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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why to Apply to YCombinator

113

2

The Future of Web Startups

107

3

Aaron Swartz: How to Get a Job Like Mine

78

4

Why to Move to a Startup Hub

63

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YC: What No Means

61

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What if Google had to design their user interface to rank high on Google?

61

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59

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Zombo.com - YC applicant - feedback wanted

58

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taoyue.com: Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men

58

10

Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability

58

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Driving from New York to LA in 32 Hours or Less

46

2

Weebly guys launch snaplayout.com

42

3

Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail

28

4

Google's Response to Facebook: Maka-Maka

25

5

Songkick: Live Music Lovers Will Love This (from YC summer '07)

23

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Ars Technica posts their lengthy and in-depth 10.5 review

23

7

Amazing chat bot developed by a startup claiming to have made a significant AI breakthrough (vid)

23

8

Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping

22

9

Auctomatic launches better tools for eBay powersellers

21

10

Google to launch an open and common API for various social networks

21

News [?]

1

After First Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

42

2

The Tie is Back

41

3

5 Myths About Sick Old Europe

31

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For once the World Bank says something smart about the real causes of prosperity (and poverty)

30

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You Can't Predict Who Will Change The World

28

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Tired of college food, undergrad opens restaurant in his dorm

26

7

Lap dancers earn more when they are most fertile

24

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What's best? low-fat diet? low-carb diet? vegetarian diet? the answer.

24

9

There's less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye

23

10

Justin.TV: A Site Warhol Would Relish

21

Scientific publications [?]

1

Cars Get Street Smart

3

2

Report Urges U.S. to Pursue Space-Based Solar Power

3

3

Solar hurricane rips off comet's tail

1

4

Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke

1

5

Report Urges U.S. to Pursue Space-Based Solar Power

1

6

1

7

NASA - Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Using Lisp at Paragent

17

2

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser (boots in 5 sec flat!)

13

3

8

4

Objective-C 2.0 Overview (brush up before iPhone SDK comes out)

4

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Schneier on Security: Threat Modeling at Microsoft

3

6

New iPhone Dev Center

1

7

Optimizing memory usage

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's U.S. market share rises to 8.1%, up from 6.2% a year ago

7

2

Build your own car... from scratch

4

3

Study: iPhone already nibbling away at Motorola's lead

4

4

10 percent of September iPhones sold to unlocking teams

2

5

Apple to launch official iPhone Web applications directory

2

6

Apple Now Worth more than IBM

1

7

How-To: Introduction to soldering

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple: iPhone SDK officially available in February

39

2

What makes programming so hard? Can non-programmers invent algorithms?

19

3

Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend

3

4

Amazon Adds New Book Statistics - Words/$, Words/Sentence ...

2

5

The ten worst presentation moments

1

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Mac OS X Leopard--October 26!

1

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List of 300+ New Features inside Mac OS X Leopard

1

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Mac OS X Leopard arrives October 26

1

9

Thinking outside the niche: "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why would they put music on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?

11

2

Wikipedia in 2001

10

3

Video Game Programmer Interview - October 2007

8

4

The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent

4

5

29 Nepalese orphans adopted by TorrentFreak and p2pnet

1

6

Game Programmer Interviewed

1

7

The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent

1

Science News [?]

1

Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050

11

2

Study finds that negativity is contagious

3

3

Intelligence: More Nature Than Nurture?

3

4

Inflatable car will treat you like a Martian probe

3

5

Microsoft wants to read your mind

2

6

Hybrid cars: Too damned quiet?

1

7

Chimps don't mind being chumps in raisin game

1

8

Mobile TV Watermarks: Enabling interactive TV content

1

9

Why India crashed so hard into Asia (producing Himalayas)

1

10

UF scientist: Brain in a dish acts as autopilot, living computer

1

Social [?]

1

Windows Startup Sounds - 1.0 to Vista

16

2

Power line explodes at Yscaper, productivity destroyed

15

3

MIT Digital Drawing Board

15

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A Vision of Students Today

12

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Aaron Swartz on Jottit

10

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Is there anything you wish you knew at 16 as you made decisions that shaped the rest of your life?

6

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Automatic cameraman: automatic camera control by tracking voice signals

4

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Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success (Alexis Ohanian and Aaron Swartz at Barcamp 2006)

4

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Automatic CameraMan - Explanation of how it works

3

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Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, explains the difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

3

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

16

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Wikipedia edits apparently declining, peaked in early 2007

8

3

Edison's 1000 Plus Patents.

4

4

Interesting history of Wang Laboratories

2

Blogs [?]

1

The Future of Web Startups

107

2

Why to Move to a Startup Hub

63

3

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Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]