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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

156

2

Business Requirements are Bullshit

116

3

For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time

113

4

The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?

103

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Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

91

6

RIAA shuts down Muxtape

77

7

REST, I just don't get it

74

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Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless

69

9

I Don’t Understand Y Combinator Hate

68

10

The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?

67

Top Ask HN

1

why do we have less science related posts now that in the past?

32

2

Best resources on SEO

32

3

Questions For & About Startups

26

4

What is the job for a jack-of-all-trades?

23

5

15

6

why do some non-trollish articles get [dead]ed?

10

7

What happened to the TechCrunch Web Tablet

10

8

What does the ideal deployment process look like for this scenario?

7

9

how much of the stuff you own do you really need?

7

10

Web server development platform, Red Hat or Ubuntu

5

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

156

2

I Don’t Understand Y Combinator Hate

68

3

Picwing (YC Summer 08) Debuts Their Social Digital Picture Frame

61

4

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008

44

5

CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down - Old, yet relevant

39

6

Co2Stats (YC summer 08) compensates for your site pollution

33

7

Hello World! AppJet Opens Browser-Based JavaScript School

33

8

Disqus 2.0: New Plugin, New Interface, And Local Comment Backup

31

9

We're running out of IPv4 addresses. Time for IPv6. Really.

29

10

AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures

17

News [?]

1

The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?

103

2

Pandora: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'

56

3

Want to live a long life? Run

39

4

Winners Never Quit? Well, Yes, They Do

23

5

ScanMyPhotos: 1000 photos scanned for $50

15

6

I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.

14

7

How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov

12

8

Michael Phelps, the billion dollar man?

12

9

Dividing societies into individualist and collective mentalities

11

10

Is Google's Organic Growth Topping Out? Chris Sacca talks

11

Scientific publications [?]

1

How the Large Hadron Collider proton beam is turned off

34

2

Through a Glass Darkly: the world of mathematicians

19

3

IEEE Spectrum: First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter kills international SMS notifications

7

2

Twitter blog: Twitter shuts off SMS updates for most countries

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Now Worth More Than Google

29

2

IPhone developers get first monthly sales reports

7

3

First Google Android phone sighting

2

4

EFF Launches Coders' Rights Project

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

IE 6 & 7 Developer Toolbar - Not new, but really useful

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany

4

2

Guy Kawasaki's rule# 2: Make Mantra [2005 speech]

1

Science News [?]

1

Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer

41

2

Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition 150,000 years ago

4

3

Researchers Halt Spread Of HIV With RNAi In Animal Model

3

4

Let your theme song be your password

2

5

Google tool identifies linchpin species

1

6

Olympic doping detection flawed?

1

7

Bionic Humans: Top 10 technologies

1

8

Computer model of bees probes the hive mind and provides insights for swarms of robots

1

Social [?]

1

Forget the Olympics. This is what everyone should be watching on TV.

14

2

Chris Sacca on freeing the airwaves

8

3

Robot with a rat brain

3

4

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

3

5

Real time real time raytraced Rome on cell processors

2

6

Don't hype the belief.

2

7

Billy Connolly on Business Requirements (profane)

1

8

Shark vs Octopus

1

9

The Matrix Vs. Carl Sagan

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

A pair of pants is a special two-dimensional surface

13

2

Ask YC: Have you ever made a demo (of demoscene culture)?

5

3

The Logistic Map, Chaos and Bifurcation Diagrams

4

4

The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate: when titanic minds clash

2

5

Humor: Before Twitter we had finger

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]