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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)

220

2

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

168

3

Calvin and Jobs (comic)

132

4

116

5

Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

90

6

Part-time apps developers getting rich

90

7

Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale

89

8

Last.fm Blog: Quality Control

85

9

Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

84

10

The Trolls Among Us

83

Top Ask HN

1

What has been your biggest mistake?

37

2

How do you keep motivated?

17

3

Why don't more web developers found startups?

16

4

how do you find a good salesperson?

13

5

Rate My Startup

12

6

10

7

Review my startup

9

8

Subscription management/billing software?

7

9

Your best marketing idea that has helped spread the word about your product?

7

10

Best way to handle Email as a startup?

6

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

168

2

Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

42

3

Labmeeting: A Social Network For Scientists

30

4

How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch

25

5

Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd

23

6

Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation

23

7

IPhone Tethering Returns To Apple’s App Store

21

8

Social Thing (Techstars) Acquired By AOL

19

9

Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan

18

10

Amazon To Acquire Abebooks

17

News [?]

1

The Trolls Among Us

83

2

The Secret Curse of Expert Archers

58

3

OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil

56

4

The Myth of Moderate Exercise

35

5

The Coming Death Shortage

32

6

Workings of ancient Greek 'computer' deciphered

31

7

What's Really Killing Newspapers

25

8

Park nomad, laptop in tow, calls bushes home

23

9

If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?

21

10

Launch of Elon Musk's Private Rocket Fails; Three Satellites Were Onboard

16

Scientific publications [?]

1

NYC Soldering Championship (video)

20

2

Interactive Journey Through NASA's First Fifty Years of Exploration

2

3

Mixing Memory To Speed Solid-State Drives

2

4

Water found on Mars by Phoenix lander; mission extended

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want

52

2

Bruce Schneier on the recent DNS vulnerability

30

3

Guy Steele on Programming Languages

20

4

Programming Processes

2

5

Beyond Polling and REST? Consider PubSub, Push and MOM

1

6

Software Liabilities and Free Software

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Part-time apps developers getting rich

90

2

Teenager invents vehicular antitheft system

16

3

"Switzerland" ISP Protocol Meddling Detection Software

12

4

FCC Votes 3-2 to Punish Comcast for Interfering with BitTorrent

9

5

Congress passes Higher Education Act: Tells Universities to Stop Illegal File-sharing

4

6

Carmack: iPhone more powerful than Nintendo DS, PSP combined

3

7

Esquire to feature e-paper display.

1

8

Apple now giving iPhone developers daily download stats

1

9

NVIDIA to exit chipset business, no Apple partnership?

1

10

Microsoft 10K warns of iPhone, Mac threats as iPhone nears 1.1% share

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple iTunes University (lectures for the iPhone)

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Vi is for whimps

2

2

Anti-Piracy Lobby Gains Power Over Internet Subscribers

2

3

Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates.

1

Science News [?]

1

Bluffing Could Be Common In Prediction Markets

9

2

5 Things You Must Know About Sleep

7

3

Diamonds May Have Jump-started Life on Earth

3

4

Lisp Language for Programming Proteins

1

Social [?]

1

Large Hadron Rap

24

2

NASA Found Water on Mars

7

3

YouTube and Omnisio Join Forces

3

4

Facebook outage.

2

5

IBM Research's Personal Memory Organizer

2

6

Develop multi-touch application on standard desktop Mac, using iPhone as input device

2

7

Digging Beyond User Preferences

1

8

Wii MotionPlus from AiLive

1

9

Feedback on Q&A apps in FB

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Pure Ruby AMQP Client

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Knuth's routine to separate the the "man-compilers" from the "boy-compilers"

5

2

5

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]