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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
2026
2
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
1611
3
Light Table - a new IDE concept
1561
4
Outlawed by Amazon DRM
1426
5
"Lighten up"
1335
6
Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
1309
7
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
1290
8
Farewell Stack Exchange
1212
9
Plagiarism
1203
10
DuckDuckGo is blowing up
1199

Top Ask HN

1
Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately
582
2
Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
469
3
Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)
389
4
Best books you read in 2012
355
5
How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
306
6
Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
292
7
What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?
287
8
Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)
270
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Who is Hiring? (March 2012)
265
10
Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
264

Top Show HN

1
This up votes itself
3381
2
Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
1362
3
Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
543
4
movies.io torrent search like it should be
534
5
Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
522
6
We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
510
7
Firebase, a scalable real-time backend
503
8
I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
500
9
Soundslice YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
481
10
fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web
479

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
Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
1032
2
Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
938
3
US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
642
4
Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
578
5
Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin in the same voice
574
6
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org
517
7
Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook
511
8
Elon Musks Mission to Mars
492
9
John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
486
10
How a Google Headhunters E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole
467

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
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
1138
2
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
877
3
The Quiet Ones
793
4
The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult
693
5
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
597
6
Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
577
7
The frequent fliers who flew too much
543
8
Wheres _why?
540
9
A Pickpocket's Tale
520
10
Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests
516

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
First full-resolution images of the Martian surface
423
2
SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow
378
3
Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled
339
4
NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing
263
5
The Dawn of Haiku OS
251
6
NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn...
217
7
Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time
187
8
AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames
178
9
ISS crew successfully capture SpaceX Dragon Capsule (06:56 EST)
176
10
NASA to use consumer Android smartphones in new satellites
166

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
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
667
2
Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request
619
3
Google launches Compute Engine
440
4
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
425
5
Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
386
6
How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
349
7
Stripe in Canada
346
8
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
329
9
Git project seeks discussion on "push" change
321
10
Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS
295

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
450
2
Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
392
3
Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu
344
4
Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account
307
5
Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car
295
6
Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
291
7
Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator
265
8
16-year-old Makes Working Scientific Calculator in Minecraft
263
9
EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and 'Notch'
254
10
A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
244

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon Glacier
889
2
A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
611
3
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
592
4
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
576
5
Scott Forstall leaves Apple
461
6
Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
458
7
Vim and Vi Tips: Essential Vim and Vi Editor Skills, free on Amazon today only
335
8
Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE
326
9
Apple releases Ipad 3
285
10
Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit
280

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
How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
531
2
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
463
3
Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload
389
4
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
377
5
iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
313
6
Google's Code Editor
297
7
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
293
8
Judge: An IP-Address Doesnt Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)
280
9
New York Underground
278
10
Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia
265

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
Teller Reveals His Secrets
598
2
Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers
389
3
Entire field of particle physics is to switch to open-access publishing
240
4
Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus
228
5
How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad
177
6
Middle-aged prodigies: Seven poster children over 40
176
7
Touch by Disney Research brings touch control to everyday things
176
8
Telomerase Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with single treatment (May 2012)
171
9
Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%
168
10
A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan
163

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
1309
2
Facebook acquires Instagram
818
3
Producer vs. Consumer
640
4
Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
552
5
AMA with Barack Obama
482
6
Civ II game a decade old
460
7
IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
453
8
What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?
447
9
Where has all the money in the world gone?
444
10
A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students
413

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Textmate2 Goes Open Source
762
2
Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub
645
3
Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations
594
4
Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
571
5
Instantly create beautiful GitHub project pages
542
6
GitHub for Windows
539
7
Vim clutch
538
8
Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
534
9
Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement
528
10
Tomorrow Theme
473

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Wikipedia blackout page
498
2
The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain
474
3
ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
405
4
Zip Bomb
332
5
Timeline of the far future
291
6
List of Unexplained Sounds
275
7
Billion laughs
270
8
Nomic
238
9
Wikipedia's list of lists of lists
195
10
Satellite killed by trajectory patent
191

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
1021
2
How to Get Startup Ideas
914
3
Black Swan Farming
694
4
The Top Of My Todo List
675
5
Schlep Blindness
592
6
Startup = Growth
579
7
Defining Property
544
8
A Word to the Resourceful
454
9
The Hardware Renaissance
445
10
Writing and Speaking
409

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
577
2
An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app
531
3
The definitive guide to forms based website authentication
323
4
Getting the closest string match
168
5
Using HTML5/Canvas/Javascript to take screenshots
162
6
What should every programmer know about security?
158
7
C# to take a breaking change in version 5
155
8
Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?
153
9
Stack Overflow answer explaining JS in the "Wat" talk
151
10
What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional programming?
147

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com