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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
1924
2
Steve's Google Platform rant
1182
3
Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project
798
4
I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
736
5
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
733
6
IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior
560
7
Lights
557
8
Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air
557
9
RIP, dmr
555
10
Dart language
518

Top Ask HN

1
What data structure does our brain use?
132
2
Please stop overriding standard browser navigation keys with Javascript.
98
3
Where/How do I learn about credit card payments and payment gateways
90
4
Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
64
5
What are your music prototyping solutions?
53
6
What kind of sample Vim plugin should I build in LVSTHW?
31
7
Do you use timetracking at your startup?
24
8
Where exactly does wikimedia spend $28M+ this year?
22
9
Tell me about some good niche online communities you know?
22
10
What web hosting service do you use? (2011 edition)
21

Top Show HN

1
my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.
244
2
Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)
214
3
My network connection monitor for Mac
144
4
Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi
141
5
Markdrop drag and drop Markdown previews
67
6
Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
41
7
Tag Along (my first iPhone app 37 days later)
25
8
my weekend project, a "framework" for IRC apps/bots
24
9
Mouin, a sane way to create native mobile apps
22
10
Send cool postcards - weekend project
12

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
Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity
359
2
Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
221
3
Everything is getting heavier
142
4
Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era
125
5
Apples iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
123
6
Andreessen Horowitz Joins The Start Fund To Seed YC Companies
122
7
Heres To The Crazy One
97
8
Dennis Ritchie: the giant whose shoulders we stand on
97
9
Y Combinator Is Now Getting Over One Application Every Minute
95
10
The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened
84

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
Panic of the Plutocrats
273
2
The Man Who Inspired Jobs
241
3
Unix's founding fathers [2004]
205
4
The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants
132
5
Akamai close to being acquired by Google
128
6
All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed
113
7
Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race
111
8
Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70
101
9
Google not acquiring Akamai
97
10
Design That Solves Problems for the Worlds Poor
87

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
Jewish problems
297
2
Taiwanese to Form Patent Bank to Defend Local Companies
33
3
Claim: Algorithm that Solves 3-SAT in Polynomial Time
19
4
Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps: What the electronics industry can learn
18
5
Private Spaceship Factory Opens for Business in Calif. Desert
18
6
Inventing Unix: a May 2011 interview with Dennis Ritchie
10
7
3-SAT in polynomial time, or P=NP
5
8
Measuring the earth with traceroute [Warning: PDF]
3
9
P=NP? 3-SAT "solved" in O(n^2)
2
10
Scientific comparison of Mozart and Salieri
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
Dennis Ritchie RIP
208
2
Using A Graph Database To Power The Web of Things
16
3
Google Dart Language and Tools Explained
4
4
ATM Skimmer Powered by MP3 Player (Similar to Square)
3
5
Case Study: Large-scale Pure OO at the Irish Government
2
6
AMD Ports Open-Source Linux Driver To Windows Embedded
2
7
AMD Ports Open-Source Linux Driver To Windows Embedded
2
8
Intel's Brewing A New Linux Driver Release Cycle
2
9
SQLFire: Scalable SQL instead of NoSQL
2
10
Vinoski and Ippolito on Async I/O, Python, Node.js, Web Development in Erlang
1

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air
557
2
Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform
413
3
Backify Offers 512 GB Free Online Backup Storage
65
4
The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
50
5
ATT Sells 200,000 iPhone 4S's in 12 Hours
8
6
iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks, beats all smart phones
7
7
iOS chief Scott Forstall profiled as a 'maddeningly political' mini-Steve Jobs
6
8
Guidelines for Securing Open Source Software
2
9
The Bulldozer Review: AMD FX-8150 Tested
2
10
iPhone 4S performance
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup
222
2
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
106
3
ITunes 10.5 - iTunes in the cloud and wifi sync
3
4
IOS 5 - 200+ new features for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch
3
5
Apple - iOS 5 -Now Available.
3
6
Is Microsoft.com down?
2
7
Microsoft officially closes its acquisition of Skype
2
8
Microsoft Officially Welcomes Skype
2
9
IOS 5 officially out
2
10
iOS 5 now available!
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
Stanford AI Class Lecture Notes
146
2
Eureka Ditching DRM Decreases Piracy
3
3
Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final
3
4
The cool way to compile your christmas shopping list
2
5
Patent Violation Lawsuit Against BitTorrent / uTorrent Dropped
2
6
The High Cost of Low Wages
2
7
BBS The Documentary
2
8
Return Of The High Court And Low Court
2
9
Undercover Cops and Politicians Escape BitTorrent Lawsuits
2
10
IPhone 4S Price Plans in the UK
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
Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest
29
2
Self-Replication Process Holds Promise for Production of New Materials
19
3
Single Dose of Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change
13
4
Pain of Ostracism Can Be Deep, Long-Lasting
3
5
Solar lows caused extreme European winters
3
6
Department of Homeland Security has a 'Pre-Crime' Detector
2
7
Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to insights
2
8
Short Sharp Science: Perfect fossil could be most complete dinosaur ever
2
9
Carbon nanotube artificial muscle mimics elephant trunk
2
10
An Interactive Periodic Table
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Redditor burnt by Paypal's "Rolling Reserve" feature
244
2
Facebook for iPad
135
3
Steve Jobs: Photo Booth 2005
74
4
Customs Form filled by Apollo 11
54
5
(reddit) YC applications are due, did you apply? If so, what are you building
49
6
Dennis Ritchie passes away
15
7
Qu8k - Carmack Prize Attempt video
11
8
Happy Birthday, Dennis Ritchie (from Penn Jillette)
10
9
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain Unix (Bell Labs)
10
10
Redis creator calls for HN replacement
10

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript
265
2
Groupon tries to recruit DHH.
189
3
HTML5 (plugin free) web-based terminal emulator and SSH client
155
4
Github's new look: The Code Tab
122
5
Donatello, a pure CSS drawing library
111
6
JSModem for JSLinux
78
7
Hot Patch
44
8
JSONH: JSON Homogeneous Collections Compressor
30
9
Deploy to AppHarbor from GitHub
26
10
GitHub: Issues Dashboard for Organizations
22

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Dennis Ritchie
238
2
Goodstein's theorem - only provable using trans-finites
4
3
Rubber duck debugging
4
4
Timeline of the future in forecasts
4
5
WTFPL
3
6
The specific heat of supercooled helium is
2
7
Light tube
2
8
India unveils $35 tablet computer.
2
9
The Witch of Agnesi
2
10
.AQ is the TLD for Antarctica
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Why Startup Hubs Work
16
2
Paul Graham on "Hacker"
4
3
Redundancy and Power
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What is your favourite C programming trick?
132
2
Why is Xcode trying to access 'cs193p.dyndns.org'?
3
3
How did you learn the GNU make tools?
3
4
Twitter revoked cree.py's API keys
2
5
Answer StackOverflow question on how to noSync data on iOS5, extra $200 reward
1
6
How to get Node.js' CPU usage from within
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com