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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today

968

2

889

3

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

519

4

Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web

456

5

A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer

426

6

Fake Bus Stops For Alzheimers patients in Germany (2011)

410

7

Bootstrap 2.1 released

407

8

Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings

391

9

Your startup is not a startup, its just a website.

376

10

Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

340

Top Ask HN

1

50

2

Foreign YC Founders - did you move to California for the program?

43

3

How do aquihires work?

41

4

Review my startup: Hackerfly.com

40

5

Where would you go if HN shutdown for 1 month?

31

6

Please review my new product Tour My App

22

7

Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

19

8

I make $8/hour and can't pay for college. Any advice?

18

9

What software does your business need?

18

10

16

Top Show HN

1

Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

450

2

A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap

352

3

238

4

SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

229

5

I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of game theory

165

6

YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

118

7

GoScale Cloud Scaling in Milliseconds

112

8

ASCII Animals in Your Terminal

61

9

Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo

55

10

burn.fm - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

43

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes

315

2

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs

179

3

A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed

157

4

Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala

153

5

Minecraft experiment devolves into devastating resource war

137

6

Why passwords have never been weakerand crackers have never been stronger

111

7

Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World IBM Is

109

8

An Interview with DuckDuckGo's founder, Gabriel Weinberg

105

9

Peter Thiel Sells Majority Of His Facebook Shares In Deal Planned Pre-IPO

105

10

The dark side of light: negative frequency photons

100

News [?]

1

Be More Productive. Take Time Off.

200

2

Stranded Jet Skier Breaches Multimillion Dollar Security System At JFK Airport

166

3

Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor

160

4

Why Waiting Is Torture

160

5

The Hidden Subversive Message in Gangnam Style

147

6

The Cheapest Generation

109

7

Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'

96

8

Silicon Valley Techies Fight to Save a Popular but Illegal Haven

87

9

Fathers Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia

77

10

US appeals court rules in favor of patenting genes

69

Scientific publications [?]

1

Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface

103

2

Scientists create matter that can dent diamonds

50

3

US testing surveillance balloons on Mexico border

8

4

NASA skips Titan Explorer to go back to Mars in 2016

6

5

Indias SMS Ban Demonstrates the Difficulty of Controlling Digital Information

5

6

IRobot Developing Inflatable Robot Arms, Inflatable Robots

5

7

Podcast: Long-Term Location Prediction becoming a reality thanks to big data

3

8

The case of the disappearing teaspoons

3

9

Why don't insect wings break?

2

10

What do Mathematicians Do?

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live

247

2

DragonFly BSD 2.6: towards a free clustering operating system

73

3

Octane minus V8

67

4

OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked

65

5

LanyardFS: A New Linux File-System

8

6

A staggering 54% of Americans think the TSA is doing a good job

5

7

Throne of JS: Backbone.js

3

8

Interview on Rust, a Systems Programming Language Developed by Mozilla

3

9

Updating Policies

3

10

Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

56

2

Jury Reaches Verdict in Apple vs. Samsung Trial - To Be Updated

35

3

VMware launches Fusion 5

34

4

UNESCO Says Monopolization of Information Puts Barriers to a Better Life

4

5

Apple wins over $1B in damages in Apple v. Samsung trial

4

6

Town in Israel Puts Wi-Fi Routers On Its Donkeys

3

7

Keeping Your Site Alive

2

8

What is wrong with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

2

9

Apple Pulls 'Genius' TV Ads from YouTube and Apple.com

2

10

Steve Jobs describes future of personal computing in 1983 speech

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

889

2

Open Source Software used by Apple

5

3

How NASA broadcasted the Curiosity landing using AWS

5

4

Reality Show: Be the Next Microsoft Employee

4

5

Amazon Election Heat Map 2012 (uses book purchase data)

3

6

New Microsoft Logo?

3

7

Microsoft Unveils a New Look, New Logo

3

8

What are Americans Reading? (Election Heat Map 2012 According to Amazon.com)

2

9

Microsoft Office Customer Preview

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Patch Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink

44

2

Rails is a Ghetto (2008)

31

3

Ubisoft: PC Piracy Levels 95%, and 95% of Free-To-Play Users Do Not Pay

24

4

Skip YC Demoday Tweets - Here is a summary of all 78 companies

3

5

Movie Studio Wants to Bankrupt Pirate Bay Founder

2

6

Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration

2

7

RIAA Revenue Dwindles As Labels Cut Back

2

8

Who Wants to Start an Important Startup

2

9

Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

2

10

List of Y Combinator startups

2

Science News [?]

1

First evidence for photosynthesis in insects

80

2

Researchers Hack Blood cells into Stem Cells

50

3

Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think

45

4

"Sometimes science must give way to religion"

15

5

Physicists suggest selfishness can pay

13

6

How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy

8

7

Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

7

8

'Frankenstein' virus grafts together pieces of existing running software

5

9

New Study Casts Doubt On Location Of Self Awareness

5

10

A Turkish origin for Indo-European languages

4

Social [?]

1

Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS

153

2

Facebook Designing New Campus

36

3

New Facebook Engineering campus

30

4

Perl: The Next Generation (s/Perl/Opensource/) [Video Keynote YAPC::NA 2012]

9

5

Neil Armstrong has died at age 82, NBC News has learned

8

6

Has Apple Really Ever Invented Anything? [video]

8

7

Disney writers make strange slur against open-source in TV show for kids

8

8

Complete MSL Curiosity Descent - Full Quality Enhanced 1080p

7

9

Cory Doctorow: "The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing"

7

10

Arnold Schwarzenegger - "Who do YOU want to be in life?"

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

305

2

Vagrant core no longer tied to VirtualBox

139

3

Emacs under Clojure

135

4

My Python Code for the Netflix Prize

128

5

Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL and SDL)

80

6

Numba: NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python

63

7

ImagePickerController with live filters

48

8

Toro - a php micro-router with great examples

31

9

Marshall: Exact real arithmetic based on Dedekind reals

27

10

The genius of Enlive as a template system

22

Wikipedia [?]

1

Companies Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund finds unethical

6

2

Rubber duck debugging

6

3

Better Hello, World - Trabb PardoKnuth algorithm

4

4

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)

3

5

3

6

Acoustic mirror

2

7

2

8

The Planning Fallacy

1

9

Nothing to see here. Just a cool keyboard.

1

10

List of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) April Fool's Day RFCs

1

Blogs [?]

1

You Cant Start the Revolution from the Country Club

8

2

Copyright or creators rights?

4

3

Apple's Mistake [2009]

2

4

The Liquidity of Ideas

1

5

We could make history

1

6

Medium is open to public beta

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What are the Best hg/Mercurial Extensions?

16

2

A messy view, departing from MVC is the solution?

3

3

How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?

2

4

BackboneJS Rendering Problems

2

5

How to check that a string is a palindrome using regular expressions?

1

6

Ruby On Rails Best Pratices - Big Controllers VS Small Controllers

1

7

Help, HN? inotify won't install using npm - node.js

1

Substack [?]