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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox
714
2
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
605
3
Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)
461
4
Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
421
5
Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
406
6
Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
398
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Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose
383
8
What We Look for in Founders
362
9
Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers
342
10
A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator
310

Top Ask HN

1
Visual Design for Hackers
137
2
Who Plays Go?
136
3
How does having a baby change your life?
127
4
Show me your Half Baked project
126
5
What's the best way for foreigners to incorporate in the States?
110
6
Django Deploy Recommendations
109
7
How do you tune your life?
99
8
How expensive is living in Silicon Valley
90
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How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?
86
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"Is that work?"
83

Top Show HN

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I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind
453
2
Couldn't sleep; added 960gs support to jMockups
75
3
415-483-1860 twilio-translator
21
4
TextSlide - SMS Roulette
15
5
I made an RSS feed reader
10
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HN iGoogle gadget
9
7
Review my startup: shrtn.co - Affiliate based URL shortener
8
8
HNResources.com: directory with HN resources
7
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Daily writing prompts with node.js
4
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My new product is finally launched
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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
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference
605
2
Compared to you, most people seem dumb
209
3
Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent
176
4
The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits
176
5
Secret Button Sequence Bypasses iPhone Security
106
6
UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist
104
7
The PlayStation Phone
101
8
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
99
9
Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed
81
10
Windows Phone 7: The Ars Review
65

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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Game Changers: Jon Stewart [video]
86
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Think You Know How To Study? Think Again
72
3
Carly Fiorina destroyed the 'HP Way'
67
4
The difficulties of providing 110-volt power to your airline seat
66
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Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
60
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Cracking satellites for high speed Internet (Feb 2010)
53
7
How Rich Is Rich?
42
8
Apple might acquire Sony?
37
9
How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends
28
10
Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad
24

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
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
89
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New Look at Mystery Flashes Reported by Astronauts
3
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NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water
3
4
IEEE Spectrum: Darpa Seeking to Revolutionize Robotic Manipulation
1
5
Bachet's Problem: as few weights to weigh them all
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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An ancient kernel hole is closed
4
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Functional Design Patterns (video)
4
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Death by Accidental Complexity
3
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IPhone Jailbreak Tool Sets Stage for Mobile Malware and Rootkits
2
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Can Oracle Turn Java Around?
1
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Gemalto sues Google,Motorola,HTC and samsung over android
1

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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Smallest gaming console ever.
22
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IPad "Orientation Lock" becomes "Mute On/Off" in software update
16
3
70 LEDs crammed into a pumpkin. Overkill in tutorial form.
4
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Outlook 2011 for Mac uses Webkit to render HTML
3
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Apple to Make All New Mac Shipments Flash-Free
2
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Apple's new 11" MacBook Air a "much faster iPad" or "much slower MacBook Pro"
1
7
Apple's North Carolina data center to open "any day now"
1
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Ridiculous: Speculation of an Apple Acquisition Drives Sony's Stock Price Up
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon to add "lending" feature to Kindle
143
2
Possibly horrible product, but the best Amazon Customer images and reviews
16
3
Microsoft Brings Games on Demand to the Web With New PC Game Store
2
4
Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2
5
Visual Basic macros are back in Office Mac 2011
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
Redis Cluster: a pragmatic approach to distribution
42
2
LimeWire Shuts Down After Losing Court Battle With The RIAA
12
3
Creative media & technnology compilation by Google creative lab
3
4
Leaked Letter Exposes Sarkozy’s Repressive Anti-Piracy Agenda
3
5
What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy? - Harvard Business Review
3
6
BitTorrent Still Dominates Global Internet Traffic
2
7
Angry Developer Transforms Anti-Piracy System Into Music Download Site
1
8
Self-empathy as a source of "willpower"
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
Speed breakthrough in Solving Linear Systems
36
2
Space tourism to accelerate climate change
5
3
Could quantum algorithms shake up Google?
3
4
Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues
3
5
Falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second
2
6
Moving illusions: impossible objects made real
2
7
Not Neutrality? U.S. Weighs Options for Turbo-Boosting Nation's Broadband
2
8
50 ideas to change science forever: Computing
1
9
Doctors Conduct First-Ever All-Robotic Surgery and Anesthesia
1
10
Prizewinning chatbot steers the conversation
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
"Nah, who needs another search engine?"
242
2
What algorithm blows your mind? (Reddit compsci)
129
3
I Buy and Sell Domain Names AMA
67
4
How To Sell: A 6-minute video tutorial
32
5
Want to Help Reddit Build a Recommender?
26
6
What doing a Startup feels like
9
7
"My little piece of privacy" - Robotic Curtain
7
8
Mastery vs. Mediocrity (Ben Scofield Ignite talk)
6
9
Fight Club Philosophy
6
10
Most realistic robot face I've seen
5

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
EA open sources their internal version of STL
89
2
Sidejack Prevention
72
3
Remember twich.me (node.js realtime chat)? Here is the source as promised.
62
4
Ghcjs: Haskell to Javascript compiler
56
5
Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon
47
6
Bookmarklet for Reloading just CSS on a page
39
7
Diaspora Security - will this work?
17
8
Sheepsafe (keeps you safe from FireSheep)
9
9
Wingman: An Open Source Things
8
10
Sidejacking 48 popular sites - Complete list
5

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook
200
2
Qi (programming language)
10
3
WoodGas Cars: 1000 kg of wood = 365L of gasoline, no refining required
6
4
Dazzle camouflage
5
5
The most distant object observed from Earth
4
6
The Knights Templar: Bank, Army, Charity, Logistics, and More
4
7
Dunbar's Number
4
8
Norman Borlaug
3
9
Darwins Thinking Path (pic)
3
10
Black Like Me
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
What We Look for in Founders
362

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
How can you program if you're blind?
185
2
What's happening with Arc?
76
3
Is functional programming relevant to web development?
31
4
Defend PHP; convince me it isn't horrible
10
5
What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map?
5
6
StackOverflow: What kind of programming requires math?
3
7
What would make you try (or not try) a new programming language?
2
8
How does Google Maps compute directions
2
9
What algorithm does Google Maps use to compute directions?
2
10
Are games the most complex / impressive applications?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com