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• Signs that you're a bad programmer · 273 points · by clawrencewenham · 121 comments
• How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With? · 127 points · by splat · 47 comments
• Python, client side: Skulpt · 98 points · by s3graham · 41 comments
• Netflix Prize 2 · 77 points · by elq · 7 comments
• Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July · 74 points · by peter123 · 46 comments
• What's on an airline baggage tag? · 68 points · by jgrahamc · 20 comments
• Escherization · 62 points · by fogus · 5 comments
• Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user · 61 points · by mjfern · 20 comments
• Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately · 58 points · by gaia-forming · 67 comments
• Google account suspended: A post mortem · 55 points · by twampss · 23 comments
• Washington Versus Silicon Valley · 55 points · by jsyedidia · 43 comments
• Meet CI Joe: GitHub's new Continuous Integration server · 55 points · by evdawg · 7 comments
• Practicing Product Minimalism · 52 points · by brlewis · 19 comments
• How to Back Up Gmail In Linux · 50 points · by jsonscripter · 22 comments
• Book'em, Github. · 48 points · by linuxmag · 36 comments
• Dean Kamen: Healthcare Debate "Backward Looking" · 48 points · by cwan · 88 comments
• Spacelocker, A Social Network To Avoid Like The Plague · 46 points · by cwan · 21 comments
• Apple and Facebook application development: A rush for fool's gold? · 46 points · by mjfern · 32 comments
• Approaching a Minimum Viable Product for a Startup · 44 points · by plinkplonk · 13 comments
• Differences in the Windows and Unix cultures · 43 points · by krying_krab · 30 comments
• The iPhone is the New Cigarette · 42 points · by abie · 26 comments
• Ask YC: Does interviewing developers leave you depressed? · 41 points · by Flemlord · 124 comments
• Does your company use Python? The Python Software Foundation wants to know. · 41 points · by VanL · 21 comments
• JCryption - JavaScript data encryption · 37 points · by Oompa · 39 comments
• Exploiting common crypto flaws (Google Tech Talk) · 36 points · by jremmy · 6 comments
• Renraku OS: The Way Up · 33 points · by daeken · 11 comments
• Riak: A decentralized key-value store · 33 points · by mace · 12 comments
• On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Dead · 33 points · by dmoney · 14 comments
• How People Can Get You To Do What They Want · 32 points · by askorkin · 13 comments
• Translation Party: Tapping Into Google Translate’s Untold Creative Genius · 31 points · by jmonegro · 16 comments
• Relentlessly Profitable- how great ideas kill companies · 30 points · by n9com · 8 comments
• Motivation behind creating Wikipedia · 29 points · by ananthrk · 10 comments
• Yahoo Chief: ‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’ · 29 points · by newacc · 25 comments
• C# finally gets default parameters · 28 points · by RyanMcGreal · 10 comments
• Bjarne Stroustrup on Concepts and the Future of C++ · 27 points · by naish · 9 comments
• What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way · 26 points · by mshafrir · 9 comments
• “Blink” and the Art of Hiring the Best · 25 points · by b-man · 11 comments
• Ask YC: Where/how do YC founders get health insurance? · 24 points · by daviday · 18 comments
• Opera: Still competing, still growing (Interview with CEO) · 23 points · by Pistos2 · 10 comments
• Freaky Sleep Paralysis: Being Awake in Your Nightmares · 22 points · by AjJi · 20 comments
• The fundamentals you need to master in sales: cause & effect · 21 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• On Scala's future · 20 points · by acangiano · 15 comments
• CSS Debug Snippet · 20 points · by frisco · 3 comments
• Aesop's Fable - or fact? Meet the world's cleverest bird · 19 points · by wallflower · 3 comments
• RESTful Transactions · 18 points · by fogus · 7 comments
• Study finds women directors damage profits · 18 points · by limist · 36 comments
• Tell HN: HeavyMetal for PHP released · 18 points · by jawngee · 7 comments
• Schmidt's Apple Gig: He Worked for Free · 17 points · by zhyder · 4 comments
• Could Grad School Be Fixed? · 17 points · by asimjalis · 13 comments
• Reuters exec: Please link to us and let us steal AP’s thunder · 17 points · by shortformblog · 7 comments
• A New DB for 80% of Facebook, YouTube-scale Sites · 16 points · by gsteph22 · 13 comments
• New open office UI prototype · 14 points · by kasunh · 13 comments
• IPhone 3D Texture Mapped City: Paris [video] · 14 points · by kirubakaran · 4 comments
• Cost of living adjusted, NYC poorest city in America? · 13 points · by cwan · 11 comments
• Portland Incubator Experiment · 12 points · by domodomo · 4 comments
• Deutsche Bank: ‘Underwater’ Mortgages to Hit 48% · 10 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Patterns in the Group Mind · 10 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• In five years all browsers will block Internet advertisements by default. · 9 points · by vaksel · 23 comments
• Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts · 9 points · by cwan · 4 comments
• Ask YC: Any suggestion/ideas for a college project · 8 points · by omfut · 3 comments
• Ryanair is one opinionated company · 8 points · by mattjaynes · 24 comments
• How do I learn Ruby & Rails? · 8 points · by mattjaynes · 5 comments
• Results confirm theory as Kepler tracks extrasolar planet · 8 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Returning to the moon - A debate · 8 points · by emontero1 · 2 comments
• America's Fastest-Dying Cities · 8 points · by cwan · 2 comments
• Windows XP Makeover · 8 points · by mrlebowski · 4 comments
• Cody Brown - MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______ · 7 points · by alexjmann · no comments
• Major League Baseball's MLB.tv is really, really impressive. · 7 points · by cschanck · 2 comments
• Turning Out The Lights: Splashcast · 7 points · by hooande · 1 comment
• We're All Young · 7 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Windows 7 Upgrade Chart · 7 points · by ams1 · 6 comments
• 12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up at a Stevenote [video] · 6 points · by jmonegro · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Powered Exoskeletons; What's stopping us? · 6 points · by tocomment · 11 comments
• Ask HN: What are the signs that you are a Good, Better, or Best programmer? · 6 points · by edw519 · 5 comments
• Gamers gun down Half-Life · 6 points · by mattmichielsen · 1 comment
• A Map of Science · 6 points · by timf · 2 comments
• China Behind the Headlines: Xu Zhiyong · 6 points · by domodomo · no comments
• Geopolitical Attacks On Twitter Intensified Almost Tenfold Last Night · 6 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Spotify, Napster and The Quest For Premium Music Dollars · 6 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• SQLite ported to .NET · 5 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: Recommend a domain-name registrar.. · 5 points · by blintson · 10 comments
• Twitter Outage Moves Into Day 2 · 5 points · by jmonegro · 1 comment
• A New Approach to Fusion · 5 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Greasemonkey script that adds collapse/expand links to HN comments · 5 points · by ilitirit · no comments
• Job Losses Slow, Signaling a Shift in Economy · 5 points · by newacc · 2 comments
• The Little But Really Useful Guide to Creativity · 5 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Ask HN: HN for science? · 5 points · by geuis · 4 comments
• Synapse Project to Make an Artificial Human Brain Gets fundeed by DARPA · 5 points · by marcus · no comments
• The True Value Of Social Media · 5 points · by mikeyur · no comments
• The Dream Job · 5 points · by shalmanese · 3 comments
• How Is America Going To End? · 4 points · by winanga · 1 comment
• Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger · 4 points · by mixmax · no comments
• YC: Introduce yourself if you feel like it · 4 points · by gaia-forming · 8 comments
• In C#, not everything derives from object · 4 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Building a "useful Perl 6" · 4 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments · 4 points · by mhb · 3 comments
• 5 Axis Milling Machine Making V8 Engine Block · 4 points · by mhb · 5 comments
• Data stream compression in WWII: 3000lbs of Victory Mail to 40lbs of microfilm · 4 points · by friism · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my website www.intelligentcredentials.com · 4 points · by FreeRadical · 7 comments
• Tell HN: A request for saner text-editors · 4 points · by tarkin2 · 10 comments
• How to Turn Complaints into Loyal Customers · 4 points · by kevinxray · no comments
• E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · 4 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Welcome to the overextended class · 4 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• On Language - How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection · 4 points · by mshafrir · 2 comments
• DigitalSLR · 4 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Pressure sensitive keyboard by Microsoft [video] · 4 points · by mrlebowski · no comments
• Things We'd Like to Throw in a Black Hole · 3 points · by firefoxman1 · no comments
• 12:34 07/08/09 · 3 points · by damir · 2 comments
• Writing a Book: Part Two (Structure) · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Help fix government data APIs · 3 points · by chengas123 · 2 comments
• Juan Enriquez Shares Mindboggling New Science · 3 points · by myoung8 · 2 comments
• How to design a flat organization · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Crenk’s Top SEO Blogs Worth Subscribing To · 3 points · by insomniamedia · 2 comments
• The Medical Algorithms Project · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Java HTTP proxy servlet (with Spring) · 3 points · by nocivus · no comments
• A new way of keeping private correspondence private · 3 points · by davidw · no comments
• Ask HN: Did Google Shut Down Your World of Text? · 3 points · by euroclydon · 1 comment
• Touchable Holography · 3 points · by diiq · no comments
• Ask HN: Entering a highly saturated market with the new business · 3 points · by smikhanov · 1 comment
• Dark Energy From the Ground Up: Make Way for BigBOSS · 3 points · by toni · 1 comment
• What's Next For Roku? More Video, Audio, New Hardware · 3 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• New Free Fonts · 3 points · by AjJi · no comments
• CSS Experiments · 3 points · by AjJi · no comments
• Heim Theory · 3 points · by geuis · no comments
• Fred Brooks: The computer scientist as toolsmith [pdf] · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Startup valuations take a dive as 'down rounds' now rule the day · 3 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Apollo 11 Mission Timeline · 3 points · by frisco · no comments
• Twitter Tries to Regroup After Web Attack · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Fun with Ruby case/when statements · 2 points · by kowsik · no comments
• How happy is the internet? · 2 points · by araneae · no comments
• FT joins rush to charge for online articles · 2 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Debunked - iPhone Background Apps Without Jailbreaking Or Push · 2 points · by st3fan · 3 comments
• The Federal Government as systemic risk to innovation in the US · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Unix Windowing Terminal System Blit, 1982, Bell Labs · 2 points · by dryicerx · 3 comments
• Blame FriendFeed II · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Internet's Conscientious Objectors · 2 points · by quoderat · no comments
• The early buzz about some of today’s most popular websites · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Defining Document Compatibility [in IE8] (Feb. '09) · 2 points · by paulbaumgart · no comments
• Dangerous hacking · 2 points · by envitar · no comments
• How to Localize Your Software without Losing Your Hair (or Shirt) · 2 points · by MikeMacMan · no comments
• JavaScript Function Tricks for Making Callbacks Better · 2 points · by julien · no comments
• Is Google Voice a Threat to AT&T (Pogue's take on the fiasco)? · 2 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology · 2 points · by bearwithclaws · no comments
• DHH: The problem with averages · 2 points · by mattjaynes · no comments
• Amazon Has Launched Their Mobile Application for Android · 2 points · by insomniamedia · no comments
• Yahoo's Missed Opportunity: The Social Web · 2 points · by hellacious · no comments
• Twitter DDoS Attack Politically Motivated, Says Report · 2 points · by newacc · no comments
• Tool of the Day: Cardstar: Lose the Cards, Keep the Savings · 2 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• How much to reveal to potential funders or business partners? · 2 points · by diN0bot · no comments
• The Church-Turing Thesis: Story and Recent Progress · 2 points · by b-man · no comments
• Touchable Hologram Becomes Reality (w/ Video) · 2 points · by limist · no comments
• NASA says Kepler spacecraft proves it can find Earth-sized planets · 2 points · by healthylivingal · no comments
• Microsoft “OneApp”, possible app store for Zune HD? · 2 points · by dannyr · 2 comments
• Credit Card Debt Correlates with Small Business Failure · 2 points · by tc · 3 comments
• Poor man's GPS on Android · 2 points · by mrlebowski · no comments
• Why is your brain wrinkled? · 2 points · by thinkzig · 1 comment
• Don't Send VCs Painfully Long Emails · 2 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• SendGrid: Hosted Email service for password reminders, welcome messages, etc · 2 points · by e1ven · 1 comment
• Twitter second act = myspace · 2 points · by fredBuddemeyer · no comments
• Twitter’s Hosting Illustrated: F*ckyeahboobies.com · 2 points · by doxx · no comments
• How to be happier now · 2 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• Ask HN: Corporation types and "maximizing shareholder value"? · 2 points · by dlytle · 4 comments
• Geek Weekend: Ann Arbor, Michigan · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• New Use for Your iPhone: Controlling Drones · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Psychopaths have faulty brain connections (can lifecasting help?) · 2 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Seven Lies About Lying (Part 2) · 2 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Wave-Powered Monitor Is Moving Beyond Listening to Whales · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Ask HN: do contest/test taking skills correlate with research skills? · 2 points · by kunqiana · 7 comments
• How to embed a Sinatra app inside a Rails app as a plugin · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Collapsible Tab Groups - Mozilla "Reinventing Tabs" Challenge Entry | capcloud · 1 points · by vulpes · no comments
• Hugo Awards are this Sunday · 1 points · by renai42 · no comments
• The Baldwin Effect - how distinct levels of evolutionary systems interact · 1 points · by andreyf · no comments
• Let there be light: eSolar switches on first U.S. solar thermal tower · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Computer model warns about 'unexpected' Central Bank announcement · 1 points · by 1gor · no comments
• Order Dollar Coins from US Mint at Face Value with Free Shipping · 1 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• BusinessObjects service pack woes anger customers · 1 points · by newsio · no comments
• Memorizing v. Understanding · 1 points · by lwc123 · no comments
• Microsoft's Azure moving out of Washington · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• The Gravest Pain of an iPhone Developer (Musings on Customer Communication) · 1 points · by rufo · no comments
• Response to The World's Economic Problems are Like 2 Cross-Wired Thermostats · 1 points · by jeffspost · no comments
• The Cross-Platform Enterprise Lore · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• The key to understanding net neutrality: anonymity = good, egalitarianism = bad · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Analysis of crazy water slide jump · 1 points · by gaika · no comments
• Rate My iPhone App · 1 points · by thisguy47 · 1 comment
• Enough with consumers already · 1 points · by pingswept · no comments
• The New Nomads (2007) · 1 points · by paulgb · no comments
• FREE, A New York Times Bestseller · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Practice Fusion gets investment from Salesforce.com · 1 points · by kcy · no comments
• New NCover Plugin for .Net Code Coverage with Hudson · 1 points · by rausanka · no comments
• Buggy Dice.com Scraper that Requires a Profile? Not Good. · 1 points · by rwolf · 1 comment
• TechStars Incubator Hatches 10 New Companies · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Java Tips: Initializing Collection · 1 points · by enefem · no comments
• Censorship versus thuggery · 1 points · by mylifeforaiur · no comments
• Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal DOS attacks 'targeted Georgian blogger' · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• China Internet Camp Kills Kid · 1 points · by insomniamedia · no comments
• How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Public Key Encryption · 1 points · by mikejuk · no comments
• Local Technology Councils Have Tough Work · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Automatically Respond to Twitter Messages · 1 points · by bearwithclaws · no comments
• Fabless and Fearless · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• FAQ: The ins and outs of DoS attacks · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Small Banks Gain Cachet in Talent-Poaching Game · 1 points · by jaydub · no comments
• Consumers with a Conscience · 1 points · by VladVuki · no comments
• Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions · 1 points · by adamhowell · no comments
• When tactics drown out strategy · 1 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Cash for IT clunkers? · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Mr. Jobs, Domino’s Calling · 1 points · by BigZaphod · no comments
• Credit Crunch Will Worsen Obesity Epidemic · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Goofy "Bing Goes the Internet" Wins Jingle Contest - AppScout · 1 points · by AjJi · no comments
• IE6 MUST DIE: 70+ Sites Unite to Kill IE6 · 1 points · by AjJi · no comments
• Top open source apps for Windows, at a glance · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Google Chrome: Meet the New Boss · 1 points · by linuxmag · no comments
• Ask HN: Finding old stories in HN, best practices · 1 points · by tocomment · 3 comments
• Chinese Microsoft Office Rival Launching on Web Soon · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• This Is Quite Possibly The Spotify Cap Table · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Lazarus: New Version Available · 1 points · by dontopzy · no comments
• How a denial-of-service attack works · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Paul Tudor Jones - The Trader (video) · 1 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Shrub / Amazon S3 Proxy · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Python SOAP tutorial with ZSI · 1 points · by kasunh · no comments
• The single biggest problem facing engineering · 1 points · by steveeq1 · no comments
• Tori's Eye · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Non-PHP Tools for PHP Developers · 1 points · by matttah · 1 comment
• Not too stupid for polyglot programming · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• LABjs - Loading And Blocking Javascript · 1 points · by mshafrir · 1 comment
• Demands for Bottled Water Labelling: The Bottled Water Industry Responds · 1 points · by economixt · no comments
• Major technical difficulties you've faced in smartphone development? · 1 points · by Estragon · no comments
• Niche Wordpress Themes · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• US reopens H-2B visa programme for foreign workers · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Performance monitoring with Collectd · 1 points · by julien · no comments
• Nokia Surge 6790 (AT&T) · 1 points · by healthylivingal · no comments
• What would help you improve customer service? · 1 points · by kevinxray · no comments
• Google's Last Dodgeball Employee Leaving To Join Foursquare · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Twitter blackout left users feeling 'jittery,' 'naked' · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• MacGyvered Key/Value in Symfony/Propel · 1 points · by adatta02 · no comments
• BIG-IP v10 Live Install · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Prehistoric Gene Reawakens to Battle HIV · 1 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• Grooveshark iPhone Application Review: Like Last.fm App But Listen To Anything · 1 points · by insomniamedia · no comments
• Dell XPS M1530 Laptop A Impressive Performing Laptop. · 1 points · by cwest37802 · no comments
• Ultimate RISC, the ONE instruction computer · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• GameStreamer, now rivaling Steam, D2D and GoG · 1 points · by SwuGS · no comments
• Rough EA Sports Active Whips Polished Wii Fit Workout · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Software as prose · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Vegas Sucks. Defcon is good. · 1 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Wordpress plugin: Track subscriber inbound traffic in Google Analytics · 1 points · by briancray · no comments
• Apple tablet prophesied, sales foretold by eager analysts · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Taping the Zeitgeist Via Google Search Suggestions · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Alternatives for rejected iPhone apps developpers · 1 points · by e1ven · no comments
• Embracing REST with mind, body and soul (Rails and the new respond_with) · 1 points · by evdawg · 3 comments
• UK government reveals details of ID card crypto · 1 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• Critique of pseudocode explanations of the Closest Pair Algorithm · 1 points · by jcsalterego · no comments
• What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way - Google Wave - Lifehacker · 1 points · by AjJi · no comments
• Google Brand Worth 100 Billion These Days · 1 points · by erdemozkan · no comments
• Ask HN: What is the nature of deafblind people's and animals' thoughts? · 1 points · by Arun2009 · 3 comments
• Apple could sell 2m tablets @600 per, analyst says · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Offender Locator banished from iTunes App Store · 1 points · by BRadmin · no comments
• Page Stack - move your links from device to device · 1 points · by hedgehog · no comments