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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

1049

2

Meeting A Troll

665

3

A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

611

4

Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

458

5

Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups

453

6

StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames

424

7

Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter

402

8

Jetstrap for Bootstrap

401

9

Subtle Patterns

401

10

Does everyone hate MongoDB?

378

Top Ask HN

1

How does an experienced freelancer get work?

137

2

How to deal with losing interest in your passion?

78

3

What are your hobbies?

18

4

I am shutting down. And starting up, again? What do you think?

17

5

Ask HN - Should we flag blogspam?

16

6

Paid code review services for solo developers?

14

7

Do you trust Facebook after lying?

13

8

What programming language do you recommend starting with?

13

9

What do you use for chat?

9

10

Most Innovative Web Frameworks in 2012?

9

Top Show HN

1

Ejecta, A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas Implementation for iOS

185

2

Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game

183

3

Online C/C++ to assembly visualizer [Weekend Project]

148

4

A Genetic approach to CSS compression

59

5

goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer

56

6

I got tired of missing new music releases, so I built this

56

7

Docverter: Convert your text content to PDF/HTML/EPUB with one REST API

55

8

My Guild Wars 2 data viz weekend experiment using D3 and SVG filters

48

9

Interactive Visualization of Influence in Programming Languages

47

10

Hosting my WordPress blog entirely on Amazon S3

38

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tesla reveals Supercharger network, Free Fill Ups

453

2

How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future

196

3

Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First

192

4

Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California

178

5

Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new line of worry for Microsoft

128

6

Java flaw allows complete bypass of security sandbox

128

7

Microsofts cloud service SkyDrive is great, and no one has noticed

126

8

Twilios Biggest Partnership: AT&T Will Resell Its Cloud Telecom Apps And API

122

9

Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days

106

10

Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

105

News [?]

1

A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD

286

2

Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High

236

3

How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat

182

4

Driverless Cars Get Green Light in California

137

5

The Joy of Quiet

130

6

European entrepreneurs: Les misrables

121

7

Eating for Health, Not Weight

106

8

Marissa Mayer: Yahoo Products Must Ship In 6 Months, Or Don't Bother

102

9

As We May Think (1945)

102

10

Why Kids Should Grade Teachers

94

Scientific publications [?]

1

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

105

2

Weve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

76

3

Researchers propose a way to build the first space-time crystal

52

4

Did That Rent-To-Own Computer Spy on You?

15

5

Newfound Comet Could Look Spectacular in 2013

6

6

Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi

6

7

Curiosity Finds Ancient Streambed on Martian Surface

5

8

Finally Willow Garage's Suitable Technology (Texai) released for $16K

4

9

Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe

4

10

Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

SHA-3 to Be Announced

239

2

Stripe partners with Chilling Effects

174

3

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)

169

4

Nvidia Tegra With Open-Source Graphics Is Coming

32

5

Design Principles Behind Firefox OS UX Design

14

6

Design Principles Behind Firefox OS UX

9

7

A new lifeline in Japan

5

8

Chinese Hackers Blamed for Intrusion at Energy Industry Giant Telvent

4

9

Happy Second Birthday CloudFlare

3

10

Bazaar on the slow track

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

ABC News uses iCloud to track a stolen iPad to TSA officer's home

53

2

The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed

45

3

Turning a shipping container into a 3D printer

38

4

Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps

15

5

How Google was "skyhooked" by Apple's new iOS 6 Maps

14

6

RoboHornet: The Next Big Thing In Browser Benchmarking

6

7

Apple Launches App Store Feature Section for Alternative Maps

3

8

Apple's Lightning port dynamically assigns pins to allow for reversible use

2

9

AnandTech - Samsung SSD 840 Pro (256GB) Review

2

10

A Deep Dive into Facebook and Datalogix: What's Actually Getting Shared

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

611

2

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million

63

3

The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

42

4

New AWS service? Video Cloud Delivery.

4

5

$600 Million Physics Book on Amazon (With Humorous Review)

2

6

Amazon startup challenge 2012: more prizes

2

7

Amazon to launch AWS-backed BrightCove competitor? Job listing show hints.

2

8

Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS

1

9

Amazon Relational Database Service

1

10

Amazon Robots.txt - Disallow certain product reviews?

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done

90

2

September 26th is Petrov Day

7

3

Kim Dotcom Teases Megabox, Reveals Exclusive Artists?

6

4

Google Brazil's position on censorship and freedom of expression

4

5

Computronium: computers that mimic programmable blocks of physical reality

2

6

New Zealand Prime Minister Apologizes To Kim Dotcom

2

7

Movie Pirates Handed Jail Sentences, Ordered To Pay 1.1 Million Euros

2

8

Mediacom Disconnects and Bans Alleged Internet Pirates

1

9

Addiction is .... (2001)

1

10

The CRIME attack

1

Science News [?]

1

Entire field of particle physics is to switch to open-access publishing

240

2

It Takes 275 Water Molecules To Make Ice

65

3

Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test

64

4

Male DNA Commonly Found in Womens Brains

33

5

Tron-like map of bike journeys reveals London's hubs

4

6

Obama and Romney on Science

4

7

Using artificial intelligence to chart the universe

4

8

Unusual Indian Ocean earthquakes hint at tectonic breakup

3

9

Electronic components that dissolve in the body

3

10

First mammal observed to be regenerating lost tissue

3

Social [?]

1

144

2

Photos from inside North Korean Ryugyong Hotel

24

3

Creators of Bootstrap Leaving Twitter

9

4

Advice on being smart

9

5

IOS6 security vulnerability in 2 seconds

8

6

Simon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless

6

7

Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'

6

8

RIM Message To Developers Via Music Video

5

9

Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures by Kent Beck

5

10

Microsoft trying to certify Minecraft

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Slate: Tiling window management for OS X

168

2

Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics

152

3

Hacking WinRAR for fun and profit

135

4

The GitHub hiring experience

122

5

How we ship GitHub for Windows

83

6

Sweet.js: Hygienic Macros for JavaScript

82

7

Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)

79

8

Stanford CS240h, Functional Systems in Haskell

77

9

Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X

72

10

ServiceStack: new REST API for .NET/Mono

65

Wikipedia [?]

1

ToomCook multiplication

54

2

Cubic mile of oil

15

3

10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII

11

4

The inventor of hypertext

6

5

Negative capability

3

6

Upvote and share if you get something good

2

7

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

2

8

2

9

Producer-consumer problem

2

10

IP over Pigeons

2

Blogs [?]

1

Startup = Growth

1

2

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does HTML think chucknorris is a color?

13

2

Haskell Parsec vs Yacc/Bison/Antlr: why and when to use Parsec?

2

3

Chrome's New Reload Options For Developers

2

4

How does Apple find dates, times and addresses in emails

1

5

Mobile Safari renders scaled on Canvas?

1

6

Stylus: --watch automatically recompile the wrong file

1

7

Bringing UIManagedDocument to OS X

1

8

Sync blocking IO in pure Javascript (nodejs) without c code?

1

9

Why doesn't Ruby include class reloading as a language feature?

1

Substack [?]