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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
2
Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies
664
3
How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
472
4
Nexus S
364
5
Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
334
6
Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
319
7
MathJax, beautiful math in all browsers
318
8
Founder Control
302
9
How to detect a toxic customer
293
10
The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
260

Top Ask HN

1
Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
258
2
How would you deal with DDoS?
129
3
Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010
103
4
Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?
102
5
experiences with Lasik eye surgery (programmers especially)?
91
6
Advice for self-publishing books
80
7
Big company looking to acquire us, I'm terrified
74
8
ASK HN: Easy ways for a web developer to make online cash?
73
9
What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks?
71
10
2011 Predictions
57

Top Show HN

1
We made this 'Pandora for Music Videos', let me know what you think.
37
2
Show HN : Playing with GAE Channel API
33
3
My spin on Groupon
19
4
Collapsible Comments (Chrome Extension)
15
5
My post-YC-rejection start-up
11
6
CSS Meta-Language in Javascript
10
7
hipchan, an anonymous sharing site built with 1 page js
9
8
Top Comment Highlighter
8
9
Help Amazon EC2 be a foremost supporter of WikiLeaks and Tor
8
10
Show HN - My Weekend Project: Twitter Secret Santa
5

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
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash
717
2
The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker
178
3
PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal"
173
4
Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
158
5
A virus could increase lithium batteries capacity by 10x
141
6
How an RC airplane buzzed the Statue of Liberty, with no arrests
140
7
Kinect finally fulfills its Minority Report destiny
120
8
This Kid Will Do Whatever You Want in Antartica
110
9
Ben the Bodyguard: The Perils of Promotion That's Better Than the Product
99
10
How To Make Money On the Internet
70

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
Assange arrested in London (BBC)
156
2
Anonymous in The Economist
137
3
New York Times - Chrome version
104
4
Speed-Freak Football
92
5
Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears the Web
92
6
SpaceX craft launches from Florida
87
7
Bees in Brooklyn Hives Mysteriously Turn Red
69
8
How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming
60
9
Rethinking the scientific method
59
10
List of facilities 'vital to US security' leaked
54

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
Engineering Is Not Science
134
2
IEEE Spectrum: Engineering Is Not Science
5
3
MoNETA: A Mind Made From Memristors
2
4
Mass 'created' inside graphene
2
5
No evidence for circles in WMAP claimed by Penrose and Gurzadya
2
6
NanoSail-D: Solar Sail Nanosatellite Launched by NASA
1
7
Superior 'theory of mind' in borderline personality
1
8
Wikipedia Powered Classifier Uses Ontology to Wipe Floor With Bag-of-Words
1
9
Why Engineers Must Try to Save the World
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
The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]
195
2
Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks
29
3
Announcing Verve – A Type-Safe OS From Microsoft Singularity Project
25
4
Ubuntu 10.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.6.5: A Competitive Race
12
5
To Trend or Not to Trend
10
6
Full Body Scanners: What's Next?
5
7
Speeding Up The Linux Kernel With Transparent Hugepage Support
4
8
Always Online: Because Downtime Like Tumblr's Sucks
4
9
JSRs for Java 7 and Java 8 Approved
3
10
Microsoft Builds JavaScript Malware Detection Tool
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
EFF: Say No to Online Censorship
189
2
Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven
162
3
EFF: Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
151
4
How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech
85
5
The FBI Arbitrarily Covers Up Evidence of Misconduct
43
6
The FBI Arbitrarily Covers Up Evidence of Misconduct
28
7
Coders' Rights
17
8
How artists fare in the new music industry (in relation to the old)
9
9
Make Your Own TSA “Naked” Scanner
6
10
Mac App Store to Launch As Early as December 13th?
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
191
2
Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
75
3
Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances
66
4
Announcing Mobile SDKs for Amazon Web Services
15
5
Amazon Route 53
4
6
The Future of Microsoft Silverlight
3
7
Amazon (AWS) adds DNS hosting
3
8
Farmville for Dummies
3
9
Frequently Bought Together: Call of Duty 4 & Adult Diapers (of course)
1
10
Microsoft Private Cloud
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
Truly decentralized bittorrent
114
2
The Groupon Editorial Manual
58
3
Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has Finally Arrived
58
4
Were atoms real? (Interesting discussion of scientific philosophy.)
35
5
12 Years Ago today, Erlang/OTP was released as Open Source
10
6
Shut up and do the impossible
9
7
A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation
5
8
Troubled Wikileaks Moves To Pirate Party Domain
4
9
US Copyright Group Drops Cases Against Thousands of BitTorrent Users
4
10
Wikileaks:Advisory Board - Wikileaks
4

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
Tooth decay to be a thing of the past? Enzyme responsible deciphered
91
2
Arsenic-microbe gets toxic response from scientific community
34
3
Info pirates seek an alternative Internet
29
4
People With "Warrior Gene" Better at Risky Decisions
22
5
Are depressed people too clean?
7
6
Get Better at Math by Disrupting Your Brain
6
7
Mathematical immortality? Give a theorem your name
6
8
Give a theorem your name
5
9
Some Genes Are Activated Randomly
4
10
Lost civilization under Persian Gulf?
3

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command
252
2
Get the New Facebook Profile Now
40
3
Ask Reddit: What is Haskell good for?
34
4
Paypal.com down
33
5
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats
17
6
Scobleizer Interview with Ricky Yean of Crowdbooster (YC S10)
16
7
Facebook: Hacker Cup programming competition
15
8
GoWalla Founder discuss battle w/FourSquare & Facebook
14
9
Anonymous has taken down visa.com
12
10
Lego Antikythera Mechanism (oldest known scientific computer)
11

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
The Tree Slider - GitHub
182
2
"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own time." (Snap framework)
128
3
Kinect + Chrome * MIT / Minority Report = DepthJS
87
4
Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App
86
5
JavaScript is the most popular language on GitHub
78
6
Sprite.js: HTML5 framework for creating efficient animations in browsers
77
7
Let's get to know each other - GitHub
60
8
Crowd-sourced translation engine for Rails
43
9
Store and query numeric intervals in Lucene (Greplin open source)
41
10
Diaspora branch with xmpp federation support
38

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Why shaken, not stirred?
39
2
List of wikileaks mirrors deleted on Wikipedia
18
3
Mathias Rust
3
4
American and British English spelling differences
2
5
Hybrot
2
6
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
2
7
Santa's Slave Helper (Zwarte Piet)
1
8
Freaks and Geeks
1
9
Nuclear transmutation: Turning Lead into Gold
1
10
Gini Coefficient
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Founder Control
302
2
Founder Control
1

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
List of freely available programming books
146
2
Why are variables "i" and "j" used for counters?
81
3
New programming jargon you coined
29
4
White (Light) vs. Black (Dark) Backgrounds: Health Effects
27
5
JQuery Tips and Tricks
10
6
Hidden Features of JavaScript
3
7
Why are variables “i” and “j” used for counters?
2
8
Strangest language feature
2
9
Useful alternative control structures
1
10
How can you tell if a person is a programmer? - Stack Overflow
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com