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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

532

2

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

170

3

Profitable After 3 Weeks

100

4

Donate to help a MySQler

96

5

Locksmiths Pissed Off At Geeks For Letting Out The Secret: Lockpicking Is Easy

86

6

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.

86

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I just got sued for patent infringement for operating the voo2do.com todo list

85

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Simplicity is hard to build...

82

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Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk

78

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Love: a procedurally generated MMOG written by one guy

65

Top Ask HN

1

Best books/source to learn about investing?

65

2

Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you?

42

3

What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?

33

4

Books on meta-learning

27

5

how do i move 5 GB of photos?

22

6

How do you read RSS feeds?

18

7

Anybody outsource their startup?

18

8

What are some important "failure" lessons learned while doing your startup?

17

9

Is there a NYC AI startup job list anywhere?

15

10

Professional Python IDEs?

15

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.

86

2

I just got sued for patent infringement for operating the voo2do.com todo list

85

3

Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses

60

4

Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relaunches As Startuply

46

5

OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

44

6

How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?

29

7

GoDaddy’s Domain Registration Totally Screws .me

27

8

Chatterous (YC winter '08) raises angel round to integrate email, IM and SMS

26

9

Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model

26

10

Inside the Lego Factory

26

News [?]

1

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

170

2

It Takes a School, Not Missiles

57

3

Robots are getting cleverer and more dexterous. Their time has almost come

24

4

Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry

23

5

Food for the brain: What to eat to make you smarter

18

6

My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors

18

7

Matt Mullenweg on Wordpress

16

8

Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

14

9

Is the American economy too big to fail?

13

10

Car Sales at 10-Year Low

13

Scientific publications [?]

1

Text Data Mining: Theory and Methods

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Postgres-R source code release

16

2

TrueCrypt Leaks Could Expose Your Sensitive Data

4

3

Finding A Perfect Match: Twitter & Summize

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

EULA violations = copyright infringement, even if the violation outside of a EULA isn't

13

2

Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor

4

3

Intel says first quad-core mobile chips on the horizon

3

4

BlackBerry busted - iPhone success sees analyst RIM downgrade

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Real-World Haskell now available for pre-order on Amazon

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

YouTorrent Relaunches with 67,170 Legal Torrents

2

2

Ubisoft Steals ‘No-CD Crack’ to Fix Rainbox 6: Vegas 2

2

3

A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making

1

Science News [?]

Social [?]

1

Simplicity is hard to build...

82

2

Google Doc template for 10/20/30 rule pitches from Guy Kawasaki

4

3

[YouTube] Google TechTalk: How Cybercriminals Steal Money (From Web Apps)

4

4

Google Techtalk: Financial Markets as Computer Networks

4

5

Steve Jobs on Microsoft: No Taste (00:54 video)

3

6

jQuery explained by a 12 year old

3

7

Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

3

8

Feynman - The pleasure of finding things out [video]

3

9

Merlin Mann on personal branding

2

10

Real-Time Shared Editing - Google Tech Talk

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Gist - a git powered paste site

52

2

Scaling Lesson #23742

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Minimalism (computing)

29

2

Viroids: mini-virus-like organisms (?) whose genes are only a couple hundred base pairs

8

3

List of unsolved problems

2

4

List of features removed from Vista that were in older Windows versions

2

5

Government sponsored enterprise

1

Blogs [?]

1

Interview About Web 2.0

22

2

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]