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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

532

2

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

3

Love, Internet Style

242

4

240

5

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

6

Wow, check out this guy's comment

233

7

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

8

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

228

9

Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)

227

10

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

224

Top Ask HN

1

163

2

What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?

113

3

How do big web sites roll out new versions?

110

4

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

87

5

What if I don't have an idea?

75

6

Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?

70

7

ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?

70

8

List of Hacker Blogs?

70

9

The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment?

66

10

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?

66

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

172

2

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

168

3

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

156

4

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

139

5

Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)

133

6

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

104

7

Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

100

8

Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

97

9

Little Known Hacker News Is My First Read Every Morning

96

10

Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

94

News [?]

1

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

170

2

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

158

3

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

150

4

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

139

5

The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

108

6

The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?

103

7

Reason: Why poor countries are poor.

97

8

Warren Buffett editorial in NYT: Buy American. I Am.

95

9

How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

93

10

The richer a society or peer group, the less important visible spending becomes.

93

Scientific publications [?]

1

Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars

96

2

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

64

3

NASA - Phoenix has landed

44

4

How the Large Hadron Collider proton beam is turned off

34

5

P is not equal to NP

30

6

A Fairer, Faster Internet Protocol

23

7

"The singularity is a religious rather than a scientific vision"

21

8

NYC Soldering Championship (video)

20

9

Through a Glass Darkly: the world of mathematicians

19

10

A proof of the Riemann hypothesis

15

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IPhone NDA officially dropped

145

2

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

66

3

Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist

63

4

Schneier reviews: Here Comes Everybody

54

5

Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want

52

6

The Two Classes of Airport Contraband

40

7

Stallman doesn't use a web browser

39

8

The Skein Hash Function

36

9

The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

34

10

Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling issues

32

Tech blogs [?]

1

Part-time apps developers getting rich

90

2

Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters

65

3

Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

62

4

Io v. Veoh: Important ruling for sites comprised of 'user-generated content'

61

5

40 percent of college students say their next computer purchase will be a Mac

57

6

Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer

56

7

Google is Done Paying Silicon Valley's Legal Bills

46

8

IBM considering switch to Macs

44

9

The Macbook "Brick"

43

10

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

43

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

147

2

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage

90

3

Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?

67

4

Startup Challenge. Amazon Web Service.

50

5

AWS to offer a content delivery service

49

6

Amazon Web Services Hosted Public Data Sets

44

7

Amazon's search is pretty darn impressive

37

8

Microsoft releases specifications for binary formats

31

9

30

10

Alan Kay on How We Teach Computing

28

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

127

2

David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech about Making Money at SS2008

74

3

Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers

35

4

The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.

30

5

Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon

25

6

Y Combinator's 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud

25

7

Why PHP Scales - A Cranky, Snarky Answer

24

8

24

9

How do I make games? A path to game development.

23

10

Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage

19

Science News [?]

1

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

42

2

Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer

41

3

Dolphins swim so fast it hurts

40

4

Memories may be stored on your DNA

36

5

Simple brain exercise can boost IQ

36

6

Time to wake up to the facts about sleep

34

7

Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?

33

8

Mirror test shows magpies are self aware

32

9

Is cold sore virus responsible for Alzheimer's Disease?

31

10

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

29

Social [?]

1

Love, Internet Style

242

2

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

228

3

New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky

192

4

Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...

97

5

Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight

93

6

Simplicity is hard to build...

82

7

Scaling memcached at Facebook

77

8

As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video)

74

9

Calculus in 20 Minutes

73

10

JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard

70

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

210

2

GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

106

3

Powerset's Erlang-based clustering technology is now open source

85

4

GitHub's new Fork Queue

64

5

59

6

Gist - a git powered paste site

52

7

GitHub now open to everyone. Here is the pricing.

46

8

GitHub Has Cool Graphs Now

42

9

GitHub adds code search

42

10

GitHub Helped Train Google in Git

38

Wikipedia [?]

1

64

2

Now Wikipedia has an API

60

3

Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read...

55

4

Y Combinator Article Nominated for Deletion by Wikipedia Administrators

45

5

All You Zombies— The most craziest of the time travel paradoxes

42

6

Why the lucky stiff Wikipedia entry page to be deleted

39

7

List of cognitive biases

36

8

36

9

In 1999, Kasparov played chess against 50000 people.

33

10

Elephant intelligence

32

Blogs [?]

1

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

254

2

240

3

You weren't meant to have a boss

239

4

Lies We Tell Kids

187

5

After Credentials

186

6

How to Disagree

183

7

The other half of "Artists Ship"

182

8

182

9

Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

173

10

The High-Res Society

168

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of JavaScript

48

2

Hidden features of Python

38

3

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

25

4

What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon

24

5

Arrays, What's the point? - Stack Overflow

15

6

Stack Overflow public beta

10

7

Hidden Features of Ruby

3

8

Unit Testing File Modifications

2

9

Q: Offline access to MoinMoin wiki using Google Gears

2

10

Funny loading statements to keep users amused

2

Substack [?]