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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
2026
2
Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
1153
3
Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
938
4
Why I'm a Pirate
845
5
No New Accounts Today
703
6
Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up
702
7
Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
687
8
Stop SOAP
585
9
Congressman blacks out his official .gov website
580
10
Maddox - I hope SOPA passes
564
Top Ask HN
1
Who's looking for employment?
185
2
What is a good alternative to PayPal?
76
3
How do you do your email delivery?
47
4
Hellbanning unacceptable
46
5
Why does Google need so many employees?
22
6
200k student debt, degrees not very useful. What to do?
15
7
What's your biggest schlep?
14
8
What are best online resources to learn Ruby on Rails?
11
9
Increasingly Forgetful?
11
10
The correct way to email users their PLAINTEXT passwords.
10
Top Show HN
1
HackPad is the best wiki ever
206
2
Collection of CSS Creations
163
3
DirtyShare, Pure JavaScript P2P File Sharing (in Node.js + Socket.io)
71
4
We built a free Stop SOPA/PIPA notification bar for sites
54
5
Scholastica, Academic Journal Publishing Platform & Scholarly Community
50
6
AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches
50
7
Skimling - A Platform to Help Kids Improve Their Writing
44
8
Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brushes, shape poses, etc.
44
9
Vesper, a plug and play Ruby web framework (Sinatra + Rack + Plugins)
40
10
Charts for Hacker News Polls
38
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
938
2
SOPA livesand MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
439
3
Death sentence for Iranian web programmer
366
4
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game
321
5
Why the feds smashed Megaupload
195
6
Wired Magazine Blacks Out
190
7
PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed
177
8
Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
158
9
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
155
10
Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed
142
News [?]
1
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
437
2
How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Webs unstoppable force
184
3
What Jobs Do the Top 1% Have?
176
4
The Secret Document That Transformed China
171
5
Military technology: Magic bullets
144
6
More Water than Ever Found on the Moon
110
7
Microsoft calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State
96
8
Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest
91
9
Jobs was told anti-poaching idea likely illegal
83
10
U.S. website blackout draws praise in China
82
Scientific publications [?]
1
Good-bye, Wheelchair, hello Exoskeleton
6
2
Crew members on ISS answer questions
6
3
Chinas Homegrown Supercomputers
5
4
A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset
2
5
Saturn's Moon Titan May be More Earth-Like Than Thought
2
6
College Campus Network Still Infected by a Computer Virus from 1999
2
7
Data storage using atoms
1
8
Top Tech 2012
1
9
SOPA protests in NYC - Video
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Linux 3.1.10 released; 3.1 kernel series reached end of life.
41
2
API Documentation Done Right
6
3
Cocoa Auto Layout Visual Format Language
6
4
Rich Hickey: Value, State and Identity
5
5
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware
4
6
Oracle and the Java Ecosystem
3
7
High Performance HTML5
2
8
Help wanted at LWN
2
9
MegaSearch Aims to Index Fraud Site Wares
2
10
Gil Tene (from Azul) on Discusses Garbage and the JCP
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter
124
2
How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles About Free Speech & Innovation
8
3
Anand reviews the Galaxy Nexus && ICS
8
4
No more back room deals - Users must have a voice in governing the Internet
7
5
Forget Siri make Wolfram Alpha your personal assistant
5
6
Samsung Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich Review
5
7
Geiger counter using phone's camera and a piece of paper
4
8
Apple plans to reinvent the textbook with iBooks 2 for iPad
3
9
Episodic TV patent credited to Steve Jobs could be used for rumored Apple TV
2
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AT&T throttling is a death sentence
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
New Ender novel released today... wait, ebook ETA in 2013?
10
2
AWS Announces DynamoDB
8
3
Apple - Education - iBooks Textbooks for iPad
4
4
Finding Similar Items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop
3
5
iBooks 2 Video (Textbooks)
3
6
Amazon DynamoDB (beta)
2
7
Amazon
2
8
IBooks Author
2
9
Amazon AWS introduces DynamoDB
2
10
Humor according to Microsoft
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
389
2
Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?
68
3
The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Wont Stop Us
57
4
US Authorities Silence NinjaVideo Founder, Rush Her to Prison
19
5
Internet Archive goes Dark to Protest SOPA
7
6
MPAA: Internet Blackout is a PR Stunt, Users Are Corporate Pawns
7
7
MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested
6
8
Can a Java programmer be transitioned to COBOL?
5
9
The Pirate Bay Launches Promo Platform For Artists
4
10
SOPA is BACK.
4
Science News [?]
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Neural network gets an idea of number without counting
5
2
Why should we stop online piracy?
4
3
USA really may have "shot down" Russian space probe - by accident
3
4
Celebrating the arXiv
3
5
Learn a language, translate the web
2
6
Forgetting Actually Strengthens Memory
2
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Better mathematics boosts image-processing algorithm
2
8
Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal
2
9
Quantum Uncertainty: Are You Certain, Mr. Heisenberg?
2
10
10 Strange Businesses You Didn't Know Existed
2
Social [?]
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Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.
264
2
Senator Marco Rubio drops support for PIPA
212
3
Explaining Gdel's Incompleteness Theorem to a Twelve Year Old
155
4
Redditor Dr. Michael Ham announces his candidacy for US senate (New Mexico)
107
5
Mozilla Web Development doing an AMA on reddit
85
6
Reddit: "Unbeknown to many, drug culture at startups is a huge problem."
58
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It Has Begun - Singapore Considering Following USA's Lead With SOPA/PIPA
48
8
Group GEB reading starts today
42
9
I wrote an iPhone app to remotely control my gf's vibrat... (NSFW?)
21
10
John Carmack tempted to move to a functional programming language
12
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server
129
2
Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring
127
3
Chrome Extension Development, By Practical Example
99
4
Blackout your WordPress site on January 18th
55
5
Shim: simultaneous, synced web surfing across a variety of devices and browsers
52
6
ROFLBALT - A Canabalt-inspired sidescroller in ASCII for your console.
41
7
Node.js library for the Amazon Web Services
27
8
Form letter template for acquired startups
17
9
Rails 3.2.0 released
15
10
A simple framework for developing Linux kernel heap exploit
14
Wikipedia [?]
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Wikipedia blackout page
498
2
Wikipedia Is Black
86
3
Wikipedia blackout notice now on all English Wiki articles.
60
4
Wikipedia - Thank You for stopping SOPA
18
5
SOPA entry on Wikipedia is not blacked out.
8
6
Wikipedia not entirely dark
7
7
Research Works Act
3
8
Unacceptable Ignorance: Congress must reinstate Office of Technology Assessment
3
9
Wikipedia Italy protest against SOPA
3
10
Wikipedia is blacked out
3
Blogs [?]
1
A Word to the Resourceful
454
2
A Word to the Resourceful
8
3
Schlep Blindness
7
4
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
3
5
Ideas for Startups
3
6
Relentlessly Resourceful
2
7
Undergraduation (2005)
2
8
A student's guide to Startups
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
C# to take a breaking change in version 5
155
2
Matrix Multiplication in Clojure vs Numpy
66
3
Why char[] is preferred over String for passwords in Java
5
4
Lazy lists in prolog
4
5
Try-catch speeding up my code?
4
6
Why do animated gif images take so long to load?
2
7
Facebook Graph API is being limited
2
8
Preferred writing order of (latitude, longitude) vs. (longitude, latitude)
2
9
Useful Add-Ins or Plug-Ins for native Visual Studio developer
2
10
Emacs network keyboard [emacspeak, android]
2
Substack [?]