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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.

532

2

Some things need to change

287

3

A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

224

4

Why Google Employees Quit

202

5

How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

190

6

Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

188

7

Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

188

8

The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

185

9

How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage

185

10

Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

183

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite TED talk?

123

2

How do you deal with alienation?

108

3

Best HN threads in '08?

104

4

What are some (good) hacker movies?

94

5

Anyone want to work through SICP together?

91

6

What can't you do in Excel?

85

7

AWS or dedicated server?

78

8

Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps?

71

9

What do you want to be able to customize?

70

10

good books about military strategy?

70

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Some things need to change

287

2

Why Google Employees Quit

202

3

What Should I Do with My Life, Now?

92

4

TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B

89

5

Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL

86

6

Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

75

7

T-Shirt Hell Claims It Will Shut Doors After One Too Many Hate Emails

70

8

Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

63

9

Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

63

10

The Economy According To Mint

59

News [?]

1

Hungry start-ups (Anyvite & TicketStumbler) on a drastic diet

86

2

Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R

82

3

What Do Women Want?

76

4

Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate

75

5

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

75

6

Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early

71

7

White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code

51

8

48

9

Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream

48

10

Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note

47

Scientific publications [?]

1

Yet another perpetual motion machine company with 60M in funding

18

2

Top Countries by Robot Density

6

3

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

2

4

Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

2

5

NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

2

6

The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized

2

7

Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits

2

8

Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers

2

9

Mars Rover's Unexpected Behavior Puzzles NASA

2

10

Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Credit card scam exposes mind-blowing ignorance about security.

16

2

Monday Morning Madness

15

3

Testing is Overrated

14

4

Conceptual Algorithms (RubyFringe talk by GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner)

9

5

Twitter Blog: Building on Open Source

6

6

InfoQ: Debate: Prototype vs. jQuery

5

7

Helping the Terrorists (with our communications infrastructure)

3

8

The Zen of Twitter Support

2

9

Twitter Blog: It's Business Time

2

10

Compiz is dying?

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Kicks Off Campaign to Free Your Phone

22

2

iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

18

3

Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store

12

4

Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1

9

5

Apple inks deals for all DRM-free iTunes, 3G downloads

6

6

IE8's JavaScript performance lags well behind Safari, Chrome

5

7

Microvision's tiny video projector wows Macworld attendees

4

8

Calling All iPhone Developers: Support DMCA Exemption

4

9

Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial

4

10

EFF to White House: What Will You Do to Protect the Privacy of WhiteHouse.gov Users?

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

153

2

Peter Norvig's review of SICP

41

3

IE 8 Release candidate available for download (does load faster than Firefox)

10

4

Softwear by Microsoft

4

5

Macworld : All the music in the iTunes store is DRM Free

3

6

Text of Jobs’s Email Announcing Medical Leave

3

7

Of the top 6 results for "Real World Haskell" on Amazon, 2 are Haskell books...

3

8

200 million app store downloads in the past month

2

9

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

2

10

Wii Music and the Transition to Computation

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

34

2

The Dragon in My Garage

29

3

New trojan blocks Pirate Bay and Mininova

2

4

Game Developer Confronts iPhone Software Cracker

2

5

Thriving in the Age of Collapse

1

Science News [?]

1

Our world may be a giant hologram

73

2

One last chance to save mankind

33

3

Eat less, remember more

31

4

You Can Look -- But Don't Touch

27

5

Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft

24

6

New Family Of Antibacterial Agents Uncovered

23

7

14% of U.S. Adults Can't Read (63% of Prison Inmates)

14

8

Dark flow: Proof of another universe?

9

9

Image Recognition Software Breakthrough

9

10

Time to turn off the lights

8

Social [?]

1

My first app just got published to the app store Here's what I learned.

76

2

Facebook Tech Talk: Mark Zuckerberg on Memcached

34

3

Reminder - London Hacker Meetup #7 tomorrow night

31

4

This is probably the most creative use of youtube ever

14

5

Ira Glass on creativity's dark stage

12

6

Want to make your own judgment about Steven Chu (US Secretary of Energy)? Watch this.

8

7

Ayn Rand interview (1959)

7

8

Differential Synchronization

7

9

Game of Life implemented in 5 minutes using APL (amazing video)

6

10

Million Dollar Traders - BBC show about amateurs in a hedge fund [video]

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

183

2

83

3

Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

45

4

Compojure - Clojure web framework

45

5

Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X?

45

6

GitCred: PageRank applied to the GitHub users/followers graph, implemented in Clojure.

43

7

WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content

37

8

Rainbow (Arc implementation in Java)

35

9

New Git Homepage

32

10

CNAME support for GitHub Pages

16

Wikipedia [?]

1

English-Prime - English without "is"

108

2

Wikipedia list of algorithms

62

3

List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share

34

4

Miyamoto Musashi's Final Work

26

5

Why Wikipedia is not so great

21

6

Gödel's ontological proof

12

7

10

8

Keynesian Beauty Contest

7

9

How to Win Friends and Influence People

6

10

List of algorithms not described in Wikipedia

4

Blogs [?]

1

PG on nonprofits/Darfur

44

2

Redundancy and Power

4

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What real life bad habits has programming given you?

45

2

What is your (least) favorite syntax gotcha?

4

3

Signs that you (as a programmer) are about to be laid off

2

4

Benefits of programming (doing) versus reading blogs (thinking?)

1

Substack [?]