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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants

318

2

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

296

3

Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men

294

4

GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission

288

5

Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping

282

6

Serious threat to the web in Italy

282

7

"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%

269

8

I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.

251

9

Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act

226

10

How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998)

223

Top Ask HN

1

Ask HN - Review My Idea: Make Work More Like Games

45

2

Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07)

38

3

got to 33 in the App Store. Now what?

37

4

Would you use/participate in a translation site like this?

32

5

How should I pursue my passion?

28

6

Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts

28

7

founders wants me to join for just equity, how much should I ask for?

27

8

Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher

25

9

help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books)

24

10

Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind

15

Top Show HN

1

Show HN again: My new spec list app, Speckle - now with a homepage.

13

2

Text Message turns on blender

4

3

Am I Haiku or Not?

1

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships

110

2

Memo to CEOs & Founders: Stop Being Such Cheap Bastards

97

3

Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An “Extortion Scheme”

90

4

How L1-minimization can recover highly degraded images

83

5

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?

76

6

Crocodoc (YC W10) Makes It A Snap To Share And Mark Up Documents

74

7

YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13

63

8

Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering

55

9

Bloom Box Fuel Cell Device is Revealed

46

10

Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps 'Net connections

40

News [?]

1

How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998)

223

2

"Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger

132

3

U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, with deadly consequences

128

4

128

5

Taste test: Wal-Mart vs. Whole Foods produce

101

6

McDonald's Has a Chef?

50

7

NBC's broken Olympic coverage

49

8

Italian Court Convicts 3 Google Execs of Violating Privacy

47

9

Millions of Unemployed Face Years without Jobs

44

10

The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?

42

Scientific publications [?]

1

Real-Time Search Stumbles Out of the Gate

1

2

Space Junk Mess Getting Messier in Orbit

1

3

Exploring the Limits of GPUs With Parallel Graph Algorithms [pdf]

1

Dev Blogs [?]

1

How much Linux kernel code has survived the past five years?

65

2

Al-Mabhouh Assassination

53

3

Mark Twain on Risk Analysis

38

4

Facebook’s Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop

14

5

Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases

7

6

Measuring Tweets

6

7

The Doghouse: Demiurge Consulting

1

8

Second Life architecture [video]

1

9

Declassified Documents Relating to the NSA/Central Security Service (1931–1985)

1

Tech blogs [?]

1

Apple Now Blocking 'Overtly Sexual' Apps from App Store

8

2

IPhone LCD trumps Nexus One OLED

4

3

Adobe Flash on, or not on, mobile devices (w/ history of flash)

3

4

Alpha-numeric Passcode on your iPhone and iPod touch

1

5

EFF's Checklist for Digital Book Rights

1

6

Video Chat coming in future iPhones/iPads?

1

7

Apple's iPad Chip Development Cost Estimated in $1 Billion Range

1

8

Homebrew 8-bit digital effects pedal for guitar based on PIC

1

9

Apple exec Tim Cook talks Apple TV, iPad A4 processor, more

1

FAANG+ [?]

1

Amazon pays Microsoft for patent cross-license agreement

4

2

Amazon SimpleDB Introduces Consistent Reads and Conditional Puts & Deletes

2

3

Apple - Supplier Responsibility

1

4

Apple has now sold 10 billion songs via iTunes

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

The Fallacy of Gray

97

2

Foursquare.com & Scala/Lift [slides]

44

3

Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (Leaked Document)

21

4

Tactics to beat Akrasia (acting against one's better judgement)

15

5

Chinook - The 'impossible to beat' Checkers computer program.

2

6

Graph Algorithms with MapReduce (presentation)

2

Science News [?]

1

Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men (2008)

50

2

'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers

27

3

Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?

19

4

Mathematics of Hollywood blockbusters

6

5

Fight HIV with HIV: 'safe' virus proposed as vaccine

5

6

New Approach to Generating Truly Random Numbers

4

7

New Approach to Generating Truly Random Numbers May Improve Internet Security

3

8

A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity

3

9

Flying pixel copters

2

10

Limp wrists and tight fists: What your handshake says about you

2

Social [?]

1

Reddit: IAmA grad student who has tried nearly every "study"/"smart" drug

59

2

1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts

43

3

Making Facebook 2x Faster

36

4

Calculating Speed of Antelope in an image

29

5

Microsoft: Here's why Google Apps suck

19

6

The Right Way to do Wireframes

18

7

Chinese booklet scanned at 1800 pages per hour

13

8

YC is now on twitter, will be updating with YC news and events

6

9

Great Speach by John "PC Guy" Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner

5

10

Bill Gates is going to Antarctica - will send notes from there

4

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Sequel: A Database Toolkit for Ruby [GitHub]

48

2

Facebook’s HipHop-PHP is now on Github

27

3

Announcing Ernie 2.0 and 2.1 (GitHub's Erlang RPC Server)

20

4

Vimium - The Hacker's Browser

10

5

Christkv's node-mongodb-native

4

6

Rhino on Rails (inspired by Yegge's blog), implemented and used for a photoblog

4

7

Django Deployment Workshop

3

8

Nehe OpenGL Tutorials in Clojure (via Penumbra)

2

9

BitC is now slighly less than dead. Has anyone else tried to revive?

2

Wikipedia [?]

1

98

2

39

3

Therac-25: When software reliability really does matter

23

4

You ain't gonna need it

20

5

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

17

6

Monty Hall problem

14

7

5

8

Microsoft SQL Server Compare Tools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3

9

Prisoner's dilemma

3

10

2

Blogs [?]

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Strangest language feature

2

Substack [?]