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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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240

2

More advice for new Y Combinator founders

124

3

PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

118

4

Interview with Paul Graham at Imperial College London

89

5

Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

82

6

Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video]

82

7

Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

71

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Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, they register it themselves.

71

9

Anywhere.FM acquired by imeem

70

10

Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

67

Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

82

2

Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

67

3

49

4

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

46

5

WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites

37

6

Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

35

7

Why Bruce Schneier runs an open Wi-Fi network, and why you too should

33

8

Xobni: The super plugin for Outlook

32

9

Buxfer is giving Mint, other personal finance sites, a run for their money

31

10

Is the Tipping Point Toast? (Duncan Watts thinks Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about tipping points)

26

News [?]

1

'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'

57

2

Kiva.org: So sucessful it has run out of projects to fund

45

3

Unintended consequences: What do a deaf woman and an endangered woodpecker have in common?

44

4

Bobby Fischer dead at 64

39

5

Multitasking is Dumbing us Down and Driving us Crazy

38

6

From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year - Plenty of Fish

37

7

The Falling-Down Professions

33

8

Followup: That cool ICU checklist cancelled by federal agency

32

9

Prediction Markets at Google

30

10

Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?

30

Scientific publications [?]

1

Synthetic fuel from a solar collector

5

2

Ask YC: can one of you create a webapp to browse the recent NASA flight data?

2

3

Fifty Years of Human-Machine Symbiosis

1

4

Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity

1

5

Replacement for Hubble Space Telescope Will Use Copper-based Communications Systems

1

6

Survey of Technologies for Web Application Development

1

7

The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Stallman doesn't use a web browser

39

2

Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work

7

3

Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior?

6

4

Lucene: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project

6

5

Ruby 1.9 - When Will It be Production Ready

5

6

Bruce Schneier: My Open Wireless Network

5

7

3

8

Programming languages in future systems

2

9

Creating better metrics

1

10

Some Guy to Sun: Drop Support for JRuby and Support Groovy Instead

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes

11

2

NBC to return on iTunes with its tail between its legs

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

30

2

Norvig reviews SICP

19

3

The first commercially available book (that I know of) on The D Programming Language will be released on January 28

4

4

100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless over Windows Vista (or is it?)

3

5

Macworld Keynote Page: Broken In Safari

2

6

Firebug-like tool for Internet Explorer - Web Developer Toolbar

2

7

Bill Gates Looks Ahead at "Next Digital Decade"

1

8

Apple Ad for Macbook Air

1

9

Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement (SLA)

1

10

Why do people think we know what we're doing?

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

LMAO: RIAA Website Wiped Clean by "Hackers"

7

2

Swedish Politicians Strike Blows at Copyright Lobby

2

3

The Pirate Bay, Guilty Before Trial

2

4

Youtube as a video dating site

1

Science News [?]

1

Teach your brain to stretch time

9

2

Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

5

3

Google tool could search out hospital superbugs

3

4

Finding the door to a parallel universe

3

5

The Enduring Mysteries of the Outer Solar System

2

6

Scientists propose test of string theory based on neutral hydrogen absorption

2

7

The VR Hypothesis in Science

1

8

Simonyi and Gates donate $30 million for new "movie camera" telescope

1

9

Rough silicon nanowires potentially allow much more efficient waste-heat to electricity conversion

1

10

Monkey Controls Robot Using Brain Signals

1

Social [?]

1

Obama's Victory Speech

50

2

Richard Stallman is the new Chuck Norris

34

3

Remember when people on reddit had a clue?

14

4

Google Tech Talks: The Secret History of Silicon Valley

9

5

How to Build a Web Start-up by Ryan Carson, Part 1 [video]

8

6

New MacBook Air Ad (Parody)

7

7

Dinesh D'Souza debates Daniel Dennett on the existence of God (part 1 of 15)

5

8

David Lynch on iPhone

5

9

Much Funnier Macbook Air Parody

3

10

Startups Reddit

3

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

The bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics

25

2

List of device bandwidths

11

3

ISO 3103: an international standard for brewing tea

10

4

Unusual Software Bugs

10

5

The Raven Paradox (logic)

9

6

The Great Hacker War

8

7

Benford's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

7

8

4

9

Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

240

2

PG writes about Arc ( tryarc@paulgraham.com )

11

3

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]