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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
The Innards of Erlang
327
2
Why HN is slow lately
270
3
Starting up with a friend
252
4
Be Relentlessly Resourceful
241
5
Why I Sued Google (and Won)
222
6
Not Lisp again....
178
7
Y Combinator in Erlang
174
8
How to be a program manager
161
9
DHH: Fuck the Real World
149
10
How I make 15K a month at AdSense
145

Top Ask HN

1
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons
149
2
Haskell or Erlang?
87
3
Any sources on Erlang?
73
4
How many of you (coders) use marijuana?
70
5
How are url shorteners making money?
54
6
CTO vs. VP of Engineering
40
7
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing
37
8
How long until you became "ramen profitable"?
36
9
What's with all the trivial link spam?
28
10
Should I use Amazon S3?
22

Top Show HN

1
Our new online face recognition demo
50
2
JStartup - Hacker News for news people/journalists
2

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
Calling All Foodies: Y Combinator’s Foodoro Launches Online Farmers Market
67
2
TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music
50
3
Voxli (YC W09) Targets Gamers With Browser-Based Group Voice Chat
45
4
Y Combinator’s Airbed&Breakfast Casts A Wider Net For Housing Rentals As AirBnB
39
5
BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding
37
6
Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011
36
7
Zimbra has more users than Gmail. And they are paying.
28
8
Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month
27
9
Calling All Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants You
26
10
Huge Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission
25

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
1
How to stop the drug wars
129
2
The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s even stranger than people thought
55
3
For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents
52
4
People’s creditworthiness, it seems, can be seen in their looks
32
5
Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times
25
6
SEC charges E*Trade, 5 others, for front running
19
7
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street
18
8
City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away
14
9
For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help
13
10
The Internet's librarian: Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist
12

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
NASA to Launch Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Tonight
7
2
Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up
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
1
New eBay Fraud
4
2
Story Driven Development Recipes with Cucumber
2
3
Agile Development for Business Survival
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
Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm
28
2
Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for mystery product
6
3
Apple slow to process iPhone development contracts: would-be iPhone developers frustrated
5
4
Google Takes a Stand for Location Privacy, Along with Loopt
3
5
Short stroking may boost DB performance by 100%
1
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Mac mini: teardown, adding second hard drive, 1TB upgrade kit
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Apple Announces New iPod shuffle
23
2
Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer
1
3
New iPod Shuffle that Speaks Song Titles
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
Information cascades in social news voting systems
7
2
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
3
3
Less Wrong - community blog by Yudkowsky & FHI
2
4
The Mistake Script
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
We cannot live by scepticism alone
7
2
Packing algorithms could save the planet
4
3
Missile-throwing chimp plots attacks on tourists
4
4
Noise could mask web searchers' IDs, preserve data integrity
3
5
3d Bone Printer
3
6
Lab discovers first pentagonal ice crystals by chance
3
7
Record-breaking algorithm packs 2D shapes with unprecedented efficiency
2
8
Regulate armed robots before it's too late
2
9
Man, machine and in between
1
10
Beyond east and west: How the brain unites us all
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Reddit's Discussion about HN
18
2
Erlang Quan - Basic Applications
16
3
AT&T's 1993 "You Will" Ads (excellent foresight) [vid]
11
4
Erlang: The Movie (unintentionally funny)
9
5
[VID]Torrent Droid: Take pic of barcode at the store & your computer will DL the torrent while you drive home
6
6
IPhone app Tweetie 1.3 rejected by Apple
6
7
Steve Wozniak's First Dance on "Dancing with the Stars"
6
8
Woz on Dancing with the Stars
5
9
Samsung hooks up 24 SSDs at once [YouTube]
4
10
Life's Too Short - Write Fast Code
3

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
Erlang meets Ruby
55
2
Elegance and the Surreals
32
3
A Lisp interpreter written in Awk.
16
4
Elegance and surreals
3
5
Git as a Data Store in Python (and Ruby)
3
6
Web gateway to the Google App Engine Datastore - a simple, fast key-value database
3
7
Gittop on the App Store
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
The Erlang Distribution
142
2
Erlang Shen
127
3
List Of Acquisitions By Google
24
4
Traffic calming
2
5
Bullwhip effect - A behavior phenomenon
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Be Relentlessly Resourceful
241
2
How to Be an Angel Investor
122

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer
6
2
Developer Burnout Stories
3

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com