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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

When a co-founder dies

335

2

The Duct Tape Programmer

333

3

How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business

319

4

Experiment: No Comment Scores

289

5

Efficient Editing With vim

218

6

And if only 1% of those people...

210

7

Teaching Linear Algebra

208

8

How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

207

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196

10

GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

186

Top Ask HN

1

Check out my little app

108

2

advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com

80

3

63

4

Review our app, Boomtango

57

5

Seeing points again?

41

6

Which usernames do you recognise?

38

7

ideas for little projects you have?

35

8

how to buy a domain name from a squatter?

34

9

The ideal company for programmers, or giving freedom to your programmers

28

10

group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it

25

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users.

129

2

Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard

74

3

1984 ad remade..new Dictator: Steve Jobs

64

4

Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors

53

5

Pandora: From near-death to profitability in a year

42

6

Big GPL copyright enforcement win in Paris Court of Appeals

38

7

The Statistical Problem With Soccer

36

8

Google Cracks Down on Android Developer, Offers Olive Branch

34

9

1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth

34

10

Yahoo Brands Flickr; Users Retaliate

34

News [?]

1

Why are the Russians so good at chess?

53

2

Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control?

41

3

Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review

32

4

Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize

27

5

For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success in Trials

26

6

Toyota plans 3.8M vehicles recall. 2007-2010 Camry, 2004-2009 Prius...

17

7

Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge?

15

8

Silicon Valley startup reinvents the lowly brick

15

9

Fun with nuclear game theory

13

10

In San Francisco, plans to start news web site

13

Scientific publications [?]

1

It's Official: Water Found on the Moon

97

2

Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News

57

3

ArXiv: Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy

8

4

The Recession's Silver Lining

5

5

Lunar water detected

3

6

Quantum Probability Explanations for Probability Judgment 'Errors'

2

7

DIY Google streetview, with how-to

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones discuss Erlang and Haskell

90

2

Schneier on Security: Ass Bomber

36

3

Tokyo Cabinet, MySQL and Ruby HTTP Performance

33

4

FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

17

5

Twitter Blog: Soon to Launch: Lists

10

6

Unauthentication

2

7

The Difficulty of Un-Authentication (by Bruce Schneier)

2

8

Sun Drops the Swing Application Framework from Java 7

2

9

The Doghouse: Crypteto

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Virtual pool, real-world interface

8

2

AT&T has activated iPhone MMS

2

3

Dean Kamen’s prosthetic arm

2

4

IPhone Developers Accessing Users' Telephone Numbers for Telemarketing?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time

139

2

Microsoft Security Essentials is released for free

10

3

Microsoft Security Essentials: Free antivirus software

3

4

Richard Dawkins's new book about the evidence for Evolution is out

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility

6

2

Privileging the Hypothesis (Eliezer Yudkowsky)

3

3

Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree

1

4

You Are A Brain

1

Science News [?]

1

Statistics at Square One

44

2

Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus

36

3

Gamers are more aggressive when playing strangers than friends

18

4

Are Women More Selective at Dating?

9

5

What caused the Samoa islands tsunami?

6

6

How Would Einstein Use E-mail?

6

7

Phase-change memory chips now in mass production

5

8

Gamers are more aggressive to strangers

5

9

Years of caste system in India restrict genetic variablity

3

10

Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?

2

Social [?]

1

Who need XSS when you can simply ask?

43

2

Melbourne Australia Hackernews/YC Meetup, this Sun 4th Oct

38

3

Reddit XSS worm (Don't mouseover Reddit comments and use FF+Noscript)

31

4

Google Chrome OS preview

8

5

Dell Latitude Z: Macbook for Windows

8

6

"A Glorious Dawn": Duet sung by Carl Sagan & Stephen Hawking

6

7

Timothy Fitz - Continuous Deployment [video]

4

8

Transporting a 510 Ton Steam Generator

3

9

Microsoft 'We Are ODST' - Best Video Game Trailer of All Time? (video)

3

10

Google Wave presentation - abridged (10:00 video)

3

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Jsawk - like awk, but for JSON

4

2

Cucumber-nagios: monitor your web app with behavioural tests

3

3

QUnit - An easy-to-use JavaScript Unit Testing framework

2

4

Syntax checking "on the fly" for Vim

1

5

An example of a GA using Clojure

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Visualizing Pi (π)

48

2

.yu domain expires today (30/Sept/2009)

24

3

Liquid breathing

18

4

Man who saved the world

3

5

Project Cybersyn

2

6

A list of programmers notable for their contributions to software

2

7

Scientology: Operation Snow White

2

8

LPI - Linear partial information

2

9

Square One Television

2

10

Constructible number

2

Blogs [?]

1

Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp

129

2

Persuade xor Discover

5

Stackoverflow [?]

1

SO: Interesting thread on which language to use for data summarization

2

2

The worst interviewee answers

2

3

In C# how can you find the mime type of a file based on the file signature

2

4

Capturing Keystrokes in GNU/Linux in C

1

Substack [?]