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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

310

2

Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps

243

3

How a software engineer invented a breakthrough medical device

207

4

After the Deadline: Acquired

185

5

Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design

169

6

The Anatomy of Determination

163

7

XSS Twitter in minutes; Why you shouldn't store important data with 37signals

156

8

The List of N Things

146

9

Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider

139

10

Things Every Programmer Should Know - Edited Contributions

139

Top Ask HN

1

Best Unix Tricks?

83

2

Do you think machine consciousness is possible?

71

3

Is version control worth learning early on?

70

4

3 Ideas (with slides) for YC W10 - What do you think?

64

5

What are your productivity hacks?

58

6

how do people solve the 3 Google Code Jam problems in 25 minutes?

40

7

37

8

Review my start-up: Customized Graphics

37

9

How do you wake up?

32

10

What do you think of GitX?

27

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

"Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why not

79

2

When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule

78

3

Craigslist Redesign

62

4

School kids measure distance to the Moon

42

5

Apple Heist Empties Store in Just 31 Seconds

40

6

Apple rocks with iTunes 9, iTunes Store improvements

34

7

The Simple, Secret iPhone Tethering Fix

31

8

Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch

30

9

Ars Technica Announces A Subscription Based Service

30

10

Tweetvite: An Events Site Dedicated To Tweetups (From Anyvite YC S08)

29

News [?]

1

Cursive handwriting considered harmful; bring back italic

116

2

Teenager invents solar panel made from human hair

78

3

For Hackers Who Don't Sleep

63

4

Loopt to work in the background on iPhone via deal with AT&T

62

5

Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel

56

6

Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women

55

7

Giant rats, tiny parrots found in 'lost world'

51

8

Hacking goes squishy

45

9

Gadget Makers Can Find Thief, but Don’t Ask

40

10

Ikea Catalog's Move to the Verdana Font Angers Fans of Futura

37

Scientific publications [?]

1

New Math for Artificial Neurons

34

2

The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band

18

3

An autonomous flying eel.

1

4

The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Linux Weekly News - something needs to change

6

2

SCO: not dead yet?

2

3

Pyjamas: writing AJAX applications in Python

1

4

NSA intercepts used to convict liquid bombers

1

5

Iphone 3.1 out of beta?

1

6

Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites’ Usability

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Why we don’t need phone numbers

18

2

Melanin/Hair Based DIY Solar Panels

4

3

Intel's Core i7 870 & i5 750, Lynnfield: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger

2

4

Intel's Core i7 870 & i5 750, Lynnfield: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger

1

FAANG+ [?]

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Web Archive - How a web site looked like in the past

1

2

Gizmodo Unveiled [2002]

1

Science News [?]

1

More things that don't make sense

42

2

Why AI is a dangerous dream - interview with Noel Sharkey

40

3

Magnetic Monopoles Detected?

29

4

Extreme steel 'Velcro' takes a 35-tonne load

25

5

Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They?

21

6

Code-breaking quantum algorithm run on a silicon chip

17

7

Diamonds are for softies -- boron is harder

12

8

Eyes see trouble coming before brain notices

9

9

Racetrack Memory: The Future Third Dimension of Data Storage (bubbles anyone ?)

7

10

New microprocessor runs on thin air

4

Social [?]

1

Java on 1000 cores (in one box)

25

2

Peter Norvig on "Innovations in AI and Search"

11

3

Mysterious Google tweet

9

4

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

4

5

YO Startups: Can Haz Split Testing?

4

6

How Jay-Z Started His Clothing Line Rocawear

4

7

Tell HN: BFS is comming to Android. And it is fast.

4

8

Instrument Made From Humans and Conductive Paint

3

9

DMCA notice to Posterous posted to Posterous

3

10

Wireless Power Transmission Test (1974) [vid]

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Redis 1.0 Released

4

2

Facebook's lex-pass tool : automate changes to a PHP codebase via Haskell

3

3

Hook up javascript to URLs using bjorn

3

4

Arduino/Xport-03 HTTP Requests and Avoiding Headaches

2

5

Share HN: hack your netflix queue

1

6

Manifesto for the Hacker Web - from Johan of GreaseMonkey

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Codd's 12 rules

15

2

Anscombe's Quartet - four different datasets that share statistical properties

2

3

Template oriented programming = lisp macros

1

4

Blue Ocean Strategy

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Anatomy of Determination

163

2

The List of N Things

146

3

Mind the Gap (2004)

20

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What’s an example of Ruby code that’s "too clever"?

5

Substack [?]