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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
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2
What I've Learned from Hacker News
381
3
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
347
4
The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
338
5
Startups in 13 Sentences
322
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)
249
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Why CSS should not be used for layout
248
8
Keep Your Identity Small
234
9
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
201
10
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
194
Top Ask HN
1
Just cashed out for 2M. What now?
148
2
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN
108
3
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com
104
4
Would you pay $5/yr for HN?
101
5
Industries Ripe For Disruption?
83
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Help me make HN work well on the iPhone
80
7
Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?
73
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Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?
62
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To porn or not to porn?
60
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Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com
51
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Y Combinator’s FathomDB Takes The Hassle Out Of Managing Your Database
110
2
Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal?
86
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Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08]
68
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Posterous (YC S08) launches universal bookmarklet
57
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TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
54
6
Experiences Of A Newbie iPhone Developer
47
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Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others
44
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Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec
40
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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
40
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Magenta is a color
40
News [?]
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I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
186
2
Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for
134
3
I Became a Savant For a Day
129
4
The Great College Hoax
95
5
The Eligible Bachelor Paradox
94
6
How the Crash Will Reshape America
81
7
Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down
79
8
Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect
75
9
Entrepreneur sells bottled New York City tap water
72
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You Can’t Sell News by the Slice
68
Scientific publications [?]
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The Death of Business-Method Patents
10
2
This Car Runs on Code (100 million lines of it)
5
3
Tech Titans Building Boom: The Data Center Arms Race
5
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Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet
5
5
How Amateur Sleuths Spot Satellites
3
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The Athens Affair: The most audacious cell-network break-in ever
3
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IEEE Spectrum: Dream Jobs 2009
2
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Lensless high-resolution $10 microscope for cell imaging
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Damian Katz - Why he decided to create couchDB
73
2
Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence
42
3
Web-based IDEs to become mainstream?
11
4
Twitter: Nothing to Report Just Yet
6
5
Twitter Blog: Opportunity Knocks
6
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Microsoft sues TomTom
6
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Jazzers and Programmers
5
8
Insiders
5
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Helping the Terrorists
4
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Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"
3
Tech blogs [?]
1
Help Stop Copyright Madness on Youtube
42
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$10 Laptop is Huge Disappointment ($30 and not a laptop)
28
3
EFF requests not to consider iPhone jailbreaking illegal
19
4
Snow Leopard screenshots show interface tweaks
16
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Battery, RAM, and HD access on new 17-inch Macbook Pro
10
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AT&T's 3G MicroCell to patch iPhone dead zones
6
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Adobe and Apple Working on Flash for iPhone
5
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Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
4
9
South Park iPhone App denied
3
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Average iPhone app usage declines rapidly after first download
3
FAANG+ [?]
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Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
64
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MSFT is giving cops free USB drives designed to autocollect personal info from PCs
2
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Amazon FPS exits beta and announces limited time free payment processing
2
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IBM teams up with AWS
2
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The True Cost of Information Quality
2
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"A bounds check on the exploitability index" (Bas Alberts)
1
7
Microsoft Mobile Tagging Service
1
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Microsoft Equips Individuals With New Training Resources Needed for Jobs: Elevate America
1
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Apple has a readable, brief Terms of Service
1
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The Fun Of Programming (Functional Programming pearls)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
84
2
Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers
62
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The Pirate Bay Trial Day 3: The ‘King Kong’ Defense
43
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Day 4 - Pirate Bay Defense Calls Foul Over Evidence
42
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Five languages in seven lines, or how not to do web development
42
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How To Turn Customers Into Pirates
31
7
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil
24
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Pirate Bay Trial Day 5: Peter’s "Political Trial"
22
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News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference
21
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Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz
20
Science News [?]
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The next generation of mirrors
80
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Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
40
3
Body Language Reveals Wealth
32
4
A crisis of confidence: the US scientific endeavour is increasingly losing its lustre as a career choice
27
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Should scientists study race and IQ?
23
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Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts
22
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How your looks betray your personality
21
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Loneliness Affects How The Brain Operates
19
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In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
18
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Mathematics: The only true universal language
17
Social [?]
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How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night.
67
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Facebook reverts Terms of Use
29
3
CS Student Hacks Chrono Trigger to Propose
10
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Chat Stability and Scalability at Facebook
9
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Louis CK: Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
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YouTube Adding Downloads, Including For-Pay
6
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Peter Schiff: Stimulus Bill Will Lead to "Unmitigated Disaster"
6
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Google now has an official Twitter account
5
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Intro to Clojure - 80 min screencast for non-Lispers (vid)
5
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Complete Rand interview with Mike Wallace
4
Github repos and gists [?]
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Um, I have a question (about programmer productivity)
90
2
Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text
83
3
FirePython: Firebug for Python
57
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J: an alternative to cd that learns where you spend time
55
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Rails deployment missing piece, filled in
41
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Heist: a Scheme interpreter written in Ruby
38
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See(), an alternative to Python's dir()
37
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_why's Bloopsaphone - Make Atari-like bloopy sounds
33
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GitHub: More Disk Space for All
33
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K7: a standard library for the V8 Javascript interpreter
21
Wikipedia [?]
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Emacs + Vim + Haskell = Yi
40
2
The Voynich manuscript - A mysterious undeciphered text
8
3
Interplanetary Transport Network
6
4
Prince Rupert's Drop
6
5
Anti-patterns
4
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Project Alpha and the Resulting Crash of the Parapsychology Field
4
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Quine: A program that's only output is its own source code
4
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NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s
4
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The Secretary Problem, or an Optimal Mating Strategy
3
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His Cube is most famous, but Ernő Rubik created quite a few other puzzles, also
3
Blogs [?]
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What I've Learned from Hacker News
381
2
Startups in 13 Sentences
322
3
Keep Your Identity Small
234
4
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
124
5
Giving money to the founders: In 2009, is this still absurd?
65
6
Lisp is a Chameleon
30
Stackoverflow [?]
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Should developers worry about ageism?
37
2
What’s happening with Arc?
21
3
Woot.com enlists StackOverflow users to address bot/scripting attacks
12
4
How many professional software developers are there worldwide?
3
5
A more RESTful web browser: Using web forms to submit HTTP auth information
1
Substack [?]