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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.
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Why CSS should not be used for layout
248
3
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
201
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I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
186
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How to Sell More Software by Adding 12 Characters to Your Homepage
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Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it
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The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote
164
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Don’t Work for Assholes
146
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Life at Wal-Mart
125
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Download the internet
121
Top Ask HN
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Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?
73
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good books about military strategy?
70
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To porn or not to porn?
60
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Don't show points?
47
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Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site?
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Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game
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What do these startups need so much money for?
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Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic?
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What do you wish Google Analytics would do?
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How do you know when to give up?
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Top Show HN
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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The Economy According To Mint
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Posterous (YC S08) launches universal bookmarklet
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With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever
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Open Table files for IPO.
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Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button
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How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA
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World-Renowned Scientists Team With Google And NASA To Launch Singularity University
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Pipl.com: people search so good it will scare your pants off
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Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream
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Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations
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News [?]
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I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.
186
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What Do Women Want?
76
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Peeler Man, HN Salesmanship Hero, Passes
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White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code
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Angels flee from startup investments
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A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives
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Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test
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Still Doing the Math, But for 100K A Year
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The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook.
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Facebook founder finds a way to profit from its members' private data
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Scientific publications [?]
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How Amateur Sleuths Spot Satellites
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Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers
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Mars Rover's Unexpected Behavior Puzzles NASA
2
Dev Blogs [?]
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Damian Katz - Why he decided to create couchDB
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Helping the Terrorists (with our communications infrastructure)
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Compiz is dying?
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Tech blogs [?]
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Help Stop Copyright Madness on Youtube
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$10 Laptop is Huge Disappointment ($30 and not a laptop)
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Adobe and Apple Working on Flash for iPhone
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Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
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Next Generation iPhone Model Revealed in Firmware
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Apple sued over 'broken promises' regarding 3G speeds
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Government Blocks Release of Documents on Secret IP Enforcement Treaty
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Installing Window 7 beta on a Mac with Sun VirtualBox
1
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Next-gen iPhone in June?
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Apple rumored allowing real background apps on iPhone
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FAANG+ [?]
1
Peter Norvig's review of SICP
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
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MSFT is giving cops free USB drives designed to autocollect personal info from PCs
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"A bounds check on the exploitability index" (Bas Alberts)
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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EU Plots against the Pirate Bay
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One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public
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Science News [?]
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In 1849, a future president patented an ingenious addition to transportation technology.
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Many New Species Discovered In Hidden Oasis With Help Of Google Earth
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Video game conditioning spills over into real life
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New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners
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Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance
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6 Biggest mysteries of our solar system
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Physicists use waste heat from computers to add to their processing power
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Open Source Research Platform: Wireless at WARP Speed
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Review of Clark's Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
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Making connections: Creating a wiring diagram of the brain
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Social [?]
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Facebook Tech Talk: Mark Zuckerberg on Memcached
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Ayn Rand interview (1959)
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The LEGO Turing Machine (YouTube, w/sound)
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TED: Bill Gates released mosquitos into audience while taking about malaria
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Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys
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Woody Norris: Inventing the next amazing thing (TED talk; 15 min.)
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DJ & Pole Dancing Robots by Giles Walker [video]
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Reconsidering Relevance
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Microsoft Songsmith Cheerily Documents the Collapse of the World Economy [Video]
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Nolan Bushnell: From Atari, Pong, and Chuck E Cheese to the Future of Games a...
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Github repos and gists [?]
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Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X?
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Database Troubles
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The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post
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BlackTree Visor 1.6 = a Quake like console (Terminal.app)
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FriendFeed changes by author (compiled by HN user nadim)
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Wikipedia [?]
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Wikipedia list of algorithms
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List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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List of algorithms not described in Wikipedia
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Wikipedia list of data structures
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His Cube is most famous, but Ernő Rubik created quite a few other puzzles, also
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N-dimensional sequential move puzzles
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Prospect theory
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Setun: a balanced ternary computer built by Russians
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Tall Poppy Syndrome
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Blogs [?]
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Redundancy and Power
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Stackoverflow [?]
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What is your (least) favorite syntax gotcha?
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How many professional software developers are there worldwide?
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Substack [?]