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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Page Weight Matters
705
2
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
698
3
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
638
4
How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
531
5
Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
494
6
What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?
466
7
Expedia: Bad for the Traveler, Bad for the Hotel
460
8
Stop Generalizing About Europe
436
9
The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)
431
10
One Year After Quitting My Job
394
Top Ask HN
1
Best books you read in 2012
355
2
How do you escape CRUD jobs?
166
3
Im not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives?
64
4
What are you planning to learn in 2013?
56
5
what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?
51
6
Who were you before you were a silicon "valley-type techie"?
50
7
Best Movies you saw in 2012?
48
8
Most valuable skills you have?
47
9
Ask HN : What do you do when you feel like a loser?
40
10
What Software Did You Pay For In 2012
35
Top Show HN
1
CSS3 animation
264
2
How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website
236
3
The home automation system with an API
141
4
Hacking a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker
138
5
Harmogram, Web Audio API + Canvas (Paper.js) FFT/Harmonograph
100
6
Nasdaq Dubstep
84
7
WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)
78
8
I made a CLI to retrieve info from the IMDB
56
9
TED video downloader to MKV with subtitles embedded
44
10
Solving a very old problem passwords
43
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Warrantless wiretaps? Congress votes yes
174
2
GitHub Says No Thanks to Bots Even if Theyre Nice
125
3
30 days with Windows Phone 8 Perspective from an admitted iOS addict
102
4
VLC for Windows 8 reaches $65,000 funding goal with five days to spare
93
5
Gmail phone calls remain free of charge in 2013 for US and Canada
82
6
The Hacker School Experience
79
7
Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? We Did That 40 Years Ago
76
8
University wins $1.17 billion hard disk patent verdict against Marvell
73
9
Raspberry Pi creations
64
10
Journalists Addresses Posted In Revenge For Posting Of Gun Permit Owners
61
News [?]
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Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
168
2
Kenyan Women Create Their Own 'Geek Culture'
168
3
How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition
143
4
SpaceXs entry into $70 billion U.S. launch market draws Lockheed jab
124
5
Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines
90
6
What Is It Like To Be an Adult and Not Have Kids?
89
7
AppData says that Instagram may have lost 25% of users after TOS change
86
8
Lester's Time Has Come Today (Thanks, HN, You got this started)
71
9
Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy than Washington?
69
10
Google Apps Moving Onto Microsofts Business Turf
64
Scientific publications [?]
1
Computers: It's time to start over.
60
2
The End of the Public Phone Network
2
3
Longest-Running Earth Observation Satellite to Retire
1
4
Japanese Security Firm to Start Renting Surveillance Drones
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Booting a Modern Linux Desktop in Just ~200MB
41
2
GNU sed maintainer resigns
5
3
Breaking Hard-Disk Encryption
5
4
Exploring the Market for Stolen Passwords
2
5
Multi-Process Support For GTK's HTTP Back-End
2
6
Fish - The friendly interactive shell
2
7
The feature overview for the Linux 3.8 kernel
1
8
JEdit 5 Released with Support for Scala and Dart
1
9
Project Lambda in Java SE 8
1
10
Attackers Target Internet Explorer Zero-Day Flaw
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It
129
2
Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA
107
3
The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis
90
4
Making graphene with a DVD burner
48
5
Congress Disgracefully Approves FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years
13
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New York City Mayor blames iPhones for increase in crime
4
7
Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights
3
8
Google promoting iOS team, encourages iOS developers to do work that matters
3
9
2012 in Review: EFFs Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law
2
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Experimenting with Your Privacy, Facebook Begins Selling Access to Your Inbox
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple Support System Status
2
2
New ZeroMQ book: Code Connected Volume 1
1
3
Apple and The environment
1
4
AWS Startup Challenge semi-finalists
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
531
2
Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent
106
3
Google Removed 50 Million Pirate Search Results This Year
74
4
Compute! Magazine Archive
43
5
Game of Thrones Most Pirated TV Show of 2012
33
6
The education of the will,the theory and practice of self-culture(1914)
4
7
PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly Hosting Provider PRQ
2
8
Project X Most Pirated Movie of 2012
2
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Copyright Vultures Circle As Court Green-Lights Anti-Piracy Scheme
2
10
Top Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
1
Science News [?]
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
58
2
Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?
57
3
Why men love breasts
14
4
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
2
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Study shows rapid warming on the West Antarctic ice sheet
2
6
Storytelling software learns how to tell a good tale
2
7
Apple's Patents Under Fire at the USPTO
1
8
Are You Smarter Than Your Grandfather? Probably Not.
1
Social [?]
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The Product Manager's Lament
72
2
Bram Cohen: I have a question for the version control experts
52
3
Mark Cuban's AMA
13
4
SpaceX's Grasshopper reusable launch vehicle test flight
11
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You're stuck in a room with a PC and no OS...
10
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SpaceX vertical takeoff reusable rocket 40 meters jump
8
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Mark Cuban on VC Funding and Moving to San Francisco
7
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Atwood: Android 5.0 has a good chance of being Google's Win 95
7
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Microsoft Office 2003 running in ReactOS (FOSS WinNT clone)
6
10
Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department
6
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Downtime last Saturday
195
2
RubyFlux: a Ruby to Java compiler
107
3
Using Github issues to track house repairs
75
4
Ozone Widget Framework developed by the NSA
51
5
Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas
44
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Equalize.js now equalizes height or width of child elements
35
7
Isitchristmas.com uses WebSocket and node.JS to allow user interaction
35
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LESS animation library
31
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EDBC is Emacs-Lisp-based data access technology
28
10
Crack MD5 passwords with JavaScript Web Workers
9
Wikipedia [?]
1
Bernoulli discovered e by studying a question about compound interest
49
2
Hundredth monkey effect
9
3
What 'Karma' meant before Reddit and HN
4
4
This Professor is Why I Dropped out of School
4
5
Srinivasa Ramanujan
3
6
The Elo Rating System
3
7
Photophone
3
8
The 5 Minute Rule
2
9
Intel iAPX 432: The Architecture That Could Have Replaced x86
2
10
Pick's theorem - computing the area of an integer vertex polygon
2
Blogs [?]
1
Tenth Grade Tech Trends
288
2
Json js
212
3
Revenue Doesnt Matter
27
4
The Year Tech Broke
6
5
The only metric that matters
2
6
Sharp and pointy products vs Bloated and unfocussed products
1
7
What I Learned Building A Startup like Dogster, Inc.
1
8
Ingredients for automatically great design
1
9
I dont know and its okay.
1
Stackoverflow [?]
1
Analysis of the SMBC "FrogSort" algorithm
2
2
Optimizing Haskell Code: parallel arrays, GC params: 30% faster
2
3
Will meteor-based apps be accepted in the app store?
1
4
Do you use virtualized desktops for legacy/seldom used applications?
1
5
Why is processing a sorted array slower than an unsorted array?
1
6
JQuery animation queue explained
1
7
Extracting method signatures from java files
1
8
Measure pressure under dog's paw using Python
1
9
SQL injection that gets around mysql_real_escape_string [2011]
1
10
BSON v/s Msgpack
1
Substack [?]