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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

If the Earth were 100 pixels wide

980

2

Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer

823

3

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

701

4

Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

701

5

Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

671

6

Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America

596

7

569

8

French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article

553

9

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts

531

10

Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

496

Top Ask HN

1

What's the best technical talk you've heard?

517

2

What should I do?

171

3

Why you do open source?

78

4

Data on job market for entry-level Rails devs?

41

5

What are some good laptops for Linux right now?

39

6

Any Bitcoin Millionaires on HN?

29

7

Why the Google Hate?

23

8

Micro Startups?

23

9

Why is it so hard finding a Freelancer?

18

10

Are ignored "Show HN"s a reflection of the project?

17

Top Show HN

1

Cap'n Proto, by the ex-maintainer of Protocol Buffers

278

2

Chardin.js, beautiful instructions for apps

193

3

183

4

Hide Secret Messages In Facebook Photos With My Chrome Extension

148

5

Pinry, a self-hosted Pinterest

137

6

TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts

127

7

Mosaic Use multiple iPhones as one big screen

100

8

Pandas, Numpy, and SciPy users can now access our over 4M datasets

88

9

Subvim Vim customized to be like SublimeText

87

10

CommitQ Programming language-aware Git repository hosting

86

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apples OK

395

2

From Selling Scoops of Ice Cream to Founding ZeroCater

267

3

Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine

223

4

Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

144

5

Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners

131

6

Patent troll Lodsys sues 10 mobile game makers, despite Apples intervention

109

7

Facebook Announces Home, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android

97

8

Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinators first non-profit graduate

81

9

Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments

77

10

Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley

76

News [?]

1

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

701

2

Google Paid This Man $100 Million

227

3

The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide

206

4

Lessig: Why Washington is corrupt

202

5

The Joke’s on Louis C.K.

200

6

Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies, aged 87

160

7

The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame

141

8

Ban pesticides linked to bee deaths, say MPs

100

9

Is Polite Disagreement Becoming Grounds For Removal From A Flight?

97

10

Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State

95

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bounding the speed of ‘spooky action at a distance’

40

2

Ants follow Fermat's principle of least time

4

3

Destination Moon: Russia to Launch New Wave of Lunar Robots

3

4

Dark Matter Possibly Found by $2 Billion Space Station Experiment

3

5

The Robots App Is FREE During National Robotics Week

3

6

A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

2

7

"Winter is coming"

2

8

NASA to Get $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission, Senator Says

2

9

Judge: Firm can sue Facebook over 'timeline'

2

10

Mobile phone turns 40, with little fanfare

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine

355

2

Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler

237

3

Lock-Free Algorithms For Ultimate Performance

41

4

Firefox 20 released: Here is whats new

7

5

Who Wrote the Flashback OS X Worm?

3

6

Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages

3

7

The Wayland/Weston Fork Is Now "Banned"

3

8

How the CloudFlare Team Got Into Bondage (It's Not What You Think)

3

9

Interview with Barbara Liskov

3

10

Martin Fowler on Software Design in the 21st Century

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal

186

2

Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com

156

3

New California Act Would Let Consumers Find Out Who Has Their Personal Data

4

4

Rumor claims Mac Pro update coming this month

3

5

Google Close to Acquiring WhatsApp for $1 Billion?

2

6

The HTC One Review

2

7

Next Two Iphones Were Designed Under Steve Jobs

1

8

The HTC One Review

1

9

EFF Remembers Aaron Swartz with Week-of-Action to Reform the CFAA

1

10

Apple Pulls App Discovery App 'AppGratis' From App Store

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Announcing New Lower Request Pricing for Amazon S3

137

2

Douglas Hofstadter has a new book

128

3

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 - Out Now

3

4

Free Kindle copy of "The Phoenix Project" on Amazon

2

5

AWS S3 lowers prices (GET requests by 60%)

2

6

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 available now

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Common words translation sheet for indie game developers.

38

2

Mark Zuckerberg's Angelfire Site (Circa 1999)

20

3

Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request

8

4

Ill Download Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay, Iron Sky Director Tells HBO

6

5

Why Andy Rubin left Android

3

6

YouTubes Deal With Universal Blocks DMCA Counter Notices

3

7

File-Sharers Will Not Be Held Liable For Piracy, Russia Says

2

8

Chrome Page Load Performance Improves Significantly in M27

2

9

What keeps Light Table from being your primary editor?

2

10

How to negotiate a job offer

2

Science News [?]

1

Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (2008) [pdf]

210

2

Survival in Space Unprotected is Possible

49

3

Using PGD to design deafness in child

41

4

US building first nuclear reactors in 30 years

5

5

Astronaut falling into black hole would be burned not crushed

3

6

Lithium-Sulfur batteries - twice the power of Lithium-Ion.

2

7

Publishing frontiers: The library reboot

2

8

Researchers see antibody evolve against HIV

2

9

3d Printed Material Mimics Biological Tissue

2

10

Poll consensus on million-dollar logic problem

1

Social [?]

1

311

2

For One Man, It Really Is the End of the World

75

3

How to Model Viral Growth: Retention and Virality Curves

42

4

Thoughts On Mike Arrington Hitting Women (Loren Feldman)

17

5

PG on Stripe: More Payments Processed In Last 24 Hours Then First 2 Years

9

6

Days after renovating their office, Hootsuite lists illegal unpaid internships.

8

7

Redditor invests $30,000 life savings in bitcoin a month ago when it was $25

8

8

24 hours of ambient engine noise from the USS Enterprise

7

9

MountainWest RubyConf 2013: Live Stream

6

10

14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer (video)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Comcast injecting JS

450

2

New GitHub Pages domain: github.io

293

3

Rendr - Use Backbone on both the server and client

136

4

The OAuth Bible

123

5

JavaScript Scope Context Coloring

118

6

94

7

My "Ember" Job Posting on Hacker News

91

8

Flat UI jQuery Theme

59

9

REST Interface for MongoDB

52

10

Pithy.js - An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript

49

Wikipedia [?]

1

Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plagiarism rate

62

2

9

3

University of Toronto students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism.

5

4

Bitcoin, or The 4 Main Stages of a Bubble

4

5

Arrow's impossibility theorem

3

6

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

3

7

The polynomial remainder theorem - remainder of p(x)/(x-a) is p(a)

2

8

2

9

Myth of the Flat Earth

2

10

The limits to growth

1

Blogs [?]

1

Stop working so hard

389

2

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

173

3

Our Regressive Web

128

4

Best scam I've ever seen

10

5

How to Get Startup Ideas

3

6

Thoughts on Blink

3

7

Teaching Better Technical Classes

3

8

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

2

9

How to be successful

2

10

Changing our Users' Lives

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?

271

2

Understanding Python decorators

111

3

How dangerous is it to access an array out of bounds?

4

4

Haskell lightweight threads overhead and use on multicores

3

5

Running Haskell on Android?

2

6

Start an apache server in any directory from command line

2

7

What is your most productive shortcut with vim?

2

8

Learning to Write a Compiler

1

9

How do I find Waldo with Mathematica?

1

10

Tchrist on Unicode in Perl (Epic SO answer.)

1

Substack [?]