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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Outlawed by Amazon DRM

1426

2

The Future of Markdown

869

3

Tell HN: Let's Be Civil

661

4

Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others

582

5

Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong

514

6

How a Google Headhunters E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

467

7

Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

445

8

The Hardware Renaissance

445

9

Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting

429

10

UsesThis: Rob Pike

407

Top Ask HN

1

What is this? 158268a350000000

125

2

Which DRM-free ebook reader to buy?

48

3

How do you find time for pet projects?

42

4

Seriously Frustrated. Encouragement, Advice, Bitch Slap Needed.

22

5

Why were there so few women at Startup School?

18

6

Are any Startup School videos up?

15

7

I'm getting a new job that involves machine learning. How do I kick ass?

14

8

How to get contract jobs in the beginning?

14

9

Best island to live and work from?

12

10

Anyone using Azure VM's in Production

10

Top Show HN

1

I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it

500

2

my weekend project, Quotably

134

3

Instrumenting and visualizing JavaScript with d3.js

103

4

Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

84

5

Weekend project, D3.js Globe of Recent Earthquakes

75

6

Host your 3D printable projects with version control

73

7

We just launched the redesigned Quantified Mind

65

8

Fact check last night's Presidential debate with Quip

40

9

Nextprev.it: Share PDFs & control what page the viewer sees in realtime

37

10

Recently dropped .com's in order of pronounceability

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How a Google Headhunters E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

467

2

Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

445

3

How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others

314

4

Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot

178

5

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran (2007)

145

6

Why We Can't Solve Big Problems

141

7

Turning to the past to power Windows' future: An in-depth look at WinRT

128

8

Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets

119

9

How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?

105

10

Siracusa on Microsoft

103

News [?]

1

The island where people forget to die

332

2

L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter

231

3

China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

228

4

Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders

135

5

General Failure: How the American military rewards failure at the highest ranks

127

6

Scientists Recover Oldest Playable American Recording

106

7

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books

96

8

The maths that made Voyager possible

92

9

Amazon Reports First Quarterly Loss in 4 Years

84

10

Italy Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didnt Warn of Deadly Earthquake

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in U.S. Election

45

2

NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect Gravitational Waves

21

3

Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test

11

4

Video and Audio Enabler WebRTC Near Release

3

5

Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation

3

6

Unleash your inner Asimov

2

7

TurtleBot 2.0 Now Available for Preorder from Clearpath Robotics

2

8

Meet the Amazing Robots That Will Compete in the Darpa Robotics Challenge

2

9

Physics duo create tractor beam using dual Bessel beams

2

10

AR Drone Helps Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots to Overcome Obstacles

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

174

2

Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim

113

3

Ext4 data corruption trouble

66

4

TED Talk: Ryan Merkley demos Popcorn

61

5

Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros

20

6

8

7

Firefox Metro Preview for Windows 8

5

8

EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Stable Linux Kernels

3

9

SSL Vulnerabilities Found in Critical Non-Browser Software Packages

3

10

Privacy Preserving FB-Like button in Firefox from Mozilla

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Electronic demon costume is surprisingly unnerving

219

2

USPTO invalidates Apple's "rubber-banding" patent asserted against Samsung

213

3

AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review

195

4

Hacking Facebook to remove the social value facade

30

5

Join EFFs Efforts to Keep 3D Printing Open

9

6

AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws?

5

7

Obama's Misleading Answer About Warrantless Wiretapping on The Daily Show

5

8

Dutch Government Proposes Cyberattacks Against... Everyone

4

9

AnandTech: The Windows RT Review

4

10

Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

259

2

Windows 8 Arrives

251

3

AWS outage summary

158

4

Apple posts its UK apology to Samsung

94

5

Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

75

6

Webcast: Windows 8 Launch (Live)

41

7

The new iMac: updated models after 1.5 years

6

8

The New Super Thin iMac

3

9

3

10

IPad Mini Wifi version seems to lack GPS capabilities

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Six-Strikes Independent Expert Is RIAAs Former Lobbying Firm

137

2

Pirate Bay Power Usage Equivalent to a Vacuum Cleaner

29

3

Dropbox in 1996

29

4

New Megaupload to launch on anniversary of closure

4

5

Megaupload Cant Come Back Online, U.S. Tells Court

2

6

Torrent host ordered to pay damages

2

7

Pirate Bay Founder Held In Solitary Confinement Write Him a Letter Today

1

8

Pirate Bay Censored in Ireland After Mysterious Court Order

1

9

Tweetdeck Feature Requests from Journalists

1

10

Open Data Hackathon Guide

1

Science News [?]

1

Cassette tapes are the future of big data storage

49

2

Wall Street's thirst for water: a market for water will drive up food prices

29

3

Shock and law: The Italian systems contempt for its scientists

6

4

Italian court finds seismologists guilty of manslaughter

5

5

Easter Island statues 'walked' out of quarry, archaeologists claim

4

6

Far from random, evolution follows a predictable genetic pattern

3

7

Website pitches solutions in search of problems

3

8

Help the Homeless? There's an App for That

3

9

How The Tyrannosaurus Rex Used A Hack To Eat Triceratopses

2

10

The DNA of Aztec conquest

2

Social [?]

1

Hacking a crowd of 430 hackers with 1720 balloons

14

2

Black Girls Code

10

3

Kindlegate update: Linn says her account was mysteriously re-activated

9

4

Man creates his own hydroponics farm in the city

8

5

A Sudoku Solver in APL

8

6

I am Singer, Rapper, Composer, Dancer and Creator of Gangnam Style PSY. AMA

8

7

Steve Yegge on GROK - Parsing All the World's Code

7

8

Zynga just laid off 100+ employees during the Apple Event. 2 hours to vacate

7

9

Reddit is Down "network-related issue"

6

10

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Game Off

192

2

Missing the Point of Promises

157

3

$.url() - A simple, lightweight url parser for jQuery

96

4

Race-condition-free deployment with the "symlink replacement" trick

61

5

Github Notifications API

58

6

Mantle: a Model Framework for Objective-C

56

7

CssConsole - easily make terminal-styled forms

49

8

Boyfriend Required

41

9

Oz, from Eran Hammer-Lahav (core contributor to OAuth)

37

10

Storm : a Realtime Computation System Similar to Hadoop

28

Wikipedia [?]

1

97

2

Kane Kramer is credited with inventing the digital audio player in 1979

63

3

Tom Preston-Werner (this page has been deleted)

16

4

Wikipedia: Comparison of US Presidential Candiates

4

5

The World Wonders: crypto padding gone horribly wrong

2

6

Stockholm syndrome

2

7

Friction Stir Welding - Used on the new iMac

2

8

The history behind the region that own the io domain

2

9

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

2

10

The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Hardware Renaissance

445

2

Dont Buy Something Unless Youve Wanted it Three Times

6

3

The Hardware Renaissance

4

4

Research As You Go

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM

141

2

What is the name of this operator: --?

8

3

Sorting 1 million 8 digit numbers in 1MB of RAM

5

4

Sorting 1 million 8-digit numbers in 1MB of RAM

3

5

Representing and solving a maze given an image

3

6

Java - Playframework vs Ruby On Rails - Stack Overflow

2

7

How did Perl gain a reputation for being a write-only language?

2

8

How can we make xkcd style graphs in R?

2

9

What is a metaclass in Python?

2

10

Advantages of Stateless Programming

2

Substack [?]