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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

1309

2

Dear Mark Zuckerberg

726

3

Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows

597

4

SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

552

5

Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

460

6

Lying on your resume

449

7

Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

438

8

Matasano Security acquired for 8.4m ($13m) - Congrats tptacek

435

9

Do you have a secret?

423

10

Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.

420

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

270

2

Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?

145

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)

96

4

Why is "Who is Hiring" not running at the specified time?

53

5

How to learn web scalability?

40

6

What startups use C and Python?

35

7

How would a foreign startup raise funds in US?

23

8

SMS-enabling an app for a startup

20

9

Do software developers need agents?

16

10

How can I start learning physics?

16

Top Show HN

1

My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

175

2

My one month side-project, Lucid Tracker: a daily life tracking tool

106

3

Everyday.me - a mobile app to record your life and store it forever

102

4

gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works

102

5

Recycled a piano into a work desk

81

6

Makr.io, a creative and collaborative way to play with images

75

7

HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

60

8

Set NASA APOD as Ubuntu Desktop Background

47

9

Spreadsheets in the browser with Box, Dropbox support

42

10

Easy A/B testing for your mobile app (open source)

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering

400

2

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills

246

3

Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire

235

4

The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.

169

5

Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery

155

6

Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD

147

7

Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication

128

8

NewsBlur (YC S12) Takes Feed Reading Back To Its Basics

124

9

Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments

111

10

Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An Unmistakable Copy Of The Sims

104

News [?]

1

Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars

260

2

In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time

193

3

Facebook sinks to record low, 43% below IPO price, as doubts grow

152

4

Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events

151

5

Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?

145

6

Corner Office: Dennis Crowley

130

7

Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production

123

8

Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets?

120

9

Facebook has more than 83 million 'fake' users

119

10

FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm

111

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mars rover "Curiosity" set for touchdown next week

62

2

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Higgs boson

27

3

Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS?

14

4

Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons

7

5

Lack of Rain a Leading Cause of Indian Grid Collapse

5

6

NASA Broadcasts Mars Mission Landing In Times Square

4

7

Hackers build mobile phone network for Def Con

3

8

The Making of a Genius: Richard P. Feynman

3

9

Afternoon nap after nocturnal sleep restriction: which nap duration is [best]?

2

10

Three Degrees of Separation on Twitter [pdf]

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Nokia Reportedly Selling Off Qt

86

2

Incremental GC now in Firefox 16

17

3

SPDY Now One-Click Simple for Any Website

16

4

Rich Hickey and Justin Sheehy: Datastores, NoSql and CAP

11

5

Twitter Responds to Criticism on Account Suspensions

9

6

Interview on Rust, a Systems Programming Language Developed by Mozilla

7

7

GNOME 4.0, GNOME OS Coming In 2014 & Other Crazy Plans

7

8

Introducing the New Features of F# 3.0

5

9

Profile on Eugene Kaspersky

4

10

Architecture at Scale at ESPN

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Purported photos of new iPhone 5

18

2

Electromagnetic Field, a Hacker/Maker Camp for the UK - Hack a Day

6

3

You can now configure 16Gb of RAM on the base model Retina MacBook Pro

5

4

How Apple's new vector-based Maps leave Google Maps looking jittery

5

5

2/3 of Apple's iOS App Store populated by 'zombie' apps, estimate finds

3

6

A $430 27" WQHD (2560x1440) S-IPS LED Monitor

3

7

Hulu Plus Now Available on Apple TV

2

8

The Declaration of Internet Freedom: Not Just for Americans

2

9

Photos alleged show fully-assembled next-gen iPhone

1

10

Why The NSA Cant Be Trusted

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

18

2

Amazon launches Prime Instant Video

5

3

Amazon updates Cloud Player, includes iTunes Match-like scanning

4

4

Amazon Instant Video on iPad

4

5

New from Amazon: Provisioned IOPS for EBS

3

6

Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

3

7

Mountain Lion Downloads Top Three Million

2

8

Amazon Instant Video Now on iPad

2

9

An Application Security Reading List (by tptacek)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Cellist Zoe Keating has posted her "Online Sales & Streaming" numbers

84

2

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

56

3

Kim Dotcom Dismissed As Fraudster By Twitter and Facebook

4

4

Band Shows Fans How To Unblock The Pirate Bay

4

5

Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads & Malware (to offset bandwidth cost of DDoS)

3

6

Has Your ISP Joined the US Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme?

2

7

Pirate Bay Proxies Force Nasty Crapware on Visitors

2

8

Copyright Trolls Ignore Court, Undermine Alleged BitTorrent Sharers Rights

2

9

Correct horse battery staple: Exploring the usability of passphrases

2

10

Video Slams Political Prostitution In Movie Piracy Cases

2

Science News [?]

1

Human cycles: History as science

53

2

Why procrastination is good for you

37

3

Vacuum Silence: World's Fastest "random" Number Generator

8

4

Brains are different in people with highly superior autobiographical memory

5

5

Why India Just Suffered the World's Biggest Black-Out

4

6

Why egalitarian societies died out

3

7

How the Chicken Conquered the World

2

8

Researchers discover gene that permanently stops cancer cell proliferation

2

9

The science of doping.

2

10

The time is right to confront misconduct

2

Social [?]

1

Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

1309

2

Olympics WiFi Police

14

3

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

14

4

I am Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg. AMA

13

5

Tesco's 'Secure' password storage

12

6

I am a developer evangelist - IAmA

10

7

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

9

8

Top Reddit Startups

7

9

Mountain Lion UX Fail

7

10

Twitter Un-Suspends Journalist Guy Adams Account

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing

324

2

Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS

177

3

A sudoku solver in 33 lines of Clojure

144

4

Watch the Olympics from anywhere: this actually works

114

5

reveal.js: HTML5 based Slide Presentation Tool

107

6

Hbro: Haskell based browser

73

7

HTML5Rocks now on Github

61

8

Virtual memory overhead for trees

58

9

50

10

_.m: A port of Underscore.js to Objective C

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

Indian Americans: The 1%

7

2

U.S.'s only state-owned bank

4

3

Planned obsolescence

3

4

Word of the day: Mamihlapinatapai

2

5

List of common misconceptions (technology)

2

6

2

7

Economic history of the United States

1

8

Asynchronous learning

1

9

The Soviet Union averaged 44 gold medals per year at the Olympic Games

1

10

Wikipedia:Wikipedia records

1

Blogs [?]

1

Medium from Obvious Corp

7

2

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Divide a number by 3 without using * / + - % operators

75

2

C++ reflection in under 100 lines of code - Stack Overflow

6

3

What is this function useful for?

4

4

What makes Lisp macros so special?

2

5

Unix - How to check if a directory exists in a shell script - Stack Overflow

2

6

What is referential transparency?

2

7

Whats the difference of functions and methods in Google Go?

2

8

How to read/write to the Windows registry using Java

2

9

CanCan nested permissions possible?

1

10

C++ - Why does this call the default constructor? - Stack Overflow

1

Substack [?]