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Top stories
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How Not to Die
168
2
Hacker News
150
3
Holding a program in one's head
142
4
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
88
5
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
68
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Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector
63
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We are living in someone else's computer simulation
57
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A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area
55
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Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
54
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email
53
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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
88
2
YC West Coast Demo Day Roundup
41
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[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM
40
4
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity
36
5
The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
29
6
Why Apple doesn't sell to the enterprise market
23
7
VentureBeat: The Y Combinator List
22
8
Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth (or why not everyone should be a social worker)
22
9
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
19
10
Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless
18
News [?]
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We are living in someone else's computer simulation
57
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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich
33
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Gambling Dispute With a Tiny Country Puts U.S. in a Bind
27
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Are We Failing Our Geniuses?
22
5
Is college worth the cost?
21
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TV show panel full of experts tells entrepreneur his idea is worthless, he proves them wrong
20
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The Best House in Paris
20
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"A sizable fraction of the world's crops" are from mutations induced via radiation
17
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Nasdaq's New Portal Market: IPO Alternative for Startups?
16
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The Industrial Revolution due to a change in the English population?
16
Scientific publications [?]
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A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for Ajax [pdf]
13
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Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
10
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End the Mobile Phone Ban in Hospitals
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Linus on git, central repositories, and commit access lists
10
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InfoQ: Erlang's Mnesia - a distributed DBMS for highly scalable apps
2
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On DTrace envy
1
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How Tridge reverse engineered BitKeeper
1
Tech blogs [?]
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon's Flexible Payments Service -- move over PayPal?
4
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How woman entrepreneurs benefit from using a mentor
3
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Apple Shows What's Possible with Web 2.0 and Photos (Skip to 32 minutes)
3
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Book by an author who has the most popular class at Harvard
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
7 Years of paulgraham.com (via archive.org)
7
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Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
2
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Linux user told he must use windows
2
Science News [?]
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Squirrels wield a hot, secret weapon
12
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Black Plague and HIV resistance in Europe
8
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Physicists discover inorganic dust with lifelike qualities
4
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Nanotech boosts solar cell performance in the UV spectrum by 60%
2
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Time Travel Machine Outlined
1
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One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another's
1
Social [?]
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Steve "spez" Huffman of Reddit on The Total Rewrite Decision
22
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Content-Aware Image Sizing
21
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Is reddit down?
16
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20/20: "Stupid in America"
11
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Legos that build legos (vid)
11
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Dynamic image manipulation technology using "energy seams"
8
7
Speech Animation in Paintings
4
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Hilarious Geeky song - Finite Simple Group of Order Two
4
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Is YouTube Down?
3
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Freaks, Geeks and Parents - An analysis of the High School Ecosystem
3
Github repos and gists [?]
Wikipedia [?]
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Norman Borlaug: the greatest person to ever live?
13
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How big Wikipedia would be if published as as printed volumes
11
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Silphium: Did Greek science die out because their elite discovered The Pill?
10
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The most bizarre episode in the history of the papacy
6
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Diseconomies of scale: Startup advantage over big companies
2
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Is it easy to set up a foreign entity in india? (corp,etc)
1
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Map of the Internet
1
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A Scientologist in Congress?
1
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Reconstructed image of a Neanderthal child
1
Blogs [?]
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How Not to Die
168
2
Holding a program in one's head
142
3
Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
25
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PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before)
18
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Download "On Lisp"
3
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Paul Graham: 10 E-Commerce Mistakes (1997)
2
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Why Startups Condense in America
1
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]