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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

279

2

Signs that you're a bad programmer

273

3

Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions

171

4

Forget Starbucks, work at the library instead

160

5

Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring

157

6

Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?

157

7

Self-Enforcing Protocols

156

8

Be a roaming hacker this fall: JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly pass for $599

146

9

Facebook has acquired FriendFeed

143

10

Let's Abolish High School

132

Top Ask HN

1

Who's Hiring? (take 2)

202

2

Where do you live?

112

3

Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?

78

4

How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?

60

5

Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business?

56

6

What is something impressive you have built or achieved?

52

7

Advice for freshmen entering college

49

8

Are you a founder?

47

9

Which tools do you use to optimize your webapps?

41

10

My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it?

39

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

279

2

Directed Edge sees a post-search web where recommendations rule

108

3

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

88

4

JobSpice (YC S09) Makes Resumes Web Friendly, With A Facebook Co-Founder

81

5

Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing

77

6

Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

74

7

Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00

64

8

Team Apart (YC S08) wants to eat Webex's lunch

55

9

Pics: The Facebook/FriendFeed Deal Signed Under The Cover Of Night

51

10

Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network

47

News [?]

1

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

89

2

Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin

89

3

King of the Apple geeks: Gruber as one-man media company

69

4

Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6

69

5

Tough times in the porn industry

46

6

"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine

35

7

Justin.tv Signs Deal With Fox, Gets Serious About Copyright Problems

35

8

Shut Out at Home, Americans Seek Opportunity in China

35

9

Taking more math in school will raise your income

31

10

UK's new ID card hacked within minutes

26

Scientific publications [?]

1

The LED's Dark Secret: "droop"

106

2

The Hunt for the Kill Switch (2008)

17

3

The Medical Algorithms Project

3

4

Dean Kamen: empire off the grid

2

5

Who's Proposing Ethical Guidelines for Robots?

1

6

Gordon Moore's next act (2008)

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Self-Enforcing Protocols

156

2

Bruce Schneier: Risk Intuition

38

3

Schneier on Security: Lockpicking and the Intenet

21

4

Schneier on Security : Password Advice

7

5

SQLite ported to .NET

5

6

The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols

5

7

Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring

2

8

Password Advice

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro

66

2

Exclusive Interview: Hacking The iPhone Through SMS

33

3

Apple working on device abuse detection technology

4

4

Google's chief accepted gear but no pay as Apple board member

4

5

Roadmap May Reveal Windows 8 Date

1

6

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A432 Designated 'Golden Master'?

1

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Root Bridges of Cherrapungee

1

Science News [?]

1

What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling

18

2

The math of gambling

18

3

Apple plans 'abuse spy' for your iPhone

16

4

Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot

16

5

Imaginary worlds are early sign of highly creative kids

10

6

The Pitfalls of Self-control

9

7

Looking Back At Earth: LCROSS Spacecraft Detects Life On The Blue Planet

9

8

After the boom, is Wikipedia heading for bust?

4

9

Things we don't understand about humans

4

10

How the moving walkway nearly overtook the Metro

3

Social [?]

1

Mario AI competition might have a strong contender

18

2

Designing the Facebook username land rush

7

3

12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up at a Stevenote [video]

6

4

5 Axis Milling Machine Making V8 Engine Block

4

5

Video: Ward Cunningham on "technical debt"

3

6

Get software, help my wedding

3

7

A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

3

8

Top Gear's James May goes to the edge of space in a U2.

3

9

If your site needs an FAQ, you have failed [END]

3

10

Unix Windowing Terminal System Blit, 1982, Bell Labs

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Meet CI Joe: GitHub's new Continuous Integration server

55

2

NeverSayDie will let you rescue from SEGV's and is evil

27

3

Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

10

4

Hubris: A Ruby/Haskell bridge

2

5

A Personal URL Shortener

1

6

[pdf]An emergent participatory design framework for higher education

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Why the Z boson had a different mass at different times of day.

65

2

37

3

Tell HN: Perseids: "Last Chance" for Best Meteor Viewing Tonight

20

4

The Prague Pneumatic Post system (early mechanical networking)

18

5

Milwaukee protocol (treating rabies without the vaccine)

12

6

Pecha Kucha: Preventative Medicine for Death By PowerPoint

10

7

E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4

8

3

9

Situation calculus

2

10

Ravoux's slavemaker ant

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?

30

2

Senior programming "guru" who can't program - should I find a different career?

8

Substack [?]