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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Microsoft rips off Plurk

581

2

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome

283

3

Funding Clojure 2010

239

4

Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

223

5

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

222

6

Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters

205

7

Dygraphs: Better Time Series Graphs

181

8

Daring Fireball: PastryKit

176

9

The Browser Wars - Visualized as Tree Rings

175

10

Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet?

174

Top Ask HN

1

Who are the top UI designers on the web today?

64

2

Review our startup: Deniable Video

34

3

is it ethical to copy ideas from a similar site?

27

4

Fixing the recruiter industry

18

5

Is it right to call yourself a Hacker?

17

6

Could we please have the author's comments highlighted in some way?

16

7

Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you

14

8

When did Vim become "the cool editor"?

13

9

What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding?

12

10

Sales Resources

11

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever

101

2

Google Phone is confirmed, employees already have them in hand

93

3

CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

93

4

Jay Walker's Library

70

5

Wattvision (YC W09) Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

67

6

TechStars to launch Seattle program (Fall 2010)

64

7

Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks

60

8

All 32mil RockYou accounts hacked. Passwords were stored in plaintext.

57

9

Google Chrome more popular than Safari

54

10

Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support

52

News [?]

1

Reuters: Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan

130

2

How To Make The World's Easiest $1 Billion

123

3

Nuclear's next generation

90

4

The Australian Government has greenlighted compulsory internet filtering

74

5

Salman Khan, math master of the Internet

60

6

The man who invented exercise - epidemiologist Jerry Morris

45

7

The Truth About Tamiflu: Has the US wasted $1.5 billion on an ineffective drug?

39

8

Unintended hazard: Energy-efficient traffic lights can't melt snow

38

9

Silo but deadly: Messy IT systems are a neglected aspect of the financial crisis

33

10

A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

29

Scientific publications [?]

1

Remote control insects, powered by their own living tissue and nuclear power

10

2

Is the physics within the Solar system really understood?

4

3

Unsystematic Engineering

2

4

Chopper Drop Tests New Technology

1

5

GJ 1214b, first pontic planet discovered?

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Clojure Roundup: FlightCaster (YC S09), Crane, Incanter, Leiningen

70

2

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency

53

3

ECMAScript 5 released

33

4

Reacting to Security Vulnerabilities

2

5

JRuby, Duby, and Surinx: Building a Better Ruby

2

6

Debugging the Kernel using Ftrace

2

7

GWT 2.0 Comes with a New Performance Tool: Speed Tracer

1

8

MySpace Replaces Storage with Solid-State Drive Technology

1

9

Cyber-security czar a waste of time?

1

10

Top Twitter Trends of 2009

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Pool playing robot and Augmented Reality pool

5

2

Odroid: all the open, none of the contract

3

3

Apple to Overhaul iTunes Service?

2

4

Apple beat Google to Lala deal after failed bid for AdMob

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Statement Regarding MSN China Joint Venture’s Juku Feature

222

2

Microsoft Investigating Questions over MSN China joint venture’s Juku feature

57

3

Steve Krug's new #ux book is out

27

4

Apple Countersues Nokia

13

5

Announcing Amazon CloudFront Streaming

11

6

Test for deleting

4

7

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

3

8

Amazon sellers can associate your personal info to bad reviews

1

9

AdWords-style bidding on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

1

10

Microsoft Statement on European Commission Decision

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom

35

2

The Pirate Bay Will Not Appeal Order to Remove Torrents

14

3

Microsoft Fined For Abusing Power to Harass Pirates

1

Science News [?]

1

First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

34

2

First Evidence of Brain Rewiring in Children

13

3

Rumours that first dark matter particle found

11

4

Google demonstrates quantum computer image search - New Scientist

11

5

Modellers claim wars are predictable

10

6

Hourly employees happier than salaried workers?

9

7

Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved

7

8

The perfect way to slice a pizza

6

9

Battery lithium could come from geothermal waste water

3

10

Learning styles debunked

3

Social [?]

1

Experiences in Failed Startups

58

2

Building a More Efficient Ruby Interpreter

4

3

3

4

Steve Jobs on Successful Founders- Persistent, Passionate, and Talent Scouts

3

5

Video: The beauty of a Moebius Transformation.

3

6

EVL's LambdaVision - a 55 LCD panel, 100Mpixel tiled display

3

7

Global warming Hockey Stick seen in perspective

2

8

Visualization of Pachelbel's Canon in D [video]

2

9

"Newly-Weds on the Job"

2

10

What I did with the Met Office temperature data

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

CakePHP on GitHub

28

2

XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js)

27

3

Canine, an easy Ruby "binary" library

12

4

Tell HN: Distributing processing to website visitors with web workers

3

5

Consolelog.node.js - console logging and termcolor modules for node

2

6

Asynchronous Google Analytics for WordPress

2

7

Cacilda, a py wiki powered by Cassandra

2

8

Static Page Search for Django Haystack

1

9

Mcarter's js.io at master - GitHub

1

10

Vimana: An easy way to search and install Vim scripts.

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Mpemba Effect

36

2

Tetrapharmakos - Epicurus's remedy for leading the happiest possible life.

32

3

Tarski's undefinability theorem

4

4

Black hole starship

3

5

Value over replacement player

1

6

Universal Networking Language

1

7

The Tetris Effect

1

8

1

9

1

Blogs [?]

1

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

68

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Can someone copyright a SQL query?

5

Substack [?]