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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

_why is no more

558

2

Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

364

3

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

359

4

Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games

330

5

Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store

327

6

318

7

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

279

8

Signs that you're a bad programmer

273

9

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley

264

10

So long, and thanks for all the fish

245

Top Ask HN

1

Who's Hiring? (take 2)

202

2

What's a Non-Programmer to do?

152

3

Where do you live?

112

4

Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?

78

5

Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

71

6

63

7

Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen?

62

8

How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?

60

9

Why does a url use ://?

58

10

Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business?

56

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

279

2

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds

149

3

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

113

4

Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule

108

5

YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed

107

6

Listia (YC S09) Is An Awesome Way To Give And Get Free Stuff

98

7

Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?

91

8

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

88

9

Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy

82

10

JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder

81

News [?]

1

R.I.P. Les Paul

196

2

How American Health Care Killed My Father

166

3

America's unjust sex laws

118

4

Why we don't use Galileo's last name.

117

5

Ted Kennedy has died

110

6

How Different Groups Use Their Time

108

7

The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

103

8

Where Is Xu Zhiyong?

99

9

Mexico Decriminalizes Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin and Other Drugs

99

10

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

89

Scientific publications [?]

1

The LED's Dark Secret: "droop"

106

2

Dean Kamen Takes His Island Off-Grid

44

3

The Hunt for the Kill Switch (2008)

17

4

The LED's Dark Secret

9

5

Exoskeletons Are on the March

8

6

NASA Wins Emmy for Apollo 11 Moon Broadcast

5

7

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning"

4

8

Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata (2004)

4

9

The Price of Anarchy In Basketball

3

10

Glitch Forces NASA to Cancel First Moon Rocket Test Firing

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Self-Enforcing Protocols

156

2

ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees

130

3

Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09)

77

4

Google releases Neatx NX server

73

5

API changes in Snow Leopard

45

6

Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition

38

7

OpenCL "Hello World"

32

8

Schneier on Security : Flash Cookies

26

9

Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

23

10

Schneier on Security: Lockpicking and the Intenet

21

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro

66

2

Exclusive Interview: Hacking The iPhone Through SMS

33

3

'Chipotle Ordering' Back in App Store

18

4

Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD

5

5

Apple working on device abuse detection technology

4

6

Google's chief accepted gear but no pay as Apple board member

4

7

On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever

4

8

Lego robot solves Sudoku on paper

4

9

An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC?

3

10

Microsoft plans to use Windows 7 to raise netbook prices

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors

199

2

Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions

87

3

Bump Technologies (YC S09) featured in Apple iPhone Ad

64

4

James Cameron's Avatar trailer posted

46

5

AWS Import/Export Enters Unlimited Beta, Adds Export for Amazon S3

14

6

AWS Multi-Factor Authentication

12

7

Amazon/AWS Startup Challenge entry deadline extended

3

8

Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Availble for Pre-Order

1

9

Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

1

10

Apple : Final Cut Pro 7, The year’s most stunning new release

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Living root bridges

72

2

Why I hate programming competitions

62

3

The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing

40

4

Download A Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone

35

5

My draft Masters dissertation on YC and other "startup accelerators"

32

6

Radiohead Leak Their New Track To BitTorrent

26

7

Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net

20

8

David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged)

20

9

He'd Rather Be "Raped By Pirate Bay" Than Played On Spotify

16

10

The Pirate Bay Taken Offline

8

Science News [?]

1

Depression is not a malfunction

73

2

Found: first amino acid on a comet

46

3

Why More Autumn Leaves Are Red In America And Yellow In Europe

27

4

Electrons split into two new particles, Holons and Spinons.

26

5

Night-time pic reveals growing economies

24

6

Depression's Evolutionary Roots

21

7

Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag

20

8

Markov & statistical models unlock ancient script

19

9

The math of gambling

18

10

What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling

18

Social [?]

1

_why is no more

558

2

LinkedIn charges $250 a year to view users' full profiles.

35

3

Hacker Dojo open house right now in Mountain View

33

4

South Park Sums Up Most Web Startups

22

5

Paul Graham at Startup School (2008) (video)

20

6

Guido: I've abandoned the "don't use tables for layout" meme...

19

7

Mario AI competition might have a strong contender

18

8

8-bit trip (LEGO stop-motion video)

18

9

A Demo From 1990 of Disney Animation Software on the Amiga

16

10

Weinreb: Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing

15

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mirror of _why's projects

116

2

I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac

103

3

Meet CI Joe: GitHub's new Continuous Integration server

55

4

My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV

52

5

Display your current git branch as part of your bash prompt

32

6

NeverSayDie will let you rescue from SEGV's and is evil

27

7

Rewriting Returning in Rails

26

8

A Clojure library for Apache CouchDB

18

9

Nemesis: a Rake like task management for Haskell with a nice DSL (BSD3 license)

16

10

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics

152

2

Why the Z boson had a different mass at different times of day.

65

3

37

4

Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight

20

5

The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking)

18

6

Duff's device: do + switch fall-through = loop unrolling

16

7

Pólya conjecture

13

8

Milwaukee protocol (treating rabies without the vaccine)

12

9

Pecha Kucha: Preventative Medicine for Death By PowerPoint

10

10

8

Blogs [?]

1

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley

264

2

145

3

128

4

83

5

Revenge of the Nerds

20

6

3

7

3

8

3

9

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?

30

2

What is your best programmer joke?

24

3

Senior programming "guru" who can't program - should I find a different career?

8

4

List of freely available programming books

6

5

Learning to write a compiler

6

6

Would you opensource an application like StackOverflow? Answer: Question closed.

5

7

Non-programming books that programmers should read

5

8

How do you design object oriented projects?

2

9

How to port one-to-many db's to key-value based stores ?

1

10

Math for Programmers

1

Substack [?]