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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

2

Why Not To Do A Startup

136

3

The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

127

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Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism

121

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Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90

90

6

An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader

78

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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes

71

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Come stay at the hacker house in San Jose, Free

68

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Take the Next Step, Paul

65

10

The Internet? Bah! - hilarious 1995 article by Clifford Stoll

59

Top Ask HN

1

Coworking Owners, What are Your Membership Policies?

3

2

Any novel aproaches to being sick?

2

3

Is there some data-mining startup guys?

1

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur

45

2

How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

35

3

Keeping up with the YCombinators

31

4

Two Startups Battle Over Who Invented Risk-Like War Game First

31

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First Vid of Dean Kamen's Miracle Water Distiller...on Colbert

23

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Quotably Goes From News.YC to TechCrunch In Under 3 Hours

22

7

Rails developers showing love for Heroku

20

8

Ars: iPhone apps can only be deployed/tested on 5 iPhones before going to the App store

18

9

Songkick’s concert recommendation engine: It goes to 11

16

10

Make a living on software sales by ignoring pirates

15

News [?]

1

An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader

78

2

A boy the bullies love to beat up

35

3

Paul Krugman: Partying Like It’s 1929

32

4

Steady decline in burglaries because "Everybody has everything now"

32

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Many criminals are intelligent people with good heads for business and healthy appetites for risk

30

6

Making a total hash of it

25

7

Tables Turn for Dilbert’s Creator

25

8

Mozilla says Firefox 3 ready for prime-time

24

9

Social networking will become ubiquitous, but that doesn't mean it's a business.

22

10

Zen Camcorder has 13% of the market

19

Scientific publications [?]

1

2

2

2

3

"Manhattan Project" for next generation of bionic arms

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Apple: Application Design Fundamentals

21

2

GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting

5

3

Ubuntu Linux Disk Encryption Benchmarks

3

4

Addressing Doubts about REST

2

5

Linux Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

2

6

Camera that Sees Under Clothes

1

7

Performance Problems Continue for Visual Studio 2008

1

8

Distributing Bonus to Agile Teams is Like Playing with Dynamite

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Adobe Bringing Flash to the iPhone

6

FAANG+ [?]

1

An answer to PG's Boss essay

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

127

Science News [?]

1

New research finds some buckyballs can hold incredibly dense volumes of hydrogen

3

2

Nano-breakthrough: Dramatic Increase In Thermoelectric Efficiency

2

3

Recipes came about by evolution

2

4

'Squirrel Facebook' shows three degrees of separation

1

5

Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance

1

6

Visual technology enables brain to learn in new ways

1

Social [?]

1

Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" in 1965 [Video]

16

2

Anonymous: This is why we fight

4

3

2

4

Jim Rogers, legendary trader and investor, explains the current financial crisis (vid)

2

5

I am the very model of a Singularitarian [Video]

2

6

State of the X window system

2

7

Ruby On Rails Intensive 1-Day Course Video 6 hours

1

8

Macintosh Developers Video [video]

1

9

Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL (video)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gitnub — GitHub: OSX gui for git

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Collatz Conjecture (maths)

3

2

OODA Loop - An excellent way of thinking about strategy

2

3

Entity-Attribute-Value model

2

Blogs [?]

1

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

2

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes

71

3

Six Principles for Making New Things

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]