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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive
198
2
Lies We Tell Kids
187
3
Cities and Ambition
156
4
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
153
5
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
137
6
Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy
136
7
My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?
134
8
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
133
9
Architecture astronauts take over
131
10
Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed.
129
Top Ask HN
1
Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?
70
2
What load balancing software do you use ?
47
3
How hard is your problem?
31
4
What are some good biographies to read?
27
5
Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum?
27
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how did you fix problems with bad sleep?
26
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good place to store code online?
23
8
coding challenges as part of interviews: yes or no?
17
9
Amazon flexible web payments?
16
10
Fink or Macports?
15
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
78
2
Clickpass on how to get a visa for America
55
3
Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million
54
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Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
51
5
Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo to leave the company
47
6
Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
44
7
Dear Yahoo! You're Fired!
42
8
Google App Engine opens up for Google I/O, pricing announced
40
9
Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop
39
10
RescueTime (YC '08) releases aggregate data for the first time
37
News [?]
1
Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?
69
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This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix.
61
3
Letter to a Young Procrastinator: Some last-minute advice from a veteran slacker
60
4
New York Times: Xobni launches public beta
42
5
Uncontacted Amazonian tribe photographed
34
6
Apple's Top Designer Explains Design
33
7
Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
30
8
You Name It, and Exercise Helps It
29
9
Is the world’s food system collapsing?
27
10
Validity of Patent Judges, and Thousands of Their Decisions, in Question
23
Scientific publications [?]
1
NASA - Phoenix has landed
44
2
The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing
10
3
Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface
4
4
Wall-Climbing Robot Spies
2
5
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface
2
6
'Death Star' Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
1
7
Windows For Robots Touts Device Driver Support And Parallel Processing Libraries
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Terrorism as a Tax
13
2
Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through
11
3
Barriers and journaling filesystems
6
4
Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay
5
5
Twitter: "I have this graph up on my screen all the time. It should be flat. This week has been rough"
4
6
Fortress - New Language for Supercomputers (Talk by Guy Steele)
3
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Valve's Source Engine Coming To Linux
3
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Bruce Schneier calls for more comprehensive data privacy law
3
9
Scalability Principles
2
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Should you really learn another language?
2
Tech blogs [?]
1
Inside a NewEgg Warehouse (Operations pr0n)
8
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Perfect Machine/PC for hackers
3
3
Electronic Border Searches: An Open Letter
2
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Safari for Windows market share triples following SW Update push
1
5
3G iPhone with GPS, Video Conferencing, TV?
1
6
MacBook upgrade set for Q3
1
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HP and IBM's Take on Web 2.0 (What it takes to build Web 2.0)
1
8
Infineon warning hints iPhone delay, analysts say
1
9
Apple planning biggest back-to-school promo yet
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
New Gladwell Book: "Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't"
4
2
Kindle finally available for immediate shipment
2
3
August
2
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Trailer of "August", about an aggressive .com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up afloat.
2
5
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Paul Graham
24
2
Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
19
3
Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
3
4
The Pirate Bay Enters List of 100 Most Popular Webites
3
5
Bootstrapping: the esoteric art of writing a compiler for a language in itself
2
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Proposed Treaty Turns Internet Into a Virtual Police State
2
7
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback?
2
8
Shareaza Stands Up To Scammers: “We’re fighting back!”
1
9
BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away
1
10
Upgrade yourself from the world of coding
1
Science News [?]
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Visualising your social networks
8
2
Written in the skies: why quantum mechanics might be wrong
7
3
Five things humans no longer need
4
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New Breed Of Supercomputers Proposed To Improve Climate Change Prediction Accuracy
3
5
Your chance to win a Nobel Prize
3
6
Alternative To Silicon Chip Invented
2
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Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests
2
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Self-Healing System Applied to Aviation
1
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New Image-recognition Software Could Let Computers 'See' Like Humans Do
1
Social [?]
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Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight
93
2
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video)
74
3
"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira Glass on Storytelling
68
4
Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails
53
5
Reddit redesigned
39
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I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit redesign?
29
7
Video of Anybots robot using a Roomba
23
8
Amazing technique for browsing video by direct manipulation [video]
21
9
Python Design Patterns (vi lecture by Alex Martelli)
17
10
Here comes another bubble...
17
Github repos and gists [?]
1
Making Money via Open Source?
2
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GitHub: SSH Keys Generated on Debian/Ubuntu Compromised
2
Wikipedia [?]
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Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists."
23
2
Trojan Room coffee pot -- a practical predecessor to Justin.tv
8
3
Ask YC: talking to Navy docs about FOSS & healthcare IT in ~ 3 wks. Please comment on outline.
3
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The "Uncanny valley" hypothesis
2
5
McCarthy 91 function
1
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1816: the year without a Summer
1
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Bell's Law of Computer Classes
1
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Windows XP SP3 released
1
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How to get funded with just a handshake
1
10
Moore's law, for how long?
1
Blogs [?]
1
Lies We Tell Kids
187
2
Cities and Ambition
156
3
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
153
4
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
56
5
Writing, Briefly
46
6
Mark Twain: Corn-pone Opinions
17
7
Good and Bad Procrastination
6
8
Cities
3
9
Disconnecting Distraction
1
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]