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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hunting Down My Son's Killer

1120

2

20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time

989

3

A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network

764

4

Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright

713

5

US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

642

6

Why three prongs?

578

7

Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip

528

8

The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images

465

9

Things I Should Have Known at 20

412

10

Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown

396

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

292

2

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2012)

88

3

What are you Building?

61

4

Has anyone put thought into the degradation of online communities?

33

5

What happened to the WhosHere vs Who's Near Me thread?

31

6

(Python) Web framework of the future?

28

7

Event loop vs. Threads

26

8

Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?

22

9

Is there anybody collecting pain?

19

10

How to handle pathological customers?

18

Top Show HN

1

movies.io torrent search like it should be

534

2

I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

239

3

Client side, shareable, text2speech messages

139

4

doodlec.am inserts monsters into your photos

131

5

Underscore.js for Objective-C

114

6

My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad

102

7

96

8

discuss.io - Get feedback on your designs with visual annotations

89

9

shelf-reading & inventory management with augmented reality

87

10

I converted my Backbone/Rails app Cloudedit to Parse in 5 minutes

79

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it

642

2

This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation

219

3

Mary Meekers eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web

136

4

Soviet Moon Lander Discovered Water on The Moon in 1976

124

5

25 years of HyperCardthe missing link to the Web

104

6

Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated

85

7

The Once and Future Visual Programming Environment

75

8

GoCardless (YC S11) Launches PayLinks, A Bitly For Payments

74

9

How Serial Innovators Find The Best Problems To Solve

67

10

3-D Printing's Legal Morass

63

News [?]

1

Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown

396

2

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

284

3

Gunshot detection system transforms and raises issues

198

4

What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S.

164

5

Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say

155

6

Apple Turns Over Its Inventory Once Every 5 Days

151

7

Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped

144

8

Assange loses extradition appeal

119

9

Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby

111

10

Peter Thiel's Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism

103

Scientific publications [?]

1

SLAC results disagree with the Standard Model

42

2

Bitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists Answer to Cash

32

3

IEEE Spectrum special report on the Future of Money

21

4

Irish mathematicians explain why Guinness bubbles sink

3

5

Google research (with Jeff Dean): Face recognition with unsupervised learning

3

6

Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling

2

7

Google+ or Google-?: Active users represent 10.3% of the whole population

2

8

Theres No Stopping the Rise of E-Money

2

9

Scientists have developed stainless steel that disinfects itself.

1

10

When galaxies collide - Hubble shows Milky Way will drop into Andromeda (video)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more

210

2

Stripe open-sources Einhorn

163

3

Cloudflare Attack Post Mortem; Apparent Google Apps/Gmail Vulnerability

116

4

Preparing for nonvolatile RAM

76

5

The zero-day exploit market is bad for security

71

6

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed

48

7

Introduction to CUDA C

48

8

Peter van Roy: Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency

8

9

Why Prismatic goes faster with Clojure

7

10

One Year At Mozilla : Working on the Security Engineering Team

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms

154

2

Megaupload User Asks Court for Files Back. Again.

87

3

RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns

41

4

OpenCV knows where youre looking with eye tracking

38

5

No Copyrights on APIs: Judge Defends Interoperability and Innovation

7

6

The Bulldozer Aftermath (What was wrong with AMD architecture)

6

7

Who has your back?

5

8

Google to steal apple's thunder with their own map event on June 6th

4

9

Frequently Asked Questions About the Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Act

2

10

'AllThingsD' posts Steve Jobs' appearances as video, audio podcasts

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360

12

2

Amazon ElastiCache - 60 Day Free Trial

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt.

189

2

Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

180

3

Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client

33

4

Anti-Piracy Boss: TV Fans Are Unreasonable For Wanting Content Quicker

26

5

Megaupload Wins Crucial Evidence Disclosure Battle With US Govt.

19

6

Researchers to release a truly anonymous BitTorrent Client

11

7

Busted: Microsoft Harbors BitTorrent Pirates

9

8

Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole

6

9

Cultural Fit Survey

4

10

Should Websites Charge A Fee To Process Copyright Takedowns?

4

Science News [?]

1

Ketamine Improved Bipolar Depression Within Minutes, Study Suggests

73

2

Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers'

7

3

Anarchists attack science

3

4

Cellular computers? Scientists train cells to perform boolean functions

3

5

Quantum computers will be able to simulate particle collisions

3

6

Possible in the Interstices: Life on Europa

2

7

Sir Isaac Newton saved the UK economy 10 million

2

8

Let's mine asteroids for science and profit

2

9

Cellular Computers? Scientists Train Cells to Perform Boolean Functions

2

10

Handful of genetic changes led to huge changes to human brain

2

Social [?]

1

Folly - The Faceboook open source library

195

2

Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast"

95

3

Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with

19

4

Douglas Crockford: Yahoo should fork NodeJS, no faith in Joyent.

11

5

Facebook removed Chrome from the list of suported browsers.

9

6

Facebook (the website) is down

8

7

Starforge: New free game with infinite 3d landscapes and atmospheres

6

8

Introducing Firefox 3D View for Developers

5

9

Making Microchips at home

5

10

Anonymous Brings Down Facebook?

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Latency numbers every programmer should know

263

2

CoffeeScript2 - A Redesign of the CoffeeScript Compiler

74

3

Workflow.py: A Minimalist Workflow Engine

69

4

Batsd: 37 Signals' Ruby Statsd implementation persisting to Redis

68

5

Pure Go implementation of D. J. Bernstein's cdb constant database library

63

6

Build your first iOS Game: Simple space invaders on github

57

7

Understanding Viewport

42

8

What Was Lacking to Vimium: the 'm' command

20

9

CoffeeScript CSS

20

10

CSS Positioning 101

20

Wikipedia [?]

1

Curse of dimensionality

88

2

Malbolge (programming language)

40

3

Facebook: 29 Acquisitions and Counting - Who is next?

9

4

16-year-old who solved Dirichlet Problem still active in mathematics at age 23

5

5

List of common misconceptions

5

6

3

7

Emotion Markup Language

2

8

Valgrind - a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

2

9

1

10

Conway's Game of Life

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Setting Google Analytics to not use cookies

57

2

Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

43

3

Table name debate: singular vs plural

4

4

Why does the general program usually start at 0x8000?

4

5

What Javascript is not safe in a open-ended script?

3

6

Definitive Guide to Forms based website Authentication

3

7

Julia's Python performance example in PyPy (missing numpy.linalg)

2

8

Why would code actively try to prevent tail-call optimization?

2

9

Showing the stack trace from a running Python application

2

10

Why isn't there a good Scheme/Lisp on LLVM?

2

Substack [?]