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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

1107

2

The Marco.org Review of John Siracusas Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

631

3

John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

486

4

What I Learned From Increasing My Prices

365

5

Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

365

6

I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

362

7

Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'

353

8

How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

349

9

Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

344

10

The Mac App Stores future of irrelevance

343

Top Ask HN

1

Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

94

2

Getting a math degree as a working adult?

77

3

What are app developers buisness models?

70

4

Are there any basic primers for Comp Sci?

61

5

On Rob Pike's Concurrency is not Parallelism?

49

6

how to find a good mentor?

46

7

Software Developer Statistics (a day in your life)

40

8

Startup CEO Salary

24

9

Is there a way to do this layout in HTML 5?

24

10

What tech problems would you glady pay $25 a month for a SAAS solution?

24

Top Show HN

1

Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS

335

2

Music for Geeks and Nerds

214

3

Hacker News Comments

183

4

Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h

177

5

A RottenTomatoes for Books

142

6

multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays

84

7

Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads

82

8

Collections for Mac, now with Instagram Support and a Revamped UI

66

9

New Sub-Reddit for Hardware Startups

59

10

Use Excel as a simple CRM

53

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

486

2

If You Dont Think You Need It, You Havent Seen Greatness

246

3

Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon

186

4

Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed

172

5

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony

154

6

Please Dont Watch NBC Tonight. Or Any Night

154

7

Paul Graham: Y Combinator Companies Have Raised Over $1 Billion

150

8

Google Handwrite

138

9

FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups

132

10

NBCOlympics Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

119

News [?]

1

Sal Khan responds to critic

278

2

HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks

247

3

The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit

246

4

Dont Jump to Conclusions About the Killer

223

5

A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams

165

6

How well does Khan Academy teach?

156

7

Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Before The Stock Crashed

133

8

Zynga earnings miss, FB also falling

116

9

Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter

112

10

Say 'Ahhh': A Simpler Way To Detect Parkinson's

89

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers

93

2

A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy

52

3

Robot-Installed Solar Panels Cut Costs by 50%

26

4

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

6

5

Peter Thiel says Google is not really a tech company

3

6

SR-71 Blackbird - NASA Research at Mach 3.2

2

7

Controlling monkey brains and behavior with light

2

8

Declarations of Cyberwar [IEEE Spectrum]

2

9

Can nuclear power stations operate safely for 80 years?

2

10

iRobot and Willow Garage Debate Closed vs. Open Source

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

349

2

Garzik: An Andre To Remember

229

3

Will Blizzard Be Bringing Their Games To Linux?

26

4

Garzik: An Andre To Remember

8

5

Twitter attributes today's downtime to data center failures

4

6

Storm: Distributed and Fault-tolerant Real-time Computation

3

7

Defending against Web Application Vulnerabilities

3

8

OmniFaces: A Utility Library for Java Server Faces

2

9

What's New in Safari 6

2

10

Building our PaaS on CloudFoundry [video]

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping

291

2

OS X Mountain Lion Final Released to Apple Care Reps

5

3

AnandTech: The Google Nexus 7 review

4

4

The Google Nexus 7 Review

3

5

Apple to Buy Mobile Security Company AuthenTec for $356 Million

2

6

Humble Music Bundle

2

7

First 3D printed gun tested/works

2

8

OS X Mountain Lion Launching Tomorrow, July 25

2

9

Apple confirms: Mountain Lion available tomorrow for $19.99

2

10

Samsung's tablets returned after buyers realized they weren't iPads

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Career Choice Program

154

2

Amazon Career Choice Program

87

3

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

23

4

OSX Mountain Lion available on the App Store

5

5

Amazon Investing In Employees: Amazon Career Choice Program

3

6

Amazon career choice program

2

7

Amazon home page is a letter from Jeff about Career Choice Program

2

8

Microsoft and Amdocs Software Systems Limited Sign Patent Agreement

2

9

Amazon Career Choice Program

1

10

Kasparov, Thiel and Levchin book for 2016?

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA Ineffective Tool Against Music Piracy

83

2

RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping

49

3

Young Pirates Evicted From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles

16

4

Alleged UK File-Sharers Better Armed and Ready To Fight Ben Dover

9

5

Young Pirates Evicted From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles

7

6

Leaked Report Reveals Music Industrys Global Anti-Piracy Strategy

4

7

Music Labels Wont Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists

3

8

Swizz Beatz on Megaupload: I Was Giving Artists 90% Of The Shit

2

9

Imperfect Voting Systems

1

10

Get introduced to a new business contact every day

1

Science News [?]

1

Artificial jellyfish made from silicone and rat muscle (video)

126

2

Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts

24

3

Girl Programs Artificial 'Brain' to Diagnose Breast Cancer

12

4

Study reveals Western popular music is becoming more homogenized

6

5

You are 8 days away from getting sick

5

6

Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts

4

7

Microorganisms that reside on skin found to influence host immunity

3

8

Why Procrastination is Good for You

3

9

Science publishing: The trouble with retractions

2

10

Aging Heart Cells Rejuvenated by Modified Stem Cells

2

Social [?]

1

A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

189

2

27

3

LinkedIn has been redesigned

15

4

Bill Nye the Science Guy AMA on Reddit

11

5

Twitter is down, very down. Not even fail whale

10

6

Google Fiber Announcement Live Stream

9

7

$1,048,274,000 = Total YC cos funding prior to YC S12 batch

8

8

Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem

8

9

Twitter down... but this time it's more embarassing

7

10

Conway's Game of Life emulated in Conway's Game of Life

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP

273

2

~/.osx updated sensible hacker defaults for OS X Mountain Lion

168

3

Zsh 5.0 released

138

4

The Minecraft API Is Now On Github

98

5

Lua to Javascript translator

45

6

The BlastBeat server

25

7

Betakit: open source beta management (invites, referrals)

16

8

Shield, A Security-Minded PHP Microframework

15

9

Surviving the SSHpocolypse

14

10

Automatically generate REST APIs from Core Data models

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Materialism and happiness

3

2

"The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"

2

3

The Bluetooth logo is made of runes

2

4

Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"

2

5

The Inner-platform effect

2

6

List of software patents

1

7

The "On being sane in insane places" Experiment

1

8

George A Miller - author of "Magic number 7, plus or minus 2" has passed away

1

9

Rodriguez - he had a continent full of fans and he did not know, for years.

1

10

Movies that Inspire

1

Blogs [?]

1

Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

225

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Pasting Text Into Vim

79

2

Apple LLVM 4.0 new features on Xcode 4.4 (Literals)

10

3

What does Pure mean, in the context of programming languages and paradigms?

2

4

How to paste text into Vim command line (and other register tricks)

1

5

Is it possible to do transaction processing using node.js and a noSQL db?

1

6

Hadoop: job runs okay on smaller set of data but fails with large dataset

1

7

HTTP: Using the COPY method where the Destination header isn't a URI

1

8

Git merge - When should I use git pull --rebase?

1

9

Last time it's asked?"Warning:mysql_fetch_* expects parameter 1 to be resource"

1

10

Dealing with Xerces hell in Java/Maven?

1

Substack [?]