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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Code's Worst Enemy

125

2

We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

103

3

Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language]

94

4

Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1

73

5

Evan Williams: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

70

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64

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Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards?

61

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Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

59

9

The Dictatorship of Talent

59

10

AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

58

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

58

2

For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million, Goes By The Name Of Digg

33

3

Google's wireless chief, Sacca, leaves to become angel investor

30

4

The Twice Shy Entrepreneur

29

5

How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade

23

6

Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success

19

7

iPhone Delivers: Bigger Browsing Share Than Windows Mobile

17

8

Newest Victim of DMCA: Here Comes Another Bubble Video

16

9

Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb

16

10

Developing apps for Google Android: it's a mixed bag

15

News [?]

1

The Dictatorship of Talent

59

2

Start-Up sells solar panels that are cheaper than coal power

53

3

What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race

47

4

Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley's right brain

34

5

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike

34

6

The Checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

31

7

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star

31

8

Self-righting object - the Gomboc

30

9

The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors

23

10

Left-Hand-Turn Elimination

23

Scientific publications [?]

1

Playing Dirty: Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new--and profitable--level

7

2

Artificial Arm Researchers Restore Feeling of Missing Limb

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory

15

2

Sun Releases Open-Source PDF Renderer

6

3

Schneier: Never use it (MS has added RNG that could have an NSA backdoor into Vista).

6

4

A Brief Introduction to REST

5

5

Engine Yard Bets Big on Rubinius

4

6

Bruce Schneier: Anonymity and the Netflix Dataset

3

7

What if the TSA were held to the same standards as doctors?

3

8

The backdooring of SquirrelMail

3

9

Security in Ten Years

2

10

What's new in Groovy 1.5

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Wireless keyboards easily cracked

6

2

Second-gen iPhone in final phase; Apple TV update planned - report

3

3

Apple validates 13-inch LED backlight units ahead of ultra-portable

2

4

Report: iPhone outpacing rivals in Europe without 3G

2

5

Apple sub-notebook to retail for $1500, 3G iPhone by June - report

1

6

Apple working on improved Exchange support for iPhone

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Details: Amazon SimpleDB

25

2

Learn to Tango With D (Apress Book)

1

3

Amazon buys JK Rowling's book for $4 million. See review.

1

4

Year-End Deals for Mac SW

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

50 Cent: File-Sharing Doesn't Hurt Artists, Industry Should Adapt

3

2

RailsVsDjango: Comparison of Development times

3

3

The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007 | TorrentFreak

3

4

The Hydra Project: An Anti-Piracy Proof BitTorrent Tracker

2

Science News [?]

1

Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies

14

2

Why Humans (and Baboons) Stress So Much

8

3

Coral reefs operate free-market economy: fish cleaning stations

2

4

Major breakthrough in understanding supersolidity

1

5

Voyager 2 probe crosses interstellar boundary

1

6

Livescience.com hacked by "Body"

1

Social [?]

1

We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

103

2

Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

59

3

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote

46

4

The Next Generation of Neural Networks [Google Tech Talk]

25

5

Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought [video]

19

6

Barack Obama knows his sort algorithms... jump to 6:40 in this video

15

7

Johnny Lee creates a headtracking VR system with a TV and a Wii-mote

12

8

Python + Motion detection = Fweemote

10

9

My Facebook App: iGot, what Beacon should have been. (Let me know what you think)

6

10

Amazing new 3D face detection technology from Japan (vid)

6

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

XOR Linked List: A Curious List Structure

10

2

Mathematical jokes on Wikipedia

9

3

Aspect-oriented programming

1

4

Eee PC - derived from "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play"

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]