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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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116

2

Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application

82

3

Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

81

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Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

71

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Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs

65

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Andrew Chen: Your ad-supported Web 2.0 startup is really a B2B enterprise in disguise

64

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How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)

63

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News.yc "user" nickb is actually a sockpuppet for Paul Graham?

62

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Why Lisp Is Unpopular

62

10

Website runs all in S3, no server.

61

Top Ask HN

1

Choosing a Python framework for web development?

38

2

it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site?

5

3

Extraordinary people who have inspired you

3

4

when does your bullshit filter turn on?

3

5

Metrics for startups?

2

6

being accused of running sockpuppets, what would you do?

1

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort

54

2

Comcast monitors Twitter

40

3

Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service

38

4

TheFunded Founder Gives Startups Some Advice

36

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Slide Caught Posting Fake Positive Reviews For Their Own App

20

6

Announcing The TechCrunch50 Conference: September 8-10, San Francisco

18

7

Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley

13

8

Facebook To Settle With ConnectU

13

9

Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill

11

10

Photo Essay: Unlikely Places Where 'Wired' Pioneers Had Their Eureka! Moments

9

News [?]

1

Programmer Destroys Seven Billion Dollar Industry With A Single Software Application

82

2

More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy

35

3

In the short term, you should spend your limited willpower budget wisely

33

4

Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half

23

5

An Auction That Google Was Content to Lose

11

6

The Maasai warriors' guide to England

11

7

Yahoo tells Microsoft to increase $41B bid

10

8

Searching for the Real VCs

9

9

The Ancient Mechanics and How They Thought

9

10

Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop

9

Scientific publications [?]

1

Top 10 Tech Cars

2

2

Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws

5

2

How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters

5

3

The Power of Javascript

3

4

Schneier on Security: Internet Censorship

3

5

Linux benchmarking test suite released as open source

2

6

Microsoft is to Release Open-Source Compatible XAML/WPF Specs

1

7

OpenSSH 5.0 released

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

40 percent of college students say their next computer purchase will be a Mac

57

2

Apple notebook lines to see major design changes

21

3

Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV...and 3G iPhone in 2 months!

2

4

3G iPhone in 60 days...

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft: Yahoo! has 3 weeks to decide

22

2

Is it legally negligent to teach C++ in CS1?

1

3

Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Science News [?]

1

'Ruthlessness gene' discovered

2

2

Entrepreneurial strategies have different implications for different actions

1

3

Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry

1

Social [?]

1

Digital Launchbox and TechStars Join Forces to Directly Take On Y Combinator [video announcement]

2

2

Interview with Gerald Combs, Creator of Ethereal/Wireshark

2

3

Web 2.0 Success: A video howto (parody, BarCamp Boston)

2

4

World's first voiceless telephone call

1

5

Video: Meet Karl Pilkington

1

6

The Fentix Cube - an electronic emulation of a Rubik's cube

1

7

Video: Abbott and Costello portrayed exclusively through typography

1

8

The BBC has a Twitter feed

1

9

Interview With Steve Wozniak at Boston Robotics Competition (video)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Arc Lisp to C compiler

34

2

GitHub switches back to SVN, launches SVNHub

5

3

Python Data Utils

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Trabb Pardo-Knuth algorithm

4

2

3

3

Greenspun's Tenth Rule

1

Blogs [?]

1

116

2

Designed for Microsoft Windows

16

3

Check this when you have time

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]