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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

303

2

HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

300

3

Don’t! The secret of self-control

186

4

Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)

126

5

Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

119

6

A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education

119

7

109

8

3D Realms shuts down. No Duke Nukem forever

108

9

Steve Blank: Gravity Will be Turned Off

106

10

What lies beneath New York's rivers

105

Top Ask HN

1

Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns

42

2

project ideas for a noob

40

3

Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps?

37

4

Stark Trek - How far are we?

37

5

34

6

Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up

30

7

Review my website

29

8

Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented UNIX types who hate bloat?

27

9

legally start a Bay Area startup without being American?

27

10

Any web app suggestions for project management?

25

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler (YC S08)

67

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61

3

Y Combinator’s ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone

55

4

Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400

51

5

Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

50

6

Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel

47

7

Sony CEO: "If we had gone with Open Technology ... we would have beaten Apple"

38

8

Porn at work = felony hacking?

31

9

Hulu, a Victim of Its Own Success?

29

10

CubeTree Launches As A Facebook + FriendFeed + Twitter For Enterprise

23

News [?]

1

Don’t! The secret of self-control

186

2

How David Beats Goliath

78

3

What Makes Us Happy?

74

4

The Harlem Miracle

52

5

The American Press on Suicide Watch

51

6

MiFi: Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed

49

7

ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes

39

8

How France is surviving the economic crisis

29

9

Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google

25

10

An offer you can't refuse

23

Scientific publications [?]

1

Live Video feed of Space Shuttle Launch

9

2

The stability of mountains on neutron stars [pdf]

8

3

Watch Atlantis rendevous with Hubble Live

7

4

The Million Dollar Programming Prize

4

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Heroku's Provisionless Hosting for Rails Apps is Revolutionary

12

2

Twitter Blog: Small Settings Update

3

3

Unladen swallow: accelerating Python

2

4

Linda Rising on Caffeine and the effects it has on performance

1

5

Virginia Data Ransom - Bruce Schneier

1

6

Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform - Developing a Grid Application

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple freezes Snow Leopard APIs as software nears final stretch

8

2

Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 and New iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release

3

3

Apple Reconsiders and Approves Nine Inch Nails' App Update

2

4

EFF demands Obama to disclose documents of secret IP treaty (ACTA)

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: Being surprised by media computation Permalink

10

2

Server Quest II

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

On the Fence? Major in CS

15

2

Mininova begins filtering copyrighted material

6

3

How to restore a dead harddrive

3

4

You Are A Brain

2

5

MIT Harbors The Most P2P Pirates

1

Science News [?]

1

Quantum arguments for God

26

2

The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body

7

3

Star Trek's Warp Drive: Are We There Yet?

2

4

Computers to keep our emotions in check

2

5

Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics

2

6

Virtual heart pumps up the realism

1

7

'Cone of silence' keeps conversations secret

1

8

Medieval-style 'rack' stretches skin grafts

1

9

Wireless spectrum: A hidden natural resource

1

10

Five new robots march into hall of fame

1

Social [?]

1

First tweet from space

21

2

The Downfall Of Agile Hitler [video]

4

3

Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages [video]

3

4

Launch win, geek touchdown celebration fail [video]

2

5

An "Intel Star" TV ad -- Sponsors of Tomorrow

1

6

Google launches Chrome ad campaign

1

7

1

8

Example of why copyright should not be bound to human expression

1

9

Tr.im URLs (trimurls) on Twitter

1

10

Research and Education in the Clouds: Experience at the Univ

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

59

2

RubyStein3d (yes, it's what you think)

4

3

Blue Ridge adds support for JavaScript unit tests to your Rails app

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia

43

2

33

3

Unsolved problems in physics

21

4

The Hat Puzzle (logic problem with unexpected connections to coding theory)

1

5

What is a Crackpot?

1

6

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

1

7

Godwin's Law of Internet Discussions

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]