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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Hello Chrome, its Firefox calling

1356

2

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling

1354

3

Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

935

4

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact

826

5

No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

784

6

Sublime Text 3 Beta

573

7

A Short Rant About Working Remotely

521

8

Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early

517

9

Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

463

10

Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?

462

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles

389

2

Who is hiring? (February 2013)

202

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2013)

58

4

Review Habbit - An App to Build Your Ideal Future Self with Habits

57

5

How do you manage shared company passwords?

34

6

What have you launched this year?

27

7

Why do so many people hate Ruby?

26

8

How do you deal with your mediocrity?

24

9

Startups on EC2, what does your setup look like?

20

10

How do you work faster?

18

Top Show HN

1

Pick a better background pattern for your website

342

2

hint.css a tooltip library in CSS

229

3

Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS

151

4

Multiplayer Snake in Go

151

5

Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python

147

6

Markdown + LaTeX math in the browser

115

7

I crossed a thesaurus with a domain availability checking API

109

8

I built an Android game

105

9

Launch your own hosted SelfStarter without writing a line of code

82

10

Online video editor for mashing Vine with SoundCloud, YouTube and GIFs

70

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

294

2

Apps? No root? Your device serves others, warns Berners-Lee

182

3

How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing

143

4

Why Is Barrett Brown Facing 100 Years in Prison?

116

5

Mark Cuban Is Endowing A Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents

115

6

Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

105

7

Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials

102

8

US Senator says games are a bigger problem than guns

91

9

When Will the Rest of Us Get Google Fiber?

86

10

One-third of Europe's software industry is SAP

86

News [?]

1

That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

364

2

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

310

3

Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda

229

4

MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals open to everyone

211

5

Why police lie under oath

183

6

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

183

7

183

8

Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings

172

9

Nordic countries are reinventing their model of capitalism

162

10

The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married

155

Scientific publications [?]

1

Microsoft / Technion effort mines old news for predictions

11

2

Phreaking Out Ma Bell

3

3

Opportunity Rover Begins Tenth () Year On Mars

2

4

Researchers solve biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence

2

5

Good News: Humans Have Trouble Killing Robots

2

6

The Untold Story: Columbia Shuttle Disaster and Mysterious 'Day 2 Object'

2

7

Supersonic Ping Pong Ball Gun [pdf]

2

8

How computers push on the molecules they simulate

1

9

NASA Now Has Robot Gas Station for Space, Robot Miner for the Moon

1

10

EBay chief says Web privacy clashes coming

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Who Does Skype Let Spy?

112

2

Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps

90

3

Power and the Internet

63

4

Keeping our users secure

25

5

The Eavesdropping System in Your Computer

10

6

64-bit ARM (AArch64) Support Merged Into LLVM

7

7

Power and the Internet (Schneier on Security)

4

8

Putting Users in Control of Plugins

3

9

The Datomic Information Model

3

10

Graph: Composable Production Systems in Clojure

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Evad3rs dev team releases evasi0n untethered jailbreak for all iOS 6 devices

5

2

New Apple TV with A5X revealed in FCC documents

3

3

Nokia Receives $1.35 Billion Grant to Develop "Strongest Material Ever Tested"

2

4

Samsung did not willfully infringe on Apple's patents, U.S. judge says

2

5

It's Time for Transparency Reports to Become the New Normal

2

6

Is It Illegal To Unlock a Phone? The Situation is Better & Worse Than You Think

2

7

Can Apple get away with another S iPhone?

2

8

Genetic algorithms become programmers themselves

1

9

iPhone takes top spot from Nokia for global mobile Internet usage for 1st time

1

10

Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Steve Jobs at Atari and Finding the Next Jobs

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

236

2

Amazon's homepage was down

193

3

Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB

41

4

AWS introduces Elastic Transcoder

37

5

AWS Global Start-Up Challenge 2012

22

6

Startup Field Guide: Mistakes To Avoid, Tips To Get Ahead

10

7

Amazon Leadership Principles

6

8

Apple iPad with Retina Display and 128GB

2

9

Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur

2

10

Surface storage

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Founder Could Be Prosecuted For Hacking Within a Month

37

2

Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They Can Just Take Somebody Else’s Work?

10

3

HBO Wants Google to Censor HBO.com

6

4

CBS and CNET Protest Looming BitTorrent Client Ban

5

5

RIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown

5

6

RubyGems Incident Status

4

7

Golden Eye Hit UK With Piracy Letters, First Innocents Step Forward

3

8

Mediafire Swaps Pirate Links for Buy Now Button

3

9

Dotcoms Mega Removes Legal Files Citing Bogus DMCA Requests

2

10

Gin, Television and Social Surplus

2

Science News [?]

1

Funding agencies urged to check for duplicate grants

14

2

Magnetic transistor could cut power consumption and make chips reprogrammable

8

3

Scientists battle massive coffee rust outbreak in Central America

3

4

New Research Shows Complexity of Global Warming

2

5

Could High Insulin Make You Fat? Mouse Study Says Yes

2

6

School System Favors Pupils Driven by Worry and Conscientiousness

2

7

The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

2

8

Cancer-Causing Compound Can Be Triggered By Vitamin C

1

9

Muscle-zapper forces gamers' own hands against them

1

10

Bonobos predisposed to show sensitivity to others

1

Social [?]

1

The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded

163

2

Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

10

3

Google Fiber is spooking the big boys

8

4

I'm Zoe Lofgren, Here is a Draft of Aaron's Law Reflecting the Internets Input

6

5

EBook readers removed from Google Play for supporting OPML format

6

6

Microsoft's 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage

6

7

Michigan Gov Rick Snyder on Immigration Reform

5

8

Namecheap offers discout to leave GoDaddy

5

9

Rails Is Omakase: A Dramatic Reading

5

10

A practical man-in-the-middle attack on pip

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Babbage: A Clojure library for accumulation and graph computation

86

2

Torque3D is now on GitHub, MIT licensed

75

3

YOU_ARE_DEAD, a 1D Roguelike

70

4

Cmdrslog - Chrome Extension to save screenshots on tab refresh

25

5

Recent Code Search Outages

24

6

Django-conch: Expose the Django shell as an SSH server

21

7

Mega API Python wrapper

9

8

Relative links in markup files

9

9

Templates for JSON

9

10

RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors

7

Wikipedia [?]

1

An example of quantum-hard classically-implementable asymmetric crypto

39

2

Neanderthal genome project

2

3

2

4

List of organizations with official stances on the SOPA and PIPA

2

5

2

6

433: A Three Movement Concert Composition With No Instruments Played

2

7

How to fool German bombers to land in Britain

2

8

Wikipedia article on warez standards

2

9

1

10

The history of the word "cruft"

1

Blogs [?]

1

Designers Will Code

46

2

Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

38

3

Uber for Food (Products I Wish Existed)

4

4

Fixing Education in America

4

5

Do something useful with those recruiting emails

3

6

What does “it’s a good start” really mean

2

7

Misinterpretation is creativitys best friend

2

8

Stay away from open source

2

9

Dont require reading comprehension from your users

2

10

Stories of good ideas (or not) that never made it out the door

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Why does Google append while(1); in front of their JSON responses?

409

2

Freely available programming books

105

3

Is C++ context-free or context-sensitive?

72

4

A frozen Object iterates 98% slower on V8 js engine

6

5

Blank the screen if kids are too loud

5

6

How can I save my secret keys and password securely in git?

4

7

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

3

8

Stack Overflow CDN is down?

3

9

Was this Stack Overflow question by Aaron Swartz related to his JSTOR downloads?

3

10

Whats the need of array with zero element in linux kernel code?

2

Substack [?]