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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
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Why I won't be at my high school reunion
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Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
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Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced
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How to Apply to Y Combinator
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A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
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Most expensive javascript ever
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Re: You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
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Top Ask HN
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how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads?
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Emotion hacks? How do you work despite crummy love/life things going on?
51
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What's the Browser Distribution for your site?
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deferred compensation structures, pre-funded startup
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Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it?
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Does this concern anyone else?
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How do you see the future of computing ?
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Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com
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Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django?
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Independent Math Study
20
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice
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Amazon Buys Zappos
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Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
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AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
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Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead
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The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack
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Y Combinator’s Picurio Crowdsources Photo Sharing
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Building beauty out of logarithms and cosines
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Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979
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Guess Who Lost Big on the Zappos Deal?
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News [?]
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One Giant Leap to Nowhere
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Yahoo is Number One in So Much More Than Search
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Why Japan’s Cellphones Haven’t Gone Global
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Why chips in passports and ID cards are a stupid idea
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Walter Cronkite has just died at 92
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Mark Cuban Wins Bid to Toss out SEC Claims
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What went wrong with economics
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Getting Over It
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Steal This Code - finally some common sense
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There are 100 million electric bikes in China
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Scientific publications [?]
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A Radical New Router
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LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
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Robert Zubrin: how to go to Mars right now
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Mars is hard
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Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series
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Rockets for the Red Planet: engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back
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Dev Blogs [?]
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Pragmatic Real-World Scala
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Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos.
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Twitter Blog: Someone Call Security
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Pepper Spray–Equipped ATMs
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Ruby 1.9.2 Preview 1 available
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Twitter Blog: Someone Call Security
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Reassuring people about privacy makes them more, not less, concerned.
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New Way to Exploit Linux
1
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MacRuby AOT, DMGs with ChocTop
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Agile Coaches Frequently a Source of Adoption Problems
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Intel releases 34nm-based SSDs with 2x speed of previous drive
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How To: Building Your Own Render Farm : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware
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Apple acknowledges AppStore's "race to bottom", working on improvements.
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Your CPU Came From Sand
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Apple Withdraws Threats Against Wiki Site | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Going Three Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits
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First iPhone VoIP app with push notification appears
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FAANG+ [?]
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Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
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Misc and Hobbies [?]
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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
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Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve
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New Pirate Bay will be a pay site
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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
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Science News [?]
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The Calorie delusion: why food labels are wrong
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Number of Internet users by language (pic)
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An Easy Way to Increase Creativity - thinking about distant things
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Do Fruit Flies Have Free Will?
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The calorie delusion: Why food labels are wrong
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Invisible flash takes photos without the glare
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Artistic tendencies linked to 'schizophrenia gene'
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Former Boeing engineer convicted of passing shuttle and Delta 4 secrets to China
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Babies Understand Dogs, Bark-matching Study Finds
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Could u txt me ur blood sample?
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Social [?]
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Proggit: Recommend a compsci paper for me to read this weekend
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I'm a reddit co-founder. Ask me anything.
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Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
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Cutting Edge Prosthetic Arms (video)
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Rate My App Pilot: Justin.tv
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"Hacker spaces" are giving hackers a place to gather, create and collaborate
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Automatic Summarization - How To Teach Computers to Tag on Their Own (Video)
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Facebook hiring for mechanical engineers; following google into custom HW?
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Life Hack: Low-Cost Multi-Touch Whiteboard Using the Wiimote
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A memorial to one of Reddit's oldest members
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Github repos and gists [?]
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GitHub Meetup SF
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Promises for JavaScript
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Exception handling in 30 lines of Potion (a draft, using continuations).
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Migrate MySQL tables - Zero downtime
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The 2009 Git User's Survey
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Wikipedia [?]
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A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
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Quantum tic tac toe: A teaching metaphor for superposition in quantum mechanics
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Narco submarine: fiberglass semi-submersibles built by Colombian traffickers
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Fuller's view of the world ...
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Kendall Myers indicted on charges of nearly 30 years of spying for Cuba
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El Greco on Michelangelo: "He was a good man, but he did not know how to paint"
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Blogs [?]
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
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How to Do What You Love (2006)
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Ask YC: the image on PG's front page, what does it mean?
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Stackoverflow [?]
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Keep your users amused while the app is loading.
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Substack [?]