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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
After Credentials
186
2
The nicest math book I own
175
3
If programming languages were religions
131
4
11th grade
117
5
GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting
106
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Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits
102
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"You're stealing from people who count on your honesty to make a living."
90
8
Be Yourself
87
9
Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet
86
10
A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham)
84

Top Ask HN

1
Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?
39
2
Interesting recent developments in academic computer science.
37
3
Has anyone used affiliate programs for marketing?
37
4
Launching?
35
5
How do I go about PHP?
35
6
Where does consciousness come from?
35
7
Are you working on a desktop software?
31
8
slicehost-like providers outside the US?
30
9
What do you think of Objective-C?
30
10
Writing DSL in Python
26

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
Apple announces final MacWorld, Steve Jobs won't deliver keynote
59
2
Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel round
59
3
Death To The Embargo
57
4
First Round Capital literally makes all their startups dance
37
5
Scribd raises $9M in Series B, hires Bebo COO, and new marketing VP
33
6
Backtype (YC S08) launches google alerts for comments
27
7
SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green Light To Take On Mutual Funds
25
8
Synthasite Buys Clickpass
21
9
Pandora hits 20 million registered users
15
10
Soon all your blog comments will belong to Facebook or Google
12

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
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Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition
65
2
It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It
62
3
"Be nice to the countries that lend you money"
48
4
At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item
46
5
Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve
45
6
Krugman: The Madoff Economy
40
7
Does Gödel Matter?
39
8
Toyota Expects Its First Loss in 70 Years
34
9
More people on S.F. streets newly homeless
23
10
Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data to 90 days
19

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
Google Searches for Ad Dollars in Social Networks
2
2
Computational modeling of collective human behavior: Example of financial markets
1
3
Solar Flare Surprise: Pure Hydrogen Shot at Earth
1
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SpaceShipTwo Carrier Craft Makes Successful First Flight
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
Killing Robot Being Tested by Lockheed Martin
20
2
Linus Torvald's rant against C++
7
3
How to Steal the Empire State Building
2
4
A Journeyman's Pair Programming Tour
1
5
InfoQ: Rhodes Brings Ruby Apps to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry
1
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InfoQ: Describing RESTful Applications
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
Apple wanted out of tyranny of MacWorld - reports
6
2
NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Bringing High Def to Netbooks
5
3
Apple TV at the center of Apple's latest lawsuit
2
4
Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
17
2
Vulnerability in IE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (updated Dec 15, 2008)
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
[Book review] The Art of Debugging with GDB,DDD and Eclipse
2
2
Google Beta (1998)
2

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
Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle (WW2 case study)
17
2
How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage (electricity)
4
3
One Laptop Per Child project reaching 600,000 children
4
4
Gas memory could send spooky messages the full distance
2
5
Meet Dr House's caring alter ego
1
6
One Laptop Per Child ready for version 2.0
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Clever table design
31
2
Is Buxfer Dead? (Answer: No)
24
3
Refactoring with codemod.py
7
4
Help Child Soldiers Fight
5
5
Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Django: The First Five Years
3
6
How Cultural Competency and Geoleadership Merge
1
7
How to count ALL Carbon Emissions
1
8
Graph Identification and Privacy in Social Networks
1
9
Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown [video]
1
10
Third Millennium Problem-Solving
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting
106
2
GitHub's new Fork Queue
64
3
Ringo: experimental, distributed, replicating key-value store
4
4
And I for one welcome our new insect overlords
2
5
Example iPhone app using TouchJSON
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
List of Common Misconceptions
9
2
Mobile Version of Wikipedia Finally Launches
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
After Credentials
186

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com