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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2076

2

What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

1311

3

Prosecutor as bully

1182

4

Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

1065

5

Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows

1043

6

Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

935

7

897

8

The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"

829

9

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact

826

10

I want the world to scroll this way

810

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

389

2

How do you stop regretting?

229

3

Who is hiring? (January 2013)

223

4

Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?

111

5

Which developer laptop should I buy?

111

6

Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?

105

7

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)

76

8

Macbook Air + Remote Server = Macbook Pro?

66

9

Where are all the programming jobs?

62

10

Review Habbit - An App to Build Your Ideal Future Self with Habits

57

Top Show HN

1

Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to

308

2

My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow

283

3

Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

280

4

Our alternative to recruiter spam

226

5

my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images

215

6

A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation

183

7

Behave.js Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

175

8

API for detecting people, cars, and everyday objects in images

174

9

Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

151

10

Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps

150

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Newegg crushed the shopping cart patent and saved online retail

632

2

Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

623

3

Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones

464

4

A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates

354

5

Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million

256

6

Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012)

247

7

Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners

229

8

Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison

211

9

JSTOR Liberator sets public domain academic articles free

198

10

iPad Hack Statement OfResponsibility

197

News [?]

1

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

477

2

Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video]

380

3

US employee 'outsourced job to China'

373

4

IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

372

5

That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

364

6

Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26

350

7

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

310

8

Aaron Swartz, American hero

304

9

The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments

294

10

Black and Whitey: How the feds disable criminal defense

236

Scientific publications [?]

1

Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, Japan scientists report

108

2

Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Is Smooth, Not Foamy

82

3

Build your own Google Glass

74

4

Scientists Estimate At Least 17 Billion Earth-Size Planets Inhabit Milky Way

49

5

A new asteroid-mining company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., launches Today

39

6

Study shows space travel is harmful to the brain

36

7

Second company launching to mine asteroids

12

8

Cities affect surrounding temperatures for thousands of miles

8

9

Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux

5

10

Quantum entanglement allows information rate to exceed Shannon 0-error capacity

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Checkout

521

2

Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

315

3

Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy

313

4

C++11 and The Long-Term Viability Of GCC Questioned

148

5

Blizzard Entertainment Planning A Linux Game For 2013

133

6

Who Does Skype Let Spy?

112

7

Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID

109

8

FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project

82

9

The tux3 filesystem returns

79

10

Power and the Internet

63

Tech blogs [?]

1

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law

442

2

Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

187

3

Farewell to Aaron Swartz

161

4

Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000

124

5

The Creepy Details of Facebook's New Graph Search

92

6

The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: Power Analysis of Atom, Krait, and Cortex A15

77

7

Apple blocks Java 7 Mac plugin in OS X

46

8

2012 in Review: Encrypting the Web with HTTPS

23

9

Phil Schiller seems to deny talk of cheapiPhone

6

10

How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

236

2

Amazon's homepage was down

193

3

Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free

158

4

Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon

78

5

Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB

41

6

AWS introduces Elastic Transcoder

37

7

US DoD signs $617 million Windows 8 licensing deal

31

8

AWS Global Start-Up Challenge 2012

22

9

App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012

10

10

Programming in Lua, Third Edition released

7

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Antigua Government Set to Launch Pirate Website To Punish United States

220

2

Remember Aaron Swartz (1986 2013)

149

3

Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive [video]

110

4

Imagine BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison

65

5

Pirate Bay Founder Could Be Prosecuted For Hacking Within a Month

37

6

Pirate Bay Branded Malware Distributor by Google

34

7

Music Industry Wants to Block The Pirate Bay And 260 Additional Sites

30

8

The Pirate Bay is Down, Proxies Too

26

9

Censoring Pirate Sites Doesnt Work, Researchers Find

15

10

Antiguas Legal Pirate Site Authorized by the World Trade Organization

13

Science News [?]

1

Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

185

2

Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

169

3

Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres

133

4

How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal

130

5

Wisdom from Psychopaths?

105

6

The Story Behind Banksy

94

7

How to Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day

80

8

Nearby star is almost as old as the Universe

69

9

Bloggers put chemical reactions through the replication mill

32

10

Atomic clock measures time on the basis of an atom's mass

30

Social [?]

1

Introducing Graph Search

378

2

Delivery for Mr. Assange

200

3

The TSA wants to be everywhere in 2013 - here's why we shouldn't let it

178

4

The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded

163

5

Fighting spam with pure functions

39

6

DHH calls HN a cesspool. What do you think? :)

17

7

WikiLeaks: Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks, may have been a source

15

8

Steve Jobs Responding to an Insult

14

9

Fast and easy testing with FBMock

11

10

Twitter is down?

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Whole New Code Search

355

2

Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance

351

3

O'Reilly donating ebook "Open Government" as a tribute to Aaron Swartz

343

4

Introducing Contributions

285

5

Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

275

6

Howdoi Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line

232

7

Leiningen version 2.0.0 released

228

8

Mega Man 2 (NES) password algorithm and code

191

9

Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby

153

10

148

Wikipedia [?]

1

360

2

The If-by-whiskey fallacy

264

3

Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990

168

4

134

5

86

6

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

81

7

Judy arrays are patented

39

8

32

9

28

10

Wikipedia entry for Aaron Swartz-founded PAC was deleted the day he died

25

Blogs [?]

1

121

2

Kippt collects pretty useful links

67

3

Designers Will Code

46

4

Designer Eats Engineer

43

5

Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

38

6

Self-Destructing Email

35

7

Gmail and the GC Joys of JavaScript

24

8

Hilarious Job Posting for a Startup

10

9

Bootstrapping Vagrant An Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto

9

10

What isGrowth Hacking really?

8

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Python yield keyword explained

123

2

How to determine if my calculation of pi is accurate?

105

3

Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?

72

4

Algorithm improvement for Coca-Cola can shape recognition

72

5

What is the maximum length of a URL?

65

6

Why is the C++ STL so heavily based on templates?

55

7

Parsing HTML with Regex

52

8

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

50

9

Advice on the implementation of a real-time trading system [closed]

36

10

Strange multiplication behavior in Guile Scheme interpreter

31

Substack [?]