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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

228

2

184

3

The other half of "Artists Ship"

182

4

Let's End Adolescence

172

5

Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

168

6

Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

166

7

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

158

8

How people really use the iPhone

155

9

My Public Apology

151

10

Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts

149

Top Ask HN

1

163

2

Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do?

87

3

List of Hacker Blogs?

70

4

ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?

70

5

Does the SaaS model really work? Really?

51

6

How do Flickr, Youtube and other high traffic websites handle file uploads?

50

7

What's a good book to learn electronics?

46

8

How do I handle a million hits a minute?

45

9

Which revision control system?

42

10

Review our startup (bitloot)

41

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

104

2

Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

94

3

Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

90

4

Weebly (YC winter 07) scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

87

5

Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison Avenue

72

6

DNS Drama Exposed (Dramatically)

62

7

Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge

57

8

Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate GrandCentral In 15 Lines Of Code

53

9

A Scary Line Has Been Crossed For VCs

52

10

MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

47

News [?]

1

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

158

2

The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

108

3

The Food Miles Mistake: Saving the planet by eating New Zealand apples

68

4

Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

67

5

If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

59

6

A Letter from Iceland: A World without Money

52

7

Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering

49

8

How car dealers tie Detroit's hands

45

9

The French cafe is dying

43

10

Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has To, Yes He Can. Maybe.

41

Scientific publications [?]

1

Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars

96

2

New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles

13

3

Carbon dioxide detected on extrasolar planet

8

4

Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

7

5

CERN to Start Up the Large Hadron Collider. Now Here's How It Plans to Stop It.

6

6

Let the Games Begin: FIRST robotics competition moves to 32-bit controllers

4

7

US defence procurement woes

1

8

Carolyn Porco: Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus

1

9

Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

1

10

NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier reviews: Here Comes Everybody

54

2

Nanite: A Self Assembling Cluster of Ruby Processes

18

3

Ubuntu is getting slower

13

4

Skein and SHA-3 News

9

5

Thoughts on PDC

8

6

Colors and the UI

6

7

Ioke JVM Lang: The power of Lisp and Ruby with an intuitive syntax

5

8

Joe Armstrong Interview at QCon 08

5

9

Simon Peyton Jones on Mainstream Programming Languages

5

10

Wayland: A New X Server for Linux

4

Tech blogs [?]

1

Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer

56

2

Google is Done Paying Silicon Valley's Legal Bills

46

3

Apple's Unibody MacBook: The Review

23

4

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation

23

5

Apple may use Carbon Fiber in Next Macbook

16

6

Mac small business share nearly triples over the summer

16

7

iPhone tops business rankings, steals Nokia market share

7

8

Apple authorizes MMS on the iPhone, but not for US users

4

9

Wal-Mart to begin selling iPhone post holidays - reports

3

10

DMCA: Ten Years of Unintended Consequences

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

147

2

Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets

44

3

Perfect randomness does not exist (in a book)

18

4

Amazon CloudFront

3

5

Microsoft gives their software away for free to startups

2

6

Why get a computing degree?

2

7

Sun Microsystems to Distribute Microsoft Live Search-Powered Toolbar …

1

8

What makes a language "pedagogical"?

1

9

Q&A site for relationships. Very slick

1

10

Raising the respect level of education research in computing Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How do I make games? A path to game development.

23

2

Highly ironic comment from Steve Yegge (scroll down to "Lame Languages")

16

3

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

6

4

Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder

5

5

An introduction to Hypercard (from 1987)

4

6

Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge

4

7

Ex-MPAA and IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcer Shot Dead

3

8

C.A.R. Hoare's Turing Award Speech

3

9

Google Powered BitTorrent Seach Engines

3

10

Sand Hill Slave from Internet Archive

3

Science News [?]

1

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

42

2

Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?

33

3

What the data miners are digging up about you

26

4

Obama promises new era of scientific innovation

10

5

Brain implant allows mute man to speak with synthesizer

10

6

Why the universe may be teeming with aliens

10

7

Tunnelling Nanotubes: Life's Secret Network

10

8

Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition: First Empirical Evidence

9

9

Seabed tracks suggest new origin of animal life

5

10

Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versa

4

Social [?]

1

Michael Crichton on talent: "I just work hard"

43

2

Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad

33

3

1988 TV News Report on the Morris Worm

16

4

The original Macintosh: insanely great

12

5

Baroque Mandelbrot Zoom

12

6

Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada (YouTube Video)

9

7

Nurturing Tagging Communities: A Google Tech Talk

6

8

First Weekly YouTube Address from the President-Elect

6

9

[video] Mandelbrot on the Economy: We're Screwed

6

10

GTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte Scale

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub adds code search

42

2

Quirky Birds and Meta-Syntactic Programming

19

3

Git Patch Management with GitHub Screencast

15

4

Finding Joy in Combinators

4

5

Announcing Shinmun, a small and beautiful blog engine that works with git

3

6

Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators

3

7

Aspect-Oriented Programming in Ruby using Combinator Birds (revised extensively)

2

8

FirePython == Python logger console in Firebug

2

9

From Birds that Compose to Method Advice

1

10

Homoiconic - the new blog of Reg Braithwaite (Raganwald)

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Operational Transformation

4

2

List of states of matter

4

3

Bayesian search theory

3

4

3

5

California votes yes to high-speed rail

2

6

Reverse Polish Lisp

1

Blogs [?]

1

The other half of "Artists Ship"

182

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

25

2

11 Steps To Starting your ISV and how to measure your progress

2

Substack [?]