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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why Google Employees Quit

202

2

The 37signals Effect

171

3

Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

162

4

Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like?

151

5

My Git Workflow

142

6

How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget

134

7

News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats)

117

8

Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0

112

9

Designing Web Interfaces: Standard Screen Patterns

105

10

100

Top Ask HN

1

What is your favorite TED talk?

123

2

How do you deal with alienation?

108

3

What's a good low profile job where I can hack at the same time?

54

4

How do you produce product demo videos?

50

5

What unlocks with karma, and when?

44

6

Ask HN/YC: Seeking advice for building a physical hardware device (esp. Picwing)

44

7

I have three good ideas. Help me choose idea 1, 2, or 3.

43

8

Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?

41

9

Which school do you attend?

38

10

playin' the stocks game

38

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Why Google Employees Quit

202

2

What Should I Do with My Life, Now?

92

3

TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B

89

4

Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

63

5

Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

63

6

Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09)

54

7

DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code

53

8

Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don't equal 17,000 lost sales

49

9

Google opens Jaiku source code

44

10

Worst Microsoft Video Promo Ever, Take 2. Just Cover Up The Mac With Stickers.

39

News [?]

1

Hungry start-ups (Anyvite & TicketStumbler) on a drastic diet

86

2

Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate

75

3

One Room Configured 24 Ways

42

4

Morgan Stanley Hires Supertanker to Store Oil in Gulf

30

5

Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549

30

6

Why Microsoft should forget about Yahoo and buy Palm

28

7

Scientists baffled by mysterious columns of coloured light

26

8

Typing Errors: The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A... Dvorak not so great either

26

9

Videos show US Air crash-landing

25

10

Mars methane discovery hints at presence of life

24

Scientific publications [?]

1

NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Credit card scam exposes mind-blowing ignorance about security.

16

2

Testing is Overrated

14

3

Conceptual Algorithms (RubyFringe talk by GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner)

9

4

The Zen of Twitter Support

2

5

Twitter Blog: It's Business Time

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Kicks Off Campaign to Free Your Phone

22

2

Apple's iPhone may have outsold Android nearly 6-to-1

9

3

Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial

4

4

Apple Shows Us DRM's True Colors

3

5

Malware posing as Change.gov

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Of the top 6 results for "Real World Haskell" on Amazon, 2 are Haskell books...

3

2

200 million app store downloads in the past month

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Science News [?]

1

Our world may be a giant hologram

73

2

Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft

24

3

New Family Of Antibacterial Agents Uncovered

23

4

Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist

3

5

Is it really bad to be sad?

2

6

Future tigers of innovation

2

7

Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips

2

8

The learning revolution

2

9

Sailboat To Sail Autonomously Across The Atlantic

2

10

The rise and fall of the metal airship

2

Social [?]

1

Ira Glass on creativity's dark stage

12

2

Million Dollar Traders - BBC show about amateurs in a hedge fund [video]

5

3

When Robot Programmers get bored

4

4

An example of ATC handling a bird strike (10m video)

4

5

YouTube Blog is super spammy (see comments)

1

6

The Palmerston Group explores the amazing social phenomenon that is Facebook.

1

7

National Buy A NewsPaper Day

1

8

Morten Lund at LeWeb'08

1

9

YouTube - 'Work on stuff that matters.' -Tim O'Reilly (2 PARTS)

1

10

Baltimore Angels, a New Angel Investor Group; First Meeting Feb 24

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

83

2

Compojure - Clojure web framework

45

3

Ruby Warrior: Coding game designed to teach Ruby and A.I.

45

4

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

10

2

Autostereogram -- Wikipedia (hacking binocular vision)

2

3

Koko the gorilla's sexual harassment

1

4

10NES: Hardware DRM in the old Nintendo NES

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Signs that you (as a programmer) are about to be laid off

2

Substack [?]