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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)

227

2

Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

186

3

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

173

4

164

5

The Google Chrome download link is live.

153

6

Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)

144

7

Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

140

8

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

139

9

Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

135

10

Django 1.0 is finally here

132

Top Ask HN

1

Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job

56

2

Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal.

40

3

Recommended path for self-study math and CS?

40

4

What would you do with your life if you solved the money problem?

39

5

Why doesn't Dilbert quit?

34

6

What does your room look like?

34

7

What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?

30

8

Getting hands dirty with electronics for newbies

28

9

Pointless Spam?

25

10

Advertising networks that pay per click, but are flexible.

24

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web

85

2

How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)

76

3

Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform

70

4

RescueTime (YC winter 08) raises $900k to expand

62

5

Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

60

6

"In the face of change, the competent are helpless."

60

7

Larry Page blasts white space FUD on capitol hill

58

8

TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

52

9

Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay

51

10

Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows

45

News [?]

1

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

139

2

"Cool" invention triples athletic performance

59

3

A mathematical trick allows people to scatter their computer files

58

4

Don't buy that textbook, download it for free

55

5

How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley

51

6

Stuck in Google’s Doghouse? Solution: mail DoJ

48

7

"A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms"

44

8

Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

43

9

The Economist: Deflating IT

43

10

Feds to take over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

42

Scientific publications [?]

1

Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?

11

2

The Cepheid Galactic Internet

5

3

World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction (100T)

3

4

Paper Transistor

3

5

Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole

2

6

Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space

2

7

A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution

1

8

Powering the Large Hadron Collider

1

9

Memoirs of an Early String Theorist

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Two Classes of Airport Contraband

40

2

The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

34

3

The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang

17

4

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

8

5

InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world

7

6

Twitter Gets a Facelift (that doesn't suck)

6

7

Interview: Reginald Braithwaite (aka raganwald) on Rewrite

6

8

Gait Analysis from Satellite

5

9

Schneier on Security: Identity Farming

4

10

Dan Grigsby on applying Social Engineering and Spikes to the business side of your startup

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters

65

2

Apple now rejecting iPhone Apps for "limited utility."

35

3

The Great PC RAM Swindle

24

4

OpenGL 3 and DirectX 11 - The war is over (apparently)

17

5

Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA

14

6

Mockup of new iTunes 8.0 interface published

5

7

EFF sues NSA, President & VP: Stop illegal surveillance

5

8

HowTo: Web server on a business card

5

9

App Store Customer Reviews Now Require Purchase

4

10

MacBook updates coming on October 14th

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Startup Challenge. Amazon Web Service.

50

2

AWS to offer a content delivery service

49

3

iPhone 2.1 Software Update Now Available

19

4

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Programming is central to Computer Science

11

5

The Big Ideas of Computer Science, Part 1

8

6

Uranium Ore for sale

5

7

Parkinson's Law (On Amazon reader, but the book is excellent)

5

8

Apple announces new iTunes 8.0 with HDTV Shows

3

9

The Big Ideas of Computer Science, Part 2 Permalink

2

10

CS is for people who find fascinating how computers can be made to do things

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM

3

2

Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book

2

3

Danish ISPs Reject Anti-Piracy Proposals to deal with illicit file-sharers

2

4

Download torrents instantly with Instant-torrents

1

5

OiNK Torrent Uploaders Charged with Copyright Infringement

1

6

If only the banks had read this letter (c. 1997)

1

Science News [?]

1

Dolphins swim so fast it hurts

40

2

Study: Parachutes effective to prevent trauma due to gravitational challenge?

28

3

Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body

26

4

Prions jump species barrier

13

5

25 Years Of Conventional Evaluation Of Data Analysis Proves Worthless In Practice

9

6

How Memories Are Made, And Recalled

7

7

Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle

5

8

Study suggests learning from mistakes only kicks in at Age 12

5

9

Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake

5

10

Big data: Welcome to the petacentre

4

Social [?]

1

The second Seinfeld and Gates Microsoft ad

57

2

Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours

54

3

CAD program using GUI, procedural programming and inheritance - from 1963,

51

4

Reddit's discussion for a guy that lost interest in programming

20

5

A Brief History of Hard AI

19

6

Best startup advice of the month

10

7

New Immersive Wii Ad On Youtube (Watch full video)

7

8

London Hacker Meetup tonight @ Songkick hq

6

9

Classrooms of the Heart - John Gatto (1991)

6

10

Gary Vaynerchuk @ Web 2.0 Expo - a must watch

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Has Cool Graphs Now

42

2

Use GitHub as your Blog

35

3

Probably the first open source Merb-based social network (GPL'd)

9

4

Luarc: an implementation of Arc's web server

6

5

Luarc : Arc's web server in Lua

5

6

Jasper blurs the lines between Lisp and JavaScript.

3

7

New version of OAuth Ruby gem released, now supports RSA

3

8

Critical rails-core discussion: program naked?

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

64

2

Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read...

55

3

36

4

List of cognitive biases

36

5

Project Longshot: 100 Year probe mission to Alpha Centauri

24

6

The Angle of repose

16

7

Wikipedia deletes entry on PBWiki, the biggest hosted competitor with 550,000 wikis

15

8

List of eponymous laws — very cool Wikipedia page

13

9

The world's tallest buildings, since 2600 B.C.

8

10

An Automat is a fast food restaurant where foods and drink are served by vending machines.

7

Blogs [?]

1

Programming Bottom-Up (1993)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of JavaScript

48

2

Hidden features of Python

38

3

What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon

24

4

Stack Overflow public beta

10

5

Unit Testing File Modifications

2

6

Background tasks on appengine

1

Substack [?]