackout on Google?

24

6

Can I interview you about life at a startup?

19

7

Wakemate is dead?

18

8

made in a single weekend and profitable project examples?

17

9

Can someone from Google please pass on a message to the Feedburner team?

14

10

Non Americans: Do you care about SOPA?

14

Top Show HN

1

A visual explanation of Fisher–Yates shuffle

175

2

A JavaScript interpreter written in Ruby

74

3

I built a faster way to burn your money on Etsy.com

72

4

Veneer, modal dialogs in 75 lines of JavaScript

55

5

Bored last night. 3 hour project: Your Most Followed Followers

45

6

Guide to upcoming HN meetups worldwide. Have we missed any?

35

7

iPad game to help toddlers with Autism

28

8

small lisp interpreter in Haskell

25

9

Side project for organized bookmarking: Saaave

25

10

Send an email to push@gitmanual.org or ls-tree@gitmanual.org

24

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The author of SOPA is a copyright violator

377

2

Jon Stewart Talks SOPA, at Last

197

3

Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed

185

4

MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft"

171

5

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

164

6

NGINX takes 2nd place in Web Servers from Microsoft IIS

159

7

Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

150

8

The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read

91

9

Thumbtack raises $4.5M, already half the size of Yelp

66

10

Google Maps indoor navigation: yeah, it works at CES

56

News [?]

1

Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA

334

2

Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th

268

3

The Rise of the New Groupthink

239

4

This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym

215

5

CNN covers SOPA on homepage

168

6

Mafia becomes "Italy's largest bank" in aftermath of financial crisis

146

7

The myth of Japan's failure

138

8

Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them

136

9

Go East, Young Man

125

10

UK Schools ICT to be replaced by computer science programme

123

Scientific publications [?]

1

iPad Survives Fall From Edge of Space in Jaw-Dropping Video

12

2

Spain's SOPA Law: How It Works And Why It Won't

3

3

Vasik Rajlich: Game Boy

2

4

The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph

2

5

It's Time to Start 3D Scanning the World

2

6

It's Time to Start 3D Scanning the World

2

7

Stochastic Modelling of a Serial Killer

2

8

Analysis of Zynga valuation

1

9

Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen

1

10

It's not like we didn't see this one coming: a new attack vector on cars

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

329

2

Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

27

3

"Functional Thinking" by Neal Ford

7

4

Mozilla Prepares a Separate Firefox Release for the Enterprise

6

5

SpringSource Releases Spring Data Redis 1.0.0

6

6

Schneier on Security: "Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance"

4

7

NoSQL Applications

3

8

GNU's quest for the perfect kernel

2

9

How Google ported Angry Birds to Chrome/HTML5

2

10

Bill Gates's Trustworthy Computing Memo: Ten Years Later

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship

109

2

EFF asks: Who's flying unmanned aircraft in the US?

71

3

Apple becomes No. 3 PC maker in US with industry-leading 21% growth

66

4

EFF: Biometrics in Argentina, Mass Surveillance as a State Policy

59

5

EFF Demands Withdrawal of Bogus Time Zone Database Lawsuit

6

6

Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here

6

7

Apple announces education event in New York City next Thursday, Jan. 19

3

8

Microsoft exec admits Windows Phone was response to Apple's iPhone

3

9

Lawsuit Against TimeZone Database Deserves Sanctions

2

10

ARM CEO not impressed by Intel's 'Medfield' chips for smartphones, tablets

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Public datasets on AWS

98

2

New Amazon design

8

3

Free HTML5 Kindle Book

7

4

2012 CES Keynote Live

6

5

Apple - Supplier Responsibility

5

6

Free CSS3 Kindle Book

4

7

Amazon S3 announces Object Expiration

1

8

Official Kinect SDK to be released 01 February

1

9

Amazon releasing HTML5&CSS3 format KF8

1

10

Send to Kindle for PC

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents

293

2

Feynman on explanations

201

3

US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison

154

4

RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses

110

5

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940) [video]

35

6

EMI Sues Irish State For Not Implementing Piracy Blocking Provisions

29

7

Multiple Monitors UX Specification

25

8

Dutch ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay

11

9

File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden

9

10

RIAA Orders WhoisGuard to Identify Torrent Site Owner

5

Science News [?]

1

Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India

85

2

Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper

71

3

Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics

66

4

Research ethics: Zero tolerance

25

5

Molecular Pathways in the Brain May Reveal the Best Learning Strategies

23

6

The dust library

17

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Astronomers find three smallest planets outside solar system

2

8

PAIN Relief: India on Track to Be Declared Polio-Free Next Month

2

9

How does our brain know what is a face and what's not?

2

10

Molecule in Earth's atmosphere could 'cool the planet'

2

Social [?]

1

Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA

212

2

List of 61 senators refusing to meet and discuss PIPA/SOPA

211

3

Living in China, let me tell you what life is like with restricted internet

122

4

We're scheduling an anti-SOPA blackout for 1/18/12. Let Google & FB know.

95

5

Guido van Rossum: This is my last tweet.

20

6

Reddit user bgog explains why the US Internet traffic is so slow right now

19

7

Notch to take down Minecraft and Mojang in SOPA protest

9

8

Apple has an agreement with the government of India to provide device backdoors

8

9

Vi Hart: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Plants (Part 2)

7

10

Police arrests protesters over protesting the NDAA

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

298

2

Search: .lenght - Github

259

3

Vim-powerline: The ultimate vim statusline utility

199

4

Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites

161

5

MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications

142

6

I open-sourced my EV Li-on Battery Management System

88

7

Marked.js is a markdown parser built for speed

62

8

SimpleGeo customers: Move your data to Geoloqi with one command

53

9

A replica of Paths scroll widget

49

10

Flask-Skeleton - a boilerplate for flask

39

Wikipedia [?]

1

Inner-platform effect

78

2

Wikipedia's request for comment on a SOPA blackout

3

3

3

4

Cool data structures: Splay Trees

2

5

Fairness Doctrine

2

6

Friday the 13th

2

7

Glossary of graph theory

1

8

Scientifically measuring hotness of pepper

1

9

List of Unix programs

1

10

Suspended animation: slowing of life by external means without termination

1

Blogs [?]

1

Schlep Blindness

592

2

Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

291

3

An Alternative Theory of Unions (2007)

4

4

Undergraduation (2005)

1

5

A Student's Guide to Startups

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

131

2

Hidden Features of Java

125

3

Hidden features of C#

124

4

Hidden Features of Ruby

3

5

Hidden features of Python

3

6

Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

3

7

Easy points: explaining errors in re-using random numbers

1

8

Java += operator

1

9

while (1); or for (;;);? (tldr; one results in less compiler warnings)

1

10

Fingerprinting Browsers To Protect Against Fraudulant Free Trial Registrations

1

Substack [?]