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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How Not To Sort By Average Rating

194

2

The Audacity of Doing Nothing

159

3

I was driven mad by the Chinese education system

150

4

That 'Electronic Bank Run'? Didn't happen.

142

5

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat

138

6

Introducing Mozilla Bespin, a Canvas-based IDE

136

7

Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store

135

8

Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

134

9

Mindfuck Movies

132

10

Daily Routines: How interesting people organize their day.

132

Top Ask HN

1

Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN

108

2

Tips for coming up with a new web startup name

48

3

how do you read code?

46

4

Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search

35

5

What do developers want from an equity-only job?

33

6

Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim

29

7

What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup?

29

8

Do You Twitter?

26

9

How many of you are coding today?

23

10

Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable.

21

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston

54

2

Experiences Of A Newbie iPhone Developer

47

3

Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others

44

4

Magenta is a color

40

5

Justin.tv Is Turning Porn Queries Into Cash

35

6

Dawdle Invites Game Resellers To Set Up Shop

27

7

Google Still winning search wars, Microsoft big loser

18

8

Ustream Launches Watershed, A Pay-As-You-Go Live Streaming Service For Enterprises

17

9

IVP’s Chaffee: Why I Invested In Twitter

12

10

Doomed: Why Wikipedia [may] fail

12

News [?]

1

Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for

134

2

I Became a Savant For a Day

129

3

How the Crash Will Reshape America

81

4

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down

79

5

A Virtual Unknown (moot of 4chan)

63

6

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

58

7

My Retail Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane

50

8

HIV appears cured after stem cell transplant

42

9

Scientists stop the ageing process

29

10

U.S.-Russian Satellite Collision Sends Debris Flying

27

Scientific publications [?]

1

Tech Titans Building Boom: The Data Center Arms Race

5

2

The Athens Affair: The most audacious cell-network break-in ever

3

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Twitter Blog: Opportunity Knocks

6

2

Jazzers and Programmers

5

3

5

4

Helping the Terrorists

4

5

Twitter Blog: Clickjacking Blocked

3

6

What Would Alan Cooper Do?

2

7

Twitter: Testing A More Integrated Search Experience

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF requests not to consider iPhone jailbreaking illegal

19

2

Battery, RAM, and HD access on new 17-inch Macbook Pro

10

3

iPhone Push Notification Server tied to Snow Leopard Server

2

4

Apple prepping iTunes Replay on-demand video service

1

5

Leaked Photos of Next Generation iPhone?

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

IBM teams up with AWS

2

2

The True Cost of Information Quality

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

84

2

The Pirate Bay Trial Day 3: The ‘King Kong’ Defense

43

3

News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference

21

4

If You Spend Your Time Wisely, A Week From Now You Will Realise That You Are an Idiot

19

5

P2P Researchers Fear BitTorrent Meltdown

2

Science News [?]

1

How your looks betray your personality

21

2

Loneliness Affects How The Brain Operates

19

3

Mathematics: The only true universal language

17

4

Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle

14

5

New software would play any videogame ever created

6

6

Satellite collision creates copious space junk

1

7

Tracking the digital traces of social networks

1

8

Babies & Robots: Infant Power Mobility on Display

1

9

New Artificial DNA Points to Alien Life

1

10

How Do You Build A Synthetic Brain?

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook reverts Terms of Use

29

2

CS Student Hacks Chrono Trigger to Propose

10

3

Chat Stability and Scalability at Facebook

9

4

YouTube Adding Downloads, Including For-Pay

6

5

Complete Rand interview with Mike Wallace

4

6

YouTube - What Inspires Sir Ken?

2

7

Choice Architecture - Why the Little Things We Do Really Matter [video]

1

8

We raised more money: Twitter CEO, Evan Williams

1

9

YouTube - Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

1

10

YouTube - Cehoslovak's journey to Islam

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Um, I have a question (about programmer productivity)

90

2

FirePython: Firebug for Python

57

3

J: an alternative to cd that learns where you spend time

55

4

See(), an alternative to Python's dir()

37

5

_why's Bloopsaphone - Make Atari-like bloopy sounds

33

6

GitHub: More Disk Space for All

33

7

Check domain availability without leaving your shell...

3

8

theman: a microframework for running and monitoring scheduled workers

2

9

Vilfredo Pareto on Software Product Management

1

10

Vilfredo Pareto on Software Product Management

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Interplanetary Transport Network

6

2

Prince Rupert's Drop

6

3

Kessler Syndrome

2

4

MMOG written in Stackless Python supports ~52k concurrent players

1

5

Banksy: Political Street Artist Vandalist

1

6

Reverse Polish Lisp

1

Blogs [?]

1

Giving money to the founders: In 2009, is this still absurd?

65

2

Lisp is a Chameleon

30

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Woot.com enlists StackOverflow users to address bot/scripting attacks

12

Substack [?]