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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

121

2

Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX

101

3

How to Do Philosophy

96

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

83

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Guide to Low Cost, High-Impact Websites

57

6

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

57

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Startup idea list

54

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Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5

42

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YC startup Xobni launches beta at TechCrunch 40

39

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Where and how to announce the launch of a website?

39

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

Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award

20

4

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

17

5

VentureBeat: Email company Xobni launches, may steal Techcrunch prize

14

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Google Announces Adsense For Mobile

13

7

Ning Milestone: 100k Social Networks

9

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VentureBeat: Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances

9

9

PlaySpan, run 12-year-old founder, gets $6.5M in venture capital

8

10

IBM releases free MSFT Office competitor, Lotus Symphony, based on OpenOffice

8

News [?]

1

NY Times To Stop Charging For Online Content

22

2

Cancer cure "may be available in two years"

15

3

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright

13

4

Neutrons not so neutral after all, study says

11

5

Raytheon develops ray gun that causes unbearable pain at half a mile

9

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Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming

9

7

Do you need special permission to land something on the moon? A summary of space law.

8

8

Is "Do Unto Others" Written Into Our Genes?

8

9

The Forbes 400 List for 2007

7

10

The Rebirth of the Electric Car

6

Scientific publications [?]

1

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

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

24

2

AMD releases their first open-source ATI driver

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's next-gen iPhone mockup

9

FAANG+ [?]

1

iPhone $100 Credit Web Page

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Launches Presentation with help from Zenter & Tonic

23

2

Speed Up Your Torrents With Ono

1

Science News [?]

1

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

9

2

Computer model may explain toddlers' chattering

2

Social [?]

1

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

4

2

Awesome Image Resizing by Seam Carving Video

1

3

My Public Expertise Rankings Facebook App (looking for initial users & feedback)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

A Hacker's resume (Jon Lech Johansen)

9

Blogs [?]

1

How to Do Philosophy

96

2

What Languages Fix

20

3

Advice for a high school student

10

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]