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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
2
Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
1184
3
Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
1031
4
If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
980
5
Here is today
899
6
Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
838
7
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
823
8
BitTorrents Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
750
9
Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
732
10
Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
701
Top Ask HN
1
What's the best technical talk you've heard?
517
2
Why would a government have created bitcoin?
448
3
Who is hiring? (April 2013)
299
4
What should I do?
171
5
Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
171
6
Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
123
7
What is your daily reading list?
114
8
Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?
113
9
How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?
104
10
Suggestions for spacewalk procedure writing?
93
Top Show HN
1
I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system
290
2
Cap'n Proto, by the ex-maintainer of Protocol Buffers
278
3
Usability checklist catch common problems before user testing
211
4
Chardin.js, beautiful instructions for apps
193
5
vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection
186
6
HN Store
183
7
jsdares learning programming visually
168
8
Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor
154
9
Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My Chrome Extension
148
10
God mode in production code a new way to debug in Scala
138
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Facebook buys Parse
490
2
How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apples OK
395
3
Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
390
4
Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer
343
5
How to become Internet famous for $68
287
6
Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge
282
7
CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited
276
8
Google releases some Glass source code
273
9
From Selling Scoops of Ice Cream to Founding ZeroCater
267
10
Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web
243
News [?]
1
Gitmo Is Killing Me
1302
2
Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
701
3
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
544
4
Why Should I Care That No Ones Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
364
5
Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
346
6
Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill
285
7
If this were a pill, youd do anything to get it
236
8
Google Paid This Man $100 Million
227
9
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment
222
10
Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error
219
Scientific publications [?]
1
Hurricane on Saturn
251
2
Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run
164
3
Live: ISS Spacewalk
122
4
What Makes Code Hard to Understand?
92
5
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
81
6
Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics
69
7
Bounding the speed of ‘spooky action at a distance’
40
8
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs
18
9
NASA plans to capture asteroid and bring it to Earth orbit
9
10
The Wow signal of the terrestrial genetic code [pdf]
8
Dev Blogs [?]
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Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
355
2
Introducing Heka
286
3
Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
237
4
A taste of Rust
186
5
Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
153
6
Go at Google [video]
134
7
What I've Been Thinking About
126
8
Schrdinger's and outside-the-box naming
119
9
Nice Security Mindset Example
104
10
The 3.9 kernel is out
94
Tech blogs [?]
1
EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents
199
2
Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal
186
3
Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com
156
4
How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity
118
5
The Crucial/Micron M500 Review – 960GB SSD for $600
85
6
Apple Shuts Down Push Notifications From AppGratis
40
7
Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS
31
8
EFF Joins Andrew Auernheimer Case on Appeal
24
9
Who Has Your Back? 2013
16
10
Wristwatch made of sandwiched PCBs
10
FAANG+ [?]
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
161
2
Announcing New Lower Request Pricing for Amazon S3
137
3
Douglas Hofstadter has a new book
128
4
Amazon was Down
95
5
Principal Component Analysis is a dimensionally invalid method
95
6
Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program
41
7
Intel Xeon 5150 is now $8
14
8
DynamoDB Announces Support for Local Secondary Indexes
7
9
Zombieland pilot on Amazon
4
10
The Phoenix Project ebook is free until midnight Wednesday.
3
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
BitTorrents Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
750
2
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
190
3
Fox Censors Cory Doctorows Homeland Novel From Google
124
4
Paul Krugman (1998): By 2005 Internet will have no more economic impact than fax
76
5
Cuil Crawl Data: 310 terabytes of compressed data, snapshot from 2007-8
76
6
The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf]
71
7
Chromium proposal for browser-level infinite scrolling lists: Lazy Block Layout
65
8
Problems in Education
60
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Common words translation sheet for indie game developers.
38
10
The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations
29
Science News [?]
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Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]
210
2
Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression
158
3
What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like
100
4
Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee
75
5
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe
65
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Survival in Space Unprotected is Possible
49
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Using PGD to design deafness in child
41
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Stone tools helped shape human hands
40
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What Was on the First SAT?
30
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Tracking whole colonies shows ants make career moves
13
Social [?]
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#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software
378
2
Facebook Home
311
3
Get that job at Facebook (2012)
188
4
Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons
141
5
Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec
125
6
The Tech Industrys Darkest Secret: Its All About Age
119
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Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack
86
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Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections
78
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For One Man, It Really Is the End of the World
75
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How to stop recruiters posing as applicants
54
Github repos and gists [?]
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Comcast injecting JS
450
2
Github turns five
352
3
New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
293
4
Expunging Google
282
5
Webcam Pulse Detector
250
6
New GitHub Logo
209
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Quake 3 engine in Rust
176
8
The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images
176
9
Comment spam random text template
146
10
STL File Viewing
144
Wikipedia [?]
1
Black Start
281
2
John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died
132
3
Esquivalience
93
4
Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plagiarism rate
62
5
Zero Knowledge Proofs
57
6
Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox
48
7
Molyneux's problem
42
8
Prince Rupert's Drop
40
9
Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water
29
10
Knapsack problem
27
Blogs [?]
1
You are not Steve Jobs
601
2
The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas
434
3
Stop working so hard
389
4
A game when games were new
369
5
Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before Starting My Company
368
6
Sleep: Everything You Need to Know
359
7
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency
173
8
No, Fuck Off
172
9
Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst
144
10
Our Regressive Web
128
Stackoverflow [?]
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Creating a Radial Menu in CSS
324
2
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
280
3
Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?
271
4
Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c
222
5
How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
144
6
Understanding Python decorators
111
7
What is your best programmer joke?
7
8
BitCoin-24 Founder Learning About SQL Transactions
5
9
What does coalgebra mean in the context of programming?
5
10
How dangerous is it to access an array out of bounds?
4
Substack [?]