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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Ubuntu for Android
690
2
TV is broken
621
3
Teller Reveals His Secrets
598
4
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
597
5
Right versus pragmatic
559
6
"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
535
7
Online Python Tutor
529
8
US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination
511
9
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
450
10
Whats the waiter doing with the computer screen?
446
Top Ask HN
1
How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?
81
2
How do you choose a good font for your next project.
17
3
(how often) do you clear your cookies?
16
4
How do you perform penetration testing on your webapp?
14
5
Review my startup joinbox.com (closed beta invites)
14
6
Who's hiring interns this Summer 2012?
12
7
Why am I still writing server-side code?
10
8
How do so many projects on Kickstarter have such professional videos?
10
9
How does an iOS app like Clear get so much publicity?
10
10
What do you use for email drip campaigns? (InfusionSoft, etc?)
9
Top Show HN
1
Wireshark as a web app
159
2
QR Pixel encodes pixel art in QR codes.
118
3
A client-side Bayes classifier for Hacker News
115
4
A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C)
96
5
StyleBootstrap, create unique Bootstrap design live
86
6
The reinvention of the company profile
78
7
A PHP parser written in PHP
77
8
devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh
71
9
Dear Instagram, a letter written by my designer friend
64
10
HTTP Status code directory
58
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
383
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Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years
316
3
Interesting Windows Desktop UI Concept
289
4
Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)
240
5
Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation
209
6
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
178
7
Apple Acquires Chomp; App Store Search And Discovery To Be Completely Revamped
163
8
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever
131
9
How Wired Published Its GitHub Story on GitHub
117
10
Stochastic Pattern Recognition Dramatically Outperforms Conventional Techniques
89
News [?]
1
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
597
2
Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctors eyes
346
3
Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
160
4
The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone
156
5
Dont lie to me, Argentina. Imagine a world without statistics
149
6
Why Are Harvard Graduates In The Mailroom
101
7
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
81
8
Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case
71
9
Distant 'waterworld' is confirmed
70
10
Steve Kordek, a game designer who revolutionized pinball, dies at 100
68
Scientific publications [?]
1
Sebastian Thrun wants to teach you how to program a self-driving robotic car
56
2
Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russias Mars Probe?
2
3
Spray-on Nanoparticle Mix Turns Trees Into Antennas
1
4
Problems With Popper
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
386
2
Another Piece of the Stuxnet Puzzle
149
3
Event Driven Programming in Clojure
12
4
Visual Basic 6 Renewed to Run on Windows 8
4
5
Google Password Generator in the Works
4
6
Twitter mobile app updates for iPhone and Android
3
7
REST Anti-Patterns
3
8
Writing Usable APIs in Practice
2
9
Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
2
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Introducing RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door
2
Tech blogs [?]
1
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
450
2
Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
392
3
UK journalist killed in Syria may have been tracked by satellite phone
16
4
Apple Extends Deadline for Sandboxing of Mac App Store Apps to June 1
15
5
How to Remove Your YouTube Viewing and Search History
10
6
Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Location Data Without a Warrant
3
7
Pakistan Requests Proposals for a National Filtering and Blocking System
2
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Court Finds Social Network Add-On Violated Spam, Hacking Laws
2
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OMAP 5 Dual Core A15 vs Quad Core A9 Video.
2
10
IPhone User Awarded $850 in Judgment Against AT&T Over Throttling
2
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Simple Workflow Service
14
2
Amazon Simple Workflow NASA JPL case study
13
3
Inside Apple
8
4
Machine Learning for Hackers
4
5
Inside Apple - How America's Most Admired and Secretive Company Really Works
3
6
Ssl fail on apple.com
3
7
JQuery Mobile Up and Running
2
8
Free e-book: Learning Python Decorators
2
9
Running Lean
2
10
Amazon Simple Workflow and genomics data platforms
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released From Prison
101
2
Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges
75
3
Get Curious
74
4
UTorrent Native Android Client On The Way
38
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Sony CEO: Censoring YouTube videos loses us money
7
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Police Raid Private Tracker, Others Shut Down
5
7
Quick Questionnaire: How do you Navigate?
3
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A Responsible Citizen Not Only Shares Culture But Destroys Copyright Industries
3
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Pirate Bays Peter Sunde on the Copyright Mafia
3
10
Introduction to HyperCard, 1987 [video]
2
Science News [?]
1
Teller Reveals His Secrets
598
2
Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective
63
3
Earth's clouds are getting lower, NASA satellite finds
39
4
Most reported power laws lack statistical support and mechanistic backing
30
5
Origin of photosynthesis revealed
29
6
Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to select what we (want to) see
25
7
European Neanderthals on verge of extinction before arrival of modern humans
16
8
Monkey controls robot hand through brain implants
14
9
Computer modelling: Brain in a box
7
10
Google 'Seaview' gives you underwater reef tour
5
Social [?]
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Wikileaks Releases Insurance File
17
2
Microsoft's Anti-Google Apps Advert
10
3
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
8
4
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957)
6
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Google now asks you to enter your credit card as part of the Gmail signup flow
6
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Source code to the first webserver by Tim Berners-Lee's cannot be found
6
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IAmA Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Accelerator Founder AMA
6
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"The idea that a young teen has a right to privacy online is a joke"
5
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Why I Left Apple
5
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50 year old language demo shows that CS is still in the dark ages
5
Github repos and gists [?]
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The Great Web Framework Shootout On GitHub
164
2
Atea: a free minimalistic status bar time tracker for MacOS in Clojure
133
3
Stripe Growl: Growl Notifications for Stripe.com
35
4
Gaug.es for Android
30
5
V8 for MIPS
25
6
This is what every modern Cease & Desist should look like
15
7
Let - lets you run a node.js script a specified amount of time.
9
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A caffeine driven, simplistic approach to benchmarking Node.js code.
7
9
Here is how I captured the stripe.com CTF flag. A complete walkthrough.
7
10
Python api for dwolla
7
Wikipedia [?]
1
Moral hazard
4
2
Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements
3
3
You don't know how much you suck at something until you are good at it.
3
4
List of Colors
3
5
Internet Engineering Task Force: April Fools' Day RFCs
2
6
List of Common Misconceptions
2
7
Hedy Lamarr: Actress and inventor of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum system.
2
8
Comparison of e-book formats
1
9
Gbekli Tepe - the oldest known human-made religious structure
1
10
The Cox-Zucker machine
1
Blogs [?]
1
How to do what you love
6
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How does Apple find dates and times in emails?
106
2
Do browsers parse javascript on every page load?
78
3
Maintaining Large Binary Resources in Git
48
4
Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers
6
5
When would you use the different git merge strategies?
4
6
I have been writing PHP without classes for years what am I missing?
3
7
Python metaclasses explained
2
8
Extension of MIT License for SaaS?
2
9
IOS limits HTML5 media elements to 1 per page?
2
10
Using ubuntu upstart to stop a daemon
1
Substack [?]