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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character

817

2

A Dust Over India

621

3

Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)

593

4

Github Raises $100 Million

526

5

How Amazons ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail

500

6

470

7

What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?

447

8

Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

404

9

Paid Vacation? Thats Not Cool. You Know Whats Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.

381

10

Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.

361

Top Ask HN

1

Learn Math the Hard Way

165

2

Time to give up on Qt?

73

3

Do online demos without sign-up actually increase sign-ups?

48

4

If there was no internet, what business would you have started?

46

5

Can anyone who presented to Google Ventures share their experience?

33

6

Who is building a new kind of search engine?

30

7

FizzBuzz for mathematicians ...

28

8

What's Your Favorite API Developer Portal?

22

9

What type of challenges do you like to code for fun?

21

10

Is their a site that exists purely of ideas for websites, apps, etc?

13

Top Show HN

1

Moqups - Vectorial mockups with HTML5 and SVG

301

2

BrainTripping - language model comedy

280

3

Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing

262

4

Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac

191

5

Evertracker - My First Real Side Project

75

6

We Just Re-Launched BurningManRides.com for 2012

62

7

RubyMotion-Tutorials.com

60

8

Hipmob is Olark for mobile apps. (Live support chat, now on Android)

48

9

OxJS - a JavaScript Library for Web Applications

37

10

Create a portfolio of the mobile apps you've built

33

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis

282

2

MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations"

265

3

When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'

206

4

Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet

196

5

Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel

187

6

Viacom pulls The Daily Show offline as a result of contract dispute

118

7

The total price of the Digg acquisition was around $16 million

118

8

Apple tells retailers to stop selling the Galaxy Nexus and Tab

105

9

HP Memristors Will Reinvent Computer Memory "by 2014"

103

10

Parallel Universe (YC S12) Developing Spatial Databases For Matrix-Style Games

93

News [?]

1

How Amazons ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail

500

2

Richard Posner: Why There Are Too Many Patents In America

251

3

Kate Middletons Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedias Woman Problem

215

4

Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did

185

5

A skeptic faces possible charges for debunking Mumbais miracle statue

180

6

Why Do We Wear Pants? Horses.

121

7

A World Without Coral Reefs

111

8

Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance

108

9

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

94

10

Dont Indulge. Be Happy.

88

Scientific publications [?]

1

Nao robot performs Judson Laipply's "Evolution of Dance"

3

2

Proof that NES games are NP-hard [pdf]

3

3

NASA, Mars Panorama - Next Best Thing to Being There

3

4

Every Kid Needs One of These DIY Robotics Kits

2

5

Scientists move closer to new kind of thermoelectric 'heat engine'

2

6

Machine Learning that Matters

2

7

8.5 years on, Opportunity still ticking. Now there's engineering for ye.

2

8

UAV Battery Packs Could Allow Electric Planes To Fly Forever

2

9

Interesting paper: Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard

2

10

Every Kid Needs One of These DIY Robotics Kits

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law

176

2

About the future of Thunderbird

111

3

Scala Adding Macros to the Language

52

4

Twitter updates mobile apps with expanded tweets and notifications

4

5

Overhauling mobile.Twitter.com from the ground up

4

6

Overhauling mobile.Twitter.com from the ground up

3

7

How to Compare the Memory Efficiency of Web Browsers

2

8

Thoughts on Abuse

2

9

Stop refactoring

2

10

Introducing Twitter for Nokia

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program

200

2

Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal

150

3

Apples in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker

110

4

Apple Seeds Golden Master of OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

5

5

High HDD Prices Result in Record Sales at Seagate

3

6

Apple Begins Accepting OS X Mountain Lion Apps for Mac App Store

2

7

Google set to pay record $22.5M fine for violating Apple users' privacy

2

8

TED Launches iOS E-Bookstore With Subscriptions and Embedded Video

2

9

Purported iPad mini case mold surfaces

1

10

This Week in Transparency: Demands for Cell Data, Drones, and Declassification

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple is back on EPEAT

152

2

Apple, Motorola & Cingular Launch Worlds First Mobile Phone with iTunes

1

3

Apple Announces New iPad Arrives in China on Friday, July 20

1

4

Amazon Add-on Program for Shipping Small Items

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds

103

2

Court Recognizes DMCA Safe Harbor in Universal v Grooveshark Lawsuit

82

3

US Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually

44

4

PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns

10

5

Kim Dotcoms Extradition Hearing Delayed Until 2013

8

6

How Big Music Threatened Startups and Killed Innovation

5

7

Yahoo Front Page, 2000

4

8

An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction

3

9

PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns

3

10

Court Shuts Down WordPress Based Pirate Bay Proxy

3

Science News [?]

1

I was sued for libel under an unjust law

114

2

Shining Light Between Drops Makes Thunderstorm Seem Like a Drizzle

6

3

The more gray matter you have, the more altruistic you are

3

4

Stinky rocks hide Earths only haven for natural fluorine

3

5

Eye movement direction not correlated with lying

2

6

Climate in northern Europe reconstructed for the past 2,000 years

1

7

Poker Faces May Distort Facial Features More Than Smiles in Passport Photos

1

8

How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Communications Satellite

1

9

Fossil egg links dinosaurs to modern birds

1

10

Accurate whole-genome sequencing and haplotyping

1

Social [?]

1

What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?

447

2

Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note

153

3

I'm an Engineer for Facebook and am helping build a Facebook office in NYC. AMA

39

4

IAmA Ex-Digg Employee

35

5

Luis von Ahn (creator of CAPTCHA and Duolingo) Reddit AMA

30

6

History Lesson: What PHP coding was like in 1996

9

7

PUBLIC RECOMMENDATION: I can't pay my favorite coder right now. Snap him up.

9

8

Get on the darknet/CJDNS in under 10 minutes with zero technical background

9

9

2005 Reddit Interview [video]

9

10

Paul Graham Interview for the Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks documentary (2005)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Investing in GitHub

177

2

GitHub Android App Released

162

3

Logins are Dead, and Mobile Killed Them

160

4

Rust 0.3 released

133

5

A 12pt Font Should Be The Same Size Everywhere

99

6

Direct Clojure to C Compiler - Based on ClojureScript

87

7

goomwwm: Get out of my way, Window Manager

84

8

Twitter says they fixed the Memcache calcification problem. Dormando disagrees.

71

9

Subscribely: Create your subscription site using our boilerplate (Stripe-ready)

53

10

Dancer.js - A high-level audio API with sweet visualizations

51

Wikipedia [?]

1

Blood types in Japanese culture

5

2

Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla

4

3

Normalized Google Distance

3

4

Ernest Borgnine

2

5

Russian Wikipedia blacks in protest of Bill No. 89417-6

2

6

Rational ignorance

2

7

English Wikipedia has surpassed 4 million articles

2

8

The Zebra Puzzle

1

9

Lotus vs Borland, Extent of Software copyright

1

10

Pixel Density of various displays used by Apple Products

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

PowerShell vs. Unix shells

105

2

Why does parseInt(1/0, 19) return 18?

54

3

What is the most hard to understand piece of C++ code you know?

1

4

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?

1

5

Translating PostgreSQL upsert to MySQL (verdict: don't)

1

6

Access private methods and private data members via Reflection in Java

1

Substack [?]