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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
168
2
Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts
149
3
The End of Wall Street's Boom
123
4
The End of Wall Street (Liar's Poker author)
112
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How can C Programs be so Reliable?
103
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Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars
96
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SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading
84
8
The calculus of caffeine consumption
80
9
Python+Scipy+Matplotlib vs Matlab?
73
10
Making Nested Parens with My Homeboy, Donald Knuth
73

Top Ask HN

1
How do Flickr, Youtube and other high traffic websites handle file uploads?
50
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How do I handle a million hits a minute?
45
3
Review our startup (bitloot)
41
4
Community software for Overcoming Bias?
38
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Anyone know how to publish code samples to Posterous?
34
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Ask HN : Which should I learn : C# or Java
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How do you write a book?
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can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?
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Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing?
29
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Rate my startup (video)
25

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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Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge
57
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A Scary Line Has Been Crossed For VCs
52
3
Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him
31
4
Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You.
27
5
GirlInYourShirt: $75 Buys Your Startup Marketing For A Day
26
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Online ad growth grinds to a halt
26
7
Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
20
8
Loopt Hires Allen & Co. For Financing Or Sale
17
9
Build it, share it, profit: Can open source hardware work?
14
10
IPhone Exploit Undermines App Store Security, Lets Devs Update And Run Arbitrary Code
12

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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A Letter from Iceland: A World without Money
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Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering
49
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The best economic indicator you've never heard of
41
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Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has To, Yes He Can. Maybe.
41
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Laid-Off Tech Worker Kills 3 in Silicon Valley
39
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Sun announcing up to 6000 (18%) layoffs
38
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Keeping It All in the Google Family
30
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3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High
28
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A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea
27
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What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?
24

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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Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars
96
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Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
7
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Carolyn Porco: Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
1
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Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
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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Joe Armstrong Interview at QCon 08
5

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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Apple may use Carbon Fiber in Next Macbook
16

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
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What makes a language "pedagogical"?
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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Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge
4

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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Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
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Warfare Helped Shape the Evolution of Human Cooperation
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In chaotic computing, anarchy rules OK
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Brain implants show promise for paralysis
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
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Michael Crichton on talent: "I just work hard"
43
2
First Weekly YouTube Address from the President-Elect
6
3
Very cool Wii commercial on YouTube
4
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One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
3
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Toshiba timesculpture [video]
3
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Credit crisis predicted repeatedly, and laughed down (video)
3
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YouTube - Intelligence in Wikipedia
2
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Ask proggit: where to find free datasets
1
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Tim O'Reilly interviews Shai Agassi of Better Place at Web 2.0 Summit
1
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Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
1

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
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Git Patch Management with GitHub Screencast
15
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Finding Joy in Combinators
4

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

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Operational Transformation
4
2
List of states of matter
4
3
Bayesian search theory
3

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