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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
2
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
776
3
Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior
642
4
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)
632
5
Icon Ambulance
610
6
If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?
608
7
I am nothing
512
8
Why Arabic is Terrific
495
9
Walking on a cube-shaped planet
440
10
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
417

Top Ask HN

1
What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?
230
2
Help me get a job before I'm in dire straits?
26
3
What books have changed the way you think?
22
4
On which project you're working right now?
19
5
Recommend a book on Machine Learning and/or Graph Theory?
19
6
When is the best time to bring on a co-founder?
16
7
How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN?
14
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can a user be silently censored here?
13
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Any Solutions to the "Porn Problem"?
12
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SEO vs. Branding with Domains (keyword.net vs. prefix+keyword.com)
11

Top Show HN

1
Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript
71
2
nyan-mode.el - Nyan Cat for Emacs (my first real Emacs minor mode)
69
3
I am building a next-gen browser
66
4
business plan forecasting (our new app)
64
5
Chorus - It tells you what your customers think and feel
45
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Save reading time with the TL;DR PLZ bookmarklet
43
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type to me, old-school unix talk for the web
43
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Cilantro ("About.me for restaurants"). Feedback wanted.
38
9
Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?
26
10
Build custom designed CMS sites in the browser without any coding
25

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
Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours
355
2
New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer
285
3
GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code
179
4
Netherlands judge rules Samsung Galaxy S, S II violate Apple patents, bans sales
170
5
Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses
148
6
GroupMe acquired by Skype
142
7
Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup
140
8
Why Apple employees avoid getting in the elevator with Steve Jobs
134
9
The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts
111
10
Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision
103

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
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
2
Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.
210
3
Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA
156
4
Is That Review a Fake?
150
5
Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding
144
6
The economics of good looks
134
7
What You Don't Get About the Job Search: Voices of the Jobless
106
8
How dead is dead?
91
9
DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertising Dollars
83
10
Eric Schmidt criticises education in the UK
73

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
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog
105
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NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow
3
3
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog
3
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NASA to build solar sail, communications laser for outer space
3
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The Rescue of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
2
6
Planet Discovered, Made Entirely of Diamond
2
7
Nasa's Image of the Day - Irene
2

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
Android and the GPLv2 death penalty
33
2
How would you move 211 Tons of Gold?
31
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Terrorism in the U.S. Since 9/11
14
4
Smalltalk IDEs Come to the Browser
8
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Liberate Your EveryDNS Records
6
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CloudFlare Provides Zero Day Fix for Zero Day Apache Killer Exploit
6
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Tweaks To Extend The Battery Life Of Intel Linux Notebooks
3
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Apache DoS Bug Resurfaces, Spurring New Attacks
3
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Schneier on new AES attack
2
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Clojure: Towards The Essence Of Programming
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
Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple
280
2
Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021
105
3
Comex, the Hacker Behind JailbreakMe.com, Hired as Apple Intern
46
4
Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly
30
5
Apple's iOS unaffected by malware; Android exploits surge by 76%
28
6
HP begins TouchPad clearance with $99 fire sale
26
7
Authorized Steve Jobs biography will include resignation details
12
8
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO, Will Stay On As Chairman
10
9
Join Us for "Patent Trolls and You: EFF Virtual Boot Camp for App Developers"
6
10
Salesforce CEO gave up the 'App Store' trademark for advice from Steve Jobs
5

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Announcing Amazon ElastiCache - Managed Memcached
157
2
Amazon ElastiCache Details - Managed Memcache
52
3
Apple - Press Info - Letter from Steve Jobs
5
4
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
2
5
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
2
6
Programming background books list
1
7
Apple updates management roster
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
Foxs 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
97
2
Software developer! Help a startup, check out Flowdock & take a survey
14
3
Anti-Piracy Bill Set To Cost Taxpayers $47m To 2016
9
4
The Failed Battle To Stop The Worlds First Camcorder Pirates
8
5
German Pirate Party On Course to Election Win
3
6
Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive
3
7
Google Docs, Not Found
3
8
The first Foursquare hackathon will be in Paris
2
9
Foxs 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
2
10
3n+1 NoSQL Database Benchmark
2

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
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?
145
2
IBM unveils microchip based on the human brain
33
3
It's time to end the war on salt.
4
4
Pain-free way of tackling dental decay reverses acid damage and re-builds teeth
4
5
Can Math Beat Financial Markets?
4
6
Is That My Hand?
3
7
Russian rocket failure to ground human launches
3
8
Scientific American: The Top Cities for Technology
2
9
TSP in real life: Researchers Tell Umpires Where to Go
2
10
How stress damages DNA
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Reddit's IAmA Moderator Shuts Down Subreddit
16
2
Portal: No Escape
14
3
Haskell, functional programming for imperative programmers. Reddit University.
13
4
Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech
10
5
Steve Jobs Resigns
10
6
Microsoft offers free phones to webOS devs
8
7
Physicists Dr. Michio Kaku: America Has A Secret Weapon (H1B Visas)
8
8
GT vs F1 speed comparison
7
9
This will mess with your mind - Non-Euclidean Level Design (Portal 2 Version)
7
10
Tomorrow turkish redditors will be lost, due to governmnet
6

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more
114
2
Think you're a ruby guru? Help solve this non-trivial RSpec bug
36
3
UDID Alternative for iOS5
30
4
An in-progress JRuby port of notch's 48 hour "Ludum Dare" game competition entry
25
5
Dealing with encodings in Ruby is a pain in the ass, let us help you
8
6
Tomorrow Theme
7
7
Our goal is to make collaborative editing the standard on the web
6
8
Python app auto-sends HN articles to Kindle & Readability
4
9
My alternative to Selenium, meet Ghostbuster
4
10
Autocompaction for CouchDB
3

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?
64
2
Tim Cook
6
3
lp0 on fire
5
4
Hans Litten - The Man Who Crossed Hitler
4
5
Ram's 10 Principles of Good Design (Apple Design Chief's Main Influencer)
3
6
Wikipedia:United States Education Program
3
7
Completely unintuitive: The Cantor Function
2
8
Eustress
2
9
Great poem: Desiderata
2
10
Einstein refrigerator
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
3
2
How to Present to Investors [2006, rev. 2007, 2010]
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
417
2
What is in your .vimrc
192
3
Fastest sort of fixed length 6 int array
79
4
Find an integer not among four billion given ones - Stack Overflow
15
5
Which one is more likely to succeed: clojure or arc?
12
6
What Do Project Managers Do All Day?
6
7
Fastest way to list all primes below N in Python
5
8
Searching for Gadaffi
5
9
MySQL retrieve column names where data_type = decimal(12,5)
2
10
[Stack Overflow Post] Why doesn't my Python script work?
2

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com