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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?

527

2

Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

486

3

AMA with Barack Obama

482

4

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEOs Model? His Cleaning Lady

454

5

A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious

415

6

Learning C with gdb

387

7

GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

368

8

339

9

What killed the Linux desktop

338

10

John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died.

318

Top Ask HN

1

Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

389

2

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012)

125

3

How to learn Backbone

122

4

Is Google still a cool place to work?

103

5

Review my web app? Trying to get out of slump.

52

6

Apple closed our entire app store

47

7

suggested sweet laptops for running Ubuntu?

42

8

What are your side projects?

34

9

Why don't websites use svg?

15

10

Would you pay for a 24/7 "sysadmin as a service"?

14

Top Show HN

1

Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop

285

2

Business.txt - Standard Proposal

259

3

Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

213

4

We built a voice to music AI app in 54 hours at a hackathon

124

5

A versioned filesystem inspired by Git

111

6

Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders

77

7

pry-rescue workflow-optimized debugging for ruby

63

8

I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists

61

9

Simplest chat for platforms and marketplaces

45

10

Simple SaaS Metrics Dashboard for Stripe

39

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEOs Model? His Cleaning Lady

454

2

Robot cars on public roads? California says yes

262

3

Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

260

4

How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat

234

5

HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe

195

6

Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

191

7

Why Johnny can't stream: How video copyright went insane

166

8

Twitter Removes 'Via' Stamp From Web Client

166

9

The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux

164

10

Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures for impressive 3D gaming

110

News [?]

1

Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food

224

2

Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News

216

3

An Immune Disorder at the Root of Autism

136

4

American law is patent nonsense

125

5

What It's Like for a Deaf Person to Hear Music for the First Time

90

6

Birds hold 'funerals' for dead

88

7

Genes Now Tell Doctors Secrets They Cant Utter

88

8

Norway Has Advice For Libya

81

9

How Long Do You Want to Live?

76

10

School of Hard Knocks: How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough

74

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites

166

2

Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Spacecraft Loss of Contact

6

3

Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline

6

4

Artificial Universe Built with Supercomputer

3

5

NASA web developers obviously not rocket scientists, how silly.

2

6

NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit

2

7

Nasa try to relaunch rocket live stream.

2

8

A Robot Ankle for Amputees

2

9

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Suns

2

10

The Global Brain Trade

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Valve Finds Value In Open-Source Drivers

127

2

Building The Linux Kernel With LLVM/Clang Continues

52

3

Comparing Intel HD 2000/3000/4000 Linux Graphics

37

4

"Proper" Image Delivery on the Web

20

5

Debunking A Misconception About Firefox Releases

7

6

Incremental Garbage Collection in Firefox 16 Beta

5

7

Intel Is Ready For Merging Cilk Plus Into GCC

5

8

Twitter introduces Twitter Certified Products

5

9

The Importance of Security Engineering

4

10

Turning "I'm Under Attack" into "I'm Doing Some Good"

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures

167

2

What's Wrong With TPP?

21

3

Preparing for the iPhone Next: Rumors Analyzed

4

4

Unibox - A New Take on the OS X Mail Client

4

5

Unreal Engine 3 Running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT

2

6

'iPhone 5,' 'iPad mini' among 8 new Apple products coming before end of 2012

2

7

IOS, Android adoption now twice as fast as 1990s Internet boom

1

8

(Probably) No NFC in Next-Generation iPhone

1

9

Dont Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms | Electronic Frontier Foundation

1

10

The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 2

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

240

2

PG: The Art of Funding a Startup is now free on Amazon

194

3

Craig Federighi & Dan Riccio Join Apples Executive Team

2

4

David Foster Wallace biography now available

2

5

Why Your Customers Suck (Marketing e-book free through September 3)

2

6

iTunes Content Dispute Report IP-violating Apps

2

7

Amazon S3 announces Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support

2

8

Get FREE Kindle Books from Amazon

1

9

Why would any one attend something like this?

1

10

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, kindle ed, $1.99

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Worst Argument In The World

210

2

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

159

3

Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion?

57

4

Leading Ethical TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT

20

5

Anti-Pirates Caught Spying on Thousands of Torrents

10

6

New Megaupload Will Change the World

7

7

Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio

3

8

Get Ready For Another Forty Years Of Corporate Copyright Bullshit

2

9

New Megaupload Will Be Massive Global Network To Change The World

2

10

New Megaupload Will Be Massive Global Network To Change The World

2

Science News [?]

1

Do Plants Think?

66

2

New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans

34

3

Exercise Does Not Make You Less Depressed

32

4

Visual programming means anyone can be a coder

23

5

Calorie restriction does not seem to lengthen lifespan in primates

11

6

Radical new flat lens may dramatically improve cellphone cameras

2

7

Using Fertilizer Wisely Could Help Feed 9 Billion People

2

8

Weighing molecules 1 at a time

2

9

US doctors back circumcision

2

10

Antibiotics Linked to Weight Gain

2

Social [?]

1

AMA with Barack Obama

482

2

Grace Hopper on Letterman

10

3

Co-author of Bootstrap (fat) quits Twitter

8

4

How I improved my Hacker News experience

7

5

Reddit AMA: I make over $1 million / year in revenue with drop shipping business

7

6

Richard Stallman: The Best Way to Learn Programming

7

7

/r/IAmA traffic traffic during President Obama's IAmA

7

8

Pinch-to-zoom video (1988)

6

9

Man who worked on Apollo missions claims it is Neil in the picture

6

10

Parody - Apple kills Star Trek

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Deploying at GitHub

172

2

Keep a programming journal

166

3

Attempt to hack WordPress with a pull request

115

4

Z - Jump to directories that you actually use.

97

5

The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages

84

6

DMCA takedowns GitHub has received

65

7

Method Combinators in CoffeeScript

61

8

Complete authentication app based on Clojure, Noir and MongoDB

40

9

The UK government's Github

34

10

Parsing Wikipedia Articles with Node.js and jQuery

32

Wikipedia [?]

1

Maria Montessori

31

2

Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet?

3

3

2

4

Why isn't FOAF more popular among technical users?

2

5

AtanasoffBerry Computer (ABC Computer)

2

6

MONIAC: an analogue computer using fluidic logic to model an economy.

1

7

The first person to bet against sub-prime mortgages

1

8

Have you heard of the vampire squid?

1

Blogs [?]

1

Don't Quit until you've Lost

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is < faster than <=?

8

2

Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer

3

3

Is less than faster than less than or equal to

3

4

C++ sequence points and undefined behavior

3

5

How does Lucene work under the hood?

3

6

How to detect if you're inside an eval call in JavaScript

3

7

What is a metaclass in Python?

2

8

Wanted: command line HTML5 beautifier

2

9

Can't upload to the App Store

2

10

Much faster Android compilation (for projects with big libraries)

1

Substack [?]