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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

71

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Anywhere.FM acquired by imeem

70

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Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

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UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

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Aguri: Coolest Data Structure You've Never Heard Of

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xkcd endorses Obama

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Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

46

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Unintended consequences: What do a deaf woman and an endangered woodpecker have in common?

44

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21 New Startups in the Valley

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Top Ask HN

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

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Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

67

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WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites

37

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Is the Tipping Point Toast? (Duncan Watts thinks Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about tipping points)

26

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TheFunded Creating Database of VC Term Sheets

13

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The Anti-MacBook Air Has All the Necessary Ports

13

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EBay's Meg Whitman to Step Down After a Decade as CEO

12

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Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn

11

8

Bandwidth Caps May Be Critical Error For Broadband Companies

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Yale Lecturer Advises: Flush the Prozac and Hack Your Own Happiness

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Europe 2.0: European tech investing "coming of age," as events hard-wire the network

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News [?]

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Unintended consequences: What do a deaf woman and an endangered woodpecker have in common?

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Multitasking is Dumbing us Down and Driving us Crazy

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1 Billion Dollar High School

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$7.1 Billion Fraud - Could Be The Largest Trading Fraud Ever

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Sweden set to sink the Pirate Bay

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Palestinians blow hole in border wall... to go shopping.

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1/22/08: Asian markets dropping 5% again?

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Put Buyers First? What a Concept

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Tim Harford: Cash for answers

7

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Teens form suicide pact on BeBo with seven victims so far

7

Scientific publications [?]

Dev Blogs [?]

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Lucene: Large indexing performance improvements, new machine-learning project

6

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Apple releases the Leopard Human Interface Guidelines.

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Scheme and Lisp on .NET

1

Tech blogs [?]

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

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Youtube as a video dating site

1

Science News [?]

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Teach your brain to stretch time

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Scientists propose test of string theory based on neutral hydrogen absorption

2

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The Coldest Place in the Universe

1

Social [?]

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Remember when people on reddit had a clue?

14

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How to Build a Web Start-up by Ryan Carson, Part 1 [video]

8

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Much Funnier Macbook Air Parody

3

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Startups Reddit

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I submit very few links on ynews, so when I do, I like to make sure they're *extra* good.

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The Davos question. What one thing must be done to make the world a better place in 2008?

2

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Bill Gates House - Virtual Tour

2

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Neat Javascript hack at reddit (with explanation of how they did it)

2

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Ideas subreddit: submit your ideas here and see what others think of them

2

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Beyond pair programming: web 2.0 pair users

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

The bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics

25

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Unusual Software Bugs

10

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The Great Hacker War

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List of venture capital firms

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Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]