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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The other half of "Artists Ship"

182

2

Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

166

3

Is it going to rain?

114

4

The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

104

5

Announcing my free book on Vim

101

6

Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

100

7

Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit.

98

8

Warren Buffett's 10 Ways To Get Rich

97

9

Why Git is Better Than X

97

10

A fisherman throws his anchor into the water. What happens to the water level of the lake?

93

Top Ask HN

1

Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do?

87

2

List of Hacker Blogs?

70

3

Review my webapp.

41

4

What do you consider "making it"?

35

5

what do you use for mailing list software?

28

6

Should I drop out or not?

27

7

Buying servers?

26

8

Review my startup

23

9

Boston or Silicon Valley?

22

10

Is there a RentAPhD.com type service?

13

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

104

2

Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

100

3

Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison Avenue

72

4

DNS Drama Exposed (Dramatically)

62

5

The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple

33

6

Twitter Acquires ‘Values of n’, Adds Rael Dornfest To The Team

29

7

The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide

28

8

First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter

27

9

HP Creates First Hybrid Memristor Chip

25

10

Linux on the iPhone

24

News [?]

1

David Pogue: Blackberry storm downgraded to a depression

38

2

There are no acorns this year in some parts of the US

35

3

Is Canada becoming a digital ghetto?

31

4

Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It?

27

5

Mile of London Tunnels for Sale, History Included

25

6

Internet advertising will be relatively unscathed in the economic downturn

25

7

The Upside to the Market Crash

22

8

Interactive Map of the World's Fastest Supercomputers

19

9

Bluefin Tuna on the Verge of Extinction?

17

10

Are Google’s Gatekeepers determining the limits of free speech?

12

Scientific publications [?]

1

Carbon dioxide detected on extrasolar planet

8

2

Mathematics underlying the 2008 financial crisis, and a possible remedy

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier reviews: Here Comes Everybody

54

2

Nanite: A Self Assembling Cluster of Ruby Processes

18

3

Colors and the UI

6

4

NSA's Warrantless Eavesdropping Targets Innocent Americans

4

5

Government Can Determine Location of Cell Phones without Telco Help

3

6

Twitter acquires 'Stikkit ' & 'I Want Sandy'

2

7

The Future of Ephemeral Conversation

2

8

Exciting Features For Ubuntu 9.04

1

9

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

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation

23

2

Mac small business share nearly triples over the summer

16

3

Black Friday Mac pricing matrix (find the best prices)

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Perfect randomness does not exist (in a book)

18

2

Raising the respect level of education research in computing Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Will uTorrent Really Kill the Internet?

4

2

Sand Hill Slave from Internet Archive

3

3

UTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version

1

Science News [?]

1

Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?

33

2

What the data miners are digging up about you

26

3

YouTube Usage Decoded

3

4

Saturn's icy moon shoots supersonic jets of water

2

5

Researchers culture rat neurons, which control remote robotics when electrodes applied

1

6

The Human Soul: An Ancient Idea

1

Social [?]

1

A little love for Posterous (YC Summer 08)

3

2

Song Around the World "Stand By Me" [video]

2

3

What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (by Malcolm Gladwell)

2

4

Chicken Head Tracking

2

5

Get laid off party - angry unemployed unite in harmony

1

6

Simpson's Apple Sendup [Video]

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Get full CSS3 selector support in all jQuery supported browsers with jss.

3

2

[Raganwald] Keep Your Privates To Yourself

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

1

Blogs [?]

1

The other half of "Artists Ship"

182

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

25

2

11 Steps To Starting your ISV and how to measure your progress

2

Substack [?]