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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

177

2

Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

147

3

Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free

120

4

Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend

117

5

Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56

102

6

Tell HN: Our YC Interview Story and Advice

100

7

Secret message in source code of Digg

98

8

Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications

97

9

Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning

93

10

How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

93

Top Ask HN

1

ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?

70

2

Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

33

3

What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App?

29

4

PHP Tricks and Best Practices?

28

5

Are one-page résumés passé? How long is your résumé?

24

6

What is a good introduction to neuroscience?

22

7

Any Hackers in Middle America?

22

8

18

9

What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

14

10

ASK HN: Hacker Bibles

13

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Weebly (YC winter 07) scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

87

2

Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID

66

3

First look at Windows 7

51

4

Y Combinator’s Snipd Launches To The Public

44

5

Google Launches Google Apps Labs, Third Party Developers Welcome

38

6

Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren’t

31

7

The Call of Cthubuntu

23

8

MySpace, Auditude, And MTV Have Just Figured Out How To Monetize Online Video

22

9

Accept credit card payments from your iPhone

19

10

LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform

17

News [?]

1

How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

93

2

Why Vote? Freakonomics' take on voting

40

3

23andMe named Invention of the Year by Time

36

4

US appeals court rejects business method patents

31

5

Annals of Sociology: Red sex, Blue sex

30

6

Just Leave Them Behind

29

7

A radical business plan for start-ups: Charge people.

29

8

Calories Do Count

27

9

Is underdog LinkedIn poised to beat flashy Facebook?

25

10

Why the Japanese stock market has done so badly

22

Scientific publications [?]

1

P is not equal to NP

30

2

New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles

13

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Skein Hash Function

36

2

JavaScript Meets Ruby: John Barnett Explains Johnson

4

3

The source of the e1000e corruption bug

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple's Unibody MacBook: The Review

23

2

DMCA: Ten Years of Unintended Consequences

3

3

Opera Mini Not Rejected?

2

4

Reconstructing Apple’s 2008 earnings to reflect iPhone sales

1

5

AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations)

1

6

Finally, Wifi Free At Starbucks for iPhone Users

1

7

Apple more undervalued than others tech heavyweights

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

147

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tribler Set to Make BitTorrent Sites Obsolete

18

2

Highly ironic comment from Steve Yegge (scroll down to "Lame Languages")

16

3

Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’

11

Science News [?]

1

Researchers determine neural representation of 3d objects in monkeys

4

2

How to repair the biggest science experiment in the world

3

3

The make-your-own-universe kit

2

4

[Nature] Economics needs a scientific revolution

1

Social [?]

1

1988 TV News Report on the Morris Worm

16

2

Ask YC: Feedback on our new app.

15

3

Baroque Mandelbrot Zoom

12

4

Nurturing Tagging Communities: A Google Tech Talk

6

5

[video] Mandelbrot on the Economy: We're Screwed

6

6

Google Techtalk - Carbon Trade Innovations

5

7

GTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte Scale

5

8

YouTube adds machine translation to videos with captions.

3

9

Google Techtalk - Programming Bits and Atoms

2

10

Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub adds code search

42

2

Raganwald now 'blogging' on GitHub

27

3

The Thrush (raganwald)

14

4

Summary of the 2008 GitTogether

9

5

Songs of the Cardinal

4

6

Choosing a Background Job Processor for GitHub

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Punched cards: One of the biggest breakthroughs in programming history

4

2

Mechanical television

1

3

Sonoluminescence

1

4

Man’s greatest weakness is what makes men so great

1

Blogs [?]

1

Succinctness is Power

4

2

Spammers' Stories

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of Ruby

3

2

Hidden Features of ASP.NET

1

Substack [?]