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Top stories
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Some things need to change
287
2
Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George
188
3
Taming Perfectionism
170
4
YHackers: Click that "New" link
157
5
Working from Home: Why It Sucks
156
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Starting this summer, YC will be in California year-round
150
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Congratulations PG on the coming child
149
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Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
144
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How to Choose Chart Types (pic)
143
10
Anatomy of a Program in Memory
134
Top Ask HN
1
What are some (good) hacker movies?
94
2
What do you want to be able to customize?
70
3
How do you get new freelance jobs/contracts?
61
4
Good Hacker Cities
46
5
What web framework(s) do you guys use?
43
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PhD, Startup, or Career?
42
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When do you code?
42
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anyone in SF need a kickass frontend developer?
42
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Why do non-techies simply not "get" the idea of a wiki?
39
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Is it worth a back-end developer's time to get into web-design and HTML/CSS
38
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Some things need to change
287
2
Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down
75
3
T-Shirt Hell Claims It Will Shut Doors After One Too Many Hate Emails
70
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Mozilla gives a $100K grant towards an open video format for the web
46
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Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii
34
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Twitter is raising new cash at 250 million valuation
33
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Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps
25
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Netflix profit up 45% in Q4, nears 10 million total subscribers
25
9
Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo (Video)
19
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Stanford Students Release A Cool Batch Of iPhone Apps
17
News [?]
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What Life Asks of Us
46
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Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
45
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Obama staff arrives at White House stuck in dark ages of technology
39
4
$200 Laptops Break a Business Model
35
5
Why Do You Work So Hard?
33
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Motivating Minds (The Economist on why TDD makes you work harder)
29
7
The frat boy ships out
28
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Ottawa boy's invisible invention warns birds about deadly windows
21
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China's "human flesh search engine" vigilantes bring down bent officials
19
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Geithner forces Citi to cancel jet order
19
Scientific publications [?]
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The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized
2
2
Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits
2
3
WiFi Epidemiology: Can Your Neighbors' Router Make Yours Sick?
1
Dev Blogs [?]
1
InfoQ: Debate: Prototype vs. jQuery
5
Tech blogs [?]
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iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps
18
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IE8's JavaScript performance lags well behind Safari, Chrome
5
3
Apple proposes audio sensor to auto-adjust iPhone ringtones
3
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EFF to White House: What Will You Do to Protect the Privacy of WhiteHouse.gov Users?
3
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A Peek Inside Apple's Design Studio
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
IE 8 Release candidate available for download (does load faster than Firefox)
10
2
Softwear by Microsoft
4
3
The Hungry Scientist Handbook
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
Science News [?]
1
One last chance to save mankind
33
2
Eat less, remember more
31
3
Image Recognition Software Breakthrough
9
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Dark flow: Proof of another universe?
9
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Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
5
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"Now is precisely the moment to make the change to a low-carbon economy"
3
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Ytterbium ions have been teleported over a distance of a metre
2
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How do we know the LHC really is safe?
2
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New Cloaking Device Demonstrated
1
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Truck-mounted laser shoots down spy drone
1
Social [?]
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Reminder - London Hacker Meetup #7 tomorrow night
31
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This is probably the most creative use of youtube ever
14
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Want to make your own judgment about Steven Chu (US Secretary of Energy)? Watch this.
8
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Game of Life implemented in 5 minutes using APL (amazing video)
6
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Failure: The Secret to Success [video]
5
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FreeBSD Kernel Internals Course - McKusick
5
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The Evolution of the Cell Phone
4
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Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984 (25 years ago today) [video]
4
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Steve Jobs introducing WebObjects in 1995
3
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Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (YouTube video)
2
Github repos and gists [?]
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WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content
37
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Rainbow (Arc implementation in Java)
35
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CNAME support for GitHub Pages
16
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GitLondon - Git Workshop by GitHub and Codebase
6
Wikipedia [?]
1
Keynesian Beauty Contest
7
2
Cowboy Coding
3
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Extremophile
1
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Halifax Explosion
1
Blogs [?]
1
PG on nonprofits/Darfur
44
Stackoverflow [?]
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What real life bad habits has programming given you?
45
Substack [?]