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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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How do you learn?

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Arc Ported to JavaScript

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Portrait of a N00b

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Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

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Bill Gates demos Xobni

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Yahoo Board To Reject Microsoft Offer

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TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

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Good code, bad code. The only truth. [comic]

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Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

54

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

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Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud (YC Winter 08)

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TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

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The latest build of Webkit "has to be seen to be believed."

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Thin is in: Ars Technica reviews the MacBook Air

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uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs

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Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million?

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Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today

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Guitar Hero Game... Using Real Guitars

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ICANN flips switch on IPv6 DNS root servers

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Startup Plans to Solve Online Identity Theft, But Does Anyone Care?

10

News [?]

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Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

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Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms

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Consumption stats show the gap between rich and poor is less than most assume

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"Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. This one is actually doing it."

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Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer

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How Do You Fix An Undersea Cable?

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How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free

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A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota

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Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat

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The Economist dissolves the conspiracy theories on the undersea Internet cables

7

Scientific publications [?]

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How to Reduce Plane Boarding Time by 4x

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Smoothed Analysis: Why The Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time.

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Small is not Always Beautiful

1

Dev Blogs [?]

Tech blogs [?]

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AT&T plans major 3G expansion ahead of second-gen iPhone

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$100 price drop on iPhones and iPods coming in the next two months

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Apple among those considering rival bid for Yahoo?

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Anandtech on Mac Book Air battery life

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MacBook Air: SSD vs HDD

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Complete List Of Microsoft Acquisitions

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

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How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA

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Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent

4

Science News [?]

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Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining

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Nanotechnology: Entirely New Way Of Storing Gas Created

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DNA Is Blueprint, Contractor And Construction Worker For New Structures

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'Online Gap' Widens Divide Between Parents and Children

1

Social [?]

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Running "sudo rm -rf /" [video]

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National Geographic Feature on PlayPump Water Systems

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Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

The limit of The Semantic Web

3

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The Omni Group: the pre 37signals-like company

1

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Undecidable problem

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10 Years Ago Today: 24 Hours in Cyberspace

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Blogs [?]

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First Priority: Core Language

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PG: How to make wealth

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Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]