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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...

224

2

Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

188

3

The real cause of the financial crisis -- An MIT Blackjack Team perspective

185

4

Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

183

5

Apple: Jobs to Take Medical Leave of Absence

159

6

Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week)

146

7

Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry

139

8

Advice from a once burnt-out programmer

136

9

Why I Hate Frameworks

126

10

Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

123

Top Ask HN

1

Anyone want to work through SICP together?

91

2

What can't you do in Excel?

85

3

5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice?

57

4

How to write a business plan for an Internet startup?

51

5

Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

49

6

Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text

43

7

What programming language should I teach my little brother?

41

8

Best Micro Payment provider?

40

9

Does this idea exist and who wants it?

39

10

Do you criticize?

38

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Qt 4.5 will be released under the LGPL

86

2

Interview with Alan Kay and Danny Hillis

37

3

Developer who has used the Palm pré Mojo SDK speaks out on Ars Technica

26

4

Confirmed: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google

24

5

New York court dismisses Amazon's objections to paying state taxes

16

6

ARM based processors coming to Linux netbooks

14

7

Carol Bartz to be named new Yahoo CEO

13

8

Why We Put On The Crunchies

13

9

Google Gets A New Favicon, Again. It’s Uh.. Colorful

11

10

Nancy Pelosi RickRolls YouTube Viewers

11

News [?]

1

48

2

Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream

48

3

Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note

47

4

At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard

46

5

Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News?

40

6

Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss

39

7

Environmentalist Creates Uproar at Oil-Lease Auction by Running Up Prices

21

8

Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade

20

9

At McDonald’s, the Happiest Meal Is Hot Profits

20

10

Advice For Laid-Off Engineers

19

Scientific publications [?]

1

Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

2

2

Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter Blog: Building on Open Source

6

2

The 2008 Linux and free software timeline

1

3

The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store

12

2

Microvision's tiny video projector wows Macworld attendees

4

3

Calling All iPhone Developers: Support DMCA Exemption

4

4

IPhone Nano Coming in June, But Not to United States?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Text of Jobs’s Email Announcing Medical Leave

3

2

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Game Developer Confronts iPhone Software Cracker

2

2

Thriving in the Age of Collapse

1

Science News [?]

1

You Can Look -- But Don't Touch

27

2

14% of U.S. Adults Can't Read (63% of Prison Inmates)

14

3

Inside the mind of an autistic savant

7

4

Baby selected to be free of cancer gene

3

5

Inside the mind of an autistic savant

2

6

Repulsive quantum effect finally measured

2

7

Could your social networks spill your secrets?

2

8

God Or Science?

2

9

Thomas Harriot: A Telescopic Astronomer Before Galileo

2

10

We have the technology to rebuild ourselves

1

Social [?]

1

My first app just got published to the app store Here's what I learned.

76

2

Differential Synchronization

7

3

Soul-searching in Israel after Channel 2 broadcasts banned video

5

4

Another iPhone developer's app store experience(after 3 months)

4

5

If Toyota can avoid layoffs by halting production, why can't startups?

3

6

More iPhone App thoughts. I've had an app in the store for 3 months.

3

7

Meet the Super Cow

2

8

Willard Wigan makes tiny sculptures that fit on pin-heads or within eyes of needles

2

9

The Real Pictures in Gaza

2

10

Sometimes you just Gotta laugh - The Richter Scales

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Potion - a little fast OO language by _why

183

2

Github Commit Chart Hack

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Miyamoto Musashi's Final Work

26

2

Remember Scrabulous? It's back - Lexulous

1

3

Project Cybersyn

1

4

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Benefits of programming (doing) versus reading blogs (thinking?)

1

Substack [?]