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Top stories
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The End Of The CrunchPad
435
2
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
386
3
Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
365
4
Squareup
278
5
Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
276
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
201
7
Highcharts: JavaScript Charts that don't suck
198
8
Linux Compose Key
149
9
North Korea Changes Currency
143
10
Of Geeks and Girls
136
Top Ask HN
1
Equity for a first employee
80
2
Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup
59
3
Review My Minimal Viable Product.
48
4
Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college?
44
5
How much did you spend on your startup before you got ramen profitable?
39
6
Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?
34
7
CS major who doesn't want to code. Am I in the wrong major?
31
8
How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia?
31
9
Please review a Craigslist mashup [alpha]
28
10
Please review my Twitter dating app ;)
26
Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The End Of The CrunchPad
435
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CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination
126
3
Sprint fed customer GPS data to police over 8 million times
97
4
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
69
5
Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails
68
6
How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
57
7
Yahoo, Verizon: Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
45
8
Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future
42
9
Why Losing A Biz Plan Competition Is Better Than Winning
38
10
HeyZap (YC W09) Launches "Xbox Live for Flash Games"
38
News [?]
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The dark side of Dubai
103
2
Do You See a Pattern?
84
3
Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again
69
4
Against Camel Case
63
5
What did 'Life of Brian' ever do for us?
51
6
LED Bulbs Save Substantial Energy
51
7
Secrecy in science is a corrosive force
45
8
Investing in Pirates
32
9
How A Facebook Game Makes Zynga Millions
31
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The news business is probably holding “a one-way ticket to Bangalore.”
31
Scientific publications [?]
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The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf]
44
2
Building and Installing a Hadoop/MapReduce Cluster from Commodity Components
2
3
Open-Source Effort to Hack GSM
2
4
Hamlet and Pfister forms (A tragedy in four acts)
1
5
Refreshingly balanced perspective on climate change
1
Dev Blogs [?]
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Schneier on Security : The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy
8
2
Software Katas - Practice in Public Makes Perfect
2
3
Leaked 9/11 Text Messages
1
4
The Psychology of Being Scammed
1
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Going from 1 to 1000 open source projects and still enjoying yourself
1
6
Fingerprinting RFID Chips
1
Tech blogs [?]
1
Homebrew device with iPhone aspirations (based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller)
54
2
Firefox Getting GPU Acceleration, Maybe Before IE9
1
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'Complicated' Verizon iPhone deal said to be unlikely in 2010
1
FAANG+ [?]
Misc and Hobbies [?]
1
Core Rationalist Skills
5
2
Extracting the iPod Bootloader using the Clickwheel Speaker (2005)
4
3
Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’
2
4
Thefacebook | Welcome to Thefacebook
1
5
Never Back Down – Pirate Bay Adapts To Stay Alive
1
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Rationality Quotes
1
7
Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows
1
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Aussie Pirate Party To Shake Up Politics Down Under
1
Science News [?]
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Climate change cover-up? You better believe it
39
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Program Uses Interactive Genetic Algorithm to Help Witnesses Remember Criminals
19
3
War Is Peace: Can science fight media disinformation?
10
4
People Hear with Their Eyes and Skin, As Well As Their Ears
10
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Implant-Based Cancer Vaccine Is First to Eliminate Tumors in Mice
9
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New Brain Connections Form Rapidly During Motor Learning
8
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The world looks different if you're depressed
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Proper use of English could get a virus past security
4
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First osmosis power plant goes on stream in Norway
3
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Large Hadron Collider became the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth
3
Social [?]
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Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford, 2005
22
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Steve Jobs on Paul Rand and the NeXT logo [video]
8
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Making of the Original Computer Graphics for Star Wars
3
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Ebook Competitor with a 26" Display [video]
3
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Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business
2
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Synchronized Robot Christmas Dance [video]
1
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Terence Tao: Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers, UCLA
1
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The Big Button
1
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Beezid 60 Second TV Commercial (YouTube)
1
10
Apple Macintosh Marketing Story: Fact & Fiction
1
Github repos and gists [?]
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Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.
65
2
A Haml-inspired mini-language for jQuery: Jabs
43
3
My first simple 97-loc Sinatra/Freebase/Heroku single-serving app
23
4
Picard : A Micro-framework for node.js
10
5
XML Transform in Ruby with Elegant Dress
5
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Hubris: Embedding Haskell in Ruby
3
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Primitive SPDY client by Mark Nottingham
1
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BDD Testing Framework For C
1
9
PHP Redis extension
1
10
Ruby views without a templating language: HTML-to-HTML using CSS Selectors
1
Wikipedia [?]
1
Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor
39
2
The ancient manmade soil that covers at least 6000 km²
6
3
Nearest neighbour problem
2
4
A measure of mortality risk: the micromort
2
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Steorn
2
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The quixotic battle that really changed the world (and nobody remembers)
2
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Anscombe's quartet
1
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Hacking analog tape: the doctor who theme music
1
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The Myth of Sisyphus
1
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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Santa uses R
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Substack [?]