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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Android – Now Ported On The iPhone
494
2
An apology...
367
3
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
361
4
HTML5 presentation
316
5
How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers
309
6
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud
270
7
The scariest pricing idea ever. That works.
264
8
100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.
251
9
McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide
249
10
Android Tries Harder
237

Top Ask HN

1
What SaaS apps have a great UI ?
52
2
Does anyone else miss "Ask HN?"
43
3
What code have you read recently?
37
4
Don't we have any news other than Apple, Facebook or Google?
36
5
Frameworks for real-time collaboration in a web application?
33
6
What percentage of YC startups make it?
32
7
How to be a responsible single founder?
29
8
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast?
29
9
What is the advantage of a formal CS degree for an entrepreneur?
23
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Review my startup: rapidly share memories on HippoCamps
18

Top Show HN

1
Like-o-matic
23
2
Super Hacker News adds one page browsing & keyboard navigation to HN
10

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
Soldier in Wikileaks video of 2007 Apache attack reveals what happened that day
361
2
App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire
126
3
Why the 13" MacBook Pro didn't get a Core i5 upgrade
84
4
$3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti
84
5
This Is Apple's Next iPhone
78
6
Apple Rejects Kid-Friendly Programming App
63
7
IPhone 4G: Proof
57
8
Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists
53
9
Steve Jobs “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone”
52
10
Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.
48

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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Most Digital Photocopiers Save Every Page Ever Scanned
197
2
A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit
140
3
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune
84
4
Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation
81
5
Web start-ups almost always fail. So why are these guys launching one?
80
6
Woman Gives Her Autistic 9-Year-Old Marijuana
76
7
The Wrong Man
72
8
Google Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Travel Software Maker ITA
62
9
Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
62
10
First they came for Hitler... Youtube takes down Hitler parodies
58

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
NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images
59
2
Hacking Ticketmaster
16
3
Flawed Computer Models Add To European Flight Delays
11
4
Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks
5
5
IEEE Spectrum's ranking of the world's most valuable patent portfolios
4
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PCBs aren't so hard to make and needn't break the bank
3
7
MUD: Massive, Unordered, Distributed data
1
8
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
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
Video Decode Acceleration framework available on Mac OS X 10.6.3
22
2
Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Political Assassinations
4
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IBM and the labors of TurboHercules
3
4
Deceptive Simplicity: Sinatra Turns 1.0
2
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Adam Wiggins on Building Heroku on Top of Amazon EC2
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
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information
70
2
Apple in advance discussions to adopt AMD chips
29
3
SproutCore debuts new HTML5 web development tools
29
4
Adobe slips mobile Flash Player 10.1 to second half of 2010
14
5
Inside iPhone OS 4.0: Multitasking vs Mac OS X, Android
4
6
Steve Jobs Approves Which Apple Employees Can Carry Pre-Release iPhones
4
7
Google buys mysterious firm run by former Apple employees
3
8
EFF Backs Yahoo to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search
2
9
Apple Demands Prototype iPhone Back
2
10
Rumor: Apple to buy ARM for $8 billion?
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
IPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30
4
2
Silverlight 4 released
1
3
Apple reports second quarter results
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
Short Studies On Excuses
156
2
Forkolator Manifesto
2
3
The Red Bias
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
Brief Meditative Exercise Shown to Improve Cognition
50
2
No gain from brain training
38
3
Under Threat, Women Bond, Men Withdraw
8
4
Solar Activity Linked to Cold Winters in UK
7
5
Schrödinger's cash
4
6
Materials Science: The Future of Metals
3
7
Health insurers make big bucks from Big Macs
3
8
Subliminal Cues Can Empty Wallets
2
9
Scientists Measure Atomic Nudge
2
10
How the brain keeps tabs on two tasks at once
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Optical illusion of motion
131
2
SimCity Player Spends 3 years on optimal city design
121
3
Innovation in rail travel: The train that never stops at a station
107
4
Dan Meyer dissects the flaws of math textbooks (video)
81
5
Copying a hotel keycard onto an NYC MetroCard
60
6
Another lovely Google Chrome ad - Extensions
41
7
My how far you have come, Apple.
37
8
CSV dump of reddit voting data
30
9
Bump Key How-To
25
10
IPad taken apart then re-assembled in under four minutes
17

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
The Use Case for Blocks
40
2
Let's make a "type the code listings" book for kids.
39
3
Smart HTTP Support - GitHub
35
4
For shits and giggles: Binary search on queue (see comments for explanation)
11
5
Brute force backtesting of zroc indicator in Q
7
6
Jath - declaratively transform XML to JS objects
6
7
A Modal Interface Combining Gestures and Direct Manipulation
6
8
Facebook Python SDK
4
9
Mapreduce in a bash script
1
10
Redis-cluster Design doc
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
The Jakarta Incident, or Rebooting 747 Engines In Flight
52
2
Why less competent may rate their own ability higher than more competent
44
3
Comb Sort - Just As Good As Quick Sort
31
4
Paradox of hedonism: Pursuing happiness leads to misery
10
5
"Go west, young man!" - Mean population center of the US
10
6
Knights of the Lambda Calculus
8
7
List of Tesla patents
6
8
NAME (dispersion model) - used to model the volcanic ash cloud
3
9
Earth's magnetic field 1590 - 1990
2
10
The EURion constellation: how photocopiers avoid counterfeiting
2

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
You Cannot Parse HTML with Regular Expressions
30
2
'Use the right tool for the job'
5
3
Tricks to get "in the zone"
5
4
How do you pronounce the word 'Tuple'? Just like the song.
5
5
What every JavaScript programmer should know?
4

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com