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• Why Arabic is Terrific · 504 points · by ColinWright · 236 comments
• Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy? · 289 points · by tbull007 · 48 comments
• A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm · 198 points · by A-K · 96 comments
• HN now comes with HTTPS? · 197 points · by mike-cardwell · 78 comments
• Download.com wrapping downloads · 174 points · by forgotAgain · 32 comments
• List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials · 163 points · by telemachos · 26 comments
• Is That Review a Fake? · 153 points · by cwan · 37 comments
• GroupMe acquired by Skype · 145 points · by fescue · 20 comments
• Coding backwards · 140 points · by jobeirne · 42 comments
• Notch is coding live again · 123 points · by Zolomon · 45 comments
• How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate? · 116 points · by Concours · 67 comments
• The little-known secret of how to actually choose a web designer · 108 points · by joshuacc · 70 comments
• Superfast military plane hit Mach 20 before crash · 97 points · by danberger · 99 comments
• The State of CyanogenMod · 92 points · by mtinkerhess · 6 comments
• Port of PG's "On Lisp" to Clojure · 80 points · by ecounysis · 8 comments
• Stupid scientists · 74 points · by nhoss2 · 26 comments
• NewLisp · 74 points · by ecounysis · 17 comments
• Show HN: Rasta.js, anonymous domainless key-value store for frontend JavaScript · 73 points · by pitra · 39 comments
• Get started with WebGL: draw a square · 70 points · by tilt · 15 comments
• Jtalk: a Smalltalk implementation that runs on the JavaScript runtime. · 66 points · by ColinWright · 8 comments
• Argentina blocks more than 1,000,000 blogger blogs. · 65 points · by brackin · 45 comments
• The Perils of Partially Powered Languages · 64 points · by jashkenas · 5 comments
• Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans · 55 points · by gnosis · 25 comments
• Crash-Only Software · 45 points · by llambda · 15 comments
• Linux Journal goes 100% digital · 45 points · by g-garron · 14 comments
• Nymwars: A view from the trenches within Google · 44 points · by bootload · 33 comments
• Paypal Founder Peter Thiel Invests to Create Floating Micro-Countries · 44 points · by bakbak · 55 comments
• Show HN: Save reading time with the TL;DR PLZ bookmarklet · 44 points · by zerostar07 · 13 comments
• Why We Start Indexing from 0 in Computer Science · 41 points · by KlausTrainer · 35 comments
• "This is water, this is water." · 41 points · by pavs · 29 comments
• 8 start-ups that are changing the world · 39 points · by prayag · 26 comments
• Software is Eating All the Jobs Too · 37 points · by spoon16 · 12 comments
• The Magnavox Odyssey -- is it still fun today? · 36 points · by bane · 17 comments
• IBM unveils microchip based on the human brain · 34 points · by sshah2 · 12 comments
• Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly · 33 points · by srl · 12 comments
• Download the whole genome of Cannabis Sativa · 32 points · by scottshea · 12 comments
• Ship It - Tales from the Trenches · 32 points · by Sodaware · 19 comments
• HP: What Léo Apotheker’s Decisions Mean · 31 points · by raganesh · 2 comments
• Knight Ridder promo video from 1994 describes iPad-esque tablet device [video] · 30 points · by optiplex · 20 comments
• My weekend project: accounting.js, tiny JS library for money/currency formatting · 28 points · by josscrowcroft · 9 comments
• Nasdaq ITCH · 28 points · by veyron · 18 comments
• What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs? · 26 points · by ColinWright · 9 comments
• Sivers is Right: Customer Service is the New Marketing · 26 points · by gsaines · 2 comments
• Google Taking Street View To The Depths Of The Amazon · 24 points · by suuuup · 5 comments
• What not to say to a depressed person · 24 points · by starpilot · 14 comments
• Hacker News and Y Combinator exposed as scam. This post will be deleted. · 24 points · by anonymousss · 10 comments
• Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention · 23 points · by nosilver · 6 comments
• For the very rich, citizenship is a problem to be solved. · 22 points · by markkat · 42 comments
• The new tax havens · 20 points · by slackgentoo · 35 comments
• The DMV vs Verizon · 18 points · by davewiner · 14 comments
• Ask HN: When is the best time to bring on a co-founder? · 17 points · by matthodan · 5 comments
• We work hard, they enjoy life · 17 points · by agilo · 7 comments
• 12% of America smoked pot last month. 5% in Netherlands where it is legal. · 17 points · by rblion · no comments
• The Sad Statistic That Trumps the Others · 17 points · by alecperkins · 24 comments
• This is how you demo your product... make it insanely easy · 17 points · by nischalshetty · 24 comments
• Do you really need a tablet? · 15 points · by pedalpete · 31 comments
• Ninety-Nine Scala Problems · 14 points · by trucious · no comments
• Zed Shaw: The Petrichor Protocol Primitives · 14 points · by timf · 7 comments
• Corruption in India · 13 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• DHCPv6 kills Win7, Microsoft "won't fix" · 13 points · by ott2 · 1 comment
• Exploring Airplay Mirroring Internals · 12 points · by snielsen · no comments
• HTML5 coding Tools · 12 points · by tathagatadg · no comments
• Can Glucose Replenish Willpower? · 11 points · by CMartucci · 4 comments
• In Regard to Marc Andreessen’s “Why Software is Eating the World” · 11 points · by purplefruit · 3 comments
• How do you ask for equity? · 10 points · by vu0tran · 10 comments
• The Truth About Being a Hero · 9 points · by Shunkarthick · no comments
• The Female Erotic Brain, Mapped · 9 points · by rblion · no comments
• Another cryptocurrency similar to BitCoin · 9 points · by otoburb · 12 comments
• On the obnoxious entitlement of the “nymwars” crowd · 9 points · by yanw · 12 comments
• More on why Hugh MacLeod is giving up Twitter and Facebook · 9 points · by johndcook · 1 comment
• The Failed Battle To Stop The World’s First Camcorder Pirates · 8 points · by Garbage · no comments
• My Summer Internship At A Startup · 8 points · by jianxioy · 2 comments
• Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre · 7 points · by enobrev · no comments
• Why can't Windows PCs catch up to the MacBook Air? · 7 points · by mvs · 5 comments
• This will mess with your mind - Non-Euclidean Level Design (Portal 2 Version) · 7 points · by ColinWright · 1 comment
• The Tomorrow Project: science fiction commissioned by Intel · 7 points · by vilya · 3 comments
• Ask HN: SaaS Startups do you accept bank transfers for payment? · 7 points · by ig1 · 3 comments
• Tomorrow Theme · 7 points · by mindrunner · no comments
• With HP tablet dead, who can challenge Apple? · 7 points · by edw519 · 11 comments
• HP’s 2,000 webOS patents and how they could reshape everything · 7 points · by edw519 · no comments
• USDA Food Nutrient Database: clutter-free JSON edition · 7 points · by ashleyw · 5 comments
• Show HN: Basedroid - A Base Framework for RESTful Android Apps · 7 points · by chuinard · no comments
• GroupMe Acquired by Skype for More than $50 Million · 7 points · by smalter · no comments
• Does It Matter That Amazon Can't Manufacture A Kindle In The USA? · 6 points · by jkuria · no comments
• Can the HP Touchpad become the best $99 Android tablet? · 6 points · by bond · 2 comments
• $99.99 HP TouchPad is on Sale and In Stock on BestBuy.com Now · 6 points · by luigionline · 3 comments
• Results: How much do you make? (Survey) · 6 points · by vu0tran · 1 comment
• Does It Matter That Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle in the USA? (yes) · 6 points · by jannes · 1 comment
• Tomorrow turkish redditors will be lost, due to governmnet · 6 points · by g-garron · 2 comments
• What Do Project Managers Do All Day? · 6 points · by Unosolo · no comments
• Getting kids on the right track with early science education · 6 points · by evo_9 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How would you market this site? · 5 points · by oseibonsu · 19 comments
• Laser Advance in Uranium Enrichment May Risk Bomb Spread · 5 points · by raphar · no comments
• Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves · 5 points · by bond · no comments
• Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows…PC, Phone & Tablet? · 5 points · by ttrashh · no comments
• @paulg: I had office hours with 29 different startups today... · 5 points · by staunch · no comments
• How Apple locks its rivals out of the market with exclusive sourcing deals · 5 points · by tilt · no comments
• The Missing Wordpress Plugin · 5 points · by simonhamp · 3 comments
• To Suck Out All the Marrow of Life, A Smartphone Is Worse Than a Cigarette · 5 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Dictionary compilers create endangered words list · 5 points · by fun2have · no comments
• Google Testing A New Login Page For GMail And Google Accounts · 5 points · by dkd903 · no comments
• RideCombine · 4 points · by jturly · 3 comments
• The Force That Acts Upon Us · 4 points · by jdbentley · no comments
• A short introduction to WebGL · 4 points · by dendory · no comments
• 36 Hours is Not a Proper Response Time · 4 points · by Shenglong · 4 comments
• Planning for the Apocalypse (by being less handicapped than the fat kid) · 4 points · by buf · 1 comment
• SurfEasy - Plug in Privacy · 4 points · by shadowsun7 · no comments
• Ask HN: Cactus or Jekyll? · 4 points · by potomak · no comments
• Nick Cave's letter to MTV · 4 points · by wyclif · 2 comments
• What do you read that changes the way you think? · 4 points · by nphase · no comments
• Shutttr - A community for photographers · 4 points · by barrettshepherd · 1 comment
• Entrepreneurship is not a career move · 4 points · by jhdavids8 · no comments
• Solving The Mapping Dilemma (From Objects to Bits) · 4 points · by swannodette · no comments
• Yepnope.js: A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills · 4 points · by jamesjyu · no comments
• Apple overtakes Lenovo in China sales · 4 points · by llambda · 1 comment
• Hans Litten - The Man Who Crossed Hitler · 4 points · by arethuza · 1 comment
• What's your favourite number? · 4 points · by zoowar · 3 comments
• Brushed Metal style in CSS3 · 4 points · by FrancescoRizzi · no comments
• Boutique startup accelerators: Natural progression, or impending danger? · 4 points · by drungli · no comments
• FP authors are invited - post your webcasts and events · 3 points · by granicz · no comments
• Apple now worth as much as all euro zone banks combined · 3 points · by inshane · no comments
• Reversing The Moral Decay Behind The London Riots · 3 points · by jkuria · 7 comments
• RonPaul2012.com under cyber attack · 3 points · by bkaid · 3 comments
• The Century of the Self (Documentary) · 3 points · by kingkawn · no comments
• Microsoft exec says PC 'not even middle-aged,' rejects post-PC label · 3 points · by fuzzythinker · no comments
• Canadian Startup "Needs a couch in the Valley" · 3 points · by 24pfilms · 4 comments
• The correct way to use virtualization · 3 points · by scalingexperts · no comments
• Haptic Glove for the Blind - powered by Arduino · 3 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• How to make iPhone passcodes endurable. · 3 points · by hpeikemo · no comments
• How Discovery Will Drive Transactions · 3 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Next Step Infinity · 3 points · by mtviewdave · no comments
• Observations on social experience design · 3 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Molly Wood's Verdict on WP7 Challenge: No, thanks. · 3 points · by sourc3 · 2 comments
• Tased From Above New Robot Copter To Begin Patrolling Our Skies (video) · 3 points · by hinto_ize · no comments
• Is That My Hand? · 3 points · by wicknicks · no comments
• Heroku API is down · 3 points · by dylanvee · no comments
• Quantum communication could be an option for secure data transfer · 3 points · by Suraj-Sun · no comments
• Lemonade Liberation · 3 points · by hakunin · 1 comment
• What is up with Noises? Sound, Frequency, and Pitch (video) · 3 points · by sp332 · no comments
• Sorry, This Is Not the End of the PC Era · 3 points · by asymmetric · no comments
• The Four Resources of Personal Economic Exchange · 2 points · by allanchao · no comments
• The Perils of JavaSchools · 2 points · by demonio · no comments
• No, really, what time is it? · 2 points · by mwsherman · no comments
• Be a Part of the Summer of Smart Hackathon in San Francisco · 2 points · by daemon0 · no comments
• What HP Should Do With WebOS? · 2 points · by g-garron · no comments
• Shown HN: Features I'm including in my next-gen browser · 2 points · by alexwyser · no comments
• Restoring America's Competitiveness [2009][pdf] · 2 points · by jkuria · no comments
• What to Do If Your Blog Goes Viral: 10 Tips · 2 points · by Apple-Guy · 5 comments
• Revenge Of The Killer Script Kiddies · 2 points · by Garbage · 1 comment
• Want to Live Longer? Turn Off Your TV. · 2 points · by rblion · no comments
• Unsold TouchPad stock to cost HP more than $100 million · 2 points · by suuuup · no comments
• Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 · 2 points · by ahalan · no comments
• Biohack: Genome Home · 2 points · by evanlong · no comments
• How to REALLY hurt yourself with PSEXEC - Deleting the Undeletable · 2 points · by g-garron · no comments
• Appstatics: An iOS app to follow your iPhone, iPad and Mac app rankings · 2 points · by faik · 1 comment
• The top 10 SEO myths · 2 points · by drungli · 2 comments
• Why numbering should start at zero (EWD 831) (HTML version) · 2 points · by ColinWright · no comments
• If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses · 2 points · by Andrew-Dufresne · no comments
• Dirty Coding Tricks (page 4) · 2 points · by pestaa · no comments
• Reflections on Trusting Trust · 2 points · by nyellin · 1 comment
• Tabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its Own Demise · 2 points · by jsherry · no comments
• Bubble? : Groupon looks to buy Wrigley Building · 2 points · by liuwei6 · no comments
• Get Notified When Socially Influential People Sign Up For Your Email List · 2 points · by nickfrost · 1 comment
• Dear job candidate, If you are seeing this.. (aka, "How to apply for.. · 2 points · by drivingsouth · no comments
• The Jack White School of Business · 2 points · by alexknowshtml · no comments
• VC Roundtable: What makes a great founder? · 2 points · by vipivip · no comments
• ARMing Linux · 2 points · by g-garron · no comments
• Apple gets with the wireless revolution · 2 points · by tilt · no comments
• Geological Team Lays Claim to Oldest Known Fossils · 2 points · by marcog1 · no comments
• 4Dx Movie Theater in Bangkok shows Captain America with Moving Chairs and Scents · 2 points · by luigionline · no comments
• Pretotyping: A Different Type of Testing · 2 points · by riffraff · no comments
• Seth Godin on Patents: When Ideas Become Powerful · 2 points · by bennesvig · no comments
• Facebook API: post with Perl from CLI · 2 points · by bobbelderbos · no comments
• Its been 20 years since I used a Mac · 2 points · by g-garron · 1 comment
• The Rise of the Idea Entrepreneurs · 2 points · by jamesbritt · 1 comment
• How Yahoo Knows Your Every Move · 2 points · by Iskod · 1 comment
• Javascript PC emulator -- runs Paratrooper · 2 points · by bane · 2 comments
• Try to Be a Test User Sometime · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Geekletics – Run Report Generator · 2 points · by dwynings · no comments
• "Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02": known life-extending diets (not paleo) · 2 points · by gwern · no comments
• Fusion Garage returns with two new products · 2 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Functional Parameters – a neat JavaScript Design Pattern · 2 points · by iambot · no comments
• Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II · 2 points · by ColinWright · no comments
• Patenting Genes · 2 points · by btechr · 1 comment
• Priid - a ad network for sports and outdoor activities · 2 points · by mixreadBlog · no comments
• Student hacker 'penetrated' Facebook · 2 points · by drungli · no comments
• My Karma · 1 points · by demonio · 7 comments
• Example Facebook PHP SDK: Post to Friend's wall · 1 points · by bobbelderbos · no comments
• Hello World in Plone · 1 points · by aclark · no comments
• Lilliputian Computer Works Even For Us Giants · 1 points · by g-garron · no comments
• How Hackathon Culture Is Splicing Together the Art World and Silicon Alley · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• An interactive approach to the fascinating world of quantum physics · 1 points · by gsivil · no comments
• The future of work? Hiring yourself out online. · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Overcoming UDID Deprecation Using GUIDs · 1 points · by jayfuerstenberg · no comments
• Kids learn computer programming at Hack the Future · 1 points · by DanielRibeiro · no comments
• WikiBook:Data structures · 1 points · by ahalan · no comments
• AnatOnMe: an interactive look inside the body · 1 points · by Garbage · no comments
• Fukushima Five Months Later. A Long Road To Recovery. · 1 points · by rblion · no comments
• Let the game begin with sony playstation 4 : reddit.com · 1 points · by patelpranay1 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Which one sysadmin skill do you master better than all your peers? · 1 points · by mrb · 1 comment
• HP TouchPad Customer Review Summary · 1 points · by adivik2000 · no comments
• Microsoft Annual Review 2011 (15-25% raises) · 1 points · by justanotheratom · no comments
• Django url mapping by view func naming convention · 1 points · by reshefm · no comments
• A point and click game with a social twist · 1 points · by alentodorov · no comments
• Show HN: Klout Feed - get your daily Klout Score via RSS · 1 points · by stephen_mcd · 1 comment
• The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags — Tech News and Analysis · 1 points · by prtk · no comments
• Help Improve Web Typography with ttfautohint · 1 points · by sixcorners · 1 comment
• On the obnoxious entitlement of the “nymwars” crowd · 1 points · by yanw · no comments
• Search engine for Documentary films · 1 points · by abdulqabiz · no comments
• Health and Tech, what are we waiting for? · 1 points · by youssef · no comments
• Cucumber's selenium test failed and Firefox ran blank ~version in-compatibility · 1 points · by abionic · no comments
• Graphing unleashed. Can statsd be trusted? · 1 points · by djinn · no comments
• What are the top mistakes you make when trying to change your behavior? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Wordpress Initialization · 1 points · by vidyesh · no comments
• Elycharts: simple charting js library · 1 points · by DanielRibeiro · no comments
• Wen-Ai Yu - Google+ - Not sure whether +Dolly Parton is actually that Dolly… · 1 points · by protomyth · no comments
• Recession-proof Startup? · 1 points · by tburke_quark · no comments
• Interview: SciRuby Team · 1 points · by g-garron · no comments
• Scala's method vs function · 1 points · by DanielRibeiro · no comments
• Customers, Traffic, and Users · 1 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Developer slips schedule. Pay whatever you want until the app ships. · 1 points · by tanitall · 1 comment
• The Tacit: hand-mounted sonar for the blind · 1 points · by skimbrel · no comments
• Idea: Become a brand ambassador online - Ideaas · 1 points · by srkgupta · no comments
• Localize It: PodPonics Grows High-Tech Organic Produce In Shipping Containers · 1 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• How do I promote this iphone/ipad app? · 1 points · by aspired · no comments
• Adam Ostrow: After your final status update · 1 points · by zengr · no comments
• Another ransom trojan type is born · 1 points · by john_barrett · no comments
• Facebook, Twitter Drew Record Numbers Of U.S. Visitors In July · 1 points · by suuuup · no comments
• What kind of workspace is best for your startup? · 1 points · by nesbot · no comments
• How to undelete files from ext3/ext4 · 1 points · by darkduck · no comments
• Amazon and the future of the web « Internet « MyBroadband Tech and IT News · 1 points · by darkduck · no comments
• Quantum entanglement could mean completely secure data transfer · 1 points · by swix · no comments
• Fetch Notes · 1 points · by shahzaib198 · no comments
• (Video) A look at Tabletop and iPad music-making with Paul Salva · 1 points · by vipivip · no comments
• Meet Connor, a 7-year-old iPhone app developer · 1 points · by vipivip · no comments
• Fun Wolfram Alpha trick Of The Day · 1 points · by dsadinoff · no comments
• Possible remedies for Too Big To Fail (2009) · 1 points · by bhavin · no comments
• Corporation vs. Startup in One Photo · 1 points · by dcpdx · 2 comments
• A tool to stop other people from mispronouncing your name · 1 points · by gary4gar · no comments
• Notes on problem solving · 1 points · by liammclennan · no comments
• Speed up Drupal 7.7 with boost and Nginx · 1 points · by g-garron · no comments
• Goose Article Extractor drops Java moves to Scala · 1 points · by beagledude · no comments
• A flexible, scalable, relational data mining language · 1 points · by timgluz · no comments
• Travis Kalanick (founder of Uber) on "The Original Social Network" · 1 points · by rdixit · no comments
• Real Life MasterChief and SEALS Team 6 Troop Leader Dies · 1 points · by marknadal · 1 comment
• Skype Acquires GroupMe · 1 points · by kirtan · no comments
• Stallman: Avoiding Ruinous Compromises · 1 points · by g-garron · no comments
• A TimePiece of C# and JavaScript - Would like feedback on next improvements... · 1 points · by adron · no comments
• I Never Get Tired of Watching Star Wars · 1 points · by issa · no comments
• How stress damages DNA · 1 points · by svedlin · no comments
• Evernote swoops for Aussie tech start-up Skitch · 1 points · by Finntastic · 1 comment
• Print vs. Online · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Social media monitoring stumps most businesses: Report · 1 points · by Finntastic · no comments
• Cuddling With 9, Smooching With 8, Winking At 7 · 1 points · by zoowar · no comments
• Live and Let Die · 1 points · by pier0 · no comments
• Dropbox adds Lion support; fixes public URL generation · 1 points · by MediaBehavior · no comments
• Innovation is recession-resistant · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Looking them in the eye and Peter Shankman’s story · 1 points · by jseliger · no comments