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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface

824

2

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps

812

3

Everything's broken and nobody's upset

648

4

Startup = Growth

579

5

485

6

The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain

474

7

Kickstarter is Not a Store

420

8

Xkcd: Click and Drag

412

9

Introducing the Command Bar

408

10

AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents

388

Top Ask HN

1

I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice?

50

2

very qualified but can't find a decent job. What do I do wrong?

42

3

Help, I'm a developer who can't pay rent

36

4

Do you believe in God?

14

5

Has anybody develop their own business while on a job? got tips?

13

6

My first time developing a rails app. What do you think?

12

7

Starting a hacker school for underprivileged kids?

11

8

Interesting iOS App Ideas?

10

9

Whose Hacker News Comments Do You Follow?

9

10

Moving to Linux full time

9

Top Show HN

1

Learned Objective C as a high schooler and made this iPhone game

153

2

EasyPost - the Stripe for postage

152

3

5000 best movies

146

4

Quantblocks - Backtest your trading strategies

94

5

Virtual tabletop gaming

70

6

My first try at a WordPress plugin

68

7

AzureFS I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux

60

8

Screenleap launches simple API for adding screen sharing to your site

56

9

Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

53

10

A Monthly Tee from your favorite YC startup

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies

269

2

Hardware is dead

248

3

Coursera: 33 Universities, 200 Courses, 1.3 Million Students

93

4

LinkedIn referrals to Facebook pages up 1000% while Twitters plummet

85

5

Twitter responds to IFFFT

78

6

Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities

75

7

William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and "Gangnam Style"

70

8

Antivirus software deletes itself

64

9

Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS

64

10

California launches online voter registration

64

News [?]

1

Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways

344

2

New Apple maps app under fire from users

297

3

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

273

4

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

234

5

Rethinking Sleep

232

6

Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings

167

7

The Writing Revolution

90

8

How easy it is to set up untraceable companies

89

9

Has Apple Peaked?

78

10

Manchester (England) Airport's body scanners scrapped

69

Scientific publications [?]

1

Yahoo closes $7.6 billion deal with Alibaba Group

38

2

Escalation: China cyberattacks hit Japan in island row: police

4

3

Warp Drive More Possible Than Previously Thought

3

4

Meet Baxter, the robot built by Rodney Brooks to revolutionize manufacturing

3

5

Startup wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot

2

6

Rethink Robotics Announces Baxter Robot Helper, We Go Hands-On in Boston

2

7

Scientists develop method for fabricating individual magnetic quantum dots

2

8

God exists with probability 1/(H+1)

2

9

Your Kid Wants a Thymio II Education Robot

1

10

Immersive anatomy using a cluster of volume visualization machines

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe in Canada

346

2

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

239

3

New Twitter for iPad

11

4

Rich Hickey: Reducers - A Library and Model for Collection Processing

10

5

Twitter Blog: Because you have more to show

4

6

Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

4

7

Microsoft Issues Stopgap Fix for IE 0-Day Flaw

2

8

A Crazy Qt-Based 3D Wayland "Maze" Compositor

2

9

Malware Dragnet Snags Millions of Infected PCs

2

10

Mozilla metrics team's Firefox Health Report

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google has an iOS 6 Maps app awaiting approval

214

2

New study affirms that fewer copyright restrictions benefit the economy

130

3

700+ hp electric Honda S2000 built by high school senior

64

4

Apple A6 SoC outperforms Intel Atom in JavaScript test

38

5

Analyzing the iPhone 5 Geekbench Results

32

6

Authentication chips discovered in teardown of Apple's new Lightning connector

13

7

Google to pay largest fine in FTC history for bypassing Safari privacy settings

11

8

3d printer filament made of wood

6

9

The iOS 6 Review: Maps Thoroughly Investigated and More

5

10

Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 Now Available

61

2

iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours

11

3

Get $50 for Publishing an Android App

7

4

2

5

The Launch Pad: Inside YC - ebook

2

6

There is no download link on Apple Safari page

2

7

FranklinCovey Style Guide ebook free today

1

8

Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement With Research In Motion

1

9

IOS 6.0, OSX 10.8.2 are Available

1

10

Microsoft to focus corporate philanthropy on youth

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

313

2

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

163

3

Prominent Anti-Piracy Chief Suspected of Drug Crime

7

4

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

6

5

Search 354,000 Broadcasts from Internet Archive

5

6

Choice blindness

4

7

Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Overly Secret and Unfair, Says Professor

2

8

How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

2

9

Hackers Leak 38,000 Passwords From Large Private BitTorrent Tracker

2

10

Pirate Party Politician Goes After Book Pirates

2

Science News [?]

1

A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan

163

2

How to confuse a moral compass: Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal

91

3

The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus

8

4

Women speak less when they're outnumbered

7

5

'Blue Brain' project accurately reconstructs brain circuit from model

6

6

Computing prime factors with a quantum processor

4

7

Graphite soaked in water may be a room temperature superconductor

3

8

Moving plane exchanges quantum keys with Earth

3

9

Study concludes the majority of biomedical findings cannot be reproduced

2

10

Bacteria replicate close to the physical limit of efficiency

2

Social [?]

1

Gangnam Startup Style - Silicon Valley Loves PSY

23

2

Monitoring cache with Claspin

10

3

Khan Academy-style intro videos on Machine Learning

9

4

LEGO Great Ball Contraption

8

5

The NFL yellow line explained

6

6

Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor

6

7

Want to Block Common Passwords? Sorry, That is Patented

6

8

Banned iPhone 5 Promo

5

9

How to Raise $10,000 on Kickstarter

5

10

Fox News: iPhone 5 to feature Laser Keyboard, Holographic Display

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Introducing the Command Bar

408

2

Github redesigns Profiles

165

3

GitHub Launch Page

139

4

Don't like iOS6's (lack of) transit directions? You need this.

133

5

Actually, you don't understand lexical scope

105

6

PlainTasks - opinionated todo-list plugin for Sublime Text 2

82

7

Bashttpd - An http server in bash

72

8

Contributing Guidelines

54

9

Stubb: Build REST API mocks using your file system

44

10

Easier builds and deployments using Git over HTTPS and OAuth

40

Wikipedia [?]

1

The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain

474

2

Clock on iOS6 iPads is an homage to a 1944 design by Hans Hilfiker

23

3

19

4

Hyperreal numbers

3

5

How much bits are needed to perfectly recreate the human brain?

2

6

Pareto principle

2

7

Rope memory: how programs were stored on the Apollo (via Reddit)

1

8

Lun class ekranoplan

1

9

Aozora Alliance Bunko / Japanese digital library.

1

10

Alcubierre drive update

1

Blogs [?]

1

Startup = Growth

579

2

Are Software Patents Evil? (06)

5

3

The XOXO Internet

5

4

Velocity vs. Quality

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

iOS6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results

68

2

IOS 6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results

18

3

IOS6 Safari caches POST requests

5

4

POST AJAX requests are now broken in iOS 6

4

5

Finding n-th smallest element in an array

1

6

Why avoid increment (++) and decrement (--) operators in JavaScript?

1

7

Using node.js to serve content from a Backbone.js app to search crawlers for SEO

1

8

Getting Ruby 1.8.7 installed on Mountain Lion (10.8)

1

9

Using God to monitor Unicorn - Start exited with non-zero code = 1

1

10

Is Microsoft StreamInsight ready for primetime?

1

Substack [?]