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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Understanding Git

258

2

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python

219

3

College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

194

4

How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops

190

5

Command-line Fu

189

6

Zed's "One Battery Review" of Django

188

7

Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google

188

8

IP Address Geolocation database

164

9

How to Write Fast Code

143

10

6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better

136

Top Ask HN

1

How can I get up early in the morning?

96

2

how do you process payments?

95

3

If we woke up tomorrow and...

56

4

Please review mailop.com, an instant disposable email you don't even need to check

45

5

How to deal with SYN FLOOD and extortion

40

6

How does the 10x coder overcome configuration headaches?

39

7

Anyone else generating massive amounts of business ideas?

36

8

Suggestions for learning statistics (& prob) really fast?

34

9

I've had some software developed, now the coder is holding me for ransom.

33

10

How do Mac software developers make realistic icons?

29

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009

57

2

Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet

46

3

Poll of Facebook Users Finds 94% Hate Redesign

43

4

Justin.TV is bigger than Hulu...overseas

40

5

DVD region code blocks British Prime Minister from enjoying Obama's gift

40

6

Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own

36

7

First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking

33

8

Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip - 200K neurons linked up by 50 million connections

30

9

IPhone App Developers Gripe About Payment Delays and Dismal Customer Service

30

10

Atlanta Gets Its Own Y Combinator In Shotput Ventures

28

News [?]

1

College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek

194

2

The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson

71

3

Congress passes wide-ranging bill easing bank laws (1999)

67

4

China bans Youtube

53

5

China's central bank calls for new reserve currency

53

6

Low-income students feel left out at Stanford

34

7

Smart People Really Do Think Faster.

32

8

The end of the free lunch - again

31

9

Tips for the Sophisticated Fugitive

30

10

The Geography of a Recession - Interactive Graphic

23

Scientific publications [?]

1

Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto

3

2

Spintronic Memristors

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux Kernel Temporarily Receives New Mascot/Logo, Tuz

3

2

The Kindness of Strangers

3

3

Fear and the Availability Heuristic

2

4

Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods

1

5

Tim Bray on the Future of the Web

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better

136

2

Apple close to unveiling guarded Snow Leopard UI overhaul

16

3

Dell's iPhone Killer rejected by carriers as too dull

11

4

Sniffing keystrokes via laser, power lines

7

5

Solid state drives: performance becoming affordable (saga)

4

6

Great article explaining the inner workings of Solid State Disks

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Releases AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

22

2

How A R Rahman scored Slumdog Millionaire music with Logic Pro on Mac Pro ?

4

3

Buy HD movies on iTunes

2

4

Apple - Downloads - Math & Science - SSPX

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

You're calling who a cult leader?

70

2

Pirate Bay Announces Global Anonymity Service

38

3

Your decisions can be affected by fleeting images and what you currently see

14

4

Why Hackers Can't Cooperate

9

Science News [?]

1

Do nations go to war over water?

22

2

Cognitive enhancement drug may also cause addiction

15

3

Why money messes with your mind

14

4

Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion

11

5

What's So Hot About Chili Peppers?

9

6

Computerized Female Form For Clothing Designers

6

7

Stranger Knows Best: Other People Know More About What Will Make Us Happy Than We Do

5

8

Ultra-thin Chip Embedding For Wearable Electronics

2

9

How novels help drive social evolution

2

10

Brain Wave Patterns Can Predict Blunders, New Study Finds

2

Social [?]

1

The Way Facebook is Made

5

2

Stanford Video Lectures On The Brain

3

3

3

4

GE's Augmented Reality Demo

3

5

Asus eee Keyboard PC at CeBIT 2009

3

6

Twitter / hackerwatrcoolr (includes HN stories reaching #1)

1

7

Video of Terrafugia first flight, angel funded flying car start-up

1

8

Chimpanzee short-term memory better than human (annoying commentary but still interesting)

1

9

Using the electrodes to the face as music visualization [video]

1

10

Group believes they have found the answer to the auto industry

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Seven Minute Abs - A/B testing in 7 minutes (rails)

41

2

Scott Adams: what if plumbers had the business model of private colleges?

38

3

TwitterAuth - Complete Rails OAuth API Access to Twitter

4

4

Appengine-queue - Simple Queue for App Engine

3

5

Twitter OAuth REST API client library for Ruby

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Non-English-based programming languages

30

2

Format wars this past century

14

3

Some examples of the serendipity effect on innovation

5

4

King Camp Gillette - Inventor of 'Freebie Marketing'

2

5

What is considered to be the worst video game ever? This one is.

2

6

Combined Object Lambda Architecture (COLA)

1

7

The Hoc programming language

1

Blogs [?]

1

How to do great research

6

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Anti-patterns for Javascript

4

Substack [?]