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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

1359

2

How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

960

3

Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit

857

4

We Found Our Son in the Subway

824

5

White House Response to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal

728

6

Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO

628

7

How I Fired Myself

600

8

DOJ Admits Aaron's Prosecution Was Political

511

9

Why was my email leaked?

505

10

Code.org Dedicated to growing computer programming education

496

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (March 2013)

266

2

Business Dying. Please Help.

152

3

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013)

81

4

My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app store, what do I do next?

76

5

If you had 5 years of uninterrupted time, what would you build and why?

62

6

Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?

52

7

Your favorite to-do list or task manager?

26

8

What's Your Personal Website Stack?

19

9

What Newsletters are Actually Useful?

17

10

how to raise 600 by the end of the week freelancing?

16

Top Show HN

1

Tiled Text a Different Approach to Editing Text

329

2

Breakpoint.io - Share and get feedback on your side projects

142

3

I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay

79

4

78

5

We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant

77

6

Finally, You Can Accept Pre-Orders after Kickstarter with Celery

65

7

53

8

My friends just built a Bitcoin casino

43

9

Hackernews for Mac

32

10

8 million downloads after one year on the App Store

17

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code

432

2

Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs

429

3

Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router

380

4

Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go

263

5

Stripe launches beta in the UK

248

6

Politicians want loser pays rule for patent trolls

219

7

SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station

215

8

Torvalds clarifies Linux's Windows 8 Secure Boot position

196

9

Rap Genius (YC S11) responds to Herokus call for respect

170

10

Fab stops sending you emails you dont read, even when you dont ask them to

169

News [?]

1

HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of AIDS Drugs

262

2

Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body

188

3

Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation

152

4

40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

144

5

DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels

124

6

Why Five Days in the Office Is Too Many

120

7

The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

109

8

One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link

93

9

For 20-Somethings, Ambition at a Cost

87

10

This Story Stinks

82

Scientific publications [?]

1

What Ive learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear

398

2

SpaceX Launching Dragon Capsule to Space Station

126

3

NASA live streaming announcement on black hole observations [video]

51

4

Steve Mann: My Augmediated Life [lessons learned before Google Glass]

9

5

The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light

8

6

BigDog Throws Cinder Blocks with Huge Robotic Face-Arm

5

7

Chip-based genome sequencer: digitizing your genome now costs $1000

3

8

[pdf] Best Practices for Scientic Computing

3

9

Possible explanation of speed of light

2

10

Researchers find 'structure' in black hole accretion disk

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Phishing Has Gotten Very Good

223

2

Today's Outage Post Mortem

211

3

Linux Gamers Make Up ~2% Of Valve's Steam Users

130

4

43

5

5 new Java sandbox exploits found after Oracle labels first "allowed behavior"

6

6

Experts Say It's Time to Prepare for a 'Post-Crypto' World

5

7

The Court of Public Opinion

4

8

Nasty local Linux kernel vulnerability

2

9

Google rebasing Android to Linux kernel 3.8

2

10

Latest Kelihos Botnet Shut Down Live at RSA Conference 2013

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Help Fight Patent Trolls Support the SHIELD Act

213

2

OpenCL drivers discovered on Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices

4

3

Apple's Lightning Digital AV Adapter is a Full-Fledged Computer

4

4

Samsung Galaxy S IVs leaked Antutu test confirms 8-core processor

2

5

Interpreting Brainf*#k on an AVR

2

6

Apple Must Pay $368 Million in Patent Suit Loss

2

7

The CISPA Government Access Loophole

2

8

The EFF's take on CentUp's freeze

2

9

Apple offers refund after British boy spends $2500 on In-App purchases in 15 Min

2

10

Deep Dive: Software Patents and the Rise of Patent Trolls

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft BizSpark includes free Azure access

78

2

Amazon.com was down

14

3

Predator Drone on Amazon - Hilarity Ensues in Reviews

10

4

Amazon search was down

10

5

Amazon.com search was down

9

6

Case Study: Halo 4 + Big Data + Analytics

6

7

Microsoft Trademarks

1

8

AWS Summit 2013: Navigating the Cloud (in NYC, Apr. 18)

1

9

Instant Django Application Development Starter

1

10

ITunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously

158

2

Piracy Doesnt Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says

130

3

Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack

10

4

Interview with NASA MSL Curiosity driver

4

5

Kim Dotcom: U.S. Government Wins Appeal in Extradition Battle

4

6

Japanese Police Arrest 27 File-Sharers in Nationwide Show of Force

3

7

Comcasts Six Strikes Email With Infringement Details Surfaces

2

8

MPAA Revenue Grows, Chris Dodd Gets $2.4 Million

2

9

Google's first webpage in 1998

2

10

Sony Hits Beyonce File-Sharer With $233,000 Damages Lawsuit

2

Science News [?]

1

Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth

75

2

Mars trip to use astronaut poo as radiation shield

40

3

Fastest-turning legged robot uses tail to take corners

8

4

A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information

6

5

A 160-Year-Old Photographic Mystery

5

6

Intercontinental mind-meld unites two rats

3

7

First fluid knots created in the lab

3

8

First Documented Case of Child Cured of HIV

3

9

First convincing evidence language is hardwired in the brain before birth

2

10

Dark matter rival boosted by dwarf galaxies

2

Social [?]

1

Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android

221

2

How Ink Is Made

195

3

Bullying has to stop, now.

171

4

Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sudo su and boom you're root

133

5

Rodney Mullen Interview, Slamtrick 2003 Italy

47

6

Youtube: do the harlem shake search

14

7

What Killed Borders, Blockbuster and Polaroid and How to Survive

9

8

Namecheap to accept Bitcoin

8

9

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

8

10

The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Heroku Fucking Console

460

2

Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video

236

3

Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong

103

4

MIT's Saturday hoax incident

76

5

Lunr.js - Simple full-text search in your browser

75

6

Harlem Shake JavaScriptifed

70

7

BlackBerry Sponsors Haxe NME

62

8

Crouton: Chromium OS Ubuntu Chroot Environment

48

9

How is Github dealing with spam?

40

10

Personal File Backup Server

37

Wikipedia [?]

1

James while John had had had ... had had had a better effect on the teacher

111

2

List of inventors killed by their own inventions

25

3

Citizenship in a Republic

20

4

grep is now 40 years old. Thank you Ken Thompson.

2

5

Edict on Maximum Prices (301 A.D.)

2

6

Digital Sundial

1

7

Louis Prang: "father of the American Christmas card"

1

8

Phablet = Phone + Tablet.

1

9

Every eponymous law or principle on Wikipedia

1

10

The south-pointing chariot

1

Blogs [?]

1

What Coke Contains

280

2

75

3

Products I Wish Existed

37

4

It's okay to be afraid of failing

7

5

I'm a thinker, not a doer

6

6

People, not users

5

7

Defining the troll

3

8

Autocorrecting My iMarriage

2

9

If Marissa Mayer Were A Man

2

10

Why Candy Crush Saga is taking over the world

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How PHP's foreach works

193

2

Why does this code print hello world?

6

3

Why does C++ compilation take so long?

6

4

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

3

5

How to write a Lisp compiler

2

6

What exactly is a C pointer, if not a memory address?

2

7

How do I think in AngularJS if I have a jQuery background?

1

8

Git Commit Squash - Squash Sloppy Commits Together

1

9

Moving your git repo up one directory

1

10

"How do I delete a Discipline in EPF Composer 1.5?"

1

Substack [?]