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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

626

2

What Startups Are Really Like

382

3

So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?

324

4

This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

321

5

If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible?

321

6

I Was Told I Was Very Smart

309

7

The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

306

8

Google Groups is Dead

259

9

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you

254

10

Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities

250

Top Ask HN

1

What source code is worth studying?

125

2

What's in your .vimrc file?

123

3

What's in your .emacs file?

121

4

do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?

112

5

Please name two of your most favorite books.

105

6

Statistics for hackers?

99

7

How have you dealt with corruption?

91

8

How do you concentrate?

91

9

Which blogs did you contact to get coverage when you launched?

90

10

87

Top Show HN

1

Checkout the app my company helped launch

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch

321

2

Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

170

3

Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

131

4

Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger

125

5

Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

124

6

The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

111

7

Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com

108

8

YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Low

98

9

Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard

88

10

Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

88

News [?]

1

Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

199

2

Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life

145

3

What non-geeks hear when you speak techie

86

4

21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)

80

5

Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care

69

6

In a previously unpublished story, Kurt Vonnegut bellies up to the bar

57

7

Startup rental website takes on Craigslist

55

8

Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many people thought I should quit

55

9

Chicago Loses, Nerds Win: The real story behind Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid

54

10

The Burger That Shattered Her Life

51

Scientific publications [?]

1

For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up

81

2

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone

44

3

Boston Dynamics Dynamically Balancing Biped Walker

20

4

16000 Chickens flocking on one cell processor

11

5

A Beginner's Guide to Forcing

7

6

Introduction to Randomness and Statistics

6

7

NASA free iPhone App Now Available from App Store

5

8

The Truth About Bender's Brain

4

9

NASA Ames to Showcase Spectacular LCROSS Lunar Impacts

3

10

NASA Unveils New Rocket For Historic Test Flight

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

In-App Purchases now available for free iPhone apps

58

2

51

3

Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD

48

4

Kernel Summit 2009: How Google uses Linux

36

5

"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives

31

6

Empirical Studies on Software Quality Mythology

22

7

Evolving Java Without Changing the Language

18

8

Persistent Data Structures and Managed References

14

9

Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages (JVM) (Cliff Click) (Video)

12

10

Proving a Computer Program's Correctness

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

40

2

It has blades: Dyson’s little white lie

20

3

Psystar taunts Apple a second time (releases $50 'one-click Hackintosh' tool)

19

4

Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage

19

5

Boarduino + LCD + Ethernet + Temp monitoring

15

6

Apple challenges new Woolworths logo

10

7

Apple plans Mighty Mouse makeover

6

8

EFF's Takedown Hall Of Shame

5

9

Evidence of Apple's tablet-like input interface reappears

4

10

Vocoding with a piano

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Relational Database Service

181

2

Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances (34 GB, 68 GB)

50

3

15% price cut in EC2 instances, effective Nov 1

47

4

Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop

45

5

Classic review of "The Story of Ping"

45

6

Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users

38

7

Apple's Most Profitable Quarter Ever

36

8

Amazon Launches GSM-based International Kindle Device

28

9

Brilliant marketing testimonial method you need to test . . . from MSFT?

24

10

Magic Mouse - The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse

22

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Hal Finney diagnosed with ALS. Wants to keep coding open source when paralyzed.

67

2

An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)

54

3

Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales

47

4

Google Removes Pirate Bay Frontpage From Search Results

32

5

Evolved virtual creatures (evolutionary programming, 1994)

31

6

A regular expressions bug that turned out to be a beneficial mutation

7

7

Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents

5

8

Pirate Bay Trial Judges Now Accused Of Bias

4

9

Internet Text Archive

3

10

Music Pirates are Immoral Cheapskates, Or Are They?

2

Science News [?]

1

Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?

102

2

Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn

65

3

Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Improves Memory

39

4

Placebo effect caught in the act in spinal nerves

38

5

Massively collaborative mathematics

29

6

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

29

7

Hole for light created on Earth

28

8

Mona Lisa's smile a mystery no more

27

9

Learning to juggle grows brain networks for good

26

10

Electromagnetic black hole

24

Social [?]

1

I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA

74

2

I am a high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist. AMA (Ask Me Anything)

40

3

Replace "watch.swf" with "warp.swf" in YouTube and see the results

27

4

Someone who is like Data in real life

22

5

Trillian for iPhone: Two months later, still no response from Apple…

17

6

Real Life Prisoners Dilemma with $100k at Stake [vid]

15

7

Electronics hack: guy solves infinite resistor puzzle by actually building one.

11

8

Startup School on Twitter

8

9

8

10

Dan Bricklin's Talk From Startup Bootcamp [YouTube]

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture

214

2

GitHub's Unicorn Setup

162

3

I Wouldn't Hire a Programmer With No Interest in Programming Outside of Work

102

4

Nginx module to turn it into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server.

80

5

High Anxiety (raganwald on Go and learning new things)

69

6

MacRuby dev gets eaten by raptors

62

7

Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC: GitHub's new serialization and RPC protocol

57

8

Ledger: Command-line double-entry accounting

57

9

Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate

53

10

Cascade - a web framework for Clojure by Tapestry author

47

Wikipedia [?]

1

Srinivasa Ramanujan

77

2

54

3

Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing short stories

46

4

Fast inverse square root

37

5

Lucid programming language

33

6

Laws of Power: Machiavelli and Sun-Tzu brought up-to-date

27

7

Gimli Glider: When systems go wrong.

26

8

Failed CIA Project "Acoustic Kitty"

19

9

Is 0 Odd or Even?

18

10

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

8

Blogs [?]

1

What Startups Are Really Like

382

2

Michael Vanier: LFM and LFSP

60

3

PG: The hundred-year language

31

4

GeoCities Product Manager

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Joel Gets Beat Down on IoC

7

2

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

6

3

What is Erlang written in?

4

4

History of Django's Popularity w/ responses from Alex Martelli and James Bennet

3

5

Factorial Algorithms in different languages (in one source file, 5 languages)

2

6

Favorite online lectures and presentations

2

7

What real life bad habits has programming given you? (StackOverflow)

2

8

History of Django's popularity

1

Substack [?]