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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
279
2
Signs that you're a bad programmer
273
3
Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions
171
4
Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead
160
5
Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
157
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Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?
157
7
Self-Enforcing Protocols
156
8
Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599
146
9
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed
143
10
Let's Abolish High School
132

Top Ask HN

1
Who's Hiring? (take 2)
202
2
Where do you live?
112
3
Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?
78
4
How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
60
5
Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business?
56
6
What is something impressive you have built or achieved?
52
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Advice for freshmen entering college
49
8
Are you a founder?
47
9
Which tools do you use to optimize your webapps?
41
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My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it?
39

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
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
279
2
Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule
108
3
You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
88
4
JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder
81
5
Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing
77
6
Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July
74
7
Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00
64
8
Team Apart (YC S08) wants to eat Webex's lunch
55
9
Pics: The Facebook/FriendFeed Deal Signed Under The Cover Of Night
51
10
Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network
47

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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For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
89
2
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
89
3
King of the Apple geeks: Gruber as one-man media company
69
4
Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6
69
5
Tough times in the porn industry
46
6
"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine
35
7
Justin.tv Signs Deal With Fox, Gets Serious About Copyright Problems
35
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Shut Out at Home, Americans Seek Opportunity in China
35
9
Taking more math in school will raise your income
31
10
UK's new ID card hacked within minutes
26

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 LED's Dark Secret: "droop"
106
2
The Hunt for the Kill Switch (2008)
17
3
The Medical Algorithms Project
3
4
Dean Kamen: empire off the grid
2
5
Who's Proposing Ethical Guidelines for Robots?
1
6
Gordon Moore's next act (2008)
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
Self-Enforcing Protocols
156
2
Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition
38
3
Schneier on Security: Lockpicking and the Intenet
21
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Schneier on Security : Password Advice
7
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SQLite ported to .NET
5
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The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols
5
7
Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring
2
8
Password Advice
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 again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro
66
2
Exclusive Interview: Hacking The iPhone Through SMS
33
3
Apple working on device abuse detection technology
4
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Google's chief accepted gear but no pay as Apple board member
4
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Roadmap May Reveal Windows 8 Date
1
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A432 Designated 'Golden Master'?
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com

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
The Root Bridges of Cherrapungee
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
What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling
18
2
The math of gambling
18
3
Apple plans 'abuse spy' for your iPhone
16
4
Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot
16
5
Imaginary worlds are early sign of highly creative kids
10
6
The Pitfalls of Self-control
9
7
Looking Back At Earth: LCROSS Spacecraft Detects Life On The Blue Planet
9
8
After the boom, is Wikipedia heading for bust?
4
9
Things we don't understand about humans
4
10
How the moving walkway nearly overtook the Metro
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Mario AI competition might have a strong contender
18
2
Designing the Facebook username land rush
7
3
12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up at a Stevenote [video]
6
4
5 Axis Milling Machine Making V8 Engine Block
4
5
Video: Ward Cunningham on "technical debt"
3
6
Get software, help my wedding
3
7
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
3
8
Top Gear's James May goes to the edge of space in a U2.
3
9
If your site needs an FAQ, you have failed [END]
3
10
Unix Windowing Terminal System Blit, 1982, Bell Labs
2

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Meet CI Joe: GitHub's new Continuous Integration server
55
2
NeverSayDie will let you rescue from SEGV's and is evil
27
3
Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack
10
4
Hubris: A Ruby/Haskell bridge
2
5
A Personal URL Shortener
1
6
[pdf]An emergent participatory design framework for higher education
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Why the Z boson had a different mass at different times of day.
65
2
Basic income
37
3
Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight
20
4
The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking)
18
5
Milwaukee protocol (treating rabies without the vaccine)
12
6
Pecha Kucha: Preventative Medicine for Death By PowerPoint
10
7
E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4
8
Heim Theory
3
9
Situation calculus
2
10
Ravoux's slavemaker ant
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
Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?
30
2
Senior programming "guru" who can't program - should I find a different career?
8

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com