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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

769

2

Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"

704

3

582

4

Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook

511

5

Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

488

6

How Syria Turned Off the Internet

425

7

The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using

413

8

The YC VC Program

399

9

Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]

376

10

List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources

361

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (December 2012)

210

2

How do you write great sentences, paragraphs, or articles?

136

3

Know of a hacker in Cambridge or Boston who wants a bookstore?

108

4

Do coding coaches exist?

84

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)

80

6

Who is meeting up? (December 2012)

62

7

What is the highest trafficked website run by an individual?

51

8

So, what is your problem?

31

9

Who Is Hiring? (December 2012)

26

10

Nightmares with Stripe?

20

Top Show HN

1

Responsive Email Templates

304

2

Telescope, an open-source social news app built with Meteor

222

3

My side project CreateMyInvoice.com creates PDF invoices from email

111

4

We built a simple way to accept payments through Stripe

99

5

I built a website that lets you freelance for bitcoins

99

6

Lekh Diagram, sketch recognition diagramming app for ipad

80

7

My HTML5 Game for Github Game Off

76

8

Real-time application performance monitoring

62

9

"Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity," free online

50

10

Dubjoy makes it easy to voice translate any video

47

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook

511

2

How to set up a safe and secure Web server

338

3

Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service

307

4

Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth

200

5

Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25%

152

6

64-bit Firefox for Windows should be prioritized, not suspended

113

7

Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage by 20%

107

8

How four Microsoft engineers proved that the darknet would defeat DRM

106

9

Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut

100

10

The Legacy of Linus Torvalds

98

News [?]

1

Skills Dont Pay the Bills

220

2

Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias

201

3

A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth

149

4

A Warning for Airbnb Hosts

140

5

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

116

6

China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to Brink

114

7

Chinese Architecture, Old and New

112

8

Would the economy be better off without MBA students?

109

9

Drone crashes mount at civilian airports

100

10

The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like

87

Scientific publications [?]

1

China's 8-core Godson processor details to be shared at IEEE forum

8

2

'Super atoms': Rydberg excitations form ordered structures in a quantum gas

7

3

339 Gbps: High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer

6

4

NASA's Messenger finds evidence of water on Mercury

6

5

Japan's Newest Maglev Prototype - 310+ MPH

5

6

It's Official. Water Ice Discovered on Mercury

3

7

The Universe At Extreme Scale: Multi-Petaflop Sky Simulation

3

8

Self-filling water bottle takes cues from desert beetle

2

9

Google Earth landmass doesn't exist - scientists un-discover Pacific island

2

10

Technologists test 'game-changing' data-processing technology

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How Syria Turned Off the Internet

425

2

HTTP 2.0 First Draft Published

65

3

Ceasefires Don't End Cyberwars

41

4

Cloudflare introduces two-factor authentication

24

5

Nvidia Still Working On Open-Source For Tegra Driver

15

6

Is the pending German Copyright Bill good or bad for the Web?

9

7

Choosing a Two-Factor Authentication System - CloudFlare blog

9

8

Elm: Making the Web Functional [video/slides]

8

9

Google Open Sources Testacular, a JavaScript Test Runner

8

10

Syrian Internet access appears reestablished starting 1432 UTC

5

Tech blogs [?]

1

A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts

244

2

Apple releases iTunes 11

61

3

IFixit iMac teardown reveals dual mics, difficult RAM upgrades and glued-on LCD

28

4

Elon Musk: Apple Likely to Lose to Google in Smartphone Market

9

5

Apples new iTunes 11 expected tomorrow following delay

5

6

Intel's next gen SSD's look good for databases

4

7

Starbucks and Apple offering $30 gift card combo to benefit AIDS foundation

4

8

Apple finally releases revamped iTunes 11

3

9

Apple announces redesigned 21.5-inch iMac will be available November 30th

2

10

Syrians Use Old and New Tools to Stay Online During Internet Shutdown

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product

273

2

ITunes 11 released

4

3

AWS re:Invent Live Stream

3

4

Available Public Data Sets on AWS

3

5

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

2

6

Amazon S3 price reduction 24-27%

2

7

ITunes 11 Is Out

2

8

Tips and Tricks iPhone5

1

9

Kindle Fire HD 8.9" (New)

1

10

Today only, Kindle Fire is available for $129

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All

174

2

Father Of Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Settles Case For 300 Euros

6

3

Canada Set For Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits, Anti-Piracy Company Warns

4

4

Ask Dropbox's Drew Houston a Question

2

5

Verizon Sued For Defending Alleged BitTorrent Pirates

2

6

UK Movie Pirates Spend (Way) More at The Box Office

2

7

It's suspicious that our universe doesn't allow time travel

2

8

Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Delayed Till 2013

2

9

Pirate Bay Launches Dedicated Promo Bay Website to Plug Artists

2

10

IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group "Sysop" Jailed 40 months

2

Science News [?]

1

Telomerase Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with single treatment (May 2012)

171

2

Telomerase reverses ageing process

16

3

How to Become the Engineers of Our Own Evolution

8

4

Why Google's Ingress game is a data gold mine

4

5

'Spaun': Simulated brain scores top test marks

3

6

Brain's 'reading centres' are culturally universal

2

7

DNA Directly Photographed for the First Time

2

8

A clickable guide to the world's energy use

2

9

DNA imaged for the first time

2

10

Supersymmetry Fails Test, Forcing Physics to Seek New Ideas

2

Social [?]

1

Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM

187

2

Philly Area Meetup Thursday 11/29, 6PM

44

3

When Worse Is Better (Kent Beck)

31

4

How Linux is Built

9

5

The Chronon Time Travelling Debugger

7

6

[IE 10 TheBrowserYouLovedToHate] Do you know this guy?

7

7

Breaking MS-CHAPv2 in VPNs and WPA2 (Moxie Marlinspike and David Hulton)

7

8

Assange v. CNN last night: "Democracies die behind closed doors."

6

9

Kurzweil talks at Google: How to create a Mind

6

10

Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

293

2

Why we can't process Emoji anymore

253

3

Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released

167

4

Netflix open sources resilience engineering library

147

5

A static website generator in Python

134

6

A Hacker News vote button

120

7

Ramp - Rapid Machine Learning prototyping in Python

74

8

Python open-source tool that generates images with a URL

74

9

A guide to Python's magic methods.

65

10

45

Wikipedia [?]

1

Valid Email Addresses

48

2

The feeling you get when you say a word a lot of times, and it seems weird

3

3

List of shibboleths

3

4

Presque Vu- It's on the tip of my tongue

2

5

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

2

6

Fast inverse square root

2

7

Literate programming

2

8

Ray Anderson, Entrepreneur

2

9

1

10

Wikipedia has a new pledge drive - I gave 5, will you donate?

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook

21

2

Free transportation for life

17

3

The Banner Has Been Unchanged for 18 Years. Thats the Issue.

7

4

6

5

Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)

2

6

A new model for the musician-to-listener relationship

2

7

Why you get sick when flying

1

8

Cost-Aware Architectures

1

9

Http://www.paulgraham.com/favicon.ico

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Ubuntu can't establish SSL connections to Facebook.com

11

2

What should a developer know before building a public web site?

11

3

How does database indexing work?

4

4

How do I improve the performance of SQLite?

2

5

Choosing a jQuery datagrid plugin?

2

6

Improving the performance of SQLite

2

7

How do I write a Technical Specification document

2

8

Best comments in source code

2

9

How to Align Checkboxes and Their Labels Consistently Cross-Browsers

1

10

Does Lucene need the same Analyzer instance when indexing and when searching?

1

Substack [?]