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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
1031
2
Here is today
899
3
BitTorrents Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
750
4
Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
547
5
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
522
6
I knew exactly how she felt
508
7
Facebook buys Parse
490
8
Wish I was here by Zach Braff
474
9
How I coded in 1985
470
10
My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me
463
Top Ask HN
1
Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
171
2
Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
123
3
What is your daily reading list?
114
4
Best alternative to Heroku?
91
5
Building an app to make real-world conversations searchable. Want it?
40
6
Twitter/Posterous - The Archive Team needs more time to save 1.3M blogs
33
7
What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?
22
8
How do you name your servers?
17
9
Do you think public education can be fixed?
16
10
Why will my startup fail?
15
Top Show HN
1
Usability checklist catch common problems before user testing
211
2
Finding the colours of the web
118
3
Find a mentor, Become a mentor
111
4
Most mentioned movies on HN
110
5
A url-based API for images (my weekend project)
108
6
Squaresend - Less annoying mailto links
92
7
Weekend project - HTML5 Game Engines: which is right for you?
68
8
Lapis A web framework for MoonScript and OpenResty
64
9
Never watch movies alone
49
10
Scrambled An iOS Game in HTML5
48
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Facebook buys Parse
490
2
CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited
276
3
Google releases some Glass source code
273
4
The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all
192
5
Counsyl is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave
110
6
Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M
100
7
Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million
86
8
Winamps woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
85
9
A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
82
10
Tickets For Apples WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
66
News [?]
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Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
346
2
If this were a pill, youd do anything to get it
236
3
Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error
219
4
Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]
199
5
Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help
172
6
Why women should embrace a good enough life
152
7
The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage
138
8
How to eat healthily on 1 a day
138
9
Futurama Canceled Again
136
10
Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
131
Scientific publications [?]
1
Hurricane on Saturn
251
2
What Makes Code Hard to Understand?
92
3
Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics
69
4
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs
18
5
Space Junk Threat Demands Immediate Action, Experts Say
4
6
Brain Scans Show Humans Empathize With Robots
3
7
Tracking gunfire with a smartphone
2
8
Scientists Bounce Laser Beams Off Soviet Moon Rover
2
9
Counting and generating terms
2
10
Quantum Programming in Quipper (Haskell EDSL)
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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A taste of Rust
186
2
The 3.9 kernel is out
94
3
WWDC 2013 June 10-14
89
4
ATM Skimmers
84
5
New improvements to Twitter for Mac
49
6
Visualize JavaScript Code Flow with TraceGL
16
7
WWDC Tickets on sale
8
8
Kanban beats SCRUM (at Mozilla)
6
9
We'll Be Back Soon
6
10
Brewer's CAP Theorem (Twelve Years Later)
4
Tech blogs [?]
1
How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity
118
2
Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS
31
3
Wristwatch made of sandwiched PCBs
10
4
Swype VP confirms talks with Apple on revolutionary keyboard technology
9
5
Apple offering some devs a second chance at WWDC tickets
6
6
Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7
4
7
Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes
4
8
Details on Jony Ive's 'Very, Very Flat' Design for iOS 7
3
9
Obama administration authorized warrantless surveillance
2
10
AMD Radeon HD 7990: Eight Games And A Beastly Card For $1,000
2
FAANG+ [?]
1
Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program
41
2
Intel Xeon 5150 is now $8
14
3
Zombieland pilot on Amazon
4
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Apple FQ2 results: 37.4MM iPhones Sold; 19.5MM iPads Sold
3
5
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco
2
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Betas (new TV pilot about startups from Amazon)
2
7
Redshift and EC2 High Storage Instances available in EU West
1
8
Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program
1
9
Questions and Admission: Reflections on 100,000 Admissions Decisions at Stanford
1
10
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
1
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
Cuil Crawl Data: 310 terabytes of compressed data, snapshot from 2007-8
76
4
Chromium proposal for browser-level infinite scrolling lists: Lazy Block Layout
65
5
PayPal Bans BitTorrent VPN / Proxy Service
5
6
McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content
4
7
MPAA Executive Tampered With IFPI Evidence in Internet Piracy Case
4
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
2
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything by Steve Blank
2
10
Pirates Debut Super-Smooth Video Torrents
2
Science News [?]
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Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression
158
2
What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like
100
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Bacteria churn out first ever petrol-like biofuel
5
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Cause of LED efficiency droop finally revealed
5
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Google searches predict market moves
4
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Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory
3
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We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now
3
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Counting Google searches predicts market movements
2
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New battery design could help solar and wind power the grid
2
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Diamond shows promise for a quantum Internet
2
Social [?]
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#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software
378
2
Get that job at Facebook (2012)
188
3
The Tech Industrys Darkest Secret: Its All About Age
119
4
How to stop recruiters posing as applicants
54
5
Let's create a Wikipedia page for Rich Hickey
20
6
Having trouble uploading photos. Getting a "storage failure" message
14
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Jeff Bezos's Regret Minimization Framework
13
8
SpaceX Grasshopper Test #3 (250m)
10
9
This is why there is no point in making Windows software
10
10
A Conversation With Elon Musk [Video]
9
Github repos and gists [?]
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BODOL – inspired by Haskell, Clojure and Shen
127
2
Etckeeper lets you store changes in /etc to git
103
3
Please help get rid of normalize.css
81
4
Traceroute from a Norwegian Airlines airplane
75
5
Docker releases version 0.2.0
73
6
Wildfire.py - Self-modifying Python bytecode
63
7
A rubygem for natural spelling and grammar checking
46
8
Nosniff header support coming to Chrome and Firefox
43
9
Omelette: Simple Autocompletion Helper for Node.js
36
10
Vim-startify
12
Wikipedia [?]
1
Black Start
281
2
John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died
132
3
Molyneux's problem
42
4
Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than colder water
29
5
Knapsack problem
27
6
Kenneth Appel
3
7
Bystander effect
2
8
Gin Craze
2
9
PGP word list
2
10
Salami slicing
2
Blogs [?]
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I spend a lot of time thinking about myself
122
2
I long for the future where I can safely assume my passwords are stolen
92
3
Immutable URLs
87
4
In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
38
5
I am burning out
32
6
Rethinking J-school
30
7
Why I Pay for Draft and Other Free Products
27
8
MBA - good or bad for a tech start-up?
25
9
How I learned to become a failure
24
10
Side projects are the new resume
22
Stackoverflow [?]
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Creating a Radial Menu in CSS
324
2
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
280
3
Building a Rotating CSS Cube (Stack Overflow)
3
4
What's your most productive vim shortcut?
2
5
Regex and HTML
2
6
User recognition without cookies or local storage
1
7
User recognition without cookies or local storage
1
8
How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application?
1
9
How to replicate Facebook's compose status screen for iOS?
1
10
How can an 8-bit integer hold values larger than 8 bits?
1
Substack [?]