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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too

137

2

When did we forget our dreams?

123

3

You Can't Soak the Rich

91

4

Essential Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

90

5

Harvard discovers much faster way to adjust your sleep cycle

89

6

VideoLectures.net - YouTube for hackers

83

7

As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video)

74

8

Ask YC: Django vs Ruby on Rails

70

9

"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira Glass on Storytelling

68

10

Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance

65

Top Ask HN

1

Sites/non-web things you use?

6

2

definition of a highlevel language?

5

3

Is a distcc style plugin for professional workgroups an idea whose time has come?

4

4

Any way to get back in Google AdSense's good books?

3

5

What Linux-distro to learn about Linux?

1

6

Streaming stock market data?

1

7

any interest in a hacker social network?

1

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned

26

2

Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet

22

3

PR Secrets for Startups

21

4

PayPal: Ten Days And Counting To Fix Drop Down Menu Bug

18

5

Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?

17

6

iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed

14

7

Microsoft Is Moving Towards Checkmate

12

8

Blame FriendFeed

12

9

FriendFeed Launches Rooms

11

10

The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market

11

News [?]

1

This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix.

61

2

Apple's Top Designer Explains Design

33

3

David Brooks: And the geek shall inherit the earth

22

4

The Pixar Story

16

5

At the Top of His Game

15

6

After hitting the jackpot, tech entrepreneurs school start-ups at Stanford

15

7

Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap

13

8

How Are Humans Unique?

13

9

Can slackers go corporate?

13

10

Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Expands His Empire

11

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA - Phoenix has landed

44

2

Wall-Climbing Robot Spies

2

3

Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter: "I have this graph up on my screen all the time. It should be flat. This week has been rough"

4

2

Bruce Schneier calls for more comprehensive data privacy law

3

3

Scalability Principles

2

4

Will Polyglotism and DSLs make Java the Last Big Language?

2

5

Debian, OpenSSL, and a lack of cooperation

1

6

Real world JRuby on Rails: Infectious disease reporting and management

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Inside a NewEgg Warehouse (Operations pr0n)

8

2

HP and IBM's Take on Web 2.0 (What it takes to build Web 2.0)

1

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Proposed Treaty Turns Internet Into a Virtual Police State

2

Science News [?]

1

Five things humans no longer need

4

2

Self-Healing System Applied to Aviation

1

Social [?]

1

As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video)

74

2

"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira Glass on Storytelling

68

3

Amazing technique for browsing video by direct manipulation [video]

21

4

Minority Report-style iris scans are obsolete: 3D body scans for identification

5

5

The Machine is Us/ing Us

3

6

Murray Gell-Mann On Getting Creative Ideas [video]

2

7

Lisp meta-discussion -- you never see this kind of dialogue on YC News

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

Ask YC: talking to Navy docs about FOSS & healthcare IT in ~ 3 wks. Please comment on outline.

3

2

Wikipedia on Modafinil / Provigil

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

56

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]