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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Love, Internet Style

242

2

Wow, check out this guy's comment

233

3

I don't want to work very hard

224

4

So you want to be a consultant?

193

5

After Credentials

186

6

The nicest math book I own

175

7

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

174

8

Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

171

9

The High-Res Society

168

10

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

160

Top Ask HN

1

How do big web sites roll out new versions?

110

2

you're rich, now what?

66

3

Do you think primarily in English?

56

4

How do you deal with mental illness?

52

5

How do you explain what you do to your relatives?

51

6

What's your philosophy?

50

7

Review my webapp.

41

8

Is it worth switching to a Mac?

40

9

Do I need T&C for side projects

40

10

Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

39

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

100

2

The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent

76

3

Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek

66

4

Apple announces final MacWorld, Steve Jobs won't deliver keynote

59

5

Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel round

59

6

Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

58

7

Death To The Embargo

57

8

588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

53

9

9 Year Old Girl Becomes Microsoft Certified "Professional"

53

10

Are all the MS Zunes dying?

47

News [?]

1

Reason: Why poor countries are poor.

97

2

Time to Reboot America

71

3

Michael Lewis: A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life

68

4

Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition

65

5

It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It

62

6

Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness."

57

7

H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82

54

8

The single most well-reasoned talk on Global Warming that I have ever seen - Lomborg

54

9

Argentina's coin crisis

54

10

Raising the World’s I.Q. with Micronutrients

53

Scientific publications [?]

1

The memristor—the functional equivalent of a synapse—could revolutionize circuit design

64

2

A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol

23

3

14

4

Surprising Second Black Hole Found in Milky Way's Center

11

5

The Rise of the Machines

4

6

Obama to Review Costs of Shuttle Replacement Vehicle

3

7

Searching with iterated maps

2

8

How We Found the Missing Memristor

2

9

How we found the missing memristor

2

10

Google Searches for Ad Dollars in Social Networks

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

66

2

Alan Cox moving to Intel from Red Hat

23

3

Killing Robot Being Tested by Lockheed Martin

20

4

Interview: Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB

7

5

Linus Torvald's rant against C++

7

6

RubyConf'08 Videos: Ruby VMs: Internals of YARV, Rubinius, MagLev

4

7

3

8

Gunpowder Is Okay to Bring on an Airplane

2

9

Rich Hickey presents Clojure at JVM Languages Summit

2

10

How to Steal the Empire State Building

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images)

43

2

Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

17

3

Apple tweaks App Store layout amid developer unrest

7

4

Developers Can Now Issue Free "Promotional" Copies of iPhone Apps

6

5

Apple wanted out of tyranny of MacWorld - reports

6

6

NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Bringing High Def to Netbooks

5

7

The GO sequencer - Hack a Day

3

8

Apple TV at the center of Apple's latest lawsuit

2

9

Gaming Effects Versus Hollywood

2

10

IPhone single-handedly driving smartphone growth

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon's search is pretty darn impressive

37

2

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

17

3

Amazon Mobile for iPhone

16

4

Tell HN - Awesome Book : 'The Creative Habit, Learn it and user it for life'

3

5

Amazon SimpleDB

1

6

Vulnerability in IE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (updated Dec 15, 2008)

1

7

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: How do you decide what to learn? Permalink

1

8

Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon

25

2

Will uTorrent Really Kill the Internet?

4

3

Pirate Party Gets Massive Support in Sweden

4

4

Attempt at a proof of the complexity of graph isomorphism

3

5

[Book review] The Art of Debugging with GDB,DDD and Eclipse

2

6

Google Beta (1998)

2

7

Why do people register, does crippling work, does anybody really know?

1

Science News [?]

1

Memories may be stored on your DNA

36

2

Is cold sore virus responsible for Alzheimer's Disease?

31

3

Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008

20

4

'Interplanetary internet' passes first test

17

5

Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle (WW2 case study)

17

6

Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest

14

7

Did our cosmos exist before the big bang?

12

8

Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer

10

9

Space elevator trips could be agonisingly slow

9

10

Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect

7

Social [?]

1

Love, Internet Style

242

2

Scaling memcached at Facebook

77

3

Clever table design

31

4

Is Buxfer Dead? (Answer: No)

24

5

Facebook Programming Environment Contest

7

6

Refactoring with codemod.py

7

7

Help Child Soldiers Fight

5

8

What Bill Joy is worried/excited about [video]

4

9

Feynman - The inconcievable nature of nature

4

10

A little love for Posterous (YC Summer 08)

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

106

2

GitHub's new Fork Queue

64

3

29

4

isitchristmas.com source code on github

14

5

Until Sunday, Try Out Any Paid GitHub Plan Free For A Month

11

6

Chunk Norris doesn't yield to the block, the block yields to Chunk Norris

5

7

Ringo: experimental, distributed, replicating key-value store

4

8

Get full CSS3 selector support in all jQuery supported browsers with jss.

3

9

Free Guide to GitHub Screencast

3

10

And I for one welcome our new insect overlords

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

In 1999, Kasparov played chess against 50000 people.

33

2

The Banach–Tarski paradox

26

3

List of Chinese Inventions

19

4

List of Common Misconceptions

9

5

Mobile Version of Wikipedia Finally Launches

3

6

1

7

Venture capital - Wikipedia

1

8

Rogue wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1

Blogs [?]

1

After Credentials

186

2

The High-Res Society

168

3

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

160

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Arrays, What's the point? - Stack Overflow

15

2

Healthy-habits-for-developers

2

3

Some of the Worst SQL Ever.

2

Substack [?]