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Top stories

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Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
173
2
PG on trolls
137
3
The most important thing to understand about new products and startups
92
4
Hot or Not acquired for 20 million
59
5
Homeless: Can you build a life from $25?
59
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"I did my part by reading about virtualization in a trade journal. Now you do the software part"
50
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New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time Wasting Addiction
50
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Y2 Combinator
50
9
Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux
46
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Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry
44

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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
Hot or Not acquired for 20 million
59
2
New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time Wasting Addiction
50
3
(YC Winter08) Addher.com goes Beta
33
4
First look: latest Google Android SDK a big improvement
18
5
Poor People Use Yahoo, Those Better Off Use Google
14
6
Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo For Google
13
7
The new Elmo Live is pretty impressive
10
8
Inside the Bizarre World of Japanese Pickup Schools
10
9
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences goes Open Access
8
10
Watch out Craigslist, Sister Site Kijiji Is Taking Off.
7

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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Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry
44
2
College is a waste of time and money for kids
34
3
Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war
32
4
Startup that Predicts Success of Other Startups
30
5
How Americans Spend their Money (pictocharts)
24
6
Seeing Around Corners
19
7
Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
18
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Bottled water 'is immoral'
15
9
Obama: A Bubble Sort is the Wrong Way to Go
14
10
Disruptive language learning, Internet style
10

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
Elephant 2000, John McCarthy new programming language.
19

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Google iPhone usage shocks search giant
30
2
Nvidia Enters CPU Market
21
3
Mac OS X (Leopard) 10.5.2 Update Released
5
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Why IBM should buy AMD
3
5
Leak: third-party iPhone apps to be issued through iTunes Store
2

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Microsoft releases specifications for binary formats
31
2
Arguing a Value For a Computing Degree
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
BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption
5
2
Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent
2
3
The Subprime Explained in a fun and clear way [Google Docs]
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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'Recordable' Proteins As Next-generation Memory Storage Materials
4
2
When People Feel Powerful, They Ignore New Opinions, Study Finds
2

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Barack Obama at Google
3
2
Reddit's discussion of karma for comments
3
3
Music using only sounds from Windows XP and 98
2
4
Why don't more people use Lua for developing web apps?
2
5
Numbrosia Puzzle Subreddit
1
6
Inspirational Subreddit
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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The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
25
2
Companies funded by Y Combinator
4
3
Reactive programming
2
4
EURion constellation
1
5
Before the housing bubble or the internet bubble, there was the tulip bubble.
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
173
2
PG on trolls
137
3
It's Charisma, Stupid
29
4
Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art
24
5
What Charisma Is
4

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com