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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
The Next Microsoft
1157
2
Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon
633
3
A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)
532
4
Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
502
5
ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
483
6
MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
479
7
#BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban
413
8
Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
395
9
PHP: The Right Way
384
10
What Twitter could have been
368
Top Ask HN
1
Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)
179
2
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2012)
100
3
ASK HN: What is HN's current overall job satisfaction?
29
4
Where is that blog post that describes each AWS tier?
23
5
I could really use some help and/or advice
22
6
What are your intra-price plan conversion rates?
18
7
How do I improve my programming/engineering skills
16
8
Share Your Pain
14
9
I'm a PHP developer, should I learn Rails or Django?
13
10
API-only startups?
13
Top Show HN
1
fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web
479
2
Iorad - the tutorial builder
267
3
51,000 6 character domains
126
4
I am bored of pixel art so I'm making my video game with wool.
122
5
QuicklyChat - A video walkie-talkie for the workplace
108
6
Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News
93
7
Flutter HP Redesign + Play/Pause Spotify, WMP via Gesture on Windows7
71
8
Play scrabble, chess, checkers, etc with your friends by copying a url
64
9
VA kids love drinking, hate paying. Step 1. Thoughts?
59
10
Hulu With Me (Firefox/Chrome add-on + Node)
59
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by selling tickets himself
324
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So, Thats It For Thunderbird
188
3
The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity
157
4
The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isnt a Crook Hes an Artist
148
5
Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki
145
6
PageRank Algorithm Reveals Soccer Teams' Strategies
128
7
Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini...
121
8
Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life
117
9
LeanMarket (YC S12) brings real-time bidding display ads to the masses
85
10
Single Dad Building Sequel To Jetpack Video Game He Built As A Teenager
80
News [?]
1
The rotten heart of finance
258
2
"Flip", the vertical ship, marks 50 years at sea
249
3
Stephen Hawking lost $100 bet over Higgs boson discovery
174
4
Why Russia Locks Up So Many Entrepreneurs
172
5
HTC wins swipe to unlock patent dispute against Apple
165
6
At Hacker Hostels, Living on the Cheap and Dreaming of Digital Glory
140
7
Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero
134
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This Startup Could Literally Change The Way The Entire App Industry Works
122
9
WikiLeaks says it has obtained 2.4 million emails from Syria
119
10
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
118
Scientific publications [?]
1
CERN scientists to announce proof of Higgs boson found
116
2
Apes With Apps - Ape building a vocabulary of thousands of words with ipad
57
3
Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field
20
4
Fatalities from venomous and nonvenomous animals in USA (1999-2007)
8
5
A Brief History of Money
4
6
the bright side of being blue: adaptation for complex analysis
2
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Sharing data links in networks of cars
2
8
Apes With Apps
2
9
Quantum Money from Hidden Subspaces
1
10
NASA Unveils Orion Spacecraft to Fly 2014 Test Mission
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS
295
2
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
176
3
So You Want to Be a Security Expert
155
4
Golang at CloudFlare
106
5
Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)
58
6
Is Kanban the New Scrum?
36
7
Scala, Functional Programming and Play 2.0
27
8
Simpler Search
9
9
Twitter Transparency Report
7
10
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
4
Tech blogs [?]
1
Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator
265
2
Court in OWS Twitter Case Gets it Wrong Again
15
3
E-Book Privacy
9
4
Facedancer board lets your Python programs pretend to be USB hardware
4
5
Nokia warns that Nexus 7 tablet infringes its patents
2
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Apple telling suppliers to prep for mass production of smaller iPad
2
7
Time For Members of Congress to Pledge to Uphold Internet Freedom
1
8
Apple iOS growth doubles Android over last three months
1
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8 months in, 11% of Android devices run 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
1
10
Web Browser Grand Prix: Chrome 20, Opera 12, Firefox 13 (and IE 9 and Safari 5)
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East
116
2
$50K Birthday balloon at Amazon
9
3
Amazon Flow for Android
4
4
New MacBook Pro with Retina Display: 2880-by-1800 resolution
3
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Apply shutting down iWork.com
2
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MICROSOFT: A PROMISE MADE, A PROMISE KEPT.
1
7
Outdoor IP Camera from Agasio
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown
214
2
YouTube-MP3 Fights Google With Lawyers and 220K+ Signature Petition
32
3
"Anonymous" Hacks Anti-Piracy Takedown Tool
28
4
Music Labels Prepare Action To Block Major BitTorrent Sites
27
5
A One Man Army On a Mission To Destroy The Cyberlocker Market
8
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This Week We Kill ACTA Or Get Locked Down In Monopolies For Decades
8
7
Recursive Self-Improvement
7
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Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon
7
9
$7,000 Fine for Sharing WordPress For Dummies on BitTorrent
5
10
A simple guide to GIT using spatial analogies (scroll down)
4
Science News [?]
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Food Poisoning's Hidden Legacy
5
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Young Brains Lack Skills for Sharing
4
3
Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle
3
4
Fractals, Parasites and 3-D Reconstructions: 18 Startling Science Images
2
5
New Vaccine for Nicotine Addiction
2
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Neurodevelopment: Unlocking the brain
2
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Dark matter revealed
2
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International Linear Collider discussed as possible successor to LHC
2
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NASA Sending a Rocket to The Sun
2
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World's thinnest screen created from soap bubble
2
Social [?]
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Amazing - People tweet pictures of their credit cards
20
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Twitter account retweets users who tweet pictures of credit/debit cards
18
3
LinkedIn Down
12
4
PSA - Don't tweet photos of your credit/debit cards
12
5
Reddit is down for emergency maintenance
10
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Cstross (Charlie Stross) doing an AMA on Reddit
10
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Twitter employee live tweets WSOP from the table
9
8
Tiny Wings 2 Teaser Video
8
9
Reddit community cracks a cyphered message found on a subway station
7
10
Ex Nokians launched a compnay called Jolla to continue working on MeeGo
7
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today
152
2
A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax and very few features
138
3
Try git in your browser
87
4
Neural Network library in JavaScript
84
5
Maria: An MVC framework for JS
77
6
Adobe Flash API ported to Dart
60
7
Githtml - View Html Files from Github Repos On The Fly
51
8
Hamster - Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby
37
9
Node.js stream behaviour illustrated.
33
10
OpSci: URIs, indexes and RSS for 72 closed-source publishers and scraper code.
24
Wikipedia [?]
1
Terraforming of Mars
21
2
Knuth-Plass Line Breaking Algorithm
5
3
Slingshot (water vapor distillation system)
2
4
Dymaxion Map
2
5
Is 2012, Elon Musk's Annus Mirabilis Year?
1
6
Gdel's incompleteness theorems
1
7
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
1
8
Famous thought experiments
1
9
War Plan Red: The U.S. vs. Britain
1
10
June 2012 North American derecho
1
Blogs [?]
1
What Happened to Yahoo (2010)
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
2
2
Rolling back to an old revision in Mercurial (like git reset)
2
3
Memcache -versus- Redis?
2
4
Is this trolling?
1
5
Math behind Google Leap second smear formula
1
6
Can MySQL reasonably perform queries on billions of rows? - Stack Overflow
1
7
Complex processes in web dev: statemachines or else?
1
8
Is it good practice to ALWAYS cast variables in C?
1
Substack [?]