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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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How cork is made
507
2
Is the use of utf8= preferable to utf8=true?
454
3
Anatomy of a Hoax (Sony Nexus phone)
442
4
Some advice from Jeff Bezos
437
5
Hacker News Data Analysis
417
6
New $250 Chromebook
413
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A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
399
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Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander?
357
9
Small
342
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Simplify your life with an SSH config file
321
Top Ask HN
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Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?
174
2
Learning to write good JavaScript
160
3
Review my startup, drone.io
22
4
Before you launch a site, what are final actions you take?
21
5
Review my startup, ReminderBook
18
6
Do you want a more affordable solution for user testing your website?
16
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Judge my Upcoming App's Landing Page
15
8
Where do you freelancers find your clients/work?
13
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Are tech companies becoming more unrealistic in hiring?
12
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What kind of hackathon do you like?
11
Top Show HN
1
A simple lightweight CSS grid, not a bloated framework
131
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create, share, explore database patterns
122
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Sift through recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability, etc.
109
4
Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)
108
5
What would Paul Graham do?
107
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One OAuth API for Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Email
90
7
StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized
82
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The Five Year Itch
82
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Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github
79
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idea for the future of document editing
79
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center
265
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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released
187
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A science committee that doesnt get science
178
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Apple Said to Acquire Color
150
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Apple says no Java for you, removes plugin from browsers on OS X 10.7 and up
114
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Why things fail
112
7
Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega
100
8
Exoplanet found right next door in Alpha Centauri
99
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As Surface Goes On Sale Today, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent The Tablet
80
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Sim City adopts a tilt-shift style look and feel
79
News [?]
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A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space
399
2
My son is schizophrenic. The reforms that I worked for have worsened his life.
317
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Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
284
4
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
271
5
FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted
238
6
Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US
181
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The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent
142
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Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East
131
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New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous
124
10
Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureates View
106
Scientific publications [?]
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Homemade thermal camera
84
2
The NASA spacesuits
3
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Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
3
4
Who Killed the Virtual Case File?
2
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GM to hire 3,000 workers from HP
2
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Darpa Robotics Challenge Update, New Video of Petman/Atlas Humanoid in Action
1
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Physicists crack another piece of the glass puzzle
1
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IEEE Spectrum: Advertisers Against Making Do Not Track Browsers' Default
1
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Meteor Shower Created by Halleys Comet Peaks This Week
1
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Integrated optical vortices on a chip (w/ Video)
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Master Keys
170
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Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7
117
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Apple Turns on iPhone Tracking in iOS6
59
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Stripe NYC Meetup
20
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Chinese University Students Make A Java Version Of Core LLVM
19
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A teardown of Samsung's new f2fs flash filesystem for Linux
7
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"Computing Like the Brain" - keynote video from Strange Loop
6
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers (by the creator of V8 and Dart)
5
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Firefox Marketplace Opens Doors with Aurora Release
4
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Almost all large Bitcoin transactions are directly related
4
Tech blogs [?]
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Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January)
59
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Color acqhired for $2-5M
47
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'iPad Mini' Pricing to Begin at Approximately $329
18
4
Anandtech - The iPhone 5 Review
11
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Ad Industry's Assault on "Do Not Track" Continues at the W3C Amsterdam Meeting
6
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IOS 'uber hacker' Comex no longer working for Apple
5
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Inside Microsoft's Surface RT Tablet
3
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Apple Java update removes Java from OS X
2
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The Federal Circuit to Take on Software Patents ... Again
2
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Google reboots the chromebook
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Surface Pricing Announced - $499 USD
85
2
AWS Case Study: Spotify
4
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Amazon review spat: author Nicholas Nissam Taleb versus economist Herbert Gintis
4
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Microsoft Surface available for pre-order
2
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Microsoft to acquire StorSimple, a cloud storage
2
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Avery Durable View Binder
2
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Microsoft Employees Raise $1 Billion for Communities Around the World
2
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Apple donates when you buy red products
1
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Avery Durable View Binder with 2 Inch EZ-Turn Ring, White, 1 Binder (17032)
1
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Don't Make Startup Equity Mistakes
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement
158
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Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
144
3
Microsoft Bans Halo 4 Pirates, and Some Idiots Absolutely Deserved It
63
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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers
51
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Netflix Caught Using Pirated Subtitles in Finland
29
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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers
5
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File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers
4
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File-Sharers More Likely to Pay for Movies, Books, Games and Concerts
2
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Wikipedia DevCamp in Bangalore, 9-11 November 2012
2
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Music Biz Dumps First Contested Copyright Case After Botched 3 Strikes Procedure
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Science News [?]
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Your Fat Needs Sleep Too
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Tractor beam built from rings of laser light
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Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy
3
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Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing
2
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'I'm fortunate to survive': Nobel winners speak out
2
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What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed
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Earth-sized planet discovered in nearby Centauri star system
2
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Carbon clock gets reset
2
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How the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to 'Bend Reality'
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Moon-forming impact theory rescued
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Social [?]
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A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956
44
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New LinkedIn Profile Page Design
10
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How McDonalds fries are made.
10
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Meet the New LinkedIn Profile
9
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Game rejected from App Store for making fun of in-app purchases
9
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Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great? - first Onion TED parody talk
7
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Reddit testing bitcoin tip service
7
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Meteor possibly seen in Silicon Valley
6
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YouTube was down
6
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Unedited 2005 interview with Paul Graham
5
Github repos and gists [?]
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Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site
195
2
Pattern - Web Mining Python lib
179
3
The Django Book is getting updated
155
4
Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla)
104
5
Rsvp.js
87
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Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK
65
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React/GifSocket: GifSockets in PHP
40
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Survey: Simple iOS Forms library
35
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Twilio's Shadow: A proxy that aids continuous deployment testing
28
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HAML vs ERB vs SLIM in terms of render speed
28
Wikipedia [?]
1
Billion laughs
270
2
Toba catastrophe theory
64
3
Juliane Koepcke - survived a 10K foot freefall from an airliner
9
4
ReDoS: regular expression denial of service
8
5
Scientist who got a Nobel Prize for finding NGF is 103 and takes it every day
7
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Cobra Effect: when a solution for solving a problem could actually make it worse
3
7
Named-entity recognition
2
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Functional fixedness
2
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The Library of Babel
2
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Co-recursion
2
Blogs [?]
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The desire to know it all in programming
2
2
Apple's Mistake
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?
112
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Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior?
81
3
Is a glossy or matte LCD screen better for long coding sessions?
34
4
Why not port the Linux kernel to Common Lisp?
8
5
For extremists only: containers, calculus, comonads and combinatorics ahoy
6
6
Why is C# suddenly so popular?
3
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Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?
2
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How to make XKCD style graphs in R - Stackoverflow
2
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JavaScript closures vs. anonymous functions
2
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Javascript in Chrome and Safari uses Selection Sort because it's "less code"
2
Substack [?]