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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

HN Help: I'm lost

366

2

The Nerd Handbook

247

3

216

4

Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer

201

5

Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions

175

6

Google Closure: How not to write Javascript

171

7

The best questions we got while raising venture capital

165

8

A 2x Faster Web

163

9

Microsoft's New Killer App

147

10

O'Reilly: "We're heading into a war for control of the web."

133

Top Ask HN

1

how do you avoid burnout and getting taken advantage of?

92

2

How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics?

70

3

What's the best first business book for a programmer?

65

4

Anyone used Amazon EC2 with a database or other high IO operation?

62

5

What tool makes you most productitive?

59

6

Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.

44

7

How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?

42

8

Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc)

41

9

Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com

40

10

Alternative careers for a developer

38

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

The best questions we got while raising venture capital

165

2

Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

127

3

Droid camera fixes itself (for 24.5 days)

94

4

Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

75

5

Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week

75

6

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

59

7

Don Dodge hired by Google

56

8

Chrome OS to be revealed Thursday

53

9

Verizon To AT&T: Sorry, The Truth Hurts

46

10

Startup Crawl: Your Chance To Meet A Dozen San Francisco Startups

35

News [?]

1

My app ShoveBox is on NYTimes.com for some reason

104

2

My Nightmare Interviews With Google

103

3

Statements by many lawmakers ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech

40

4

Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective

40

5

The Happiness Project: Myths of De-Cluttering

39

6

Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter?

39

7

The story of how the dinosaurs disappeared is getting more and more complicated

39

8

The Price of Free

37

9

You hardly ever fail because of your CTO

33

10

Bill Simmons: A Sports Column Written Far From Print, and the Game

33

Scientific publications [?]

1

LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

50

2

Robotic power line inspection

9

3

NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

5

4

Nimble Robot tightrope walks High-Voltage power lines

5

5

NASA Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

1

6

Four color problem finally proved without a computer?

1

7

NASA Ames Scientist Develops Cell iPhone Chemical Sensor

1

8

NASA's LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater

1

9

Quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Rich Hickey's Keynote from the JVM Languages Summit (video)

68

2

Security in a Reputation Economy

28

3

Schneier on Security: A Useful Side-Effect of Misplaced Fear

12

4

Oracle Announces Plans for Sun's Products - Raises Concerns about NetBeans

3

5

Samsung sponsors the development of Enlightenment

3

6

Polyglots Unite

2

7

Schneier on Security: FBI/CIA/NSA Information Sharing Before 9/11

1

8

Duby and Surinx, an Interview With Charles Nutter

1

9

Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

A Blade Runner umbrella

4

2

Bill Gates praises Steve Jobs for saving Apple

2

3

Palm Releases webOS 1.3.1, iTunes Media Sync Missing

2

4

Apple Tablet with Pen Based Input

1

5

Fingers interface to control Robots

1

6

Browser Based iTunes

1

7

3 Million Dollars in Iphones Stolen in Belgium

1

8

Apple's iPhone app store takes off in China

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

AIMA 3rd edition (Russell, Norvig) available for pre-order now

81

2

ITunes website open to HTML injection...again (lgt example). [WARNING: autoplay]

16

3

Visual Mathematics

4

4

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk (Read the reviews)

1

5

MS Office, Visio, Project, Sharepoint, Exchange 2010 Betas Now Available

1

6

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Launches

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Leaked Documents Reveal Anti-Piracy Cash Operation

23

2

Anti-Akrasia Technique: Structured Procrastination

22

3

Pirate bay logo 'hijacked' by private company

3

4

The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good

3

5

A synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics

2

6

India is a next exporter of IP

1

7

End of pirate bay

1

Science News [?]

1

America's Cup Sailors Plan to Use Rigid Carbon-Fiber Airfoil

4

2

Innovation: The dizzying ambition of Wolfram Alpha

3

3

Signature of consciousness captured in brain scans

2

4

Evolutionary Theory of Humor

2

5

Philip Rosedale: The web needs to be more lifelike

1

6

First universal programmable quantum computer unveiled

1

7

Facial Biometrics System Capable of Creating a Facial 'DNA'

1

8

Today's Top Athletes: Human or Android?

1

Social [?]

1

HD Videos from Startup Bootcamp at MIT now online

36

2

What's the best / most interesting piece of code you've ever seen?

24

3

Slow light (1.5 m/s) rendering

10

4

The Economics of Abundance

6

5

Tell HN: New twitter HN feed with links to comments @YCHackerNews

5

6

MIT Startup Bootcamp Videos Available

4

7

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

4

8

AskReddit:What example of management speak irritates you the most?

3

9

Google Talk: Obama Campaign Analytics and Website Optimization

3

10

God love Microsoft, they try so hard.

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Comparing Non-Relational Databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, Tokyo Tyrant

50

2

A new build tool for Clojure abstracting away Maven/Ant

35

3

Lisp-style Macros for Ruby

29

4

Rails-like console for any Rack based ruby web app

27

5

Comet Server, based on XMPP streams

8

6

Deploy and load balance your Rails/Sinatra apps automatically via Bonjour

3

7

Simple stub application for Tornado

2

8

Ruby DropBox API

1

9

Access the Mac OS X multitouch framework from Java.

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Interesting Number Paradox

65

2

Business war games

9

3

Al-Jazari: Medieval Hacker (1136-1206 CE)

7

4

Amazing: Tupper's self-referential formula

3

5

Software transactional memory (STM) as used by Clojure and Haskell...

2

6

Wikipedians test whether it's possible for new editors to still create articles

1

7

Project Orion (To Mars by A-Bomb)

1

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex.

14

2

What is the name of this operator?

5

Substack [?]