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Top stories
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A Fundraising Survival Guide
145
2
The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides
144
3
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
114
4
What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey
110
5
Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...
97
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The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC
90
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A Coder in Courierland
83
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Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios
82
9
Keep track of all the Y Combinator startups on one Slinkset-powered site
78
10
Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches
75
Top Ask HN
1
Web app feedback (intelligent chatting system)
21
2
When to do an API for my web app?
15
3
Patents
14
4
Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
13
5
Ruby on Rails Hosting
12
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iPhone Web App or iPhone App?
9
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Work on products, or take a break for (seemingly) lucrative consulting?
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iPhone Development Resources
4
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Which are the well written open source programs?
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ASK HN: How to hire good employees?
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Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches
75
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Ticketstumbler (YC Summer 08) launches
59
3
The (Highly Controversial) YouNoodle Startup Predictor Is Coming
49
4
Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music
47
5
How To Demo Your Startup
42
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Launchbox Startups
35
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Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"
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The Rise and Fall of Twitter
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Japan’s super-advanced mobile web: Too unique to serve as a global blueprint?
23
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Systemwide GMail Outage
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News [?]
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Denmark 1970: 99% energy from the Middle East. 2000: 0%. 100% energy independent.
59
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Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind
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Great visualization of olympic medals won by year
55
4
What early Google employees are doing now.
42
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CA State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses
33
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Traffic jams are not caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature.
31
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Lord of the Memes
27
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Birth, death and shopping: The rise and fall of the shopping mall
18
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The Permission Problem: Patents and Anticommons
16
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Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans
16
Scientific publications [?]
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Trees = Networks?
3
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Introductory Lectures on String Theory
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Schneier: Hacking Mifare Transport Cards
11
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DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government
9
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John Lam (Microsoft Program Manager) About IronRuby
7
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Apple and Ruby Roundup: iPhone Config Utility on Rails, SproutCore Tools in Ruby
3
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Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid
2
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Dave Thomas on Developing Expertise [video]
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken
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Apple's Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps
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Parking Garage Hacking
5
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You can't present at DEFCON -- Federal Judge to MIT Students
2
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The Apple Mac Cost Misconception: Macs and Their Prices
1
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EFF coder's rights website
1
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Inside MobileMe: Secrets of the Cloud and Mobile Push
1
FAANG+ [?]
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy
2
Science News [?]
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Visions of our far future
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Social [?]
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Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...
97
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Kinetic Sculptor Powered by Wind. by Theo Jansen.
2
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Darth Vader in Love
1
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The Day the Routers Died...
1
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The SEC is Twittering...
1
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Video: Steve Jobs on why computers are like bicycles for the mind
1
Github repos and gists [?]
Wikipedia [?]
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Apple's third founder
22
2
Beerware License: Best Open Source License Ever.
14
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Second-system effect
2
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Peak Oil
2
Blogs [?]
1
A Fundraising Survival Guide
145
2
The Venture Capital Squeeze
9
Stackoverflow [?]
Substack [?]