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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

802

2

Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies

636

3

Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system dysfunctional

594

4

Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World

559

5

6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

551

6

Michael Lewis: Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie

543

7

Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests

516

8

Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen

505

9

Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games

481

10

The $4 Million Complaint Call

466

Top Ask HN

1

who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

217

2

What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?

43

3

Movies for Hackers?

39

4

Google Chromebook - anybody using it for web development?

30

5

Why don't freelance hackers and development companies create startups?

30

6

Ask HN - How do Quora, Reddit and SO monetize?

24

7

possible to get paid $300/hour as a programmer?

24

8

I'm 15 and am looking for a long-term gig

17

9

How to reward beta testers?

15

10

What did you build or launch in May?

15

Top Show HN

1

Script Excel with Python

275

2

Proxino -- Monitor and Debug your JavaScript

99

3

Joosy, the rails-tied browser app framework

88

4

Recruit web developers by having them build a web app

67

5

A CLI for HNSearch

53

6

Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hacker News

51

7

My weekend project - NewsMap

44

8

Joconut - Smart PJAX jQuery plugin in 1kb

33

9

Codacy, delegate your programming tasks.

25

10

Hacker News 2 - A HN clone built on Node.js, Backbone, and MongoDB

22

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists

282

2

On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of Microsoft Israel?

243

3

John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset

238

4

Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting

222

5

Camera+ turned down acquisition offers and says no to VC money

188

6

Change your Last.fm password

146

7

How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord

137

8

Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery

87

9

LinkedIns iOS app transmits names, emails, and calendar notes, in plain text

81

10

Instapaper Finally Makes Its Android Debut, And Its Almost Amazing

80

News [?]

1

Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests

516

2

The DOD had two "better-than-Hubble" space telescopes just sitting around.

314

3

Salt, We Misjudged You

308

4

Judge Alsup knows how to play a bluff

209

5

Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code

200

6

Visas for entrepreneurs

168

7

Taxi Medallions: New York's taxi system makes fares higher and drivers poorer

141

8

Indus Valley Civilizations Collapse Explained

140

9

How tiny insects survive the rain

120

10

Understanding Bitcoin

116

Scientific publications [?]

1

Math professor's side mirror that eliminates 'blind spot' receives US patent

134

2

Transit of Venus

60

3

Soar author speaks on cognitive architecture, human memory, Frogger, and more

4

4

The Beginning of The End of Cash

4

5

How paper folds

3

6

How a Bitcoin transaction works [Infographics]

3

7

Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision

2

8

Wires turn salt water into freshwater

2

9

Get Off the Couch and Exercise With Joggobot

2

10

NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms Of Ocean Plant Life

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year

219

2

The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack

185

3

Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements

134

4

A Cheap 12-Core, 30-Watt Ubuntu Cluster

88

5

Why APL Is Still Cool

49

6

Taking Flight With The New Twitter Logo

15

7

Rich Hickey on the Design of Datomic

10

8

Lets talk about password storage

9

9

Data Modeling: Sample E-Commerce System with MongoDB

8

10

The Catastrophic Consequences of 9/11

7

Tech blogs [?]

1

Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS

143

2

23

3

7

4

So-called ITU 'Internet takeover' attempt leaked to IGP in a "mysterious email"

3

5

IBM Says Practical Quantum Computers are Close

2

6

Apple to update most of its Mac lineup at WWDC

2

7

Riot reported at Apple partner Foxconn's Chengdu factory

2

8

Apple gets sweeping patent for macbook air design

2

9

Home made low cost CO2 Laser

2

10

The Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105) Threatens Online Rights

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf

3

2

New Book: Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever:The Inside Story

2

3

Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot

1

4

Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

1

5

Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download

1

6

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

1

7

Windows Command Reference

1

8

AWS Spot Instance Integration with Auto Scaling and Cloud Formation

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

FBI Did Not Steal Megaupload Evidence Because Its Digital?

9

2

Student fined for running subtitle download site

6

3

Free Anonymous Usenet Downloading With Just a Web Browser

3

4

JSFixed Recommendations for TC39

3

5

How Scary is the US 'Six Strikes' Anti-Piracy Scheme?

3

6

Hollywood Has Ruined Relationship With ISP It Sued Over Piracy

2

7

Game of Thrones Crowned Most Pirated TV-Show of the Season

2

8

Big Four Music Labels Hire Students To Chase File-Sharers

2

9

Movies.io Reinvents Movie Torrents, With Style

2

10

Worlds Oldest BitTorrent Site Shuts Down

2

Science News [?]

1

Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?

13

2

Microwaves transmit stock trades faster than fibre optics

11

3

Dark chocolate could prevent heart problems in high-risk people

9

4

The AI game that knows you better than anyone

5

5

South Korea surrenders to creationist demands

5

6

Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings

3

7

After experiment seven

2

8

Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds

2

9

Spin structure reveals key to new forms of digital storage, study shows

2

10

Coffee may help prevent Alzheimer's

2

Social [?]

1

Possible Radiation Leak?

24

2

Azure Marketing: "The words micro and soft don't apply to my pnis (or vagina)"

12

3

Microsoft makes pen*s joke at Azure party...

11

4

Twitter has a new logo

9

5

John Carmack talks about his work around head mounted displays

6

6

Unreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development Walkthrough

6

7

Redditor Does 'I have Cancer' AMA & Gets Over $9k in donations

5

8

Dangerous DIY Inductive Maglev

5

9

NDC 2012 - Azure Dancing Girls. Skip to 1:30 for the lyrics.

5

10

New Twitter logo upside down = Batman

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)

365

2

Designing GitHub for Windows

199

3

Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

157

4

Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)

65

5

Smoke: Simple, asynchronous scala HTTP powered by Akka

41

6

37

7

HTML5 Gamepad API

33

8

Rails 4.0 around the corner

22

9

GitHub introduces Help Next

15

10

37signals Pow no longer automatically supports RVM

14

Wikipedia [?]

1

Eduard Khil (trololo guy) died.

4

2

Titan beetle - a really big bug

3

3

Eternal September

3

4

Education in South Korea

2

5

Space shuttle's programming language could use 3 lines for a single statement

2

6

Lean? take a look at the history of Lego

1

7

Manned Mission to Mars

1

8

The little-known history of the San Francisco burrito

1

9

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

(x / 2) or (x >> 1)?

65

2

StackOverflow down?

10

3

Find an integer not among four billion given ones

8

4

Ruby: The Splat Operator

5

5

Metaclass in python

3

6

Richfaces portlet | FacesContext not found

2

7

Separate REST JSON API server and client?

2

8

What is node.js? [2009]

2

9

Dynamically typing a parameter in C#

2

10

Redis - Hits count tracking and querying in given datetime range

1

Substack [?]