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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
I hereby resign
1152
2
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
741
3
Dont Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
700
4
The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Cant Build iPads in the US
553
5
Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
542
6
Notch's next game is an MMO
523
7
I don't hire unlucky people
521
8
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses
471
9
Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads
396
10
Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.
386

Top Ask HN

1
Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
264
2
Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?
178
3
Computer science for the self taught programmer
156
4
Please be more thoughtful when downvoting
140
5
What did you build in March?
114
6
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)
101
7
How is your Start-Up Chile experience?
82
8
A place to sleep, a laptop, no rsum and a hungry man.
58
9
What service would you pay me 10$ a month for?
57
10
Glut of Mainstream news on HN?
49

Top Show HN

1
Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly
285
2
A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system
153
3
MadeiraCloud lets you draw AWS architecture and clone apps in minutes
84
4
my "My Latex resume" project
54
5
Kinda like posterous?
52
6
Show HN my weekend project - Browse Netflix Watch Instant faster
31
7
zodiac, a new approach to monkey patching in python
31
8
Share rides to Coachella
28
9
Nokia Lumia ad recreated with CSS transforms
26
10
Our video series teaches anyone how to build & deploy a web app
21

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
OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"
360
2
Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE
302
3
MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it
280
4
A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering
191
5
Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting
175
6
We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found
130
7
The x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry
128
8
Google co-founder Sergey Brin spotted wearing Project Glass prototype IRL
127
9
The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network
98
10
How does Y Combinator scale Y Combinator?
96

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
Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
176
2
What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets?
170
3
Why nations fail
170
4
What Americans Buy
145
5
UK government to monitor email and web use under new laws
133
6
A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness
131
7
Hit Shift key 4x on a NYTimes article and see what happens
123
8
60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?
101
9
Professional Traders Show Interest in Bitcoin
98
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Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store
94

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
Printable Robots
25
2
The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge
16
3
You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability
4
4
US students need new way of learning science
3
5
Printable Robots: MIT Project to Let You Design and Fabricate Your Own Machines
2
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The Future of Robotics and AI Is Open
2
7
The World According to Darpa - IEEE Spectrum
1
8
Organ on (in) a chip.
1
9
NASA - Where is Curiosity?
1
10
Four HUBO Robots Come Together for Beatles Cover
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
A turning point for GNU libc
186
2
Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures
156
3
CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root
101
4
Wayland's X11 support is ready (An Experimental GNOME Shell Running On Wayland)
71
5
Fedora mulls ARM as a primary architecture
32
6
Urgent Fix for Zero-Day Mac Java Flaw
21
7
Twitter: Shutting down spammers
12
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Icculus Grows Fond Of Open-Source GPU Drivers
8
9
Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?
5
10
TextEdit's full (?) source code is available online
4

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good
34
2
Stanford, Open University surpass 50M downloads on iTunes U
19
3
Apple working on physical game controller for iPads and other iOS devices
8
4
One-Third of U.S. High School Students Now Own an iPhone
5
5
Nearly half of U.S. corporations issuing Macs to employees
4
6
3D printer with insane accuracy uses a DLP projector
3
7
Facebook and Dropbox iOS apps vulnerable to credential theft
3
8
Liquidmetal Technologies filing outlines its $20 million agreement with Apple
2
9
Displaying bubbles in mineral oil - Awesome
2
10
Ashton Kutcher to Play Steve Jobs in Upcoming Indie Film "Jobs"
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
The Launch Pad: Inside YC, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
10
2
Amazon's New Design
10
3
Giant Swiss Army Knife Customer Reviews
7
4
The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator
2
5
Amazon Instant Video Now on PS3
2
6
New Tina Seelig book due
1
7
Escape Velocity - from the author of Crossing the Chasm
1
8
New book shows you how to make Lego guns
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
Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours)
110
2
5000 Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion
96
3
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
64
4
MPAA: If Megaupload Gets Data Back Theyll Relaunch
30
5
Kim Dotcom Back Online, Prepares To Release Music Album
20
6
Skill of the Week: Be Specific
5
7
French ODDNS: Decentralized and Open DNS To Defeat Censorship
4
8
The New Science of Building Great Teams
2
9
Draconian Privacy Invasion Bill Continues to Gain Support
2
10
Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has No Desire To Litigate
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
Quantum computer built inside a diamond
59
2
Evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago
42
3
Another Look at "The Limits to Growth"
32
4
Why Quantum Computers Are Better Suited for Enslaving Humanity
16
5
Scientists solving the mystery of human consciousness
9
6
Use of common pesticide, imidacloprid, linked to bee colony collapse
6
7
Mystery of human consciousness illuminated
3
8
'beer goggles' effect: difficulty in ability to discern facial symmetry
2
9
How to use light to control the brain
2
10
The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
198
2
Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic
175
3
What to do when a company refuses to fix a vulnerability I disclosed to them?
91
4
R/C SR-71
69
5
Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic
15
6
XKCD Creates Elaborate Responsive/Location-based April Fool's Comic
13
7
The YouTube Collection
9
8
First SOPA then PIPA, and now: CISPA (Even worst than SOPA)
9
9
Cool Arduino Hack to image thousands of floppy disks
9
10
Droste effect in Conway's Life
9

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
542
2
The GitHub Styleguide
130
3
C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16
125
4
Clojure-Scheme
123
5
Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16
107
6
llgo: compiler for Go, written in Go, using LLVM compiler infrastructure
59
7
Github organization for DCPU-16 implementations
55
8
Backbone.Rel: Backbone lightweight model relationship manager
45
9
Misaki - a Jekyll inspired static site generator in Clojure
40
10
A fork of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
38

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties
166
2
Programma 101
7
3
Lambda calculus
4
4
The Wright brothers iterated in a wind tunnel
2
5
Ben Nanonote: Copyleft Palmtop
2
6
Category:Computer keys
1
7
Random Hacks of Kindness
1
8
The REXX programming language
1
9
Clear View Screen
1
10
Planetary nomenclature
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Defining Property
1

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Stack Overflow April Fool's: The Paperclip Unicorn
13
2
How do I find Waldo with Mathematica?
2
3
(Golang) Slab method for ray-box intersection gives false positives for opp. dir
2
4
Who is Responsible for HTTP_Referer (sic) Misspelling in RFC 1945?
2
5
How to allocate 16GB of memory in Go?
2
6
Why Interfaces shouldn't be Prefixed with I
1
7
How to eliminate this type of recursion?
1
8
Programmer Puzzle: Encoding a chess board state throughout a game
1
9
Why do programming competition contestants use C++ and Java?
1
10
GOF pattern implementations found in both Java SE and Java EE API's
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com