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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1203

2

Please don't learn to code

734

3

Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer

651

4

Please Learn to Code

644

5

Welcome To Life

540

6

Please learn to write

505

7

Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle

487

8

TED and inequality: The real story

467

9

It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

451

10

447

Top Ask HN

1

Favorite HN threads of all time

233

2

losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1

134

3

(Self hosted) App Hosting platform for developers?

41

4

How do you deal with missing out on the Facebook money train?

37

5

Countries with sane governments that won't mess with my Internet use?

36

6

Bootstrap for HTML emails?

19

7

What to do about non-performing "founder"

13

8

Great book that you read recently?

12

9

Somebody is trying to profit off of something that I released for free

12

10

Have I burnt out and what should I do?

12

Top Show HN

1

My first web app, DailyDo.it

137

2

PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project

97

3

Organized Wonder

89

4

HTML5 Piano - with its own data URI synth

60

5

53

6

I have no friends so I created Strangers for Dinner to make friends

43

7

Awesome rent search website in the UK

40

8

Add gestures to a web app in 2 minutes

39

9

Lunchspire, lunch dating for hackers, made in 6h

38

10

DoodleOrDie - "a game of telephone with doodles" in Node.JS

25

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

157

2

The story of the secret room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs

145

3

Accuracy takes power: one mans 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

139

4

How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button

114

5

Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue

101

6

London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor

95

7

Say hello to the real real-time Web

90

8

Kicksend (YC S11) goes free. Send unlimited files to anyone.

87

9

Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement

79

10

Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet

74

News [?]

1

Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

322

2

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

300

3

The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

289

4

50 Years Ago: The World in 1962

207

5

German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011

200

6

'The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We're Dancing on its Grave'

192

7

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says

153

8

Meet the worst 8th grade math teacher in NYC

152

9

How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit

131

10

Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How'd They Do?

108

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow

378

2

Korean and Russian scientists plan to clone woolly mammoth

66

3

Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk

23

4

Quantum computer leap

22

5

Computing experts unveil superefficient 'inexact' chip

7

6

Every black hole contains a new universe

4

7

'Janus' nanoparticles have high catalytic activity/extraordinary durability

2

8

Former astronaut criticizes NASA's current course

2

9

Juggling Robot Takes on Two Balls With One Very Fast Hand

2

10

Laser-Equipped MAV Demonstrates Aggressive Autonomous Flight

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

FreeBSD 10 to use Clang, GCC will be deprecated

163

2

New Firefox Beta for Android with Flash support

37

3

In Depth Talk on Performance and Serialization (Protobuf, json, Thrift, etc.)

30

4

Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn

25

5

Mandriva Linux Turned Over To The Community

22

6

Schneier On Security: The Trouble With Airport Profiling

21

7

Update on Firefox 13s Home and New Tab Redesign

8

8

The new Reset Firefox feature is like magic

7

9

Pallet, DevOps for the JVM at Clojure/West 2012

4

10

Twitter Blog: New tailored suggestions for you to follow on Twitter

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple readies the new MacBook pro with retina display and USB 3.0

3

2

Nvidia Announces Eclipse-based IDE for Linux, Mac OS X

3

3

NY Twitter Decision Fails to Require a Warrant

2

4

With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track

2

5

Forensics Software Offers Near Real-Time Access to iCloud Backups

2

6

Photos of Ashton Kutcher in character as Steve Jobs surface

1

7

Apple to Release Thinner MacBook Pro at WWDC

1

8

Yes Men protest government control of the Internet

1

9

Sorkin Confirmed as Screenwriter for Film Adaptation of Steve Jobs' Biography

1

10

Facebook rolling out new Pages Manager app for iPhone

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple's Datacenters to Run on 100% Renewable Energy

2

2

$20 Out-of-Stock Items Are Being Sold For $900 on Amazon.com

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google's Code Editor

297

2

Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic

87

3

BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds

69

4

.Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic

58

5

BitTorrent Is The New Radio, Says Counting Crows Frontman

50

6

Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic

21

7

Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy

17

8

Anti-Piracy Outfits Launch Attack on BitTorrent Protocol

12

9

A Decade of File-Sharing Innovations

7

10

.Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic

5

Science News [?]

1

Quantum physicists show small bit of randomness can be amplified without limit

22

2

Rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to diseases

12

3

First gene therapy successful against aging

6

4

Genes Responsible for Character Traits?

5

5

First Mind Controlled Robot Arms Documented in Humans

4

6

Google goes cancer: search algorithm to find cancer biomarkers

4

7

Internet Usage Patterns May Signify Depression

3

8

Scientists in the US have developed a way to generate electricity using viruses

3

9

Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns?

2

10

New Twist On Ancient Math Problem Could Improve Medicine, Microelectronics

2

Social [?]

1

Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

155

2

Stephen Wolfram IAmA On Reddit (3pm EST)

48

3

SOPA is coming back.

24

4

Louis C.K. reddit AMA

16

5

Dwolla just kicked out their biggest customer via TOS: Bitcoin

11

6

The TED Talk that was "censored"

8

7

What is your never again brand item store [HP]

7

8

How Pixar Almost Deleted Toy Story 2

6

9

Rails : the next five years, by Yehuda Katz

5

10

John Cleese on Creativity

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code

203

2

Twitter Open Sourced Reputation System Gem for ActiveRecord

99

3

Code For America opens its Git Basics skillshare

60

4

Locality-sensitive hashes are designed to cause collisions and are useful

36

5

JQuery Super Labels Plugin

29

6

Why Haskell is Cool

14

7

Wordpress Svbtle Theme

13

8

Things I'd Like to Open Source Soon (iOS)

10

9

Lolcommits: A snapshot of your face every time you commit

9

10

Multiplayer JS Coding Game, Now Open Source

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of emerging technologies

76

2

IBM Simon, World's First Smartphone From 1993

8

3

The word "bit" is a portmanteau word for Binary digIT

3

4

Pomodoro Technique

3

5

2

6

Project A119: US planned to nuke the moon to boost morale (1950)

2

7

Protected article titles on Wikipedia

1

8

Programming complexity

1

9

Multi-stage_continuous_integration (software engineering)

1

10

Negative probability

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Age of the Essay (2004)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Internals of Redis -- From the author, antirez, in detail on Stack Overflow

8

2

How random is JavaScript's Math.random?

7

3

Compile PyPy to Exe

6

4

Textually diffing JSON

6

5

Cosmic Rays: what is the probability they will affect a program?

4

6

Once upon a time, when > was faster than < ... Wait, what?

3

7

Excellent writeup about Node.js (up to date)

3

8

Google can only index 200 documents per API call?

3

9

Calling socket bind results in Windows bluescreen

2

10

How are input keys exploitable by malicious users?

2

Substack [?]