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Top stories

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How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
928
2
Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong
258
3
How to Teach a Child to Argue
217
4
The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
176
5
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
169
6
Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires
159
7
How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time)
155
8
Curing Python's Neglect
149
9
The Ultimate Lock Picker
144
10
The Flimsy Doorknob & The Forgettable Receipt
142

Top Ask HN

1
Please review my new project: almost.at
164
2
Please review my site - PickFu.com
104
3
Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life?
76
4
Where do I go from here?
73
5
Do you write comments, and then not submit them?
61
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How to stay focused?
56
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P=NP, what do you do?
54
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In which modern language/environment/framework is programming a joy?
53
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Review my startup - Chords!
50
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What to do about distracting mental chatter?
45

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
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
169
2
Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires
159
3
The Ultimate Lock Picker
144
4
CrunchPad Prototype
123
5
MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox
73
6
From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009
58
7
Almost.at: Real Time Events, As Tweeted By The People Who Are Actually There
49
8
Chromium alpha for Linux
44
9
The Trunk Club For Men: Never Shop For Clothes Again
42
10
Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit
42

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
Common Solecisms - Words you are almost certainly using incorrectly
73
2
The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M.
50
3
Google to sell eBooks
44
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Unmanned sub touches deepest part of world's ocean
34
5
Don't get too excited about some recent brighter economic news
33
6
Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation
31
7
Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms
30
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Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s the Cooking.
30
9
Born free: Open-source software in the recession
29
10
Microsoft wows with full motion camera for games
28

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
The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner)
42
2
The Million Dollar Programming Prize
3

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
Compcache: in-memory compressed swapping
34
2
Democratic Political Technology Revolution
1
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"Using Prompt Commands" a Sign of Criminals? Supreme Court Begs To Differ
1
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Google Wave’s Architecture
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 Rejects EFF Updates App, because it links "objectionable" youtube video
67
2
1964 300baud modem surfs the web
3

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft offers cheapish web app hosting with $100 search ad credit
2
2
A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web
2
3
The book, Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway is out
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
My Language Is More Agile Than Yours: A Study of Arc
77
2
Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic
15
3
Do Fandoms Need Awfulness? (by Eliezer Yudkowsky)
4

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
Travel time to major cities
3
2
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
2
3
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
1
4
People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows
1
5
New research reveals how meditation changes the brain
1
6
In a major pharmaceutical breakthrough, a one-two punch to stop HIV
1
7
Researchers study the natural foundations of female social aggression
1
8
What string theory is really good for
1
9
Breakthrough In Quantum Control Of Light: Implications For Banking, Drug Design
1
10
Phosphorus Famine: The Threat to Our Food Supply
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
How a meme starts "in real life" - Guy starts dance party, single-handedly
21
2
Google Wave video leaked internal data at 33min43s
8
3
Youtube starts testing HTML5 tag
7
4
YouTube for TVs (YoutTube XL)
5
5
Sergey Brin On Breaking "Page's Law" Of Software Sluggishness (vid)
3
6
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
3
7
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
3
8
Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service
3
9
Project Natal: E3 XBOX 360 - First Video Demo Release
2
10
The First Help Desk Call
2

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Sinatra clone in Scala
31
2
Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge
30
3
The Hg-Git Plugin from GitHub
13
4
Functional Complexity Modulo a Test Suite
2
5
Get Twitter Messages As IMAP Server in Python
1
6
Optfunc - use introspection to turn Python functions in to command line scripts
1
7
GitHub.js
1
8
Edownload is a segmented http file downloader in Erlang
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Opposition to and problems with neckties
13
2
Rosenhan experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
2
3
Gijeong-dong - propaganda village, site of major music war
2
4
Carter Catastrophe : Calculating the Probability of Doomsday
1
5
Frank Lloyd Wright's Sky-City
1
6
Radix trees
1
7
Crossing the Chasm
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