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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

262

2

Intel's "cripple AMD" function

212

3

How Not To Promote Your New Startup

174

4

A geek meets the Ikea Lillabo Train Set

174

5

The software fixed the hardware

162

6

A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5

161

7

148

8

Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret

148

9

Things UNIX can do atomically

148

10

How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation

144

Top Ask HN

1

Great books you read in 2009?

125

2

What are you working on?

114

3

Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names

104

4

A New Decade. Any Predictions?

75

5

Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok?

60

6

review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer

51

7

How good are freelance programming sites?

39

8

The best way to put technical skills to the greater good?

36

9

Review my holiday project

30

10

Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to?

27

Top Show HN

1

Check our crowd-sourcing project: One Frame Of Fame.

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

132

2

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

82

3

Recommendations engine DirectedEdge opens up to developers

77

4

Photographer captures electricity

64

5

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

63

6

Microsoft's tablet

57

7

TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers

37

8

Senator Demands IP Treaty Details

37

9

Proof of Concept - See through OLED screen on a laptop

34

10

I/o Ventures – A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco

31

News [?]

1

Pirahã: a non-Turing-complete human language

85

2

A Mad Scheme To Kill A Scientist

63

3

What's Wrong With This Snowflake?

60

4

The Card Game - How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card, Dominates a Market

59

5

What makes a great teacher?

58

6

Twenty years on Japan is still paying its bubble-era bills

52

7

How to Train the Aging Brain

47

8

The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse

41

9

Myths about keeping America safe from terrorism

33

10

Roger Federer as Religious Experience

33

Scientific publications [?]

1

Math Quiz: Why do men predominate?

18

2

MapReduce for Integer Factorization

2

3

How Much Information Was Consumed by Americans in 2008

1

4

Statistics and ethics: better protection of humans in clinical research

1

5

Creative Winners of Embedded Systems Challenge

1

6

Simulating the universe on an intercontinental grid of supercomputers

1

7

IEEE Picks Tech Winners and Losers for 2010

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security: Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security

29

2

Christmas Bomber: Where Airport Security Worked

28

3

Vatican Admits Perfect Security is Both Impossible and Undesirable

14

4

One Month Of Monitoring The Linux Kernel Performance

6

5

Breaching the Secure Area in Airports

4

6

Rhodes Brings Ruby Apps to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry

2

7

InfoQ: Estimating Business Value

1

8

Schneier: David Brooks on Resilience in the Face of Security Imperfection

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

SandForce SSD controller beats Intel X-25M by compressing data before storing

26

2

Sprint Received 8 MIL Law Enforcement Requests for GPS Location Data this Year

19

3

OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested

7

4

NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2

5

5

Third Nokia lawsuit accuses Apple of multiple patent violations

4

6

Realtime 3D Scanning

3

7

Intel Arrandale: 32nm for Notebooks, Core i5 540M Reviewed

2

8

Quattro Confirms Acquisition by Apple

1

9

Microsoft, HP introduce touchscreen 'slate PC' at CES

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon.com attacks new and used textbook market

33

2

Microsoft at International Consumer Electronics Show 2010

2

3

Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention

1

4

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Three Billion

1

5

Amazon Kindle DX is now available internationally with Global Wireless

1

6

Customize the Magic Mouse: middle-click, taps, pinch, etc.

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers

7

2

VOIP + Cloud = Better Political Campaigns

5

3

Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators [Google Docs PDF]

4

Science News [?]

1

Sex and shopping - it's a guy thing

47

2

Idle Minds and What They May Say About Intelligence

23

3

How to be a genius

10

4

Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server

4

5

Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer's disease

4

6

12.8kya Europe froze solid in less than 12 months

3

7

Sequencing cavemen DNA

2

8

Microsoft's body-sensing, body-busting controller

2

9

2009's Most Obvious Discoveries

1

10

Looking for life in the Multiverse

1

Social [?]

1

Wooden Combination Lock

109

2

Ed Catmull on Surfacing Failures / Remaining Original at Pixar [2007] [video]

49

3

History Of Valve (Part 1)

47

4

Apply game mechanics to your app (video)

28

5

Google Tech Talk: Nutrients for Better Mental Performance

12

6

Flash on Nexus One

8

7

The Best Salesman in the World

2

8

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces [video]

1

9

Language is a Map

1

10

CMake/CPack/CTest/CDash : Google Tech Talk

1

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Rails 2.3.5 on Google's App Engine

30

2

Prevalent Persistence for Clojure

5

3

Gemcutter's top 110 Ruby Gems

2

4

Pyapns - A Universal Apple Push Notification Service Provider

2

5

Python client to FleetDB

2

6

Vim keybindings extension for Chrome

2

7

Clojure MongoDB Toolkit

1

8

Simpler names for cryptic Ruby Global Variables

1

9

A super light jquery plugin for broadcasting arbitrary events

1

10

JQuery $.respondTo plugin for varying Ajax response content-types

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

List of unusual Wikipedia articles

55

2

The Nature of the Firm

4

3

The mosquito alarm

3

4

How your retina compresses data before sending it to the brain

3

5

He solved one of the 18th century's most important problems: Longitude

2

6

The CIA's not-for-profit Venture Capital Firm

1

7

Poprad hidden explosives incident and Dublin bomb alert

1

8

Content Strategy

1

Blogs [?]

1

The Roots of Lisp

47

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest language feature - Stack Overflow

9

2

What is (functional) reactive programming?

3

Substack [?]