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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell

446

2

Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad

410

3

Booted out of Bootup Labs

345

4

Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1

320

5

We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.

293

6

This link says it's from YouTube but it's not

277

7

Organic Startup Ideas

273

8

Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video

270

9

"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."

268

10

Opera Mini approved for iPhone

258

Top Ask HN

1

97

2

Patterns for deploying webapp updates with no downtime

60

3

How many people upset over Apple's rules are actually iPhone developers?

58

4

Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization?

47

5

Help us seed NewsTilt (YC 2010) with thoughtful comments.

38

6

What would life be like as an Android Developer?

28

7

Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions?

28

8

Moving balls to the wall on a fantastic idea?

22

9

What happened to rational discourse?

20

10

A simple wiki which supports Markdown syntax?

18

Top Show HN

1

I just made 4sqvision at SuperHappyDevHouse

29

2

TeamPostgreSQL, neat admin interface for PostgreSQL

10

3

3

4

See what is trending amongst friends

3

5

See what's trending among only those you follow

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus

145

2

Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff

101

3

Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg Still Writes Code

90

4

YC’s NewsTilt Aims To Help Journalists Create A Business Model For Content

67

5

Cyberwar Doomsayer Lands $34 Million in Cyberwar Contracts‎

63

6

JooJoo Tablet Is a Real Piece of DooDoo

49

7

Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener

35

8

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant

35

9

Source: Twitter’s Ad Platform Launches Tonight

32

10

Developers In Denial: The Seesmic Case Study

31

News [?]

1

Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

95

2

Pomplamoose: Making a living on Youtube

78

3

More weight, fewer reps works best.

73

4

Palm Said to Put Itself Up for Sale; Bids May Come This Week

57

5

Copyright and wrong: Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots

57

6

Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

47

7

Inventors Wanted. Cool Tools Provided.

45

8

Eric Schmidt Is the Nicest Guy in Tech

38

9

No Survivors in Crash of Flight Carrying Polish Leader

33

10

James Gosling (Java Creator) quits Oracle

30

Scientific publications [?]

1

Polynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism Testing

19

2

Honda's Unicycle of the Future

6

3

The Graph Traversal Pattern

5

4

Are cosmic rays causing Toyota's problems? (Ctrl-F for SEU in comment thread)

1

5

Artificial Photosynthesis Achieved with Nanotechnology

1

6

New Method Could Photograph Earth-Like Planets

1

7

Behavioral economics: Reunifying psychology and economics

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Air Marshals

23

2

Twitter buys Tweetie

16

3

Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Current Versions of Windows

9

4

Twitter Blog: Hello World

8

5

4

6

Unpatched Java Exploit Spotted In-the-Wild

4

7

Tweet Preservation

3

8

10 Lessons From The Pwn2Own Hacker Contest

3

9

IBM and the labors of TurboHercules

1

10

Visual Risk Management

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas

151

2

Apple's prohibition of Flash-built apps in iPhone 4.0 related to multitasking

77

3

EFF: The Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future

63

4

Lego Gearbox - 7 Speed + Reverse

34

5

Apple removes Google branding from iPhone OS 4 search

24

6

Steve Jobs: Apple owns the trademark on 'Pad'

10

7

Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

3

8

Apple's WebKit2 will add Google Chrome-like split processes to Safari

2

9

Inside Apple's iPad: Adobe Flash

1

10

MacBook Pro Updates Imminent (Really), Part Numbers Appear

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Visual Studio 2010 released

146

2

New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros released

125

3

Opera Mini takes over the App Store Charts

124

4

Apple: iPad will not be released internationally until the end of May

59

5

Book published using tweets without permission, backlash ensues

23

6

Apple Rolls Out Their New MacBook Pro Series

15

7

Apple Updates MacBook Pro Line

1

8

The New MacBook Pros are Here (finally)

1

9

Amazon Simple Notification Service

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Crash-Only Software

47

2

Ugh fields (things that make your mind flinch)

46

3

High Concurrency MySQL @ Facebook #mysqlconf

34

4

14

5

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream [1968]

7

6

LCD Soundsystem Beg Fans Not To Leak New Album

6

7

When good interfaces go crufty [2002]

5

8

Treatment of childhood schizophrenia with LSD and Psilocybin

3

9

Frequentist Magic vs. Bayesian Magic

2

Science News [?]

1

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

44

2

Individuals with Rare Disorder Have No Racial Biases

40

3

Astronomers find 9 new planets and upset the theory of planetary formation

37

4

Researchers Shed Light on Ancient Assyrian Tablets

16

5

Lincoln's Missing Bodyguard

15

6

93 percent of Ayurvedic medicinal plants threatened with extinction

8

7

Visual tricks can make downloads seem quicker

5

8

Misconceptions about the Big Bang [2005]

5

9

Are Men the More Belligerent Sex?

3

10

Children who form no racial stereotypes found (Brain disorder...)

3

Social [?]

1

This link says it's from YouTube but it's not

277

2

"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."

268

3

A Dismal Guide to Concurrency

149

4

66

5

Google Home View

50

6

The Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter Archive

44

7

"Introduction to Monads" with Clojure (video)

39

8

What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby /Robert Martin/ (video)

31

9

Eric Leebow (freezecrowd): I am free enterprise

16

10

Pirates of Silicon Valley - a 1999 docudrama

7

Github repos and gists [?]

1

FlockDB: Twitter's distributed, fault-tolerant graph database

79

2

Nodule: A Node.js Pub-Sub Key-Value Store in 185 Lines

42

3

CLPython, enables use of Python libraries from Common Lisp

14

4

DOM parsing BBCode library for C#

10

5

Embedding the ContextFreeArt language in Scheme

5

6

Advanced Scheme macrology: Concise record accessors

4

7

The GitHub East Coast Tour

3

8

Cassandra + Python "models" implementation

2

9

Happy 2nd Birthday GitHub

1

10

How I Came to Write iGesture

1

Wikipedia [?]

1

April 12, 1961: First man in space

45

2

Regular Heptadecagon Inscribed in a Circle

44

3

The Friendship Paradox: Why People's Friends Have More Friends Than They Do

41

4

Copyright Law is 300 years old today.

31

5

Worse is better

12

6

Peter Principle

2

7

The Turboencabulator

2

8

Fairchild Semiconductor From Wikipedia

1

9

Exact Cover problems

1

10

Password strength

1

Blogs [?]

1

Organic Startup Ideas

273

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]