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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

173

2

Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote

142

3

137

4

News.YC open-sourced

127

5

Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

125

6

122

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Joel: How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army

95

8

The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

92

9

The importance of launching early and staying alive

92

10

Don't Become a Scientist.

83

Top Ask HN

1

25

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize

70

2

Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

59

3

Hot or Not acquired for 20 million

59

4

TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

57

5

Chris Anderson: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

54

6

New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time Wasting Addiction

50

7

Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

49

8

First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4

35

9

(YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta

33

10

The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

33

News [?]

1

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

82

2

The Paradox of Choice: The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

54

3

Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

54

4

Take that Harvard! Stanford drops tuition for students.

50

5

Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

44

6

Nice graphic: box office revenues since 1986

39

7

The Fall of Suburbia

37

8

The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur

36

9

College is a waste of time and money for kids

34

10

Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war

32

Scientific publications [?]

1

How to Reduce Plane Boarding Time by 4x

12

2

Dean Kamen tests revolutionary prosthetics that closely resemble human motion

3

3

Smoothed Analysis: Why The Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time.

2

4

Yes this is a [pic] but it is also a Picture of the Year: Soyuz TMA-11 on a train

2

5

Earth's Final Sunset Predicted

2

6

New erasable holographic material paves way toward 3D movies

2

7

Fault-Tolerant Partial Replication in Large-Scale Database Systems

1

8

Small is not Always Beautiful

1

9

Evolution of a five-link planar bipedal walking mechanism

1

10

The Forgiving Tree: A Self-Healing Distributed Data Structure

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Elephant 2000, John McCarthy new programming language.

19

2

Schneier on lock-in

14

3

U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail

11

4

Ruby Concurrency, Actors, and Rubinius - Interview with MenTaLguY

3

5

Twitter stats page

3

6

Third Parties Controlling Information

3

7

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

2

8

1

9

Ruby 1.9 with Symbol#to_proc and (soon) curried Procs

1

10

Thin The Fast Ruby Web Server

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

30

2

Nvidia Enters CPU Market

21

3

Adobe pushes DRM for Flash

12

4

Mac OS X (Leopard) 10.5.2 Update Released

5

5

Mega Apple filing details next-gen 'multi-touch input surface'

4

6

AT&T plans major 3G expansion ahead of second-gen iPhone

4

7

Why IBM should buy AMD

3

8

$100 price drop on iPhones and iPods coming in the next two months

3

9

Next-gen Intel notebook chips to exceed 3.0GHz

3

10

3G iPhone to launch mid-year with Infineon chip - report

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft releases specifications for binary formats

31

2

MacBook Pros updated today - Good time to buy

26

3

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes to Increase Openness

2

4

Microsoft's statement on the acquisition of Yahoo

1

5

Complete List Of Microsoft Acquisitions

1

6

Arguing a Value For a Computing Degree

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA

13

2

BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption

5

3

Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent

4

4

Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent

2

5

The Subprime Explained in a fun and clear way [Google Docs]

1

Science News [?]

1

Creatures from primordial silicon: A lean, mean circuit that nobody understands

18

2

Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining

7

3

Systems biologists hatch plan for virtual human

6

4

Nanotechnology: Entirely New Way Of Storing Gas Created

4

5

'Recordable' Proteins As Next-generation Memory Storage Materials

4

6

DNA Is Blueprint, Contractor And Construction Worker For New Structures

2

7

When People Feel Powerful, They Ignore New Opinions, Study Finds

2

8

10^122, not 42, could hold the key to universal mysteries

2

9

Remember the Tasp from Larry Niven's Ringworld? They invented it.

2

10

'Online Gap' Widens Divide Between Parents and Children

1

Social [?]

1

One of the most bizarre game mechanics ever.

25

2

When trolls had class...

11

3

Running "sudo rm -rf /" [video]

10

4

A REALLY innovative way to write (domain-specific) code

10

5

National Geographic Feature on PlayPump Water Systems

7

6

Architecture: Lisp Hacker designs New Zealand Penthouse on the Bay [video]

7

7

Matz on Ruby 1.9 at Google Tech Talk [video]

5

8

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth (video)

4

9

Barack Obama at Google

3

10

Reddit's discussion of karma for comments

3

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

25

2

It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.

24

3

Companies funded by Y Combinator

4

4

The limit of The Semantic Web

3

5

List of important publications in computer science

3

6

All languages are not created equal

2

7

Reactive programming

2

8

Design by contract (Programming by Contract)

2

9

Happy Birthday to Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb - The first web browser (1991)

2

10

The Omni Group: the pre 37signals-like company

1

Blogs [?]

1

Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

173

2

137

3

Take the Arc Challenge

51

4

First Priority: Core Language

47

5

It's Charisma, Stupid

29

6

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

24

7

PG: How to make wealth

4

8

What Charisma Is

4

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]