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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

_why is no more

558

2

318

3

How I explained REST to my wife

199

4

R.I.P. Les Paul

196

5

Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good

183

6

The Fall of Hacking

176

7

A New Experiment: The RFS

175

8

The Android Opportunity

173

9

How American Health Care Killed My Father

166

10

TED Talk: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

160

Top Ask HN

1

Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen?

62

2

53

3

Who's Hiring... Students?

36

4

Review my startup, HipHopGoblin.com (Pandora + HypeM + Hip Hop)

33

5

I want to build/learn something this weekend - suggestions?

33

6

How or Where can I get data sets?

29

7

Why do you use framework X?

25

8

What do you listen to when you code?

22

9

Case studies of equity splits between cofounders

22

10

Has PG written any essays about "people who shouldn't do startups"?

22

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

YC-Funded Flightcaster Tells You When Your Flight Is Delayed

107

2

Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?

91

3

Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard

68

4

YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality

67

5

140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

61

6

Why I Don’t Use Twitter

57

7

Olark (YC S09) Is A Dead Simple Chat Widget For Site Owners

52

8

Firefox extension liberates US court docs from paywall

52

9

Y Combinator Starts Seeding Ideas To Startups

51

10

3D Printers for $750

43

News [?]

1

R.I.P. Les Paul

196

2

How American Health Care Killed My Father

166

3

When less is more

69

4

What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

60

5

Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think

44

6

Economics of suicide

41

7

The brutal truth about America’s healthcare

37

8

Seeking - How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting

37

9

The fruits of the feminist revolution: eight hours a day in a cubicle.

32

10

A new factory can turn almost any plastic into a useful product

29

Scientific publications [?]

1

Dean Kamen Takes His Island Off-Grid

44

2

Microsoft Shows Off Experimental Designs for OS and Browser

3

3

1

4

Towards a Theory of Anonymous Networking

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Google releases Neatx NX server

73

2

Schneier on Security : Flash Cookies

26

3

Twitter getting retweet API

6

4

The Browser as a Platform

3

5

Why we should all use Cappuccino

2

6

How to Transfer Knowledge in an Agile Project

1

7

RESTful HTTP in practice

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever

4

2

Exploding iPhones

3

3

TomTom for iPhone Appears in New Zealand App Store

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Import/Export Enters Unlimited Beta, Adds Export for Amazon S3

14

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Why I hate programming competitions

62

2

Download A Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone

35

3

Radiohead Leak Their New Track To BitTorrent

26

4

Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net

20

5

He'd Rather Be "Raped By Pirate Bay" Than Played On Spotify

16

6

How The Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized

3

7

Pirate Bay and BREIN Clash at Hacker Conference

2

8

The Microsoft File

1

9

Original Films of Frank Gilbreth (Father of Motion Study)

1

10

Full text of "Parlog As A System Progrmming Language"

1

Science News [?]

1

Found: first amino acid on a comet

46

2

Why More Autumn Leaves Are Red In America And Yellow In Europe

27

3

Night-time pic reveals growing economies

24

4

Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag

20

5

SETI telescope array produces first science results

17

6

Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India

4

7

Did asteroids flock together to build planets?

3

8

Pay-per-email plan to beat spam and help charity

2

9

Robots Get Their Own OS

2

10

Intelligence may be a Darwinian liability

1

Social [?]

1

_why is no more

558

2

South Park Sums Up Most Web Startups

22

3

Weinreb: Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing

15

4

Guess who registered http://expert-s**-change.com

12

5

How to write a fugue (GEB meets Britney Spears?)

7

6

[vid] Does creativity work, or: 5x'ing a product's price w/ brand storytelling

6

7

Status Anxiety - documentary by Alain De Botton [video]

5

8

Is Doug Engelbart a Crank ?

4

9

Introduction to modern reverse engineering?

3

10

Doug Engelbart on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Special Topics - Web 2.0

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Mirror of _why's projects

116

2

Display your current git branch as part of your bash prompt

32

3

13

4

Clickistrano helps you perform Capistrano deployments using a web interface

7

5

Feedback: generates personal time management charts from ical ics format

2

6

Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation in comments

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Duff's device: do + switch fall-through = loop unrolling

16

2

8

3

Maxwell's demon

3

4

Prolog,Lisp,ML in one

3

5

Analysis paralysis

2

6

Feynman's Brownian ratchet

2

7

Dyatlov Pass incident

1

8

Daily Mail aviation prizes

1

Blogs [?]

1

145

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is your best programmer joke?

24

2

Learning to write a compiler

6

3

Would you opensource an application like StackOverflow? Answer: Question closed.

5

4

Non-programming books that programmers should read

5

5

Math for Programmers

1

Substack [?]