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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Oracle to buy Sun

249

2

Pirate Bay officially loses case

226

3

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

205

4

Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step

186

5

Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid

172

6

Fuck the foundries

161

7

Stephen Hawking 'very ill'

144

8

GitHub releases integrated issue tracking

135

9

Phusion Passenger now supports Nginx

133

10

4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll

120

Top Ask HN

1

How much do you exercise a day/week?

47

2

A languishing startup with a great product - thoughts?

42

3

I want to build/sell a product. Steps?

38

4

How successful have donations been with your site?

37

5

How do you learn to be creative?

36

6

Anyone else notice a higher churn rate for the front page?

30

7

Cost of 1 Person LLC

30

8

cloud computing options?

26

9

Please review my MVP - Instant Drop Box

25

10

Programming language power and 10 years to mastery

25

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack

61

2

The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown

59

3

Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

43

4

Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active

37

5

Posterous (YC S08) Takes On TwitPic With New API

35

6

Google Similar Images First Look

29

7

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

28

8

Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more

25

9

Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing

25

10

Gmail Now Tells You Who You Want To Email

24

News [?]

1

Stephen Hawking 'very ill'

144

2

Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

77

3

How to Raise Our I.Q.

60

4

Why I Fired My Broker

60

5

55

6

Bruce Sterling: Poor folk love their cellphones

54

7

To Everywhere in 42 Minutes

46

8

Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book

45

9

BBC iPlayer serves nearly 1000 requests per second with Catalyst

42

10

Programming newbies make apps for iPhone

37

Scientific publications [?]

1

Build a Low-Cost, High-End Class-D Amplifier

38

2

Doves and hawks: An evolutionary quantum game theory-based analysis of financial crises

6

3

The Universal Handset

1

4

MUH: The Universe is a Mathematical Structure

1

5

The Infinite Loan Machine : the effect of loan securitization on banking

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Sun JVM gets incremental, compacting GC

56

2

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun - lwn analysis of the acquisition

3

3

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04

2

4

Ruby Performance Roundup: GC Tuning, MagLev, MacRuby

2

5

Twitter Blog: What's The Deal with OAuth?

2

6

How to Improve Your Code

1

7

Augmented Reality with Flash

1

8

InfoQ: Microsoft Has Open Sourced the Common Compiler Infrastructure

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Twitter brain interface

4

2

Hardware Raytracing

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

22

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay officially loses case

226

2

Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

77

3

Pirate Bay Loses - Courtroom Leak from “Trustworthy” Source

13

4

ISP Speeds Up Customers’ BitTorrent Downloads

3

5

BitTorrent trackers closing en masse after Pirate Bay verdict

1

6

Print your own Atomic Force Microscope

1

Science News [?]

1

Things that do not make sense (2005)

41

2

The five ages of the brain

22

3

How long will it last? Graphic shows number of years left of various materials [pic]

20

4

Choice blindness: You don't know what you want

18

5

New Nucleotide In DNA Could Revolutionize Epigenetics

7

6

Innovation: Harnessing spammers to advance AI

3

7

Sixth nucleotide found

2

8

Where's the remotest place on Earth?

2

9

How to get ahead in neuroimaging

1

10

'Instant on' computing - researchers say rebooting soon may be a thing of the past

1

Social [?]

1

YouTube - A Narrative History of BSD by Kirk McKusick

7

2

Changes at YouTube - Phasing You out of Youtube (vid)

5

3

Dailybooth got funded by YC

4

4

Robot with a biological brain [video]

2

5

@linux_log : follow the linux kernel commit log

2

6

Great way to typeset an equation for use in internet discussions

2

7

It *could* just be coincidence

2

8

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody played on old computer equipment

2

9

Engine Yard releases new version of Solo with Nginx/Passenger support

1

10

Berkeley Engineering Alumni Event: "Can IT Innovation Solve the Energy Challenge?"

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub releases integrated issue tracking

135

2

We need the eggs

32

3

Extension Methods for Ruby

14

4

Iris, concurrency library for C (NSOperation, Twisted deffereds, and CCR in one)

13

5

MRI Instrumentation

2

6

Strongbox - Secures ActiveRecord fields with public key encryption

1

7

Setting up Rails and Nginx using Passenger on Ubuntu

1

8

Moneta: A unified interface for key/value stores

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Hawala: transferring money without actually moving it

58

2

Firing Squad Synchronization Problem

7

3

Self-modifying code

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Significant new inventions in computing since 1980 (Question from Alan Kay)

3

2

Programming Riddle: Counting down without subtracting.

2

Substack [?]