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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
The Top Idea in Your Mind
650
2
How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer
428
3
Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
398
4
One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen
377
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I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
299
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My experiment with smart drugs (2008)
264
7
Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers
248
8
My Google Interview
228
9
High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)
227
10
Useful things you can make SSH do
214

Top Ask HN

1
Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?
441
2
Music while coding
102
3
anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?
102
4
Tips and Tricks to Save Money While Running a Startup
79
5
Review my status board startup
78
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Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?
74
7
What proficiency does one need to start freelancing?
74
8
Loosing Faith - the startup killer
64
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Resources for finding short term projects?
61
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Would you play a distributed, programmable MMO?
60

Top Show HN

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HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you
221
2
http://hackerbra.in - fast and smart hacker news
9
3
My Greg's Pulse. Get text message updates when stuff online changes
4

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
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Google pulls plug on Nexus One
126
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Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month
121
3
LightSquared: new national 4G network under construction, no telcos involved
106
4
Apple Obliterates Q3 Earnings Estimates: Best Mac Sales Ever, Huge iPad Numbers
98
5
Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users
98
6
PagerDuty (YC S10) Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down
94
7
The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs
93
8
Optimizely (YC W10) Makes It Remarkably Easy to A/B Test
80
9
Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview
65
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Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’
56

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 worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)
133
2
To retire comfortably, under-40 workers need to seriously bulk up savings
88
3
Facebook Lawyer `Unsure' Whether Founder Mark Zuckerberg Signed Contract
76
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Homeowners Use Airbnb to Dodge Foreclosure
75
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Can Honest Tea Say No to Coke, Its Biggest Investor?
61
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R.I.P. David Blackwell
60
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American Murder Mystery (2008)
46
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When kings and princes grow old
43
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Bye-Bye, Batteries - Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source
42
10
Apple's condescending iPhone 4 press conference.
42

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
Pattern Recognition in Texts Using Complex Networks
18
2
The Trouble with Multicore
11
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Robot head Flobi designed to dodge uncanny valley
2
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Can Kevin Costner's Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup?
1
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Forensic identification using bacteria
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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On the scalability of Linus
82
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Steve Vinoski on Erlang and Rest [[video interview]]
4
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Economic Considerations of Website Password Policies
3
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Russian Intelligence Gets Source Code to Windows 7
2
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The state of Python's mercurial migration
2

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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Court: Violating T.O.S Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be
35
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Analyzing Apple’s iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue
31
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San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant
19
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Gizmodo/Chen reaches deal with San Mateo DA, search warrant withdrawn
14
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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store (For Now)
2
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Apple, google, and others sued by patent troll for email spam detection method
2
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Apple to Offer Free Cases for iPhone 4 Customers
1
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Apple has 'Verizon cell sites on campus'
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
197
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Smartphone Antenna Performance
6
3
Microsoft Codename "Dallas"
2
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IPad Available in Nine More Countries This Friday
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
World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden
55
2
How Will You Measure Your Life?
38
3
How Will You Measure Your Life?
19
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U.S. authorities shut down WordPress host with 73,000 blogs
16
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Excellent talk by SICP author Gerry Sussman
3
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Importance of Startups in Job Creation
3
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What to Know Before Debating Type Systems
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
Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass
109
2
Nature thinks we could safely wipe mosquitoes off the face of the earth.
38
3
Why music is good for you
3
4
How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness
2
5
Grow-your-own approach to wiring 3D chips
2
6
Green machine: A salty solution for power generation
2
7
Twitter mood maps emotional states of America
2
8
Astronaut for hire: Space tourism will help science
2
9
Can you teach yourself synaesthesia?
1
10
Embedded Technologies: Power From the People
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months
194
2
Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (2008)
188
3
This is how you pitch a new piece of technology.
132
4
Twitter feed of Hacker News stories as soon as they reach 20 points
71
5
Reddit programming FAQ
47
6
Animated Antennagate Spoof
46
7
Project Natal
43
8
IT Crowd
41
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I gladly donated to reddit but I won't pay for it
38
10
Languages and Lambdas: The Mathemagic of Programming [Class on UniOfReddit]
29

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Leiningen 1.2 Released (Clojure build tool & more)
43
2
Boardwalk: Port of _why's Park Place using Sinatra and MongoDB.
20
3
Node-inspector - NodeJS debugger extension for Google Chrome
5
4
Gist: more concise output in Python
3
5
LRJew: An LRU efficiency simulator
2
6
bash.org clone built on Sinatra
2
7
Initial support for Oauth2 and Facebook Graph with the python tornado framework.
2
8
Spirit - An OSS iPhone(iOS3) Jailbreak
1
9
Mirage: OCaml on the Cloud
1
10
Simple JSON-web browser in 200+ lines of Python (gopher-ng)
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Dagen H: The day Sweden switched to the right hand side of the road
50
2
Steve Yegge is a "non-notable programmer"
43
3
Modafinil
17
4
Banach-Tarski paradox
3
5
General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)
3
6
Timsort
3
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Using a ham radio, you could listen to a disembodied spacesuit circling Earth.
2
8
List of common misconceptions
2
9
Alternative DNS root
2
10
Itanium Sales Forecasts Versus Actual
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Top Idea in Your Mind
650
2
Principles for Making New Things (2008)
46
3
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986)
3

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Plain english explanation of Big O
155
2
How can I get addicted to programming?
87
3
Ask YC: When will FaceTime be open?
15
4
Python: If x is list, why x += "ha" works, while x = x + "ha" throws exception?
5
5
What's your take on GO?
1
6
Hidden Features of JavaScript
1
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In C++, any general guidelines for handling memory allocation/deletion?
1
8
A regex that checks for primes
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com