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Top stories
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PDF presentations on Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Game Theory, Search Algorithms
197
2
My Personal Credit Crisis
185
3
Why it's expensive to be poor
183
4
How to Be Persuasive
160
5
The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)
147
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Dear American Airlines...
136
7
A Life Offline
130
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The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General
127
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Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
120
10
Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing
115
Top Ask HN
1
What apps are essential for mac?
84
2
After SICP, what next?
78
3
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers?
73
4
Your Hacker Workspace
61
5
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?)
55
6
What do you eat?
51
7
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD?
48
8
How to make smalltalk?
47
9
Marriage
38
10
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net
38
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim
67
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Eight Months with a Hackintosh Netbook
52
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IRobot Rolls Out Pocket-Sized, One-Pound Machine, Ready to Swarm
47
4
Mixed Feelings
46
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Stuck On Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Or AOL? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch
40
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Tipjoy Makes A Useful Premium Twitter App To Test Its Payments API
37
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Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory
32
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Blame baby monitors, not congestion, for your WiFi woes
32
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Protein sequencing gone awry: 1 sample, 27 labs, 20 results
29
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Daimler Takes 10 Percent Stake in Tesla
28
News [?]
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My Personal Credit Crisis
185
2
Why it's expensive to be poor
183
3
What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain
95
4
Thriving Norway provides an Economics Lesson
57
5
Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price
49
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Poorly Made in China: Why So Many Chinese Products are Born to be Bad
49
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In Praise of Dullness
41
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Much of the established news industry is being blown away. Yet news is thriving
31
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Altman says Loopt to be profitable in 2009
28
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Laws to Save Journalism (or The Most Unintentionally Funny Thing I've Read All Day)
27
Scientific publications [?]
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The Many Facets of Microchips
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Schneier on Security: Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector
89
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Google Releases New Version Of Protocol Buffers
3
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Does Twitter Hate Advertising?
3
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Twitter Blog: The Replies Kerfuffle
1
5
Detecting Liars by Content
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Law Firm Closes Bank Account From Pirate Bay DDo$
26
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More of Apple's Snow Leopard caught on camera
26
3
Federal Authority Over the Internet? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009
1
4
CUDA-Enabled Apps: Measuring Mainstream GPU Performance
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
The AWS Start-Up Tour
16
2
Amazon CloudWatch: automatic EC2 scaling
2
3
Using computing to teach computing (Hint: Don't use the "P" word)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler
3
2
A Parable on Obsolete Ideologies
1
3
The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
1
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Vulnerability Renders MPAA/RIAA Copyright Warnings Useless
1
Science News [?]
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Will designer brains divide humanity?
21
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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett
11
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Artificial Skin Manufactured In Fully Automated Process
10
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Breathing batteries could store 10 times the energy
8
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Macaque Monkey Controls Robot Arm via Direct Neural Interface
5
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Indigenous Culture Demonstrates that Log Scales are Intuitive
4
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Astronomers Need Your Help To Find Planets Outside Our Solar System
2
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Nine games computers are ruining for humanity
2
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How to catch a microscopic black hole
1
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New e-readers will end black and white era
1
Social [?]
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Tell HN: My group just finished our short animation. Thoughts?
9
2
2379 of the Alexa top 10,000 sites use gzip compression
5
3
YouTube - Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
4
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~/.bash_history (jeffs_shell) on Twitter
4
5
1964 Antique Modem Live Demo
3
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Phantoms In The Brain (investigations by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran)
3
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Eric Schmidt's Keynote Speech at Carnegie Mellon
3
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Beyond the Glory - The Mark Cuban Story [video]
2
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Subreddit for interesting Wolfram Alpha queries.
2
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NOVA episode on Richard Feynman
2
Github repos and gists [?]
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Resty - a bash REST client
44
2
Yajl-ruby: A streaming alternative to the JSON gem (in C)
13
3
Monadic parser library for JavaScript
1
4
CS Homework by Josh Peek
1
Wikipedia [?]
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General number field sieve (Factor numbers in super polynomial time)
3
2
The first Japanese ambassador in the West
2
3
False Dilemma
1
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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Undefined behaviour in c++
1
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Optimizing a word game - 80-100X performance improvement
1
Substack [?]