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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

2

Cities and Ambition

156

3

Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck

122

4

Michael Arrington: “I’m a Click-Whoring Jackass”

103

5

Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell

91

6

Ask YC: Best book to learns statistics?

80

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To HN: Looking for people to talk to...

77

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Python + Hadoop = Dumbo

73

9

Living With the Computer Whiz Kids

63

10

56

Top Ask HN

1

How hard is your problem?

31

2

What are some good biographies to read?

27

3

Where did you top out in math classes?

26

4

how did you fix problems with bad sleep?

26

5

good place to store code online?

23

6

Ethics and laws regarding scraping websites?

22

7

coding challenges as part of interviews: yes or no?

17

8

Fink or Macports?

15

9

How to deal with patents?

12

10

ASK HN - Good worksheet for estimating startup costs?

10

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google App Engine opens up for Google I/O, pricing announced

40

2

TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors

35

3

ImportGenius: The Disruptive Shipping Database

33

4

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part III

17

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Jerry Yang: “We’re Done”

13

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Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop

13

7

13

8

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

12

9

Freeman Dyson's Brain

12

10

Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services

10

News [?]

1

Which part of Octopart don't you understand?

49

2

Uncontacted Amazonian tribe photographed

34

3

Do You Love the Job, or Just the Paycheck?

19

4

Michael Crichton predicted Mass Media's current fate in 1993

17

5

"Keep gasonline prices high, forever"

17

6

The Sky Is Falling

15

7

War Without Soldiers

13

8

The human hands behind Google's money machine

11

9

Web 2.0 fails to produce cash

8

10

GooTube - Google is turning YouTube into its own kind of data gold mine

8

Scientific publications [?]

1

Vernor Vinge: Signs of the Singularity

14

2

Economics of the Singularity

2

3

Human dynamics revealed through Web analytics

1

4

Two Paths to the Singularity

1

5

The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling issues

32

2

Barriers and journaling filesystems

6

3

Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

5

4

It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work

4

5

Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures

1

6

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Perfect Machine/PC for hackers

3

2

Infineon warning hints iPhone delay, analysts say

1

3

Apple planning biggest back-to-school promo yet

1

4

Apple Bought Me.com? .Mac's New Name?

1

5

Google's Android demo shows app store, tweaks iPhone formulas

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

2

2

Trailer of "August", about an aggressive .com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up afloat.

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

24

2

Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback?

2

3

Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender

1

Science News [?]

1

Why we should love logarithms

19

2

Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests

2

3

New Image-recognition Software Could Let Computers 'See' Like Humans Do

1

4

Nautilus - Short-term Memory Without Brain Structures

1

Social [?]

1

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

2

Reddit redesigned

39

3

I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit redesign?

29

4

Here comes another bubble...

17

5

Python Design Patterns (vi lecture by Alex Martelli)

17

6

Blaine Cook: Twitter is dead to me...

6

7

Learn Google Analytics with Videos

2

8

Clay Shirky on New Book "Here Comes Everybody" [Video]

1

9

Joi Ito, Bernard Lukey, Matt Flannery, Sanjeev Bikhchandani at Zeitgeist Europe 08

1

10

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

25

2

The "Uncanny valley" hypothesis

2

Blogs [?]

1

Cities and Ambition

156

2

3

3

Disconnecting Distraction

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]