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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

1290

2

Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive

919

3

14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

789

4

Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

638

5

Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content

600

6

Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

586

7

Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever

580

8

What I've Learned About Smart People.

545

9

Did You Hear We Got Osama?

520

10

Hacking Hacker News

498

Top Ask HN

1

What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?

220

2

How to move away from Gmail

117

3

Have you taken 6 months to 1 year break to do self study?

98

4

What would you work on, if money was of no concern?

66

5

We met on HN and built Like Secret, what do we do now?

25

6

What happened to Mixergy?

18

7

Should I sell or cash-cow my startup?

16

8

Is there a market for an API development company?

15

9

Paypal Messup, Missing money from account. What next?

15

10

Best desk chair, sub-$300?

13

Top Show HN

1

Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books

522

2

Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site

403

3

Mothereffinanimatedgif

112

4

Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C

110

5

Photo Picker+, New Library Improves Native Photo Picker (iOS+Android)

109

6

Our first iPhone app, built entirely in JavaScript

69

7

Coworking Weekly, the first newsletter for the coworking industry

48

8

ANSI art renderer in JavaScript/Canvas

47

9

Cheers, our "like" button for the real world

42

10

Facebook response to Lovestagram. Our Valentine's weekend project.

40

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately

424

2

Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book

164

3

BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV

155

4

The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid

136

5

Takedowns run amok? The strange Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on JotForm

135

6

Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data

126

7

YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies

122

8

Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming regulation and loss of funds

120

9

Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners

111

10

Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text

108

News [?]

1

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

457

2

The Fifty is awake again

271

3

"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail

155

4

Brainstorming Doesn't Really Work

136

5

MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course

129

6

First new U.S. nuclear reactors in decades approved

113

7

Flaw found in online encryption method

103

8

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

91

9

Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy

78

10

Academic publisher Elsevier hit with growing boycott

74

Scientific publications [?]

1

Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP

9

2

Function call overhead benchmarks with Matlab, Octave, Python, Cython and C

7

3

Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology

3

4

The unifying theory underlying physics, topology, logic and computation[pdf]

2

5

Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare (full-text .PDF)

2

6

Robot Space 'Gas Attendant' Could Salvage Old Satellites by 2015

2

7

Revisiting the 'Pillars of Creation'

1

8

Scienceography: the study of how science is written

1

9

NASA Beams 'Across the Universe' Into Space

1

10

Robot arm with 'jam' type gripper learns to throw

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

New Features in Xcode 4.3

66

2

Ubuntu on ARM faster than some Atoms?

44

3

Start Developing iOS Apps Today

8

4

Twitter Blog: Securing your Twitter experience with HTTPS

6

5

Xcode 4.3 Released

5

6

Running Heroku on Heroku

5

7

Twitter Advertising for Small Businesses

3

8

Running Heroku on Heroku

3

9

Linux kernel design patterns

2

10

Want Better Estimates? Stop Estimating

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

120

2

Stanford researcher: Google Circumvents iOS Privacy protection in AdSense ads

99

3

A Look at Enterprise Performance of Intel SSDs

43

4

iPad 3 LCD Under Microscope Reveals 2048x1536 Retina Display

20

5

Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections - This is Why We Need Do Not Track

9

6

Apple posts guide for iOS development newcomers

7

7

Apple forcing contractor to choose between Zenbook or iOS devices

4

8

EU: Social Networks Cant Be Forced to Monitor and Filter to Prevent Piracy

4

9

Spy Tech Companies & Their Authoritarian Customers

3

10

Android Electronic Reference App

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

458

2

Download the free Messages Beta - iMessage Beta

36

3

25 Billion App Countdown - Apple

8

4

OSX Mountain Lion

2

5

Amazon Web Services Customer List (Case Studies)

1

6

Free for Valentines Day: poetic novel about early online culture

1

7

Apple Mountain Lion - Security Excuse

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

All the documents that Google deleted from Google Groups, saved by Archive Team

147

2

Free Singularity Institute hosted Rationality Workshops in Berkeley on Saturdays

43

3

The RIAA is Delusional And Must Be Stopped

11

4

Book Publishers Shut Down Library.nu and iFile-it

7

5

Dutch Parliament Rejects ACTA On Human Rights Violations

6

6

Megaupload Co-Founder Released On Bail

3

7

Music Industry Mulls Suing Google Over Pirate Search Results

2

8

The Pirate Bay Says Goodbye to (Most) Torrents on February 29

2

9

Father accused of being a hacker in legal fight for his child

2

10

EU Court Bans Anti-Piracy Filters On Hosting Services

2

Science News [?]

1

$900 DNA sequencing USB stick announced by OxNano

119

2

University of Alberta researcher discovers vaccine for hepatitis C

5

3

DNA robot could kill cancer cells

4

4

Seven equations that rule your world

4

5

Gecko feet inspire amazing glue that can hold 700 pounds on smooth wall

3

6

Building bone from cartilage

2

7

Jumping Genes in the Brain Ensure That Even Identical Twins Are Different

2

8

Drinking alcohol shrinks critical brain regions in genetically vulnerable mice

2

9

Ancient Chinese medicine could fight aging

2

10

For the first time, scientists can control human brain cells using quantum dots

2

Social [?]

1

How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his senior thesis

364

2

Reddit: a necessary change in policy

171

3

Frank Zappa Explains the Decline of the Music Industry

23

4

Gdel Incompleteness for Startups

9

5

Alexis Ohanian defends Reddit allowing photos of underaged girls.

8

6

Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done

8

7

Documentary proving Earth is flat

7

8

Share HN: First real-world use of my iPad app for speech disabled users

7

9

Twitter has a new look

6

10

Node.JS is bad-ass rock star tech (XtraNormal)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon

170

2

YSlow is now open source

136

3

Tetris Game in 140 Bytes of JavaScript

100

4

Ace - Sinatra for Node with Fibers

97

5

Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing environment for the JVM

86

6

Clojure implemented on top of Python

63

7

A minimal CSS layout framework

58

8

A schemaless, embeddable Python ORM on top of SQLite (or, an embeddable MongoDB)

49

9

Boilerstrap: A beautiful mashup of HTML5 Boilerplate & Twitter Bootstrap 2.0

47

10

PyPy on Heroku via Heroku Buildpack

30

Wikipedia [?]

1

Mathematical fallacy

2

2

Socialist Millionaire Problem

2

3

Method of Exercising a Cat

2

4

Quantum suicide and immortality

2

5

Shakespeare programming language

1

6

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

1

7

Beowulf Computing Clusters

1

8

MIME Type is now Internet Media Type

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?

10

2

Obfuscated Hello World Program in C Explained

2

3

Why split the tag when writing it with document.write()?

2

4

What happens when there's insufficient memory to throw an OutOfMemoryError?

2

5

Git undo last commit

2

6

Can I Replace Apache with Node.js?

2

7

How to run a program for a specified amount of time?

1

8

Using RSA (with openssl) in opposition to HTTPS (help needed)

1

9

The real time complexity of a hash table lookup

1

Substack [?]