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Top stories
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Apple's Mistake
723
2
One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar
376
3
Your looks and your inbox
315
4
Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
289
5
Node.js is genuinely exciting
197
6
Why you should build an application (even if it already exists)
191
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My 8 hour journey to a single character
176
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Climate center's server hacked, revealing documents and emails
171
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PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
169
10
A common bug in published code
158
Top Ask HN
1
Who's hiring (take 3)?
162
2
I want to learn statistics and data mining
105
3
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
89
4
How do I regain my attention span?
82
5
What APIs do you wish existed?
68
6
How do you consume Hacker News?
62
7
Has anyone used machine learning to trade?
53
8
Review my jQuery Plugin (jQSlickWrap)
43
9
The Primers on different subjects
36
10
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring?
35
Top Show HN
1
I wrote a nifty perl script for managing projects. Thoughts?
3
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Wakemate (YC S09) helps you kiss groggy mornings goodbye
289
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Odeo Releases Twttr [2006]
89
3
FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API
83
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Your Google profile is now also an OpenId
77
5
Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download
69
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Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be stored in the cloud.
63
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Mathematician solves rowing boat "wiggle" problem
49
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How to try out Google Chrome OS for yourself
49
9
Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner
46
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TweetPhoto CEO Says Too Much In Interview, Gets Fired.
37
News [?]
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At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege
48
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Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for 'global collapse'
42
3
LHC produces first collisions
32
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Twitter Launching Paid Business Accounts
29
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Gameloft scaling back Android development in favor of iPhone
26
6
Rare earth: The New Great Game
24
7
Zynga May Be Valued at $1 Billion Feeding Off Facebook Craze
21
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From Oxford to Wall Street
21
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UC Berkeley students take over Wheeler Hall
20
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Nuclear Bomb Detector Stopped by Shortage of Helium 3
19
Scientific publications [?]
1
Introduction to Bioinformatics
20
2
On a curious property of 3435
7
3
The Convergence of Bird Flocking
3
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Carbon Nanotubes Turned into an Opportunity for Agriculture
1
5
Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes
1
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A Cheerful Introduction to Forcing and the Continuum Hypothesis
1
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IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator
1
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Ted Markham accuses IBM AI researcher of deceptive practices
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds
54
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Fedora 12 - unpriviliged users can install packages?
13
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Schneier on Security: A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
4
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Why .NET Micro Really Went Open Source
2
5
Clojars and Leiningen Automate Library and Dependency Management for Clojure
1
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Twitter's New Tagline: "What's Happening?"
1
7
Unshackle Your Domain - Explicit State Transition Models
1
8
Scala Basics - Byte-code Fancypants
1
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Dave Thomas (PragProg) Explains Ruby Metaprogramming (2007)
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Smoking may void Applecare Warranty
37
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STM8S-Discovery: Microcontrollers reach a new low
18
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Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain
3
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The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
1
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TI sports watch for hacking
1
FAANG+ [?]
1
Microsoft Student - Visual Studio, turn your vision into reality
2
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Saks, Microsoft Team Up on Holiday “Windows”
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Spotify artists earn $167 per 1 million plays.
64
2
Closures Announced for Java 7 at Devoxx 2009
1
Science News [?]
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Why do human testicles hang like that?
56
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Exotic Electric Properties of Graphene Confirmed
23
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Gene change in cannibals reveals evolution in action
13
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An 'interview' with Charles Darwin
9
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Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
7
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Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution
6
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Illuminating the Lilliputian: 10 Bioscapes Photo Contest Winners Revealed
6
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Dogs' Intelligence On Par With Two-Year-Old Human, Canine Researcher Says
5
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Splitting Time from Space - New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime
5
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Shifting Blame Is Socially Contagious
5
Social [?]
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Facebook: Building a Better Photo Uploader
35
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An actual attempt at a list of "What You Can't Say."
28
3
Youtube without flash
7
4
Joshua Allen Harris uses the subway vents to create inflatable bag sculptures
5
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We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
5
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Facebook Engineering Bootcamp
5
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Google Chrome OS Demo
4
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IE is Being Mean to Me [Youtube]
3
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Mainstreaming Psychedelics: From FDA to Harvard to Burning Man [GoogleTechTalks]
3
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Steve Jobs introduces the "Digital Hub" strategy at Macworld 2001
3
Github repos and gists [?]
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Erlang is now on Github (official repo)
98
2
Looking for a Job? Let GitHub Help
75
3
Towers of Hanoi - In Scala's Type System
22
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Vanity - an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails
20
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Gospecify - BDD for Go
8
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Express: Server-side JavaScript using Node.js and a Sinatra-like DSL
6
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JavaScript: No more callbacks (related to Node.js)
4
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Redis implementation in node.js
2
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Madcow – A new PHP framework for binding components together
2
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Scuby is a thin integration layer between Scala and JRuby
1
Wikipedia [?]
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Help keep the Y Combinator Wikipedia page updated
37
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IQ and the Wealth of Nations
13
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Gold Farming
9
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The Abilene Paradox
7
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Emmy Noether
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List of states of matter
4
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Futures, the little known feature that would fix evented programming
4
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Millennium Prize Problems
3
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Ousterhout's dichotomy
1
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Pi calculus
1
Blogs [?]
1
Apple's Mistake
723
2
Re: What You Can't Say
95
Stackoverflow [?]
1
How to "get" Bayes' Theorem
8
2
Dark magic with VIM
7
Substack [?]