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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.

327

2

Did you mean recursion?

290

3

Ramen Profitable

264

4

Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"

227

5

Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon

224

6

The Trouble with the Segway

221

7

My Life Offline

206

8

RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD

178

9

Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died

175

10

Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you disagree with.

174

Top Ask HN

1

Cash-flow muses

71

2

What to do when your company misses payroll?

70

3

What website project are you working on?

46

4

Ask HN : What would you do if you had to switch to a "manual" job?

43

5

What's Your 5 Runs?

35

6

What keeps you away from starting startups?

35

7

What do you drink?

23

8

If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be?

21

9

Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"?

21

10

What to do when a company shuts out its shareholders?

16

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

RethinkDB (YC S09): MySQL Storage Engine Built From The Ground Up For SSD

178

2

Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault

126

3

Mixpanel (YC S09) Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google Analytics

123

4

YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars

101

5

Apple Yanks The Cord On GV Mobile, other Google Voice integration apps

79

6

Justin.tv Opens Its API For Free, Hopes Live Video Will Explode

72

7

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories

67

8

Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threat to Google Docs

67

9

Google Voice iPhone app rejected

63

10

Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far

59

News [?]

1

Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09)

91

2

Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

86

3

"Marriage is for white people"

72

4

The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment"

53

5

Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed

53

6

How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'

50

7

The Quirky Genius of the Dos Equis Ad Campaign

50

8

SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on their site. Try it

47

9

Is This Your Brain On God?

43

10

The New Joblessness

43

Scientific publications [?]

1

Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind

2

2

[Google] Online Stochastic Matching: Beating 1-1/e

1

3

Building out the Smart Grid of the Future

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Fun with NULL pointers (how the 2.6.30 exploit works)

35

2

Fun with NULL pointers (how the Linux 2.6.30 exploit works)

13

3

Social Security Numbers Are Not Random

6

4

What programmers can do to improve the memory performance of their code

5

5

Mapping Drug Use by Testing Sewer Water

4

6

Twitter front page overhaul.

3

7

Schneier on Security: SHA-3 Second Round Candidates Announced

2

8

Domain Specific Languages in Erlang

2

9

Building Native Mobile Apps in Rhodes (FutureRuby talk)

1

10

Polyglot Persistence

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Black Hat 2009: Get an SSL cert valid for any domain using a null character

48

2

Apple Claims 91% of $1,000+ PC Market Revenue in June

46

3

Intel X25-M G2: Dissected and Performance Preview

27

4

Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year

11

5

Coders’ Rights Project Reverse Engineering FAQ

3

6

Intel Forces OCZ's Hand: Indilinx Drives To Drop in Price

2

7

Report: China Unicom has signed 3 year iPhone deal

1

8

What Will be the Killer Feature of an Apple Tablet?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Jeff Bezos apologizes for 1984-Kindle debacle

77

2

Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water

5

2

Artificial Addition

1

3

US Movie Companies Go After The Pirate Bay - Again

1

Science News [?]

1

Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser

36

2

Ion engine could one day power 39-day trips to Mars

35

3

Girl born with half a brain retains full vision

22

4

An Easy Way to Increase Creativity

12

5

The Environmental and Economic Pluses of the 4-Day Workweek

8

6

US vehicle efficiency hardly changed since Model T

8

7

Mice made from induced stem cells

4

8

It turns out that people actually glow in the dark (science)

3

9

Ants More Rational Than Humans

2

10

How raindrops fall

2

Social [?]

1

Vista Speech Recognition - Equation Editor in Word

8

2

SpecWatch: The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing Design

7

3

Under the ruler faster than the ruler

6

4

5

5

The National Debt Road Trip [video]

4

6

Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide

3

7

YouTube - Virtual Windows Demo (very cool multi screen layout)

2

8

HackerDojo lease signed

2

9

How to guess the number of M&Ms in a jar (vid)

2

10

What the federal reserve doesn't want you to know

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

PHP is now on Github

4

2

Digg's Cassandra Python Client (GitHub)

2

3

Penumbra -- OpenGL in Clojure

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of games in game theory

23

2

Emacs wikipedia-mode

12

3

10

4

Berkeley sex bias case, an example of Simpson's paradox

8

5

Challenge vs. Skill

6

6

Why there are so many kinds of wine glasses

2

7

Emergent Gameplay

2

8

Darwin among the Machines

1

9

1

Blogs [?]

1

Ramen Profitable

264

2

The Trouble with the Segway

221

3

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

9

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Hidden Features of Erlang

3

Substack [?]