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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Google Chrome download link is live.

153

2

Django 1.0 is finally here

132

3

The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)

127

4

Obama is RESTful

127

5

Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web

85

6

Founder Stories

85

7

How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)

76

8

Making Rails 12X Faster

67

9

About the origins of the equals sign

66

10

Sister of Python Hacker arrested for protest - His essay on protest and change

62

Top Ask HN

1

Recommended path for self-study math and CS?

40

2

What does your room look like?

34

3

Pointless Spam?

25

4

Will you be switching to Chrome?

24

5

How do you identify a great software developer in an interview?

15

6

Recommend a server co in Europe

14

7

How do you share screenshots?

13

8

Best way to send MMS

6

9

Do you think there is room for mobile startups that neglect the Iphone?

6

10

Making money on Facebook with ads?

5

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web

85

2

How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)

76

3

Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

60

4

Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it

41

5

The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

35

6

Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists

33

7

Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

32

8

DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class

31

9

Secretive Storage Company Dropbox (YC Summer 07) Took Sequoia Funding in 2007

31

10

ContestMachine (YC Summer 07): A Product Giveaway Widget For Bloggers

30

News [?]

1

The Economist: Deflating IT

43

2

Feds to take over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

42

3

The second browser war

42

4

Is something rotten at Apple?

40

5

Letter to a Young Procrastinator

35

6

How to Disappear

29

7

Popcuts (YC summer 08) on CNN.com

29

8

Does extra mental effort burn more calories?

26

9

Nifty New Risk Calculations of What's Likely to Kill You

21

10

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

21

Scientific publications [?]

1

Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?

11

2

World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction (100T)

3

3

Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Agile vs Lean Misses the Point

1

2

1

3

Ruby Beyond Rails (IronRuby)

1

4

Apple's Bug Reporting Best Practices

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple now rejecting iPhone Apps for "limited utility."

35

2

The Great PC RAM Swindle

24

3

Mockup of new iTunes 8.0 interface published

5

4

Apple confirms September 9th special event: "Let's Rock"

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Uranium Ore for sale

5

2

CS is for people who find fascinating how computers can be made to do things

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book

2

2

Download torrents instantly with Instant-torrents

1

Science News [?]

1

Study: Parachutes effective to prevent trauma due to gravitational challenge?

28

2

Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body

26

3

Prions jump species barrier

13

4

25 Years Of Conventional Evaluation Of Data Analysis Proves Worthless In Practice

9

5

Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle

5

6

Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake

5

7

Big data: Welcome to the petacentre

4

8

Chemists create 'powdered methane' using 'dry water'

4

9

Big data: The next Google

3

10

Bonobos May Have Greater Linguistic Skills Than Previously Thought

1

Social [?]

1

London Hacker Meetup tonight @ Songkick hq

6

2

ScanRobot - the automatic book scanning robot (vid)

4

3

Guy Kawasaki on Venture Capital

3

4

SSD vs. 7200rpm

3

5

A Talk with Tony Segaran (Author of Programming Collective Intelligence)

2

6

Video: The Story Behind Google Chrome

2

7

Ferrofluid art of Sachiko Kodama (vid)

2

8

Bankers vs Consultants

2

9

Sun 2 Nov 2008: 20th Anniversary of the Morris worm

2

10

No Time to Think: the information overload environmental problem (videolecture)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Has Cool Graphs Now

42

2

Jasper blurs the lines between Lisp and JavaScript.

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Project Longshot: 100 Year probe mission to Alpha Centauri

24

2

The world's tallest buildings, since 2600 B.C.

8

3

4

4

Kilocore. The 1,024-core processor.

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]