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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Keep Your Identity Small

234

2

Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.

172

3

How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18

153

4

Fun With HTTP Headers

144

5

"There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates

142

6

The Little Coder's Predicament

138

7

Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding

131

8

How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes

122

9

Technology is Heroin

113

10

Recreating the button

110

Top Ask HN

1

Would you pay $5/yr for HN?

101

2

Industries Ripe For Disruption?

83

3

Help me make HN work well on the iPhone

80

4

Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?

62

5

Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com

51

6

moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions?

49

7

Light grey text is killing my eyes.

47

8

How do you find work?

44

9

Review my startup, mobify.me

41

10

What time tracking and billing software (or related solutions) do you recommend?

39

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Yahoo BOSS API is no longer free

37

2

Gmail Adds Support For Multiple Pane Viewing

27

3

Picturesurf launches: Dead-Simple Photo Galleries For Bloggers

20

4

TicketMaster and Live Nation Agree to $2.5 Billion Merger

14

5

Google tells how it conducts eye-tracking studies

13

6

Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature

12

7

F-Script: Command-line Cocoa shell goes beta

11

8

Personal Rapid Transit Startup

11

9

Online Ad Revenues Pick Up In The Fourth Quarter.

11

10

Aviary releases Raven, The First Vector Graphics Editor For The Web

9

News [?]

1

The Great College Hoax

95

2

Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

75

3

You Can’t Sell News by the Slice

68

4

25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You

65

5

Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up

50

6

Trying to Live on 500K in New York City

45

7

How Amazon.com is thriving in a horrendous retail climate

44

8

Study Shows Speaking Up More Makes You Seem More Competent... Even if You're Not

42

9

Images of flies on a urinal = 80% less 'spillage' on the airport bathroom floor

41

10

A Software Designer Knows His Office Space, Too

35

Scientific publications [?]

1

This Car Runs on Code (100 million lines of it)

5

2

IEEE Spectrum: Dream Jobs 2009

2

3

Lensless high-resolution $10 microscope for cell imaging

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter: Nothing to Report Just Yet

6

2

Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"

3

3

Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

2

4

Stopping Attacks in a Web 2.0 World (Jeff Williams at QCon)

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

AT&T's 3G MicroCell to patch iPhone dead zones

6

2

Steve Wozniak to Compete on 'Dancing with the Stars' TV Show

2

3

Apple's Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools

1

4

Snow Leopard to Include CoreLocation and Multi-Touch APIs

1

5

Exploring Windows 7 on the Mac: the Taskbar

1

6

How to get a 600% boost in sales for your iPhone App

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

64

2

Amazon FPS exits beta and announces limited time free payment processing

2

3

Microsoft Mobile Tagging Service

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

One in Three Broadband Subscribers is a Pirate

4

2

Docs expands to complete offline access

3

Science News [?]

1

Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows

40

2

Body Language Reveals Wealth

32

3

A crisis of confidence: the US scientific endeavour is increasingly losing its lustre as a career choice

27

4

Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts

22

5

How to control a herd of humans

5

6

1709: The year that Europe froze

5

7

Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve

4

8

Why Sustainable Power is Unsustainable

4

9

How Your Brain Creates God

4

10

When Texting, Eligible Women Express Themselves Better

3

Social [?]

1

How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night.

67

2

Peter Schiff: Stimulus Bill Will Lead to "Unmitigated Disaster"

6

3

How to tie your shoelace fast (video)

4

4

Ward Cunningham interviews Ron Jefferies and Chet Hendrickson about Technical Debt (video)

3

5

IBM deploys WiFi in the Jungle and beats Google Maps by a decade

3

6

Page speed matters - Marissa Mayer at Google I/O '08

3

7

Weight powered mobile "robot" - with "programming language" (video)

2

8

Derren Brown beats 9 chess players simultaneously.

2

9

Excellent hack from Johnny Lee: Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors

2

10

Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

K7: a standard library for the V8 Javascript interpreter

21

2

Interesting series of blog posts on combinators

10

3

[JOB] Looking for rockstar rubyists who eat and breathe healthy code

4

4

New programming language: Ioke

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

4

2

Quine: A program that's only output is its own source code

4

3

Natural monopoly

2

4

Paradox of thrift - Wikipedia

2

5

Random walk hypothesis - stock market follows a random walk

1

Blogs [?]

1

Keep Your Identity Small

234

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Should developers worry about ageism?

37

2

A more RESTful web browser: Using web forms to submit HTTP auth information

1

Substack [?]