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Top stories

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The Google Chrome download link is live.
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2
Django 1.0 is finally here
132
3
The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)
127
4
Obama is RESTful
127
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Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web
85
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Founder Stories
85
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How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)
76
8
Making Rails 12X Faster
67
9
About the origins of the equals sign
66
10
Sister of Python Hacker arrested for protest - His essay on protest and change
62

Top Ask HN

1
Recommended path for self-study math and CS?
40
2
What does your room look like?
34
3
Pointless Spam?
25
4
Will you be switching to Chrome?
24
5
How do you identify a great software developer in an interview?
15
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Recommend a server co in Europe
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How do you share screenshots?
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Best way to send MMS
6
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Do you think there is room for mobile startups that neglect the Iphone?
6
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Making money on Facebook with ads?
5

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
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web
85
2
How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)
76
3
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
60
4
Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we'll change it
41
5
The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense
35
6
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists
33
7
Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse
32
8
DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class
31
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Secretive Storage Company Dropbox (YC Summer 07) Took Sequoia Funding in 2007
31
10
ContestMachine (YC Summer 07): A Product Giveaway Widget For Bloggers
30

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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The Economist: Deflating IT
43
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Feds to take over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
42
3
The second browser war
42
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Is something rotten at Apple?
40
5
Letter to a Young Procrastinator
35
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How to Disappear
29
7
Popcuts (YC summer 08) on CNN.com
29
8
Does extra mental effort burn more calories?
26
9
Nifty New Risk Calculations of What's Likely to Kill You
21
10
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
21

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
Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars: How fast could Usain Bolt have run?
11
2
World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction (100T)
3
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Closest Look Yet at Milky Way's Black Hole
2

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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Agile vs Lean Misses the Point
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Security ROI
1
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Ruby Beyond Rails (IronRuby)
1
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Apple's Bug Reporting Best Practices
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
Apple now rejecting iPhone Apps for "limited utility."
35
2
The Great PC RAM Swindle
24
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Mockup of new iTunes 8.0 interface published
5
4
Apple confirms September 9th special event: "Let's Rock"
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
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Uranium Ore for sale
5
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CS is for people who find fascinating how computers can be made to do things
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
1
Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book
2
2
Download torrents instantly with Instant-torrents
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
1
Study: Parachutes effective to prevent trauma due to gravitational challenge?
28
2
Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body
26
3
Prions jump species barrier
13
4
25 Years Of Conventional Evaluation Of Data Analysis Proves Worthless In Practice
9
5
Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle
5
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Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake
5
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Big data: Welcome to the petacentre
4
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Chemists create 'powdered methane' using 'dry water'
4
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Big data: The next Google
3
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Bonobos May Have Greater Linguistic Skills Than Previously Thought
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
London Hacker Meetup tonight @ Songkick hq
6
2
ScanRobot - the automatic book scanning robot (vid)
4
3
Guy Kawasaki on Venture Capital
3
4
SSD vs. 7200rpm
3
5
A Talk with Tony Segaran (Author of Programming Collective Intelligence)
2
6
Video: The Story Behind Google Chrome
2
7
Ferrofluid art of Sachiko Kodama (vid)
2
8
Bankers vs Consultants
2
9
Sun 2 Nov 2008: 20th Anniversary of the Morris worm
2
10
No Time to Think: the information overload environmental problem (videolecture)
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
GitHub Has Cool Graphs Now
42
2
Jasper blurs the lines between Lisp and JavaScript.
3

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Project Longshot: 100 Year probe mission to Alpha Centauri
24
2
The world's tallest buildings, since 2600 B.C.
8
3
Russian humor
4
4
Kilocore. The 1,024-core processor.
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