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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Is There Anything Good About Men?

232

2

Hacker News Disease

215

3

Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

194

4

Can you trust 37signals with your password?

189

5

Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

185

6

The night I met Einstein

167

7

There Is No Such Thing as Nuclear Waste

162

8

The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy

157

9

Clojure 1.0 Released

139

10

Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

137

Top Ask HN

1

Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

165

2

Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice?

145

3

Why no love for PHP?

99

4

50

5

Any tips for living cheaply in SF?

45

6

Coding Quickly; How?

37

7

What do I need to know before registering a 2 person LLC on Legal Zoom?

27

8

What are your must-have apps?

27

9

Moving to a New City

25

10

How to fix overwide pre text?

22

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Lessons from a failed startup

103

2

Zynga Pushing Nine Figures In Revenues Thanks To Micro-Transactions

42

3

Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour

36

4

Just How Much Money Can Free iPhone Apps Make? Quite A Bit

30

5

EBay is saving archeology by killing the antiquities market

30

6

FunAdvice/MyYearBook acquisition emails (TechCrunch BCC'ed)

24

7

Bill Gates v. Warren Buffett On Competing With Google: Charge The Moat

22

8

Google could have caught swine flu early

21

9

Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government

20

10

Freeman Dyson recalls his time at the Operational Research Section of the R.A.F.

20

News [?]

1

Malcolm Gladwell: How David Beats Goliath

116

2

Screenshots of Twitter's internal admin interface

88

3

The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed

70

4

64

5

Seven questions for Nate Silver

40

6

Face transplant patient is revealed

39

7

Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity

35

8

Now Hiring If You're Young (1998)

34

9

Kindle Books Now 35% Of Sales When Kindle Version Available

31

10

Encyclopedic Knowledge, Then vs. Now

28

Scientific publications [?]

1

25 Microchips That Shook the World

35

2

Internet Traffic Periodicities and Oscillations: A Brief Review

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bruce Schneier on Mathematical Illiteracy

35

2

Alternatives to SQL Databases

26

3

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy at OOPSLA 2008

18

4

Twitter Blog: Twitter Search for Everyone

4

5

Javascript Coding Guidelines(via Apple)

3

6

WebForms is a Lie: Should ASP.NET Developers Learn ASP.NET MVC?

3

7

Bruce Eckel on Python, Java, Flex, and RIAs

3

8

Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 1

1

9

U.S. Trustee Moves to Convert SCO Bankruptcy to Chapter 7

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Sam Odio and the EFF vs. Apple Inc.

66

2

Myst now in the App Store, 730Mb Download

3

3

Looking for a new Mac? Here's a pricing matrix

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle

112

2

Is Spatial Ability the "Geek Gene"?

63

3

Apple Profiles Twitter

21

4

Windows 7 RC now available for download

4

5

Apple's Twitter Profile

3

6

Large Screen Kindle Revealed

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Party may gain seat in EU Parliament

25

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Pirate Party 3rd Largest Political Party in Sweden

22

Science News [?]

1

Why it's hard to share the wealth

31

2

The Look of a Winner

25

3

Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server

23

4

Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups"

14

5

How to map the multiverse

13

6

Leap forward for invisibility cloaks

6

7

Scientists to Resurrect Ancient Gene to Replay Evolution

5

8

Brain Games: Do They Really Work?

4

9

Could the net become self-aware?

3

10

The search for shadow life

3

Social [?]

1

How Facebook stores its billions of photos

80

2

Pixel City, a procedurally generated city

11

3

Larry Page's University of Michigan Commencement Address, Spring 2009 [video]

7

4

7

5

Steve Yegge talk at Stanford

4

6

The only audio recording of H.L. Mencken

4

7

Episode 1 of "Connections": A Series that Follows the History of Science and Technology

4

8

Google Chrome Ad

4

9

Half-Life inspired short film with incredible special effects, cost: $150

4

10

A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha [actual video demo]

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Github founder on how to become a famous^Wgood Rails developer

137

2

Reg Braithwaite on Optimism

94

3

Twitter search in o'caml

6

4

Videojuicer, moves out of startup mode, looks for another ruby app developer

4

5

Useful Time and Date Functions in Erlang

3

6

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Did you know that there's an algorithm for symbolic integration that always works?

50

2

35

3

The NPS question: how likely would you be to recommend ___ to a friend or colleague?

4

4

Fully homomorphic encryption

1

5

1

Blogs [?]

1

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

1

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden features of Python

11

2

Objective-C and Cocoa Best Practices

7

Substack [?]