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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

1311

2

Pixels don’t care

764

3

732

4

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

690

5

How Newegg crushed the shopping cart patent and saved online retail

632

6

Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S.

526

7

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

496

8

"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"

493

9

454

10

431

Top Ask HN

1

How do you stop regretting?

229

2

Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?

111

3

What's your blog?

36

4

How do you achieve life balance?

30

5

Do I need a CS degree or should I stay with my job?

27

6

What is your dumbest project on Github?

25

7

Why does everything about NYC get downvoted or flagged into oblivion?

23

8

Have You Ever Lived in the Third World?

22

9

Ask HN:Whats the problem with SVG?

21

10

which is the most influencing quote you ever came across?

18

Top Show HN

1

Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to

308

2

My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow

283

3

Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

280

4

A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation

183

5

Behave.js Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

175

6

Gallery of Open Source Ruby on Rails Apps

150

7

P2P microblogging over Bluetooth to avoid government censorship

146

8

Github for recipes

131

9

A New Basic Vim Motion

105

10

Hype Machine - 5+ years of Internet music history

105

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How Newegg crushed the shopping cart patent and saved online retail

632

2

A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates

354

3

iPad Hack Statement OfResponsibility

197

4

Apple Pulls 500pxs Mobile Apps From The App Store

182

5

John Carmack's Comment on Hardware Ray Tracing

148

6

Apple fires Chinese supplier for using underage workers

137

7

H.265 Is Approved

128

8

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest

125

9

Segment.io (YC S11) Lets Developers Integrate Multiple Analytics Services

121

10

Hydrogen made with muons reveals proton size conundrum

119

News [?]

1

Steve Jobs threatened patent suit to enforce no-hire policy: filing

164

2

There's More to Life Than Being Happy

153

3

How mandatory minimum sentences distort plea bargaining

147

4

How Google became such a great place to work

125

5

Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions

125

6

Successful and Schizophrenic

93

7

Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses

90

8

Facebook Is Recycling Your Likes To Promote Stories You've Never Seen

87

9

81

10

A Russian Gains Prominence Among Fine Watchmakers

80

Scientific publications [?]

1

A new asteroid-mining company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., launches Today

39

2

Second company launching to mine asteroids

12

3

Cities affect surrounding temperatures for thousands of miles

8

4

Quantum entanglement allows information rate to exceed Shannon 0-error capacity

4

5

Star Trek's 'tractor' beam created in miniature by researchers

4

6

MeCam Is a $50 Camera-Equipped Autonomous Nano Quadrotor, Supposedly

4

7

The Job Market of 2045

3

8

'Hi-C' Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona

3

9

Ripple credit system could help or harm Bitcoin

3

10

China's native american connection

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

315

2

Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy

313

3

C++11 and The Long-Term Viability Of GCC Questioned

148

4

FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project

82

5

Vine: A new way to share video

24

6

Identifying People from their Writing Style

9

7

Twitter Transparency Report v2

5

8

Identifying People from their Writing Style

5

9

Enyo: A Truly Cross-Platform JavaScript App Framework

3

10

Valve releases Counter-Strike 1.6 for Linux

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel Reveals the End is Near for its Desktop Motherboards

3

2

Part 2: EFF Proposes "Aaron's Law"

3

3

Tim Cook talks Android, China, earnings, retail, more

3

4

Kickfolio lets you embed iOS apps on any webpage

2

5

Wozniak on jOBS biopic: 'So far from anything that really happened'

2

6

From Mango to Apollo: The HTC Windows Phone 8X on the Daily

2

7

Happy International Privacy Day

2

8

Apple Releases iOS 6.1 with New LTE Carriers and Fandango Siri Integration

2

9

Apple ready to release additional iPad model; likely 128GB version

2

10

Kickfolio lets you embed iOS apps, adds iPad support, slashes pricing

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Updates iOS to 6.1

7

2

Apple Reports Record Results

4

3

Kindle Publishing Unleashed book free today 1/26

4

4

A freelance remote developer on Amazon.com

2

5

Amazon episode 'purchases' now with ads

2

6

Amazon AutoRip: Free MP3 versions when you buy a CD

1

7

Amazon best product reviews ever. Funny too.

1

8

A profound vision for a problem solving culture

1

9

Reviews of BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen on Amazon

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Antigua Government Set to Launch Pirate Website To Punish United States

220

2

Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive [video]

110

3

Imagine BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison

65

4

MEGA launch video taken down by Youtube

13

5

Antiguas Legal Pirate Site Authorized by the World Trade Organization

13

6

BitTorrent Launches Private and Secure Dropbox Alternative

6

7

Australian Pirate Party Gets Approved and Russians are Denied (Again)

4

8

Court Refuses To Try Self-Confessed Pirate Bay Uploader

4

9

Pirate Bay Documentary First Ever to Premiere Online and at a Major Festival

3

10

IsoHunt Turns 10 Years Old, Keeps on Fighting Copyright Cartels

3

Science News [?]

1

The Story Behind Banksy

94

2

World's oldest portrait reveals the ice-age mind

5

3

European Commission: 1 Billion-euro for Brain simulation and Graphene research

4

4

Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday

3

5

Practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA

3

6

Social Evolution: Humans as a Ritual Animal

2

7

Diet, parental behavior and preschool can boost children's IQ

2

8

Experimental demonstration of a 'tractor beam'

2

9

New dinosaur fossil challenges bird evolution theory

2

10

Sir David Attenborough calls humans a 'plague on the Earth'

2

Social [?]

1

Fighting spam with pure functions

39

2

Steve Jobs Responding to an Insult

14

3

Fast and easy testing with FBMock

11

4

Reddit AMA: Google Site Reliability (SRE) team

8

5

Rails Is Omakase: A Dramatic Reading (by Giles Bowkett)

6

6

AMA on why patents and copyright should be abolished

6

7

R/netsec find traces of child pornography in user's dotfiles on GitHub

6

8

If you're a 90's kid, this IE ad will definitely strike a chord

6

9

NFL Fan's on Facebook

6

10

11 Yr olds first stop motion vid

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A Whole New Code Search

355

2

Step by step from jQuery to Backbone

275

3

Zen Writing Mode

144

4

Helium Like Bootstrap, but in 30kb

119

5

Hubble - a terminal dashboard

119

6

Git repository of New Zealand legislation

87

7

GitHub now supports Twitter Cards

72

8

Erlang distributed node in Go

66

9

Secrets in the code

58

10

Closing Issues via Commit Messages

44

Wikipedia [?]

1

Comparison of parser generators

22

2

SequenceL: A very simple parallel programming language

6

3

ISS Night Glider Mode

3

4

Time formatting and storage bugs

3

5

Tupper's self-referential formula

2

6

COMEFROM programming

2

7

Vasili Arkhipov: The man who prevented nuclear war.

2

8

Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh on January 24, 1984

2

9

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

2

10

Parkinson's law of triviality

2

Blogs [?]

1

Self-Destructing Email

35

2

What isGrowth Hacking really?

8

3

Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)

2

4

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

2

5

Reasons to No-Hire a Product Designer

2

6

Complaining about email? or is it complaining about communication?

1

7

Among the Summer Founders Remembering Aaron Swartz

1

8

Upside-down engineering management

1

9

1

10

Humans, Shoes and eCommerce

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

The Python yield keyword explained

123

2

Strange multiplication behavior in Guile Scheme interpreter

31

3

Extracting bits with a single multiplication

6

4

What's the status of multicore programming in Haskell?

4

5

Stackoverflow - How does Facebook Graph Search Work?

3

6

How do I get started with Node.js?

3

7

Funny & Interesting question on stackoverflow - GW-Basic to Javascript port

2

8

Isolate specific Row/Column/Diagonal from a 64-bit number

2

9

Fastest regular expression that does not match any string

2

10

Error while connecting to a Windows File Server

1

Substack [?]