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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Farewell Stack Exchange

1212

2

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

808

3

ASCII interactive fluid animation

652

4

Producer vs. Consumer

640

5

I have a bad feeling about this

625

6

527

7

Introducing Chrome for Android

456

8

Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap

415

9

Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

393

10

Why Python is Important for You

388

Top Ask HN

1

What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

121

2

What is the secret of Reddit's success? Early adopters?

41

3

Anyone gained traction on HN *without* any of their friends upvoting?

27

4

Why do you contribute to open source?

26

5

How do you "learn" a new programming language?

25

6

Want to Learn Speed Reading. Where to Begin?

24

7

I have $100k in cash. In what kind of startup should I invest it?

22

8

Which one should I learn deeper, Node.JS/Express.JS or Ruby on Rails?

19

9

Hunting Python/Django programmers to join an ambitious project/business

18

10

Where next to take my startup, Junto

17

Top Show HN

1

Github for Designers

404

2

Themes for Bootstrap

349

3

Favicon alert bubbles

270

4

Get a better job offer, anonymously - my weekend hack

178

5

Cron.io - Sharing a by-product. Should this be a full service?

147

6

JavaScript Instagram-like Filters

125

7

My weekend project Parallax.js

101

8

My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome)

70

9

58

10

SWYM - Share what you make

48

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Instagram Founders Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram

294

2

Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest

289

3

Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Trolls Claim To Own the Interactive Web

239

4

Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Weband might win

154

5

Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System

147

6

Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free

139

7

Code is indeed poetry: Van Gogh's Starry Night comes to Life

134

8

Perpetual Window into Gmail

129

9

3 years later, Facebook still can't delete photos correctly

124

10

Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android

118

News [?]

1

Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch

373

2

Stripe raises $18 million from Sequoia

306

3

V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore

291

4

Facebook Is Using You

192

5

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

181

6

Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe

151

7

The Zuckerberg Tax

133

8

Car Dealers Wince at a Site to End Sales Haggling

95

9

India’s identity scheme: The magic number

76

10

Focus: Executive pay and performance

75

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Haskell road to logic review

42

2

Boston Dynamics AlphaDog Quadruped Robot Begins Outdoor Assessment (Video)

4

3

Why I'm Wagering $100,000 on Quantum Computing

3

4

Proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture

1

5

Recommender Systems - A Review

1

6

Forecasting popularity of blog posts on the social web

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling

65

2

Betrayed by a bitfield

6

3

Wrap Your SQL Head Around Riak MapReduce

2

4

LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

2

5

Nouveau Can Do OpenCL Compute For Open-Source Nvidia

2

6

Transactions without Transactions

2

7

Lima driver code for the Mali GPU released

2

8

Real men don't attack straw men (2007)

2

9

JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter

2

10

Apple Warning against Third Party Services which influences App Rankings

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

A swarm of micro-quadcopters

166

2

Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors

47

3

Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically redesigned MacBook Pros

37

4

AT&T math: 250MB < 350MB < Unlimited < 3GB < 5GB

6

5

Six Heartbreaking Truths about Online Dating Privacy

5

6

What Actually Changed in Googles Privacy Policy

4

7

In 3 years, Intel will overtake Qualcomm in the MSoC business

3

8

Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined

3

9

Mac sales surge as PC sales drop 20% in UK, 12% in France

3

10

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did serve on White House council in '90s

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

"qqqq ... qqq" is a strong password according to Microsoft

5

2

Amazon mirrors wikipedia as a "Shopping enabled wiki"

3

3

Microsoft has pages on its site that were not updated for 15 years

2

4

Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great.

1

5

Amazon.com: Zenith Men's (Read the Reviews, after you see the price)

1

6

Amazon lands MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and VH1 Streaming

1

7

The Geography of Thought: How Asians & Westerners Think Differently ... and Why

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down

177

2

You Cant Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists

154

3

BitTorrent Piracy Doesnt Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds

76

4

The strange case of the inverted chart

65

5

Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megauploads Kim Dotcom

31

6

MPAA Demands Hotfile Data From Google, Search Engine Refuses

21

7

Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, Its Only 90 MB

13

8

The Target Isnt Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA, Or MAFIAA: Its The Policymakers

12

9

Is BitTorrent Done? Major Torrent Sites Consider Shutting Down

7

10

BitTorrent Piracy Doesnt Effect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds

7

Science News [?]

1

Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus

228

2

Magnetic recording breakthrough reported

101

3

Why Do Cells Age? Extremely Long-Lived Proteins

69

4

New Scientist on 3D printing piracy

27

5

Schizophrenia: New Electronic Application May Help

18

6

Success Is Official: Russian Team Breaches Buried Antarctic Lake

11

7

American Indians Originated in Small Region in Siberia

9

8

Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms Reversed in Mice

5

9

Scientists develop biological computer to encrypt and decipher images

4

10

Higgs signal gains strength

3

Social [?]

1

Producer vs. Consumer

640

2

Former Zynga Engineer doing AMA on reddit

151

3

Want to code for the devil?

12

4

StartupBus parody video of billionaire

11

5

The BugSense hybrid app: experiences using Clojure on Google App Engine

10

6

Syria is attacking their people. Spread the word. (NSFL)

9

7

Help Find Paul Bunbury, CS Student Missing Since Thursday (Ireland, DCU)

8

8

Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Aung San Suu Kyi at Barcamp Yangon 2012

7

9

Tomorrow's Web Meetup: #01 - Presentation Videos

6

10

David Weekly - Term sheet basics [video]

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub: About This Week's Availability

178

2

Node.native - Node.js in C++0x

133

3

118

4

HNHalfLife aims to increase discussion half-lives on Hacker News

105

5

Tty.js - a terminal for your browser using socket.io

81

6

Kids are the future; teach them how to code

76

7

Earle/django-bootstrap - GitHub

70

8

Literate Programming Matters

66

9

Simple SAT Solver in Haskell

56

10

Python + Django + Rpy + R = Web App (by Simon Knapp)

41

Wikipedia [?]

1

Orders of magnitude

5

2

Koch snowflake - Wikipedia

4

3

3

4

1

5

Net Promoter Score - measure for customer satisfaction

1

6

Tonybee's Idea, Resurrecting Dead

1

7

Molten salt reactor

1

8

"Wrong Way Corrigan" flying to Ireland by accident

1

9

1

10

"Lowest common denominator" for non-native English speakers

1

Blogs [?]

1

A Word to the Resourceful

2

2

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Using HTML5/Canvas/Javascript to take screenshots

162

2

:- what is it in c code?

14

3

How to indicate entity-user relationship in REST APIs: Twitter case

2

4

Does "untyped" also mean "dynamically typed" in the academic CS world? Yes.

2

5

Appharbor co-founder suggests using monitoring to implement background workers

1

6

Regexp finding longest common prefix of two strings

1

Substack [?]