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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
HN Spoof
672
2
Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
655
3
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
576
4
Xkcd style graphs
575
5
The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
564
6
Chrome DevTools could do that?
504
7
Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups
487
8
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
480
9
TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
464
10
Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies
415
Top Ask HN
1
Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
250
2
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)
112
3
what is a good spot to work in New York?
78
4
An online 'doers' community for bootstrapping developers?
58
5
Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice?
43
6
Landing page for our upcoming app. What do you think?
41
7
Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses?
40
8
What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments
39
9
Are there programming jobs for Math PhDs?
26
10
Fat founder, does it hurt getting funding?
21
Top Show HN
1
Meet your cardboard buddy.
233
2
I built a stock market game based on the top 50,000 websites
180
3
Powderkeg, a realtime, synchronous, multiplayer HTML5 action game
142
4
Summaries of interesting content, written by people
125
5
What's Your Browser's Age?
55
6
WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air
45
7
Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates
41
8
Get Maid - Uber for Maid Service in NYC
33
9
Storylane - People sharing things that matter
32
10
Add 3D gestures to your applications
25
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
I am calling you from Windows: A tech support scammer
239
2
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius
196
3
Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections
192
4
How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
162
5
Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to increase Likes
119
6
Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser'
118
7
Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America
112
8
New Apple Developer Guideline Bans Apps That Promote Other Apps
111
9
The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing
100
10
Netbot: An App.net Client from Tweetbot Creators
95
News [?]
1
Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous?
480
2
The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled
243
3
This picture is worth a thousand pictures
235
4
America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs
205
5
To Encourage Biking, Cities Lose the Helmets
196
6
Stop Pagination Now
185
7
The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle
162
8
After a spectacular crash, Bitcoin makes a surprising comeback
140
9
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban lifted in the US
113
10
How 'Human Flesh Search' Is Changing China
83
Scientific publications [?]
1
First SpaceX launch to supply Space Station is next Sunday
138
2
Fast Algorithms for the Maximum Clique Problem on Massive Sparse Graphs
71
3
PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones
18
4
Long-term effects of Cannabis
15
5
How 'The Big Bang Theory' Sent Howard Wolowitz to Space
5
6
Best Practices for Scientific Computing
4
7
HP releases open source OS
3
8
Photovoltaic Spin Cell generates 20x more electricity per cell than flat panels
3
9
Means to 'gently' measure cubit without destroying superposition
2
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NASA Mulls Deep-Space Station on the Far Side of the Moon
2
Dev Blogs [?]
1
When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?
165
2
BrowserID: A new web authentication scheme (2011)
35
3
Optimizing JavaScript variable access
4
4
How [Linux] 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL
2
5
The Impedance Mismatch is Our Fault
2
6
Faux Apps Found Hijacking Chrome, Spamming Tumblr
2
7
Research Suggests that GPUs May Represent the Future of Online Authentication
2
8
Humble Indie Bundle 6 Ends At $2 Million USD
2
9
Entirely Predictable Failures (video)
2
10
Mobile Webdev: The Horror
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Pulse jet tea kettle
65
2
Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel
59
3
L.I.O.S.: The ten-ish dollar robot
40
4
ZTE Firefox OS Smartphone Specs Emerge
22
5
Discover what apps people nearby are using with App Map for iPhone
4
6
ITunes bug prevents new app downloads. May not affect non-US accounts
3
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Apple Turning to Select Retail Store Employees to Help Improve Maps for iOS 6
3
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Apple no longer calls iOS6 Maps the most beautiful,mapping service ever
2
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Apple's new iOS 6 Maps support automatic offline use for a wide area
2
10
Google Maps website shows Samsung laptop running Apple OS X
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
576
2
Microsoft.com gets a makeover
6
3
Amazon S3 Now does http redirects
5
4
Remembering Steve: A message from Tim Cook
2
5
Remembering Steve
2
6
The New iTunes
1
7
A National Talent Strategy Ideas for Securing U.S.
1
8
The One World Schoolhouse
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Pirate Bay Founder Wins Back Passport from Swedish Embassy
87
2
Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody
60
3
The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime
50
4
PRQ Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites
11
5
Anti-Downloading Law Hits Japan, Up To 2 Years in Prison
8
6
Police Raid PRQ (a Swedish Company) Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites
5
7
Problems with iPhone 5
4
8
Geoffrey Moore: To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
2
9
Union Square Ventures -- online education materials
2
10
Kim Dotcoms Gaming Lag Hints at New Spying Controversy
2
Science News [?]
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The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue
15
2
More Certainty On Uncertainty's Quantum Mechanical Role
12
3
How do our brains process music?
6
4
Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick
6
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Superman-Strength Bacteria Produce 24-Karat Gold
5
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Quantum measurements leave Schrdinger's cat alive
5
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Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Traced to Roman Times
4
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It may be more natural for humans to think logarithmically than linearly
2
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Sal Khan: Why School Should Be More Like Summer Camp
2
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Fraud, not error, is the main cause of scientific retractions
2
Social [?]
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Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users
154
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How to Model Viral Growth: The Hybrid Model
54
3
Facebook Graph API exploit that let's you pump up to 1800 'Likes' in an hour
23
4
Launch Pad author live Q&A about life inside YC
11
5
Wanderlust and how to break out of the system
7
6
I am a multimillionaire AMAA
6
7
Movie extra rises to #8 on IMDB due to Reddit
5
8
Google making fun of iOS6 maps
5
9
Beyond Scared Straight Computer Hacker [video]
5
10
Paul Erds: N is a number - full documentary
5
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Bootstrap Toggle Buttons
177
2
ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file
115
3
HTML5 Google Authenticator
68
4
Google Maps heatmap of GitHub repository stargazers
26
5
Style like a BOSS. New css preprocessor.
19
6
Share your Git Repos Quickly with Friends behind Firewalls
14
7
The Ying-Yang of CEOs and Engineers
12
8
Presidential Election Monte Carlo Simulator in Go
11
9
Open source FPGA 'assembler'
8
10
iOS6 Breaks setTimeout
6
Wikipedia [?]
1
Zip Bomb
332
2
Perl 6
5
3
The U.S. Prison Labour Firm Whose Products Federal Agencies Are Required to Buy
2
4
A Mathematician's Apology
2
5
Billion laughs
2
6
BBC Domesday Project - Preserving Census Data Between 1984 and 1986
1
7
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
1
8
Naked objects
1
9
Shannon number
1
10
Robert Tappan Morris
1
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Xkcd style graphs in Matlab
25
2
Synchronization on local variables in Java
6
3
Hidden features of Python
2
4
Checking and adding windows firewall rule
1
Substack [?]