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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

347

2

The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad

338

3

Papers Every Programmer Should Read

189

4

161

5

On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database

159

6

How I almost killed Facebook

157

7

Dropped IE support for Instapaper

138

8

Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors

137

9

Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in Computer Science

134

10

Icelandic logic behind the meltdown

126

Top Ask HN

1

Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back)

39

2

How to grow a service that is popular but never took off?

33

3

What have you learned from Hacker News?

32

4

Are we in trouble?

30

5

Review my startup, Droplink for OS X

27

6

How do you cope with incompetent team members?

26

7

Ask HN - Please help me improve my app (Twitter job search)

23

8

Would a product or pitch workshop be useful?

23

9

E-Learning Startup

17

10

Ask HN - Where to host a blog for your startup? With Wordpress or on our server?

17

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Y Combinator’s FathomDB Takes The Hassle Out Of Managing Your Database

110

2

Amazon's Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store

71

3

Apple revamps the iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro with no fanfare

54

4

Facebook’s Response To Twitter

53

5

WebMynd (YC W08) Makes Your Search Engine Smarter With New Browser Plugin

41

6

Arrington's Back

40

7

Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API

34

8

TheFunded Founder Creates A Startup Camp For Young CEOs

32

9

This is the Microsoft I want to see: A Glimpse Ahead

25

10

What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like

21

News [?]

1

After the newspapers die, who will watch the police?

83

2

Warren Buffett Explains How The Bailout Is Crushing Healthy Companies

75

3

Entrepreneur sells bottled New York City tap water

72

4

Chinese Students Want To Know: How Do I Get Rich?

59

5

Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta?

48

6

The Size of Social Networks: Primates on Facebook

46

7

Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy

41

8

Why computer voices still don't sound human

39

9

Google forced to go web 0.0 by courts

37

10

Max Levchin's favorite new startups

35

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Death of Business-Method Patents

10

2

WiFi networks and malware epidemiology

1

3

The heat kernel as the pagerank of a graph

1

4

Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence

42

2

Microsoft sues TomTom

6

3

Perverse Security Incentives

6

4

Twitter Blog: Bell Mobility and Twitter—No Extra Fees

2

5

Empirical studies show test driven development improves quality

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake

32

2

Apple Quietly Bumps 15" MacBook Pro Speed, 256GB SSD Option, and New Keyboard

13

3

Apple shareholder meeting dominated by politics

2

4

Amazon Kindle 2 gets iPod treatment. Will it sell?

2

5

EFF Releases How-To Guide to Fight Government Spying

1

6

Inside Apple's new Mac mini, unboxing the new iMac

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

The new Apple Mac Mini

2

2

Apple has a readable, brief Terms of Service

1

3

The Fun Of Programming (Functional Programming pearls)

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers

62

2

The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time

43

3

How To Turn Customers Into Pirates

31

4

Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil

24

5

The Pirate Bay - Innocent or Guilty?

15

6

Less Wrong: Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story

2

7

The Final Day of The Pirate Bay Trial

2

8

Pirate Bay down, not connected to the trial.

1

Science News [?]

1

Is time an illusion?

74

2

'We present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine'

27

3

Porn in the USA: red states are the biggest consumers

8

4

How to get gigapixel photos from a cheap digicam

5

5

Science gets a boost from cheap, super-resolution snapshots

2

6

ITunes University and the classroom: Can podcasts replace Professors?

2

7

Space Sunshade Might Be Feasible In Global Warming Emergency

2

8

Burning Incense Is Psychoactive

2

9

Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data

2

10

MIT: 'Nanostitching' could strengthen airplane skins, more

2

Social [?]

1

Louis CK: Everything's amazing, nobody's happy

8

2

YouTube - The LEGO Turing Machine

7

3

Google now has an official Twitter account

5

4

Intro to Clojure - 80 min screencast for non-Lispers (vid)

5

5

The Secret History of Silicon Valley - Steve Blank (Gave the same talk to Twitter)

4

6

Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

3

7

Evan Williams on what's behind Twitter's explosive growth (TEDtalks)

3

8

Twitter's new business model: T-Shirts

3

9

JavaScript: The Good Parts

2

10

PVC, iPhone app, IO Bridge, and Duct Tape = Dog Feeder

2

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rails deployment missing piece, filled in

41

2

Sentdiff: Diff for Writing

41

3

Heist: a Scheme interpreter written in Ruby

38

4

Keeping GoogleBot Happy

5

5

Kestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala

3

6

Tsvutils, for manipulating tab-separated tabular data

3

7

IRB-fu: Display a MySQL-style report for an array of Ruby objects

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

Emacs + Vim + Haskell = Yi

40

2

The Voynich manuscript - A mysterious undeciphered text

8

3

NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s

4

4

Project Alpha and the Resulting Crash of the Parapsychology Field

4

5

Braitenberg vehicles

2

6

For instance, poets who previously received two dollars per line now get ten.

2

7

2

8

Square Root Day: 3/3/09

2

Blogs [?]

1

161

2

Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.

124

Stackoverflow [?]

1

How accurate are the arguments in JWZ’s 10-year-old "java sucks" article?

30

Substack [?]