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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

728

2

You can do it alone

521

3

What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

503

4

Python Libraries you should know about

475

5

Alone Together, Again

426

6

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside

422

7

Algorithms [pdf]

422

8

Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?

395

9

CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

370

10

Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email

356

Top Ask HN

1

Anyone heard anything regarding YC Winter 2013 Applications?

48

2

Why don't you work less?

35

3

Spent two thousand dollars on adwords and got zero sign ups, now what?

18

4

Who wrote Orca?

14

5

Fiction books that entertain and educate?

13

6

Is really Y Combinator selection process fair?

11

7

Did anyone view your YC video pitch?

11

8

working with a "bad" programmer

10

9

How does Twitter know who my former therapist was?

10

10

Do you have a CS degree?

9

Top Show HN

1

Soundslice YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

481

2

Instant Google Street View

405

3

An IDE for poets

393

4

RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history

245

5

Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

109

6

TTS-API - Text-to-speech API

109

7

v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"

107

8

I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

97

9

HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

72

10

My "weekend" project, an ML dialect and compiler

64

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside

422

2

Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps

277

3

Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes

241

4

Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]

189

5

Ron Pauls Farewell Address: The Internet Can Stop Big Government

158

6

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold

115

7

Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of Falsifying Software Tests

110

8

Apple fires up its version of Googles "20% time"

108

9

Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore

93

10

The Aha Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible

89

News [?]

1

When the Nerds Go Marching In

173

2

U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabias by 2020

99

3

Supersymmetry theory in doubt. Researchers detect rare particle decay at LHC.

79

4

An electric motor that does not need expensive rare-earth magnets

78

5

Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?

73

6

Hitchhikings Time Has Come Again

62

7

An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business

56

8

Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theory of Mind

56

9

Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C.I.A. Chief Couldnt

52

10

Heres the e-mail trick Petraeus and Broadwell used to communicate

49

Scientific publications [?]

1

Mistakes when Applying Computational Intelligence & ML to Stock Market Modeling

71

2

UCLA's new transparent solar film could be game-changer

58

3

Australian wins $208k from Google for defamation

4

4

Do you trust the government with your computer?

3

5

Surveying Earth's interior with atomic clocks

3

6

San Franciscos Secret DC Grid

3

7

NASA Suffers Large Data Breach Affecting Employees, Contractors, Others

2

8

Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacic

2

9

Robot Mirrors Our Emotions To Be More Social

2

10

Japan Mobile Company Debuts Real-Time Voice Translation App

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Crowding out OpenBSD

96

2

The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project

42

3

Infamous Hacker Heading Chinese Antivirus Firm?

35

4

Better Dispute Management

17

5

Intel Makes Microsoft's C++ AMP Cross-Platform

3

6

Stealing VM Keys from the Hardware Cache

2

7

Lenovo UEFI Only Wants To Boot Windows, RHEL

2

8

More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs (discuss on LWN)

2

9

We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011)

2

10

Introducing Popcorn Maker

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google Books team open sources a book scanner

149

2

Google Nexus 4 Review

116

3

Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute, Agree to Ten Year License

41

4

New Version of Marco Civil Threatens Freedom of Expression in Brazil

22

5

Inside Intel's Next Unit of Computing

5

6

How to setup a Hackerspace from someone whos done it before

3

7

Google Transparency Report Shows Rising Trend of Government Surveillance

3

8

Fake Apple Inc apps end up on Google Play Market for Android

3

9

AnandTech 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Review

2

10

U.S. Copyright Surveillance Machine About To Be Switched On

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE

326

2

21st Century C (new book)

83

3

HTC and Apple Settle Patent Dispute

18

4

AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

9

5

Starcraft 2 HOTS Beta Key - From Amazon w/ pre-order

2

6

Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier

2

7

AWS expands to Australia

1

8

Keyboard Ghosting Explained

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Demonoid Is Back, BitTorrent Tracker is Now Online

83

2

YC W13 Applicants

71

3

Billionairre Moves To Ban BitTorrent Client Downloads

19

4

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested Again On Suspicion Of New Hacking and Fraud Offenses

11

5

Verizon Will Reduce Speeds of Repeated BitTorrent Pirates

9

6

RIAA: Pirates Are Bigger Music Fans Than Average Consumers

9

7

GDB Tutorial - A Walkthrough with Examples

5

8

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested Again On Suspicion Of New Hacking & Fraud Offenses

2

9

RIAA: Pirates Are Bigger Music Fans Than Average Consumers

2

10

DDoS Takes Down The Pirate Bay

2

Science News [?]

1

Why dissonant music strikes the wrong chord in the brain

32

2

Computing: Secure the Internet

23

3

Humans slowly but surely losing intellectual & emotional abilities?

6

4

Teller Reveals His Secrets

4

5

Study shows people capable of reading and solving math equations subconsciously

4

6

Snapshots explore Einsteins unusual brain

4

7

Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)

3

8

Fairy-Wren Babies Need Password for Food

2

9

Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap

2

10

Roaming robot may explore mysterious Moon caverns

2

Social [?]

1

PG: Big trend this batch

9

2

0 Tweets, 12,207 Followers

9

3

Ron Paul's Congressional Farewell Speech

7

4

MTV Explains why they don't play music videos anymore

6

5

Apple iPhone turns into invisible keyboard

6

6

Act Like a New Employee Every Day

5

7

SpaceX tests Grasshopper rocket in two-story hop (video)

5

8

Nexus 7 Jelly Bean 4.2 Easter Egg

4

9

How NOT to design an email unsubscribe form

4

10

A minor flaw in iPad mini

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs

170

2

What is a music player?

120

3

Brainfuck interpreter written in the C preprocessor

113

4

Qtile 0.5 released pure Python tiling WM

70

5

Spammers started to hit GitHub?

43

6

SSH2 client written in pure JavaScript for node.js

39

7

A permalink for your MIT License

24

8

UserVoice launches iOS SDK

8

9

IOS6 AutoLayout backport to iOS5

7

10

Bloomberg open-sources their cross-platform lowest-level C++ library (bsl)

6

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wife Acceptance Factor

13

2

Friend-to-friend

2

3

Shoemaker-Levy: 1st observable collision of extraterrestrial bodies

2

4

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

1

5

Wikipedia Atan2 article

1

6

Tandem Computers

1

7

Shaggy Dog Story (not the TDD kind)

1

Blogs [?]

1

Writing in Medium

5

2

2

3

Five Questions about Language Design (2001)

2

4

On Dilettantism and the Virtues of Pursuing Multiple Interests

1

5

Why I work on stuff I care about

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?

153

2

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

109

3

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

4

4

Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

3

5

Explaining Python yield, generators & iterables

2

6

What and where are the stack and heap?

2

7

Fastest way to iterate through ALL Guids Possible

2

8

How to configure an ELB with Socket.io

1

9

Python: Why is early return slower than else?

1

10

What does O[logn] mean?

0

Substack [?]