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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

I love you, dad

1080

2

Google Maps for iOS

814

3

Youre not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.

695

4

The Web We Lost

619

5

How would I get started?

550

6

The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

477

7

If youre trying to hack/deface a website, dont submit a pull request

472

8

Google Maps becomes the App Stores most popular free app in 7 hours

421

9

Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk

413

10

Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser

386

Top Ask HN

1

Did YC accept anyone without an idea this round?

151

2

anyone else sick of startups for startups posted on HN?

65

3

I want to build a cable company. How would I get started?

64

4

Anyone Making Money on Windows Phone 8 Apps?

60

5

How do you manage your one-man project?

39

6

Can we brainstorm a list of niche site ideas like Bingo Card Creator?

28

7

How are you dealing with scraping hits from EC2 machines?

25

8

Review our new site for startup founders

23

9

Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you make?

23

10

Why is Dropbox still so horrible at support?

21

Top Show HN

1

Analytics.js The analytics API you've always wanted

313

2

Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming

200

3

roots - a toolkit for advanced front-end dev

183

4

box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM

160

5

Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript

115

6

I send out a weekly CS topic overview and code interview question

114

7

Designing Web Applications

105

8

Crowdtilt announces the first Crowdfunding API

83

9

A web-based Excel/Database hybrid

79

10

the app that powers our order fulfillment warehouse

67

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Maps becomes the App Stores most popular free app in 7 hours

421

2

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas

204

3

Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America"

146

4

Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa

140

5

25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours

105

6

Local police post mugshots on Pinterest, leading to a 57% boost in arrests

104

7

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near (2011)

92

8

Can HPs webOS Rise from the Ashes?

60

9

Meet the Worlds Cheapest Venture Capitalist

57

10

Mixpanel Launches A Site For Analytics Education

56

News [?]

1

The hum that helps to fight crime

225

2

Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

208

3

Ravi Shankar dies at 92

185

4

Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89

169

5

Book Translates American Minutiae for Russians

128

6

California School District Owes $1 Billion On $100 Million Loan

118

7

Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion

116

8

The Power of Concentration

114

9

FedEx Overcharged Customers for Years, Sealed E-Mail Says

79

10

North Korea: On the net in world's most secretive nation

78

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Eyes Mission To Icy Jupiter Moon Europa To Gauge Habitability

35

2

Oxygen nucleus with twice as many neutrons shown to be stable

7

3

The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing

4

4

Data That lasts forever

2

5

NASA: Why the World Won't End

2

6

Japan pedal power aims for human flight record

1

7

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Microsofts new OS takes a giant step backward

1

8

Ferrofluid GPU Simulation with the Barnes-Hut Algorithm

1

9

The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics [2008]

1

10

Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Metrics: simple, easy and tempting

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web

105

2

Stripe adds two-factor auth

73

3

The solitaire encryption algorithm (1999)

64

4

Twitter Photos: Put a Filter On It

27

5

What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster

9

6

Mozilla in 2012

7

7

Mozilla in 2012 Graphic

6

8

This Year on Twitter

3

9

Optimized for Change: Architecture at Etsy [video + slides]

2

10

A hash based DOS attack on btrfs

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill

222

2

160 Mac Minis, One Rack

208

3

Intel launches first Atom for servers, Centerton Atom.

2

4

Calling on Congress: Time to Fix Copyright

2

5

Leveraging the GPU to accelerate the Linux kernel

2

6

Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Invalidated by USPTO

2

7

10 ways to etch PCBs at home

2

8

Apple patents method for intelligent caller ID image selection

1

9

ITunes now selling and renting movies in 42 newly-opened stores

1

10

Square adds passbook integration

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple rolls out new status page for Services, Stores and iCloud

45

2

Amazon Instant Video on Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

26

3

The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer [Amazon]

1

4

Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JS - free e-book for Kindle

1

5

RMS please save us from Microsoft. Indian Academia

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy

190

2

1983 Radio Shack Catalog

187

3

Make a Donation to the Internet Archive

160

4

Startup ideas spreadsheet

139

5

Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement

105

6

Swedish Pirate Party Defends Role As Pirate Bay ISP

40

7

Music Industry Threatens to Sue UK Pirate Party over Pirate Bay Proxy

31

8

Google Starts Reporting False DMCA Takedown Requests

4

9

Verizon Determined to Expose BitTorrent Copyright Trolls

4

10

Hollywood Anti-Piracy Group Takes Pirate Domains To Avoid Prosecuting

2

Science News [?]

1

MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics

54

2

Souped-up immune cells force leukaemia into remission

30

3

Laser fusion put on slow burn

25

4

Earth May Be Warming Even Faster Than Expected [Slide Show]

4

5

Browser hacks enable free cloud computing

2

6

Do we live in a computer simulation run by our descendants?

2

7

Brain cells made from urine

2

8

Controversial claim puts life on land 65 million years early

2

9

Cassini Spots a Nile Like River Valley on Titan

2

10

Hubble Images Reveal 7 of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

2

Social [?]

1

Is Facebook down?

71

2

Rebuilding Facebook for Android

60

3

Facebook: Your Year in Review

38

4

Hacker News: Poison and to be avoided

23

5

A career mistake that capable people make

19

6

Facebook is down for many

16

7

Burning Ship Fractal Deep Zoom Animation

9

8

How We've Scaled Dropbox

8

9

It's not ok to publicly announce who has signed up for your app

8

10

Why bonds are riskier than most people realize

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

If youre trying to hack/deface a website, dont submit a pull request

472

2

Welcome to a New Gist

267

3

Better Rails errors

246

4

108

5

Goodbye, Uploads

102

6

Combinator Recipes for Working With Objects in JavaScript

102

7

Github Ruby Styleguide

82

8

Tranquil is a programming language built on top of LLVM & the Obj-C Runtime

72

9

Escher.py - Key/value db with its data

49

10

Slash: A markup language for styling text on iOS

41

Wikipedia [?]

1

Moravec's paradox

188

2

Banach-Tarski paradox

47

3

CipherSaber - A 'political' encryption cipher

38

4

Magic Roundabout

35

5

34

6

Shakespeare (programming language)

33

7

List of countries by life expectancy

13

8

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

6

9

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

6

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

226

2

How To Do Philosophy (2007)

32

3

The Five NYC Taxi Drivers who Refused My Fare

30

4

The Word "Hacker" (2004)

14

5

Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show *everything*?

2

6

What does "it's a good start" really mean

2

7

Cost-Aware Architectures

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How deep are your unit tests?

57

2

What is a real programming language?

6

3

What is your best programmer joke?

3

4

Uncatchable ChuckNorrisException

2

5

"This unholy, arcane stored procedure would only be run by a madman..."

2

6

Codekit and Ruby ISSUE. Using all my fucking memory

1

7

Interface type cannot be statically allocated on multiple property class-types

1

8

How to avoid reverse engineering of .apk file

1

9

What is the most difficult /challenging regex you have ever written?

1

10

Javascript Closures Explained: Story of a Princess ...

1

Substack [?]