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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

174

2

Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)

172

3

Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic

143

4

Rackspace acquire Slicehost

121

5

Pixlr - the online image editor

105

6

Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free

99

7

Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups

93

8

Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08)

84

9

Be careful of who you work for

76

10

CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport.

75

Top Ask HN

1

What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?

113

2

What if I don't have an idea?

75

3

Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing?

61

4

Need a host with some balls, offshore maybe?

55

5

Awesome talks/video available online?

50

6

I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku?

41

7

Rate my startup: IvyLees

28

8

How do you bill your clients? (for your app)

28

9

Most cost-effective method of achieving physical redundancy

23

10

how quickly do you answer support emails?

19

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08)

84

2

Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?

39

3

Google Analytics Gets a Major Ugrade (AdSense, Custom Reports, API, Bubble Charts)

38

4

36

5

Lala May Have Just Built The Next Revolution In Digital Music

31

6

Jerry Yang Email To All Yahoos: 10% Of You Are Fired

25

7

Google Earth Comes To The iPhone, And It’s Awesome

25

8

How Google Got Its Colorful Logo

25

9

Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X

20

10

New Firefox JavaScript engine is faster than Chrome's V8

19

News [?]

1

Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up

46

2

How This Bear Market Compares - Interactive Graphic

36

3

Facebook in a crowd

34

4

If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?

30

5

Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts

24

6

Cher Wang, the most powerful female tech executive you've never heard of

21

7

Half of US Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos

19

8

Net startups slow their metabolism

17

9

SUVs "may prove to be the industry’s undoing"

15

10

Dow futures fall as much as technically possible pre-trade. Crash today?

13

Scientific publications [?]

1

"Mother of All Quantum Networks" Unveiled in Vienna

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs

15

2

Ruby's Roots: Smalltalk Comeback and Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk

2

3

Schneier on Security: Quantum Cryptography

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

62

2

Apple's "real" earnings grew a staggering 124.6% in Q4

23

3

IPhone Software 2.2 to add public transit & walking directions

6

4

Yale business school dean picked to run Apple University

1

5

Apple to sweeten Snow Leopard with more Cocoa

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Bizarre page discussing Microsoft's support for PHP

5

2

Latest Apple Mac ad targets MSFT's internal budgeting?

2

3

Microsoft launches cloud platform Azure

2

4

Windows Azure launches

2

5

Microsoft reports record Q1 revenue

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers

35

2

Writing a simple expert system in Prolog

3

3

Video of evolved virtual creatures (Karl Sims' genetic algorithms in Lisp from 1994)

3

4

‘Shocking’ 61% of all Upstream Internet Traffic is P2P

2

5

Stoners, Vegans and a Junky Elephant Conquer BitTorrent

2

6

Wikipedia DVD Released on BitTorrent

1

Science News [?]

1

Sticky tape generates X-rays

21

2

Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than Mp3

10

3

Sound familiar? Battle between lure of reward and fear of failure in the brain

1

4

Is Physics Better Than Biology?

1

5

New state of matter discovered: "quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal"

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook's Scribe technology now open source

27

2

YouTube - Developing iPhone Applications using Java

10

3

YouTube - Current Issues in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

9

4

Google Tech Talk on Merb & Rubinius

8

5

Scribe technology now open source

7

6

Interview with David Karp about how Tumblr is going to grow up and monetize

1

7

Gabe & Max's Internet Thing

1

8

Code monkey think maybe boring manager want to write god damned login page himself.

1

9

How To Be An Overnight Failure (Interview With Muxtape Founder)

1

10

Inner Life of the Cell (with commentary)[video]

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Helped Train Google in Git

38

Wikipedia [?]

1

1

Blogs [?]

1

419 scam: Purporting Paul Graham

28

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]