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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Deny This, Last.fm
312
2
My $3.3M Mistake
251
3
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)
174
4
"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."
155
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ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins
135
6
Burnout
131
7
InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ER visit is free
102
8
The Case For Working With Your Hands
101
9
Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit
100
10
Can I Set Up An LLC To Avoid Personal Liability In A Lawsuit?
95

Top Ask HN

1
Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
106
2
I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.
77
3
Outdoor jobs for geeks?
49
4
Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be?
37
5
IRC channel for Hacker News?
32
6
Favorite true story tech book?
31
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do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research?
29
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Which persistent in-memory database to use?
28
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The most fun and beautiful code you know of?
26
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check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com
24

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
Deny This, Last.fm
312
2
Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias
66
3
Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)
53
4
Another Blanket Denial By Last.fm
49
5
Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video
48
6
One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules
48
7
The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine
46
8
Nokia Makes Unused Patents Available to All
45
9
4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos
39
10
Lego does Frank Lloyd Wright
30

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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The Case For Working With Your Hands
101
2
Argentina: The Superpower that Never Was (& Why the US Ascended)
74
3
New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app)
62
4
Lean movie-making: Zombie flick wowing Cannes made for $70
53
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Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo
48
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Tesla now worth half GM's value
36
7
What a Texas town can teach us about health care
34
8
Freshman Economics Won't Quite Be the Same
32
9
Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever)
31
10
Animals can tell right from wrong
30

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
Netflix Prize - One Team's Account
87
2
Today's procrastination cure: The African Hacker (2005)
2
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Random Number Generators: A Survival Guide for Large Scale Simulations
2

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
Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation
46
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Squeak Smalltalk and Seaside come to the iPhone
5
3
Password Recovered Secret Questions
3
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Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL
1
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Building RESTful Web Services with Erlang and YAWS
1

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
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Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm
22
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EFF 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation
12
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Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet
3
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SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives, Intel/MacBook
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Bypass the internet for large transfers: AWS Import/Export
86
2
Yet another Amazon review bomb
5

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
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Why Free Software usability tends to suck
25
2
A profile of computer pioneer Gary Kildall [video]
5

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
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Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says
34
2
Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole
24
3
Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles
11
4
How using gestures can make you smarter
9
5
Soccerbots learn how to fall gracefully
4
6
The Science of Voodoo: When Mind Attacks Body
3
7
Real Soldiers Love Their Robot Brethren
2
8
Five dimensional disks with 2K times more capacity than a DVD.
2
9
Virus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells But Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed
2
10
Weak Have Stronger Hearing
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful?
36
2
1964 Antique modem surfs the web
31
3
Chris Pirillo likes Tonido.
10
4
The Psychology of Incompetence
9
5
Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity
4
6
12 Year Old Gives a Google Tech Talk on JQuery
3
7
Intel celebrates geeks in great ad
3
8
Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Twitter
3
9
Marketing Talks@Google: Fred Wilson [Video]
2
10
SoManyMp3s.com TV Commercial (HD)
2

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored
57
2
Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment
39
3
Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure
31
4
Awk for JSON, in bash.
3

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Déformation professionnelle
44
2
Proving something exists nonconstructively using probability.
26
3
Use of "oracles" in computational complexity.
7
4
Does your anti-virus actually work?
4
5
Optimistic concurrency control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1
6
Clerks: inspirational startup from a totally different industry
1
7
Von Neumann probe: self-replicating spacecraft
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
1
Twitter image encoding challenge; compress an image into 140 Unicode characters
8
2
Encoding images in tiny messages; don't align values at bit boundaries
6
3
When random isn't fair
5
4
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com