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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Lies We Tell Kids
187
2
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
153
3
My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?
134
4
Google releases free, detailed, HTML/CSS/Javascript encyclopedia by Mark Pilgrim
111
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Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight
93
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Everything I want to do is Illegal
89
7
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
70
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Wanna learn JavaScript? Here are 15 video lectures (with key ideas written out)
61
9
Letter to a Young Procrastinator: Some last-minute advice from a veteran slacker
60
10
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
59

Top Ask HN

1
Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?
70
2
Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum?
27
3
Collaborative Filtering + Interweb == Good Times?
12
4
Have you used iptables to prevent procrastination?
8
5
Is it possible to think well with noise?
6
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Tell people about your idea, or keep it to yourself?
6
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Erlang and network connections?
6
8
How did you do on the Android Dev Challenge?
4
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F/OSS Build Automation for C#
4
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Where to look for info on E-Commerce websites?
2

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
1
Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
44
2
Dear Yahoo! You're Fired!
42
3
Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica
33
4
Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations
28
5
Scribd Goes Straight, Bans Porn
24
6
Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table
18
7
NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates
17
8
Confirmed: Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today
16
9
Google maps suddenly becomes more than just a map
15
10
The Failure of Cambrian House
14

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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Letter to a Young Procrastinator: Some last-minute advice from a veteran slacker
60
2
Is the world’s food system collapsing?
27
3
Sleep less (with no performance hit)
16
4
The Silicon Valley apparatus behind Barack Obama's fundraising
14
5
Is it acceptable to profit from the poor?
12
6
New ant species taking over Texas
10
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Inspirational: From Illegal Immigrant to Brain Surgeon
10
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Man's rare ability may unlock secret of memory
8
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High-Tech Japan Running Out of Engineers
7
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How to stay very, very dumb. It's a fact: TV sitcoms destroy your brain.
6

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov

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
1
Terrorism as a Tax
13
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Clippy Version 2.0 Patented
2
3
Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs
1
4
The Linux Kernel Saboteurs
1

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
3G iPhone with GPS, Video Conferencing, TV?
1
2
MacBook upgrade set for Q3
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
New Gladwell Book: "Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't"
4

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
1
Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
19
2
The Pirate Bay Enters List of 100 Most Popular Webites
3
3
BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away
1
4
Upgrade yourself from the world of coding
1

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
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Written in the skies: why quantum mechanics might be wrong
7
2
Alternative To Silicon Chip Invented
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Scaling Facebook Chat to 70 Million Active Users Almost Overnight
93
2
Opposite of the BulletBall Post -- (BTW, poor guy...)
16
3
Twitter is Down Again
4
4
Twitter feed of Mars Phoenix
2
5
The Impossible Dream: Asimo robot conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra [Video]
2
6
Robotic Exoskeleton turns grunts into Super Soldiers
1
7
Why Aren't We Driving Salt-Water Powered Cars Then?
1
8
Ballmer attacked with eggs in Hungary!
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub: SSH Keys Generated on Debian/Ubuntu Compromised
2

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Moore's law, for how long?
1
2
A toy problem with an application to acquisition offers
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Lies We Tell Kids
187
2
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
153
3
Writing, Briefly
46
4
Mark Twain: Corn-pone Opinions
17
5
Good and Bad Procrastination
6

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com