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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

857

2

Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

744

3

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

594

4

Waking up at 5am to code

587

5

Cars kill cities

536

6

507

7

409

8

ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content

405

9

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking

405

10

Larry Page to Googlers: If You Dont Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else

405

Top Ask HN

1

Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (video)

59

2

Are the HN forums losing their civility?

51

3

Which communities like HN do you follow?

24

4

Would it make sense to have a "Wall of Fame" section on HN?

22

5

To where should I migrate my email?

18

6

How come ACTA isn't being taken as seriously as SOPA?

15

7

work/sleep/continued productivity tips for new hacker dad

15

8

Candidates with no sample code?

14

9

How do you host your own side-projects?

14

10

My cofounder is pregnant, what should I do?

13

Top Show HN

1

We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

397

2

my database engine for GPU

359

3

I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

330

4

Craigslist Car Search

228

5

SocialFolders, "Dropbox for social"

178

6

Instant documentation site for Github projects

155

7

I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

119

8

I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer

83

9

Glider, a better email client

78

10

I built an easier way to browse ThemeForest

78

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking

405

2

YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals

302

3

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

259

4

Steve Jobs personally asked Eric Schmidt to stop poaching employees

240

5

Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service?

206

6

Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom

180

7

Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement

175

8

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired

165

9

Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives

137

10

Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System

135

News [?]

1

How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?

367

2

Average Is Over

220

3

138

4

Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted

118

5

Physicists create light out of nothing

94

6

Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

86

7

Patagonia Tests New Sustainable Legal Status

85

8

Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers

82

9

Making It in America

80

10

Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control

79

Scientific publications [?]

1

Pac-Man is NP-hard

9

2

Mystery Surrounds Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane's Landing Plan

3

3

NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record

2

4

Record-Setting Terahertz Transmitters

2

5

Asteroid danger to earth

2

6

Can neutrons disappear into another universe?

1

7

'Amazing' Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Year 9 on Red Planet

1

8

IBM Makes Tiny (Though Impractical) 12-Atom Magnetic Bit

1

9

NASA Telescope Discovers 26 Planets

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter introduces targeted censorship

20

2

Parser Combinators: How to Parse (nearly) Anything

5

3

Event-Driven Programming in Clojure

5

4

Tweets still must flow

4

5

LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

4

6

Id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns

3

7

Ensuring data reaches disk

2

8

GDB 7.4 Released

2

9

Hack Week At Twitter

2

10

Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint".

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Digital Devices

222

2

Apple Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on $46.33 Billion in Revenue

11

3

Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime: Tell the Copyright Office to Free Your Devices

9

4

Virgin America Names Jet After Steve Jobs

7

5

Steve Jobs looked to reinvent Apples iPhone photography

7

6

Tim Cook:We care about every worker in our supply chain

4

7

A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices Across the US Border

3

8

Dutch Courts Join Pirate Bay Blocking Bandwagon

3

9

Apple's overseas manufacturing operations offer flexibility, not just savings

2

10

Multi-Touch Page Flipping an eBook (concept)

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

280

2

AWS Storage Gateway

102

3

Confessions of a Former Amazon Technologist (Free Kindle Ebook)

5

4

AWS Storage Gateway

2

5

Project Management

1

6

Data Privacy Day (DPD) 2012 | Data Protection | Consumer Privacy

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car

199

2

The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography

164

3

Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets

152

4

MegaUpload users plan to sue the FBI over lost files

131

5

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

89

6

Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship

72

7

Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action

20

8

MegaUpload Loses Top Lawyer After ‘Outside’ Pressure

18

9

Dan Bull Releases His Own Megaupload Song

13

10

Uploaded.to Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown

9

Science News [?]

1

Graphene: Supermaterial goes superpermeable

47

2

Arsenic life does not exist after all...

42

3

Compression garments reduce muscle fatigue

29

4

Scientists call for 60-day suspension of mutant flu research

8

5

The Other Vitruvian Man

7

6

FBI releases plans to monitor social networks

5

7

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

3

8

The Power of Introverts

2

9

Victory for crowdsourced biomolecule design

2

10

Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says study

2

Social [?]

1

US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"

245

2

Polychart - A browser-based platform for exploring data and creating charts

26

3

Shit Silicon Valley Says

15

4

Shit Programmers Say - YouTube

11

5

Shit Programmers Say

11

6

Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech (xtranormal video)

10

7

Bus Driver with 37 Years of Programming Experience?

9

8

Shit Programmers Say

8

9

Sh*t Entrepreneurs Say

6

10

Shit Entrepreneurs Say

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Google at GitHub

240

2

Roy: Small functional language that compiles to JavaScript

84

3

WebOS's JavaScript framework enyo is now OpenSource

77

4

IRB session to existing ruby process.

72

5

Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync

68

6

HTTP 7xx: developer errors

65

7

Git-number: Use numbers for dealing with files in git

43

8

Websockets zeromq proxying

24

9

DNS got you down? Share ip addresses with freedom.txt

21

10

Math.mk - GNUmake eval gone wild

17

Wikipedia [?]

1

ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content

405

2

11

3

World's most mysterious manuscript

4

4

List of Business Failures

2

5

Overjustification effect

2

6

Partial list of people who have declined a British honour

2

7

January 28th is Data Privacy Day

2

8

Dunbar's number

1

9

Apple joins the list of Largest Corporate Quarterly Earnings of All Time

1

10

The Impostor Syndrome

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Hacker's Guide to Investors

2

2

An old PG essay very applicable to today in regards to copyright

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of Python

14

2

Efficient represention for growing circles in 2D space?

13

3

Why is [Windows 8/Metro] WinRT unmanaged?

7

4

Facebook developers disable my timeline and where do I complain

4

5

Is it safe to #define NULL nullptr?

2

6

How do I get started with Node.js (stackoverflow)

1

Substack [?]