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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Black Swan Farming

694

2

Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs

571

3

RIP Vile Rat, EVE Online Diplomat, IRL State Dept Rep Killed In Benghazi

529

4

Depression lies

489

5

There is something magical about Firefox OS

433

6

Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?

404

7

Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers

389

8

Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5

388

9

GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

381

10

Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots

375

Top Ask HN

1

How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?

185

2

Can I visit your tech business in NY City?

82

3

How have you been celebrating programmer's day?

33

4

Best way to sell a domain name?

31

5

You're in an empty room. How do you generate a random number?

26

6

I know software. Now I want to know hardware. Where do I start?

20

7

How do you fight depression?

20

8

Micro-consulting - is there a market?

14

9

What do you use for personal finance?

14

10

Can you review my startup auth2.com

11

Top Show HN

1

We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

510

2

MemStash - Commit things to memory

163

3

A Handcrafted Web

126

4

Matches.js -- Powerful Pattern Matching for Javascript

93

5

Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.

87

6

Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console

57

7

Properties to rent - No agent fees, no dead listings, no risk

54

8

DubJS: A New Way to Build Web Apps

54

9

Chrome Extension to automatically block the annoying Quora login prompt

48

10

A better way to find films to watch on Netflix

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5

388

2

Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

304

3

Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Was Betting Too Much On HTML5

218

4

Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: I hate it and I dont agree with it

217

5

HP introduces new Apple iMac

200

6

Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains

174

7

Cosmo, the God who fell to Earth

170

8

Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking

159

9

"Six strikes" Internet warning system will come to US this year

145

10

Google Networking Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa

145

News [?]

1

Anonymous Donor Pays for College of Every Student in Kalamazoo

312

2

U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs

224

3

Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip

185

4

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers

146

5

Bollywood vs. Bin Laden

139

6

Atomic bond types discernible in images

135

7

Cindy Gallops Online Effort to Promote Real, Not Porn-Fed, Sex

105

8

Hotel-room hacks: Picking the lock

93

9

Why Fathers Really Matter

91

10

Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

Japan Commits to Eliminating Nuclear Power

35

2

"MapReduce is Good Enough" by Twitter scientist

34

3

Survey reveals the worldwide migration patterns of researchers

3

4

Japan May Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2030

3

5

Jimmy Lin: MapReduce is Good Enough?

3

6

Extending Legal Protection to Social Robots

2

7

Physical Book as a Computer Interface

2

8

The African Hacker

2

9

Latest AlphaDog Robot Prototypes Get Less Noisy, More Brainy

2

10

Latest AlphaDog Robot Prototypes Get Less Noisy, More Brainy

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe's New Recurring Billing Features

109

2

70

3

70

4

AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly

33

5

Qt5's Linux Requirements Cause Problems

27

6

IonMonkey in Firefox 18

20

7

Engineering A Path to Science:I don't wanna die in a language I can't understand

7

8

Nvidia Performance: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux 12.10

5

9

Shuttleworth Tosses $1M Behind Open-Source Project

4

10

Hacking Marathon Races

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

175

2

Why you cant read 9to5Mac on Instapaper

117

3

Is this a first? Google voluntarily censors anti-Islam video in Libya, Egypt

45

4

ACLU: TPP Is a Major Threat to Free Speech, Privacy, and Due Process

6

5

Why you cant read 9to5Mac on Instapaper

5

6

IPhone 5, new iPod touch, and iPod nano leaked through Apple search results

5

7

Freedom Not Fear: Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet

4

8

Apple sells out pre-order iPhone 5's in one hour

3

9

Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC: ARM Cortex A15s Inside

2

10

Intel labs: computer size to reach zero by 2020

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

259

2

Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live

37

3

Amazon Allows For Reselling of Reserved EC2 Instances

17

4

New iPod Nano looks like Nokia Lumia!

10

5

Amazon Election Heat Map 2012

6

6

Free ebook: The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript [Kindle Edition]

3

7

Meet the iPhone 5

3

8

The New iPod Nano

2

9

Foundry Group's Brad Feld has a new book on startup communities

2

10

Slicing Pie: Fund Your Company Without Funds

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished?

61

2

French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though Hes Innocent

59

3

IPhone 5 Price Breakdown (UK Only)

24

4

Google Adds Pirate Bay Domains to Censorship List

10

5

Sweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata

4

6

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Lands In Sweden, Immediately Charged By Police

3

7

Dragons Den Company Abuses DMCA to Google to Censor Competitor

3

8

No Duty to Secure Wi-Fi from BitTorrent Pirates, Judge Rules

1

9

Apple: Sorry, Those BitTorrent Apps Were Approved by Mistake

1

10

Injustice Continues as Megaupload User Data Negotiations Go Bust

1

Science News [?]

1

Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers

389

2

Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material

120

3

Creativity Predicts a Longer Life

35

4

The Trouble with Barbie Science

8

5

EarthSun distance (AU) changed from an equation to a number

6

6

Proof claimed for deep connection between primes: abc conjecture proven?

6

7

Scientists make water boil without bubbles

5

8

Self-Control May Not Be a Limited Resource After All

4

9

Human embryonic stem cells restore gerbil hearing

3

10

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

2

Social [?]

1

Welcome to 2035...the Age of Surprise (US Air force video)

8

2

A pong traffic light in Germany

7

3

Unreal Engine 4 - Exclusive Development Walkthrough [video]

5

4

Human Powered Helicopter

5

5

How Facebook sped up off-site clicks by hundreds of ms

5

6

Mars Curiosity Descent - Ultra HD 30fps Smooth-Motion [video]]

4

7

Wealthier redditors, how did you get your wealth? Any tips for a younger person?

4

8

Behind the scenes of a C64 demo

4

9

Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning - Google TechTalk [video]

4

10

Caine's Arcade 2: The Global Cardboard Challenge

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs

571

2

GitHub availability this week

195

3

The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

155

4

Sample iOS 6 Passbook Web Service in Rails

96

5

Live coding (music) with Emacs Live

57

6

A Powerline-style prompt for Bash

53

7

Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

40

8

Slowloris: high-performance HTML5 UIs

39

9

Numbers.vim - A vim plugin for better line numbers

37

10

Vimeo Tailgate - a simple way to watch your logs

17

Wikipedia [?]

1

Valve is worth approximately $8,500,000.00 per employee

30

2

Happy Programmers' Day

2

3

Aquarius - the underwater habitat

2

4

Call-with-current-continuation

1

5

1

6

1

7

Leonard Susskind's Lectures

1

8

The Soviets had a series of 3 crewed spy satellites to watch Earth

1

9

Programmers' Day

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

Black Swan Farming

694

2

Java's Cover (April 2001)

180

3

Black Swan Farming

7

4

What Happened to Yahoo (2010)

3

5

Was the strategy wrong, or the execution? Web vs. Native at Facebook

2

6

2

7

Location, location, location

1

8

What Happened to Yahoo

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How does Dropbox sync photos in background?

5

2

How moderators abuse their powers - 'Closed as Not Constructive'

2

3

Recommended books for software engineering

2

4

Javascript: Why are unexecuted statements slowing down my functions?

2

5

Who does cut the wood? (a meditation on Object Oriented Design)

1

6

Checking the type of a variable in Javascript

1

7

How to deal with iPhone 5 screen size?

1

8

Appending multiple parameters/arguments to a jsonp callback function

1

9

What does "use strict" do in JavaScript, and what is the reasoning behind it?

1

Substack [?]