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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

1024

2

Hacking my Vagina

936

3

How to Get Startup Ideas

914

4

Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design

810

5

793

6

You are committing a crime right now

699

7

Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines

539

8

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl

463

9

Entrepreneurshit

375

10

Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved

364

Top Ask HN

1

Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

469

2

How have you made "quick" money before?

120

3

Ask HN/PG: What causes this sudden drop-off behaviour on HN submissions?

91

4

Survivor Bias. Why don't we focus more on startups that fail?

52

5

How did Treehouse get 5M in funding without wanting an "Exit"?

48

6

Job at Facebook or Google, which would you take?

39

7

As a freelancer, how do you ensure clients pay?

39

8

Why isnt Scheme popular in production environments?

15

9

I see a popular website not hashing passwords

14

10

Why is AAPL down to $527 a share from $705?

12

Top Show HN

1

Docverter, the hosted document conversion service, is now open source

144

2

A personal Gmail

120

3

Say Cheese - a cross-browser compatible webcam API

63

4

Status page for Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces

57

5

Build a Kindle book of PG's essays

52

6

I built this CRM Tool for Windows. Thoughts?

42

7

Our non-sexy start-up that's growing 10% a week

41

8

My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?

39

9

Athletable - Leaderboards and player stats for office sports

36

10

We're siblings in high school taking on SongPop, thoughts on our V1?

35

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"

323

2

Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker

310

3

"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on software patents

269

4

Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash

153

5

Scientist Creates Self-Filling Water Bottle

152

6

Jail Looms for Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails

145

7

Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation

134

8

Elon Musk: With Jobs Gone, Google Will Win Mobile (And Look Out For Hyperloop)

134

9

Kim Dotcoms plan to give New Zealanders free Internet could just work

122

10

Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883

107

News [?]

1

793

2

Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

167

3

Elon Musk: 'Europe's rocket has no chance'

166

4

Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

135

5

Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead

112

6

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

108

7

WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders

99

8

"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Caldern

80

9

Jury convicts NY man accused of AT&T-iPad hacking

73

10

On Being Not Dead

71

Scientific publications [?]

1

Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk

64

2

Best Practices for Scientific Computing

20

3

Speeding algorithms by shrinking data

6

4

How RCA Lost the LCD

4

5

'Super-Jupiter': planet in another solar system photographed

3

6

Is a tabletop search for Planck scale signals feasible?

2

7

Toshiba Unveils Quadruped Robot for Disaster Response

2

8

Unprecedented simulation of 3.6T particles in the universe's 1st 13B years

2

9

Fujifilm will introduce a 1TB optical disc in 2015

1

10

Astronomers pin down origins of 'mile markers' for expansion of universe

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

129

2

E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus

77

3

ARM Cortex-A15 Exynos5 Compiler Benchmarks

15

4

CloudFlare ramping up more Go projects

11

5

Data Structures: The Code That Isn't There

6

6

Firefox for Android Now Available for Millions More Phones

2

7

Samsung's A15 Chromebook Loaded With Ubuntu Is Crazy Fast

2

8

Firefox Introduces New Social API and Previews Integration with Facebook

2

9

Preloading HSTS

2

10

The State of NoSQL

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4

111

2

With Sinofsky Gone, Start Menu Could Return to Windows 8

12

3

Jony Ive's Design Video for the Twentieth Anniversary Mac

2

4

Apple purchase of Color Labs verified in bizarre lawsuit

2

5

Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refubished products

2

6

Google plans to launch open AirPlay-like alternative

2

7

Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System Builders

2

8

AnandTech - iPad mini Review

2

9

Apple Purchases 1,024 Patents From Rockstar Consortium

1

10

IMessage and FaceTime suffer another significant outage

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Hires Jeannette Wing as New V.P. of Microsoft Research Int'l.

3

2

3

3

Debian is now available on the AWS marketplace

2

4

Lumia 920 Tops Amazons Best Seller List in the US

1

5

Ctrl+Alt+Hack: White hat hacking for fun and profit -- a board game

1

6

Your Money or Your Life

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl

463

2

Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them

94

3

Anonymous File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal

80

4

Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns

48

5

Megaupload Search Warrant Requests Ignored Massive Non-Infringing Use

29

6

Megaupload shutdown hurt box office revenues for non-blockbuster movies

23

7

TorrentFreak Trolls a Copyright Troll

7

8

Anonymous File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal by German Court

2

9

President Obama Chats About Kim Dotcom

1

10

Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns

1

Science News [?]

1

Fraud fighter: 'Faked research is endemic in China'

60

2

Mars is safe from radiation but the trip there isn't

31

3

Autism-like behaviors reversed in mice

8

4

New 'Double Slit' Experiment Skirts Uncertainty Principle

8

5

'Olfactory White' isolated: the smell equivalent of white light and white noise

4

6

Bayesian explanation of the Uncanny Valley effect

3

7

Quantum cryptography conquers noise problem: Nature news

3

8

In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible

3

9

Features of Einstein's Brain Might Explain His Remarkable Cognitive Abilities

2

10

Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers

2

Social [?]

1

List of Hardware Startup Meetups around the USA

13

2

Hypercritical podcast ending after episode #100

7

3

How to get advisors on board for your startup

7

4

I am Nadim Baba, Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza. Ask me anything!

6

5

Self-taught African Teen Wows MIT

5

6

5

7

Dumb Ways To Die (Melbourne Metro)

5

8

Real-World Windows 8 Apps in JavaScript

4

9

Three pieces of career advice that changed my life (Jeff Weiner)

4

10

Elon Musk lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal

355

2

274

3

Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

178

4

Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok

133

5

The entire win32 API in JavaScript

111

6

90

7

HN Bookmarklet: Show PG's essay footnotes in-line on hover

40

8

Thumbd, An Image Thumbnailing Service Built on Node.js, SQS, and S3

39

9

Open source localStorage based mockup tool

27

10

Github is retiring Impact Graphs

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

Bates method: Need for eyeglasses can be reversed by relaxation

5

2

Auguste Escoffier

3

3

International Orange

2

4

Reductio ad absurdum Latin: Reduction to Absurdity

2

5

It should be schnfinkeling not currying

2

6

Was the Nuclear Rocket Engine NERVA too powerful?

2

7

Google's driverless cars have driven over 300k miles. Only 2 accidents so far.

1

8

Is the threshold pledge system a viable alternative to depending on IP?

1

9

Shotgun sequencing of DNA

1

10

Void for Vagueness

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to Get Startup Ideas

914

2

The Hacker News effect

72

3

How to Get Startup Ideas

9

4

Budget your time, Design your life

2

5

Fighting Information Overload With The Impending Doom Engine

1

6

Are Software Patents Evil? [2006]

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Machine Learning: Neural Network vs Support Vector Machine

88

2

If i = 0, why is i += i++ 0?

8

3

Adding a source attribute to Ruby objects using Rubinius

3

4

Computer Science or Software Engineering?

3

5

The Python yield keyword explained

2

6

What makes lisp macros so special

2

7

How to do fuzzy search in big data

2

8

How to convert JSON into a Java object

1

9

Multiple ways to perform string formatting in Python

1

10

Can I construct a long list such that the index is long?

1

Substack [?]