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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

529

2

Rails 3.0: It's ready

385

3

Regrets of the Dying

371

4

What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card.

369

5

Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines

353

6

Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy

344

7

Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine.

281

8

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

280

9

"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."

262

10

Steve Jobs explains branding

260

Top Ask HN

1

How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?

149

2

Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

131

3

If I quit my job, will I ever work again?

80

4

Are there any good online communities for UX design?

73

5

My startup got an an acquisition offer. Please share your advice!

73

6

Should I fire half of my team because their performance is terrible?

67

7

How to begin contributing to an open source project?

56

8

What's up with all these services charging $10/$15 a month?

52

9

What does your development environment look like?

50

10

How do VCs behave when you fail?

50

Top Show HN

1

VoiceForms 4000, my submission to the Wufoo API contest

27

2

I took your advice and prldr is now a visual RSS reader

15

3

We just launched Draftboard and would love any feedback [Forrst post]

3

4

Startup ideas are like kittens, I'm giving 'em away

2

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)

195

2

Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age

185

3

Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

173

4

20 Year Old Founder Jessica Mah Raises Over $1 Million For Indinero (YC S10)

153

5

Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.

121

6

UberCab to disrupt the Taxi/Limo business

116

7

Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”

92

8

Digg freezes manual story submissions as user anger mounts

89

9

Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system

85

10

The Great App Bubble

81

News [?]

1

How bathroom posture affects your health.

164

2

NetFlix: America's Most Underestimated Company

164

3

Obesity: Drink till you drop

125

4

William Gibson: "Google's Earth"

124

5

AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

97

6

Reasonable Doubt: Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld on Being Wrong

86

7

Darwins artificial ecosystem could be key to colonising Mars

69

8

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

62

9

Heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers

61

10

New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Behind

57

Scientific publications [?]

1

The Fastest Helicopter on Earth

78

2

How I Became a QB Telepresence Robot for a Week

5

3

Telepresence: A Manifesto

5

4

Cyborg Fly Pilots Robot Through Obstacle Course

2

5

Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Native ZFS is coming to Linux next month

4

2

Update on Skein

4

3

Twitter Ending Basic Auth Support At 8 AM PT

3

4

Do the Hustle (Obie Fernandez Business Talk)

1

5

Skein Suffering from Strange Peformance Problems

1

6

GM Seed for iOS 4.1 and SDK available for Download (Need to have Dev Account)

1

7

Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month

70

2

AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year

63

3

Apple's Jobs says 'onerous terms' kept Facebook ties out of Ping

26

4

Rumors of 7-inch iPad persist; Apple parts with developer of tablets

3

5

Mac OS X version of AutoCAD due out in October

3

6

EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit

3

7

Build a 1W Blue Laser With Basic Components

2

8

Reading, writing and RFID chips: a scary back-to-school future in California

2

9

So you want to make a Command Line Interface

1

10

Apple reveals new cloud-centric Apple TV for $99

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

56

2

Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event

35

3

Amazon lowers high memory double and quadruple XL instance prices

12

4

Books that influenced Clojure

4

5

3

6

IPod Touch now with FaceTime

3

7

IPod touch 4 with Retina display, HD video recording, iOS 4.1 for $229 and up

3

8

New iTunes 10 ready to download

2

9

Video Converter for Mac can convert all types of video files

1

10

Tongue in cheek review of The Story about Ping

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Iranian Government Runs Public Warez Server

26

2

The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra

5

3

UTorrent Quickly Patches Windows DLL Vulnerability

2

4

How much would you have sold Yelp.com for?

2

5

1

6

An (may be dumb) idea that stroke me. please tell me what you think.

1

Science News [?]

1

Quantum cryptographic systems cracked by lasers, leaving no trace

22

2

Stephen Hawking says there is no theory of everything

5

3

Money Buys Unhappiness

4

4

'Dry water' could make a big splash commercially

3

5

Wearing Designer Knockoffs May Have Hidden Psychological Costs

3

6

Why "Evolutionary psychology" is not science.

3

7

First Issue - Scientific American

2

8

People don't really like unselfish colleagues

2

9

Charitable behavior found in bacteria

2

10

Treating customers as online equals boosts business, research finds

1

Social [?]

1

Steve Jobs explains branding

260

2

Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video]

209

3

Paul Graham is now tweeting

204

4

Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit

140

5

PG about to speak at Facebook, partnership announcement to follow

82

6

AMA: My job was to game Digg using infographics

78

7

DuckDuckGo on This Week in Startups

67

8

'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 [video]

54

9

HN voting ring improvement

50

10

Ladies & Gentlemen, Jessica Livingston is on Twitter (PG beware)

40

Github repos and gists [?]

1

GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0

204

2

I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck

64

3

Rails 3.0 final coming

45

4

30 minutes Lisp in Ruby (direct link)

31

5

Open source community running on Google App Engine

19

6

Psgroove - opensource ps3 modchip on github

9

7

The Reverse Twitter Effect - GitHub

4

8

Exploring Command-Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing with Ruby

3

9

Fat Free CRM 0.10.1 released

3

10

Pit: command-line project manager that integrates with Git

3

Wikipedia [?]

1

15

2

Project Cybersyn

12

3

We're building a machine that will be proud of us - Thinking Machines

3

4

3

5

Where There is No Doctor (download link at the bottom of the article)

2

6

Homo homini lupus

2

7

Shallow Water Blackout

2

8

Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

2

9

Affective labor

1

10

How to introduce young students to the modulus operator

1

Blogs [?]

1

High Resolution Fundraising

127

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Learning to write a compiler

128

2

Hidden Features of MySQL

6

3

How do I politely decline building stuff for relatives/friends?

5

4

Benefits of having string-type immutable (non-technical)

2

5

Problems in artificial intelligence research?

2

6

How to do inheritance in a relational database (An Overview)

2

7

Why do salts make dictionary attacks 'impossible'?

1

Substack [?]