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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Good riddance, PayPal

699

2

AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types

634

3

PayPal CEO writes personal response

606

4

A 4G LTE base station running entirely in software on a standard PC

502

5

473

6

Russia in color, a century ago

466

7

Live air traffic of the world

400

8

How we keep GitHub fast

385

9

Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day

384

10

368

Top Ask HN

1

How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

306

2

How do you find clients?

146

3

What are your failed projects / ideas?

83

4

Any solopreneurs here?

31

5

[Pricing] Charging a one-time fee for a SaaS app?

29

6

Anyone Hiring Real Engineers?

26

7

how do you stage/push your code?

16

8

Finding a tiny Linux server

14

9

What do you say when people ask how much your company makes?

13

10

How to manage remote teams better?

12

Top Show HN

1

296

2

Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

227

3

My first Mac app, Foreman, free and on Github. Would love feedback

147

4

my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com

105

5

MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward

104

6

escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged phone call: GetOutCall.com

80

7

A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript

65

8

Cross-browser asynchronous JS script loader w/callbacks

43

9

HumanamuH predicts which people will enrich your life

41

10

My first weekend project.

36

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave them there

332

2

Amazon Officially Announces The New Kindle Paperwhite

220

3

No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices

208

4

DeveloperAuction gets developers paid what they're worth

148

5

Oracle makes move to kill open source MySQL

133

6

How a bedroom developer's 'ugly little game' became an App Store hit

128

7

Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins

126

8

TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks

111

9

Jimmy Wales threatens to encrypt Wikipedia if UK passes snooping bill

97

10

The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena

89

News [?]

1

How Google Builds Its Maps

272

2

What's a $4000 Suit Worth?

245

3

How Dangerous Is Your Couch?

230

4

Left Alone by Its Owner, Reddit Soars

203

5

When A Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get Their Money Back?

159

6

After 35 years, Voyager nears edge of solar system

155

7

Marathon Man: A Michigan dentists improbable transformation

131

8

BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored

124

9

Fans resurrect Half-Life video game

117

10

Innocent man jailed for 8 months after DNA match

90

Scientific publications [?]

1

Study: Intelligent Cars Could Boost Highway Capacity by 273%

68

2

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer

5

3

Fifty Quadrotors Put on Glowing Sky Show in Austria

3

4

Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Now Faster than Fastest Human

2

5

A Scale for Weighing Single Molecules

2

6

Stuxnet: Leaks or Lies?

2

7

"Classier Technology and the Illusion of Progress" by David J. Hand

2

8

Anonymous and LulzSec combined forces in hacking FBI

2

9

Private Manned Mars Mission Gets First Sponsors

2

10

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support

118

2

</CaptureTheFlag>

82

3

The official Mozilla JavaScript team blog

38

4

New Stripe Chat

6

5

Twitter Blog: More Tweets across the web

5

6

New Attack Uses SSL/TLS Information Leak to Hijack HTTPS Sessions

4

7

Official Mozilla JavaScript Blog Created

4

8

The Database as a Value

3

9

Apple: Volume Purchase Program for Apps

3

10

Netflix Open Sources Their AWS Service Registry, Eureka

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Arduino Cell phone

50

2

Apple will no longer license aftermarket power adapters for iPhone 5

49

3

Forget MSP430 Launchpad - TI ARM Cortex-M4 Launchpad at $4.99

18

4

Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client

5

5

Is Congress Getting Ready to Take on Patent Trolls?

3

6

Twitter is killing Twitter for Mac but slowly.

2

7

USPTO grants Google umbrella patent for network/cloud Operating System

2

8

Apple announces September 12th iPhone event: Its almost here

2

9

Hackers Release 1 Million iOS Device UDIDs Obtained from FBI Laptop

2

10

Airlines begin integrating Passbook ahead of iOS 6 launch

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Bit Literacy - Productivity Book - Free on Kindle

2

2

PowerShell 3.0 available for Download

2

3

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator (preorder)

2

4

Amazon Kindle and Fire details are now live on Amazon.

2

5

Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD

2

6

Bin Laden execution book on top of top 100 at Amazon

1

7

Kindle Paperwhite - Touch Screen Ereader with Built-In Light

1

8

Kindle Fire HD pre-order page is up

1

9

New Nokia Windows phones

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia

265

2

Python Cheat Sheet

138

3

Researchers Expose Locations of Pirate Bay Uploaders

34

4

Obama Ambassador In Cambodia On Day Pirate Bay Founder Was Arrested

33

5

UTorrent Debuts Native Android Client

6

6

Free Hard SF Novels & Short Stories

5

7

Apple Lifts Ban on BitTorrent Apps, Or So It Seems

4

8

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Related To Tax Hack, Not Piracy

3

9

Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Related To Tax Hack, Not Piracy

3

10

Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive

2

Science News [?]

1

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

111

2

82

3

Quantum teleportation over 143kilometres using active feed-forward

59

4

Evolution could explain the placebo effect

41

5

Pen ink proves surprise key to powerful supercapacitor

32

6

Genomics: ENCODE explained

26

7

The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens

19

8

Obama and Romney tackle 14 top science questions

19

9

Forget passwords

8

10

Science wins over creationism in South Korea

5

Social [?]

1

Removing Fake Likes

33

2

Reddits database DOESN'T has only two tables.

17

3

9Gag "Repost Machine" Explained

13

4

Losethos submits OS to reddit, answers questions

10

5

The games industry is a scam, and this is why you shouldn't go to work for it

7

6

Twitter API v1.1 sneakily removes existing resources

7

7

Why Miguel de Icaza is Wrong About Desktop Linux

6

8

Y Combinator startup 9gag seemingly stealing content

6

9

Elon Musk Mahalo Mentor Interview on PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla

5

10

Yelp is blackmailing my sister's restaurant

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

473

2

How we keep GitHub fast

385

3

Rich Hickey: extensible data notation

217

4

Travis CI integrated into GitHub pull requests thanks to new Commit Status API

110

5

Announcing the Github Commit Status API

67

6

Goldman Sachs: GS Collections source code released

55

7

Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs

49

8

Apache httpd ignores DNT header from MS IE 10

12

9

Houston - Apple Push Notifications; No Dirigible Required

8

10

Don't use MongoDB

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues

99

2

The story of Timothy Dexter

46

3

Why Isn't Labor Day Celebrated on May 1st in the United States?

7

4

No true Scotsman

4

5

The Venezuelan limbo: detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni

2

6

1

7

How to bypass Yahoo mail spam filter

1

8

Timeline of computer security hacker history

1

9

Oulipo - constrained writing techniques

1

10

Polybius Arcade Game

1

Blogs [?]

1

A False Dichotomy

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is my program slow when looping over exactly 8192 elements?

4

2

How much to test?

2

3

Making Vim ubiquitous

2

4

The Ruby 1.9 ARGF 'Class'

2

5

C - Unsigned minus unsigned difference between 32 and 64-bit

2

6

Emulate/Simulate iOS in Linux?

2

7

What are the lesser known but useful data structures?

2

8

Clojure number crunching performance

1

9

Backbone/RequireJS/Mediator results Views short-circuiting / infinite looping

1

10

You can chain the coalescing operator in C#

1

Substack [?]