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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

2

New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky

192

3

How to Disagree

183

4

Hacker News Site Guidelines

177

5

Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code

143

6

Why Not To Do A Startup

136

7

Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)

133

8

Workplace Experiments at 37signals

128

9

The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

127

10

Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism

121

Top Ask HN

1

Why should I use OpenID?

31

2

Giving raises after a series A round

15

3

I want to make a webapp. Where do I start?

14

4

ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter

10

5

how to be a VC?

7

6

documentation format?

6

7

Consulting on the side

5

8

Autoposting script?

5

9

Could you implement News.YC in your favorite language?

4

10

Does anyone know of am open source flash mp3 player?

4

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)

133

2

Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

96

3

Communicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy

91

4

Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass (YC summer 07)

87

5

Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

77

6

My 23andMe DNA Results

67

7

Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup

66

8

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

55

9

Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)

48

10

Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

48

News [?]

1

An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader

78

2

Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ

75

3

JPMorgan buys Bear Stearns for $2/sh, ~$236mm total

56

4

They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know

42

5

It's not you, it's your books

38

6

The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing

36

7

A boy the bullies love to beat up

35

8

Wall Street fears for next Great Depression

34

9

Paul Krugman: Partying Like It’s 1929

32

10

Steady decline in burglaries because "Everybody has everything now"

32

Scientific publications [?]

1

People Who Read This Article Also Read...

8

2

When are recommender systems useful?

2

3

2

4

2

5

Iterative Filtering for a Dynamical Reputation System

1

6

"Manhattan Project" for next generation of bionic arms

1

7

XCOR to Unveil New Suborbital 2 Person Rocketship

1

8

Super soaker inventor invents new thermoelectric generator

1

9

Human Dynamics Revealed Through Web Analytics

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple: Application Design Fundamentals

21

2

Open source Flash player in beta

14

3

Craigslist Scam

11

4

GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting

5

5

High Performance Ajax with GWT

4

6

Apple Manager Writes "Managing Humans" to Help Techies

3

7

Ubuntu Linux Disk Encryption Benchmarks

3

8

Privacy and Power

3

9

A New Version of the iPhone SDK is Now Available. Now includes Interface Builder.

3

10

Addressing Doubts about REST

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Adobe Bringing Flash to the iPhone

6

2

IPhone 2.0 Firmware Jailbroken Already

2

3

Sun Researching Super Fast Laser Processors

1

4

Safari for Windows illegal for use on Windows PCs

1

5

Sub-$300 iPhone, 3G model seen driving 45M unit sales in 2009

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

IPhone SDK Downloads Top 100,000

12

2

IE8 Beta Released

5

3

Microsoft reveals IE8 features

2

4

Amazon MP3 Downloader available for GNU/Linux (though not FAIF)

1

5

Uranium Ore on Amazon

1

6

Bill Gates Asks Congress to Act Now to Maintain U.S. Innovation Lead

1

7

An answer to PG's Boss essay

1

8

Signs that you may be suffering from homepreneuritosis

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

127

2

Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site (text summary + 3 part video interview)

2

3

Bruce Schneier on Dual Use Technologies [video]

1

4

Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet

1

5

Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality

1

6

The Subprime Primer

1

Science News [?]

1

Mathematicians find new solutions to an ancient puzzle

23

2

Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand

15

3

'Black hole' made from light

13

4

Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban

10

5

Should every computer chip have a cosmic ray detector?

3

6

Vanguard 1 turns 50

3

7

New research finds some buckyballs can hold incredibly dense volumes of hydrogen

3

8

Should every computer chip have a cosmic ray detector?

2

9

Nano-breakthrough: Dramatic Increase In Thermoelectric Efficiency

2

10

Recipes came about by evolution

2

Social [?]

1

New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky

192

2

This talk puts the eccentric absent-minded professor stereotype to rest once and for all.

67

3

Dean Kamen's robotic "Luke" arm - How long before this can perform martial arts?

46

4

This video makes me think I've been underestimating the consciousness of some animals.

35

5

Clickpass v. Justin.tv

20

6

A laser experiment to show the Uncertainty Principle [video]

20

7

Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" in 1965 [Video]

16

8

A Lion Uncaged - Damn it Feels Good to be a Hacker

8

9

Youtube in High Quality (see actual video)

6

10

Reactable demo (synthesize and perform electronic music in real time) [video]

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gitnub — GitHub: OSX gui for git

8

2

Merb Textmate Bundle

3

3

A Sneak Peek at Github's Pricing Plan

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Elephant intelligence

32

2

Reverse Sokal: The Bogdanov Affair

8

3

4

4

List of open problems in computer science

3

5

The Collatz Conjecture (maths)

3

6

Joseph Weizenbaum died at age 85

2

7

The Uncanny Valley

2

8

The story of Jan Schon, the Bell Labs physicist who turned out to be a total fraud

2

9

OODA Loop - An excellent way of thinking about strategy

2

10

Entity-Attribute-Value model

2

Blogs [?]

1

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

2

How to Disagree

183

3

A New Venture Animal

106

4

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes

71

5

Six Principles for Making New Things

2

6

How to Start a Startup

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]