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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows

1043

2

897

3

Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw

679

4

Tron Legacy (2010)

641

5

What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco

573

6

Stripe Checkout

521

7

A time for silence

491

8

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

477

9

Linus says Carmen Ortiz is lying

428

10

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

405

Top Ask HN

1

Which developer laptop should I buy?

111

2

39

3

28

4

Please stop tearing each other up.

27

5

Did you regret getting a CS degree?

19

6

What will people pay money for?

18

7

Review My Startup, Yog (like Anchorman...kinda)

13

8

best explanation of HTTP request from ground up

12

9

What is the best signup page/price plan page you've seen?

12

10

I am from Brazil, how I find mentors?

12

Top Show HN

1

The top free PSDs on dribbble in one place

149

2

I'm 14, please check out my iOS game

137

3

Super Debugger, a realtime messaging iOS Debugger tool

68

4

Draft A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams

66

5

Timeboxing app for Mac

42

6

Marketing Bits Real-world marketing know-how for hackers and startups

42

7

I Built An App to Teach Mind Control

41

8

My first Android app - Hacker News reader

36

9

mgwuSDK, Turn Based Multiplayer SDK

33

10

Sci-fi movie review site (side project)

30

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

JSTOR Liberator sets public domain academic articles free

198

2

'We thought we'd sell 1,000': The inside story of the Raspberry Pi

132

3

Elon Musk offers to help get the grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner back in the air

122

4

Google Declares War on the Password

111

5

HBO comedy Silicon Valley pilot script leaked

97

6

Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover?

95

7

A lawyer's analysis of Bilbo's contract in The Hobbit

90

8

Microsoft goes its own way with Web audio/video spec, despite W3C rebuff

80

9

Planetary Resources shows off Arkyd-100

66

10

TechStars Graduate DigitalOcean Switches To SSD For Its $5 Per Month VPS

59

News [?]

1

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

477

2

US employee 'outsourced job to China'

373

3

The Atlantic posts sponsored Scientology story, moderates comments

294

4

Lawmakers slam DOJ prosecution of Swartz as 'ridiculous, absurd'

227

5

Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports

175

6

How to cut megabanks down to size

145

7

Kid Sends Blunt Cover Letter and Now People are Trying to Hire Him

135

8

Self-examination is the Secret Ingredient for Success

124

9

Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage

118

10

How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture

109

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Uncanny Valley (1970)

3

2

Submersible Robotic Fishoplane Can Swim for Hundreds of Kilometers

3

3

Hands-On With the Next Generation Kinect: PrimeSense Capri

2

4

Facebook concept used by 16th century scholars, researchers discover

2

5

Will Machines Ever Master Translation? They have a long way to go still

2

6

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

1

7

Industrial Perception Building 3D Vision Guided Robots

1

8

RP-VITA Approved for Hospital Use, SUGV Approved for Disruptor Use

1

9

NASA Eyes 'Hedgehog' Invasion of Mars Moon Phobos

1

10

Layers with Carbonate Content Inside McLaughlin Crater on Mars

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stripe Checkout

521

2

Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID

109

3

Hacker Finds a Way to Exploit PDF Files Without Vulnerability

6

4

Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project

6

5

Android Botnet Infects 1M+ Phones in China

6

6

Stripe launches Stripe Checkout

5

7

3rot13 - A heavyweight encryption algorithm: Triple ROT13. Perl.

4

8

Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found

3

9

Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics

2

10

F# scripting for bigdata

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

187

2

Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000

124

3

The Creepy Details of Facebook's New Graph Search

92

4

How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala

4

5

Just months after being ejected from Microsoft, former Windows Head..

2

6

IPhone 5S Reportedly Slated for March Production with June/July Launch

1

7

The Tegra 4 GPU, Nvidia Claims Better Performance Than iPad 4

1

8

Aspyr Media talks porting games, Mac App Store & the future of Mac gaming

1

9

Script defeats minteye CAPTCHA - with Google's speech2text API

1

10

Apple Researching Removable Mobile Device Clip with Tactile Trackpad Controls

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

How to Get Lucky - Max Gunther

2

2

Use Amazon CloudWatch to Detect and Shut Down Unused Amazon EC2 Instances

1

3

Microsoft launches mobile app 'HelpBridge' for help after natural disasters

1

4

AWS Command Line Interface (Developer Preview)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Branded Malware Distributor by Google

34

2

Dotcoms Mega: Anti-Piracy Group Moves To Cut Off Sites Finances

4

3

Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous

4

4

Copyright Strike Systems Are Modern Witch Trials

3

5

Dotcoms Mega Launches To Unprecedented Demand

3

6

Aaron Swartz on Cult impressions of Less Wrong

2

7

Study Maps the Emerging Ethics of File Sharing and Copyright Enforcement

2

8

Record Labels Correct Dotcom: Only Way to Stop Piracy is Suing File-Sharers

2

9

Attention control is critical for changing motivation

2

10

Dotcom: Record Label Pressure Forced Mega Radio Ads Off the Air

2

Science News [?]

1

Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

185

2

Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres

133

3

How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal

130

4

Bloggers put chemical reactions through the replication mill

32

5

Pot smokers might not turn into dopes after all

7

6

One Per Cent: Bad grammar make good password, research say

3

7

The first solar-powered vertebrate

2

8

The unreported psychological impacts of Fukushima tallied

2

9

Are Babies Born Good?

2

10

'Quadruple Helix' DNA Discovered in human cells

2

Social [?]

1

Introducing Graph Search

378

2

Delivery for Mr. Assange

200

3

WikiLeaks: Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks, may have been a source

15

4

Twitter is down?

10

5

Zoe Lofgren introducing "Aaron's Law" to change the CFAA

8

6

Chris Granger's Clojure conj talk on Light Table

7

7

Aaron Swartz on "living in the world" [video]

6

8

Twitter API restrictions explained by Hitler [video]

6

9

Lawrence Lessig interviewed on Aaron Swartz

6

10

Hilarious NoSQL Parody Video [YouTube]

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

O'Reilly donating ebook "Open Government" as a tribute to Aaron Swartz

343

2

Leiningen version 2.0.0 released

228

3

Meetup, you've been bad, bad hosts

143

4

An open source Linux client for Google Drive

104

5

101

6

Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz in Markdown, PDF, and ePub

72

7

Open source game-theoretic poker player

71

8

Basic quantum computing concepts implemented in Python

54

9

Stanford Class2Go

43

10

Neu.Node an implementation of Node.js-compatible API for iOS devices

43

Wikipedia [?]

1

The If-by-whiskey fallacy

264

2

Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990

168

3

86

4

Andreas Raab passed away

18

5

Universal Disk Format

8

6

5

7

The one italian man you should know

5

8

Psychedelic therapy

4

9

Phantom Time Hypothesis

2

10

Unrequited love

2

Blogs [?]

1

121

2

Hilarious Job Posting for a Startup

10

3

Bootstrapping Vagrant An Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto

9

4

Masters of Yelp-Fu

5

5

Are HCI programs letting us down? We need more unicorns

3

6

Velocity vs. Quality

1

7

Design Process is a Myth

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

50

2

Stack Overflow was down

19

3

Stack Overflow is down

3

4

What is the optimal Jewish toenail cutting algorithm?

3

5

Shortest Sudoku Solver in Python - How does it work?

2

6

Built-in scripting language available on all major operating systems?

2

7

Functional programming - Haskell or Standard ML for beginners? - Stack Overflow

2

8

My analysis of HTML color parsing based on the Netscape classic source

1

9

How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?

1

10

How to determine whether my calculation of pi is accurate?

1

Substack [?]