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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
158
2
My Public Apology
151
3
The IT Contract from Hell
133
4
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
128
5
The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct
108
6
Joel on Software: Anecdotes
107
7
Lessons learned from a failed poker software business
103
8
19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
99
9
Hans Rosling: Debunking 3rd world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
95
10
LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer
95

Top Ask HN

1
Who's Hiring?
163
2
Does the SaaS model really work? Really?
51
3
Which revision control system?
42
4
How do I choose my startup's name?
32
5
Web Frameworks for Perl
29
6
Review my startup
26
7
Is there a HN for music?
24
8
What IRC rooms do you frequent?
19
9
On building a Social News site and its tools for moderation
19
10
Review my web application
17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO
94
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Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)
90
3
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate GrandCentral In 15 Lines Of Code
53
4
MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All
47
5
It’s Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection Racket On App Developers
30
6
California to set up a $1B electric car network
28
7
Mozilla audited by the IRS
21
8
Google is beta testing letting users change the look of their gmail
17
9
Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers
15
10
Google Kills Lively
15

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
158
2
The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct
108
3
If You Liked This, Sure to Love That
59
4
How car dealers tie Detroit's hands
45
5
The French cafe is dying
43
6
How to launch a tech company in one weekend (CNN on Atlanta Startup Weekend 2)
38
7
Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.
35
8
The Plan by Jack Handey
30
9
India Calling: The "brain drain" becomes "brain circulation."
26
10
Micromessaging at work
24

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
Let the Games Begin: FIRST robotics competition moves to 32-bit controllers
4
2
NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet
1

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
Skein and SHA-3 News
9
2
Simon Peyton Jones on Mainstream Programming Languages
5
3
JavaFX and Flex Comparison
3
4
Joe Armstrong On Erlang
2
5
/dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing
2
6
No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel Summary
1

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Google is Done Paying Silicon Valley's Legal Bills
46
2
Apple authorizes MMS on the iPhone, but not for US users
4
3
Wal-Mart to begin selling iPhone post holidays - reports
3
4
Mid-2007 Prototype MacBook Air Found on eBay
1
5
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets
44
2
Amazon CloudFront
3
3
Why get a computing degree?
2
4
Q&A site for relationships. Very slick
1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
Google Powered BitTorrent Seach Engines
3
2
English-Speaking Hackers Should Learn About Esperanto
1

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
42
2
Tunnelling Nanotubes: Life's Secret Network
10
3
Why the universe may be teeming with aliens
10
4
Brain implant allows mute man to speak with synthesizer
10
5
Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition: First Empirical Evidence
9
6
Seabed tracks suggest new origin of animal life
5
7
Complex Systems Science: How Do Math And Intuition Help Us Understand Whole Systems?
3
8
Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup
3
9
The outer limits of the human brain
2
10
Corporate Culture Is Most Important Factor In Driving Innovation
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada (YouTube Video)
9
2
The Matrix Runs on Windows
2
3
Monty Python goes on YouTube
2
4
How to Hack Out an Election Counter
1
5
YouTube - Podcars: Using networking ideas to transport people.
1
6
Sprint Suffers Nationwide SMS Outtage
1
7
Last Night's Bright Meteorite In Canada Caught On Film
1
8
Visualizing Facebook with the Hackathon project
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators
3
2
FirePython == Python logger console in Firebug
2

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
KEO
3
2
Reverse Polish Lisp
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com