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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

This is how Visa works

913

2

Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

842

3

This is a bit f'd, Quora

796

4

I Have 50 Dollars

635

5

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum

501

6

Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead

465

7

John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy

463

8

Rob Pike: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.

420

9

How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community

408

10

256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id

398

Top Ask HN

1

Interest in a "hardcore" dev tutorial site?

24

2

What do you like about the Hacker News community?

21

3

Do you ever click on the "ask" link?

20

4

List of Revenue Models?

20

5

What's your startup or product?

18

6

Who's Looking for Co-Founders?

15

7

Why are you supporting App.net over Status.net?

15

8

Wikileaks is available from Tor. Who's blocking it?

14

9

Weekend side projects?

14

10

How do you choose technical books?

13

Top Show HN

1

HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.

161

2

Visual diff for 3D printable models

123

3

Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc

121

4

Open Sourcing my HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine

84

5

Convert online videos to .gif

80

6

A multi-touch document manipulation system

78

7

Strapdown.js - Instant and elegant Markdown documents

76

8

Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch

72

9

Haiku Deck - A Simple iPad App for Making Beautiful Presentations

72

10

Voice feedback widget to hear from your users

65

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limits rates

241

2

Google Sues Apple, Seeks To Block iPhone, iPad & Mac Imports To U.S.

228

3

How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC

206

4

Germany: Facebook must destroy its facial recognition database

191

5

ViaCycle (YC S12) Is A Zipcar For Bikes, Coming To San Francisco Soon

147

6

WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web

139

7

Kim Dotcom - Megabox, disruptive new music service

137

8

Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed

130

9

The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory

127

10

DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)

123

News [?]

1

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum

501

2

What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All'

216

3

UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange

183

4

Flash Player exits Android

129

5

India outsourcing back to USA

125

6

A Mutual Fund Master, Too Worried to Rest

86

7

To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country

85

8

H - The surprising truth about heroin and addiction

76

9

Facebook frees up 60% more shares today

74

10

Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change

69

Scientific publications [?]

1

First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images

72

2

Mars Rover Curiosity Survives 'Brain Surgery,' Set for 1st Drive

50

3

Physicist challenges a traffic case about running a red light. He Won [pdf]

8

4

Self-charging battery both generates and stores energy

5

5

The Truth About Terahertz

5

6

First Bitcoin Lawsuit Filed In San Francisco

4

7

Locating the Source of Diffusion in Large-Scale Networks

3

8

The World Deserves a Giant Rideable Hexapod

2

9

Perseid Meteor Shower Photos

2

10

IRobot Introduces New Looj, Updated Roombas

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey: The Value of Values

183

2

Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)

163

3

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week'

145

4

Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro

63

5

Saturday Night Fever: Layer 7 attacks against CloudFlare sites

32

6

$200 for a Fake Security System

28

7

Stuart Halloway on Datomic, Clojure, Reducers [video]

11

8

A Look At OpenGL ES 3.0: Lots Of Good Stuff

4

9

How GitHub Works

4

10

OAuth - Everything You Want to Know (Hopefully)

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Burglar who swiped Steve Jobs' wallet, computers quickly traced

6

2

Gov't Faces New Warrantless Surveillance Battle After Losing GPS Case

6

3

Writing Javascript without using any letters or numbers

3

4

Negotiations for a 2014 WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Are Back

2

5

IOS devices patents are licensed to Microsoft, anti-cloning agreement in place

2

6

More than $60k worth of computers & personal items stolen from Steve Jobs home

2

7

Apple gearing up to pay out $2.5 billion in dividends on Thursday

2

8

Apple 'Messed Up' with Retail Store Cutbacks, Denies Mass Layoffs

2

9

Apple Retail Stores Seeing Significant Layoffs of Recent Hires

1

10

The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 1

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only

335

2

Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

150

3

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

46

4

Amazon's send to Kindle for Google Chrome

2

5

Amazon Subscribe & Save: Automatic delivery for your most frequent purchases

1

6

Trust Me, I'm Lying (how to manipulate blogs and the media)

1

7

Kindle Edition of Effective C++ for $2.99 (US)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video)

90

2

uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions

69

3

Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale

47

4

Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?

32

5

Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

31

6

Who Wants To Start An Important Startup?

21

7

The Beauty of Settled Science

9

8

Kim Dotcom Must Be Allowed To See FBI Evidence Against Him, Court Rules

8

9

RIAA Revenue Dwindles As Labels Cut Back

7

10

MPAA / RIAA Want U.S. to Help Quash The Pirate Bay

6

Science News [?]

1

Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution

67

2

Prosthetic retina restores sight in mice after brain's visual code is cracked

65

3

Quantum teleportation achieved over record distances

45

4

Modern humans may have picked up key genes from extinct relatives

42

5

Independent labs to verify high-profile papers

37

6

Biological impacts of the Fukushima on the pale grass blue butterfly

30

7

How the brain cleans itself

8

8

Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA

3

9

Physicists build first practical maser

3

10

Being Funny (Steve Martin)

3

Social [?]

1

233

2

Reddit IAMA with the Mars Curiosity team

20

3

DHH shows code from "Basecamp Next" rewrite & reveals their caching strategies

16

4

Marissa Mayer has doubled Flickr's team size in the past week

10

5

No Traffic Lights Vs Traffic Lights

10

6

Imgur founder reddit AMA (imgur now serves 33bn images monthly)

9

7

IAmA Reverse engineer who broke millions of hotel locks. AMA

8

8

Garry Kasparov arrested

8

9

Daeken's Reddit AMA "IAmA Reverse engineer who broke millions of hotel locks"

6

10

Pragmatic Go use at bit.ly

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU

216

2

Github just hit 2 million users.

139

3

Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell

117

4

Pytrace - a fast python tracer

89

5

T.js - A tiny templating framework in ~400 bytes

87

6

Lorenz Attractor in 101 bytes of JS

61

7

Monner - Monitor CPU, memory and network whilst running a program

55

8

Midnight project: Password manager without a password manager

38

9

What should be the goals of creating an open discussion around an API spec?

23

10

Tranquil (A language built the ObjC runtime) Preview 2 Released

12

Wikipedia [?]

1

Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project

116

2

Van Emde Boas Tree

5

3

Machine Learning - The Complete Guide [pdf]

3

4

Radiation hardening techniques

2

5

Lena (test image)

2

6

List of Common Misconceptions

2

7

Mascons - gravitational anomalies

1

8

"The writing is on the wall"

1

9

Portal:Software libre - Wikipedia

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium

118

2

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas [2005]

25

3

The competitive value of time

8

4

You Cant Start the Revolution from the Country Club

5

5

Groupon's problem is not its business model

2

6

A New Publishing Platform

1

7

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Everything you know about CSS is wrong (again)

6

2

Why does {} + [] return 0 in Javascript?

5

3

Graphite - What kind of toolkits have people written on top of statsd?

2

4

How do I insert text at beginning of a multi-line selection in Vim?

2

5

is this a bug in compiler?

2

6

Does "The whole language always available" hold in case of Clojure?

1

7

How does the yin yang puzzle work? (call/cc in Scheme)

1

8

GitHub icons missing

1

Substack [?]