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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)

227

2

"Why I Hate Django" - DjangoCon 2008 Keynote by Cal Henderson [vid]

107

3

Jason Fried - 10 Things We've Learned at 37Signals

102

4

The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking

95

5

Webkit - Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

86

6

Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses

86

7

Fed takes over AIG

84

8

Tim O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy

79

9

FAQ’s of Lehman and A.I.G. - by U of Chicago economists at Freakonomics

79

10

There's no shame in looking good

74

Top Ask HN

1

Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal.

40

2

Stormpulse valuation

18

3

Interested in news? Network bureau chief just described a service he wants...

14

4

What has been your biggest risk?

12

5

Entering a saturated market full of low quality competition?

12

6

How are monopolies lost?

9

7

Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)?

4

8

Ask HN:Infrastructure for a software project

4

9

How to store user/pass securely in the browser?

4

10

laid back, but still interesting jobs for hackers?

3

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

"In the face of change, the competent are helpless."

60

2

Nathan Myhrvold’s Patent Extortion Fund Is Reaping Hundreds Of Millions of Dollars

33

3

Google Launches Audio Indexing

28

4

Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers

28

5

New Microsoft Commercials Are Live

25

6

Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends (Webkare)

25

7

Breaking - Android Official on September 23

17

8

Google's Decade

12

9

The Success of Kayak.com

11

10

Google shows off final Android handset

11

News [?]

1

"A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms"

44

2

Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

43

3

Unigo: "why didn't I think of that" startup

41

4

What it costs to sack a worker

19

5

Russia halts trading after 17% share price fall

11

6

3 month t-bill yield 0,02% - maybe traded negative

11

7

Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

11

8

12-Year-Old May Hold Key to Solar Energy

10

9

Google CEO says ready to move on Yahoo deal

9

10

Study Finds People Eat More After Mental Workouts

9

Scientific publications [?]

1

Memoirs of an Early String Theorist

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

34

2

The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang

17

3

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

8

4

InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world

7

5

Twitter Gets a Facelift (that doesn't suck)

6

6

Interview: Reginald Braithwaite (aka raganwald) on Rewrite

6

7

Adi Shamir's Cube Attack Paper is Online

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

OpenGL 3 and DirectX 11 - The war is over (apparently)

17

2

EFF sues NSA, President & VP: Stop illegal surveillance

5

3

EFi-X Allows Mac OS X to Boot on a PC

3

4

Apple's North American notebook share jumps 60 percent

3

5

Google Cuts IP Log Retention to Nine Months

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS to offer a content delivery service

49

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM

3

2

Danish ISPs Reject Anti-Piracy Proposals to deal with illicit file-sharers

2

Science News [?]

1

Dolphins swim so fast it hurts

40

2

How Memories Are Made, And Recalled

7

3

Top 10 Mad Scientists

2

Social [?]

1

New Immersive Wii Ad On Youtube (Watch full video)

7

2

Video about GM Volt battery system

2

3

IBM Research is now on Twitter

2

4

The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

2

5

The Role of Inconvenience in Designing Social Systems

2

6

Zoho Creator 3, with AppStore [video]

2

7

DjangoCon 2008 Videos

1

8

DjangoCon videos are now online.

1

9

Jim Kramer on AIG

1

10

Newest Microsoft Ads Released

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Use GitHub as your Blog

35

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikipedia deletes entry on PBWiki, the biggest hosted competitor with 550,000 wikis

15

2

Unrolled linked lists

2

Blogs [?]

1

Programming Bottom-Up (1993)

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of JavaScript

48

2

Hidden features of Python

38

3

What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon

24

Substack [?]