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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The High-Res Society

168

2

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

160

3

Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

155

4

How do you generate passive income?

151

5

Python 3.0 Released

147

6

Genetic Algorithm building a little car

126

7

6 Credit Card Processing Facts Nobody Tells You

117

8

Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

111

9

How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

109

10

Using an automated day trader to generate income

101

Top Ask HN

1

Do you think primarily in English?

56

2

What's your philosophy?

50

3

Anecdotes about the current job market

31

4

Scalable framework for web apps?

25

5

How do I get to that next level of traffic?

25

6

Is my little tool doomed to obscurity?

24

7

Review My WebApp

24

8

what tunes are you working to at the moment?

16

9

Launched my free app, now what?

15

10

feedback on my startup?

14

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

53

2

Analysis: more than 16 cores may well be pointless

35

3

Appalanche (YC S07): A Snazzy Recommendation Engine For The App Store That Sort Of Works

26

4

Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist

22

5

Techcrunch interviews Zuckerberg

20

6

Twitter CEO: “It’s amazing anyone uses Twitter today”

17

7

Apple Legal: Reasonable People Do Not Believe the Claims of Apple Marketing

15

8

Google cannibalizing their assets? Isn’t it a bit early for that?

15

9

The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It?

13

10

Hidden SDK features transform iPhone into TV gaming device

11

News [?]

1

Reason: Why poor countries are poor.

97

2

H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82

54

3

Argentina's coin crisis

54

4

Raising the World’s I.Q. with Micronutrients

53

5

Obama: "It is unacceptable that the U.S. ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption"

44

6

In Defense of Teasing

39

7

The Saudi Arabia of Lithium

34

8

Common chemicals are feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals

32

9

A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man

29

10

Several disruptive innovations will soon make life harder for health care’s established giants

22

Scientific publications [?]

1

A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol

23

2

14

3

Obama to Review Costs of Shuttle Replacement Vehicle

3

4

How We Found the Missing Memristor

2

5

How we found the missing memristor

2

6

For those without hands, there's Air Guitar Hero

1

7

Virginia Tech Is Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer

1

8

A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

66

2

Interview: Damien Katz Relaxing on CouchDB

7

3

RubyConf'08 Videos: Ruby VMs: Internals of YARV, Rubinius, MagLev

4

4

3

5

Ruby.rewrite(Ruby) Reginald Braithwaite RubyFringe talk

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

17

2

Developers Can Now Issue Free "Promotional" Copies of iPhone Apps

6

3

The GO sequencer - Hack a Day

3

4

IPhone single-handedly driving smartphone growth

2

5

How to Play Crysis without a GPU

1

6

Rumor: Wal-Mart to sell 4GB iPhone for $99

1

7

The RV770 Story: Documenting ATI's Road to Success

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Mobile for iPhone

16

2

Amazon SimpleDB

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon

25

Science News [?]

1

Memories may be stored on your DNA

36

2

Is cold sore virus responsible for Alzheimer's Disease?

31

3

'Interplanetary internet' passes first test

17

4

Advocating For Brain-Enhancing Drugs

7

5

Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'

6

6

What happens when silicon can shrink no more?

4

7

Survival of the fittest

3

8

What happens when silicon can shrink no more?

2

9

Has an alien comet infiltrated the solar system?

1

10

Software 'can identify' unknown unknowns

1

Social [?]

1

3-year-old solves Rubik's Cube in 114 seconds

3

2

Douglas Graham on the 80/10/10 rule for self-optimization.

2

3

Qt Widgets enter the third dimension: WolfenQt

2

4

Amazon HD Video Rental Menu Shows Up On TiVo

2

5

Authors@Google: Howard Zinn

2

6

Genetic algorithm building a small car

2

7

Monumental Video Mapping on 3D Objects

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Until Sunday, Try Out Any Paid GitHub Plan Free For A Month

11

2

Chunk Norris doesn't yield to the block, the block yields to Chunk Norris

5

3

Free Guide to GitHub Screencast

3

Wikipedia [?]

Blogs [?]

1

The High-Res Society

168

2

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

160

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Healthy-habits-for-developers

2

Substack [?]