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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

182

2

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

172

3

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

153

4

Why There Aren't More Googles

152

5

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

139

6

Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo

134

7

Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?

119

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116

9

DHH: Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?

108

10

Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

97

Top Ask HN

1

Choosing a Python framework for web development?

38

2

what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

33

3

Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX?

26

4

Lead generation? (consulting)

18

5

If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change?

13

6

Ask HN on: Controlling trolling

12

7

Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences?

11

8

American web working abroad

9

9

How to choose a name for a web app?

9

10

One page site/app + advertising revenue?

9

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

172

2

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

139

3

Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

97

4

I got techcrunched!

61

5

Xobni Walks Away From A Microsoft Deal

61

6

Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni

57

7

Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

54

8

Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School

49

9

Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.

45

10

Where are they? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.

42

News [?]

1

Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application

82

2

Success is All in a Day's Work

49

3

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)

47

4

Game Theory Explains the Eligible-Bachelor Paradox

42

5

Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says.

38

6

EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist

38

7

More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy

35

8

In the short term, you should spend your limited willpower budget wisely

33

9

Start-Up Kids Grow Up to Be Millionaires So Fast

28

10

A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity

27

Scientific publications [?]

1

What can you legally take from the web?

10

2

The Computational Capacity of the Universe

6

3

Rensselaer to Require All Engineering Students to Study Abroad

4

4

Metcalfe's Law is Wrong

3

5

Rapid image sorting by monitoring brain activity

3

6

Top 10 Tech Cars

2

7

IEEE Spectrum: People Who Read This Article Also Read...

2

8

Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting

1

9

Rensselaer will require all engineering students to study abroad

1

10

Europe Looks for a Peer-to-Peer TV Alternative

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

New iPhone beta

11

2

You Can't Teach Normal Users About Security

11

3

Schneier: Security companies can't explain their products

10

4

HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases

7

5

Boring Jobs Dull the Mind

7

6

RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws

5

7

How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters

5

8

InfoQ: 8aweek on how they work

5

9

"Linux has a driver problem" is a myth

5

10

Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

40 percent of college students say their next computer purchase will be a Mac

57

2

IBM considering switch to Macs

44

3

Apple posts profit of $1.05B, ships nearly 2.3 million Macs

35

4

Apple notebook lines to see major design changes

21

5

Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV...and 3G iPhone in 2 months!

2

6

3G iPhone in 60 days...

2

7

NVIDIA 8800GT for Older Mac Pros Now Available

2

8

Apple's MacBook Pro with 128GB SSD: Performance and Battery Life Investigated

2

9

Laser head mount display (Apple Inc. Patent)

2

10

Paper: 3G iPhone smaller, lighter than existing model

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft: Yahoo! has 3 weeks to decide

22

2

Computing vs. Computing + X

8

3

Real World Haskell available for pre-order

4

4

Boeing vs Bloomberg: Visuals are the key to situational awareness

2

5

Is it legally negligent to teach C++ in CS1?

1

6

Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter

1

7

Microsoft releases 14000 pages of technical docs on product protocols

1

8

Randy Pausch's book: The Last Lecture

1

9

Meet the New Imac

1

10

Java 6 for Mac released -- sort of

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech about Making Money at SS2008

74

2

The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.

30

3

Y Combinator's 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud

25

4

Explaining the semantic web [Google docs presentation]

16

5

Demonoid Is Back Online

3

6

The Basics of Hashes (perl and awk)

1

7

Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent

1

Science News [?]

1

Simple brain exercise can boost IQ

36

2

Life-changing books: recommendations from 17 leading scientists

11

3

How a hacker became a freedom fighter

5

4

20 Percent of Scientists Admit to Using Brain-Enhancing Drugs

3

5

'Ruthlessness gene' discovered

2

6

What Aristotle could teach your business

2

7

Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds

2

8

Religion a figment of human imagination

2

9

Entrepreneurial strategies have different implications for different actions

1

10

Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry

1

Social [?]

1

Octopart very well received after its first time on the Reddit frontpage

45

2

Follow Hacker News on Twitter

20

3

Is this a good way to run a software company? [13 min vid]

12

4

Facebook launches Facebook Chat

8

5

Developing and deploying an application on Google App Engine

7

6

Startup School Sunday Mixer -- hosted by Wundrbar

7

7

Inside Dot Com: Student Lifestyle

7

8

Anyone want to debate Austrian economics?

5

9

How not to pitch a venture capitalist (Ali G)

4

10

216 tiny spherical magnets == billions of topological possibilities == one cool toy

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

46

2

Arc Lisp to C compiler

34

3

Screw.Unit: Behavior-driven Testing in JavaScript

7

4

GitHub switches back to SVN, launches SVNHub

5

5

Python Data Utils

2

6

Visualize the Social Graph around your Project on Github

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Now Wikipedia has an API

60

2

The peculiarity of Malbolge is that it was designed to be the worst possible programming language

12

3

Trabb Pardo-Knuth algorithm

4

4

3

5

Leonard vs. Pepsico: the most frivolous lawsuit I've ever heard of

3

6

"Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one."

2

7

Shneiderman's rules for design

2

8

Greenspun's Tenth Rule

1

9

Orders of Magnitude

1

10

1

Blogs [?]

1

182

2

Why There Aren't More Googles

152

3

116

4

48

5

Designed for Microsoft Windows

16

6

Taking the Eco-Dome to Darfur

15

7

5

8

Check this when you have time

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]