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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Steve Jobs has passed away.
4271
2
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con
2316
3
Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
1924
4
Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
1793
5
A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs
1722
6
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
1716
7
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
8
John McCarthy Has Died
1595
9
I was once a Facebook fool
1368
10
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
1236

Top Ask HN

1
What programming blogs do you read daily?
707
2
How to stave off decline of HN?
462
3
How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
364
4
Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
341
5
Best book you read in 2011
336
6
Small product, single founder success stories?
325
7
Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
322
8
Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
321
9
Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
308
10
Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?
305

Top Show HN

1
Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
782
2
I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
612
3
Like Button for Hacker News
557
4
Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
460
5
Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos
421
6
my weekend project, Gumroad
390
7
A storebuilder contained in a single text area
388
8
HackerThings - Products for hackers
360
9
HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
352
10
HackerBooks.com
351

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
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
1716
2
Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
1196
3
Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
769
4
Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
749
5
Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5
591
6
Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android
584
7
Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia
530
8
"You've angered the hive"
521
9
Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
513
10
Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly
481

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
A Sisters Eulogy for Steve Jobs
1722
2
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
1638
3
Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
929
4
Osama bin Laden Is Dead
915
5
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
756
6
We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria
613
7
Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
601
8
Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
596
9
Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78
581
10
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
579

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
NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
319
2
Jewish problems
297
3
NASA finds DNA components in meteorites, says they originated in space
236
4
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
168
5
Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)
167
6
Forgotten Soviet Moon Rover Beams Light Back to Earth
158
7
Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
149
8
NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans
140
9
NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System
136
10
How I Learned to Live Google-free
126

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
Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
1236
2
Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]
348
3
Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts
286
4
Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins
262
5
Introducing /run
238
6
Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation
226
7
Dennis Ritchie RIP
208
8
Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
198
9
Linux 3.0 release
188
10
Gerald Sussman: "We Really Don't Know How To Compute"
181

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
AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to NSA
525
3
Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the black mock turtleneck uniform
413
4
Wife Said No, Apple Said Yes
412
5
Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
349
6
Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple
280
7
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
273
8
How to put your logo in a QR code
252
9
Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back And Its Worse than Ever
235
10
Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood
225

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Steve Jobs has passed away.
4271
2
Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service
438
3
AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
380
4
Previewing Windows 8 (Video)
360
5
Thunderbolt
320
6
Amazon kindle source code
319
7
New MacBook Pro series
276
8
AWS drops bandwidth pricing
268
9
Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
258
10
Paul Graham: The Art of Funding a Startup
222

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
U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
430
2
Parody Color Pitch Deck
385
3
Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
381
4
It's Time to Fix HTTPS
373
5
Ron Paul speaks against SOPA
288
6
SOPA sponsors break their own laws
257
7
Megaupload to Sue Universal, Joins Fight Against SOPA
244
8
The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”
236
9
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
217
10
I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent
211

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
You can increase your intelligence
511
2
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
242
3
Why scientific programming does not compute
190
4
Single psilocybin dose may make lasting personality change
186
5
It's Time to End the War on Salt
152
6
Home-made bombs are being sent to physicists in Mexico
150
7
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?
145
8
New order of animals discovered?
141
9
Why do people resist the idea that carbs are worse than fat?
140
10
Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation
139

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
1103
2
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
813
3
I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make
594
4
Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]
540
5
What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?
518
6
Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)
492
7
Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light
431
8
Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
430
9
Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"
423
10
HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
398

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Ooops.
1112
2
I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this
802
3
GitHub for Mac
658
4
Doom 3 source released
616
5
GitHub now has view modes for image diffs.
570
6
Linux is now hosted on GitHub
558
7
Spark
558
8
Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
476
9
Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on
467
10
Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
448

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
John McCarthy Has Died
1595
2
RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest
536
3
Programmers' Day
407
4
Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy
377
5
Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act"
268
6
A man died yesterday. He had a huge impact on our lives. Fred Shuttlesworth.
266
7
Dennis Ritchie
238
8
Hiding Nobel prizes in plain sight
220
9
The Sweden Solar System
195
10
Timsort
183

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Patent Pledge
618
2
Subject: Airbnb
614
3
Watch Me Make Mistakes
588
4
Trolls (2008)
350
5
PG's Rarely Asked Questions
293
6
The Roots of Lisp
291
7
Why Startup Hubs Work
269
8
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
224
9
How to lose time and money
210
10
The Python Paradox
160

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi
417
2
Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...
415
3
Where's Waldo?
405
4
List of freely available programming books
357
5
The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication
316
6
Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C
284
7
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
244
8
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
235
9
Emacs follow-mode
218
10
The single most useful Emacs feature
213

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com