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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

532

2

Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

187

3

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

170

4

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

168

5

Why S3 went down

144

6

JL: Why I Do YC

130

7

You don't have to sell your company to have financial security

129

8

A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

123

9

116

10

Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

109

Top Ask HN

1

Best books/source to learn about investing?

65

2

Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you?

42

3

What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?

33

4

Books on meta-learning

27

5

how do i move 5 GB of photos?

22

6

Setting up an open source project.

22

7

How do you read RSS feeds?

18

8

Thoughts on grad school? (CS PhD)

18

9

Anybody outsource their startup?

18

10

What are some important "failure" lessons learned while doing your startup?

17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

168

2

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.

86

3

I just got sued for patent infringement for operating the voo2do.com todo list

85

4

Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

81

5

Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For "Around $200 Million"

64

6

Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses

60

7

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000

48

8

Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relaunches As Startuply

46

9

Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

46

10

OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

44

News [?]

1

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

170

2

Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

81

3

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

68

4

It Takes a School, Not Missiles

57

5

OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

56

6

With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice

53

7

Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife

53

8

First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.

42

9

Apple’s Culture of Secrecy

39

10

The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance

38

Scientific publications [?]

1

A proof of the Riemann hypothesis

15

2

Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge

12

3

Kiva's warehouse robot system

12

4

10 Great Tech Books

11

5

Automated line-call system at Wimbledon yields much useful data

7

6

World's first superconducting power lines enter service in New York

4

7

Text Data Mining: Theory and Methods

4

8

Flattened Butterfly Network Lets Data Fly Through Supercomputers and Multicore Processors

3

9

Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?

2

10

NASA Image of the Day Gallery

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Exploring LISP on the JVM

25

2

Guy Steele on Programming Languages

20

3

Postgres-R source code release

16

4

Metaprogramming Roundup: Speed, Ruby Macros, Screencasts

10

5

The Complexity Around Simplicity

4

6

TrueCrypt Leaks Could Expose Your Sensitive Data

4

7

Finding A Perfect Match: Twitter & Summize

3

8

More DTrace envy

2

9

Solving Sudoku with TDD

2

10

Ruby's Open Classes - Or: How Not To Patch Like A Monkey

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple plans mystery "product transition" before September's end

30

2

Steve Jobs in good health following second surgery - report

26

3

Spat with Rogers leaves Canadian Apple stores without iPhones

18

4

Teenager invents vehicular antitheft system

16

5

SSD hard drives tank laptop battery life

13

6

German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac

13

7

EULA violations = copyright infringement, even if the violation outside of a EULA isn't

13

8

Apple's next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood

12

9

Speculation About a 'MacBook Touch' Builds

7

10

Leaked MacBook Pro Casing Confirmed?

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Alan Kay on How We Teach Computing

28

2

MobileMe - Status

4

3

Apple iTunes University (lectures for the iPhone)

3

4

Object-oriented vs. functional styles in curricula (plus a response from Alan Kay)

2

5

IPhone 3G video tour

1

6

Microsoft Launches Equipt - new software subscription service

1

7

Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend

1

8

Real-World Haskell now available for pre-order on Amazon

1

9

Apple Reports Best Quarterly Revenue Earnings in History

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Are You Popular?

9

2

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler

8

3

Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google

2

4

YouTorrent Relaunches with 67,170 Legal Torrents

2

5

Ubisoft Steals ‘No-CD Crack’ to Fix Rainbox 6: Vegas 2

2

6

Vi is for whimps

2

7

"House of Hype" Sponsorship Opportunity

1

8

People With Open WiFi Not Responsible For Illegal Uploads

1

9

A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making

1

Science News [?]

1

Hunger Can Make You Happy

26

2

Why Musicians Make Us Weep And Computers Don't

7

3

How The Malaria parasite hijacks human red blood cells

7

4

Does the brain feature built-in noise?

6

5

The Brain Hides Information From Us To Prevent Mistakes

5

6

Stroke Victim Suddenly Speaks With Strange Accent

2

7

Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch

2

8

Music, Games, TV & Film have all failed to stop piracy, can sport do any better?

2

9

Swerve Left To Avoid That Satellite: The Growing Issue Of Space Debris

1

10

Pi or 2 Pi: That Is the Question

1

Social [?]

1

Simplicity is hard to build...

82

2

See Twitter's SQL.

49

3

Movie about dot-com entrepreneur struggling through 2001 trailer [video]

15

4

Meta casual gaming startup - PlayCrafter Teaser

11

5

Get startup jobs by twitter feed

10

6

His name is Dmitri Gaskin, he's 12 years old and here's his Google tech talk on jQuery

7

7

Google Doc template for 10/20/30 rule pitches from Guy Kawasaki

4

8

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

4

9

Google Techtalk: Financial Markets as Computer Networks

4

10

[YouTube] Google TechTalk: How Cybercriminals Steal Money (From Web Apps)

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

59

2

Gist - a git powered paste site

52

3

GitHub implementing Erlang git-daemon

33

4

YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source

23

5

How removing shell calls sped up GitHub

21

6

Scaling Lesson #23742

4

7

Pure Ruby AMQP Client

4

8

Git-issues: a distributed issue tracking system based on git repositories

2

9

GitHub: The Post-Apocalyptic Guide

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Minimalism (computing)

29

2

Antikythera mechanism: a complex astronomical calculator from 100 B.C.

14

3

Viroids: mini-virus-like organisms (?) whose genes are only a couple hundred base pairs

8

4

Knuth's routine to separate the the "man-compilers" from the "boy-compilers"

5

5

Donald Knuth's Complexity of Songs

3

6

List of unsolved problems

2

7

List of features removed from Vista that were in older Windows versions

2

8

HTTP Error 418: "I'm a teapot"

1

9

What do you guys think about Sudbury education model?

1

10

List of acquisitions by Google

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

107

2

76

3

Labels used to suppress ideas

30

4

Interview About Web 2.0

22

5

Ten E-commerce mistakes

4

6

Spam is different

4

7

Arc: An unfinished dialect of lisp [LL1 2001]

4

8

E-Commerce: Secrets and Mistakes

2

9

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

1

10

Why Startups Condense in America

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]