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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

New IDE: code bubbles

414

2

Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore

261

3

5 things I knew (or should have) before my startup, but didn't learn until now

249

4

The Panic Status Board

247

5

Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost

243

6

Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds

236

7

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

209

8

Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts

209

9

Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin's Creed 2 unplayable

195

10

The Single Sign On

195

Top Ask HN

1

Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?

304

2

208

3

What payment gateways do you use for your app?

67

4

Is there a point to school?

63

5

Please review my new website

41

6

How Can Ads Not Suck?

30

7

Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options?

27

8

How to look for a programming opportunity

26

9

How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption?

26

10

Review my site Artevolve - Remix and Derive Artwork/Photographs

25

Top Show HN

1

My blooper reel tribute to other YC S10 applicants

11

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Valve bringing Steam to Mac

177

2

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

139

3

World's first commercially available Jetpack goes on sale

125

4

OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights

71

5

Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One

65

6

Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free

61

7

IPad Will Be Available In The U.S. Starting On April 3

58

8

Browsarity (YC W10) Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To Charity

52

9

Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

44

10

SV Angel Partner Brian Pokorny Now CEO of DailyBooth (YC S09)

41

News [?]

1

What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)

110

2

The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions

102

3

Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls

91

4

Marry Him: The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough

80

5

How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success

48

6

New York Isn’t Silicon Valley. That’s Why They Like It.

48

7

Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong

45

8

Amazon auctions computing power: Clouds under the hammer

42

9

Why I prefer French health care

40

10

How Well Do Hand Sanitizers Work?

39

Scientific publications [?]

1

This Car Runs on Code

6

2

Kojiro Humanoid Robot Mimics Your Musculoskeletal System

2

3

Cursed Efforts to Diagnose and Correct IPCC's Accursed Himalayan Errors

2

4

Warp Speed Will Kill You

2

5

Toward discovery science of human brain function

1

6

A Mosaic of Cassiopeia

1

7

French Unveils Mobile Robot To Assist Elderly

1

8

How to Reboot Your Corpse

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

SCALE 8x: Relational vs. non-relational

54

2

HTC Android Phones Found with Malware Pre-Installed

16

3

Revised Mac Developer Program

14

4

Trust And Safety

3

5

The Ubuntu One music store and free software for profit

2

6

Preparing your web content for the iPad

1

7

Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF on Apple's iPhone Developer Program Agreement

102

2

Apple Seeking to Stimulate Mac Development With $99 Mac Dev Program

29

3

IPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support

29

4

Mac Developer license falls to $99/year, Mac App Store coming?

25

5

Apple to offer developers simple tools for monetizing iPhone apps

1

6

New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple tap and long press

1

7

IPad SDK 3.2 beta 4 removes Video Call/Chat references

1

8

Apple iPhone targeted in patent lawsuit over sync, Bluetooth

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

First iPad Commercial Released - what do you think?

32

2

Would you pay $62 for a Wikipedia article?

30

3

Charles P Thacker (MSR) wins 2009 ACM Turing Award

1

4

Microsoft's iPad (2000)

1

5

Microsoft Security Advisory (981374) Remote Code Execution

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Bay Area Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong Meet Up: March 7th, 7PM

16

2

And BitTorrent’s Oscar Goes To... District 9

6

3

Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day

1

4

The fallacy of work-life compartmentalization

1

Science News [?]

1

'Pay it forward' pays off

34

2

Do Scientists Really Need Ph.D.s?

32

3

'Negatively strange' antihypermatter made out of gold

21

4

Should governments vaccinate computers the same way they vaccinate children?

7

5

Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity?

4

6

For smaller chips, borrow 18th-century tricks

2

7

Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe

2

8

Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything

2

9

How the mind makes sense of written language

2

10

MIT scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material

2

Social [?]

1

So Long Polygons. It's been a blast.

40

2

Ask epi0Bauqu anything about running DuckDuckGo

37

3

Atlanta HackerNews Meetup #2: Thursday Mar 11th 7pm at Rira Pub

31

4

Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization

18

5

If you became the last person on Earth, what would you do? Realistically.

17

6

Entrepreneur State of Mind

17

7

The truth about student loans

15

8

Random YC application videos

14

9

Why Larry Ellison hates cloud computing

9

10

Bluetooth Chicken

8

Github repos and gists [?]

1

NCSA Mosaic on GitHub

47

2

PhpBB on GitHub

25

3

Introducing jrclj: Easily call Clojure from JRuby

23

4

Effen is a jQuery plugin that supports Concrete Javascript.

12

5

Clojure - lazytest

5

6

Async-rack: making async really work with rack

4

7

Tracking Deploys with Github's Compare View

4

8

PIMPD 1.0 - Perl Interface for the Music Player Daemon - Music is to be enjoyed.

3

9

Django-cachebot: Automated caching and invalidation for Django

2

10

Gabriel G's Ruby music projects [livecoding]

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

The most remote tree in the world

79

2

48

3

43

4

19

5

1

6

1

7

Analytic Philosophy

1

8

Minimal group paradigm

1

9

Map–territory relation

1

10

Estonian government starts blocking foreign gambling sites

1

Blogs [?]

1

Java's cover (2001)

5

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]