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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Innards of Erlang

327

2

Why HN is slow lately

270

3

Starting up with a friend

252

4

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

241

5

Why I Sued Google (and Won)

222

6

Not Lisp again....

178

7

Y Combinator in Erlang

174

8

How to be a program manager

161

9

DHH: Fuck the Real World

149

10

How I make 15K a month at AdSense

145

Top Ask HN

1

Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons

149

2

Haskell or Erlang?

87

3

Any sources on Erlang?

73

4

How many of you (coders) use marijuana?

70

5

How are url shorteners making money?

54

6

CTO vs. VP of Engineering

40

7

Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing

37

8

How long until you became "ramen profitable"?

36

9

What's with all the trivial link spam?

28

10

Should I use Amazon S3?

22

Top Show HN

1

Our new online face recognition demo

50

2

JStartup - Hacker News for news people/journalists

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Calling All Foodies: Y Combinator’s Foodoro Launches Online Farmers Market

67

2

TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

50

3

Voxli (YC W09) Targets Gamers With Browser-Based Group Voice Chat

45

4

Y Combinator’s Airbed&Breakfast Casts A Wider Net For Housing Rentals As AirBnB

39

5

BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding

37

6

Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011

36

7

Zimbra has more users than Gmail. And they are paying.

28

8

Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month

27

9

Calling All Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants You

26

10

Huge Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission

25

News [?]

1

How to stop the drug wars

129

2

The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s even stranger than people thought

55

3

For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents

52

4

People’s creditworthiness, it seems, can be seen in their looks

32

5

Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times

25

6

SEC charges E*Trade, 5 others, for front running

19

7

They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street

18

8

City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away

14

9

For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help

13

10

The Internet's librarian: Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist

12

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA to Launch Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Tonight

7

2

Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

4

2

Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber

2

3

Agile Development for Business Survival

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm

28

2

Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for mystery product

6

3

Apple slow to process iPhone development contracts: would-be iPhone developers frustrated

5

4

Google Takes a Stand for Location Privacy, Along with Loopt

3

5

Short stroking may boost DB performance by 100%

1

6

Mac mini: teardown, adding second hard drive, 1TB upgrade kit

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple Announces New iPod shuffle

23

2

Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer

1

3

New iPod Shuffle that Speaks Song Titles

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Information cascades in social news voting systems

7

2

No, Really, I've Deceived Myself

3

3

Less Wrong - community blog by Yudkowsky & FHI

2

4

The Mistake Script

1

Science News [?]

1

We cannot live by scepticism alone

7

2

Packing algorithms could save the planet

4

3

Missile-throwing chimp plots attacks on tourists

4

4

Noise could mask web searchers' IDs, preserve data integrity

3

5

3d Bone Printer

3

6

Lab discovers first pentagonal ice crystals by chance

3

7

Record-breaking algorithm packs 2D shapes with unprecedented efficiency

2

8

Regulate armed robots before it's too late

2

9

Man, machine and in between

1

10

Beyond east and west: How the brain unites us all

1

Social [?]

1

Reddit's Discussion about HN

18

2

Erlang Quan - Basic Applications

16

3

AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads (excellent foresight) [vid]

11

4

Erlang: The Movie (unintentionally funny)

9

5

[VID]Torrent Droid: Take pic of barcode at the store & your computer will DL the torrent while you drive home

6

6

IPhone app Tweetie 1.3 rejected by Apple

6

7

Steve Wozniak's First Dance on "Dancing with the Stars"

6

8

Woz on Dancing with the Stars

5

9

Samsung hooks up 24 SSDs at once [YouTube]

4

10

Life's Too Short - Write Fast Code

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Erlang meets Ruby

55

2

Elegance and the Surreals

32

3

A Lisp interpreter written in Awk.

16

4

Elegance and surreals

3

5

Git as a Data Store in Python (and Ruby)

3

6

Web gateway to the Google App Engine Datastore - a simple, fast key-value database

3

7

Gittop on the App Store

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Erlang Distribution

142

2

127

3

List Of Acquisitions By Google

24

4

Traffic calming

2

5

Bullwhip effect - A behavior phenomenon

1

Blogs [?]

1

Be Relentlessly Resourceful

241

2

How to Be an Angel Investor

122

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

6

2

Developer Burnout Stories

3

Substack [?]