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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

What Startups Are Really Like

382

2

I Was Told I Was Very Smart

309

3

Google Groups is Dead

259

4

Tell HN: My 'mystery project': I couldn't sleep, so I backed up GeoCities

250

5

Amazon Relational Database Service

181

6

Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit

172

7

Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman

171

8

The curious pricing of the 27" iMac

167

9

Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Java web app development?

165

10

XKCD commemerates GeoCities

161

Top Ask HN

1

do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?

112

2

Statistics for hackers?

99

3

Which blogs did you contact to get coverage when you launched?

90

4

87

5

Your favorite Startup School moments?

59

6

What have you changed your mind about recently?

54

7

What are your best resume tips?

46

8

WTF Is The Value of Real-time Search?

39

9

Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies?

38

10

Is there a designer-equivalent to HN?

36

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Schwarzenegger gives California Legislature a Hidden Finger

125

2

Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

124

3

The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell

111

4

Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D

71

5

The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

63

6

Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows

54

7

Google and the Deadly Power of Data

51

8

Out of LSD? Just 15 Minutes of Sensory Deprivation Triggers Hallucinations

46

9

Android Invasion: A Comprehensive List of Android Phones

39

10

Zinc-air battery could hold 3x more energy than lithium-ion

38

News [?]

1

Billionaire (Sergey Brin) Aids Charity That Aided Him

46

2

The Human Body Is Built for Distance

45

3

Gladwell: "Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs..."

38

4

The End of California? Dream On

33

5

Big Cellphone Makers Shifting to Android

33

6

Do antivirals and the flu-vaccine even work?

25

7

Britain's Surveillance Society

24

8

Are Humans Still Evolving?

21

9

Silicon Valley: Abandoned

18

10

Their Numbers Are Dropping - the Cellphone Refuseniks

17

Scientific publications [?]

1

Boston Dynamics Dynamically Balancing Biped Walker

20

2

Introduction to Randomness and Statistics

6

3

NASA free iPhone App Now Available from App Store

5

4

This Renewable Energy Source Is Swell

1

5

Funeral Webcasting Is Alive and Well

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Kernel Summit 2009: How Google uses Linux

36

2

"Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives

31

3

How Google uses Linux

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

40

2

Psystar taunts Apple a second time (releases $50 'one-click Hackintosh' tool)

19

3

EFF's Takedown Hall Of Shame

5

4

Photos, video from Microsoft Store grand opening

3

5

Apple Patented Ad-Supported Operating Systems?

2

6

Make your own SNES games with developer cartridge

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Relational Database Service

181

2

Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances (34 GB, 68 GB)

50

3

15% price cut in EC2 instances, effective Nov 1

47

4

Brilliant marketing testimonial method you need to test . . . from MSFT?

24

5

New book by Avinash Kaushik - Web Analytics 2.0

4

6

Windows 7 Product Guide

2

7

Amazon Relational Database - MySQL in the Cloud

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A regular expressions bug that turned out to be a beneficial mutation

7

2

Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents

5

3

Internet Text Archive

3

4

Music Pirates are Immoral Cheapskates, Or Are They?

2

5

World’s First BitTorrent Powered Live Streamed Concert

1

Science News [?]

1

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

29

2

Mona Lisa's smile a mystery no more

27

3

Pain Of Torture Can Make Innocent Seem Guilty

22

4

Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells

17

5

Community college alumnae earn $6k more per year than high school grads

17

6

Rethinking relativity: Is time out of joint?

14

7

Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics?

14

8

Successfully overclocking the brain

5

9

Why Johnny can't hypothesize: a discussion about math and science education

4

10

Seven questions that keep physicists up at night

3

Social [?]

1

Replace "watch.swf" with "warp.swf" in YouTube and see the results

27

2

Someone who is like Data in real life

22

3

Real Life Prisoners Dilemma with $100k at Stake [vid]

15

4

Scheme: Good or Bad for Freshman CS?

5

5

Startup Meetup @ Stanford on Fri 30th, 5pm

5

6

First Ever iPod Introduction

4

7

Speech by co-founder of Baidu, China's largest search engine [video]

3

8

Google TechTalk: Initiatives in Education

2

9

Nerd is the new normal

2

10

Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch Meets the Mouse (Best paper at UIST)

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

High Anxiety (raganwald on Go and learning new things)

69

2

Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate

53

3

'ch' : Cheat Sheet Utility for Bash

11

4

Any Python users willing to some feedback on some language ideas I had? Thanks

6

5

ZooKeeper Dashboard

3

6

FP for MooTools: decorators, preconditions, currying, arity dispatch, etc...

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

Fast inverse square root

37

2

Lucid programming language

33

3

Laws of Power: Machiavelli and Sun-Tzu brought up-to-date

27

4

Gimli Glider: When systems go wrong.

26

5

Failed CIA Project "Acoustic Kitty"

19

6

4

7

Return-to-libc Attack

3

8

2

9

Blue Pill (malware)

1

Blogs [?]

1

What Startups Are Really Like

382

2

Michael Vanier: LFM and LFSP

60

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What real life bad habits has programming given you? (StackOverflow)

2

Substack [?]