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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you

254

2

How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture

214

3

What problems does Google Wave solve?

213

4

Guido's Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

210

5

Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

195

6

C++ in Coders at Work

178

7

HTML5, meet 1998.

168

8

165

9

Sysadmin mistakes start-ups make

164

10

Wall Street's Naked Swindle

162

Top Ask HN

1

What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do?

80

2

60

3

What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it?

52

4

Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing)

50

5

Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring

46

6

If C++ is so bad, what should game developers use?

42

7

What industry needs technical innovation?

40

8

Review our startup - EventGel

36

9

What do you wish you had known before starting up ?

34

10

Anyone used XtraDB from Percona (instead of InnoDB)?

30

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Low

98

2

Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard

88

3

Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal

73

4

Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes "Critical" Hole In Firefox Security

56

5

PS: I Love You. Get Your Free Email at Hotmail

56

6

Loopt acquires GraffitiGeo

52

7

The Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine. It’s Still Working.

50

8

YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million

48

9

Dean Kamen's Robot Arm

46

10

Schmidt: "Android Adoption Is About To Explode"

44

News [?]

1

In a previously unpublished story, Kurt Vonnegut bellies up to the bar

57

2

Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks

50

3

Bill Gates pledges 120 million to boost African, Indian farmers

44

4

The Halo Effect

41

5

NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System

41

6

Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks

40

7

Goldman Sachs Is Robbing Us Blind

36

8

Commuter Railroads Build a Secret Minute Into Train Departures

26

9

Polaroid cameras to be produced once again

23

10

Mobile will be bigger than you think

21

Scientific publications [?]

1

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone

44

2

A Beginner's Guide to Forcing

7

3

NASA Unveils New Rocket For Historic Test Flight

3

4

How to Beat Information Overload

3

5

[0910.1589] How many universes are in the multiverse?

2

6

Monkeys Sense the Uncanny Valley (link to pdf)

1

7

New Schemes for Powering Processors (on-die power supply)

1

8

Germany's Green-Energy Gap

1

9

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

1

10

Distance Is Not Dead: Social Interaction & Geographical Distance in Internet Era

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

In-App Purchases now available for free iPhone apps

58

2

Evolving Java Without Changing the Language

18

3

The Bizarre Consequences of "Zero Tolerance" Weapons Policies at Schools

7

4

The Commercial Speech Arms Race

3

5

Six Years of Patch Tuesdays

3

6

Comparison of Con Kolivas's previous BFS scheduler to mainline CFS scheduler

2

7

KVM Virtualization Performance With Linux 2.6.31

2

8

IPhone Tech Talk World Tour registration now open

1

9

Computer Card Counter Detects Human Card Counters

1

10

Bing does Twitter

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple execs book flight time for mystery product, 'not iPhone'

1

2

Ask Reid Hoffman anything you like

1

3

Well engineered DIY Segway

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users

38

2

Apple's Most Profitable Quarter Ever

36

3

Magic Mouse - The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse

22

4

Unseen Academicals (Discworld)

10

5

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, part six of three - by Eoin Colfer

8

6

The Science of Word Recognition or how I learned to stop worrying & love bouma

2

7

MacMini Server Announced

2

8

Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users

1

9

Microsoft WebsiteSpark

1

10

About the new iMac

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Evolved virtual creatures (evolutionary programming, 1994)

31

2

Pirate Bay Trial Judges Now Accused Of Bias

4

3

Lessons Learned About Designing Business Cards for a Medical Practice

2

4

Wayback Machine

1

Science News [?]

1

Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?

102

2

Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn

65

3

Placebo effect caught in the act in spinal nerves

38

4

Hole for light created on Earth

28

5

Electromagnetic black hole

24

6

Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile

23

7

Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment

22

8

New camera promises to capture your whole life

18

9

The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out?

11

10

To spot an alien, follow the pollution trail

9

Social [?]

1

Startup School on Twitter

8

2

Pulp Wave: Google Wave, Pulp Fiction mashup

7

3

Dan Bricklin's Talk From Startup Bootcamp [YouTube]

7

4

The Story of Pi

5

5

Why Achievement Isn’t Normal [YouTube]

5

6

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction

3

7

They want to feel like artists... (a buzz from reddit)

3

8

IPhone app that helps you pick up women. Is it vulgar or awesome?

3

9

IRobot Morphing Blob Robot

2

10

Frequently Asked Questions for programming.reddit

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

How We Made GitHub Fast: A detailed look at GitHub's new architecture

214

2

Nginx module to turn it into a long-polling message queuing HTTP push server.

80

3

Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC: GitHub's new serialization and RPC protocol

57

4

Rails_on_pg: PostgreSQL views, functions, triggers, FKs for rails migrations

31

5

Sysfunboost.sh: More fun with your linux system

4

6

Ryan Tomayko joins the Github team

2

7

JQuery Concrete: a bit like jQuery.live a bit different

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Is 0 Odd or Even?

18

2

The challenge of the Busy beaver

1

3

Software Peter principle

1

4

Wikipedia page on Scheme: recently revised, expanded, and updated

1

Blogs [?]

1

PG: The hundred-year language

31

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What is Erlang written in?

4

2

Favorite online lectures and presentations

2

Substack [?]