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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business

400

2

The Innards of Erlang

327

3

Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"

291

4

Why HN is slow lately

270

5

My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

260

6

Understanding Git

258

7

Starting up with a friend

252

8

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

241

9

Why I Sued Google (and Won)

222

10

Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009

222

Top Ask HN

1

Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

149

2

Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?

107

3

How can I get up early in the morning?

96

4

how do you process payments?

95

5

Haskell or Erlang?

87

6

Any sources on Erlang?

73

7

How many of you (coders) use marijuana?

70

8

If we woke up tomorrow and...

56

9

How are url shorteners making money?

54

10

What are your HNs for other domains?

45

Top Show HN

1

Our new online face recognition demo

50

2

Code draws better than you

19

3

JStartup - Hacker News for news people/journalists

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

181

2

Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.

157

3

Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval

153

4

IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc

138

5

Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking

119

6

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

108

7

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th

99

8

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu

86

9

Amazon's Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store

71

10

Calling All Foodies: Y Combinator’s Foodoro Launches Online Farmers Market

67

News [?]

1

College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

194

2

Interview with the man who built Google's V8 engine from scratch

170

3

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

149

4

How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy.

132

5

How to stop the drug wars

129

6

After the newspapers die, who will watch the police?

83

7

Jeff Bezos Works In Kentucky Distribution Center For A Week

81

8

HN Member on Frontpage of Today's NY Times

77

9

Warren Buffett Explains How The Bailout Is Crushing Healthy Companies

75

10

The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson

71

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why the wires behind your computer are a tangled mess.

45

2

NASA to Launch Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Tonight

7

3

IEEE Spectrum: Can Machines Be Conscious?

5

4

The Death of Business-Method Patents

4

5

Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up

3

6

Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto

3

7

Simulation of the outbreak of cooperation of success-driven individuals

2

8

Laser-based haptics system lets you feel distant objects

2

9

Open Arms: Open-source Prosthetics

2

10

WiFi networks and malware epidemiology

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Doug Bowman, former Visual Design Lead at Google, joins Twitter

10

2

Twitter Replies Are Now Mentions

9

3

The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang

7

4

Perverse Security Incentives

6

5

Advancing the Ruby 1.9 Adoption

5

6

Digg, An Infrastructure in Transition [video]

5

7

4

8

Twitter Replies Are Now Mentions

4

9

Linux Kernel Temporarily Receives New Mascot/Logo, Tuz

3

10

The Kindness of Strangers

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better

136

2

Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake

32

3

Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm

28

4

Apple stores now selling iPhone 3G without a contract (US)

21

5

DOJ Seeks Jail Time for Music Sharing

21

6

Apple close to unveiling guarded Snow Leopard UI overhaul

16

7

Apple Quietly Bumps 15" MacBook Pro Speed, 256GB SSD Option, and New Keyboard

13

8

Dell's iPhone Killer rejected by carriers as too dull

11

9

Sniffing keystrokes via laser, power lines

7

10

IPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos

7

FAANG+ [?]

1

Celebrating 3 Years of Amazon S3 with 3 Months of Transfer-In for 3 Cents/GB

29

2

Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

23

3

Amazon Releases AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

22

4

How A R Rahman scored Slumdog Millionaire music with Logic Pro on Mac Pro ?

4

5

The new Apple Mac Mini

2

6

Buy HD movies on iTunes

2

7

Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer

1

8

New iPod Shuffle that Speaks Song Titles

1

9

Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances

1

10

Amazon releases Reserved Instances

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

You're calling who a cult leader?

70

2

The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time

43

3

Pirate Bay Announces Global Anonymity Service

38

4

The Pirate Bay - Innocent or Guilty?

15

5

Your decisions can be affected by fleeting images and what you currently see

14

6

Why Hackers Can't Cooperate

9

7

Pirate Bay Torrents Spread Via Facebook

8

8

Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show

8

9

Information cascades in social news voting systems

7

10

Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads on Facebook

5

Science News [?]

1

Is time an illusion?

74

2

A New Battery That Charges In Seconds

27

3

'We present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine'

27

4

Do nations go to war over water?

22

5

Cognitive enhancement drug may also cause addiction

15

6

Why money messes with your mind

14

7

Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion

11

8

The Aristotle illusion

10

9

What's So Hot About Chili Peppers?

9

10

Time to shrink the atomic clock

9

Social [?]

1

Reddit's Discussion about HN

18

2

Erlang Quan - Basic Applications

16

3

Extreme Shepherding - Best Sheep Hack I've seen all day

13

4

AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads (excellent foresight) [vid]

11

5

Great news: Tony Morris is OK

9

6

Erlang: The Movie (unintentionally funny)

9

7

The Django Book version 2.0 now available

8

8

YouTube - The LEGO Turing Machine

7

9

Siftables, the toy blocks that think (TED talk)

7

10

Erlang: It's time to be uncomfortably parallel

6

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Erlang meets Ruby

55

2

Smaz - short strings compression library

46

3

Seven Minute Abs - A/B testing in 7 minutes (rails)

41

4

Sentdiff: Diff for Writing

41

5

Scott Adams: what if plumbers had the business model of private colleges?

38

6

Elegance and the Surreals

32

7

I have a question about organizing projects

24

8

A Lisp interpreter written in Awk.

16

9

Reia Programming Language

15

10

How Erlang evaluates funs (i.e. lambdas)

12

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Erlang Distribution

142

2

127

3

Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enough to avoid deletion?

40

4

30

5

Non-English-based programming languages

30

6

List Of Acquisitions By Google

24

7

All editions of Encarta are being discontinued (read about it on Wikipedia)

15

8

Format wars this past century

14

9

List of places blurred out on Google Maps

5

10

Some examples of the serendipity effect on innovation

5

Blogs [?]

1

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

241

2

161

3

How to Be an Angel Investor

122

4

What You'll Wish You'd Known (2005)

54

5

The Word "Hacker" (2004)

28

6

How to do great research

6

7

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How accurate are the arguments in JWZ’s 10-year-old "java sucks" article?

30

2

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

6

3

Anti-patterns for Javascript

4

4

Developer Burnout Stories

3

5

What can I do to be a great Computer Science teacher/professor someday?

1

Substack [?]