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Top stories

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Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
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2
Architecture astronauts take over
131
3
Would you have answered this job ad?
93
4
Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element
79
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Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
78
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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
76
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Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?
69
8
Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
63
9
Xobni Walks Away From A Microsoft Deal
61
10
Valley of Broken Dreams: A YC Postmortem
59

Top Ask HN

1
What load balancing software do you use ?
47
2
Any users of SimpleCDN?
13
3
How do you work?
12
4
Please review this site from my friend.
6
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Best IP geolocation service?
5
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Transitioning From PHP to Django
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Intellectual property 101
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Which XP/Vista editions can be legally virtualized?
1
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best (toy) robotics platform?
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Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
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Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
78
2
Xobni Walks Away From A Microsoft Deal
61
3
Clickpass on how to get a visa for America
55
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Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
51
5
Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi
37
6
Twitter Usage Numbers Finally Emerge
28
7
The End of Ballmer?
26
8
MIT reinvents the Post-It note... with Post-It notes
23
9
Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday
17
10
From Win32 to Cocoa
16

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
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Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?
69
2
New York Times: Xobni launches public beta
42
3
Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
30
4
You Name It, and Exercise Helps It
29
5
Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD is dead at 102
25
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Technology Is at the Center (Peter Thiel interview)
17
7
Homesteading on the High Seas
16
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It pays to get inside your opponents' heads rather than their hearts
16
9
Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
16
10
Tax the Rich, Buffet says
13

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing
10
2
'Death Star' Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
1

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
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HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases
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Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker
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Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
3

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
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Paper: 3G iPhone smaller, lighter than existing model
2
2
They F*!$ you at the DRM: MSN Music Abandons Users
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Electronic Border Searches: An Open Letter
2
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Safari for Windows market share triples following SW Update push
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
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Kindle finally available for immediate shipment
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2
Java 6 for Mac released -- sort of
1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
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The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.
30
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Bootstrapping: the esoteric art of writing a compiler for a language in itself
2

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Simple brain exercise can boost IQ
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2
Visualising your social networks
8

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Evan Williams: Twitter not abandoning Rails
53
2
Video of Anybots robot using a Roomba
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3
216 tiny spherical magnets == billions of topological possibilities == one cool toy
3
4
Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD died today
3
5
FaceBook In Reality - Hilarious Video
2
6
Macbook air or thinkpad?
2
7
How to Make a Cheap Multitouch Pad
2
8
Richard Branson Ticket to Space.
1
9
Gitopotomous
1
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Google Techtalk: How Ant Colonies Get Things Done
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

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Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists."
23
2
Trojan Room coffee pot -- a practical predecessor to Justin.tv
8
3
McCarthy 91 function
1
4
1816: the year without a Summer
1
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Bell's Law of Computer Classes
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com