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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
808
2
Ubuntu for phones
494
3
Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
464
4
Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
454
5
_why's site is back up
443
6
Web Developer Checklist
426
7
How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
424
8
A New Look for Facebook
414
9
Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
412
10
SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions
395
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (January 2013)
223
2
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)
76
3
Macbook Air + Remote Server = Macbook Pro?
66
4
Where are all the programming jobs?
62
5
What is your startup?
50
6
What unwanted domain names are you sitting on?
28
7
Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do better?
23
8
Github as resume, what does it really mean?
21
9
Do I need College?
19
10
For those of you self-employed, what is your health insurance?
18
Top Show HN
1
Our alternative to recruiter spam
226
2
my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
215
3
Send SMS to your number for free from shell
117
4
a small weekendish project - JSON Blob
101
5
My first product. Thoughts?
80
6
My weekend project - Codestagram
70
7
HN In Your Terminal
64
8
A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.
61
9
Never wait for Paypal again
60
10
Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
53
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
464
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Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million
256
3
Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners
229
4
Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
211
5
Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux
196
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BitPay, PayPal for Bitcoin, raises $510K already has 2,100 businesses on board
149
7
Lego Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotics
120
8
The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks!
116
9
Turkish government agency spoofed Google certificate accidentally
99
10
The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster
86
News [?]
1
Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people making tea [video]
380
2
Black and Whitey: How the feds disable criminal defense
236
3
Be Wrong as Fast as You Can
140
4
Japan's ninjas heading for extinction
105
5
A Million First Dates
105
6
It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something
87
7
Awakening (during anesthesia)
72
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IMF Chief Economist apologizes for being wrong on austerity
66
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Elite video game reboot hits funding target
61
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Mark Lynas, environmentalist who opposed GMOs, admits he was wrong.
55
Scientific publications [?]
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Build your own Google Glass
74
2
Scientists Estimate At Least 17 Billion Earth-Size Planets Inhabit Milky Way
49
3
Study shows space travel is harmful to the brain
36
4
Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux
5
5
Using nanotechnology to extend battery life
2
6
Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
2
7
Researchers Build a Projectile Vomiting Robot
2
8
Computers: It's Time to Start Over
2
9
The reason we lose at games
2
10
How much of the web is archived?
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Blizzard Entertainment Planning A Linux Game For 2013
133
2
The tux3 filesystem returns
79
3
Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation
56
4
Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition
9
5
Rust - A Safe, Concurrent, and Fast language by Mozilla
8
6
Clojure after the Honeymoon
3
7
How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
2
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How FirefoxOS Supports Emerging Market Mobile Behaviors
2
9
First Usage Statistics for Steam Linux from Valve
2
10
Erik Meijer on Big Data, Types of Data Stores and Reactive Programming
2
Tech blogs [?]
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The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: Power Analysis of Atom, Krait, and Cortex A15
77
2
2012 in Review: Encrypting the Web with HTTPS
23
3
Apple airs unfortunately-timed Do Not Disturb ad with Venus, Serena Williams
3
4
An absurdly clever thermal imaging camera
2
5
HAPIfork is a Digital Fork that Tracks Your Eating Habits
2
6
IOS "Do Not Disturb" and 2013
2
7
Ashton Kutcher Movie 'jOBS' to Be Released in April
2
8
How to do DIY iOS Google Glasses
1
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ComScore: iOS and Android continue move toward duopoly with..
1
10
Fusion Drive Now Available as Option for Low End 21.5" iMac
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon
78
2
US DoD signs $617 million Windows 8 licensing deal
31
3
App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
10
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Programming in Lua, Third Edition released
7
5
Raspberry Pi User Guide
2
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App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
2
7
Android 4.0 Mini PC
2
8
Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds UAV Drone (Read the reviews)
2
9
Learn Lua for iOS Game Development
2
10
Playmobil Security Check Point
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Music Industry Wants to Block The Pirate Bay And 260 Additional Sites
30
2
The Pirate Bay is Down, Proxies Too
26
3
BBC-Backed Pirate Bay Documentary Ready for Premiere
4
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IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Leader Sentenced To Five Years in Prison
4
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Pirate Kopimism Recognized as an Official Word By Sweden
3
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Megaupload: U.S. Deliberately Misled the Court with Unlawful Search Warrants
3
7
Google and Yahoo Accused of Funding 'Pirate Sites'
3
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Leaked Oscar Screeners are BitTorrent Smash Hits
3
9
Simplified comparison of various Open Source licenses for developers
2
10
Quatrainment
1
Science News [?]
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Quantum gas goes below absolute zero
169
2
Wisdom from Psychopaths?
105
3
How to Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day
80
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NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit
3
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Asteroids May Have Brought Carbon to Protoplanet
2
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New positioning technology could compete with GPS (Locata)
2
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Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life (Carl Woese 1981)
2
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West vs Asia education rankings are misleading
2
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Sea level rises may be greater than predicted
2
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How Likely Are You to DieToday? [video]
2
Social [?]
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The TSA wants to be everywhere in 2013 - here's why we shouldn't let it
178
2
What I got wrong in the Peanut Butter Manifesto
9
3
Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work [video]
8
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Kim Dotcom's recipe to stop piracy
7
5
Arrested in USA for dancing in public ("and the home of the..." what?)
6
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Linux is Garbage
6
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List of 32 programming/CS courses (MOOCs) that start in January
5
8
Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work
5
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Font Awesome 3.0 Released
5
10
Notch tries Omegle
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance
351
2
Introducing Contributions
285
3
Mega Man 2 (NES) password algorithm and code
191
4
Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
153
5
Make Me
148
6
The Web Book Boilerplate - Writing books for almost every platform
113
7
An IRC bot written in Brainfuck
99
8
Effective JavaScript Reviewed
83
9
Hacker news in your terminal
60
10
Node.js Worker Farm
49
Wikipedia [?]
1
Trap street
32
2
List of Unusual Deaths
21
3
Catch a re-run of Y2K in 2038
4
4
Nashorn (JavaScript engine)
3
5
Water Bridges Which Form at High Voltages
2
6
Happy numbers
2
7
Missing white woman syndrome
1
8
Iron Man's Alcoholism
1
9
Metrication in the United States
1
10
Aging brain
1
Blogs [?]
1
How to Get Startup Ideas
6
2
On competing visions
3
3
Product Designer Lift
2
4
The Silicon Valley career path
2
5
The most common mistake in startup job applications
2
6
Medium
1
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Hilarious UX Fail at the California Academy of Sciences
1
8
Simplicity Forces Creativity
1
9
Storing our digital DNA
1
10
Is Medium the future of book publishing?
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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Algorithm improvement for Coca-Cola can shape recognition
72
2
What is the maximum length of a URL?
65
3
Parsing HTML with Regex
52
4
Why do major C++ libraries and frameworks never use smart pointers?
3
5
How to Scale Wordpress on Shared Hosting to Survive a Traffic Surge
2
6
Hidden features of Python
2
7
Why is C++ relatively harder to use/bad choice for a beginner?
2
8
Secure string compare function in Zend Framework
2
9
Knapsack Problem variant in PHP
2
10
Do Ruby on Rails sites have performance issues?
1
Substack [?]