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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter?

324

2

The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

306

3

How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily

241

4

What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book

233

5

Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"

233

6

Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

199

7

Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf

183

8

Piratebay strikes back

178

9

10 finger multi-touch UI designed to replace the mouse

171

10

Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

170

Top Ask HN

1

What source code is worth studying?

125

2

Please name two of your most favorite books.

105

3

How do you concentrate?

91

4

Tell me why a room-and-board-and-bandwidth incubator is a stupid idea

83

5

What was the worst bug you've ever solved ?

76

6

Little things/tools that improved your work or life lately?

75

7

Whom do you admire most?

56

8

Ask HN Computer Scientists: could my app make the world a better place?

49

9

I've tried lots of things but haven't finished any.

49

10

Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery

48

Top Show HN

1

Checkout the app my company helped launch

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: Usenet

170

2

Dropbox Acquires The Domain Everyone Thought It Had: Dropbox.com

108

3

Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

88

4

The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB port

73

5

How to Become a Design Genius: Take Time Off. Lots of It.

73

6

Everything You Wanted To Know About Startup Building But Were Afraid To Ask

64

7

Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs

62

8

Finding Your Co-Founders

44

9

Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive

41

10

Special Interests Get Peek at ‘Classified’ Copyright Treaty

34

News [?]

1

Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

199

2

What non-geeks hear when you speak techie

86

3

Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care

69

4

Zuckerberg: Why I stayed CEO even though many people thought I should quit

55

5

Startup rental website takes on Craigslist

55

6

Google Wave: too complicated for its own good

51

7

The Calorie-Restriction Experiment

47

8

Hating What You Do

44

9

Congressman Spends Week on Uninhabited Island in Pacific

43

10

A Library to Last Forever

40

Scientific publications [?]

1

Long Live Bell Labs

3

2

When Giants Walked the Earth

3

3

NASA Ames to Showcase Spectacular LCROSS Lunar Impacts

3

4

Test of relativistic gravity for propulsion (hyperdrive) at the LHC

2

5

Big Asteroid Less Likely to Hit Earth

1

6

The Recession's Silver Lining

1

7

How to beat information overload

1

8

Treatment of depression: time to consider folic acid and vitamin B12.

1

9

Video: iRobot's Shape-Shifting Blob Bot Takes Its First Steps

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Empirical Studies on Software Quality Mythology

22

2

IronRuby Nears its 1.0 Release

8

3

Linus Torvalds on Git

4

4

Twitter in French, Italian, German, and Spanish

3

5

Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems

3

Tech blogs [?]

1

It has blades: Dyson’s little white lie

20

2

Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage

19

3

EFF warns Texas Instruments to stop harassing calculator hobbyists

3

4

Mac sales grow 11.8% as Apple takes 9.4% U.S. market share

3

5

Levinson resignation means Apple, Google boards sever last tie

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

An Alien God (Eliezer Yudkowsky, about Evolution)

54

2

Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales

47

3

What Program Are You?

1

Science News [?]

1

Massively collaborative mathematics

29

2

Learning to juggle grows brain networks for good

26

3

Look into my eyes: The power of hypnosis

22

4

Video Camera That Records At The Speed Of Thought

15

5

The psychology of Google Wave

11

6

It's Funny Because It's True

10

7

The butterfly effect gets entangled

8

8

The Chemistry of Information Addiction

7

9

Adaptive games promise high scores for everyone

4

10

Out of your head: Leaving the body behind

4

Social [?]

1

I am a former executive of a large famous company in the computer industry. AMA

74

2

I am a high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist. AMA (Ask Me Anything)

40

3

Trillian for iPhone: Two months later, still no response from Apple…

17

4

Electronics hack: guy solves infinite resistor puzzle by actually building one.

11

5

8

6

"I make my living off Facebook Apps, ask me anything"

6

7

Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun?

5

8

How We Used Data to Win the Presidential Election

5

9

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about how he became a millionaire via online wine business

4

10

High-Quality (real-time) Rendering of Varying Isosurfaces (with CUDA)

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub's Unicorn Setup

162

2

I Wouldn't Hire a Programmer With No Interest in Programming Outside of Work

102

3

Ledger: Command-line double-entry accounting

57

4

Bananajour - Local git publication and collaboration

42

5

GitHub discontinues building gems

41

6

Fugitive.vim: a Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal

38

7

Metalinguistic Abstractions in Ruby

29

8

CSScaffold – Using PHP to Extend the Abilities of CSS

19

9

Scratch.rb, A Ruby Microframework

18

10

Couchdproxy: simple proxy to ease hosting of multiple couchdb behind one IP

17

Wikipedia [?]

1

Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing short stories

46

2

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

8

3

2

4

Much Better Comparison of JavaScript frameworks

2

5

Rosetta@home (distributed computing project)

1

6

Cummingtonite [metamorphic amphibole]

1

Blogs [?]

1

GeoCities Product Manager

7

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

6

2

Factorial Algorithms in different languages (in one source file, 5 languages)

2

Substack [?]