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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Introducing Google Command line Tool

390

2

How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

322

3

YouTube wins case against Viacom

313

4

How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous.

298

5

This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

274

6

5 Ingredients/10 Minutes cookbook - great recipes for a busy hacker [pdf]

263

7

Officially our best-ever cease and desist

252

8

TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit

249

9

I own you, and you're easily replaceable.

247

10

Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids

245

Top Ask HN

1

How to become a millionaire in 3 years?

313

2

What's your favorite TED Talk?

195

3

Typical Startup or Abuse?

134

4

Who's using Clojure, and to do what?

106

5

Methods for finding niche business opportunities

101

6

Good resources for learning+getting into Finance / Trading?

86

7

Enough profit to replace a day job?

84

8

Number of iPhone apps you published & income you get from them

73

9

I really don't understand node.js, could someone explain it to me?

69

10

What's going on at google?

60

Top Show HN

1

FlyByChat, the site I'm working on. Looking for feedback.

13

2

Twitter Photo Mosaic Creator

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

2000 iMac compared to the 2010 iPhone

124

2

Scribd's decision to dump flash pays off, user engagement triples

105

3

Is the world ready for the waterless urinal?

89

4

Skype Opens Up SkypeKit SDK To All Devices And Desktop Apps

84

5

Brent Stinski: How Yahoo shut down my business, and how it could happen to you

68

6

Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next?

40

7

Sequoia Capital Leads $14 Million Round For Sencha’s HTML5 Frameworks

37

8

Y Combinator Gives A Crash Course On What It’s Like To ‘Work At A Startup’

35

9

750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy (2008)

34

10

Finally, a Moscow Metro Map that deson't look like a Soviet relic

30

News [?]

1

What Broke My Father’s Heart

138

2

We are giving out water

137

3

Elon Musk, PayPal Pioneer, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor

120

4

The Quiet Coup (2009)

71

5

The Writer Who Couldn't Read

70

6

Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Saramago Dead at 87

56

7

Nokia to use Linux for flagship N-series phones

48

8

Is Verizon Wireless Making It Harder to Avoid Charges?

29

9

Obama Administration Announces New Anti-Piracy Initiative

26

10

Congress wants to make Sub S shareholders pay more payroll taxes

25

Scientific publications [?]

1

706 Earthlike Planets Discovered By NASA Spacecraft

36

2

Superfast scanner digitizes books by rapidly flipping pages

23

3

Tylenol can reduce the emotional pain of social rejection.

5

4

What's the power of an "ultimate laptop" (of 1kg mass in 1L volume)

2

5

Circuit Could Swap Ultracapacitors for Batteries

2

6

MIT Robot Lamp Turns Desk Into Interactive Surface

2

7

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

IPhone =/= Debian app

152

2

Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel

13

3

AT&T's iPad Security Breach

4

4

AT&T Show How Not to Handle a Data Breach

3

5

Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address

2

6

Kanban for Video Game Development (video)

2

Tech blogs [?]

1

TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit

249

2

It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime

178

3

EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin

82

4

Inside Apple's new Xcode 4 development tool

58

5

Apple, Give Us a "Freedom of Choice" Button

43

6

Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

8

7

Apple asks FCC to keep iPhone 4 details under wraps

5

8

56% of developers support Apple's iOS, 90% are single-platform

3

9

Inside Apple's new Xcode 4 development tool

2

10

What has 9000 LEDs,3000 MSP430 processors ($4.80 from TI) & goes blink blink?

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

iOS 4 Update Now Avaliable

75

2

New MobileMe is here

4

3

Kindle now $189

2

4

The K&R (R&K) of Strength Training

1

5

Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4 delay

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Using GoogleLookup in Spreadsheets

3

2

Rapidshare kills reward program piracy concerns

1

3

Applying behavioural psychology on myself

1

Science News [?]

1

Color perception drifts to Green as you get tired, resets after sleep.

12

2

Neuroscientists predict students' behavior better than their self

4

3

Researchers create self-assembling Nanodevices

2

4

Fuzzy Logic Predicts Cell Aging

1

5

Blogs and tweets could predict the future

1

6

Computer Intelligence Predicts Human Visual Attention

1

7

Genome at 10: Medicine's slow revolution

1

8

Quantum free fall

1

9

Hi-tech moguls and The New York Times may buy it, but you shouldn't

1

10

Counting from the left may be instinctive rather than cultural

1

Social [?]

1

GitHub founder tells you how to bootstrap a business

187

2

AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

73

3

Youtube adds vuvuzela button

53

4

Medvedev (Russia President) now in Twitter

40

5

Insightful talk by Gary Vaynerchuk - "Crush It" author

39

6

18

7

Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

14

8

Reddit sleuths asked to help find thief

10

9

YouTube - Harum Scarum Printers - Dot matrix printer music - Nesem vam noviny

6

10

5

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Install Android packages directly from GitHub

98

2

Twitter's on GitHub

57

3

JQuery Combinators: Make any function into a jQuery method

44

4

Postmortem of last week's fileserver failure

43

5

ChromeKit: HTML5+CSS3 window chrome.

29

6

A Degree of Understanding

28

7

Async Rails 3 stack

26

8

Connect - a high performance middleware framework for Node.js

22

9

Dagny: Rails-style Resource-Oriented Architecture for Django

19

10

Infochimps cluster chef

16

Wikipedia [?]

1

232

2

77

3

Bhopal disaster

35

4

Happy (Summer|Winter) Solstice - 11:28 Zulu time.

16

5

IPv4 address exhaustion (Wikipedia)

4

6

Giant impact hypothesis

4

7

Perverse incentives

4

8

Benford's Law and the Distribution of First-Digits

3

9

Joybubbles: the blind phreaker whom Whistler was based off of in Sneakers

2

10

Lalo Schifrin turns 78 today

2

Blogs [?]

1

2

Stackoverflow [?]

1

List of freely available programming books

147

2

Conceptually, how does replay work in a game?

41

3

Large-scale design in Haskell?

34

4

Y Combinator in FT EDSL

1

Substack [?]