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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

401

2

Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense

359

3

The bar for success in our industry is too low

282

4

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley

264

5

You're a little company, now act like one

240

6

Please don't use hnreputation

199

7

Thousands call for Turing apology

177

8

Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics

152

9

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds

149

10

145

Top Ask HN

1

89

2

Why does a url use ://?

58

3

Where do you find clients?

54

4

How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background?

49

5

Rate my Product : QueryCell

45

6

Asking for a raise

37

7

Best code editor?

34

8

When are you most alert?

33

9

What terminal emulator do you use ?

33

10

I'm resigning soon, any suggestions what to build on my own?

32

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds

149

2

John Siracusa's in-depth review of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica

141

3

Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide

130

4

Free the H-1Bs, Free the Economy

82

5

Developers, Be Warned: Apple Has Apparently TMed Those Glossy Chat Bubbles

50

6

Angel Investor Chris Sacca To Launch $5 million Early Stage Venture Fund

39

7

The Curse of Xanadu

38

8

25 Years Later, First Registered Domain Name Changes Hands

37

9

New planet hints we're very lucky—or our models are wrong

33

10

Vidly: Twitvid.io (YC S08) Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding

32

News [?]

1

America's unjust sex laws

118

2

The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

103

3

Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space

68

4

'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter

59

5

Generation B - Middle Aged, Laid Off and Losing Hope

55

6

EBay to sell Skype to investment group including Andreesen Horowitz

53

7

World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports

47

8

The Facebook Exodus

47

9

In tough times, cocaine dealers have to turn to cold-calling

42

10

Apple's sleek upgrade

41

Scientific publications [?]

1

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

67

2

Has the rate of technological progress slowed in the past 50 years?

30

3

A Computational View of Market Efficiency

13

4

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning"

4

5

Glitch Forces NASA to Cancel First Moon Rocket Test Firing

3

6

Russia Reveals Manned Space Plans

1

7

Add electric assist to your bicycle (video)

1

8

Random Walks and Electric Networks [pdf]

1

9

IEEE Spectrum: Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

API changes in Snow Leopard

45

2

OpenCL "Hello World"

32

3

Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

23

4

Mozilla's "bespin" collaborative development system

12

5

Simple, low-tech attack on Credit Unions

2

6

Empower Your Ruby With Haskell And Hubris

1

7

Small Business Identity Theft and Fraud

1

8

OpenCL Programming Guide in Snow Leopard

1

9

Schneier on Security: Hacking Swine Flu

1

10

Google's Chromium sandbox

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD

51

2

Cybersecurity Act Returns With a Fresh Coat of Paint

14

3

Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD

5

4

The SSD Relapse

5

5

An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC?

3

6

Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year

2

7

Lack of ZFS File System Support in Snow Leopard Due to Licensing Issues?

1

8

Happy birthday Internet in five videos

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apple : Final Cut Pro 7, The year’s most stunning new release

1

2

Microsoft will donate 8 meals to the poor if you download IE

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

µTorrent iPhone App rejected (after four months wait)

2

2

GGF Shareholders Push Through Pirate Bay Acquisition

1

3

Innovators of the Net: Brendan Eich and JavaScript (1998)

1

Science News [?]

1

Depression is not a malfunction

73

2

Best Optical Illusion of the Year

58

3

Lab creates fake DNA evidence

20

4

Why AI is a dangerous dream

12

5

Brain Difference In Psychopaths Identified

8

6

Your genome isn't that precious - give it away

5

7

Wolverine-like frog breaks bones to produce claws

5

8

Coldest, Driest, Calmest Place on Earth Found

4

9

Morocco's Extraordinary Donkeys

4

10

Beyond space and time: Fractals, hyperspace and more

3

Social [?]

1

LinkedIn charges $250 a year to view users' full profiles.

35

2

Tell HN: Am hosting a meetup for 40 journalists in Chicago. Hackers welcome

20

3

A Demo From 1990 of Disney Animation Software on the Amiga

16

4

Reddit removes atheism subreddit from front page; Redditors go insane

8

5

Tell HN: YouTube apparently now has live streaming...

7

6

Marissa Mayer of Google thinks anonymity is bad

6

7

Every Millisecond Counts

5

8

Virtual Mirror - Augmented Reality Virtual Fitting Room (video)

4

9

Interesting way to "simulate" a mouse on an iPhone

4

10

Chimp Reacts to Magic (video)

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

I don't care why you won't write for iPhone/Android/PHP/Rails/Mac

103

2

My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV

52

3

Rewriting Returning in Rails

26

4

A Clojure library for Apache CouchDB

18

5

Webkit + Macruby = Manipulating the DOM right from Ruby

9

6

SimpleXML for Python

8

7

GitHub Contest Recap

2

8

Blizkost: embedding Perl 5 in Parrot

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics

152

2

List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

109

3

Pólya conjecture

13

4

8

5

Explicit Data Graph Execution - a new class of ISA

7

6

Naive Bayes classifier

3

7

Politeness theory

3

8

On Intelligence

1

9

Deviancy amplification spiral

1

10

Guilt cultures vs. shame cultures: The Western understanding of Japan

1

Blogs [?]

1

What Kate saw in Silicon Valley

264

2

Viaweb's Last Press Release

29

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What’s the most egregious pop culture perversion of programming?

4

Substack [?]