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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

2

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

224

3

A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

177

4

Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

174

5

Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)

172

6

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

158

7

Reflections of a YC Dropout

155

8

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

150

9

IPhone NDA officially dropped

145

10

Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic

143

Top Ask HN

1

What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?

113

2

What if I don't have an idea?

75

3

Good python code for code reading

62

4

Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing?

61

5

Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them?

55

6

Need a host with some balls, offshore maybe?

55

7

Awesome talks/video available online?

50

8

I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku?

41

9

Learning Erlang from scratch

41

10

what's going on with HN?

41

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08)

84

2

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom

79

3

Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID

66

4

First look at Windows 7

51

5

Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public

44

6

Pressflip Founder Quits: “I’m Tired Of The Fight”

42

7

Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown

42

8

Extreme JavaScript Performance

41

9

Earthcomber Sues TechCrunch

40

10

Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?

39

News [?]

1

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

150

2

Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am.

95

3

How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

93

4

Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

79

5

How the British used a laundromat in Northern Ireland to find explosives

67

6

The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that it makes no sense.

49

7

Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up

46

8

The Atlas of the Real World (pics)

41

9

First Person Plural

38

10

How This Bear Market Compares - Interactive Graphic

36

Scientific publications [?]

1

P is not equal to NP

30

2

The diversity trumps ability theorem

14

3

11

4

Largest Solar Thermal Storage Plant to Start Up

5

5

Nasa X-29 [An aircraft only computers can fly]

5

6

Physicist named MacArthur Fellow for work on Quantum Computing

2

7

Kurzweil's letter to IEEE responding to "The Singularity: A Special Report"

2

8

"Mother of All Quantum Networks" Unveiled in Vienna

2

9

The Gravity Probe B Bailout

1

10

The Innovators Club - Interest in TechShop's neighborhood workshops is growing

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IPhone NDA officially dropped

145

2

Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist

63

3

The Skein Hash Function

36

4

How to Write Injection-Proof SQL

20

5

Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby

16

6

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released

15

7

Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs

15

8

InfoQ: Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator

9

9

How to GET a Cup of Coffee

8

10

Interview: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

62

2

The Macbook "Brick"

43

3

Apple's "real" earnings grew a staggering 124.6% in Q4

23

4

Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire

16

5

Review roundup: T-Mobile's G1, the first Android-based handset

6

6

IPhone Software 2.2 to add public transit & walking directions

6

7

EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court

4

8

Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps

4

9

The upcoming MacBook 'Brick' is a new manufacturing process

4

10

Apple Sues Canadian School for Similar Logo

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Bizarre page discussing Microsoft's support for PHP

5

2

AWS Start-up Challenge

4

3

The Media of Computing Education

3

4

Silverlight reported on 1 out of 4 PC's - version 2.0 to be announced

3

5

Video of new MacBook machining process

3

6

Amazon pre-announces EC2 for windows

2

7

Microsoft's Tech News Aggregator Launches

2

8

A Book Written By the Internet

2

9

Apple Introduces New MacBook

2

10

Latest Apple Mac ad targets MSFT's internal budgeting?

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers

35

2

Tribler Set to Make BitTorrent Sites Obsolete

18

3

Record Label ‘Infringes’ Own Copyright, Site Pulled

11

4

Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’

11

5

Assassination Politics

5

6

Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online

4

7

Stanford University Embraces BitTorrent

3

8

The seedling of the inspiration of Facebook?

3

9

Writing a simple expert system in Prolog

3

10

Video of evolved virtual creatures (Karl Sims' genetic algorithms in Lisp from 1994)

3

Science News [?]

1

Time to wake up to the facts about sleep

34

2

Mathematicians Illuminate Deep Connection Between Classical And Quantum Physics

22

3

Sticky tape generates X-rays

21

4

Diamonds on Demand

14

5

Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than Mp3

10

6

Nature reports on Thomson/Reuters lawsuit against GMU

7

7

Has Google's browser peaked already?

5

8

Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?

5

9

Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution

4

10

Researchers determine neural representation of 3d objects in monkeys

4

Social [?]

1

29

2

Steve Jobs Explains NeXT's Strategy (1991) [vid]

28

3

Facebook's Scribe technology now open source

27

4

Ask YC: Feedback on our new app.

15

5

Using evolution of neural nets to get artificial intelligence [video]

12

6

Proggit challenge: Find a number N which, when Googled, yields N results

11

7

YouTube - Developing iPhone Applications using Java

10

8

YouTube - Current Issues in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

9

9

YouTube - Famous Failures

9

10

Google Tech Talk on Merb & Rubinius

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Helped Train Google in Git

38

2

Raganwald now 'blogging' on GitHub

27

3

The Thrush (raganwald)

14

4

Summary of the 2008 GitTogether

9

5

GitHub Disaster Guide

6

6

Steezy-chat userscript for pibb & campfire chat rooms

4

7

Songs of the Cardinal

4

8

MiniGems: Lighweight drop-in replacement for rubygems

2

9

Cool and unusual Git techniques

2

10

Gluttonberg - A Merb-based content management system

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

All You Zombies— The most craziest of the time travel paradoxes

42

2

Cluny: The Google of 1000

15

3

ZigBee - Low Power, Low Cost, Mesh wireless for control/sensor network

12

4

The Osborne Myth

11

5

6

6

Punched cards: One of the biggest breakthroughs in programming history

4

7

List of emerging technologies

3

8

Penney's game [as described in Knuth's Croncrete Math]

3

9

2

10

Self (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2

Blogs [?]

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

2

419 scam: Purporting Paul Graham

28

3

Succinctness is Power

4

4

Spammers' Stories

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of Ruby

3

2

Q: Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears

2

3

Funny loading statements to keep users amused

2

4

Hidden Features of ASP.NET

1

Substack [?]