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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Sublime Text 2.0 Released

794

2

The Recruiter Honeypot

655

3

A day in the life of a startup founder

623

4

Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business

552

5

To Elon Musk and the Model S: Congratulations

533

6

Google launches Compute Engine

440

7

Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

440

8

JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.

420

9

Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants invalid, mansion raid illegal

407

10

We know what you're doing

401

Top Ask HN

1

What is the best way to promote your startup?

144

2

Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS

127

3

How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?

102

4

Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?

69

5

How can I learn "advanced" data modelling for Rails?

23

6

Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

22

7

Please review my StartUp

20

8

I work in a data centre and we have to make it greener. Ideas?

19

9

What music instrument do you play?

15

10

Help me get started with python for web

10

Top Show HN

1

Avatars.io - simple API for integrating avatars into your app or site

175

2

Jarvis, a Light Table like companion for Python

160

3

Dashku - a real-time dashboard app, built with SocketStream

105

4

Royalty-Free Video Game Music Library

89

5

Prolifi.cc, a weekend project

82

6

Facebook Open Graph Redirect Chrome Extension

81

7

Weekend project, Political Screaming Match

68

8

AcademyReady helps you finish online courses, punishes you if you don't

55

9

48

10

Bootstrap styled tooltips for d3

36

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

440

2

Mega-victory: Kim Dotcom search warrants invalid, mansion raid illegal

407

3

Sergey Brin Demos Google Glass At I/O

307

4

Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself

274

5

Google Chrome now works on iOS

191

6

Nexus 7 review: The best $200 tablet you can buy

159

7

Minitel, France's precursor to the Web, to go dark 30/6/12

136

8

Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more

127

9

Hands-on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser

116

10

Scientists crack RSA SecurID 800 tokens, steal cryptographic keys

114

News [?]

1

Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too.

164

2

Who's the Boss? There Isn't One

139

3

Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?

113

4

Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare

111

5

How Do Plants Know Which Way Is Up And Which Way Is Down?

77

6

Apple acquires "identity pollution" patent aimed at fighting Big Brother

70

7

Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web

68

8

Why supermarket tomatoes tend to taste bland

62

9

Why Hipmunk Is The World's Best Travel Site

60

10

Alan Kay on 'Learning to See'

54

Scientific publications [?]

1

Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time

187

2

Strong profiling is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare malfeasors

77

3

Watch this mindblowing quadrotor performance

2

4

UT Students Hack Commercial UAV

2

5

Will Unicode Soon Be the Universal Code?

2

6

Maya archaeologists unearth new Dec 21st 2012 monument

2

7

Evidence Of Water On Mars?

1

8

Watch This Mind-Blowing Quadrotor Performance

1

9

Making it easier to build secure Web applications

1

10

Nanoscale "factories" injected into mice; synthesize drugs on demand

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google launches Compute Engine

440

2

Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy

172

3

Mobile Firefox: Measuring how a browser feels

79

4

Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

77

5

Speedy Upgrade to Firefox for Android

69

6

Nvidia Loses Huge GPU Order Due To Linux Blob

58

7

Google launches BigQuery - Analyze big data on the cloud

58

8

Whats new in Groovy 2.0?

42

9

How CloudFlare is making SSL fast

35

10

Eclipse Juno Brings Eclipse 4 as Standard

30

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review

149

2

Ad Biz Claims It Must Disregard User Privacy to Safeguard "Cybersecurity"

20

3

Apple retail employees respond to NYTs profile

9

4

New iPhone prototypes have NFC chips and antenna

4

5

Archiveteam Saves 272 Terabytes of MobileMe Websites From Deletion

3

6

Brightcove helps iOS developers build dual-screen apps for Apple TV

2

7

More Evidence of a Broken Patent System

2

8

Apple could see U.S. import ban following ITC review of Motorola patent win

2

9

Facebook Abandoning HTML5 to Speed Up iOS App

2

10

Encrypted drive attack hints at original Xbox hacking

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft.com New Design Preview

172

2

Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer

143

3

Bob Mansfield, Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering, to Retire

73

4

So you'd like to... become a mathematical finance quant starting from scratch

3

5

Apple Launches iTunes Store in 12 Countries in Asia

2

6

Microsoft's "Data Hub"

2

7

Apple Launches iTunes Store in 12 Countries in Asia Today

1

8

The Flinch [Free Kindle eBook]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously + w/o a Torrent client

150

2

MPAA Using Megaupload Case as Backdoor SOPA, Court Hears

68

3

Dropbox blocks API access for Boxopus over piracy concerns

48

4

Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court

48

5

Pirate Bay Founder Fined For Continued Involvement In The Site

39

6

Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns

10

7

Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns

7

8

MegaUpload Racketeering exposed

5

9

How Long Does Your ISP Store IP-Address Logs?

3

10

Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime

2

Science News [?]

1

The TSA's Dumb Air-Security Rules Are Not Based on Science

74

2

Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water

13

3

Milky Way Struck 100 Million Years Ago, Still Rings Like a Bell

6

4

Ancient text gives clue to mystery 8th century radiation spike

5

5

Rabbits kept alive without breathing by oxygen injections

3

6

Gridlock escape system pioneered by Ford

3

7

Colorado Fire Follows in Pine Beetles' Tracks

2

8

Is everyone a litte bit racist? Neuroscience says... maybe

2

9

Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded After All

2

10

Bot with boyish personality wins biggest Turing test

2

Social [?]

1

Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business

552

2

YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

314

3

How SR-71 Blackbird Designers Overcame Canonical Jet Engine Limitations

148

4

What was your "ah ha" moment with Haskell?

108

5

17-year old makes $20k/mo via Internet marketing, $370k so far

21

6

First PyCon in the Philippines

8

7

Video: Steve Jobs building NeXT

8

8

Tint red images that haven't been 2x'd for retina

8

9

Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

8

10

Macbook Pro Retina Display Temporary Image Persistence Issue (Burn-In)

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

FuckItJS: Runs your javascript code whether your compiler likes it or not.

310

2

Pen Type-A: a cautionary tale of manufacturing in China

56

3

Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion

36

4

Hackerrank.com sends passwords in the clear

29

5

Eclipse Git Plugin 2.0 Released

14

6

Repo.js: jQuery plugin to embed Github repos

13

7

A 25 line Python keylogger for OS X

9

8

LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler

6

9

Monadic vs Imperative code in ruby

4

10

Your Phone is Now a Mouse

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

United States Pirate Party

98

2

List of paradoxes

6

3

This is the largest organism in the world (6M kg)

4

4

Loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy

2

5

Unlike chess, professional Go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers

2

6

Fairy circle (Africa)

2

7

Barnsley's Fern

1

8

John von Neumann: First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC

1

9

1

10

Operating Systems used on Top 500 Supercomputers

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What factors led to the development of C# in spite of Java

42

2

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

28

3

There's a reason they're called "encodings"

25

4

Branch Prediction Fail

3

5

Why Does Python Code Run Faster in a Function?

3

6

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

2

7

Git rebase workflow is not better for conflict resolution

2

8

Liferay Web proxy portlet

1

9

Issues with rendering flash in a QWebView

1

10

Python for a Perl programmer

1

Substack [?]