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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Number of founders - statistics

232

2

Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!

112

3

How to be a genius

77

4

New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

64

5

Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says

63

6

It's not exponential, it's sigmoidal

63

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63

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The PayPal mafia

61

9

Larry and Sergey Won't Respect You In The Morning

59

10

Buffet: Saving Sex For Your Old Age

57

Top Ask HN

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos

42

2

RescueTime Out Of Private Beta, Tracking How (Un)Productive You Are

33

3

MySpace To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)

32

4

Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures

32

5

Google announces Open Handset Alliance - Techcrunch

28

6

YC Summer '07 Draftmix launches: Faster Fantasy Sports for Fun or Profit

25

7

Google releases 'My Location' for cellphones (w/ google maps)

23

8

If Elected, Barack Obama Would Name a Chief Technology Officer

20

9

Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate

18

10

Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

17

News [?]

1

Sharing what matters

32

2

Exercise on the Brain

27

3

An Economist Goes to a Bar (and solves the mysteries of dating)

25

4

Review: 'Blade Runner'

21

5

Performance-pay Perplexes

21

6

The Talent Myth, by Malcolm Gladwell

19

7

In Hollywood, the future belongs to the writer-entrepreneur

19

8

The Man Behind the Google Phone

18

9

The Frugal Billionaires

17

10

Should you have to pay to see research your taxes paid for?

16

Scientific publications [?]

1

Computational capacity of the universe

10

2

NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face

5

3

Interesting article about Slashdot and CmdrTaco

4

4

How to Break Anonymity of the Netﬂix Prize Dataset (PDF)

4

5

Future Mars Craft Inspires High-Tech Spy Plane

2

6

Terraforming Mars

2

7

Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate

1

8

The Wizardry of Id Software

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier: The War on the Unexpected

36

2

JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari

1

3

A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails

1

4

Coda Unites Web Development: Panic Builds Its UI with WebKit, Quartz

1

5

The problems with Copyright

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo

4

2

New Google Maps feature could simulate GPS on iPhones

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates"

12

2

Thought Vista had a lot of versions? Check out Windows Server 2008.

6

3

Nov 2, 2007 (3 days ago) Rick Dalzell's retirement tribute from Jeff Bezos

3

4

Amazon launches an e-book

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales

4

Science News [?]

1

How to be a genius

77

2

Curvy moms have smarter kids

12

3

Nature inspired robot locomotion

2

4

Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator

1

5

Student research makes the pages of top scientific journal

1

Social [?]

1

Reclaim Reddit: Greasemonkey script to remove Ron Paul stories

15

2

Our YC Interview Demo - we just launched it

12

3

GEOS on Commodore 64

7

4

Reddit founders talk

7

5

BLUI: Blowable user interface

6

6

Jimmy Wales on The Future of Web 2.0 and His Tips for Entrepreneurs

2

7

RoboDev Talk emphasizes need for more software engineers working in robotics

2

8

Feedback Please: A Facebook App for Enterprise Week

2

9

A pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid

2

10

Commodore 64 Tutorial

2

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

Gamma function: an extension of the factorial function to real and complex numbers

3

2

RANDU - How ill-conceived random number gen. cast suspicion on statistical results from the 1970s

2

3

English as Internationalization

1

Blogs [?]

1

Was Viaweb first?

13

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]