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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
How Fake Money Saved Brazil
377
2
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
373
3
MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem
329
4
Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share
319
5
Google responds aggressively to Oracle Java suit
297
6
The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
287
7
How to be a freelance web developer, part 2
284
8
The best JavaScript guide ever
278
9
Man jailed over computer password refusal
271
10
Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim
271

Top Ask HN

1
Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
240
2
Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)
193
3
Good books?
181
4
Underperforming, feeling stuck
150
5
Where to look to learn UX/Design
146
6
Am I making too much?
115
7
Living overseas with a profitable online business
113
8
So what's new in the world of A.I.?
107
9
Inspirational money making web apps made by hackers.
107
10
Recommend a freelance job board
96

Top Show HN

1
Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.
90
2
Coding noob - first weekend project
69
3
Hackerviews.com, find and meet nearby hackers
7
4
DomainWhirl - A free daily newsletter with available startup domains
7
5
IRestoredSanity.com, share a ride to the Stewart/Colbert Rallies
3
6
Portrit - Your Facebook As Photos
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
Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”
240
2
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Williams
114
3
Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At
107
4
The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp’s Google Acquisition
106
5
If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind
62
6
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
60
7
The stock market as a single, very big piece of multithreaded software
58
8
Highlights From Yesterday’s Secret “Welcome To AOL” Meeting
55
9
VCs Offer Terms Most Angels Can't Match In Pulse Funding
49
10
Facebook Granted Patent Covering Location-Based Social Networks And Checkins
49

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
How Fake Money Saved Brazil
377
2
Man jailed over computer password refusal
271
3
Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
231
4
The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
206
5
To live forever, break habits
170
6
Possible Cause of Bee Die-Off Is Found
158
7
The Gentle Art of Poverty
153
8
Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'
144
9
Mark Zuckerberg's Most Valuable Friend
108
10
My son is mistaking a smartphone for his mother
72

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
Time lost by driving fast
67
2
Converting information to energy
4
3
Airships for the 21st Century
3
4
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study(IgNobel 2010)
2
5
A DIY Telepresence Robot
2
6
Humanoid Robots Rise. Now, Can They Walk?
2
7
Meet RatCar, a small vehicle hooked up to a rat's brain
2
8
First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Discovered
1
9
May 6th Flash Crash: Algorithmic Trading to Blame
1
10
RatCar: Rat-Robot Hybrid to Explore Better Brain Machine Interfaces
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
Stuxnet
37
2
McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora Project
36
3
Scalatra: A Sinatra-like Web Framework for Scala
28
4
Wine 1.3.4 Adds New Features, Supports ARM
10
5
Twitter gets a new CEO
9
6
Twitter adds Promoted Accounts and Ad Revenue Sharing
7
7
Padding Oracle Affects JSF, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET
3
8
Monitoring Employees' Online Behavior
3
9
Meet Twitter for Google TV
3
10
Bruce Schneier: Putting Unique Codes on Objects to Detect Counterfeiting
2

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EFF Supports Microsoft in Seeking to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents
62
2
Intel X25-M SSD (G3 25nm) Specs Revealed
8
3
Failures in mobile space cost Steve Ballmer half his bonus
3
4
Internet Censorship Bill is Delayed, For Now
3
5
Say Goodbye To Your BIOS: Hello, UEFI
3
6
Intel Shows Ray Traced Wolfenstein on a Laptop
1
7
Costliest of Apple TV's $62 in components is $17 A4 processor
1
8
An effective and innovative approach to iAds
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon DevPay
81
2
Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Motorola (over Android)
32
3
Vista and MS Office 2007 will transform the way people work and play(2007)
5
4
IPad Now Available Thru Amazon
3
5
Amazon Releases RDS Read Replicas
2
6
Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife - "Epic all-situation survivor's kit"
2
7
Microsoft proposes Public Health Model to fight malware infections
2

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
Understanding vipassana meditation
40
2
Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store
15
3
The 'UNIX' system in Jurassic Park was, in fact, UNIX
14
4
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
8
5
We Were Trapped by Radioactive Fallout (1957)
3
6
Don't judge a skill by its specialists
3
7
IMDb Relents And Allows BitTorrent Movie The Tunnel a Listing
2
8
Break your habits: be more empirical
1
9
What Makes My Attempt Special?
1
10
Competing on Talent Analytics - Useful advice for hiring at your company
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
Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight
185
2
How to boost your brain
25
3
Why Broadband Service in the U.S. Is So Awful
5
4
How the eye wires up : Nature News
5
5
Online Optical Illusion
4
6
Social sensitivity trumps IQ in group intelligence
3
7
Antibody reverses final throes of cancer in mice
3
8
Strange but True: Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists
3
9
Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer
3
10
Garage biotech: Life hackers
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Hacker News Facebook Group
151
2
Epic Win for betabrand. Skydiving Picture Over Burning Man.
22
3
PG's thoughts on New Twitter
14
4
Mark Zuckerberg Rare 2005 Interview
11
5
Blender Movie is out: Sintel
7
6
How Ink Is Made [video]
6
7
How Differential Steering Works (1937)
5
8
Here Comes Another Bubble
5
9
If you build a wooden house in Minecraft be careful where you put the fire...
5
10
MIT 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer by Mike Acton
4

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Introducing Phoebus. An implementation of Google's Pregel in Erlang
42
2
Make sure you are actually using your EC2 reserved instances
21
3
Sight: The Syntax Highlighter Chrome Extension
6
4
Why I Write Concept Software
5
5
Sight v0.5: The Syntax Highlighter Chrome Extension
5
6
Let's make closures easy
3
7
Clojure Protocols (JAOO slides by Stuart Halloway)
2
8
Pete Warden's / Parallel Curl
2
9
Why I Write Concept Software
1
10
Easy factories are easy (Ohm object factory)
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Emerald cockroach wasp - Reproductive behavior and life cycle
80
2
List of statutory minimum employment leave by country
48
3
Delay line memory
5
4
The MONIAC Computer
3
5
The Game
3
6
The Mediocrity Principle
3
7
Habitability of red dwarf systems (Wikipedia)
2
8
List of important publications in computer science
2
9
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
2
10
Misuse of statistics
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Where to See Silicon Valley
219
2
Where to See Silicon Valley
6

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is Emacs used by everyone interviewed in Coders At Work?
5
2
Why is background cut off when window is resized?
3
3
Getting stack trace from a running Python application
1
4
Multiple file types-paperclip-different urls/styles for different file types?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com