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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
620
2
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
436
3
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
352
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Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug
314
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How Hacker News ranking algorithm works
311
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Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now
306
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To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
276
8
Google: What We're Driving At
259
9
How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.
252
10
Stop Googling
251
Top Ask HN
1
Side Projects Gone Big
229
2
Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers)
126
3
Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
118
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Cover letter techniques for software development positions.
116
5
Best Developer Linux Laptop?
111
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Help me understand online payment gateways
70
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Side Projects Gone Deadpooled
66
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my startup addresses a small market. How much of a problem is that?
58
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What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?
55
10
I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for HN users, what now?
51
Top Show HN
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My HTML5 Sokoban game
40
2
Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN
20
3
My side project, Instant Visual Search for Etsy.
18
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A toolbar you actually want to use (No download, no registration)
14
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Share, organize and discover what your friends are seeing on the web
14
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I made a simple personal finance API (like Yodlee)
12
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Review my project - profilepin.com
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too long; didn't read, the website.
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Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience
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my new Twitter game, Hot Potato
6
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
352
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Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back
184
3
Women Don't Want To Run Startups Because They'd Rather Have Children
97
4
OS X 10.7 “Lion”: The King Of The Apple Jungle, The Last Of Its Kind, Or Both?
80
5
The physics of Angry Birds
73
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Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
69
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Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows
68
8
Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook)
65
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TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
56
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Kindle gets text-based adventure games
53
News [?]
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Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
436
2
To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it
276
3
Super-Soaker inventor may have solar-powered fuel cell breakthrough
223
4
The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists
119
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Loser-Pays makes lawsuits fairer in Europe. It could work in US, too
106
6
Japanese Company to Buy iPhone Game Developer (Ngmoco for $400M)
73
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How teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions
71
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Rescuers pull all 33 miners to safety
59
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William Gibson says the future is right here, right now
55
10
Google to map inflation using web data
48
Scientific publications [?]
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Randomly Promoting People is More Efficient Than Using Merit
4
2
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Makes First Solo Glide Flight
2
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Privacy on the Smart Grid
1
4
Estimating achievement from fame
1
5
PlayStation purpura.
1
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Science of 'Battlestar Galactica' Revealed at NY Comic Con
0
Dev Blogs [?]
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The FBI is tracking whom?
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All About Skimmers
13
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Java browser plugin now the most exploited in vuln packs
10
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LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort
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Schneier on Security: The Ineffectiveness of Vague Security Warnings
2
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Concurrency Revolution From Hardware Perspective: thread pools, worklists
2
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Is 2010 One of the Most Significant Years for Software Architecture?
2
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Ulf Wiger on Robustness and Scalability in Erlang
2
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Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
2
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Writing a Technical Book (by the authors of "Erlang and OTP in Action")
1
Tech blogs [?]
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Reddit hacking for votes and profit
50
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US government agency “friending” people applying for citizenship
38
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Microsoft exec says Zune software coming to the Mac
16
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Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran
6
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Apple Awarded 'Anti-Sexting' Patent
3
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Apple's share of U.S. PC market cracks the 10% barrier
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Apple developed 7-inch iPad alongside current model
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Apple awarded several key multi-touch patents
2
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EFF: DHS using Facebook to "spy" on Americans
2
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Microsoft unveils plans for first nine Windows Phone 7 handsets
1
FAANG+ [?]
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Verizon offers iPad/MiFi Bundle on October 28, 1GB/mo for $20 no contract
36
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Windows Phone Newsroom: Live Press Conference
3
3
Best C book ever
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Windows Phone 7 Tips & Tricks
2
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Microsoft's Productivity Vision [video]
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Monster Truck Madness Still Available
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Feld & Cohen
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Chris @ TED: The Creative Internet. 106 Projects.
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Money: The Unit of Caring
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Making your tests better - Overview of Automated Testing at IMVU
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Eliezer Yudkowsky answers 30 questions via video
2
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Clayton M Christensen's speech to Harvard Business School's 2010 grad class
2
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What.cd Debuts Lightweight Tracker For Its 5 Million Peers
1
Science News [?]
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Publish your computer code: it is good enough
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"Physics shows that cell phones cannot cause cancer"
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Computational science: ...Error
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Supercomputer sets protein-folding record
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'Evapotranspiration' taking unexpected turn
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DE Shaw: Molecular dynamics on custom silicon
3
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Why It's Hard to Crash the Electric Grid
3
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You too can have a dream body – in your movies
3
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How Should San Francisco Plan for Sea-Level Rise?
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Andre Geim: in praise of graphene : Nature News
2
Social [?]
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"Google bought my first startup today. I learned to make stuff here on proggit."
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Why does digg need so many servers?
64
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How Facebook is using HTML5 today
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Spolsky: Digg servers vs Stack Overflow servers
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Banksy's interpretation of the Simpsons intro
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Simple life Manhattan: a 90-square-foot microstudio (video)
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Digg vs Stackoverflow server capacity
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Minecraft ALU with PC, +16b Memory
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Company Uses An Array of Twitter Accounts as Its Website
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Bouncing Water Droplet on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array [video]
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Github repos and gists [?]
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Haskell in JavaScript
64
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The Djen of Django - Our in progress book about Django.
35
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Basho Luwak (large file support for Riak)
18
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RVM for Windows: vertiginous's pik at master - GitHub
16
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JSBuild ensures that CommonJS modules can be used in browser-based applications
15
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What is that, and why can i see it?
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Super optimized JavaScript framework for mobile based on the Dojo Toolkit
3
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Clean way to generate HTML
3
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Django: Active merchant like pluggable payment backends
3
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Python Ternary Search Trie Implemetation
3
Wikipedia [?]
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Chess boxing
44
2
Ship of Theseus paradox
10
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Dahlbusch bomb
4
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Humans did this to other humans
3
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Haunted houses, and carbon monoxide
3
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Bellamy salute
2
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From $340m to nothing overnight
2
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Fitts's law
2
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2010 Copiapó mining accident
2
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The Scunthorpe Problem
2
Blogs [?]
Stackoverflow [?]
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How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.
252
2
What is a safest way to set all bits of a variable to true in C?
33
3
Check if one string is a rotation of another string
21
4
Alan Kay asks "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980"?
15
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What is the best scripting language to learn?
5
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How much does an iPhone app like Twitterrific cost?
4
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Secret asp.net performance hack
2
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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
1
Substack [?]