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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Love, Internet Style

242

2

I don't want to work very hard

224

3

Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

174

4

Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

171

5

Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

153

6

Scientists extract images directly from brain

126

7

How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler?

119

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114

9

Scott Adams explains CDOs

102

10

Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

91

Top Ask HN

1

you're rich, now what?

66

2

How do you explain what you do to your relatives?

51

3

Is it worth switching to a Mac?

40

4

Has your handwriting suffered from years on the keyboard?

34

5

Review my Startup, Entitea

24

6

How should I go about learning CS?

22

7

What to do about a strike?

21

8

Where do you go for hacking help?

19

9

Monetizing a Twitter bot?

17

10

How to compose two mapping functions into a third?

15

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent

76

2

Gmail Finally Gets A To-Do List

44

3

Duck Duck Go (epi0Bauqu's startup) Featured on TechCrunch

36

4

Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch

27

5

Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets

26

6

Ars on FSF Suit Against Cisco

20

7

Twitter Joins The Google Friend Connect Party

16

8

Tech Layoffs Surge Past 100,000

16

9

Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta

15

10

Marissa Mayer’s Advice On Who To Hire

14

News [?]

1

Michael Lewis: A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life

68

2

Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness."

57

3

The single most well-reasoned talk on Global Warming that I have ever seen - Lomborg

54

4

Why asset bubbles are a part of the human condition that regulation can’t cure

44

5

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion

41

6

Truck driver conducted a decade of research to build accurate replica of Hiroshima bomb

40

7

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

39

8

YouTube Videos Are Pulling in Serious Money

33

9

Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

32

10

Loopt for Android... with background location!

20

Scientific publications [?]

1

The memristor—the functional equivalent of a synapse—could revolutionize circuit design

64

2

Surprising Second Black Hole Found in Milky Way's Center

11

3

The Rise of the Machines

4

4

Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope

1

5

Shuttle Flying Piggyback on 747 to Florida

1

6

A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey presents Clojure at JVM Languages Summit

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images)

43

2

Apple tweaks App Store layout amid developer unrest

7

3

AppleInsider Rumor: iTune's going DRM-free starting Tuesday

2

4

Gaming Effects Versus Hollywood

2

5

New iPod In-Ear Headphones reviewed: Apple's best yet

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon's search is pretty darn impressive

37

2

Tell HN - Awesome Book : 'The Creative Habit, Learn it and user it for life'

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Attempt at a proof of the complexity of graph isomorphism

3

Science News [?]

1

Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008

20

2

Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest

14

3

Did our cosmos exist before the big bang?

12

4

Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer

10

5

Space elevator trips could be agonisingly slow

9

6

Is the hunt for extraterrestrial life misguided?

3

7

How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam

3

8

Pay the obese to lose weight, says study

1

9

Thousands Negotiate New Climate Treaty

1

10

Is Einstein the Last Great Genius?

1

Social [?]

1

Love, Internet Style

242

2

Scaling memcached at Facebook

77

3

Facebook Programming Environment Contest

7

4

What Bill Joy is worried/excited about [video]

4

5

Neat demo of 3D video-projection-mapping technology [video]

2

6

The Facebook Programming Environment Contest

2

7

The History of twitter in HD

1

8

Tech talk: Mining information from english using CRFs (generalizations of HMMs)

1

9

Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes

1

10

Tech Media Discovers FCC Staffed With Dunces, Lobbyists

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

29

Wikipedia [?]

1

In 1999, Kasparov played chess against 50000 people.

33

2

Venture capital - Wikipedia

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]