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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

677

2

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

577

3

Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

552

4

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org

517

5

Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data

463

6

Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

388

7

The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich

375

8

Programmer Competency Matrix

355

9

Be nice to programmers

353

10

If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This

350

Top Ask HN

1

Your best passive income sources?

234

2

What did the really successful programmers do differently?

215

3

Can I visit your startup in SF?

89

4

Got unexpected feedback - where do I go from here?

40

5

What startups are highly profitible but VCs won't touch?

33

6

Just bought my first Mac. What should I know?

27

7

Review my startup, TeamDoList.com

25

8

Where are the opportunities outside of Silicon Valley?

18

9

How are your friends making money online?

16

10

Do you know of any startups targeting problems of young married couples?

12

Top Show HN

1

We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

451

2

UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

166

3

A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

132

4

Mantaphrase, an app that lets you converse in a foreign language

120

5

LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How to Code

96

6

Crowdsourced Object Recognition

74

7

GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript

74

8

From an idea to the Valley in less than a month

61

9

Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.

56

10

flipgrid.js, an experimental minimalist photo gallery

53

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org

517

2

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory

163

3

The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation

148

4

Auto Dealers Whine That Tesla Stores Are Illegal

141

5

Canonical asks desktop users to pay what you think Ubuntu is worth

124

6

One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch

123

7

US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban

121

8

Organism without a brain creates external memories for navigation

108

9

How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World

99

10

10 hours later, Google Patches Chrome to Plug Pwnium 2 Security Hole

97

News [?]

1

Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

336

2

The Patent, Used as a Sword

177

3

Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery

164

4

Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch

163

5

Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one

140

6

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong

139

7

NASA: Mars rover Curiosity finds bright object

113

8

Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week

111

9

Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On

107

10

Facebook fought SEC to keep Mobile risks hidden before IPO

91

Scientific publications [?]

1

ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST)

176

2

Physicists extend special relativity

59

3

Deconstructing Recommender Systems

4

4

Mars rock touched by Curiosity has surprises

4

5

Contact Lenses That Reshape The Eye to Stop Nearsightedness

3

6

NASA - SpaceX Launches to the International Space Station

2

7

25 Microchips That Shook the World (2009)

2

8

Mando's chainless e-bike is headed for Europe in 2013 (w/ Video)

2

9

The Greening of the Cloud

2

10

More Support Emerges for Low-Power Server Chips

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Button (beta)

279

2

How Linux 3.6 Nearly Broke PostgreSQL

217

3

Firefox debuts new developer toolbar

192

4

186

5

Stripe adds OAuth support: Stripe Connect

41

6

Linux Kernel 3.5.6 Approaching End of Life, Fast

8

7

An Attempt To Push Ubuntu As A Gaming Platform

4

8

Linux Developers Still Reject Nvidia Using DMA-BUF

4

9

Twitter Open Sources Clutch

3

10

Firefox 16.0.1 Update

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Dancing Baby Video Battle Back in Court Tuesday

55

2

HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 protects 1,500 more sites

29

3

Lodsys Offers Update on In-App Purchase Patent Dispute

21

4

Emulators 101: how to write a program that functions like an NES CPU

11

5

Appeals Court Overturns Sales Ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus

3

6

Reverse Engineering a Radeon HD 2400 to Drive it From a Microcontroller

2

7

Last Year Google and Apple Spent More on Patents than R&D

1

8

HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 protects 1,500 more sites

1

9

In-depth Review: Apple's iOS 6 Maps & the alternatives

1

10

Apple's Lightning Authentication Reportedly Cracked

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6 Enables Seeing in the Dark

54

2

AWS Start-Up Challenge

51

3

Same day shipping details for Amazon (order before 7am in some cities)

5

4

Amazon RDS for MySQL Now Supports Read Replica Promotion

3

5

Amazon's note to Kindle users about E-book settlements

3

6

Mastered for iTunes

2

7

Walking the Social Media Beat - The Police and Law Enforcement Guide to Twitter

1

8

George Church's new book about synthetic biology

1

9

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Technical Manual

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Symbian, a post-mortem

84

2

Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money

35

3

Microsoft DMCA Notice Mistakenly Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia...

7

4

AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites

5

5

SOPA Is Back As a Ransomware Virus

4

6

Show Doing Well On BitTorrent? Well Buy It, Says Media Giant

3

7

BitTorrent Piracy Evidence to be Tested in Court

2

8

3D Printer DRM Patent To Stop People Downloading a Car

2

9

AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites

2

10

Police Follow PRQ Action With New Raid, Anti-Piracy Group Says More to Come

1

Science News [?]

1

The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue

142

2

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge

108

3

Language learning makes the brain grow, Swedish study suggests

66

4

How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution

16

5

Reality revealed: The ultimate fabric of the universe (video)

10

6

DNA has a 521-year half-life

8

7

Wasp has hints of a clockwork brain

5

8

The mysterious case of the missing noble gas

5

9

Quantum Computing With Ions (2008)

4

10

Rejection improves eventual impact of manuscripts

4

Social [?]

1

How to Model Viral Growth: Deriving the Viral Carrying Capacity

52

2

Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay [video]

11

3

Anonymous shuts down Facebook.com

10

4

Capuchin Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay

8

5

Hacking Exposed - Exploiting Embedded control systems

7

6

Conway's Game Of Life written in one line of APL

7

7

All Djangocon US Videos 2012

6

8

SmoothLife - Conway's Game of Life variant with floats instead of ints

6

9

What's a Tensor? (video)

5

10

Cory Doctorow, AMA

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.

216

2

NSQ: Realtime distributed message processing at scale (in Go)

105

3

92

4

Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware

87

5

Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local

84

6

Nginx port of mod_pagespeed

77

7

Web Server in your Browser (Chrome Apps API)

52

8

Github ClassicMap, Google Map tile rendering for iOS6

48

9

Google Play doesn't have an API. So I built one.

46

10

Japanese geek recruiting boyfriend at github.

33

Wikipedia [?]

1

20

2

Nuclear thermal rocket

3

3

Tears in rain soliloquy

2

4

John Gurdon pioneer of biological cloning awarded Nobel Prize in medicine

1

5

Toilet paper orientation (Knuth's contribution)

1

6

1

7

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

1

8

1

9

An useful maths theory; I don't know of any real-world applications (yet)

1

10

Failed theory to remember in discussions concerning evolution

1

Blogs [?]

1

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)

66

2

Silicon Valley Prefers Obama 2 to 1

57

3

Attract Talents (Medium)

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

577

2

Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk?

58

3

How do I find the memory usage of an application on Android?

2

4

Naming classes and methods is difficult (2009)

2

5

Secure distribution of node.js apps

1

6

What is Linux's native GUI API?

1

7

The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication

1

Substack [?]