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Top stories
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS
370
2
My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.
327
3
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
320
4
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
312
5
Did you mean recursion?
290
6
Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL
279
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Why I won't be at my high school reunion
271
8
Ramen Profitable
264
9
You should follow me on Twitter
263
10
Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
240
Top Ask HN
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What are you working on?
136
2
What kind of index is Google using here?
116
3
Why Python over Ruby?
87
4
Objecting to stories being killed
74
5
Cash-flow muses
71
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What to do when your company misses payroll?
70
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Startup vs Girlfriend
67
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how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads?
61
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Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on?
51
10
What to do after graduation with 100k?
48
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection
217
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I Quit The iPhone
191
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RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD
178
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Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice
156
5
Amazon Buys Zappos
139
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YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye
132
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Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault
126
8
Mixpanel (YC S09) Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics
123
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Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
114
10
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
103
News [?]
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BBC open source their "Glow" Javascript library
107
2
Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09)
91
3
Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
86
4
Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (for netbooks)
72
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"Marriage is for white people"
72
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One Giant Leap to Nowhere
66
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Yahoo is Number One in So Much More Than Search
63
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Company fined $300,000 for posting fake reviews online
60
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Logo on Steroids - The new video game Kodu
58
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Why do the rich keep working?
55
Scientific publications [?]
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A Radical New Router
56
2
LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
33
3
Robert Zubrin: how to go to Mars right now
32
4
Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators [pdf]
25
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Mars is hard
22
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Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series
3
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Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind
2
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Drink Beer, Win a Trip to Space
1
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Rockets for the Red Planet: engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back
1
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[Google] Online Stochastic Matching: Beating 1-1/e
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
OpenSSH update from Damien Miller
62
2
Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough
44
3
Laptop security while crossing borders
37
4
Fun with NULL pointers (how the 2.6.30 exploit works)
35
5
New Attack on AES
33
6
Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5
27
7
Schneier on Security : Another New AES Attack
24
8
Making an Operating System Virus Free
24
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Lost suitcases, or how to DoS an airport
23
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The Pros and Cons of Password Masking (follow-up from Schneier)
18
Tech blogs [?]
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Black Hat 2009: Get an SSL cert valid for any domain using a null character
48
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Apple Claims 91% of $1,000+ PC Market Revenue in June
46
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Most Printers Secretly Add Their Serial # to Everything They Print
39
4
EFF: Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay
37
5
Intel releases 34nm-based SSDs with 2x speed of previous drive
33
6
Intel X25-M G2: Dissected and Performance Preview
27
7
Apple launches HTTP live streaming in iPhone 3.0
23
8
Steve Ballmer calls Apple's Mac growth a "rounding error"
21
9
The Book vs. The Kindle
14
10
Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble
12
FAANG+ [?]
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Jeff Bezos apologizes for 1984-Kindle debacle
77
2
Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
49
3
AWS Start-Up Challenge
36
4
Amazon drops price on their Kindle 2 to $299
22
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Windows XP Professional End-User License Agreement
4
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Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
2
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Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
1
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Amazon.com: Asus Eee PC T91 8.9-Inch Black Tablet Netbook
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
52
2
Why are lectures more detailed than texts?
24
3
OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay
20
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Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve
16
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Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On
12
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The strangest thing an AI could tell you
11
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Suspicions of Insider Trading Surround Pirate Bay Buyers
6
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Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water
5
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"Man Of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" - Full Book
2
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Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain
2
Science News [?]
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Memristor Minds
65
2
How celebrities stay famous regardless of talent
43
3
The Calorie delusion: why food labels are wrong
37
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Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser
36
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Ion engine could one day power 39-day trips to Mars
35
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How chaos drives the brain
27
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A drug slows ageing in middle-aged mice
27
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50% 0f doctors have used wikipedia as a reference.
26
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Profanity Helps One Tolerate Physical Pain Better
24
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Number of Internet users by language (pic)
24
Social [?]
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Shopify brings Akamai CDN to all of it's 5000 e-commerce stores for free
10
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Vista Speech Recognition - Equation Editor in Word
8
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Hammering Usernames (the story behind Facebook's one-night deployment)
8
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SpecWatch: The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing Design
7
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I'm a reddit co-founder. Ask me anything.
7
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Proggit: Recommend a compsci paper for me to read this weekend
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Why evolution is true: the strongest evidence I have ever seen.
7
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Donald Knuth's talk at Google (on Faith and Science)
7
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Under the ruler faster than the ruler
6
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Impressive terrain generation in 4Kb [+DirectX]
6
Github repos and gists [?]
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Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype
51
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Wrapping Combinators (raganwald)
15
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Smart JS Polling
13
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Mutter — the tiny command-line interface library with lots of style~
7
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Promises for JavaScript
4
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GitHub Meetup SF
4
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PHP is now on Github
4
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Digg's Cassandra Python Client (GitHub)
2
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Transactors: Actors + STM
2
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Penumbra -- OpenGL in Clojure
2
Wikipedia [?]
1
A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
200
2
List of games in game theory
23
3
Quantum tic tac toe: A teaching metaphor for superposition in quantum mechanics
23
4
TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot
17
5
Mind benders: List of paradoxes
15
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Emacs wikipedia-mode
12
7
CueCat
10
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Berkeley sex bias case, an example of Simpson's paradox
8
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Challenge vs. Skill
6
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Important publications in Computer Science
5
Blogs [?]
1
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
312
2
Ramen Profitable
264
3
The Trouble with the Segway
221
4
How to Do What You Love (2006)
59
5
Ask YC: the image on PG's front page, what does it mean?
12
6
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
9
Stackoverflow [?]
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What's your longest-held programming assumption that turned out to be incorrect?
5
2
How do you stop scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second?
5
3
Hidden Features of Erlang
3
4
Making life better by not using Java web frameworks? - Stack Overflow
2
5
How to create DOM elements and prevent memory leaks in IE
1
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Unintentionally starting an XML debate
1
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Keep your users amused while the app is loading.
1
Substack [?]