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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

1138

2

Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees

679

3

A violently true depiction of what war really is

619

4

Give it five minutes

611

5

Raspberri PI Release Announcement

534

6

Introducing Collusion: Discover whos tracking you online

470

7

Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button

469

8

How Not To Sell Software in 2012

454

9

448

10

Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing

441

Top Ask HN

1

Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

265

2

Help a Hacker Out

257

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)

92

4

How do you hire contractors?

58

5

Pet lovers review my startup

57

6

Raspberry Pi Startup Ideas

42

7

How can you stand to live in San Francisco given the crime?

26

8

Would you still by Apple stock?

17

9

Feedback Please

15

10

How much can I sell my company for?

14

Top Show HN

1

Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail

301

2

HackerNews News Recommender

96

3

Subway, a persistent web client for IRC

83

4

App for learning how to write Japanese

55

5

Stash, a graph-based cache for Node.js and Redis

52

6

an unofficial API for Google Music

48

7

Help us curate the webs best content for learning programming & design

45

8

Completely unofficial (and open source) Path client for OS X

39

9

Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video

38

10

CircuitLab, an in-browser schematic editor and circuit simulator

37

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

277

2

Gigabit Internet for $80

271

3

Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional

249

4

A Classic Startup Horror Story

226

5

How To Be Happy Anywhere

208

6

Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware partners

176

7

Aerial robots swarm the stage at TED [video]

175

8

How Apple's Top Secret Product Development Process Works

144

9

iPads using iOS 6, high-res displays showing up in Ars server logs

140

10

The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network

125

News [?]

1

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

1138

2

Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle

196

3

Justin Kan Launches Exec (YC W12) For Real-Time Mobile Jobs

183

4

Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously

98

5

Worlds Most Expensive Burger: 1/4 million euros

98

6

Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?

86

7

Africa's Amazing Rise and What it Can Teach the World

79

8

How To Kill Patent Trolls

78

9

Stripe CEO Discusses Online Payment Service

65

10

A Lawyer/Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear

62

Scientific publications [?]

1

Truth about Defibrillators - too many fail at crucial moment

5

2

Bypassing verified boot security in Chromium OS

3

3

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

2

4

The engineering behind the Yellow Line (2003)

2

5

Virgin Oceanics Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

2

6

Steganography for Internet Anonymity [pdf]

1

7

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

WebSockets versus REST?

91

2

Bruce Shneier Interview: "I'm not worried about criminals, even organised crime"

7

3

Yahoo Mojito Client/Server Javascript Framework Preview

4

4

Subtle interactions in the embedded world - what bugs can teach us

3

5

How to Enable SSL on Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous

3

6

"Getting Truth Out of the DOM" by Yehuda Katz

2

7

Visual Studio 11: New Shades of Grey Have Developers Seeing Red

2

8

Promoted Products: now more mobile

2

9

Start Developing iOS Apps Today

2

10

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

HTTPS and Tor: Working Together to Protect Your Privacy and Security Online

62

2

Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for $9.99

32

3

How To Sue AT&T for throttling your unlimited data in 5 steps

10

4

HTTPS Everywhere 2, and the Decentralized SSL Observatory

8

5

New low level JavaScript interpreter to boost WebKit performance more than 200%

6

6

Apple won't pull Evi from App Store

5

7

HTTPS Everywhere now available for Google Chrome

5

8

Cheap Android phones 'crushing' Apple's iPhone in countries without subsidies

4

9

IPad 3 shipments already en route to U.S.

4

10

HTC's New Strategy - The HTC One

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Visual Studio 11 Beta released

54

2

Apple: 514,000 US Jobs Created

25

3

Microsoft Flight released today

3

4

Machine Learning for Hackers (book)

3

5

New MacBook Air

2

6

How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire

1

7

Practical Malware Analysis

1

8

MS arrives at MWC to showcase how Windows Phone is faster than the competition

1

9

SharePoint 2010 for Project Management

1

10

Apple giving away US$10,000 Gift card for the 25 billionth app download

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident

185

2

Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model

103

3

My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination

100

4

Ask HN: What is your HN topcolor. (Results to follow)

11

5

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming

5

6

How to Fix Science

5

7

The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents

4

8

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom: Were Going To Win

4

9

The Pirate Bay Is Down, But Dont Panic

4

10

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom: Were Going To Win

2

Science News [?]

1

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

65

2

Did the Titanic sink because of an optical illusion?

59

3

You Have a Hive Mind

7

4

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish

4

5

What Makes a Robot Fish Attractive? Robot Fish Moves to the Head of the School

3

6

Quest for quirky quantum particles may have struck gold

3

7

Pasta-Shaped Radio Waves Beamed Across Venice

3

8

Super-sized fleas adapted to feed off dinosaurs

3

9

Anonymous Members Tricked Into Giving Up Bank Details

2

10

Selective removal of aging cells delays onset of aging-related phenotypes

2

Social [?]

1

Neil deGrasse Tyson Doing an IAmA on Reddit

95

2

Recursive Game of Life

8

3

Write in C (Let It Be parody)

8

4

TED Talk: Susan Cain: The power of introverts

7

5

Natural Selection 2 trailer is out (indie video game)

6

6

The smartest game IDE I've seen

6

7

Chris Wanstrath, CEO and Co-Founder of GitHub, speaking at MIT

5

8

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme (video)

5

9

Facebook Introducing New Facebook Pages

5

10

What is a nanosecond?

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Clojure Implemented in Pure Python

119

2

GitHub for Mac 1.2: Snow Octocat

118

3

Lthread - C coroutine lib with multicore support

108

4

LLVM Clojure Bindings

100

5

KML shapes of any US state, city, or county, made possible by the U.S. Census

83

6

Messenger.js - dead simple API for multi-server communication in Node.js

67

7

Tako: a functional web framework for Node.js

19

8

Reactor-based framework versus Node.js streaming

18

9

Python Enums for Humans

10

10

Hastie, a static site generator in Go

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

If you want to bring your project to wikipedia

1

2

1

3

How an Arithmetic Overflow caused the Ariane 5 Crash

1

4

Mutual Recursion

1

5

Wikipedia on Twinkie: PR win

1

Blogs [?]

1

Olin Shivers: History of T

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is it okay to start with Rails now?

4

2

Smarty 3.1.1 kills newlines

4

3

Move TinyMCE with jQuery

4

4

Vim: inline JS syntax highlighting behaving the same as on a separate file

3

5

How a Scala program is translated into JVM bytecode

2

6

Serving gzipped CSS and JavaScript from Amazon CloudFront via S3

2

7

Android Market app not selling

1

8

Is the recommendation to include CSS before JavaScript invalid?

1

9

What is the purpose of a stack? Why do we need it?

1

10

How to write a crawler?

1

Substack [?]