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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How Much I Money Made From Side Projects In 2008

190

2

Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

153

3

Man analyses cause of bad TV reception, finds his TV is de facto radar

134

4

Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

130

5

Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page

129

6

Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008

123

7

Apple kills off DRM for whole iTunes music catalog

122

8

English-Prime - English without "is"

108

9

Unusual disk latency

106

10

The best paper airplane in the world

104

Top Ask HN

1

Best HN threads in '08?

104

2

AWS or dedicated server?

78

3

Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps?

71

4

How Can I Make Better Submissions to HN?

56

5

What is your startup's backup policy?

42

6

Free accounts for students?

41

7

What will you learn this year?

36

8

New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install?

33

9

What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business?

29

10

An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?

28

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

How NASA writes 'perfect' software (1996)

43

2

Stem Cells Undo Birth Defects

41

3

Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010

38

4

Foiled: Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Stolen-Data Black Market

37

5

Yoshimoto Cube Blows My Mind then Fries My Brain [video]

28

6

Engine Yard Cuts 15% Of Workforce

26

7

Products I Can’t Live Without

14

8

Numerous celebrity/company twitter accounts hacked

12

9

Comparing GTD, "Never read email in the morning" and "The 4-hour work week"

12

10

TechCrunch gets a new design.. again

10

News [?]

1

Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R

82

2

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

75

3

Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early

71

4

Is the Euro the New Dollar?

33

5

Satyam Chairman Resigns After Falsifying Accounts, Shares Fall

28

6

Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says

24

7

How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed.

18

8

China’s prosperity will be induced by the state; India's may be despite the state.

17

9

Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates

16

10

Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets

16

Scientific publications [?]

1

Yet another perpetual motion machine company with 60M in funding

18

2

Top Countries by Robot Density

6

3

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Monday Morning Madness

15

2

Twitter Blog: Gone Phishing (Official update on Hacking)

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple inks deals for all DRM-free iTunes, 3G downloads

6

2

Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro to go Unibody, sans removable battery

2

3

Macworld site rife with concealed banners

1

4

Steve Jobs as CTO-USA

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

153

2

Macworld : All the music in the iTunes store is DRM Free

3

3

Wii Music and the Transition to Computation

1

4

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Problems and Syntax Permalink

1

5

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Cautionary Notes for the Rebooting Computing Summit Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy

34

2

The Dragon in My Garage

29

3

New trojan blocks Pirate Bay and Mininova

2

Science News [?]

1

Time to turn off the lights

8

2

Three rules for technological fixes: How to decide which problems will yield to technology

2

3

Berry Compound Reduces Aging Effect

2

4

Disputed definitions: In search of the terms that get scientists most worked up.

1

5

Patent application filed for software research assistant

1

Social [?]

1

Video of a very inefficient concrete drill (read description)

4

2

IDF Now Using Youtube

2

3

Richard Feynman on Youtube

2

4

First Steve Jobs Macworld Keynote in 1997

1

5

Monty Hall Problem Explained in Video

1

6

Oysters and the law of unintended consequences

1

7

Facebook | TheEargasm.com a online music magazine for indie bands

1

8

Phishing Attempts on Facebook Are Getting Lackluster

1

9

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitCred: PageRank applied to the GitHub users/followers graph, implemented in Clojure.

43

2

New Git Homepage

32

3

Gnome DVCS Survey

2

4

Wikis at github

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

English-Prime - English without "is"

108

2

Why Wikipedia is not so great

21

3

Gödel's ontological proof

12

4

Dumb Networks are a smart choice.

1

5

Is a circle a kind of ellipse, or vice versa?

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]