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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

206

2

The dark side of Dubai

174

3

YC Rejected: Please read.

171

4

FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why

158

5

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce

148

6

The Banker Who Said No

135

7

Some perspective on a destroyed career

126

8

Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.

118

9

Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music

116

10

37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."

112

Top Ask HN

1

What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?

64

2

Got rejected by YC 6-12 months ago? Where are you now?

61

3

What would you love to pay for if it was available?

39

4

How to Hire Hackers

37

5

Obsessive Asian Parents

36

6

Feedback Please - TapInko.com

34

7

What Programming Book would you buy right now (if it existed)

32

8

Choosing a college

29

9

How to spend a marketing budget of $US 2k per month?

27

10

Re-architecting on Slicehost to handle 50+ apache processes?

23

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

90

2

Google AppEngine Java Support Launches

74

3

FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses

63

4

Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets

52

5

Tipjoy opens Twitter Payments API, celebrates with an API Contest - Win a MacBook Air

46

6

A.P. Exec Doesn’t Know It Has A YouTube Channel, Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos

46

7

Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination

42

8

So Now Everything Is Google’s Fault

41

9

ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations

31

10

Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs

28

News [?]

1

The dark side of Dubai

174

2

The Banker Who Said No

135

3

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems

85

4

Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain

85

5

'Hey I'm Dead' The Story Of The Very Lively Ant

66

6

IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion

61

7

How Obama used behavioral economics to win the election, and how he's using it to govern

53

8

More than 20% of self-made billionaires never completed college

46

9

Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge

41

10

The recession may be lifting

35

Scientific publications [?]

1

Lorentz violation at high energy [astro-ph/0505267]

8

2

Black/White hole radiation from dispersive theories [hep-th/0903.2224]

5

3

Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites

2

4

Automated Auditors to Chase Down Cheats

1

5

SandBot - Robot for Traveling on Sand

1

6

Gravity from Breaking of Local Lorentz Symmetry [hep-th/0904.0364]

1

7

Lorentz violation and black-hole thermodynamics [hep-th/0811.0943]

1

8

NK fails to put satellite in orbit - again.

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter: The Discovery Engine Is Coming

7

2

Who Should be in Charge of U.S. Cybersecurity?

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers

3

2

EFF Bootcamp On User Generated Content and the Law

2

3

IPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England

2

4

Security Threat Analysis: Interview With Dino A. Dai Zovi

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce

148

2

ASP.NET MVC source code released under MS-PL

2

3

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Why ask "What is Computing?" Permalink

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (1997)

82

2

Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA

51

3

France to Block The Pirate Bay

12

4

MPAA President to be Thrown Out

1

Science News [?]

1

New Way To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen

41

2

How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls

37

3

Bug eats electricity, farts biogas

21

4

Quantum mathematics could improve web searches

19

5

Fake company gets approval for risky trial - New Scientst

9

6

New cosmic map reveals colossal structures

9

7

Sperm bank sued under product liability law

6

8

Being Isaac Newton: Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data

5

9

Flat, Flexible Speakers

2

10

Spintronics Advance Reveals New Conservation Law In Fundamental Physics

1

Social [?]

1

Google Container Data Center Tour

10

2

Cloudkick launches EC2 image on non-EC2 server provider

9

3

Inside a Google Data Center [video]

8

4

Ant inspired Hexapod robot

5

5

Google Container Data Center Tour (Video)

5

6

Inside Netflix (Nightline Video)

5

7

Counteracting the "you're not being open-minded" argument

4

8

XHProfLive: Continuous function-level performance stats from production

3

9

GE Research: Advanced Security - Object Tracking

2

10

Connecting the World: How We Translated Facebook

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I'm Sick of This

86

2

A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp

15

Wikipedia [?]

1

Exception paradox

3

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

10

2

Why Isn't Smalltalk Popular?

4

3

What’s an example of Ruby code that’s "too clever"?

1

Substack [?]