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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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164

2

Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)

144

3

Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

140

4

How My Start-Up Failed

128

5

App Store: I'm out

123

6

Lehman going bankrupt. Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch

110

7

Iamelgringo's first big project using Mechanical Turk

102

8

Stack Overflow Launches

91

9

The Rise and Fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

82

10

Stock Market Meltdowns - Why they will happen again and again and again

76

Top Ask HN

1

Tips to work on your startup ideas while still having a day job

56

2

Why doesn't Dilbert quit?

34

3

What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?

30

4

Advertising networks that pay per click, but are flexible.

24

5

Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math?

23

6

Beaten to the punch by a competitor, advice?

23

7

How can one deal with bad management?

22

8

Feedback on my new web app please

21

9

Looking for hard-working, ambitious co-founder

20

10

Who do you respect, and why?

17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

52

2

Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay

51

3

Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows

45

4

How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux

45

5

Tim Sweeney on the twilight of the GPU

28

6

Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements

26

7

Microsoft fires employee who talked to Venturebeat.

20

8

Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone

20

9

Gamer backlash against Spore DRM

19

10

LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network

19

News [?]

1

A mathematical trick allows people to scatter their computer files

58

2

Don't buy that textbook, download it for free

55

3

Stuck in Google’s Doghouse? Solution: mail DoJ

48

4

At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating

39

5

Food for thought - Eat your way to a better brain

36

6

Warren Buffett on what went wrong with Lehman and Merrill (2003)

26

7

Richard Wright of Pink Floyd has died

23

8

Countdown to a Meltdown

20

9

Spore's Piracy Problem

19

10

United Airlines Briefly Lost 75% of its Value Because of Story from 2002

16

Scientific publications [?]

1

Paper Transistor

3

2

A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution

1

3

Powering the Large Hadron Collider

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Gait Analysis from Satellite

5

2

Schneier on Security: Identity Farming

4

3

InfoQ: Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams

1

4

Frightening bugcounts in commercial software

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

MacBook updates coming on October 14th

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Startup Challenge. Amazon Web Service.

50

2

iPhone 2.1 Software Update Now Available

19

3

The Big Ideas of Computer Science, Part 1

8

4

Apple announces new iTunes 8.0 with HDTV Shows

3

5

The Big Ideas of Computer Science, Part 2 Permalink

2

6

Mark Cuban's Amazon Book Recommendations

1

7

Apple's accessibility site

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

OiNK Torrent Uploaders Charged with Copyright Infringement

1

Science News [?]

1

Cash discourages spending, cards encourage it.

2

2

Apple tries to patent DRM for sneakers

2

3

Miscalculation in Geological Undersea Record

1

Social [?]

1

The second Seinfeld and Gates Microsoft ad

57

2

CAD program using GUI, procedural programming and inheritance - from 1963,

51

3

Classrooms of the Heart - John Gatto (1991)

6

4

MerbCamp registration just opened, it's $50

3

5

Kara Swisher goes to Demo Fall

2

6

NavSpy (social-grid mapping) featured on Dragon's Den

1

7

LHC explanation video

1

8

Is this short film an allegory for triumphs and pitfalls of startup life?

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Luarc: an implementation of Arc's web server

6

2

Luarc : Arc's web server in Lua

5

3

New version of OAuth Ruby gem released, now supports RSA

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read...

55

2

36

3

List of eponymous laws — very cool Wikipedia page

13

4

Unexpected-hanging paradox

4

5

3

6

TonchiDot meet Denno Coil, where augmented reality goes next.

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Stack Overflow public beta

10

Substack [?]