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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

210

2

Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

148

3

Series AA Documents Back Online

130

4

Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

110

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Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?

95

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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage

90

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Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube.

89

8

Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument

83

9

Very Long-Term Backup

82

10

Zed Shaw's Free Hackers Union

74

Top Ask HN

1

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

66

2

How do you meet a hacker to start a startup with if you are not in college?

34

3

How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?

31

4

What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a designer somewhere in central europe?

12

5

What would you put on the wall behind your desk?

10

6

When to turn on advertisements?

10

7

Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read?

8

8

How do you organize your code?

8

9

Feedback and CoFounder - privatetransit.org

7

10

Why does no one use google docs for presentations?

4

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument

83

2

"The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company."

72

3

Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost

53

4

JustHackIt: It’s Like a Dating Site For Hackers

34

5

Adam Smith (Xobni) in Technology Review's 35 under 35

31

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Why Yahoo Japan Is Worth Nearly As Much As Yahoo

30

7

Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin

28

8

Ten Startups Debut At TechStars Demo Day

28

9

Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges

27

10

Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff

23

News [?]

1

How to get your lying printer to use up all its ink

58

2

The Economics of Pay Incentives: a 116% Productivity increase

50

3

Should the US drinking age be lowered to 18?

26

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Lively, Google’s virtual world, has been a flop

25

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Manifold destiny: a legendary problem and the battle over who solved it

17

6

Why A Four-Day Work Week Doesn't Work

11

7

How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it

9

8

First particles injected into Large Hadron Collider atom smasher

8

9

Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle

7

10

Caution: Driver May Be Surfing the Web

7

Scientific publications [?]

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Do the Hustle (Obie Fernandez)

17

2

Adi Shamir's Cube Attacks - New form of Cryptanalysis

12

3

Scalability Worst Practices

3

4

Tips from a Top Sports Team Coach

3

5

RedHat EL and Fedora Core infrastructure servers compromised, possible backdoored packages

2

6

Schneier on Security: MI5 on Terrorist Profiling

2

7

Is Database-as-a-Service a Bad Idea?

1

8

Bugs in .NET 3.5 SP1:

1

9

Tut: ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

What If the Kindle Succeeds?

19

2

IPhone 3G in Japan has 55% share of new activations despite "cultural barriers"

4

3

Download Numbers for #2 iPhone App: Brain Tuner

3

4

Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September

2

5

Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns

2

6

Anandtech re: Nehalem

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage

90

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Uncovering The Dark Side of P4P

6

2

British Government Caught Pirating On Prime Minister’s Website

4

Science News [?]

1

Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

32

2

Robot Has Rat Brain

15

3

Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite

12

4

First red blood cells grown in the lab

7

5

Survey: Women Leaders Smarter, More Honest

1

Social [?]

1

DHH Interview: Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture

22

2

Predicting the next 5000 days of the web

8

3

Scaling Out (Facebook Engineering Blog)

7

4

Facebook (for the iPhone) 2.0 on the Way

3

5

Here's to the Crazy Ones

2

6

Math, Engineering and Origami

2

7

Doing Your Best

2

8

2

9

GitHub has apparently been blocked in China

2

10

Tweet: people want to be musicians

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

210

2

Resig: proto/alpha selector engine

10

3

JsSocket: javascript socket API

3

4

Chain.js: databinding using DOM, not innerHTML

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Waldorf education

1

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Antimachines - any in use?

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]