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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

186

2

Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

135

3

$700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets

130

4

Making money twice

120

5

How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town

117

6

10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill.

115

7

The best description of the fed bailout

114

8

Cloud computing is a trap, says Stallman

99

9

The Diskette That Blew Trixter's Mind

89

10

Google backs gay marriage

85

Top Ask HN

1

What would you do with your life if you solved the money problem?

39

2

Getting hands dirty with electronics for newbies

28

3

What would you do with $700 Billion?

23

4

Best, Simple, Free Web-based Bookkeeping/Accounting

17

5

django vs php: a hard choice

14

6

how to push to a live site?

9

7

Wallstreet News slinkset site

9

8

How to decide if an idea is worth implementing as a business?

8

9

Did you switch to Chrome?

8

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CSS framework for rapid prototyping?

6

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform

70

2

RescueTime (YC winter 08) raises $900k to expand

62

3

Larry Page blasts white space FUD on capitol hill

58

4

Y Combinator’s SocialBrowse Launches To The Public

45

5

Apple stock plunging, Google stock diving, Yahoo stock melting

43

6

Did Google Reverse-engineer Windows?

25

7

Automattic (Wordpress) Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System

25

8

Hands on with some surprising $80 night vision goggles

25

9

Stop Complaining about Apple and the App Store

16

10

Ten Years Later, A Third Google "Founder" Comes Out Of The Woodwork

15

News [?]

1

"Cool" invention triples athletic performance

59

2

How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley

51

3

How Flickr polices 2.8 billion photos

37

4

Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

27

5

Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate through sleep

27

6

EU Agrees on `Blue Card' to Lure Qualified Migrants

21

7

User-generated science: Web tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate

12

8

Why Google's Online Enyclopedia Will Never Be As Good As Wikipedia

10

9

IBM threatens to leave ISO

10

10

Risky, we-can't-fail, all-or-nothing science

9

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Cepheid Galactic Internet

5

2

Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Two Classes of Airport Contraband

40

2

Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design

1

3

Bumper-sticker API Design -- Josh Bloch

1

4

Dan Grigsby on applying Social Engineering and Spikes to the business side of your startup

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters

65

2

HowTo: Web server on a business card

5

3

App Store Customer Reviews Now Require Purchase

4

4

Next-gen MacBook, MacBook Pro spotted in matching outfits

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Programming is central to Computer Science

11

2

Parkinson's Law (On Amazon reader, but the book is excellent)

5

3

MySQL Enterprise subscription now offers support for Amazon EC2

1

4

The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Meta-level Architecture in AutoLISP

1

5

Web2py book on Amazon

1

6

A "Microscope" for Exploratory Computer Science Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Science News [?]

1

Study suggests learning from mistakes only kicks in at Age 12

5

2

DHS: 'Pre-crime' detector shows promise

4

3

New Helium-Based Microscope

1

4

Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008 winners

1

5

Earth's Oldest Rocks

1

Social [?]

1

Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours

54

2

Reddit's discussion for a guy that lost interest in programming

20

3

Best startup advice of the month

10

4

Gary Vaynerchuk @ Web 2.0 Expo - a must watch

5

5

Finding jobs for an old school Comp Sci graduate?

4

6

3 biggest MSFT competitors according to Ballmer

3

7

HealthMap: Digital Disease Detection

2

8

Beta Program - Looking for Early Adopters

2

9

Tango EV solar-charging at Googleplex (video; just posted; 1:14)

1

10

Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT" The Rules Are...

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Probably the first open source Merb-based social network (GPL'd)

9

2

Critical rails-core discussion: program naked?

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of cognitive biases

36

2

The Angle of repose

16

3

An Automat is a fast food restaurant where foods and drink are served by vending machines.

7

4

When tissue is pronounced "Kleenex", you have a problem.

3

5

Coorindated Universal Time - every wondered about the history of "UTC"?

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Unit Testing File Modifications

2

2

Background tasks on appengine

1

Substack [?]