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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

158

2

My Public Apology

151

3

The IT Contract from Hell

133

4

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

128

5

The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

108

6

Joel on Software: Anecdotes

107

7

Lessons learned from a failed poker software business

103

8

19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

99

9

Hans Rosling: Debunking 3rd world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

95

10

LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer

95

Top Ask HN

1

163

2

Does the SaaS model really work? Really?

51

3

Which revision control system?

42

4

How do I choose my startup's name?

32

5

Web Frameworks for Perl

29

6

Review my startup

26

7

Is there a HN for music?

24

8

What IRC rooms do you frequent?

19

9

On building a Social News site and its tools for moderation

19

10

Review my web application

17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

94

2

Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

90

3

Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate GrandCentral In 15 Lines Of Code

53

4

MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

47

5

It’s Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection Racket On App Developers

30

6

California to set up a $1B electric car network

28

7

Mozilla audited by the IRS

21

8

Google is beta testing letting users change the look of their gmail

17

9

Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers

15

10

Google Kills Lively

15

News [?]

1

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

158

2

The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

108

3

If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

59

4

How car dealers tie Detroit's hands

45

5

The French cafe is dying

43

6

How to launch a tech company in one weekend (CNN on Atlanta Startup Weekend 2)

38

7

Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.

35

8

The Plan by Jack Handey

30

9

India Calling: The "brain drain" becomes "brain circulation."

26

10

Micromessaging at work

24

Scientific publications [?]

1

Let the Games Begin: FIRST robotics competition moves to 32-bit controllers

4

2

NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Skein and SHA-3 News

9

2

Simon Peyton Jones on Mainstream Programming Languages

5

3

JavaFX and Flex Comparison

3

4

Joe Armstrong On Erlang

2

5

/dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing

2

6

No Silver Bullet Reloaded Retrospective OOPSLA Panel Summary

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Google is Done Paying Silicon Valley's Legal Bills

46

2

Apple authorizes MMS on the iPhone, but not for US users

4

3

Wal-Mart to begin selling iPhone post holidays - reports

3

4

Mid-2007 Prototype MacBook Air Found on eBay

1

5

Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets

44

2

Amazon CloudFront

3

3

Why get a computing degree?

2

4

Q&A site for relationships. Very slick

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Google Powered BitTorrent Seach Engines

3

2

English-Speaking Hackers Should Learn About Esperanto

1

Science News [?]

1

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

42

2

Tunnelling Nanotubes: Life's Secret Network

10

3

Why the universe may be teeming with aliens

10

4

Brain implant allows mute man to speak with synthesizer

10

5

Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition: First Empirical Evidence

9

6

Seabed tracks suggest new origin of animal life

5

7

Complex Systems Science: How Do Math And Intuition Help Us Understand Whole Systems?

3

8

Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup

3

9

The outer limits of the human brain

2

10

Corporate Culture Is Most Important Factor In Driving Innovation

1

Social [?]

1

Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada (YouTube Video)

9

2

The Matrix Runs on Windows

2

3

Monty Python goes on YouTube

2

4

How to Hack Out an Election Counter

1

5

YouTube - Podcars: Using networking ideas to transport people.

1

6

Sprint Suffers Nationwide SMS Outtage

1

7

Last Night's Bright Meteorite In Canada Caught On Film

1

8

Visualizing Facebook with the Hackathon project

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators

3

2

FirePython == Python logger console in Firebug

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

3

2

Reverse Polish Lisp

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]