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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Deny This, Last.fm

312

2

A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

303

3

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

300

4

My $3.3M Mistake

251

5

Is There Anything Good About Men?

232

6

How to Teach a Child to Argue

217

7

Hacker News Disease

215

8

PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms

197

9

Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

194

10

Can you trust 37signals with your password?

189

Top Ask HN

1

Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?

145

2

Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

106

3

Why no love for PHP?

99

4

What apps are essential for mac?

84

5

After SICP, what next?

78

6

I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

77

7

Startup founders, would you walk us through a day in the life?

76

8

"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?

73

9

Where do I go from here?

73

10

Your Hacker Workspace

61

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Deny This, Last.fm

312

2

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

169

3

Homebrewed CPU Is a Beautiful Mess of Wires

159

4

The Ultimate Lock Picker

144

5

Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler (YC S08)

67

6

Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim

67

7

Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

66

8

61

9

Y Combinator’s ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone

55

10

Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)

53

News [?]

1

Don’t! The secret of self-control

186

2

My Personal Credit Crisis

185

3

Why it's expensive to be poor

183

4

Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath

116

5

The Case For Working With Your Hands

101

6

What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain

95

7

How David Beats Goliath

78

8

What Makes Us Happy?

74

9

Argentina: The Superpower that Never Was (& Why the US Ascended)

74

10

The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed

70

Scientific publications [?]

1

Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

87

2

The Wizardry of Id: a profile of John Carmack's programming (David Kushner)

42

3

25 Microchips That Shook the World

35

4

Live Video feed of Space Shuttle Launch

9

5

The stability of mountains on neutron stars [pdf]

8

6

Watch Atlantis rendevous with Hubble Live

7

7

The Million Dollar Programming Prize

4

8

The Million Dollar Programming Prize

3

9

Today's procrastination cure: The African Hacker (2005)

2

10

Random Number Generators: A Survival Guide for Large Scale Simulations

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security: Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector

89

2

Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation

46

3

Bruce Schneier on Mathematical Illiteracy

35

4

Alternatives to SQL Databases

26

5

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy at OOPSLA 2008

18

6

Heroku's Provisionless Hosting for Rails Apps is Revolutionary

12

7

Squeak Smalltalk and Seaside come to the iPhone

5

8

Bruce Eckel on Python, Java, Flex, and RIAs

3

9

Twitter Blog: Small Settings Update

3

10

WebForms is a Lie: Should ASP.NET Developers Learn ASP.NET MVC?

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

Sam Odio and the EFF vs. Apple Inc.

66

2

Law Firm Closes Bank Account From Pirate Bay DDo$

26

3

More of Apple's Snow Leopard caught on camera

26

4

Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm

22

5

EFF 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation

12

6

Apple freezes Snow Leopard APIs as software nears final stretch

8

7

Myst now in the App Store, 730Mb Download

3

8

Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 and New iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release

3

9

Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet

3

10

SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives, Intel/MacBook

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle

112

2

Bypass the internet for large transfers: AWS Import/Export

86

3

Is Spatial Ability the "Geek Gene"?

63

4

Apple Profiles Twitter

21

5

The AWS Start-Up Tour

16

6

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Being surprised by media computation Permalink

10

7

Yet another Amazon review bomb

5

8

Windows 7 RC now available for download

4

9

Apple's Twitter Profile

3

10

Server Quest II

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

My Language Is More Agile Than Yours: A Study of Arc

77

2

Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament

25

3

Why Free Software usability tends to suck

25

4

Pirate Party 3rd Largest Political Party in Sweden

22

5

On the Fence? Major in CS

15

6

Mininova begins filtering copyrighted material

6

7

A profile of computer pioneer Gary Kildall [video]

5

8

Do Fandoms Need Awfulness? (by Eliezer Yudkowsky)

4

9

How to restore a dead harddrive

3

10

Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler

3

Science News [?]

1

Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says

34

2

Why it's hard to share the wealth

31

3

Quantum arguments for God

26

4

The Look of a Winner

25

5

Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole

24

6

Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server

23

7

Will designer brains divide humanity?

21

8

Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups"

14

9

How to map the multiverse

13

10

Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles

11

Social [?]

1

What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful?

36

2

1964 Antique modem surfs the web

31

3

First tweet from space

21

4

Pixel City, a procedurally generated city

11

5

Chris Pirillo likes Tonido.

10

6

The Psychology of Incompetence

9

7

Tell HN: My group just finished our short animation. Thoughts?

9

8

Google Wave video leaked internal data at 33min43s

8

9

Youtube starts testing HTML5 tag

7

10

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

137

2

Reg Braithwaite on Optimism

94

3

59

4

Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored

57

5

Resty - a bash REST client

44

6

Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment

39

7

Sinatra clone in Scala

31

8

Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure

31

9

Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge

30

10

The Hg-Git Plugin from GitHub

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

Did you know that there's an algorithm for symbolic integration that always works?

50

2

Déformation professionnelle

44

3

Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia

43

4

35

5

33

6

Proving something exists nonconstructively using probability.

26

7

Unsolved problems in physics

21

8

Use of "oracles" in computational complexity.

7

9

Does your anti-virus actually work?

4

10

The NPS question: how likely would you be to recommend ___ to a friend or colleague?

4

Blogs [?]

1

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

11

2

Twitter image encoding challenge; compress an image into 140 Unicode characters

8

3

Objective-C and Cocoa Best Practices

7

4

Encoding images in tiny messages; don't align values at bit boundaries

6

5

When random isn't fair

5

6

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

2

7

Undefined behaviour in c++

1

8

Optimizing a word game - 80-100X performance improvement

1

Substack [?]