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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

262

2

Number of founders - statistics

232

3

Finally, voting without refresh

176

4

168

5

Why we made this site

165

6

150

7

Holding a program in one's head

142

8

Code's Worst Enemy

125

9

CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

121

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Why to Apply to YCombinator

113

Top Ask HN

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School

88

2

Kiko guys back as reality tv stars

75

3

AppJet (YC co) Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

58

4

Driving from New York to LA in 32 Hours or Less

46

5

The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos

42

6

Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5

42

7

Weebly guys launch snaplayout.com

42

8

YC West Coast Demo Day Roundup

41

9

[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

40

10

Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks

36

News [?]

1

The Dictatorship of Talent

59

2

We are living in someone else's computer simulation

57

3

Start-Up sells solar panels that are cheaper than coal power

53

4

What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race

47

5

After First Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

42

6

The Tie is Back

41

7

Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley's right brain

34

8

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike

34

9

In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich

33

10

Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism

33

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for Ajax [pdf]

13

2

Computational capacity of the universe

10

3

Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]

10

4

The brain thinks in Lisp parse trees

7

5

Playing Dirty: Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new--and profitable--level

7

6

NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face

5

7

How to Break Anonymity of the Netﬂix Prize Dataset (PDF)

4

8

Interesting article about Slashdot and CmdrTaco

4

9

Cars Get Street Smart

3

10

Report Urges U.S. to Pursue Space-Based Solar Power

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier: The War on the Unexpected

36

2

What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1

24

3

What kernel hackers look like - Kernel Summit 2007 group photo

17

4

Using Lisp at Paragent

17

5

What every programmer should know about memory

15

6

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser (boots in 5 sec flat!)

13

7

Linus on git, central repositories, and commit access lists

10

8

8

9

Apple Developer Connection - iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone

7

10

Schneier: Never use it (MS has added RNG that could have an NSA backdoor into Vista).

6

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel's next-gen iPhone mockup

9

2

iPhoneDevCamp Wraps Up (Heysan stands out)

8

3

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

7

4

Wireless keyboards easily cracked

6

5

Apple's first iPhone software update to arrive shortly

4

6

Apple iTunes glitch reveals movie rental preparations

4

7

Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo

4

8

Study: iPhone already nibbling away at Motorola's lead

4

9

Build your own car... from scratch

4

10

Mac OS X Server Free with Mac Pro?

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers

52

2

Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

47

3

Apple: iPhone SDK officially available in February

39

4

Safari on Windows

37

5

Details: Amazon SimpleDB

25

6

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

19

7

Anybody using Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) in their startup?

14

8

Apple speed bumped the Macbook today. Good time to buy

13

9

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates"

12

10

The New iPod Touch

10

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Working at Google vs working at Meetup

23

2

Google Launches Presentation with help from Zenter & Tonic

23

3

15

4

Paul Graham's (defunct) Blog

13

5

Y-Combinator-company heysan! looking for software developer. Meet us at startup school!

13

6

2007 Startup School Notes: A rough transcript

12

7

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

11

8

Wikipedia in 2001

10

9

"None of these have the potential to be a self-sustaining business"

9

10

Video Game Programmer Interview - October 2007

8

Science News [?]

1

How to be a genius

77

2

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

18

3

Homosexuality Turned On and Off in Fruit Flies

14

4

Squirrels wield a hot, secret weapon

12

5

Curvy moms have smarter kids

12

6

Oohs And Aahs: Vowel Sounds Affect Our Perceptions Of Products

12

7

Forecast: Sex and Marriage with Robots by 2050

11

8

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

9

9

Why Humans (and Baboons) Stress So Much

8

10

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye

8

Social [?]

1

We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

103

2

Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

59

3

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote

46

4

Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work talk at Google

36

5

When a meeting with a VC goes bad (Jobloft)

33

6

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

26

7

The Next Generation of Neural Networks [Google Tech Talk]

25

8

Steve "spez" Huffman of Reddit on The Total Rewrite Decision

22

9

Content-Aware Image Sizing

21

10

PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?

21

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

Someone should add a column to this Wikipedia page about Y-Combinator StartUps: Status

19

2

16

3

Norman Borlaug: the greatest person to ever live?

13

4

How big Wikipedia would be if published as as printed volumes

11

5

Silphium: Did Greek science die out because their elite discovered The Pill?

10

6

XOR Linked List: A Curious List Structure

10

7

A Hacker's resume (Jon Lech Johansen)

9

8

Mathematical jokes on Wikipedia

9

9

The God of Startups

8

10

Wikipedia edits apparently declining, peaked in early 2007

8

Blogs [?]

1

168

2

Holding a program in one's head

142

3

The Future of Web Startups

107

4

Stuff - Paul Graham

105

5

Paul Graham: News from the Front

103

6

Why to Not Not Start a Startup

99

7

How to Do Philosophy

96

8

Microsoft is Dead

77

9

The Equity Equation

72

10

Why to Move to a Startup Hub

63

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]