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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

RIP Michael Jackson

248

2

US Patent 5255452 (or: Why Michael Jackson was a Hacker)

239

3

Firefox 3.5 is out

234

4

230

5

Potion: A Short Pamphlet

214

6

Calling out Hacker News

209

7

Time Wastes Too Fast

202

8

Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize

174

9

If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006)

153

10

PHP Team Responds to Google's PHP Tips

153

Top Ask HN

1

Why Python over Ruby?

87

2

Should I give up?

66

3

Are there any good Internet marketing books?

49

4

Rate my app: PNGSquash

43

5

Collect payment info before 30 day trial?

32

6

What was your first job?

32

7

Review our startup - Classlet.com

30

8

Critique this idea

20

9

What's necessary re: server RAM?

17

10

Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college?

17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Swedish Software Firm Acquires The Pirate Bay For $7.7 Million

82

2

Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us

68

3

Pirate Bay Retrial Denied

60

4

HeyZap (YC S09) Launches Microtransaction Platform

43

5

9-1-1 Should Never Give Me A Busy Signal

42

6

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites

40

7

Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now

38

8

Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media

36

9

How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking

29

10

Twitter Grows Uncomfortable With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications

28

News [?]

1

119

2

Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia

88

3

Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?

83

4

The evolutionary origin of depression

77

5

Cocaine prices around the world

70

6

The End of Retirement

66

7

Dealing with Asperger's Syndrome, with the help of his wife.

64

8

Friedman: Invent, Invent, Invent

51

9

49

10

Hulu ad rates become higher than tv ad rates

46

Scientific publications [?]

1

An Introduction to Conway's Games and Numbers

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Inspiring talk on programming by creator of CouchDB

56

2

New Attack on AES

33

3

MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads

31

4

Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1

21

5

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture

8

6

Schneier on Security: The Problem with Password Masking

8

7

5

8

Ruby 1.9.2 Plans Announced

3

9

InfoQ: Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation

2

10

Twitter Blog: May The Tweets Be With You

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF: Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay

37

2

Several Facts about Google and HTTPS

5

3

Cost to build Apple's new iPhone 3G S estimated at $179

1

4

New MacBook hidden feature

1

5

Apple Releases Beta 3.1 iPhone Firmware and SDK to Developers

1

6

IPhone OS 3.1 Features: Non-Destructive Video Editing, Voice Control Over Bluet

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Beware of the significant differences between Kindle 1 and Kindle 2

3

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Atlas Obscura: Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

24

2

AppDowner: A BitTorrent Powered iPhone App Store

6

3

Suspicions of Insider Trading Surround Pirate Bay Buyers

6

4

The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents

5

5

The Pirate Bay Sold, Goes Legal

2

6

No bias found in TPB case

1

7

Your Inner Control Circuits: rewire your brain to avoid procrastination and fear

1

8

Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor is “Coming Soon”

1

9

Automated Legal Threats Turn Piracy Into Profit

1

Science News [?]

1

Why A Low Calorie Diet Extends Lifespans: Critical Enzyme Pair Identified

39

2

The first solid-state quantum processor

32

3

Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded

20

4

Bringing Boys And Girls To Computer Science With 'Alice'

14

5

Take two video games and call me in the morning

5

6

Teenage 'baby' may lack master ageing gene

4

7

Gallery: Domestic robots with a taste for flesh

3

8

Evolutionary Origins Of Your Right And Left Brain

3

9

The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts

2

10

Animals that count: How numeracy evolved

2

Social [?]

1

Physicist Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the tracks.

48

2

While you're worrying about Web standards or clean code, your users dont care

5

3

The VC Industry and the Arrival of the Microprocessor

3

4

The ICFP 2009 Subreddit (with different team reports)

3

5

Keeping Billy Mays Alive With Twitter

3

6

Johnny Chung Lee - Foldable Display Tracking using the Wiimote

2

7

Nikola Tesla: master of lightning

2

8

Drinking Bird - wonderful piece of physics (vídeo)

1

9

The new IE8 commercials are very ... odd.

1

10

Cancelling Perception of the Doppler Effect

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

230

2

Rails plugin for ActiveRecord validation clusters

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Clever Hans Effect

34

2

George Burdell, "one of the greatest alumni to graduate from [George Tech]"

1

3

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

1

4

Karōshi: death from overwork

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]