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• JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard · 70 points · by ashwinl · 29 comments
• A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering · 47 points · by breily · 22 comments
• Scalable Network Programming · 41 points · by kirubakaran · 27 comments
• Why did China’s scientific innovation, once so advanced, suddenly collapse? · 38 points · by robg · 40 comments
• Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up · 36 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Ask PG: Your new book on Startups? · 30 points · by prakash · 23 comments
• Ask HN: Bet the farm. Python or PHP? · 24 points · by t0pj · 103 comments
• Cosmology in Ten Minutes · 24 points · by DaniFong · 3 comments
• Programming salaries based on language · 23 points · by nickb · 19 comments
• Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body · 19 points · by tx · 9 comments
• Slide Says It's Done Releasing New Facebook Apps · 19 points · by nickb · 6 comments
• $1 Bus with WiFi, Beats $4 Gas · 18 points · by lakeeffect · 11 comments
• The Man Who Couldn't Read "California" · 17 points · by gruseom · 1 comment
• Three Rules for Startup Success · 16 points · by luccastera · 2 comments
• The Economy: Why It’s Worse Than You Think · 13 points · by theoneill · 7 comments
• Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos · 12 points · by kirubakaran · 2 comments
• Number of neurons doesn't explain superiority of the human brain · 12 points · by FiReaNG3L · 5 comments
• Most Ridiculous Site Ever? Upgrading Entire Internet To Web 2.0 in One Click · 11 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 15 comments
• Ask YC: agressive non-compete/non-solicitation agreement · 10 points · by andreyf · 25 comments
• Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo · 10 points · by echair · 6 comments
• The Breakfast Manifesto: The New Science of the Loneliest Meal · 9 points · by robg · 8 comments
• Nim Chimpsky: the chimp who thought he was a boy · 8 points · by hhm · no comments
• Best online CSS tutorial/class? · 8 points · by lennysan · 11 comments
• Unit tests for Google App Engine apps · 8 points · by nickb · no comments
• Do a stack trace of the human cognitive algorithms that produce debates about 'free will'. · 8 points · by rms · no comments
• Getting started with gnuplot · 8 points · by acangiano · 2 comments
• Twitter prepares for Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference · 8 points · by raghus · 7 comments
• Any tips for integrating sms into your web app ? · 7 points · by mhidalgo · 9 comments
• 9 Reasons to take Trains · 7 points · by lakeeffect · 6 comments
• Warner Music Group Pulls Music from Last.fm · 7 points · by kyro · 1 comment
• PC Software Upgrade Shuts Down Nuclear Power Plant · 7 points · by pax · 2 comments
• There are currently two 8-year old children with 3 parents each · 7 points · by ca98am79 · 3 comments
• Querying Google/a search engine through my webapp? · 7 points · by schtog · 8 comments
• vNES FAQ · 5 points · by bporterfield · 10 comments
• Using Amazon S3 for Personal Data Backup · 5 points · by timr · 1 comment
• Log in page · 5 points · by sangguine · 8 comments
• SoundCloud: Send & receive music like never before · 4 points · by ericw · 2 comments
• Nightmare on Microsoft Street · 4 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• Nathan Myhrvold: A life of fascinations (video) · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Unbelievable hardware: 1TB SSD · 4 points · by elsewhen · 1 comment
• Apple updates DTrace and removes limitations · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Malware found in Florida vote-counting systems · 3 points · by timr · no comments
• Apple relents on iPhones subsidy · 3 points · by echair · no comments
• Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser · 3 points · by kashif · no comments
• Last we checked, PHP is a framework. · 3 points · by reazalun · 1 comment
• Commodore 64 Mod -- MIDI Synthesizer · 3 points · by timr · no comments
• Oil prices: Is there an oil bubble? What will the future price of oil be? · 3 points · by yummyfajitas · 3 comments
• Facebook: Applications No Longer Allowed to Pre-Select Message Recipients · 3 points · by timr · 1 comment
• Moog releases its first guitar · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Benjamin Franklin the trickster · 2 points · by xirium · no comments
• Seeking FriendFeed users for HeadUp private alpha · 2 points · by talk · 1 comment
• Ballmer Is Bad News for Microsoft · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• The Wonderful World of Web 2.0 Whining · 2 points · by buckpost · 1 comment
• World's first play based on an Internet search log · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• __FILE__ in JavaScript · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Blocking chemical lets cells feast on harmful brain plaques · 2 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Something about Credit Card Validations..... · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Oil hits $139 as jobless figures stun US · 2 points · by theoneill · 1 comment
• Qwaq developing new fast Smalltalk VM · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• The latest lie-detector trial suggests the best way to detect liars may be to lie. · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Do you have Facebook? · 2 points · by ideas101 · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Looking for a new UI designer/programmer (YouIntern.com) (NYC) · 2 points · by twelvedigits · 6 comments
• Food production carbon output far outweighs food transportation · 1 points · by emmett · no comments
• Computer peripherals that read thoughts · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Stanford alerts employees that stolen laptop had personal data · 1 points · by brianlash · no comments
• Intel Premier IT Magazine on "War Gaming" · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• How Apple has kept a lid on the latest version of iPhone · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• A second introduction to Unicode · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Lisaac - prototype OO for systems programming. C-like performance. · 1 points · by rtf · 1 comment
• The right scale · 1 points · by breily · no comments
• Twitter-like dating web app running on 50 pages of php · 1 points · by talkaboutadate · no comments
• How The Grid will Revolutionize Computing · 1 points · by zen53 · no comments
• AIDS: Aiming Propaganda at Heterosexual Teenagers is a Waste of Money · 1 points · by dane · no comments
• Legitimate Sites : Hosting Web-Based Malware · 1 points · by vineet21 · no comments
• The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 8.04 · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Free Will: Hacking, Phreaking, and Anarchy (video interview with Aaron Swartz) · 1 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Deadly Domains · 1 points · by vineet21 · no comments
• The Five Questions Companies Ask About Social Media · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• How to stop procrastinating · 1 points · by a2 · no comments
• The T-Shirt History of Mozilla · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Microsoft: "... We will outsell the iPhone. We will outsell the BlackBerry." · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• The 10 Brainiest Places to Retire · 1 points · by raghus · 2 comments
• Desktopography · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Paralysed man walks in Second Life · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Amd vs Intel: AMD launches external graphics card box · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Solid State Storage Becoming a Theme · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• World's isolated tribes face contact, extinction · 1 points · by donna · 3 comments
• Bloom: Be the Urban Johnny Appleseed, a hypothetical bicycle attachment to seed plants in cities · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Heroku Down - Internal server error - Up again · 1 points · by dawie · 1 comment
• Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes? [video] · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Intel antitrust investigation officially launched by FTC · 1 points · by dkasper · no comments
• The Right Answer: How to Talk to a User · 1 points · by jwstaddo · no comments
• Facebook Changes Killing App Virality? · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• 3G iPhone to get $200 subsidy from AT&T? · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Instalando o novo Passenger Ruby Enterprise Edition · 1 points · by akitaonrails · no comments
• A Live Promotion, at 14,000 Feet. · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Best Strategy Is Speed (Startup2Startup May 2008) · 1 points · by swdesignguy · no comments
• Incremental Development Environments · 1 points · by jives · no comments