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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

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

61

2

Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released

51

3

Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

47

4

10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)

40

5

How a Millionaire's Brain Works

40

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Me and PG's Code

38

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Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism

33

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Have you seen this PG page?

33

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Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007

33

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When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft)

33

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

21

2

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

19

3

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

17

4

Where are the Indian hackers?

17

5

Salesforce Enters Custom Application Market ("potentially game ending for...a slew of startups")

14

6

Adobe: Photoshop Goes Online and Free

13

7

WIRED 1997: "101 ways to save Apple"

10

8

What Google Won't Find

9

9

Vinod Khosla: Hybrid-electric cars won't make a difference

9

10

What motivates an investor to say "yes"

8

News [?]

1

Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism

33

2

Some sex differences that look biological are really cultural

29

3

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

20

4

A "Lucky" Building in Palo Alto for Startups

18

5

Reshaping the Architecture of Memory

17

6

Living Your Dreams, in a Manner of Speaking - Lucid Dreaming

17

7

Tens of thousands of Japanese housewives drawn into currency day-trading, lose billions

14

8

Google founders trade research chores for Moffett landing rights

8

9

A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close

8

10

Algorithms: Business by the Numbers

7

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

Dev Blogs [?]

Tech blogs [?]

1

A peek inside Apple's new nano and classic iPods

1

2

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

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

47

2

millionth iPhone sold

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Paul Graham's (defunct) Blog

13

2

Porn Industry to Take on BitTorrent Sites

3

3

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public

3

4

How the Porn Industry Plans to Wipe Out BitTorrent

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

Low-cost Personal DNA Readings Are on the Way

5

4

How a quantum computer factorizes numbers

1

Social [?]

1

When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft)

33

2

Barack Obama posts a question on LinkedIn

12

3

Demo of Photosynth from TED conference - mind blowing

11

4

Unicode art on reddit

2

5

Ruby on Rails VS Django - RailsEnvy.com commercial #7

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

Parkinson's law

2

2

Comparison of web application frameworks

1

Blogs [?]

1

Have you seen this PG page?

33

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Is New York a bad place to set up shop?

2

3

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]