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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter

762

2

The Five Stages of Hosting

738

3

Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours

690

4

What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?

653

5

Handwriting to LaTeX maths

640

6

Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS

475

7

Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work

464

8

Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers

424

9

415

10

MusicForProgramming();

410

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (February 2012)

260

2

How do I start freelancing?

181

3

What successful startups started as "Show HN"?

154

4

JavaScript Dev Tools

121

5

Webapps you can't live without?

97

6

Who's Hiring? (February 2012)

46

7

Anyone using Blekko instead of Google?

34

8

My Startup didn't go viral- what now?

28

9

What questions about applying to YC do you want answered? (S11 alum)

27

10

comment downvote sniping

12

Top Show HN

1

Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

393

2

My afternoon project - a pleasant viewer for the "who is hiring?" posts

177

3

my weekend project, PageBlox

130

4

Show HN We just launched forking for your Minecraft worlds

91

5

My weekend project to learn Javascript - 'Pinterest for Hacker News'

89

6

TrollBlock, It's Okay to Dislike

82

7

My startup Curvio - IMDB for Clothes and Accessories on TV

80

8

I've open sourced Bookmarkly, a bookmarking site written in JavaScript

68

9

Our 5 month project Airtime for Email

60

10

7courses - The easy to use online recipe manager.

44

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

272

2

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

213

3

The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations

156

4

Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials

146

5

Curebit’s at it again, stealing more than code this time

108

6

Facebook Files For $5 Billion IPO

82

7

Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox

82

8

Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from?

82

9

Minecraft Physics

80

10

FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace

74

News [?]

1

Reuters totally clueless about the meaning of "hacking"

213

2

Netherlands makes net neutrality a law

203

3

Ritalin Gone Wrong

198

4

Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On

131

5

The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing

123

6

You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You

118

7

VeriSign hit by hackers

113

8

Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US

104

9

Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy

103

10

Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe

97

Scientific publications [?]

1

Sex differences in intimate relationships (pdf)

52

2

India's premature $50 tablet little better than a prototype

27

3

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors

15

4

Sex differences in intimate relationships

2

5

NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter From Beyond Our Solar System

2

6

UK Reveals Plans for Becoming Graphene Hub

2

7

Functional Programming and Security (preprint)

1

8

Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth - Blue Marble 2012

1

9

Swarms of flying robots: "we developed a way to change between formations in 3D"

1

10

NASA Probe Captures 1st Video of Moon's Far Side

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release

111

2

The Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet?

107

3

Stripe blog: New webhooks

83

4

XFS: the filesystem of the future?

69

5

The Evolution of Lisp

44

6

Stripe Blog: Track Stripe's uptime

31

7

British Tourists Arrested in the U.S. over a Tweet

22

8

One () to Rule them All

4

9

How to GET a Cup of Coffee

3

10

"Mobile HTML5" talk by Scott Davis

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy

50

2

Understanding AMD's roadmap and new direction

38

3

Why Android isn't gaining on Apple in the Enterprise

24

4

What Actually Changed in Googles Privacy Policy

13

5

AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabric

5

6

Former Apple product manager recounts how Jobs motivated first iPhone team

3

7

ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect

3

8

Using Google documents as a web proxy

2

9

Apple reportedly shopping for TV display components from major supplier

2

10

Apple Clarifies iBooks Author Licensing Situation in New Software Update

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++

4

2

Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X

3

3

16GIG for your MBP for $139

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure

252

2

Pirate Bay Founders Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected

160

3

What Piracy? The Entertainment Industry is booming

55

4

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

8

5

Megaupload Founder Accuses Police of Assault, Denied Bail Again

8

6

Startup Chile Company Looking For First Engineer

5

7

MegaUpload User Data Soon to be Destroyed

5

8

A 1972 documentary about the Arpanet - Computer Networks

4

9

We Need Copyright Reform, Not ACTA

4

10

Authorities Shut Down Ukraines Largest File-Sharing Site Ex.ua

4

Science News [?]

1

The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance

111

2

First quantum jiggles detected in solid object

21

3

What would you do if you could sequence the human genome for under $1000?

9

4

Psychedelic chemical subdues brain activity

5

5

Was the Little Ice Age triggered by massive volcanic eruptions?

5

6

How a magnet can turn off speech [video]

3

7

Life discovered on dead hydrothermal vents

3

8

Mathematics, looking for a good home

3

9

'Worm-Eating' Underground Leaves Discovered in Carnivorous Plant

2

10

10 Novels that will sharpen your Mind(And boost your social skills to boot)

2

Social [?]

1

Django ORM vs. SQLAlchemy

69

2

Stick with Microsoft WPF (et al.) or jump ship?

48

3

Formation flying nano-quadcopters ready to take over your living room

11

4

Woody Harrelson takes a beating in Reddit Q&A

10

5

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

6

6

Microsoft Anti-Gmail Ad

5

7

FBI Conference Call hacked by Anonymous

5

8

Chinese Labor - watch the first 34 minutes at least

5

9

Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind

4

10

Unicode 6.1 is out, and it includes a Pile of Poo

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Id Software Open Source releases on GitHub

305

2

New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js

92

3

Touchy.js - light-weight touch event library

71

4

Hetzner EX 4S Unixbench, dd and htparm results

60

5

Reusable Abstractions in CoffeeScript

36

6

CLI tool for bundling & minifying, CSS & Javascript

31

7

Todos in the CLI like what.

29

8

Heads Up - open source MacGap/Spine/Rails app

26

9

Django Social Auth

25

10

Cedar - BDD Testing for Objective-C

17

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia's list of lists of lists

195

2

44

3

Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template/macro language

25

4

8

5

MediaWiki adopts Lua as ParserFunctions replacement

4

6

Frithjof Schuon

3

7

Take a Pneumatic Tube to Work

2

8

Context principle

1

9

Asynchronous Semaphore

1

10

Tipler cylinder - time travel posited in the serious litrature.

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk

151

2

What exactly is RESTful programming?

117

3

General principles for good URI design for RESTful and HTTP applications

95

4

Why do browsers not use SRV records?

8

5

Is Lua interesting, from a programming language design perspective?

8

6

How do you mitigate the risk associated with third-party Javascript?

2

Substack [?]