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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Oracle to buy Sun

249

2

Google uncloaks once-secret server

238

3

Pirate Bay officially loses case

226

4

Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

206

5

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

205

6

Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

202

7

The Founder Visa

200

8

Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step

186

9

179

10

Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise

175

Top Ask HN

1

Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

165

2

Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs?

86

3

I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?

64

4

What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?

64

5

Why no sense of humor?

64

6

Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"?

64

7

62

8

Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?

61

9

what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems?

57

10

2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots

52

Top Show HN

1

Hacking is not Cracking

3

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lessons from a failed startup

103

2

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features

102

3

Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

90

4

Dropbox (YC S08) Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million Members

89

5

Google AppEngine Java Support Launches

74

6

Gmail Sidesteps the App Store

68

7

FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses

63

8

The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack

61

9

The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown

59

10

Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets

52

News [?]

1

The dark side of Dubai

174

2

Stephen Hawking 'very ill'

144

3

Caring for your introvert

139

4

The Banker Who Said No

135

5

The Management Myth (2006)

113

6

94

7

Screenshots of Twitter's internal admin interface

88

8

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems

85

9

Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain

85

10

81

Scientific publications [?]

1

Build a Low-Cost, High-End Class-D Amplifier

38

2

Introduction to Machine Learning: Class Notes 67577

32

3

Lagrangians and Hamiltonians for High School Students

27

4

Video: Anybots Humanoid Robot Puts Telepresence on Wheels

9

5

Lorentz violation at high energy [astro-ph/0505267]

8

6

Doves and hawks: An evolutionary quantum game theory-based analysis of financial crises

6

7

Black/White hole radiation from dispersive theories [hep-th/0903.2224]

5

8

The edge of locality: visualizing a black hole from the inside

4

9

Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites

2

10

NK fails to put satellite in orbit - again.

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Sun JVM gets incremental, compacting GC

56

2

PostgreSQL 8.4 Beta

54

3

Facebook's Software Stack

33

4

Fake Facts on Twitter

29

5

Historical Debugging in Visual Studio 2010

13

6

Axum, Microsoft’s Approach to Parallelism

8

7

Twitter: The Discovery Engine Is Coming

7

8

Twitter Blog: Twitter Search for Everyone

4

9

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun - lwn analysis of the acquisition

3

10

Successfully Adopting Pair Programming

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

109

2

All-Time Top iPhone App Sales Figures and Estimates

13

3

EFF & Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats

7

4

Apple's still working on iChat video answering machine

5

5

Twitter brain interface

4

6

Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers

3

7

Apple invites iPhone developers to test live push notifications

3

8

IPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England

2

9

Apple taps developers to test new Snow Leopard beta

2

10

EFF Bootcamp On User Generated Content and the Law

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce

148

2

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

22

3

Amazon EC2 Running IBM Now Available

17

4

1 Billion iPhone App Countdown

10

5

AWS in Education

5

6

Amazon EC2 Instances with Websphere Portal starting at only 4600/mo

3

7

ASP.NET MVC source code released under MS-PL

2

8

Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter by a Reporter

2

9

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Why ask "What is Computing?" Permalink

1

10

Bill Buxton MIX09 Keynote

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay officially loses case

226

2

Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (1997)

82

3

Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

77

4

Generalizing from one example

53

5

Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA

51

6

Inspire HN: Solve the Internet Bystander Problem

21

7

Cached Procrastination

17

8

The Sound of iPod

13

9

Pirate Bay Loses - Courtroom Leak from “Trustworthy” Source

13

10

France to Block The Pirate Bay

12

Science News [?]

1

New Way To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen

41

2

Things that do not make sense (2005)

41

3

How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls

37

4

Robotic penguins swimming and flying

23

5

Homemade 3D printer goop made from maltodextrin costs 1/50th of the real stuff

23

6

The five ages of the brain

22

7

Night Owls Stay Alert Longer than Early Birds

21

8

Bug eats electricity, farts biogas

21

9

Our ears may have built-in passwords

20

10

How long will it last? Graphic shows number of years left of various materials [pic]

20

Social [?]

1

How Facebook stores its billions of photos

80

2

Google Container Data Center Tour

10

3

Youtube upside down

10

4

Cloudkick launches EC2 image on non-EC2 server provider

9

5

Making 'Super Nario Bros.' in Haskell

9

6

Inside a Google Data Center [video]

8

7

Genius forklift design: Sidewinder

8

8

Buffett & Gates - Go Back to School

7

9

YouTube - A Narrative History of BSD by Kirk McKusick

7

10

Changes at YouTube - Phasing You out of Youtube (vid)

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub releases integrated issue tracking

135

2

I'm Sick of This

86

3

My Objection to Array#sum

62

4

We need the eggs

32

5

WordPress plugin to block DiggBar (inspired by Jon Gruber)

32

6

Ruby style guide

30

7

Idea: using code rather than templates to generate HTML

23

8

My objection to extension methods

20

9

Mio: A Tiny Subset of Io in Ruby

19

10

Code to 'stalkdaily' xss attack

19

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hawala: transferring money without actually moving it

58

2

Wikipedia: The 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak

57

3

49

4

40

5

The Sokal Affair

26

6

23

7

12.04.1961 - First human in outer space.

19

8

Unexplained red flashes on the moon's surface

17

9

How a Buffer Overflow Works

17

10

Kelvin's hydroelectric generator

17

Blogs [?]

1

The Founder Visa

200

2

179

3

A Local Revolution?

102

4

What You Can't Say

45

5

Inequality and Risk

21

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

10

2

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

10

3

Why Isn't Smalltalk Popular?

4

4

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980 (Question from Alan Kay)

3

5

Programming Riddle: Counting down without subtracting.

2

6

What’s an example of Ruby code that’s "too clever"?

1

7

Mystery jQuery Bug

1

Substack [?]