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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox
710
2
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
677
3
Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen
525
4
Google is making a huge and annoying mistake
523
5
Android Ported to C#
507
6
RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
472
7
Want good programmers? Then pay them.
472
8
How text editing on the iPad should be
432
9
Introducing DuckDuckHack
407
10
The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto
376

Top Ask HN

1
Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
241
2
45 Dutch students are visiting Berlin. Can we visit your startup?
85
3
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2012)
81
4
Best practices when pitching your startup to Techcrunch, Mashable etc?
59
5
Socialcam spamming Facebook newsfeeds and growing virally as a result?
33
6
Can you help me out of Adwords API purgatory?
19
7
30, 45 or 60-day free trial conversion rates?
19
8
How to get first 1,000 users?
16
9
Linux laptop distro of choice?
16
10
Alternative to Ubuntu?
15

Top Show HN

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Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
543
2
Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]
162
3
Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
143
4
Teach Yourself To Code
98
5
Server installs simplified (and built from source)
78
6
Weekend project - Gitscore
61
7
QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs
47
8
Pinterest + iTunes + Youtube Mashup
42
9
Boost your productivity with Trello, Hipchat and Github
41
10
made giving.github.com for collaborative meaningful coding
41

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
Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
302
2
Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money
241
3
IOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
152
4
The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness
141
5
I'm leaving the Internet for a year
134
6
Facebook Stops You From Posting Irrelevant Or Inappropriate Comments
124
7
How LinkedIn built its new iPad app
124
8
1859's "Great Auroral Storm"the week the Sun touched the earth
111
9
Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft
108
10
Pair (YC W12) raises $4.2M round of funding
101

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
Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'
258
2
High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs
249
3
Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany
148
4
Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
148
5
How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids
138
6
Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue to Show
134
7
Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection
105
8
Mozilla slams CISPA, says the bill "infringes on our privacy."
86
9
Apple responds to NYT: "We're among top payers of U.S. income tax"
84
10
Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years
78

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
The Dawn of Haiku OS
251
2
Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed Into a Closet?
58
3
'Supermoon' Alert: Biggest Full Moon of 2012 Occurs This Week
6
4
Plasma Rocket Could Travel to Mars in 39 Days
6
5
I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper
3
6
The computational complexity of Minesweeper
2
7
Light-Field Photography Revolutionizes Imaging
2
8
Quadrotors use SLAM to navigate outdoors all by themselves
2
9
Robot Learns to Microwave Frozen Dinners, Robotics Research Can Stop Now
2
10
Black Hole Caught in Act of Swallowing Star
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
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
234
2
Vert.x JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js
160
3
GCC and static analysis
74
4
Functional Languages 101: Whats All the Fuss About?
60
5
The return of the Unix wars?
22
6
Apple Developer ID and Gatekeeper
12
7
Researcher Causes Endless Restart Loop on Samsung TVs
5
8
Lock-free Algorithms
5
9
Cloudflare Outage Post-Mortem
4
10
The Developer-Tester Divide
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
How Apple minimizes its corporate tax burden
7
2
Records unsealed for dajaz1.com seizure, reveal that US Customs <3 RIAA
3
3
Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac
2
4
Apple's 1984 Internal Inspirational Video with Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt
2
5
Apple and Samsung Claim 99% of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors
2
6
Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking
2
7
EFF raises $7500 in 24h on Reddit to fight CISPA
1
8
Apple hits new high with 8.8% of world mobile phone market
1
9
Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast
1
10
'Self-Combusting' iPhone on Airplane Due to Screw Lost in Botched Repair Job
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Introducing Developer ID and Gatekeeper
6
2
Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop Apps
6
3
Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App for Windows and Mac
2
4
Amazon cloud drive desktop app for windows and mac
2
5
Why the Kindle Will Fail [Kindle eBook]
1
6
Microsoft buys stake in Nook, college textbook business
1
7
FarmVille for Dummies
1
8
"Redis: The Definitive Guide" release delayed until April 2013
1
9
Amazon Cloud Drive for desktop
1
10
Amazon Cloud Drive Desktop App
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
Judge: An IP-Address Doesnt Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)
280
2
Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
107
3
Pirate Bay enjoys record traffic on the back of news that UK ISPs must block it
7
4
DoT, India Orders Blackout of Vimeo, TPB, kat.ph and more
7
5
U.S. Labels Canada a Piracy Haven
5
6
Megaupload Prosecution Is Lawless and Unconstitutional, Law Professor Says
4
7
India Orders Blackout of Vimeo, The Pirate Bay and More
3
8
How effective is online activism?
2
9
Why haven't web apps taken off yet?
2
10
Woman Sniper
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
Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%
168
2
Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution
15
3
Why Light Touching Can Double Your Chances of Getting a Date
6
4
Venus to Appear in Once-In-A-Lifetime Event
4
5
Global warming: New research blames economic growth
2
6
Astronomers Have Detected Arsenic and Selenium in Ancient Star for First Time
2
7
Mobs rule for great tit neighbors
2
8
Move over graphene, silicene is the new star material
2
9
Study Reveals Why Lefties Are Rare
2
10
Bullet time' signals to stop cyber attacks on grid
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is doing an IamA
69
2
Facebook's Security Enginner ad
25
3
Michael Arrington is the new CEO of Yahoo
24
4
Facebook, show me your code
8
5
National Switch to Google+ Day
5
6
Learn a new Language with Language Immersion for Chrome(youtube)
5
7
Chrome DevTools Timeline's new Frame Mode
5
8
Demo of iPad keyboard improvement
4
9
My Twitter Story, How a simple, 16 year old grabbed over 5 million followers
4
10
How It's Made: videos of the manufacture of everyday objects
4

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans
202
2
Ctrl-P for Vim: Pure Vimscript Command-T
191
3
Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open source project
185
4
Git Subtree merged into mainline git
112
5
Data At GitHub
110
6
Remote exploit found in all WooThemes
90
7
Hello world in every programming language
85
8
ReactiveCocoa for a better world
78
9
Adobe Brackets: An open-source code editor for HTML/CSS/JavaScript
62
10
Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS
59

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
XOR Linked List
150
2
DunningKruger effect
6
3
The expulsion of the population was for establishing a US base on Diego Garcia
5
4
Aniracetam
2
5
Project Cybersyn
2
6
Nomophobia
2
7
Bill Gates started a company named Traf-O-Data before starting Microsoft
2
8
Halfway between a plant and animal. What is it?
1
9
Superhuman
1
10
Man's Search for Meaning
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Top of My Todo List by Paul Graham
6
2
What You Can't Say (2004)
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Getting the closest string match
168
2
QLPreviewController crashing after few seconds and after dismissing it.
2
3
OpenGL's glClear() causes Access Violation (0xc0000005) in Windows 7
2
4
How to detect SwiftShader WebGL renderer in Chrome 18?
2
5
Authorization of Google Drive using JavaScript
2
6
DLL-linking via Windows cgo/gcc/ld freeglut works, glfw not.
1
7
Confused over C++ Stack Usage
1
8
Building GLFW with MinGW64 gcc entry-symbol warnings & linker errors
1
9
Writing an iOS app purely in C
1
10
Twitter OAuth dynamic Callback URL.
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com