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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

413

2

What I've Learned from Hacker News

381

3

Startups in 13 Sentences

322

4

Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)

249

5

New Product From 280North: Atlas

192

6

How Not to Pitch to a Startup

184

7

Hacker News is 2

165

8

Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?

154

9

Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

150

10

Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.

139

Top Ask HN

1

Just cashed out for 2M. What now?

148

2

please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com

104

3

Please review, contribute to, fork, or sell my open source Rails Help Desk app

36

4

Do you know of other good HN-like places to post your articles?

32

5

Do you trademark your brand / app name / business?

31

6

Review my startup, After the Deadline - Proofreading Plugin for Wordpress, TinyMCE, etc.

30

7

My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give?

28

8

Quick wins for your business?

27

9

Hackers And Founders In Boston

23

10

How do I get through to startups for a summer position?

20

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal?

86

2

Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08]

68

3

Ubuntu 9.10 is named Karmic Koala, promises to bring boot time under 25sec

40

4

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

40

5

Sale pricing on Steam games: 50% off = 3000% increase in sales

37

6

Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?

34

7

The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time

34

8

How Sabeer Bhatia started Hotmail on $300,000 and sold it two years later for $400 million

34

9

Why the Smart VCs Are Boarding their Jets

31

10

A developer's introduction to Google Android

25

News [?]

1

The Eligible Bachelor Paradox

94

2

The evolutionary role of cooking

64

3

Law firm sues to force startup to make anchor text contain the full url

50

4

"It should not take seven years and a team of lawyers to open a small business."

47

5

The Kindle Swindle?

35

6

Students Stand When Called Upon, and When Not

32

7

Microsoft Files Suit: Linux Violates Our Patents

31

8

Start Up the Risk-Takers

28

9

Tropicana abandons new packaging; Twitter is the new focus group medium.

27

10

Tim O'Reilly: Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book

23

Scientific publications [?]

1

Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Web-based IDEs to become mainstream?

11

Tech blogs [?]

1

Snow Leopard screenshots show interface tweaks

16

2

Average iPhone app usage declines rapidly after first download

3

3

South Park iPhone App denied

3

4

On iPhone apps: price cut on average results in a 130% increase in sales demand

2

5

How Intel's battle with NVIDIA over Core i7 impacts Apple

2

6

XRoad: turn by turn directions now available on iTunes

1

7

Apple Announces Safari 4 Public Beta

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Microsoft Equips Individuals With New Training Resources Needed for Jobs: Elevate America

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Day 4 - Pirate Bay Defense Calls Foul Over Evidence

42

2

Five languages in seven lines, or how not to do web development

42

3

Pirate Bay Trial Day 5: Peter’s "Political Trial"

22

4

Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz

20

5

Pirate Bay Plea: Stop Hacking the Music Industry

8

6

Norwegian Minister Wants to Legalize File-Sharing

8

7

Mininova Upgrades Layout, Servers and Office

1

8

The financial crisis - stick men version

1

9

Pirate Bay Trial Day 7: Screenshots for Evidence

1

Science News [?]

1

The next generation of mirrors

80

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Should scientists study race and IQ?

23

3

If It's Hard To Say, It Must Be Risky

7

4

Are bad sleeping habits driving us mad?

5

5

Computer components shrinking faster than predicted

4

6

Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal

3

7

'iTunes university' better than the real thing

3

8

Transgenes found in wild corn

2

9

Vast Cache Of Ice-age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

1

10

Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles

1

Social [?]

1

Facebook Chat Stability and Scalability

3

2

Ask Reddit: what's the "hello world" program for multicores? : programming

3

3

Science Fiction stories in 140 characters each.

3

4

Yaron Brook: Causes of The Great Depression

3

5

Microsoft demos new photosynth for videos (in realtime)

3

6

Share your haskell experience (reddit.haskell)

2

7

RoR vs PHP commercial (Mac vs PC style)

2

8

Wikitude Augmented Reality for the G1

2

9

Launching a site on Reddit

2

10

Google TechTalk: Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Chris Wanstrath's Startup Riot keynote text

83

2

Git and GitHub: A Free Course by RubyLearning

1

3

Django-tokyo-sessions | Session backend for django using Tokyo Cabinet

1

4

Haklog: A prolog dialect, written in prolog.

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The Secretary Problem, or an Optimal Mating Strategy

3

2

Blink tag in HTML (not supported by IE)

1

Blogs [?]

1

What I've Learned from Hacker News

381

2

Startups in 13 Sentences

322

Stackoverflow [?]

1

What’s happening with Arc?

21

Substack [?]