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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
1
A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
626
2
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
321
3
Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file
224
4
Example of a good YC application video: Directed Edge
218
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I like Unicorn (Rack HTTP server) because it's Unix
192
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Tell HN: Dealing with VCs, my experience
183
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"How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (1996)
173
8
Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way)
150
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Working for startups sucks, you'll be happier working for The Man
148
10
Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life
145
Top Ask HN
1
What's in your .vimrc file?
123
2
What's in your .emacs file?
121
3
How do you stay (somewhat) healthy?
72
4
How do you pick colors
69
5
Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
47
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What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?
39
7
Ask HN - Why was there ever, fork() ?
35
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Looking for advice on manufacturing a physical product
32
9
Review my site - Rate Expectations
28
10
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign)
26
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch
321
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Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO
131
3
Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos
49
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A Conversation with Sergey Brin
47
5
Twitter Data: An Investor's Perspective
44
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Eolas sues Apple, Google
41
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Yext Scores a $25M Round from IVP
41
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Google’s Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word
31
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R.I.P. Good Times: One Year Later
28
10
Wired.com: FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records
25
News [?]
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Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life
145
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21-year-old computer geek makes £1m with online game (Torn)
80
3
Chicago Loses, Nerds Win: The real story behind Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid
54
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The Burger That Shattered Her Life
51
5
What Makes Us Happy
49
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The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.
42
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MoD 'how to stop leaks' document is leaked
31
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John Cleese divorce tour: the first review
28
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RentHop (YC S09) Video Pitch on Reuters
27
10
Reading Incomprehension
27
Scientific publications [?]
1
16000 Chickens flocking on one cell processor
11
2
How to Beat Information Overload
1
3
Volvo to Introduce Car With Full Auto-Brake and Pedestrian Detection
1
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An Automated Bartender on arduino
1
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IEEE Spectrum: How to Beat Information Overload
1
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Spectral Connectivity Analysis
1
7
The Reality of Robot Surrogates
1
8
Statistical performance of support vector machines
1
9
Watch the LCROSS hit the moon on Friday
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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25 years of X
51
2
Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD
48
3
Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
14
4
Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
12
5
Reproducing physical keys from photographs
5
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DSLs in Javascript
5
7
Pomodoro - An Agile Approach to Time Management
2
8
OOPSLA Debate: Cloud Computing for the Wrong Reasons
1
9
Javascript as Compiler Target: Clamato, GWT Smalltalk, Python, Scheme...
1
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Moving Hippos in the Post-9/11 World
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple challenges new Woolworths logo
10
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Apple plans Mighty Mouse makeover
6
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Evidence of Apple's tablet-like input interface reappears
4
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Vocoding with a piano
4
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Apple Acquired Mapping Company Placebase
1
6
The State of OpenCL & the First End-User OpenCL Drivers
1
7
Just for fun: Barcode challenge
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop
45
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Classic review of "The Story of Ping"
45
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Amazon Launches GSM-based International Kindle Device
28
4
Coders at Work now available for Kindle
11
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Hal Finney diagnosed with ALS. Wants to keep coding open source when paralyzed.
67
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Google Removes Pirate Bay Frontpage From Search Results
32
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Your Most Valuable Skill
1
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Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else?
1
5
Internet Archive: Universal Library
1
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Archive.org - Physics for Entertainment (1913)
1
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Long long time ago (google@stanford)
1
Science News [?]
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Scientists Develop Nasal Spray That Improves Memory
39
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Why is the US still using imperal units?
12
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H1N1 has saved 383 lives in New Zealand
11
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How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road
10
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New Mathematical Model Suggests How The Brain Might Stay In Balance
9
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'Time telescope' could boost fibre-optic communication
8
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Helping robots get smarter with Mechanical Turk
5
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Genetics of tamability. Can a zebra be domesticated?
4
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2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Telomeres, Telomerase and Cancer
4
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Personal genomics firms must come clean
3
Social [?]
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Slava Pestov's Favorite Programming Language Feature
5
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Lean Startup Talk by PBWiki's David Weekly [VID]
4
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Google Wave invites started
3
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"I wish someone..."
3
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Paul Rand on creating a memorable brand
3
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Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
3
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On Facebook, press ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A ↵ and scroll with mouse
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Microsoft's 'MultiTouch' Mice
2
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Google Wave, end of day-1 invites.
1
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Binary adding machine made from wood and marbles
1
Github repos and gists [?]
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MacRuby dev gets eaten by raptors
62
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Cascade - a web framework for Clojure by Tapestry author
47
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Lucandra = Lucene + Cassandra
42
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PyBrain -- the Python Machine Learning Library
39
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Liby: A Lisp interpreter in Ruby
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Command line tool that analyzes request logfiles
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The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post
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Mustache: Logic free views in Ruby (based on Google's ctemplate)
1
9
Why Metalinguistic Programming?
1
Wikipedia [?]
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: Learning How To Think
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Music with hidden pictures (in its spectogram)
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Tetris effect
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My first exposure to programming
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List of imp publications in concurrent, parallel & distributed computing
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Metonymy
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Alexander Grothendieck
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Nanoputians: "organic molecules whose structural formulae appear human"
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List of books on the history of computing [Wikipedia]
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List of acquisitions by Google
1
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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Joel Gets Beat Down on IoC
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History of Django's Popularity w/ responses from Alex Martelli and James Bennet
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History of Django's popularity
1
Substack [?]