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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The Founder Visa

200

2

Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News

154

3

Caring for your introvert

139

4

How to block the DiggBar

136

5

Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?

121

6

Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

109

7

105

8

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

105

9

A Local Revolution?

102

10

96

Top Ask HN

1

what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems?

57

2

Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine

45

3

Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages?

44

4

Please review our placemarking site - Amidst

42

5

What do founders do for health insurance?

38

6

Best tools for managing AWS?

34

7

Worst working conditions you have written code in?

33

8

How are you monetizing your site?

32

9

My idea has just been launched...by someone else. Now what?

27

10

How do you do time estimates?

27

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Gmail Sidesteps the App Store

68

2

Ebay Unacquires StumbleUpon

48

3

Decision Time For Facebook: Term Sheets Received At $2 Billion Valuation

43

4

Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget

36

5

You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook

27

6

Learn A Language 10 Words at a Time

25

7

CNN Acquires CNNBrk Twitter Account

23

8

It’s Watching: Gmail Can Now Tell Which Of Your Contacts Are Awake

21

9

IPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers

20

10

Windows 7 could follow Vista to an early grave

20

News [?]

1

Caring for your introvert

139

2

94

3

81

4

$80,000 for a Year Off? She'll Take It!

68

5

In Silicon Valley, Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Limits

54

6

Is high IQ as much a burden as a blessing?

53

7

YouTube Is Doomed

52

8

What happens if I don't pay my taxes?

47

9

Making it Easy for "Sugar Daddies" to Connect With "Sugar Babies"

46

10

Skype Founders Seek to Buy Service Back From EBay

46

Scientific publications [?]

1

Lagrangians and Hamiltonians for High School Students

27

2

Biologically Inspired Robots

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

PostgreSQL 8.4 Beta

54

2

Facebook's Software Stack

33

3

IPhone 3.0 SDK Beta

2

4

Google Eclipse Plugin released

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity

109

2

All-Time Top iPhone App Sales Figures and Estimates

13

3

Apple's still working on iChat video answering machine

5

4

Apple invites iPhone developers to test live push notifications

3

5

In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ's New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush's

1

6

Microsoft pays for inaccurate "Apple Tax" study, issues 3rd TV ad

1

7

Warner Music Targeting More than YouTube

1

8

New iPod Shuffle Contains $22 Worth of Parts

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

1 Billion iPhone App Countdown

10

2

Bill Buxton MIX09 Keynote

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Inspire HN: Solve the Internet Bystander Problem

21

2

When Truth Isn't Enough

3

3

"Found Haiku" in Linux Documentation

2

4

Facebook Blocks All Pirate Bay Links

1

Science News [?]

1

Homemade 3D printer goop made from maltodextrin costs 1/50th of the real stuff

23

2

Our ears may have built-in passwords

20

3

Echo vision: The man who sees with sound

19

4

Covering planes with artificial feathers could reduce drag

15

5

World's highest-energy laser begins operating

14

6

Pentagonal Ice Discovered: Could Be Used To Modify Weather

2

7

Losing It: Why Self-Control Is Not Natural

2

8

Great Golfers' Brains Have More Gray Matter

1

9

Bendy laser beams fired through the air

1

10

Could Quantum Mathematics shake up Google?

1

Social [?]

1

Genius forklift design: Sidewinder

8

2

Having a cup of coffee in zero G [video]

4

3

Fred Wilson's story of his early career

3

4

Chris Martenson presents The Crash Course [video]

3

5

'Twitter revolution' Moldovan activist goes into hiding : worldnews

3

6

Electric cars can be affordable today, if you separate ownership of cars and batteries.

3

7

Resolving grandfather paradox in a time travel real-time strategy game.

2

8

An introduction to Beziers based on a presentation at GDC

2

9

Wikileaks.de domain has been seized

1

10

A math/love song

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

My Objection to Array#sum

62

2

WordPress plugin to block DiggBar (inspired by Jon Gruber)

32

3

Ruby style guide

30

4

Idea: using code rather than templates to generate HTML

23

5

Code to 'stalkdaily' xss attack

19

6

Practical Recursive Combinators (Algorithm design patterns as programming abstractions)

15

7

Acts_against_douchebar (Rails anti-DiggBar plugin)

15

8

Refactoring Methods with Recursive Combinators

5

9

Korma - a git based blogging engine

4

10

Rack-router (a common router for Ruby web apps/frameworks)

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Sokal Affair

26

2

12.04.1961 - First human in outer space.

19

3

Kelvin's hydroelectric generator

17

4

Unexplained red flashes on the moon's surface

17

5

Main = interact (unlines . List.sort . lines)

3

Blogs [?]

1

The Founder Visa

200

2

A Local Revolution?

102

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

10

2

Mystery jQuery Bug

1

Substack [?]