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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]

644

2

You are not Steve Jobs

601

3

"Asswipe," replied Yahoo's server. That's when I knew I had it

563

4

I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane

547

5

The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

544

6

Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project

524

7

What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

499

8

JQuery 2.0 Released

455

9

Very Short Reply Expected

446

10

Linux on an 8-bit micro

429

Top Ask HN

1

Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?

113

2

Suggestions for spacewalk procedure writing?

93

3

What IRC channels does everyone find interesting?

74

4

Is an Autonomy Fund a viable business model?

46

5

I am programmer, i wan't to die, what can i do?

44

6

What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties?

26

7

How does your company handle deployments?

24

8

Any Moscow HNers?

23

9

How much, on average, do freelancers make?

22

10

I am in a David vs. Goliath fight and I need some advice

16

Top Show HN

1

jsdares learning programming visually

168

2

God mode in production code a new way to debug in Scala

138

3

Sync Realtime partials with Rails

136

4

Pinterest for text

106

5

My NBA + Twitter mashup

93

6

Tweetspiration let Twitter brainstorm ideas for you

78

7

Hosted IRC for Teams (my first startup)

71

8

Sparklin Wars, multiplayer Web shooter I built over 2 nights

68

9

Four months of indie game dev

63

10

From Zero to the Appstore - My ebook on HTML5 mobile games

50

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer

343

2

How to become Internet famous for $68

287

3

Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge

282

4

Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web

243

5

Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isnt As Simple As You Think

233

6

Netflix now bigger than HBO

231

7

Geeksphone's Firefox OS smartphones go on sale tomorrow

196

8

The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel

153

9

All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide ComputerOutage

151

10

Tor calls for help as its supply of bridges falters

145

News [?]

1

The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On

544

2

Why Should I Care That No Ones Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

364

3

Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill

285

4

What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

213

5

Breaking News is broken

206

6

Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber

185

7

What Broke My Father's Heart (2010)

180

8

Grad Student Who Took Down Reinhart and Rogoff Explains Why They're Wrong

157

9

What happened to Japan's electronic giants?

109

10

Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking and fraud

93

Scientific publications [?]

1

Live: ISS Spacewalk

122

2

Putin unveils $50 billion drive for Russian space supremacy

6

3

New Private Rocket Launches Into Orbit On Maiden Voyage

5

4

Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed

5

5

Batteries Might Finally Catch Up

2

6

Earth-Like Planet Discovered

2

7

Orbital Science Antares launch live-stream

2

8

Unbounded Robotics: The Next Willow Garage Spin-Off?

1

9

Video Friday: iCub Rides a Roomba, PR2 Can Hear You Now, and ROBOGAMES

1

10

The emergence of complex behaviors through causal entropic forces

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Ember.js - Web Applications Done Right

68

2

Twitter launch Twitter Music

13

3

Mozilla TowTruck: a collaboration service for every website

4

4

A taste of Rust

4

5

Meteor Introduces Tighter NPM Integration, Overhauled Package Management

4

6

The Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt

3

7

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

3

8

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

3

9

Making A Code Compiler Energy-Aware

2

10

Brazils groundbreaking Internet Civil Rights Bill needs support

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents

199

2

Apple Shuts Down Push Notifications From AppGratis

40

3

Help Stop 1-800-CONTACTS from Abusing Patents to Squelch Competition

3

4

Apple stores Siri voice clips stored for up to 2 years

2

5

Leaked document shows AppGratis manipulated App Store rankings

2

6

48 Hours Left to Stop CISPA in the House

1

7

EFF Moves to Quash Subpoena in Copyright Trolls Retaliatory Lawsuit

1

8

Ways You Can Help EFF

1

9

Survey Shows Pre-Launch Demand for Apple's iWatch on Par With iPad

1

10

HP to Embed Leap Motion's Gesture Control Technology

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Principal Component Analysis is a dimensionally invalid method

95

2

Amazon was Down

95

3

DynamoDB Announces Support for Local Secondary Indexes

7

4

Microsoft and Foxconn Sign Patent Agreement For Android and Chrome Devices

2

5

Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning - Only $4,037.50

1

6

Amazon original pilots are online for free

1

7

"Betas," TV Show About Startups (Amazon Original Pilots)

1

8

Making a Living Without a Job

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Fox Censors Cory Doctorows Homeland Novel From Google

124

2

Paul Krugman (1998): By 2005 Internet will have no more economic impact than fax

76

3

The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations

29

4

Why The Lean Startup Changes Everything

10

5

Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything (by Steve Blank)

3

6

File-Sharers Sued For Wrong Movie Title, Producer Outraged

3

7

Pirate Bay Founder Charged With Hacking Companies and a Bank

3

8

Busted NinjaVideo founder freed from prison

3

9

Myths About Venture Capitalists

2

10

Apple the Black Swan: Wall St. has never understood Apple.

2

Science News [?]

1

What Was on the First SAT?

30

2

Tracking whole colonies shows ants make career moves

13

3

How to Power the World without Fossil Fuels

6

4

CrowdMed (YC W13) could spot rare diseases doctors miss

6

5

Why teenagers really do need an extra hour in bed

3

6

Photons test quantum paradox

3

7

Flash vaporization during earthquakes evidenced by gold deposits

2

8

Nine Materials That Will Change The Future Of Manufacturing

2

9

Mapping the Internet

2

10

The Only Positive Effect Of The Cuban Embargo? Weight Loss

2

Social [?]

1

Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons

141

2

Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

86

3

Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections

78

4

Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown

44

5

The Tech Industrys Darkest Secret: Its All About Age

29

6

Texas Explosion caught on Youtube before Cable or Broadcast

12

7

The User is Drunk

11

8

The beautiful machines that mine Bitcoin

7

9

Yesterday's Reddit DDoS peaked at 400k hits per second.

5

10

Rep Mike Rogers Claims CISPA Opponents are 14 Year Olds in Basements

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Expunging Google

282

2

Webcam Pulse Detector

250

3

New GitHub Logo

209

4

The Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images

176

5

Comment spam random text template

146

6

Escape Velocity

132

7

A Social Coding Experiment

93

8

Let people pay you. Make it easy

90

9

Python Number Conversion Chart

71

10

An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh

64

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Oh-My-God particle

8

2

The Scunthorpe problem

5

3

Availability Cascade

3

4

LSD use turns 70 years

2

5

Asteroid 3568 ASCII

2

6

Octopus Wrestling

2

7

The Smallest Unit of Time: Planck Time

2

8

Health effects of wine

2

9

The Onion Futures Act

2

10

One Red Paperclip

2

Blogs [?]

1

You are not Steve Jobs

601

2

Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before Starting My Company

368

3

Sleep: Everything You Need to Know

359

4

172

5

Bad code is the first step towards good code

96

6

Bitcoin, Energy, And The Future Of Money

61

7

Why startups should care about App.net

51

8

I don't want to work for a big company

44

9

Turns out Hiring a Woman is Discriminatory

37

10

Hackathons are like gyms

21

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What does coalgebra mean in the context of programming?

5

2

F-algebra and Coalgebras related to OOP

3

3

How to write an iOS app purely in C

3

4

Javascript standalone library for handling HTTP cookies on a personal container?

2

5

Is there a high-level language for the web?

2

6

Is it possible to map string to int faster than using hashmap?

2

7

What's the best way to store sensitive data in MySQL?

1

8

New solution use Windows Server AppFabric Caching

1

Substack [?]