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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
704
2
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
684
3
Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
596
4
How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup
589
5
Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
569
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Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
543
7
"You've angered the hive"
521
8
Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
513
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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
511
10
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
508
Top Ask HN
1
How Many of You Are Like Me?
156
2
Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?
156
3
Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work) February 2011.
137
4
What kind of personal financial investment do you do?
125
5
Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
123
6
Obtaining initial users for a startup
119
7
Hackers falling in love
106
8
Who is working/has worked on porn sites?
95
9
Burned out. How can I make the most of a sabbatical leave?
89
10
Who's Hiring? (March 2011 Edition)
80
Top Show HN
1
Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
460
2
HackerBooks.com
351
3
My 4-hour project, already profitable
323
4
Breakup Notifier
264
5
Remote Jobs (our answer to "Who Is Hiring Remote Workers?")
217
6
What Do You Think Of My Resume?
141
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my new project, an anti-snub dating site
119
8
Pen.io
108
9
I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50
98
10
I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
80
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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"You've angered the hive"
521
2
Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"
513
3
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
432
4
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
345
5
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
334
6
Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid
254
7
Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet
243
8
Why are you people defending Apple?
233
9
HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your Browser, Without The Hassle
213
10
Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone.
210
News [?]
1
Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
596
2
Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)
322
3
Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work
232
4
UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison
209
5
The lost art of pickpockets
137
6
787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing
129
7
3D printing could reduce raw material needs by 90%
123
8
How IKEA is structured to minimize tax and maximize control
116
9
20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
112
10
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
108
Scientific publications [?]
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First-ever images of the entire Sun
70
2
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System
60
3
Costly but worthless gifts facilitate courtship
47
4
DARPA's new memristor-based approach to AI
42
5
The $242 Million Software Error
28
6
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study [pdf]
13
7
Game Design: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science
12
8
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors
7
9
Pictures of NASA's 2005 Deep Impact mission, where we scarred a comet
6
10
"Capitalist Science"
5
Dev Blogs [?]
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HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down
119
2
The Azul Garbage Collector
73
3
IPv4 address exhaustion and the end of the open net
61
4
The trouble with volatile
54
5
Rob Pike on Google Go: Concurrency, Type System, Memory Management and GC
51
6
Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM
49
7
Disgruntled Programmer Accused of Sabotaging Arcade Game Classic
40
8
A Linux Compiler Deathmatch: GCC, LLVM, DragonEgg, Open64, Etc...
35
9
Final IPv4 Blocks Allocated
33
10
Moving to Python 3
32
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault
156
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Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta
93
3
10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing
85
4
Steve Jobs Email Suggests In-App Subscriptions Don't Apply to SaaS?
78
5
The CIA’s amazing bots
71
6
AnandTech Motorola Xoom Review
68
7
Apple 'Safe Deposit Box' Patent Revealed Ahead of Mac OS X Lion
41
8
10.7 Lion drops support for PowerPC applications
41
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Low-cost video chat robot
36
10
IPad 2 screen, fresh from China
25
FAANG+ [?]
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Thunderbolt
320
2
New MacBook Pro series
276
3
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store
119
4
Windows 7 SP1 is out
108
5
New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume
102
6
AWS CloudFormation: BeanStalk with custom stacks
80
7
Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for Mobile Partnership
77
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Introducing AWS CloudFormation
38
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Amazon S3 adds new features for hosting static websites
23
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Amazon RDS to support Oracle as well as MySQL
17
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
430
2
How to Beat Procrastination
145
3
Optimal Employment
123
4
How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government
77
5
Use curiosity
49
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MPAA Snags Google Downloading Torrents, Threatens to Disconnect
25
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Google Gets Involved in Bittorrent Search Lawsuit
22
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U.S. Seize (Spanish) File-Sharing Site That's Declared Legal in Spain
14
9
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview
9
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Procrastination: what we know
4
Science News [?]
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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?
85
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Neurons can operate in reverse
79
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Egypt comes back online after government backs down
70
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Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language
67
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HIV as you've never seen it before
57
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Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?
40
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Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth
27
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U.S. Science Agencies Targeted for deep Budget Cuts
12
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Placebo effect works both ways
6
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Two planets found sharing one orbit
6
Social [?]
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Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light
431
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Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia
430
3
Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the US
267
4
Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?
193
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Redditors earning $100k+ a year, what are your secrets to your success?
193
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Reddit AmA: Director of the first ISP to challenge the USA Patriot Act
154
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Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews
145
8
Ask IBM's Watson Research Team Anything
106
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Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (1978)
94
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I invested three years in a site which failed
88
Github repos and gists [?]
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Guy commits his genome to Github, smartass forks and issues a pull request
476
2
Stuxnet is now on GitHub
248
3
How We Made Github Fast (2009)
166
4
Introducing the File Finder
157
5
XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform
132
6
Use git+github in the classroom
117
7
rbtrace: like strace, but for ruby code
101
8
Clojure on Google App Engine
95
9
Django-bcrypt
92
10
Turn off ri and rdoc generation by default
86
Wikipedia [?]
1
The Sweden Solar System
195
2
Langton's ant
176
3
Christopher Monsanto gives up trying to delete PL articles
173
4
HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot
112
5
Hofstadter's law
94
6
Impossible colors
90
7
Michigan left
77
8
Kardashev scale
72
9
Rotor ships, aka Flettner ships
31
10
Delta Debugging
29
Blogs [?]
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Why Nerds Are Unpopular
6
2
Ask PG: How to Start a Startup
5
3
You weren't meant to have a boss (rev June 2008)
2
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
244
2
I'm graduating with a CS degree but I don't feel like I know how to program
191
3
What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
180
4
Stackoverflow: Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?
123
5
Using git and dropbox together
110
6
Dependency Injection is dangerous for your career
75
7
Offshoring: does it ever work?
68
8
Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?
46
9
Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp
43
10
What is tail recursion?
8
Substack [?]