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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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What if Google had to design their user interface to rank high on Google?

61

2

YC: What No Means

61

3

3998-byte executable reduced to 45 bytes

55

4

Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months

55

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'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away

54

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If you applied for this cycle, please tell us your email address

50

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Some things to do (and not do) if you aren't invited to interview with YC

49

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Driving from New York to LA in 32 Hours or Less

46

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Design: Voting up or Down is Dead

40

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Apple: iPhone SDK officially available in February

39

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Driving from New York to LA in 32 Hours or Less

46

2

Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year

14

3

Rising Tide: Email startups are hot

14

4

Nokia Internet Tablet N810 -- full computer running linux; qwerty, wifi, webcam, gps, bluetooth, awesome.

14

5

In Portal, Violating Physics Proves Weirdly Satisfying

13

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Leopard release: October 26th!

12

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Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with a Cluster of Eight PlayStation 3s

11

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The Declining US Dollar: Google and Non-US Startups are the winners

10

9

Mr. Murdoch, Take Down This (Other) Wall!

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50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want

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News [?]

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You Can't Predict Who Will Change The World

28

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There's less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye

23

3

Radiohead's Warm Glow (or how economists don't understand tipping)

15

4

Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable

14

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When To Dump That Great Idea

11

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A modern saint and sinner

11

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The Google Way: Give Engineers Room

11

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The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life

11

9

Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again

7

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MySpace's new S.F. office will be key to redesign plans

7

Scientific publications [?]

Dev Blogs [?]

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's U.S. market share rises to 8.1%, up from 6.2% a year ago

7

2

Study: iPhone already nibbling away at Motorola's lead

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple: iPhone SDK officially available in February

39

2

What makes programming so hard? Can non-programmers invent algorithms?

19

3

Mac OS X Leopard--October 26!

1

4

List of 300+ New Features inside Mac OS X Leopard

1

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Mac OS X Leopard arrives October 26

1

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Thinking outside the niche: "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why would they put music on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?

11

Science News [?]

1

Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050

11

2

Intelligence: More Nature Than Nurture?

3

3

Microsoft wants to read your mind

2

4

Mobile TV Watermarks: Enabling interactive TV content

1

5

Why India crashed so hard into Asia (producing Himalayas)

1

Social [?]

1

Windows Startup Sounds - 1.0 to Vista

16

2

Startup hubs: Do you have to be in one? [video]

3

3

Facebook App (feedback welcome): My friend said I'm like which fictional character?

2

4

The Information Revolution

2

5

FOCS 2007 Trailer (well, now you have to go!)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

Edison's 1000 Plus Patents.

4

2

Interesting history of Wang Laboratories

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]