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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

2

Diary of a Failed Startup

224

3

Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.

168

4

Done, and Gets Things Smart

136

5

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

131

6

How to sell your software for $20,000

125

7

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

116

8

Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

115

9

This is what your customers think of asking for their email password

111

10

17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

108

Top Ask HN

1

The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment?

66

2

iPhone released: discouraged as I am?

44

3

Please review my webapp (Streetread)

36

4

"Simple" sharding tutorials using MySQL or PostgreSQL?

32

5

suppose I parachute into mainland Africa, could I help the people with my Hacker skills?

31

6

where's a good place to look for smart contract work?

28

7

Most Useful Bookmarklet?

28

8

Web Fundamentals for a Newb

27

9

Please critique my webapp

27

10

I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice?

27

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity

81

2

280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)

69

3

June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big

56

4

Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus

55

5

Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo

53

6

IPhone 3G is finally official

49

7

OpenTable Seats 3M diners per month, generates serious revenue

47

8

Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

45

9

Outlook Dropped For Gmail in Australia... 1.5 mil licenses

44

10

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

42

News [?]

1

The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.

93

2

Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee

77

3

Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank

60

4

The fake bus stop hack

54

5

Which part of Octopart don't you understand?

49

6

Cancer patient makes full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells

49

7

Can a Night Owl Become a Morning Person?

48

8

Malcolm Gladwell on Hiring: the Mismatch Problem

47

9

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

38

10

Brain surgeons don't hold cellphones next to their ears

38

Scientific publications [?]

1

"The singularity is a religious rather than a scientific vision"

21

2

Vernor Vinge: Signs of the Singularity

14

3

IEEE Spectrum Special Report: The Singularity

6

4

Introduction to Collective Intelligence

3

5

Fast computation of the Median

3

6

Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

3

7

Economics of the Singularity

2

8

Nature: The Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation

2

9

Evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon

2

10

Optimal Rubik's Cube Algorithm Down to 23 Moves

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling issues

32

2

Twitter:we made it

22

3

Mark Shuttleworth on the future of Ubuntu

18

4

AJAX developers continue migrating to unobtrusive JavaScript

15

5

Twitter announces new funding round

12

6

Twitter prepares for Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference

8

7

It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work

4

8

Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation

4

9

EventMachine: Fast and Scalable Event-Driven I/O Framework

4

10

Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Steve Jobs: it's time we design our own iPhone and iPod chips

17

2

Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web

7

3

Google CEO 'occasionally excused' from Apple board meetings

4

4

Apple Accepting iPhone Apps Into App Store

3

5

Apple's App Store could emerge as $1.2B business by 2009

3

6

WWDC survey suggests 70% of planned iPhone apps may be free

3

7

MobileMe backend using Sun's Java Messaging platform?

3

8

Review of Nvidia's CUDA

2

9

Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 code named "Snow Leopard" - report

2

10

Overclocking Tool for the Mac Pro

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?

67

2

Hmm, not the error message you want to see.

16

3

Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers

13

4

2

5

Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard information

2

6

Across the Border to Spook Country: An Interview with William Gibson

2

7

Iconic photo of MSFT founders.. recreated 30 years later

2

8

The iPhone 3G Ad

1

9

Tools for Agility - A White paper by Kent Beck

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why PHP Scales - A Cranky, Snarky Answer

24

Science News [?]

1

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

29

2

Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

25

3

Why we should love logarithms

19

4

Pondering the nature of artistic genius, a social scientist finds that creativity has a bottom line

15

5

UC San Diego computer scientist turns his face into a remote control

9

6

There are currently two 8-year old children with 3 parents each

7

7

Study: Instant Messaging Useful for Reducing Workplace Interruption

4

8

How a Man-Made Tornado Could Power the Future

4

9

Strange history of the "Utah War"

3

10

Researchers Simplify Quantum Cryptography

3

Social [?]

1

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

2

Calculus in 20 Minutes

73

3

JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard

70

4

Don't talk to the police

55

5

37

6

Hadoop use at Facebook

25

7

Famous Failures

19

8

Facebook's Thrift Project officially in Apache Incubator

16

9

Google I/O 2008 - Python, Django, and App Engine (Video)

11

10

Exoskeleton Turns Humans Into Terminators

10

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Powerset's Erlang-based clustering technology is now open source

85

Wikipedia [?]

1

Why the lucky stiff Wikipedia entry page to be deleted

39

2

25

3

Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees

13

4

One instruction computer

5

5

3

6

Detox: the Duke Nukem Forever of the hip-hop industry

2

7

The Arecibo message

2

8

1

9

List of acquisitions by Microsoft

1

10

Decompression (Comics)

1

Blogs [?]

1

Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular

66

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]