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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Diary of a Failed Startup

224

2

Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.

168

3

Done, and Gets Things Smart

136

4

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

131

5

17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

108

6

The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.

93

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Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and all your work thrown away?

91

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Things I've learned from running a business (ie: Don't do what I did)

89

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George Carlin dies at 71

78

10

Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos

73

Top Ask HN

1

I want to add SMS to my service, tips/help/advice?

27

2

Critique my startup

27

3

What should I try to do while still in college?

24

4

E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send?

19

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Avoiding carpal tunnel / repetitive stress injuries

14

6

Recommendation for a good UI/UX expert?

12

7

How to set up a payment gateway

11

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How would you implement a small-scale EBay?

7

9

How many of you willing to give gmail/yahoo info to expand the network

7

10

managing subdomains cookbook

7

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big

56

2

Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo

53

3

Awesome Highlighter (YC summer 08)

29

4

Top 100 Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion To the Web Last Year At The Expense Of TV And Newspapers

15

5

Montalvo Systems post-mortem: "Clever design isn’t enough when it comes to getting a product out."

15

6

Real Market Value of Social Networks

15

7

Tech Crunch For The Enterprise: TechCrunchIT

14

8

It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo

13

9

Another Incoherent Gillmor Post + Fed-up Techcrunch Commenters = Great Comedy

11

10

Google jumps into the website traffic comparison game with Google Trends for Websites

11

News [?]

1

The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.

93

2

Cancer patient makes full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells

49

3

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

38

4

The Business of XKCD

34

5

“Ninety percent of doctors I know are fed up with medicine.”

32

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Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon: The three survivors

25

7

The Mountains of Pi

21

8

American Murder Mystery

17

9

The Web Time Forgot

16

10

How LinkedIn makes money

15

Scientific publications [?]

1

Bright Chunks at Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

3

2

A Data-Parallel Algorithm to Reliably Solve Systems of Nonlinear Equations

1

3

I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot

1

4

Microsoft's Rick Rashid on Building a Corporate Research Giant

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Andrew Morton on kernel development

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

AT&T paying Apple $325 subsidy on every iPhone 3G sold - report

2

2

Ninth Circuit Upholds Privacy of Text Messages

1

3

Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard

1

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Science News [?]

1

Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

25

2

Pondering the nature of artistic genius, a social scientist finds that creativity has a bottom line

15

3

Diamonds on Demand

3

4

Strange history of the "Utah War"

3

5

Bad guys really do get the most girls

2

6

Anthropological methods to study how people use their phones

1

7

Why Oil Prices Skyrocketed

1

8

Sarcasm is a Survival Skill

1

9

Forget Jaws, Now it's . . . Brains

1

Social [?]

1

Don't talk to the police

55

2

Famous Failures

19

3

Exoskeleton Turns Humans Into Terminators

10

4

Reddit Goes Open Source

7

5

Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java. [Google Tech Talk]

3

6

Average from start of company to liquidity event has stretched from 3 yrs in '98 to 7yrs in '08

2

7

Randy Pausch to CMU Graduates: A Great Short Speech

1

8

CAPTCHA in reverse: How to convince a human that you are really a bot (useful for chatbots)

1

9

Yellow Drum Machine

1

10

Where the hell is matt?

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

One instruction computer

5

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]