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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Google Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++

377

2

Thank you, Rails

297

3

Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)

210

4

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

200

5

Introducing Closure Tools

190

6

The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not

167

7

Python language moratorium is accepted

167

8

The Unemployment Rate for People Like You

164

9

Tell HN: Can we stop commenting on troll comments?

156

10

Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles

156

Top Ask HN

1

Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?

74

2

How do you explain closures?

69

3

Review My Library, Tempest

58

4

How did you and your cofounder meet?

46

5

How did you market your app when there were already a lot like yours?

45

6

Confused semi-newbie programmer needs some advice.

41

7

What music alters your state of consciousness?

37

8

Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts.

27

9

What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch?

26

10

What do you use for tracking your users?

26

Top Show HN

1

How ShoveBox is Handling MacHeist Traffic

16

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

90

2

Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

83

3

PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Leaves Yahoo

71

4

Vidly (YC S08) first to launch HD video on Twitter

63

5

Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers

57

6

“Horrible Things” Slink Back Into Zynga

54

7

German man programs "Hello World" into wheat field

37

8

Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox (Closure) to all

32

9

Offerpal Tries Out A New CEO. Shukla Out. Garrick In.

32

10

Zynga CEO: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”

29

News [?]

1

The Unemployment Rate for People Like You

164

2

Google to Acquire AdMob for $750 Million

82

3

Slidable Composite Photos of Berlin Wall 20 Years Later

62

4

The three habits ... of highly irritating management gurus

61

5

The House Passed the Health Bill

54

6

Apple becomes top phone maker by profits (beating Nokia, etc)

52

7

Capitalism's Fundamental Flaw

49

8

How (and why) Sillicon Alley Insider uses MongoDB

44

9

42

10

Renttherunway.com - Netflix for dresses

41

Scientific publications [?]

1

Deflating the Air Car

1

2

Robots for Real

1

3

Apollo 11 Landing Site

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

LWN - How Google uses Linux

36

2

Schneier on Security: Is Antivirus Dead?

35

3

Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git

29

4

John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell

23

5

Retweet Limited Rollout

3

6

Schneier on Security : The Problems with Unscientific Security

2

7

Kernel Summit 2009: How Google uses Linux

1

8

Schneier on Security : Laissez-Faire Access Control

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena

13

2

Microcontroled knock lock door

2

3

AVR cube solver

2

4

Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010

2

5

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs named Fortune 'CEO of the Decade'

1

6

First-known iPhone worm 'Rickrolls' jailbroken Apple handsets

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon Kindle for PC Beta Launched

37

2

Windows Kernel Exploit using @font-face in Internet Explorer

3

3

Which one of the Entrepreneurship books is a must read?

1

4

Microsoft Windows Media - Web Help

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

56

2

Internet Archive's S3 like server API

23

3

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions

5

4

Demonoid is Alive, The Tracker Has Returned

1

Science News [?]

1

Rejection massively reduces IQ

103

2

Stopping the Shortsigtedness Epidemic

68

3

How blind people "see" the actions of others

13

4

Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain

4

5

Happy Carl Sagan Day

3

6

'Space elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize

3

7

'Spoonful Of Sugar' Makes The Worms' Life Span Go Down

3

8

How green is your pet?

3

9

Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals

2

10

Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand

1

Social [?]

1

Rob Pike on "Go"

12

2

The story of RZA's failed start-up investment

7

3

Paper hot air balloons - don't try this near a flight path! [video]

6

4

Jason Calacanis on How To Kill Google (re: Murdoch)

5

5

Antoine Pitrou's "newgil" work lands in py3k branch.

5

6

Computer Sc - Data Structures and Algorithms (Free youtube lectures)

3

7

Hug a developer today

2

8

Steampunk exhibition in Oxford (Youtube video)

2

9

A 60 Second Fusion Tutorial for Ruby

1

10

Help someone get a BA? Using slight hacktavism on Facebook?

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby

94

2

Kiwi - A little javascript framework I wrote that saved me a lot of time

61

3

Jaml: Haml in Javascript

42

4

SNES9x Ported to Flash (Ed McManus)

39

5

New Resque Web UI

16

6

Ruby client for HBase's Stargate web service

4

Wikipedia [?]

1

Go! -- the non-Google programming language by Keith Clark and Francis McCabe.

82

2

Shunting-yard Algorithm

8

3

Semmelweis reflex

4

4

Four Stages of Competence

2

5

What happened to whitehouse.com?

2

6

The Rado graph: A remarkable construction from graph theory

2

7

Commodore MAX Machine (VIC-20 successor, C64 predecessor)

1

8

Proof that 0.999.. equals 1

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]