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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)

220

2

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

210

3

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

156

4

Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

148

5

A Fundraising Survival Guide

145

6

The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

144

7

Calvin and Jobs (comic)

132

8

Series AA Documents Back Online

130

9

Business Requirements are Bullshit

116

10

The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

114

Top Ask HN

1

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

66

2

Favorite websites for intelligent discussion?

44

3

What has been your biggest mistake?

37

4

Legal timeline for a successful web startup?

37

5

How do you meet a hacker to start a startup with if you are not in college?

34

6

why do we have less science related posts now that in the past?

32

7

Best resources on SEO

32

8

How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?

31

9

European founders in YC?

28

10

Questions For & About Startups

26

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

156

2

Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument

83

3

Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches

75

4

"The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

72

5

Myspace's Tom Anderson was an 80s "WarGames" Hacker

69

6

I Don’t Understand Y Combinator Hate

68

7

Backtype (YC summer 08): Twitter for comments launches

67

8

Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame

61

9

Ticketstumbler (YC Summer 08) launches

59

10

Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost

53

News [?]

1

The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?

103

2

The Trolls Among Us

83

3

Denmark 1970: 99% energy from the Middle East. 2000: 0%. 100% energy independent.

59

4

How to get your lying printer to use up all its ink

58

5

The Secret Curse of Expert Archers

58

6

Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind

57

7

Pandora: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'

56

8

Great visualization of olympic medals won by year

55

9

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress

54

10

The Economics of Pay Incentives: a 116% Productivity increase

50

Scientific publications [?]

1

How the Large Hadron Collider proton beam is turned off

34

2

NYC Soldering Championship (video)

20

3

Through a Glass Darkly: the world of mathematicians

19

4

Quantum Weirdness: Two times zero doesn't always equal zero

13

5

IEEE Spectrum: First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt

4

6

Trees = Networks?

3

7

Introductory Lectures on String Theory

3

8

Spy vs. Spy (Steganography)

3

9

Interactive Journey Through NASA's First Fifty Years of Exploration

2

10

Mixing Memory To Speed Solid-State Drives

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want

52

2

Bruce Schneier on the recent DNS vulnerability

30

3

Do the Hustle (Obie Fernandez)

17

4

Adi Shamir's Cube Attacks - New form of Cryptanalysis

12

5

Schneier: Hacking Mifare Transport Cards

11

6

DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government

9

7

John Lam (Microsoft Program Manager) About IronRuby

7

8

Twitter kills international SMS notifications

7

9

Scalability Worst Practices

3

10

Apple and Ruby Roundup: iPhone Config Utility on Rails, SproutCore Tools in Ruby

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Part-time apps developers getting rich

90

2

Io v. Veoh: Important ruling for sites comprised of 'user-generated content'

61

3

Apple Now Worth More Than Google

29

4

What If the Kindle Succeeds?

19

5

Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken

16

6

Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits

13

7

"Switzerland" ISP Protocol Meddling Detection Software

12

8

FCC Votes 3-2 to Punish Comcast for Interfering with BitTorrent

9

9

IPhone developers get first monthly sales reports

7

10

Apple details next-gen multi-touch techniques for tablet Macs

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage

90

2

IE 6 & 7 Developer Toolbar - Not new, but really useful

1

3

Download IE8 Beta 2

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Uncovering The Dark Side of P4P

6

2

Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany

4

3

British Government Caught Pirating On Prime Minister’s Website

4

4

Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide

3

5

Anti-Piracy Lobby Gains Power Over Internet Subscribers

2

6

The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy

2

7

Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates.

1

8

Guy Kawasaki's rule# 2: Make Mantra [2005 speech]

1

Science News [?]

1

Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer

41

2

Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

32

3

Robot Has Rat Brain

15

4

Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite

12

5

Bluffing Could Be Common In Prediction Markets

9

6

Visions of our far future

7

7

First red blood cells grown in the lab

7

8

5 Things You Must Know About Sleep

7

9

Human geography is mapped in the genes

5

10

Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition 150,000 years ago

4

Social [?]

1

Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...

97

2

Large Hadron Rap

24

3

DHH Interview: Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture

22

4

Forget the Olympics. This is what everyone should be watching on TV.

14

5

Predicting the next 5000 days of the web

8

6

Chris Sacca on freeing the airwaves

8

7

NASA Found Water on Mars

7

8

Cassandra – A structured storage system on a P2P Network

7

9

Scaling Out (Facebook Engineering Blog)

7

10

Credit card companies bullied Discovery Channel so RFID vulnerabilities weren't aired

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

210

2

Resig: proto/alpha selector engine

10

3

JsSocket: javascript socket API

3

4

Rack + Javascript = Jack

3

5

Chain.js: databinding using DOM, not innerHTML

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Y Combinator Article Nominated for Deletion by Wikipedia Administrators

45

2

Apple's third founder

22

3

Beerware License: Best Open Source License Ever.

14

4

A pair of pants is a special two-dimensional surface

13

5

5

6

Ask YC: Have you ever made a demo (of demoscene culture)?

5

7

The Logistic Map, Chaos and Bifurcation Diagrams

4

8

Second-system effect

2

9

2

10

The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate: when titanic minds clash

2

Blogs [?]

1

A Fundraising Survival Guide

145

2

What Languages Fix (old article)

11

3

The Venture Capital Squeeze

9

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]