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Top stories
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Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games
330
2
So long, and thanks for all the fish
245
3
Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic
237
4
999999999999999 - 999999999999997
185
5
Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews
185
6
Folding Plug System
174
7
Why I'm Quitting Gmail
158
8
Starting a Bank
144
9
The Hacker Survey
139
10
Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (2006)
133
Top Ask HN
1
What's a Non-Programmer to do?
152
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How much?
63
3
Who is looking for a co-founder?
53
4
Steal my Ideas (or help me)
49
5
Haiku?
40
6
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
40
7
What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs?
31
8
What would you do with a Class C IP block?
20
9
What do you use for personal, offsite backup?
19
10
Is it "dirty" to have an "Import from [competitor]" feature?
18
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
113
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Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes
80
3
4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook
68
4
What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC
66
5
Computer art
66
6
Rails-like Quickly tools brings rapid development to Ubuntu
59
7
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
58
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The Funded Publishes “Ideal First Round Term Sheet” For Founders
45
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The Craigslist Credo: Unbrand, Demonetize, Uncompete
40
10
Richard Branson accepting micropitches via Twitter
36
News [?]
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Why we don't use Galileo's last name.
117
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Ted Kennedy has died
110
3
Mexico Decriminalizes Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin and Other Drugs
99
4
There's No Rulebook for Sex Verification
51
5
Apple’s Official iPhone 3G Unlock
51
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Beijing loves IKEA -- but not for shopping
50
7
How long do you have to work to earn a Big Mac?
49
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Wikipedia to Add Layer of Editing to Articles
49
9
Kilogram's Future Hangs In The Balance
44
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After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall
35
Scientific publications [?]
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The LED's Dark Secret
9
2
Exoskeletons Are on the March
8
3
NASA Wins Emmy for Apollo 11 Moon Broadcast
5
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Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata (2004)
4
5
The Price of Anarchy In Basketball
3
Dev Blogs [?]
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Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09)
77
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Schneier on Security: Manipulating Breathalyzers
19
3
Twitter now support Geolocation in their API (and soon...)
14
4
CouchDB From 10,000 Feet
5
5
Distributed Caching - Lessons
4
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Translating software with Pootle
4
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Lift Web Framework
3
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What every programmer should know about memory: CPU Caches
3
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Disclosing How SQLite Was Ported to .NET
2
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Video: Ten years of test-driven development
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
'Chipotle Ordering' Back in App Store
18
2
Lego robot solves Sudoku on paper
4
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ITunes 9 to support DVD ripping and Facebook
3
4
Apple TV Set by 2011?
1
5
Anandtech tries out Linux
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions
87
2
James Cameron's Avatar trailer posted
46
3
AWS Multi-Factor Authentication
12
4
Amazon/AWS Startup Challenge entry deadline extended
3
5
Rework: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: Availble for Pre-Order
1
6
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Living root bridges
72
2
The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing
40
3
My draft Masters dissertation on YC and other "startup accelerators"
32
4
David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged)
20
5
The Pirate Bay Taken Offline
8
6
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online
2
7
_why Used to Publish a Zine
1
Science News [?]
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Depression's Evolutionary Roots
21
2
What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality
4
3
Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S.Currency
4
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Universal vaccine could put an end to all flu
4
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That's No Vestigial Organ, That's My Appendix
4
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Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years
2
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Micronations of the World
2
8
Algorithm to predict future changes in plant populations ...
1
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Tasting the Light: Device Lets the Blind "See" with Their Tongues
1
10
Gigantic jets blast electricity into upper atmosphere
1
Social [?]
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Hacker Dojo open house right now in Mountain View
33
2
Paul Graham at Startup School (2008) (video)
20
3
Guido: I've abandoned the "don't use tables for layout" meme...
19
4
8-bit trip (LEGO stop-motion video)
18
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Businesses have it wrong, incentives destroy creativity
7
6
High speed robot hand
6
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JQuery is on 27% of the top 1000 web sites
4
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Steven Chu: This Might Surpise You...
3
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How Differential Gear works
3
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YouTube - Project Natal: Meet Milo.
3
Github repos and gists [?]
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Nemesis: a Rake like task management for Haskell with a nice DSL (BSD3 license)
16
2
HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
13
3
Cassandra_object: persistent storage for Ruby objects in Cassandra
11
4
Mojombo's primer: Flash-like graphics API for HTML5 canvas
9
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Ryan Tomayko's git-sh: Git mode for Bash
4
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Jeresig's testswarm released on github
2
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Remoteobjects - Python ORM for JSON REST APIs
2
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Hijack Any Ruby Process with IRB
1
Wikipedia [?]
1
RapidMiner is an environment for machine learning
3
Blogs [?]
1
See Randomness
128
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Why YC
83
3
Revenge of the Nerds
20
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6,631,327
3
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6,631,327
3
6
Why YC
3
7
See Randomness
1
Stackoverflow [?]
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How can you tell a person is a programmer
1
Substack [?]