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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

2

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

224

3

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

158

4

Paul Krugman: How I work

135

5

The Universal Design Pattern

126

6

I find this startup rather disturbing...

100

7

Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am.

95

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Elastic Tab Stops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code

82

9

How Steve Jobs pitches a startup

81

10

YC got a record number of applications this cycle

79

Top Ask HN

1

Who designed the graphics for your web app, and where did you find them?

55

2

Learning Erlang from scratch

41

3

Cost of servers & bandwidth

24

4

What tools and methods do you use for software testing?

24

5

Why haven't signup confirmation emails died yet?

22

6

Review our app, textpanda (web-based input shortcuts for the lazy)

17

7

Review our app, Muspy (new album notification service)

13

8

How many lines of code do you deliver every day?

13

9

Googling your name shows a lot of relevant online presence: do you look less professional?

11

10

7

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Pressflip Founder Quits: “I’m Tired Of The Fight”

42

2

Ex-Google, Yahoo, Facebook employees start company to support Hadoop

37

3

Apple's all-new MacBook Pro

31

4

Steve Jobs Preparing His Farewell?

28

5

Some Of These Layoffs Aren’t Really Layoffs

19

6

CEO Change At Twitter: Ev Williams Back At The Helm

15

7

FriendFeed Built The Ultimate Live Blogging Tool

14

8

Starting in 2009, Beijing Internet cafes will photograph every user

13

9

Ballmer Speaks, Yahoo’s Market Cap Jumps More Than $3 Billion

11

10

TechStars Startup Ignighter Raises $1.2 Million For Group Dating

11

News [?]

1

Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am.

95

2

Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

79

3

How the British used a laundromat in Northern Ireland to find explosives

67

4

The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that it makes no sense.

49

5

First Person Plural

38

6

Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-com Business Models

29

7

The most innovative coach in college football

29

8

Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden?

27

9

Is Math a Young Man's Game? No

18

10

"Counterterrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better"

16

Scientific publications [?]

1

The diversity trumps ability theorem

14

2

Kurzweil's letter to IEEE responding to "The Singularity: A Special Report"

2

3

NASA's Fermi telescope discovers first gamma-ray-only Pulsar

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How to Write Injection-Proof SQL

20

2

Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby

16

3

Interview: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang

8

4

More Languages on top of Erlang Virtual Machine

2

5

LLVM and Ruby Round-Up

2

6

A Speedier Groovy Coming Soon

1

7

The GPL Compliance Engineering Guide

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire

16

2

Review roundup: T-Mobile's G1, the first Android-based handset

6

3

EFF Challenges Constitutionality of Telecom Immunity in Federal Court

4

4

High-quality unboxing photos: late 2008 15" MacBook Pro

2

5

Neat hack: Boston band's Wiimote guitar effects control

1

6

Repurposing Dead Trees

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Silverlight reported on 1 out of 4 PC's - version 2.0 to be announced

3

2

Video of new MacBook machining process

3

3

Apple Introduces New MacBook

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Record Label ‘Infringes’ Own Copyright, Site Pulled

11

2

Stanford University Embraces BitTorrent

3

3

New Zealand to implement three-strikes law for copyright infringement

1

Science News [?]

1

Time to wake up to the facts about sleep

34

2

Nature reports on Thomson/Reuters lawsuit against GMU

7

3

10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores

3

4

Computers That Understand How You Feel

2

5

Computer circuit builds itself

2

6

Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks of First Life

1

7

Machines Edge Closer To Imitating Human Communication

1

8

One Mystery of Jet Streams Explained

1

Social [?]

1

Steve Jobs Explains NeXT's Strategy (1991) [vid]

28

2

Proggit challenge: Find a number N which, when Googled, yields N results

11

3

YouTube - 80:20 rules - Building software smarter

4

4

YouTube - The Neuroscience of Emotions

4

5

Vint Cerf endorses Obama

3

6

Facebook stores 40 billion image files

3

7

Cisco Developer Contest - $100k for Perl, C, Python, Java apps

2

8

Twitter / Albert Wenger: Market caps AMZN + EBAY + ...

1

9

20x20x20 Rubik's Cube Solved

1

10

How Ant Colonies Work (With No Central Control)

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Steezy-chat userscript for pibb & campfire chat rooms

4

2

GitHub Network Graph: Better, Stronger, Faster

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Osborne Myth

11

2

Fast Multiplication Algorithm: Toom Cook Multiplication

2

3

Wikipedia on Herbert Hoover: he didn't fail for lack of bailing

1

4

Synopsis of Steve Wozniak's Life from His Autobiography

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Funny loading statements to keep users amused

2

Substack [?]