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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Thinking the unthinkable

949

2

669

3

Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"

544

4

Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

536

5

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

512

6

How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour

502

7

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

490

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481

9

Two-for-one: Amazon.coms Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam

472

10

What does randomness look like?

467

Top Ask HN

1

What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?

287

2

Salary Increases Over Time

100

3

Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

35

4

How many servers did you have/need at your startup's launch?

29

5

Are there any remote internship opportunities?

25

6

Who is using Google App Engine?

17

7

I lost my will to program. How can I get it back?

14

8

What are some great examples of well-designed startup websites

13

9

do any of you take mental performance enhancement drugs?

12

10

Do QR Codes work?

11

Top Show HN

1

Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor

288

2

Ember Table by Addepar

188

3

DataFart - easy command line graphing

110

4

ppl - The Command Line Address Book

103

5

Wifis.org - making WiFi networks 'social'

98

6

Servus for Mac and Dropbox

92

7

A Smart Name Brainstorming And Domain Search Engine

90

8

Firefeed - A Twitter clone built with Firebase

76

9

Teelaunch Prints & Ships Your Kickstarter & Indiegogo T-Shirt Rewards

74

10

My Experimental "Dev Blog" For A Pet Project

58

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

380

2

Apple kills a Kickstarter project

175

3

Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered

156

4

Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says German Privacy Regulator

132

5

Spoiler Alert: First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful

127

6

The Instagram Effect: National Geographic Suspends Its Popular Account

120

7

Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus

108

8

Adobe acquires Behance

107

9

The Internet Archive is trying to raise funds to buy 3 petabytes of storage

105

10

Twitter Starts Rolling Out Option To Download Your Twitter Archive In One File

99

News [?]

1

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

512

2

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

291

3

Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal

280

4

Young, Unemployed and Living on the Street

215

5

Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

195

6

Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012

120

7

Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire

112

8

Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy

79

9

Leaving Facebookistan

71

10

Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition

65

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...

217

2

Polynomial time factoring algorithm using Bayesian arithmetic

18

3

License Plates, Cameras, and Our Vanishing Privacy

5

4

Grails Spacecraft to Crash into Moon -- 20 Minutes [video]

4

5

Darpa LS3 Robot Mule Learns New Tricks, Loves a Mud Bath

3

6

New NASA Spacesuit Looks like Buzz Lightyear's

3

7

License Plates, Cameras, and Our Vanishing Privacy

2

8

Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth

2

9

Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism

2

10

2012 Robot Gift Guide

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks

199

2

GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance

62

3

CloudFlare's new web protocol speeds up dynamic web performance

30

4

Beware of Juice-Jacking

30

5

Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System

10

6

The First Unreal Engine 3 Game Ships For Linux

8

7

Computer Architecture of the 1960s

6

8

Your Twitter archive

6

9

Nielsen Twitter TV Rating coming soon

5

10

China Now Blocking Encryption

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'

254

2

Amazon smartphone reportedly in production, set to go on sale in mid-2013

38

3

Judge denies Apple motion for Samsung injunction, tosses jury misconduct claims

23

4

Extensive Military Flights in the US

2

5

Dell exec warned Microsoft that Windows RT branding would confuse consumers

2

6

Python can be your best friend when it comes to binary math

2

7

Call your senator and tell him/her to say NO to FISA extension

2

8

Apple Nixes POP Portable Power Kickstarter Project Over Lightning Connectors

2

9

Colombia Adopts Mandatory Backdoor and Data Retention Mandates

1

10

Makers of To-Do App 'Clear' Devise New Virtual Pocket Pet for the iPhone

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Data Pipeline

74

2

Introducing the AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview)

67

3

Apple iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million

10

4

Announcing EBS snapshot copy

5

5

Amazon Redshift: a fast, managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service

1

6

Office politics a danger to morale - Microsoft

1

7

Motivation for Startup Founder (check out the reviews)

1

8

Watch Amazon Video On the Go with the Free Unbox Video Player

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000

138

2

"I've got nothing to hide" and other misunderstandings of privacy

127

3

Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats

58

4

Pirate Bay Censorship Backfires as New Proxies Bloom

37

5

ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: Were Not The Internet Police

9

6

The Copyright Monopoly Is A Market Distortion, Not A Birthright

8

7

The Internet Archive needs your help to get 4 more petabytes of storage

4

8

Kim Dotcom Shows Off MEGA Rack

4

9

Downloading Movies and Music Stays Legal in The Netherlands

4

10

BPI sues Pirate Party members individually for TPB proxy

3

Science News [?]

1

Pathogen from gut of obese human causes obesity in germfree mice

128

2

Decay: Physics students at LHC produces a zombie flick set in CERN

38

3

Zebrafish made to grow pre-hands instead of fins

4

4

The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction

4

5

'Alien-Like' Skulls Excavated in Mexico

3

6

Treat obesity as physiology, not physics

2

7

Magnetism flips heat flow: Quantum effect points the way to thermal electronics

1

8

Motivation and hard work beat IQ

1

9

Victorian counting device gets speedy quantum makeover

1

10

The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics

1

Social [?]

1

Things Bosses Wish They Could Tell Employees

52

2

Richard Stallman Freaks Out and Has a Meltdown

9

3

Stallman melts down at FGSL 2012

9

4

"PSY - Gangnam Style" 100k hits remain to hit 1 billion YouTube views

9

5

Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation

8

6

Why Open? Steve Klabnik at API Days

8

7

First Round Capital Goes Gangnam Style

7

8

The Power of Selling Out - The Onion

5

9

Ray Kurzweil hints at what he's working on at Google (interview 3 months ago)

5

10

Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes

214

2

D3 3.0 released

132

3

Tom Preston-Werner: Development of Jekyll to be revived in 2013

114

4

The Octoverse in 2012

107

5

GitHub Game Off Winners

76

6

KGPU - Augmenting Linux with the CUDA GPU

74

7

Hazel for hackers

63

8

Identifying IP address of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China

61

9

ClojureScript Compiler Compiled with ClojureScript

59

10

Hood: A transactional, database-agnostic ORM for Go

44

Wikipedia [?]

1

The deadliest school massacre in US history occurred in 1927

18

2

PermianTriassic extinction event

17

3

Intellipedia (U.S. intelligence agencies' internal wiki)

9

4

Kerckhoffs's principle

4

5

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil

2

6

2

7

100 Best Books of All Time

2

8

Project Prevention - Cash for Drug Addicts for Long Term Birth Control

1

9

Saturn's Hexagon

1

10

List of emerging technologies by industry

1

Blogs [?]

1

What Languages Fix (2002)

37

2

Fixing our social sharing tools

14

3

Medium (Obvious Corp.) looking for a hacker

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this C program compile?

43

2

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

8

3

Typescript wins over Dart on Stackoverflow

2

4

Stack Overflow triggers Google Chrome malware detector

2

5

Is it possible to build this iPhone app?

1

6

How can I unit test a GUI?

1

7

HTTP status code 200 (cache) vs status code 304?

1

8

Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

1

9

Joining a list with different strings at given interval

1

10

Wrong Static Method

1

Substack [?]