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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Send money with Gmail

749

2

Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space

716

3

The One-Person Product

645

4

Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech

612

5

The New Yorker Strongbox

565

6

Choosing Minecraft over Disney

495

7

Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop

468

8

Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

456

9

Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]

433

10

Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

429

Top Ask HN

1

I'm lost. Please help

324

2

How do you have time for dates and gym when working for a startup?

71

3

Where can I find good freelance opportunities?

62

4

Would you hire me?

46

5

What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?

40

6

Would you sign up for a "Hire-a-HN-Hacker" board?

34

7

What's 'Due Diligence' when vetting co-founders?

32

8

Why did Paul Graham stop posting essays on his site?

28

9

Why can't I get started?

21

10

Who uses Google App Engine

20

Top Show HN

1

My seven minute workout timer evening project

737

2

See what the best startups in the world are using

250

3

CoderPad, an etherpad + REPL for coding interviews

129

4

128

5

FlatUIKit - Flat UI components for iOS

110

6

My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote

73

7

gif.js - Fast GIF encoder using web workers

58

8

Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS

57

9

The WordPress Query Generator, create WP loops in plain English

55

10

Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN

53

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

429

2

Evolution of Hacker News

317

3

Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads

174

4

Welcome to Google Island

173

5

A Cloudless Atlas How MapBox Aims to Make the Worlds Most Beautiful Map

156

6

Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activists laptop

120

7

Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account

112

8

Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells

105

9

Googles programming language, Go, gets a big speed boost

104

10

Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Companys Tax Avoidance In TheUK

95

News [?]

1

The New Yorker Strongbox

565

2

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

258

3

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz

225

4

My Medical Choice

216

5

Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr

215

6

FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping

154

7

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More

113

8

Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade

111

9

Facebook, One Year Later

82

10

Equipment Failure May Cut Kepler Mission Short

67

Scientific publications [?]

1

Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC

53

2

Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem

41

3

Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device

5

4

Lost in America: Still No Phone Service After Hurricane Sandy

5

5

US seizes Bitcoin operator accounts

4

6

Data Science Is Now a Job Market Based Entirely on Merit

2

7

Bitcoin ATM Robocoin Makes Money Laundering Easy

2

8

Machine learning algorithm beats experts in classifying suicide notes [2010]

2

9

Kuka Robot Competition Offers 20,000-Euro Award

2

10

NASA - Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of Titan

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Firefox, Heal Thyself

145

2

PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more

90

3

Ragebooter: Legit DDoS Service, or Fed Backdoor?

39

4

Latest Dart VM Beats JVM in DeltaBlue Benchmark (May 11th)

7

5

Demo of Mozilla's Social API coupled with WebRTC

7

6

This is Mozilla heading in the right direction

4

7

Facebook Buck and xctool: Open Source Build Tools for Android and iOS

4

8

Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong

3

9

Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks

2

10

OpenSUSE Considers Replacing LXDE With E17

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case

156

2

EFF now accepting Bitcoin again

93

3

Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower

81

4

Karma Controller makes Reddit a game

1

5

Mobile malware and Android

1

6

Dermal implants means strapless watch

1

7

Apple's billions are building an empire for the future

1

8

Apple Reportedly Testing 1.5-Inch OLED Displays for Smart Watch

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple using moving letters as captcha

83

2

Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003

7

3

Amazon Elastic Transcoder now supports WebM, HLS, VP8 and several new features

7

4

Lego Castle Set #852293 GIANT Chess Set

2

5

Red Hat versus Windows Server

2

6

Amazon Prime Instant Video [Unlimited Streaming of Movies and TV Shows]

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Canadian anti-piracy outfit pirates photos for its website

181

2

Your top 100 unix commands, for science

151

3

Kim Dotcom Granted New Zealand Supreme Court Appeal Over U.S. Evidence

81

4

The Tragic Beauty of Google+

33

5

Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary

9

6

The Android Detour: Why Android Wasn't Featured at Google IO

9

7

IsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court

5

8

“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status

4

9

Rich Hickey & Cliff Click Jr. on STM vs Locks

3

10

Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament

3

Science News [?]

1

Driving students into science is a fool's errand

52

2

Reservoir deep under Ontario holds billion-year-old water

12

3

We're getting slower... and more dumberer.

11

4

First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs

8

5

Practice Makes Perfect? Not So Much, New Research Finds

5

6

Chinese project probes the genetics of genius

4

7

Shocks to the brain improve mathematical abilities

3

8

Orion's hidden fiery ribbon

2

9

Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground

2

10

Would you rather be judged by an AI than a human?

2

Social [?]

1

Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]

433

2

The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr

193

3

Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ

121

4

Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem

94

5

Stripe launches beta in Ireland

73

6

Notch, when asked, refused to take Minecraft revenue from YouTube

29

7

Ted Nelson reveals who is creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto

16

8

NYC Intern Group, Lets all meet up

9

9

Google I/O 2013 - Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns

7

10

US Department of Homeland Security forces Dwolla to stop payments to MtGox

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11

318

2

Docker - Way better than a VM

246

3

Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar

107

4

Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first

92

5

Reactor.js: simple reactive programming for Javascript

80

6

Commafeed: An Open Source Google Reader Clone

62

7

Repository redirects are here

36

8

.DS_Store for non-mac users

29

9

Real-time UK Bus Data Ruby Gem

22

10

Collaborative vim plugin

16

Wikipedia [?]

1

Capacitor plague

130

2

Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License

34

3

21

4

Dagen H the day Sweden switched to driving on the right

13

5

3

6

Pigeonhole principle

3

7

It's against US law to touch aliens.

3

8

3

9

The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

2

10

Birthday paradox

2

Blogs [?]

1

Choosing Minecraft over Disney

495

2

The Next Facebook — Musings About Text Boxes

139

3

Hug vs. Handshake

98

4

How we use BitTorrent to improve our design sharing workflow

55

5

From Web to Native: A Journey in Interface Design

32

6

16

7

The Quest for the ideal CEO-type Co-Founder

15

8

I’ve joined Heroku

14

9

I guess I’ll never get to that novel

11

10

Too scared to write a line of code

11

Stackoverflow [?]

1

\\d less efficient than [0-9]

245

2

Unexpected underscore in git log --graph output

8

3

Is LLDB really the best debugging tool for iOS?

2

4

Java: Extracting pairs of words using String.split()

1

5

Preventing XSS from within HTML elements

1

6

What are the pros and cons of XML and JSON?

1

7

SPA built on liferay&JSF - without MV*-Framework, only jquery?

1

8

Python UDP Hole Punching Problem

1

Substack [?]