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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case

698

2

663

3

Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

577

4

GitHub for Windows

539

5

Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays

470

6

Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices

453

7

Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL

422

8

376

9

SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)

366

10

After Facebook fails

360

Top Ask HN

1

How do you stay productive after work?

146

2

What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?

138

3

Who is using Go language?

93

4

Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?

47

5

Why does page 2 of HN have discussions from 2 years ago?

35

6

Can you fix the page expired nuisance

30

7

I have a day job, one kid and one on the way, how can I get things done?

22

8

Clojure code worth reading?

18

9

So I do want to be a programmer, where do I start?

16

10

ASK HN: Would you sign up for this service?

14

Top Show HN

1

Habit List - my first iOS app

279

2

I made $8000 in one day on the Mac App Store

187

3

My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration

180

4

Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee

169

5

clipboard.com, the best way to save anything online

100

6

Snaketron, online multiplayer Snake

96

7

Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

96

8

Stallion - Python Package Manager

91

9

shortcutFoo is an effective way to learn shortcuts (Vim, TextMate, etc)

84

10

A weekendproject, disposable web chats

72

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Chrome Leapfrogs Internet Explorer as the Web's Top Browser

148

2

Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.

127

3

No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8

125

4

Microsoft Pulling Free Development Tools for Windows 8 Desktop Apps

84

5

Google removed 1m DMCA links last month, 540,000 at the behest of Microsoft

81

6

The Facebook Fallacy - Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse

74

7

Firebase (YC S11) Raises $1.1M For Real-Time App Infrastructure

74

8

The Story Behind Payment Disruptor Stripe.com And Its Founder Patrick Collison

74

9

The Next Y Combinator Class Will Be 80 Strong

72

10

Larry Page: Were still waiting for Facebook to unlock user data

71

News [?]

1

Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

577

2

The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)

217

3

Facebook Bankers Secretly Cut FB Revenue Estimates In Middle Of IPO Roadshow

211

4

Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

208

5

Reddit founder aims to build bat signal for the Internet

206

6

MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector

162

7

Fatal Collision Makes Car-Sharing Worries No Longer Theoretical

136

8

Supreme Court Lets Stand Student's $675,000 Penalty For Downloading

123

9

Hedge Funder Who Bet $100 Million On Facebook IPO Is Furious

123

10

Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor

117

Scientific publications [?]

1

SpaceX Launches Capsule on Historic Space Station Trip

157

2

Iterated prisoner's dilemma contains evolutionary opponent dominating strategies

91

3

SpaceX/ISS fly-under, coverage starts at 11:30 pm PDT

55

4

Sound increases the efficiency of boiling

7

5

Lingodroid Robots Invent New Words for Time

6

6

Enter the Dragon: Astronauts Open 1st Private Capsule at Space Station

5

7

Four Degrees of Separation, Really

5

8

Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect

5

9

Reaction consumes carbon dioxide to make semiconductor... and release energy

4

10

Dragon: ~45 min to docking with ISS

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Serious high-performance and lock-free algorithms (by LMAX devs)

99

2

Libc++ Has Landed

46

3

Introducing a Minimalist Html5 Game Template

38

4

Introducing Mozilla Webmaker: helping the world make the web

37

5

Introducing "Mozilla Webmaker:" helping the world make the web

37

6

CloudFlare helps MoogMusic.com survive the Google.com doodle search traffic

28

7

Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture

20

8

Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and Gevent (Presentation)

11

9

Introducing a Minimalist HTML5 Game Template

7

10

Why is a Monad Like a Writing Desk?

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car

295

2

The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

12

3

TV Networks Say You're Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials

5

4

Google Releases New Copyright Transparency Report

4

5

Apple Stores reportedly to begin selling Tony Fadells Nest Learning Thermostat

4

6

Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung Meeting Today to Discuss Patent Issues

2

7

Supreme Court to Federal Circuit: Fix Ultramerical Decision

2

8

OS X Mountain Lion Brings iOS-like Automatic Downloads for Apps

1

9

Asus Zenbook Prime Review

1

10

EFF's New DEF CON 20 T-Shirt

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Remind HN: iPhone Mockup Rules of Design

2

2

Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming

2

3

Kinect for Windows, v1.5

1

4

The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It

1

5

PandoDaily sells expert eBook about Facebook IPO

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

BitTorrent Traffic Booms Due to "Licensing Challenges"

8

2

Whos Pirating Game of Thrones, And Why?

7

3

Megauploads Kim Dotcom Refuses to Give Up Passwords

6

4

Are functional languages the future of programming?

4

5

MPAA: Piracy is Not Theft After All

3

6

Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades

3

7

Undercover MPAA Agents Expose Alleged Movie Pirates

2

8

The New Science of Building Great Teams

2

9

Human evil and muddled thinking

1

10

MPAA: Piracy is Not Theft After All

1

Science News [?]

1

Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight

115

2

Why 'eureka' moments happen when you arent trying

16

3

Study shows two positively charged metal spheres can attract each other

8

4

Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA.

5

5

How the Chicken Conquered the World

4

6

The Brain May Disassemble Itself in Sleep

2

7

Aging eyes confuse airport iris scanning software

2

8

Australia and South Africa to split the world's largest radio telescope

2

9

Cancer Killing Drug (without the side effects)

2

10

Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death, study suggests

2

Social [?]

1

Mark Zuckerberg married

284

2

Most popular browser missing (Chrome)...

268

3

Guy steals iPhone, forgets to turn of Photo Stream. Owner posts to Facebook

35

4

Facebook Camera

10

5

Yahoo! includes signing key inside Axis (anyone can publish as Yahoo!)

9

6

"We removed FB buttons and traffic from Facebook increased."

7

7

Epic Game of Life Video

7

8

Mark Zuckerberg Married Priscilla Chan

7

9

Conway's life simulated within Conway's life (video has loudish sound)

6

10

Post on reddit about a new business model for the music industry

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub for Windows

539

2

Github: United States Code

219

3

Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account

205

4

Dokuen - A Personal Heroku

112

5

Github: CoffeeScript cracks the top 10 languages

108

6

List of Languages that Compile to JS

94

7

Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)

93

8

81

9

Yahoo included their private certificate in Axis

78

10

39

Wikipedia [?]

1

Satellite killed by trajectory patent

191

2

"Do Not Track" HTTP header supported by IE, Opera, FF, Safari but not Chrome

142

3

Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World

65

4

The Hacker Emblem was first proposed in October 2003 by Eric S. Raymond

7

5

Want to see a 100,000$ bill?

3

6

Word Wrap Algorithms

2

7

Threshold pledge system

2

8

Anscombe's Quartet

2

9

List of people who have declined a British honour

2

10

When you attach the space shuttle to the shuttle carrier ...

2

Blogs [?]

1

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How can you program if you're blind?

115

2

How do I get started with Node.js

83

3

Find running median from a stream of integers

42

4

What is the best way to solve an Objective-C namespace collision?

28

5

Merge multiple lines in Vim

28

6

How do I check if a string is a number in Python? - Stack Overflow

4

7

Hidden features of Python

2

8

Merge multiple lines in Vim

2

9

The Outer Loop Variable Trap

2

10

Hidden features of Python

1

Substack [?]