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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

1032

2

Googles Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoos Chief

966

3

The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

693

4

PostgreSQL Rising

497

5

Sparrow acquired by Google

484

6

Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo

461

7

Build muscle memory with your favorite editor

435

8

EFF, Reddit, Mozilla, others launch Internet Defense League and Cat Signal

421

9

389

10

The real reason were upset about Sparrows acquisition

389

Top Ask HN

1

I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?

213

2

how to acquire customers which are small businesses via internet?

59

3

What one thing would you tell your younger self?

55

4

Is StackOverflow being ruined by its mods?

51

5

How do I start being a consultant?

42

6

Learning to switch off

29

7

What are the top open source software written in C?

16

8

How to become a renaissance man?

16

9

Using C or C++ for parallel Android and iOS dev.

12

10

Mobile developers - how do you find new mobile app services?

11

Top Show HN

1

gist.io, blogless writing for hackers

275

2

Scoutzie, 444 best mobile designers for hire.

152

3

Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day

113

4

Use DuckDuckGo for !bangs and Google for everything else

92

5

Available Five Character Alpha Domains

61

6

Invitation Engine for Facebook Apps

53

7

Share your screen from within Gmail with Screenleap browser extension

41

8

Astray, A WebGL maze game built with Three.js and Box2dWeb.

39

9

Markov Baby Name Generator

35

10

Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

An iPad Lovers Take On The Nexus 7

227

2

Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops

174

3

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate

151

4

Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX

128

5

R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012

126

6

Office 2013: Microsoft's bid to win the future

110

7

Raspberry Pi production grows, $35 Linux computer now available in bulk

102

8

The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to

97

9

Bold plan: opening 1,000 MHz of federal spectrum to WiFi-style sharing

89

10

Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

84

News [?]

1

The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult

693

2

Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole

312

3

Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

260

4

In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software

251

5

Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79

228

6

In Denmark, Pedaling to Work on a Superhighway

168

7

Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969

149

8

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didnt Copy IPad In U.K.

122

9

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys

121

10

Academic journals face a radical shake-up

95

Scientific publications [?]

1

Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus

5

2

Private Manned Space Capsule Passes Big Review

3

3

Asteroid Crashes Likely Gave Earth Its Water

2

4

Quantum entanglement with notification

2

5

Robot Eyes Track Ping Pong Balls

2

6

The End of Free Conference Calls

2

7

What Does Space Smell Like?

2

8

Multi-stage Micro Rockets for Robotic Insects

1

9

Multi-stage Micro Rockets for Robotic Insects

1

10

Mars Science Laboratory's current position

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

174

2

IOS 6 beta 3 now available.

17

3

Google Announces Pricing for Compute Engine

7

4

Firefox 14 Encrypts Google Searches

5

5

Incremental GC now in Firefox Aurora

4

6

Camera-Transparent Plastic

4

7

How to Break Into Security, Schneier Edition

3

8

More memshrink news, or how awesome is Firefox 15?

2

9

Serious Sam 3 Ported To Linux, Running On Ubuntu

2

10

Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit

157

2

AnandTech 2012 Macbook Air (11" and 13") review

6

3

Victory for Open WiFi: Judge Rejects Copyright Troll's Bogus "Negligence" Theory

3

4

Raspberry Pi in the Sky

3

5

Apples iPad prototypes from 2002-4 pulled from Jony Ive deposition

3

6

Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3

2

7

EFF Urges Congress to Protect Privacy in Face Recognition

2

8

UK judge rules Apple must advertise Samsung did not copy the iPad

2

9

New Cybersecurity Proposal Patches Serious Privacy Vulnerabilities

2

10

Australian Government Moves to Expand Surveillance Powers

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The $25,000 PDF at Amazon

30

2

Apple ran out of space on their Microsoft server...

14

3

Discrete Mathematics with Ducks

2

4

Microsoft Office Comsumer Release Preview

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How to say nothing in 500 words

131

2

Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

71

3

Kim Dotcom Sings: Are You Going to Fix This Mr. President?

11

4

Court May Order Google to Censor Torrent, RapidShare and Megaupload

10

5

Megaupload: U.S. Government Trying to Rewrite the Rules

7

6

Rights Group Fined For Not Paying Artist For Anti-Piracy Ad

6

7

On To the Next - Feds Drag Rapper Swizz Beats into Megaupload Case

5

8

Google Builds Largest Database of Links to Pirated Media

4

9

Dotcom Extradition Judge Steps Down After U.S. Enemy Comment

3

10

Largest BitTorrent Trackers Go Offline in Protest

3

Science News [?]

1

The Worlds Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication

111

2

How about an Olympic games for enhanced athletes?

36

3

The truth about sports drinks

3

4

Aerographite: Lightest material in the world produced

2

5

Menu Labeling Requirements Lead to Healthier Options at Chain Restaurants

1

6

Scientists connect seawater chemistry with ancient climate change and evolution

1

7

New, third type of chemical bond predicted to exist in white dwarfs

1

8

Kissing device lets you send a long-distance smooch

1

9

Neanderthals Knew of Plants' Healing Qualities, Study Shows

1

10

Performance enhancement: Superhuman athletes

1

Social [?]

1

IAmA Patent Examiner on reddit

84

2

Facebook has blocked imgur.com

16

3

Investigative work by Redditor shows power of Twitter

14

4

Slashdot Founder CmdrTaco doing AMA on Reddit

10

5

Nexus 7 product packaging harder to use than Android OS itself

10

6

A social experiment: What one thing would you tell your younger self?

7

7

Unboxing the Nexus 7 is fun

7

8

If Crockford were CEO of Yahoo he would fork a Node.JS and create Ynode.

5

9

5

10

Improving Inter Service Communication - Talk at RuLu 2012

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

310

2

78

3

Writing good commit messages

51

4

Minecraft Migrated Account Session Vulnerability Security Advisory

28

5

App.net API spec posted to github

12

6

Hacker news API in node.js

7

7

ObjectiveRecord

6

8

Twitter Bootstrap: Replace 'le' with 'the'

6

9

[Preview] Tranquil A more dynamic language implemented on the ObjC runtime.

5

10

TOFFEE for NodeJS: Templating based on CoffeeScript with slick nesting

5

Wikipedia [?]

1

The key to high profits: product differentiation (economic principle)

4

2

Mojibake: character transformation

2

3

War plan red - US plan for war against Britain and Canada (1930)

2

4

2

5

6174, Kaprekar's constant

2

6

Strauss-Howe generational theory

2

7

Hard and soft science

1

8

Dependency Injection

1

9

Chronostasis and the "Stopped Clock" illusion

1

10

Wikipedia Adds Article Feedback Tool

1

Blogs [?]

1

Made in the USA

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Login vs Log In

97

2

Using SQL injection as a feature

5

3

CLI sucks, help me learn it. Parsing Output.

2

4

Do you use SharedDataMiddleware with Flask on Heroku?

2

5

Scala vs. Groovy vs. Clojure

2

6

What is declarative programming?

2

7

Using an ORM or plain SQL?

1

8

Versioning ActiveRecord on Sinatra, not Rails?

1

9

What is so bad about Singletons?

1

Substack [?]