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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why There Aren't More Googles

152

2

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

139

3

Facebook Is Not Really That Special

95

4

The boring truth about why groups don't get invited to interviews

89

5

The Thing About Git

86

6

Storage Space, The Final Frontier: Amazon EC2 adds persistent disks

82

7

The Young Man's Business Model

67

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Zed Shaw: "rails-core ripped off the idea for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo"

67

9

We need a Wikipedia for data

66

10

Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

62

Top Ask HN

1

what software do you use for analyzing apache logs?

33

2

Lead generation? (consulting)

18

3

Ask HN on: Controlling trolling

12

4

What was an idea or concept that made sense to you only after a small epiphany?

3

5

Good online link checker?

2

6

What sorts of theory work best in practice for you?

1

7

How long will it take, while Micro$oft starts to work on Unix based OS?

1

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

139

2

Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen

38

3

Why Chipotle Does Less (Applies to the Get Real model)

38

4

TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching App On Google App Engine

37

5

If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead

20

6

Future of [mobile] social networking --- is this Loopt?

19

7

Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth

18

8

Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains

17

9

Pageflakes Acquired By Live Universe

16

10

In-vitro hamburger? "We have the technology."

16

News [?]

1

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)

47

2

Start-Up Kids Grow Up to Be Millionaires So Fast

28

3

A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity

27

4

Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall Problem

27

5

Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free

23

6

The U.S. Congress is doing its best to lose the global talent war

20

7

Using software to provide cheap business jet service

13

8

John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96

11

9

Worldwide run on Rice

10

10

Microsoft Said to Be Talking With News Corporation About Joint Yahoo Bid

9

Scientific publications [?]

1

Metcalfe's Law is Wrong

3

2

Rapid image sorting by monitoring brain activity

3

3

IEEE Spectrum: People Who Read This Article Also Read...

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

"Linux has a driver problem" is a myth

5

2

JRuby 1.1 released with major performance improvements

2

3

Ruby and Git Roundup: Rails, Rubyforge, APIs

2

4

Cool URIs in a RESTful World

1

5

RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws

1

6

A RESTful ESB implemented using NetKernel

1

Tech blogs [?]

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft releases 14000 pages of technical docs on product protocols

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Y Combinator's 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud

25

2

Demonoid Is Back Online

3

3

The Basics of Hashes (perl and awk)

1

Science News [?]

1

How a hacker became a freedom fighter

5

2

20 Percent of Scientists Admit to Using Brain-Enhancing Drugs

3

Social [?]

1

Follow Hacker News on Twitter

20

2

Is this a good way to run a software company? [13 min vid]

12

3

Developing and deploying an application on Google App Engine

7

4

Anyone want to debate Austrian economics?

5

5

How not to pitch a venture capitalist (Ali G)

4

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Twitter / venturehacks

3

7

This Guy is Very Impressive: 10 min Interview (Ricardo Semler)

2

8

Mitch Kapor unveils Hands Free 3D!

1

9

Does Twitter Actually Listen to its Users?

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

46

2

Visualize the Social Graph around your Project on Github

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The peculiarity of Malbolge is that it was designed to be the worst possible programming language

12

2

Leonard vs. Pepsico: the most frivolous lawsuit I've ever heard of

3

3

Orders of Magnitude

1

4

1

5

A physical explanation of the tendency for small wettable floating objects to attract one another

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why There Aren't More Googles

152

2

48

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]