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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

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Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009
222
2
Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.
157
3
Cringely: Making 400k/yr profit on an eBook about parrots
157
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Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval
153
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Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
149
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IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc
138
7
How Rich Countries Die
135
8
Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
128
9
SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight Test (in 1966)
126
10
Don't launch
123

Top Ask HN

1
Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?
107
2
Feedback on Thymer - a GTD/project management app for teams
36
3
Is it necessary to learn maths to enter into programming?
31
4
Would you pay for a shared office/startup space? What would it need?
26
5
feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alternative to IMDB star ratings.
24
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Increasing Karma Implies Decreasing Variance?
23
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How useful is Pair Programming?
23
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Where do uk startups go for advice online ?
22
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For a simple forum, should I use bbPress or is there a HN/reddit style one?
21
10
Please review Twollars
21

Top Show HN

1
Code draws better than you
19

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
Grand Central To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.
157
2
Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval
153
3
IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc
138
4
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list; $11k/day fine for linking
119
5
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
108
6
iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th
99
7
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
86
8
Echodio (YC W09) Lets You Sync Your iTunes To The Cloud (300 Invites)
44
9
The Rules Apply To Everyone
43
10
Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
39

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
Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
149
2
HN Member on Frontpage of Today's NY Times
77
3
Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive
65
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An idea whose time has come: Entrepreneurialism has become cool
59
5
Supermarket vegetables now 5-40% lower in nutrients than 50 years ago
56
6
For Sale: The $100 House
52
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Indian Americans: The New Model Minority
47
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Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
43
9
Study: Old Age Begins at 27
40
10
Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline
37

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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Why the wires behind your computer are a tangled mess.
45
2
IEEE Spectrum: Can Machines Be Conscious?
5
3
Simulation of the outbreak of cooperation of success-driven individuals
2
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Laser-based haptics system lets you feel distant objects
2
5
Open Arms: Open-source Prosthetics
2
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Laser-based haptics system lets you feel distant objects
1
7
The Interplanetary Internet
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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The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang
7
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Digg, An Infrastructure in Transition [video]
5
3
An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg
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
DOJ Seeks Jail Time for Music Sharing
21
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IPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos
7
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Late rumor has iPhone 3.0 getting copy-and-paste, multitasking
3
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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
2
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Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle
2
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Apple exploring Magic Wand controller for next-gen Apple TV
1
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Inside Apple's new third-gen iPod shuffle (teardown photos)
1
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IPhone 3.0 to Get MMS, Tethering, and Finally... Copy and Paste?
1
9
Google Begins Behavioral Targeting Ad Program
1
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EFF Launches Search Tool for Uncovered Government Documents
1

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances
1
2
Amazon releases Reserved Instances
1
3
Mark Guzdial's Amazon Blog: A Call for a New Computing Education Organization
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
Piracy Has Become Mainstream, Studies Show
8
2
Windows NT used an embedded Prolog interpreter to configure its networking
4
3
Behind the Scenes at Mininova
3
4
SXSW 2009 on BitTorrent: 6 GB of Free Music
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
A New Battery That Charges In Seconds
27
2
The Aristotle illusion
10
3
Time to shrink the atomic clock
9
4
Metal Discovered To Become Transparent Under High Pressure
4
5
Religious people less anxious, brain activity shows
4
6
Second Genesis: Life, but not as we know it
3
7
Society's vital networks prone to 'explosive' changes
2
8
Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch
2
9
Second Genesis: Making Synthetic Life
1
10
Lithium Ion batteries that recharge in seconds. Here's to hoping.
1

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Extreme Shepherding - Best Sheep Hack I've seen all day
13
2
Great news: Tony Morris is OK
9
3
The Django Book version 2.0 now available
8
4
Livetwittering of YC demo day going on now
6
5
Erlang: It's time to be uncomfortably parallel
6
6
Get $100 worth of Facebook advertising for free
3
7
The US economy and credit crisis explained by Peter Schiff (2006)
3
8
Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech [video]
2
9
Twitter OAuth beta now open for everyone
2
10
Napoleon Hill talks about his meeting with Andrew Carnegie [video]
2

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
I have a question about organizing projects
24
2
Reia Programming Language
15
3
How Erlang evaluates funs (i.e. lambdas)
12
4
Fuzed: A Distributed Erlang Frontend for Heterogenous Clusters
9
5
Cherly: a fast local cache for Erlang
4
6
xmlbuilder.py
1
7
Simple parallel JSON processing using "make -j"
1

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Wikiid: Can Wikipedia make a Wikipedia page notable enough to avoid deletion?
40
2
Happy Pi Day
30
3
Ostrich algorithm
4
4
Morris worm
3
5
Network effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1
6
David Stove: cuts through philosophical bs like butter
1

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
The Submarine
2

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
What can I do to be a great Computer Science teacher/professor someday?
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com