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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
401
2
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
347
3
When a co-founder dies
335
4
The Duct Tape Programmer
333
5
How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business
319
6
Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
310
7
Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source
291
8
Experiment: No Comment Scores
289
9
The bar for success in our industry is too low
282
10
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
258
Top Ask HN
1
Check out my little app
108
2
Do you create music? Let's hear it!
89
3
Am I crazy?
89
4
Best Unix Tricks?
83
5
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com
80
6
Do you think machine consciousness is possible?
71
7
Is version control worth learning early on?
70
8
3 Ideas (with slides) for YC W10 - What do you think?
64
9
Orange dot?
63
10
What are your productivity hacks?
58
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
347
2
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
258
3
Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
245
4
Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million
196
5
Haiku
145
6
John Siracusa's in-depth review of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica
141
7
Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide
130
8
DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users.
129
9
A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google
102
10
From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.
99
News [?]
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That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
121
2
Cursive handwriting considered harmful; bring back italic
116
3
Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing
109
4
Why Can’t She Walk to School?
88
5
Teenager invents solar panel made from human hair
78
6
Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space
68
7
Humans evolving 100 times faster than historical levels.
64
8
For Hackers Who Don't Sleep
63
9
Loopt to work in the background on iPhone via deal with AT&T
62
10
Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
56
Scientific publications [?]
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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon
97
2
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
67
3
New Chips Loaded With Dummy Parts
61
4
Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News
57
5
New Math for Artificial Neurons
34
6
Has the rate of technological progress slowed in the past 50 years?
30
7
The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
18
8
Geometry of the restricted Boltzmann machine
13
9
A Computational View of Market Efficiency
13
10
Radio's Regulatory Roadblocks - How the FCC slows new wireless technologies
10
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Who wrote Linux Kernel 2.6.20?
91
2
Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell
90
3
Fish - The friendly interactive shell
55
4
How FlightCaster (YC S09) built multi-platform scalable apps on Heroku (YC W08)
46
5
POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES
40
6
Schneier on Security: File Deletion
39
7
Linus - I'm a bastard Speech (2000)
37
8
Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber
36
9
Tokyo Cabinet, MySQL and Ruby HTTP Performance
33
10
Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
20
Tech blogs [?]
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The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD
51
2
Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs
35
3
Why we don’t need phone numbers
18
4
Cybersecurity Act Returns With a Fresh Coat of Paint
14
5
AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs
14
6
Virtual pool, real-world interface
8
7
AT&T To Offer Micro Cell for iPhone 3G $150
6
8
The SSD Relapse
5
9
Melanin/Hair Based DIY Solar Panels
4
10
T-Mobile considering acquisition of Sprint
3
FAANG+ [?]
1
Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time
139
2
Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution
58
3
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
49
4
Microsoft Security Essentials is released for free
10
5
Microsoft Security Essentials: Free antivirus software
3
6
Microsoft will donate 8 meals to the poor if you download IE
1
7
Apple - iPod nano - Kenmerken - Videocamera
1
8
Richard Dawkins's new book about the evidence for Evolution is out
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Hacker News: Day 2
64
2
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
54
3
Run a Free BitTorrent Tracker on Google App Engine
37
4
Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
33
5
Reason as memetic immune disorder
33
6
Pirate Bay Appeal Judge Faces Ban, Works For Spotify
7
7
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
7
8
Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
6
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On the Theory of Computing
4
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Privileging the Hypothesis (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
3
Science News [?]
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Direct Evidence Of Role Of Sleep In Memory Formation Is Uncovered
76
2
Fungus-treated Violin Outdoes Stradivarius
67
3
Best Optical Illusion of the Year
58
4
Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late
53
5
Statistics at Square One
44
6
More things that don't make sense
42
7
Why AI is a dangerous dream - interview with Noel Sharkey
40
8
Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus
36
9
Why It's So Hard to Make Nuclear Weapons
33
10
Magnetic Monopoles Detected?
29
Social [?]
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Who need XSS when you can simply ask?
43
2
Melbourne Australia Hackernews/YC Meetup, this Sun 4th Oct
38
3
Reddit XSS worm (Don't mouseover Reddit comments and use FF+Noscript)
31
4
Gödel, Escher, Bach OCW lectures
26
5
LEGO Turing Machine
25
6
Java on 1000 cores (in one box)
25
7
Python based MIT 6.00 | Intro to Computer Science and Programming
24
8
Tell HN: Am hosting a meetup for 40 journalists in Chicago. Hackers welcome
20
9
Peter Norvig on "Innovations in AI and Search"
11
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"I'm a PC, and more happy is coming"
9
Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub is moving to Rackspace
152
2
Homebrew is a new package management system for OS X based on git + ruby
99
3
Anaphora in Ruby
58
4
A Rails like framework for Clojure.
47
5
Rack::ChromeFrame, easy Google Chrome Frame integration for Ruby apps
36
6
Tornado as your server: WSGI container lands in Tornado
29
7
GitHub Contest Winners
29
8
Ack now hosted on GitHub
22
9
GitHub: Ref Names in URLs
17
10
SimpleXML for Python
8
Wikipedia [?]
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I never realized how useful netcat is
190
2
List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions
109
3
Visualizing Pi (π)
48
4
Inner-platform effect
42
5
Why Gopher lost to HTML
25
6
.yu domain expires today (30/Sept/2009)
24
7
The Theory of Interstellar Trade, Paul Krugman (1978)
21
8
Liquid breathing
18
9
List of pangrams
16
10
Codd's 12 rules
15
Blogs [?]
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The Anatomy of Determination
163
2
The Lost Oaks of California Ave
152
3
Persuade xor Discover
148
4
The List of N Things
146
5
Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp
129
6
Post-Medium Publishing
98
7
Viaweb's Last Press Release
29
8
Mind the Gap (2004)
20
9
Persuade xor Discover, Parkinson Remix
20
10
Persuade xor Discover
5
Stackoverflow [?]
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What’s an example of Ruby code that’s "too clever"?
5
2
Can a Programmer be a Decent Graphic Designer? - Here's Some Tips
5
3
How do you tell someone they're writing bad code?
5
4
What’s the most egregious pop culture perversion of programming?
4
5
SO: Interesting thread on which language to use for data summarization
2
6
The worst interviewee answers
2
7
In C# how can you find the mime type of a file based on the file signature
2
8
Capturing Keystrokes in GNU/Linux in C
1
Substack [?]