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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009

222

2

Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.

157

3

Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots

157

4

Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval

153

5

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

149

6

IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc

138

7

How Rich Countries Die

135

8

Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue

128

9

SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)

126

10

123

Top Ask HN

1

Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?

107

2

Feedback on Thymer - a GTD/project management app for teams

36

3

Is it necessary to learn maths to enter into programming?

31

4

Would you pay for a shared office/startup space? What would it need?

26

5

feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alternative to IMDB star ratings.

24

6

Increasing Karma Implies Decreasing Variance?

23

7

How useful is Pair Programming?

23

8

Where do uk startups go for advice online ?

22

9

For a simple forum, should I use bbPress or is there a HN/reddit style one?

21

10

Please review Twollars

21

Top Show HN

1

Code draws better than you

19

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.

157

2

Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval

153

3

IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc

138

4

Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking

119

5

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

108

6

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th

99

7

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu

86

8

Echodio (YC W09) Lets You Sync Your iTunes To The Cloud (300 Invites)

44

9

The Rules Apply To Everyone

43

10

Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd

39

News [?]

1

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

149

2

HN Member on Frontpage of Today's NY Times

77

3

Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive

65

4

An idea whose time has come: Entrepreneurialism has become cool

59

5

Supermarket vegetables now 5-40% lower in nutrients than 50 years ago

56

6

For Sale: The $100 House

52

7

Indian Americans: The New Model Minority

47

8

Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own

43

9

Study: Old Age Begins at 27

40

10

Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline

37

Scientific publications [?]

1

Why the wires behind your computer are a tangled mess.

45

2

IEEE Spectrum: Can Machines Be Conscious?

5

3

Simulation of the outbreak of cooperation of success-driven individuals

2

4

Laser-based haptics system lets you feel distant objects

2

5

Open Arms: Open-source Prosthetics

2

6

Laser-based haptics system lets you feel distant objects

1

7

The Interplanetary Internet

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang

7

2

Digg, An Infrastructure in Transition [video]

5

3

An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

DOJ Seeks Jail Time for Music Sharing

21

2

IPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos

7

3

Late rumor has iPhone 3.0 getting copy-and-paste, multitasking

3

4

Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th

2

5

Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle

2

6

Apple exploring Magic Wand controller for next-gen Apple TV

1

7

Inside Apple's new third-gen iPod shuffle (teardown photos)

1

8

IPhone 3.0 to Get MMS, Tethering, and Finally... Copy and Paste?

1

9

Google Begins Behavioral Targeting Ad Program

1

10

EFF Launches Search Tool for Uncovered Government Documents

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances

1

2

Amazon releases Reserved Instances

1

3

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: A Call for a New Computing Education Organization

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show

8

2

Windows NT used an embedded Prolog interpreter to configure its networking

4

3

Behind the Scenes at Mininova

3

4

SXSW 2009 on BitTorrent: 6 GB of Free Music

1

Science News [?]

1

A New Battery That Charges In Seconds

27

2

The Aristotle illusion

10

3

Time to shrink the atomic clock

9

4

Metal Discovered To Become Transparent Under High Pressure

4

5

Religious people less anxious, brain activity shows

4

6

Second Genesis: Life, but not as we know it

3

7

Society's vital networks prone to 'explosive' changes

2

8

Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch

2

9

Second Genesis: Making Synthetic Life

1

10

Lithium Ion batteries that recharge in seconds. Here's to hoping.

1

Social [?]

1

Extreme Shepherding - Best Sheep Hack I've seen all day

13

2

Great news: Tony Morris is OK

9

3

The Django Book version 2.0 now available

8

4

Livetwittering of YC demo day going on now

6

5

Erlang: It's time to be uncomfortably parallel

6

6

Get $100 worth of Facebook advertising for free

3

7

The US economy and credit crisis explained by Peter Schiff (2006)

3

8

Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech [video]

2

9

Twitter OAuth beta now open for everyone

2

10

Napoleon Hill talks about his meeting with Andrew Carnegie [video]

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I have a question about organizing projects

24

2

Reia Programming Language

15

3

How Erlang evaluates funs (i.e. lambdas)

12

4

Fuzed: A Distributed Erlang Frontend for Heterogenous Clusters

9

5

Cherly: a fast local cache for Erlang

4

6

1

7

Simple parallel JSON processing using "make -j"

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enough to avoid deletion?

40

2

30

3

Ostrich algorithm

4

4

3

5

Network effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1

6

David Stove: cuts through philosophical bs like butter

1

Blogs [?]

1

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What can I do to be a great Computer Science teacher/professor someday?

1

Substack [?]