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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again

970

2

Apple - Think Twice

697

3

Notch trying jsFiddle

650

4

Great HN parody

629

5

Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups

616

6

Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum

578

7

Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years

544

8

Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit

442

9

Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year

439

10

Try R A new online course, for free

379

Top Ask HN

1

A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

232

2

what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?

191

3

What do you wish you knew about UI/UX design?

59

4

Tell us how you hire

58

5

Best developer laptop under $1700?

35

6

AirBnB took my money and deleted my wife's booking

28

7

Please stop using TL;DR

17

8

Tons of ideas, zero products.

16

9

what was the worst life/programming choice you ever made?

16

10

What did you do when your startup failed?

15

Top Show HN

1

Interactive SICP

273

2

Survey Builder with Drag/Drop Logic Branching

160

3

2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year

113

4

UXArchive - How the best iPhone apps handle userflows

111

5

a distraction-free Markdown editor

70

6

Miyagi - A Journal of Application Development

56

7

My Sort-of-DIY, Dual 30", Sit-Stand Treadmill Desk Setup

52

8

Pvsh - A reverse Kickstarter (make feature requests for any product)

52

9

full system backups via Sneakernet

41

10

Introducing the Pack Store. The App Store for hardware.

36

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum

578

2

Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year

439

3

Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright reform memo

274

4

Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu spyware because it tracks searches

233

5

Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator

215

6

Microsoft's DroidRage Twitter campaign goes painfully wrong

185

7

Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System

162

8

Netflix signs licensing agreement with Disney

154

9

Google+ Is Growing at Facebook Speed

141

10

E-Ink Case Turns the Back of Your Phone Into a Second Screen

117

News [?]

1

Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says

343

2

Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91

284

3

John McAfee arrested in Guatemala

185

4

The Insourcing Boom

170

5

Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True

156

6

How tall can a Lego tower get?

121

7

$20 Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says

101

8

Sir Tim Berners-Lee flags UN net conference concerns

98

9

Uber: A Feisty Start-Up Is Met With Regulatory Snarl

81

10

Save Your Kisses For Me

62

Scientific publications [?]

1

AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames

178

2

Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

108

3

Taiwan engineers defeat limits of flash memory

13

4

Curiosity Rover Finds Organic Signal on Mars, But Not Definitive: NASA

3

5

CyPhy Works Exits Stealth Mode with 'Unlimited Duration' Surveillance Drones

3

6

New lighting technology won't flicker, shatter or burn out

2

7

Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns

2

8

Georgia Tech Robots Learn Deceptive Behaviors from Squirrels

2

9

NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples

2

10

Smartphones as seismometers intrigue Berkeley researchers

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

194

2

A New Project To Run Mac OS X Binaries On Linux

155

3

Feudal Security

128

4

Why is ITU Governance of the Internet a Bad Idea?

3

5

Netflix Log4J Optimizations Yield Logging at Massive Scale

2

6

Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content

2

7

Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C#

2

8

Squids on the Economist Cover

2

9

Darpa Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

1

10

Ubuntu Linux on the Nexus 7 tablet

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple's 'Steve Jobs Patent' on the iPhone

76

2

Apples Russian iTunes launch plagued with "pornography bug"

64

3

Some new iMacs marked as being 'Assembled in USA'

57

4

Piracy Cripples iOS Game in Less than a Week

40

5

News Corp's iPad newspaper 'The Daily' shutting down Dec. 15

23

6

Support a Better Internet for Everyone

15

7

Digital Rights Groups Shut Out of Secret TPP Negotiations

5

8

Apple to bring back some Mac production to the US in 2013

2

9

Apple takes number two spot behind Samsung for all US mobile marketshare

2

10

RC car transforms into RC robot

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Download my free ebook today only

3

2

Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Node.js

3

3

Microsoft invests US$250 Million in Partners in Learning

2

4

ITunes (Music) is now available in India

1

5

Apple Launches iTunes Store in 52 Additional Countries Today

1

6

Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine

1

7

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

1

8

Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo (Windows)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies

138

2

Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia

94

3

Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant

81

4

All the TED Talks

46

5

Record Labels go to High Court to Force More ISPs to Block Pirate Bay

30

6

The Worst-run Big City In The US

17

7

Revisiting The Purpose Of The Copyright Monopoly: Science And The Useful Arts

12

8

UK ISPs Block Pirate Bays Artist Promotions

5

9

Kim Dotcom: Mega Will Turn Encryption into a Mass Product

4

10

MPAA: Megaupload Shutdown Was Massive Success

3

Science News [?]

1

City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites

108

2

WiFi Signals Caught on Camera

95

3

Origin of intelligence, mental illness linked to ancient genetic accident

7

4

Gamblers Take Note: The Odds in a Coin Flip Aren't Quite 50/50

6

5

Scientists Discover Childrens Cells Living in Mothers Brains

5

6

This Surfboard-Sized Robot Just Propelled Itself Across the Ocean

4

7

Researchers discover fastest light-driven process

4

8

Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual

3

9

Casting Light on Astronaut Insomnia: ISS to Get Sleep-Promoting Lightbulbs

3

10

Three Critical Elements Sustain Motivation

2

Social [?]

1

NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all posts stored

21

2

Zuckerberg visits Stanford CS106A third year in a row

17

3

The TSA as we know it is dead - here's why

17

4

What developers think of Internet Explorer

6

5

LIFFE Open Outcry Trading in '80s in The Royal Exchange

5

6

AMA with creators of world's largest functional brain model

5

7

In-Depth Introduction to Backbone.js

5

8

Bye #nodejs, hello #golang

5

9

Steve Jobs introduces WiFi to the masses

4

10

How Notch's JS Experiment Generates Its Textures in Code [YouTube]

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

You can now create files on GitHub

321

2

GitHub now has Issue Attachments

187

3

New GitHub Status Site

107

4

Tidying up after Pull Requests

101

5

"Smart and Gets Things Done" is necessary, but not sufficient

92

6

~2M msgs/second messaging system written in Go

91

7

How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github

86

8

Tweeting on behalf of users is bad

85

9

Network problems last Friday

79

10

NUI: style your iOS app with style sheets

78

Wikipedia [?]

1

238

2

Fallen Astronaut

3

3

2

4

On being sane in insane places

2

5

The Two Thousand Year Old Computer

2

6

FUBAR, not to be confused with Foobar

1

7

1

8

Y2K38 - The Unix Millennium Bug

1

9

Budget of NASA 1958 - 2012

1

10

Non-compete clause

1

Blogs [?]

1

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

208

2

Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

7

3

Programming Bottom-Up (1993)

3

4

The Antifragility of the Web

2

5

Advice for college students

1

6

Misinterpretation is creativitys best friend

1

7

Spotify Kills Discovery With Discovery Tab

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?

55

2

Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords?

3

3

Why are select elements not as wide as other form elements?

1

4

Compacting a Python Application into a Single Source File

1

5

How to get number of bytes sent/received via mobile/network Internet in iOS

1

Substack [?]