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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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A Fundraising Survival Guide
145
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The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides
144
3
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
114
4
What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey
110
5
Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...
97
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The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC
90
7
A Coder in Courierland
83
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Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios
82
9
Keep track of all the Y Combinator startups on one Slinkset-powered site
78
10
Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches
75

Top Ask HN

1
Web app feedback (intelligent chatting system)
21
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When to do an API for my web app?
15
3
Patents
14
4
Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
13
5
Ruby on Rails Hosting
12
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iPhone Web App or iPhone App?
9
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Work on products, or take a break for (seemingly) lucrative consulting?
6
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iPhone Development Resources
4
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Which are the well written open source programs?
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ASK HN: How to hire good employees?
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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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Ididwork (YC Summer 08) Launches
75
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Ticketstumbler (YC Summer 08) launches
59
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The (Highly Controversial) YouNoodle Startup Predictor Is Coming
49
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Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music
47
5
How To Demo Your Startup
42
6
Launchbox Startups
35
7
Steve Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"
34
8
The Rise and Fall of Twitter
29
9
Japan’s super-advanced mobile web: Too unique to serve as a global blueprint?
23
10
Systemwide GMail Outage
18

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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Denmark 1970: 99% energy from the Middle East. 2000: 0%. 100% energy independent.
59
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Reaching the $5 Million Club Takes an Open Mind
57
3
Great visualization of olympic medals won by year
55
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What early Google employees are doing now.
42
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CA State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses
33
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Traffic jams are not caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature.
31
7
Lord of the Memes
27
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Birth, death and shopping: The rise and fall of the shopping mall
18
9
The Permission Problem: Patents and Anticommons
16
10
Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans
16

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
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Trees = Networks?
3
2
Introductory Lectures on String Theory
3

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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Schneier: Hacking Mifare Transport Cards
11
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DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government
9
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John Lam (Microsoft Program Manager) About IronRuby
7
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Apple and Ruby Roundup: iPhone Config Utility on Rails, SproutCore Tools in Ruby
3
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Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid
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Dave Thomas on Developing Expertise [video]
1

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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Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken
16
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Apple's Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps
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3
Parking Garage Hacking
5
4
You can't present at DEFCON -- Federal Judge to MIT Students
2
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The Apple Mac Cost Misconception: Macs and Their Prices
1
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EFF coder's rights website
1
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Inside MobileMe: Secrets of the Cloud and Mobile Push
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com

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
The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy
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
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Visions of our far future
7

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
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Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things...
97
2
Kinetic Sculptor Powered by Wind. by Theo Jansen.
2
3
Darth Vader in Love
1
4
The Day the Routers Died...
1
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The SEC is Twittering...
1
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Video: Steve Jobs on why computers are like bicycles for the mind
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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Apple's third founder
22
2
Beerware License: Best Open Source License Ever.
14
3
Second-system effect
2
4
Peak Oil
2

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
A Fundraising Survival Guide
145
2
The Venture Capital Squeeze
9

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com