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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

121

2

Paul Graham: News from the Front

103

3

Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX

101

4

How to Do Philosophy

96

5

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

83

6

C++ is a horrible language, says Linus Torvalds

62

7

"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota

61

8

Observations from 10 Months Working at a Small Startup

58

9

Guide to Low Cost, High-Impact Websites

57

10

Are you going to change the world? (Really?)

57

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5

42

2

Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash

26

3

Google Presently Powerpoint Clone (based on Zenter) Could Be Days Away

21

4

Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award

20

5

Parakey: Did Investors Get Left Out In The Cold?

20

6

iPhone Free Software Unlock App - iUnlock - iPhone is finally Free (source code included)

19

7

Mozy acquired by EMC for $76MM

18

8

Where are the Indian hackers?

17

9

End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise

17

10

Facebook Launches fbFund with Accel and Founders Fund to Invest in New Facebook Apps ($10 million)

17

News [?]

1

Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism

33

2

Why Your Start-up Will Fail

30

3

Some sex differences that look biological are really cultural

29

4

This is what happens when you lend money to poor people

27

5

The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich

26

6

"The mighty music business is in free fall," so Sony tries focusing on quality.

26

7

NY Times To Stop Charging For Online Content

22

8

Biases Against the Creation of Wealth

21

9

Bye, Bye B-School, or why even hedge fund managers no longer believe in MBA

20

10

Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges

18

Scientific publications [?]

1

Indian Start-ups Lure Silicon Valley Cash

2

2

Useful for web 2.0: Given pairwise comparisons with some probability of error, how do you sort?

1

3

"We built a backyard cannon, and you can, too"

1

4

First Matter-Antimatter Molecule Created. Yay for theoretical limits of rocket efficiency!

1

5

The Importance and Criticality of Spreadsheets

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

24

2

What kernel hackers look like - Kernel Summit 2007 group photo

17

3

Schneier on Security: Mathematicians vs. Cryptographers

4

4

AMD releases their first open-source ATI driver

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's next-gen iPhone mockup

9

2

Apple iTunes glitch reveals movie rental preparations

4

3

A peek inside Apple's new nano and classic iPods

1

4

EFF wins suit against DirecTV's attempt to suppress security research

1

5

Apple issues warning on iPhone unlocking

1

6

Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers

52

2

Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

47

3

The New iPod Touch

10

4

millionth iPhone sold

5

5

iPhone $100 Credit Web Page

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Launches Presentation with help from Zenter & Tonic

23

2

Paul Graham's (defunct) Blog

13

3

BitTorrent Continues to Dominate Internet Traffic

3

4

Porn Industry to Take on BitTorrent Sites

3

5

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public

3

6

How the Porn Industry Plans to Wipe Out BitTorrent

1

7

Speed Up Your Torrents With Ono

1

Science News [?]

1

Checkers Is Solved: Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw

18

2

Oohs And Aahs: Vowel Sounds Affect Our Perceptions Of Products

12

3

How The Discovery Of Geologic Time Changed Our View Of The World

9

4

Low-cost Personal DNA Readings Are on the Way

5

5

Computer model may explain toddlers' chattering

2

6

What, based on your experience, should we do?

1

7

NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate

1

8

How a quantum computer factorizes numbers

1

Social [?]

1

When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft)

33

2

PG cites Ron Paul proliferation on Reddit as "evidence of design flaw in version 1 of social news"

26

3

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

18

4

Barack Obama posts a question on LinkedIn

12

5

Demo of Photosynth from TED conference - mind blowing

11

6

"Ebay" by Weird Al Yankovic

9

7

Ballmer sells Windows 1.0... used car salesman style!

5

8

Randy Pausch's Building Virtual Worlds...go 5:15 in to see a world grow that doesn't want to die.

4

9

LinkedIn is down!

3

10

Unicode art on reddit

2

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

A Hacker's resume (Jon Lech Johansen)

9

2

The reason why Blub programmers have such a hard time picking up more powerful languages.

7

3

Parkinson's law

2

4

MIPS-X - A processor with a self-destruct function (halt and spontaneously combust)

2

5

Comparison of web application frameworks

1

Blogs [?]

1

Paul Graham: News from the Front

103

2

How to Do Philosophy

96

3

Have you seen this PG page?

33

4

What Languages Fix

20

5

Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy

15

6

Advice for a high school student

10

7

Is New York a bad place to set up shop?

2

8

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]