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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

After Credentials

186

2

The nicest math book I own

175

3

If programming languages were religions

131

4

117

5

GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

106

6

Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

102

7

"You're stealing from people who count on your honesty to make a living."

90

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87

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Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet

86

10

A Defense of Philosophy (against Paul Graham)

84

Top Ask HN

1

Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

39

2

Interesting recent developments in academic computer science.

37

3

Has anyone used affiliate programs for marketing?

37

4

35

5

How do I go about PHP?

35

6

Where does consciousness come from?

35

7

Are you working on a desktop software?

31

8

slicehost-like providers outside the US?

30

9

What do you think of Objective-C?

30

10

Writing DSL in Python

26

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Apple announces final MacWorld, Steve Jobs won't deliver keynote

59

2

Posterous (YC S08) launches dead simple group blogs, raises angel round

59

3

Death To The Embargo

57

4

First Round Capital literally makes all their startups dance

37

5

Scribd raises $9M in Series B, hires Bebo COO, and new marketing VP

33

6

Backtype (YC S08) launches google alerts for comments

27

7

SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green Light To Take On Mutual Funds

25

8

Synthasite Buys Clickpass

21

9

Pandora hits 20 million registered users

15

10

Soon all your blog comments will belong to Facebook or Google

12

News [?]

1

Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition

65

2

It's A Dirty Job, And I Love It

62

3

"Be nice to the countries that lend you money"

48

4

At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item

46

5

Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve

45

6

Krugman: The Madoff Economy

40

7

Does Gödel Matter?

39

8

Toyota Expects Its First Loss in 70 Years

34

9

More people on S.F. streets newly homeless

23

10

Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data to 90 days

19

Scientific publications [?]

1

Google Searches for Ad Dollars in Social Networks

2

2

Computational modeling of collective human behavior: Example of financial markets

1

3

Solar Flare Surprise: Pure Hydrogen Shot at Earth

1

4

SpaceShipTwo Carrier Craft Makes Successful First Flight

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Killing Robot Being Tested by Lockheed Martin

20

2

Linus Torvald's rant against C++

7

3

How to Steal the Empire State Building

2

4

A Journeyman's Pair Programming Tour

1

5

InfoQ: Rhodes Brings Ruby Apps to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry

1

6

InfoQ: Describing RESTful Applications

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple wanted out of tyranny of MacWorld - reports

6

2

NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Bringing High Def to Netbooks

5

3

Apple TV at the center of Apple's latest lawsuit

2

4

Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

17

2

Vulnerability in IE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (updated Dec 15, 2008)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

[Book review] The Art of Debugging with GDB,DDD and Eclipse

2

2

Google Beta (1998)

2

Science News [?]

1

Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle (WW2 case study)

17

2

How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage (electricity)

4

3

One Laptop Per Child project reaching 600,000 children

4

4

Gas memory could send spooky messages the full distance

2

5

Meet Dr House's caring alter ego

1

6

One Laptop Per Child ready for version 2.0

1

Social [?]

1

Clever table design

31

2

Is Buxfer Dead? (Answer: No)

24

3

Refactoring with codemod.py

7

4

Help Child Soldiers Fight

5

5

Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Django: The First Five Years

3

6

How Cultural Competency and Geoleadership Merge

1

7

How to count ALL Carbon Emissions

1

8

Graph Identification and Privacy in Social Networks

1

9

Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown [video]

1

10

Third Millennium Problem-Solving

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

106

2

GitHub's new Fork Queue

64

3

Ringo: experimental, distributed, replicating key-value store

4

4

And I for one welcome our new insect overlords

2

5

Example iPhone app using TouchJSON

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of Common Misconceptions

9

2

Mobile Version of Wikipedia Finally Launches

3

Blogs [?]

1

After Credentials

186

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]