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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

JL: Why I Do YC

130

2

Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

109

3

We've been working really hard on our startup and now this

86

4

Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

81

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The Website Is Down (Hilarious 10 Minute Video)

81

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Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)

80

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37signals to Drop IE6 Support

77

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Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

74

9

20 Ways to Attack Shyness

72

10

Use this instead of letting your registrar park your domains with useless adwords

72

Top Ask HN

1

Setting up an open source project.

22

2

Adding SMS Integration to Web App

16

3

How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting?

14

4

Feedback on my learning startup

9

5

A preview that randomly changes how you view the text.

7

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Are you using computers to augment your intellect?

6

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ASK HN: Quad monitors - advice? tips? tricks?

5

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what is wrong with asp.net?

5

9

How to design private messaging emoticons?

5

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How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method?

4

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

81

2

How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000

48

3

Once Nearly Invisible To Search Engines, Flash Files Can Now Be Found And Indexed

35

4

Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us

28

5

Ok, Now It’s Done. Microsoft To Acquire Powerset

25

6

Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming

25

7

Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

24

8

Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves

23

9

Ustream.tv Just Got a Redesign, But Justin.tv Is Still Beating Its Pants Off

21

10

The “Crisis” In Venture Capital

20

News [?]

1

On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

68

2

Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work

25

3

Campuses getting less political as '60s professors retire

21

4

The Facebooker Who Friended Obama

21

5

Virtual fencing: A new way of corralling cattle is being tested in New Mexico

17

6

Don't Quit Your Day Job

17

7

Rules to Keep Your Skin in Wall Street Massacre

17

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Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up

12

9

If You’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow

12

10

Don't quit your day job (Forbes piece on successful side businesses)

11

Scientific publications [?]

1

A proof of the Riemann hypothesis

15

2

Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge

12

3

Kiva's warehouse robot system

12

4

Automated line-call system at Wimbledon yields much useful data

7

5

Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?

2

6

Machinima: Making movies using 3D engines in The Sims et al

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Complexity Around Simplicity

4

2

REST Anti-Patterns

2

3

Solving Sudoku with TDD

2

4

Hundreds of Thousands of Laptops Lost at U.S. Airports Annually

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

SSD hard drives tank laptop battery life

13

2

German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac

13

3

AT&T says original iPhones can be inactivated and used as WiFi iPods

2

4

Viacom's Statement on YouTube User Data Controversy

2

5

Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users

1

6

International Customer Backlash on iPhone Rate Plans

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Object-oriented vs. functional styles in curricula (plus a response from Alan Kay)

2

2

IPhone 3G video tour

1

3

Microsoft Launches Equipt - new software subscription service

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google

2

Science News [?]

1

Stroke Victim Suddenly Speaks With Strange Accent

2

2

Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch

2

Social [?]

1

See Twitter's SQL.

49

2

His name is Dmitri Gaskin, he's 12 years old and here's his Google tech talk on jQuery

7

3

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

3

4

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot (vid)

3

5

You Wouldn't Know A Walled Garden If It Bit You In The...

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source

23

2

Git-issues: a distributed issue tracking system based on git repositories

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Antikythera mechanism: a complex astronomical calculator from 100 B.C.

14

2

HTTP Error 418: "I'm a teapot"

1

3

What do you guys think about Sudbury education model?

1

4

List of acquisitions by Google

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]