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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
340
2
Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes.
310
3
Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats
301
4
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
299
5
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
286
6
How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable
249
7
Adobe Responds to Jobs
235
8
Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
215
9
Solving the Alt-Tab Problem
204
10
Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliate links
194

Top Ask HN

1
Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06)
220
2
Who's Hiring?
161
3
Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.
105
4
How did you learn about search engines/text processing ?
46
5
Bad experiences after sharing your idea?
42
6
I Need Career Advice from an Experienced VC or Entrepreneur
34
7
Just finished coding my new startup; need ideas for getting traction
34
8
Who's hiring outside US?
32
9
Which SSL Cert to Buy?
29
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How much can you spend on IT w/o getting approval?
26

Top Show HN

1
Hacker News like site for South Africa: ZA-Coders
12
2
HN Recap - Daily, ranked list of articles that hit the front page
10
3
streamgraph.js, now on github
7
4
Switcheroo, my Emacs-ido-mode-inspired alt-tab replacement for Windows
6
5
Bolt, my (somewhat dynamic) static website generator
1
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Simple generator for Rails admin panels
1

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
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
299
2
Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash
107
3
Zencoder (YC W10) Wants To Be The AWS Of Video Encoding
80
4
Chrome continues surge as IE drops below 60% market share
73
5
The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man
70
6
Microsoft weighs in: 'the future of the web is HTML5'
48
7
Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
46
8
Digg Cuts 10% of Staff
44
9
Adobe shows off prototype Android tablet running Air and Flash 'flawlessly'
39
10
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
36

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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How Did GM Pay Back Its Bailout So Fast? Well, It Didn't...
119
2
Antitrust inquiry into Apple over Section 3.3.1
109
3
If the TSA Were Running New York
89
4
Why Everyone is Afraid of Apple
76
5
The Case for Working With Your Hands
56
6
Scribd Will Abandon Flash
53
7
The Pink Floyd Night School
51
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Is Michael Arrington About To Sell TechCrunch?
43
9
The Rise of Content Farms
41
10
Stock Manipulator, SEC Nemesis -- and 15 (2001)
39

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
A Robot That Balances on a Ball
118
2
Open-source robotics firm Willow Garage gives away $4 million worth of robots
11
3
Build a Custom-Printed Circuit Board
8
4
Metcalfe's Law is Wrong (2006)
2
5
Video: Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps
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
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Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
215
2
Josh Bloch on the Future of Java
72
3
An In-Depth Look at Clojure Collections
39
4
Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)
22
5
Twitter for Android is released
11
6
Notes from the Collaboration Summit (Linux, IBM, Google, etc.)
10
7
Fun with Secret Questions
6
8
Rhodes 2.0 Is Now Free Under MIT License
4
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Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
4
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Don Reinertsen: 2nd Gen. Lean Product Development: From Cargo Cult to Science
3

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 Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
340
2
EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"
76
3
ARM-Based Servers Expected by 2011
31
4
WSJ: Federal antitrust probe about Apple's iAd service, too
20
5
Prototype Apple TV predecessor from 1995 sells for $46 on eBay
17
6
Adobe to respond to Apple by giving employees Android phones with Flash
6
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Eken M001, 7" Android tablet for $100
5
8
Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"
4
9
Apple's iPad Seen Cannibalizing Netbook Sales
4
10
Intel Cuts Idle Power For Tablets And Smartphones by 50x
4

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple's Statement on W3C Patent Policy (2002)
32
2
Apple Sells One Million iPads
6
3
Amusing PG book review from 2000
3
4
Amazon VPC now available in the EU region.
3
5
Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
3
6
Online Reputation Research
3

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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How I Did It: Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO
2
2
Steve's thoughts commented and largely proven wrong
1
3
Antagonizing Opioid Receptors for (Prevention of) Fun and Profit
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
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Early humans may have bred with other species – twice
14
2
The secrets of intelligence lie within a single cell
6
3
New development in quantum computing
5
4
Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth
4
5
Laser creates clouds over Germany
4
6
What a shoddy piece of work is man
4
7
Mothers' Depression Can Go Well Beyond Child's Infancy
3
8
Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair
3
9
Neandertal Genome sequenced
3
10
Laser 'tractor beams' to tidy up space junk
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
/r/startups - a Reddit for startups
57
2
Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo
43
3
Matthieu Ricard shows results of recent experiments with experienced meditators
38
4
Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation (Google TechTalks)
36
5
The Internet in 1969
33
6
BBC Horizon - Psychedelic Science - DMT, LSD, Ibogaine
31
7
Elegant visual way to multiply numbers by hand
28
8
Facebook opening an engineering office in Seattle
22
9
K and Software Engineering
21
10
Palindromic video. Sort of ...
18

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Voicemail for Hackers
92
2
Subversion clients can now write to GitHub
54
3
A SQL console for your Heroku app
31
4
JQuery Offline : plugin to facilitate working with local storage
28
5
The newly modularized Three20 library
26
6
Clojure on .NET CLR
9
7
zztmmo - classic zzt game engine + node.js + jQuery
8
8
Migrate - db migrations for nodejs
6
9
Hive: Simplified WebWorkers with jQuery
4
10
GitHub adds contributor list to projects
3

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
(e^(i * pi)) + 1 = 0
41
2
Birthday Paradox
31
3
Tetration
28
4
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
28
5
Pit of despair
27
6
Clarke's three laws
9
7
Curry-Howard correspondence
5
8
Longest recorded sniper hit record
4
9
Pasta code
3
10
Doc Brown was right
3

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
See Randomness
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
5
2
List Comprehensions in Ruby
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com