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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

IPhone NDA officially dropped

145

2

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

139

3

Python 2.6 Released

130

4

Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich

108

5

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer

105

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How To Become An Open-Source Contractor

103

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Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose

102

8

Story of Phil Katz (PKZip)

89

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86

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Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant

81

Top Ask HN

1

Demotivated Founder With Lost Passion Seeking Advice

35

2

Review my startup, Snapherd.com

22

3

Advice on dealing with criticism

19

4

Advice on partnership with a large firm.

15

5

Best partner language for Java -- Python, Ruby, or X?

9

6

Have you ever been a one man Geek Squad? (Of course you have)

8

7

review Thymer, our new todo and time tracking web app

7

8

What are your thoughts on "unofficial" programming languages in companies?

6

9

Can I survive the rest of my life only knowing Java?

4

10

Why do you do what you do?

4

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Co-Founder Departs To Build “Extensible Enterprise Productivity Suite”

30

2

Why Android Will Soon Kick Ass

30

3

Gmail and Hotmail Captchas Cracked

27

4

The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now

24

5

Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA On Released Software

24

6

The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator

24

7

No Exits. Liquidity Dries Up Even More For VC-Backed Startups In Third Quarter

20

8

Google Launches Its Own Memetracker

19

9

Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid

15

10

Four bars? The disconnect between bars and cell signal

14

News [?]

1

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

139

2

The Atlas of the Real World (pics)

41

3

Think You're Multitasking? Think Again

23

4

Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising

21

5

Huge System for Skype Surveillance, Censorship Discovered in China

21

6

Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley

20

7

JetBlue auctions tickets on ebay

17

8

The Proposed 700 Billion Dollar Bailout Compared to Other Items in the US Budget

15

9

Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'

11

10

Steve Wozniak interview

10

Scientific publications [?]

1

11

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Largest Solar Thermal Storage Plant to Start Up

5

3

Physicist named MacArthur Fellow for work on Quantum Computing

2

4

The Gravity Probe B Bailout

1

5

The Innovators Club - Interest in TechShop's neighborhood workshops is growing

1

6

Virgin Galactic wishes to remain a Virgin

1

7

The Gravity Probe B Bailout

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IPhone NDA officially dropped

145

2

Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist

63

3

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released

15

4

InfoQ: Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator

9

5

How to GET a Cup of Coffee

8

6

Giles Bowkett: 36m inspiration on art, passion, markets, and shipping to avoid Fail 2.0

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

The Macbook "Brick"

43

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Latest iPhone Software supports full-screen Web apps

4

3

The upcoming MacBook 'Brick' is a new manufacturing process

4

4

Apple's heart bleeds on fake Jobs data

2

5

6 PC render farm in one clear case

1

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Mac presence on web up nearly 5 percent in September

1

7

RIAA v. The People: Five Years Later

1

8

Boxee: Watch flash video on Apple tv ie: hulu etc...

1

9

Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming By End of Year

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Start-up Challenge

4

2

Amazon pre-announces EC2 for windows

2

3

Programming is central to Computer Science, and we can change Programming Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online

4

2

News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents

2

3

If only the banks had read this letter (c. 1997)

1

4

Slacker Uprising BitTorrent Takedown Sent to DNS Provider

1

Science News [?]

1

Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?

5

2

Do we all have some synaesthetic ability?

4

3

World Efficiency Record for Solar Cells

2

4

AIDS and cervical cancer discoveries scoop Nobel prize

2

Social [?]

1

29

2

Using evolution of neural nets to get artificial intelligence [video]

12

3

Realities of the Game Industry and Entrepreneurship - David Allen of Quest Online

3

4

Complete YouTube videos of select Stanford classes

2

5

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? (Video))

2

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Hands-free Coding with Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition

2

7

Interactive Game Using Youtube Annotations

1

8

STARTonomics is streaming live with Ustream

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

MiniGems: Lighweight drop-in replacement for rubygems

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

ZigBee - Low Power, Low Cost, Mesh wireless for control/sensor network

12

2

2

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Cryptomorphisms

1

4

1

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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]