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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Deny This, Last.fm

312

2

My $3.3M Mistake

251

3

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

174

4

"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."

155

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ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins

135

6

131

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InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ER visit is free

102

8

The Case For Working With Your Hands

101

9

Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit

100

10

Can I Set Up An LLC To Avoid Personal Liability In A Lawsuit?

95

Top Ask HN

1

Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

106

2

I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

77

3

Outdoor jobs for geeks?

49

4

Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be?

37

5

IRC channel for Hacker News?

32

6

Favorite true story tech book?

31

7

do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research?

29

8

Which persistent in-memory database to use?

28

9

The most fun and beautiful code you know of?

26

10

check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com

24

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Deny This, Last.fm

312

2

Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

66

3

Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)

53

4

Another Blanket Denial By Last.fm

49

5

Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video

48

6

One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules

48

7

The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine

46

8

Nokia Makes Unused Patents Available to All

45

9

4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos

39

10

Lego does Frank Lloyd Wright

30

News [?]

1

The Case For Working With Your Hands

101

2

Argentina: The Superpower that Never Was (& Why the US Ascended)

74

3

New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app)

62

4

Lean movie-making: Zombie flick wowing Cannes made for $70

53

5

Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo

48

6

Tesla now worth half GM's value

36

7

What a Texas town can teach us about health care

34

8

Freshman Economics Won't Quite Be the Same

32

9

Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever)

31

10

Animals can tell right from wrong

30

Scientific publications [?]

1

Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

87

2

Today's procrastination cure: The African Hacker (2005)

2

3

Random Number Generators: A Survival Guide for Large Scale Simulations

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation

46

2

Squeak Smalltalk and Seaside come to the iPhone

5

3

Password Recovered Secret Questions

3

4

Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL

1

5

Building RESTful Web Services with Erlang and YAWS

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm

22

2

EFF 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation

12

3

Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet

3

4

SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives, Intel/MacBook

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

Bypass the internet for large transfers: AWS Import/Export

86

2

Yet another Amazon review bomb

5

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why Free Software usability tends to suck

25

2

A profile of computer pioneer Gary Kildall [video]

5

Science News [?]

1

Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says

34

2

Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole

24

3

Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles

11

4

How using gestures can make you smarter

9

5

Soccerbots learn how to fall gracefully

4

6

The Science of Voodoo: When Mind Attacks Body

3

7

Real Soldiers Love Their Robot Brethren

2

8

Five dimensional disks with 2K times more capacity than a DVD.

2

9

Virus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells But Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed

2

10

Weak Have Stronger Hearing

2

Social [?]

1

What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful?

36

2

1964 Antique modem surfs the web

31

3

Chris Pirillo likes Tonido.

10

4

The Psychology of Incompetence

9

5

Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity

4

6

12 Year Old Gives a Google Tech Talk on JQuery

3

7

Intel celebrates geeks in great ad

3

8

Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Twitter

3

9

Marketing Talks@Google: Fred Wilson [Video]

2

10

SoManyMp3s.com TV Commercial (HD)

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored

57

2

Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment

39

3

Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure

31

4

Awk for JSON, in bash.

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

Déformation professionnelle

44

2

Proving something exists nonconstructively using probability.

26

3

Use of "oracles" in computational complexity.

7

4

Does your anti-virus actually work?

4

5

Optimistic concurrency control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1

6

Clerks: inspirational startup from a totally different industry

1

7

Von Neumann probe: self-replicating spacecraft

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Twitter image encoding challenge; compress an image into 140 Unicode characters

8

2

Encoding images in tiny messages; don't align values at bit boundaries

6

3

When random isn't fair

5

4

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

2

Substack [?]