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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

94

2

10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

93

3

Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

92

4

Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

86

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How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

86

6

Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog)

84

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Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com

79

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Python best practices

76

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The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate

72

10

ITunes is Anti-Web

72

Top Ask HN

1

Thoughts on grad school? (CS PhD)

18

2

Good books on computational complexity?

16

3

What's wrong with all those dating sites?

14

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11

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What is the best online marketing strategy you found?

9

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ASK HN: What do you do to make your users feel safe on your site?

9

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How to monetize an algorithm?

7

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Which social network to develop apps for ?

5

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Any HN meetups in Greater Boston Area? WebInno anyone?

5

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A Hacker Videos site (a place for intellectually stimulating videos)?

5

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

46

2

Google Launches Virtual World (Rooms) Called "Lively"

36

3

Microsoft Crosses The Line

24

4

IPhone App Store Has Launched

22

5

First Look: OpenMoko's Linux-based open smartphone platform

18

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iPhone App Store To Launch Thursday Morning

18

7

Netflix to Stream On Xbox 360

14

8

Instapaper brings beautifully simple bookmarking to the iPhone

12

9

Another key early Facebook employee, Jeff Hammerbacher, is leaving the company

11

10

Canadian Rogers caves on iPhone 3G plans, offers 6GB for $30 a month

11

News [?]

1

Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife

53

2

VMWare ousts founder

35

3

Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick That Works

30

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A New Fashion Catches On in Paris - Cheap Bicycle Rentals

29

5

Oily Speculations

22

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U.S. Considers Takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

19

7

AMD Is Fighting For Its Life

19

8

Survival of the Sudsiest: The importance of beer

18

9

What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists?

18

10

Warning: Habits May Be Good for You

17

Scientific publications [?]

1

10 Great Tech Books

11

2

World's first superconducting power lines enter service in New York

4

3

NASA Image of the Day Gallery

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Exploring LISP on the JVM

25

2

Metaprogramming Roundup: Speed, Ruby Macros, Screencasts

10

3

More DTrace envy

2

4

Ruby's Open Classes - Or: How Not To Patch Like A Monkey

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Spat with Rogers leaves Canadian Apple stores without iPhones

18

2

Leaked MacBook Pro Casing Confirmed?

4

3

Apple Releases iTunes 7.7 [Updated]

2

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MobileMe Launching on July 9th Between 6pm-12am PT

1

5

Haptic Feed Back Touch Screen from Nokia...

1

6

App Store is Open. Download Apps from iTunes

1

7

IPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

"House of Hype" Sponsorship Opportunity

1

2

People With Open WiFi Not Responsible For Illegal Uploads

1

Science News [?]

1

Hunger Can Make You Happy

26

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Why Musicians Make Us Weep And Computers Don't

7

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How The Malaria parasite hijacks human red blood cells

7

4

Does the brain feature built-in noise?

6

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The Brain Hides Information From Us To Prevent Mistakes

5

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Music, Games, TV & Film have all failed to stop piracy, can sport do any better?

2

7

Swerve Left To Avoid That Satellite: The Growing Issue Of Space Debris

1

Social [?]

1

Movie about dot-com entrepreneur struggling through 2001 trailer [video]

15

2

Meta casual gaming startup - PlayCrafter Teaser

11

3

Lower power microcontroller runs on fruit

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub implementing Erlang git-daemon

33

2

How removing shell calls sped up GitHub

21

Wikipedia [?]

1

Donald Knuth's Complexity of Songs

3

2

Heredoc syntax (am I the only one in the room who didn't know about this?)

1

3

Illogical Kansas statute for deadlocks

1

Blogs [?]

1

Ten E-commerce mistakes

4

2

Spam is different

4

3

Arc: An unfinished dialect of lisp [LL1 2001]

4

4

E-Commerce: Secrets and Mistakes

2

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]