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Hacker News Summary was recently featured on the front page of Hacker News. Here is a PDF export of the number of visitors only from Hacker News and what country they came from. It…

Article Summary: Divvyshot is a YC funded group photo sharing website that launched March 2009. They were in the process of looking for angel funding but apparently Facebook made a…

I include a link in each summary back to the HN comments for the article.

I've thought about that. If I see interesting comments I may work it into the summary with a citation. My first choice would be to direct people back to HN for the article discussi…

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Yes human. I summarize articles I find most interesting and would be of interest to the HN community as a whole. As long as I'm up-voted then I'll keep doing it.

Article Summary: Bee populations have continued a precipitous decline since 2006, dropping 32% in 2007, 36% in 2008, and 29% in 2009. This not only effects honey but also the $15 b…

Article Summary: Two researchers at HP Labs have discovered that you can use Twitter mentions to predict how well a movie will do in it’s first couple of weeks more accurately than…

Article Summary: Definitely not. Since 1971 the increase in postal rates has increased more slowly than inflation measured by the CPI. This means that despite the numerous rate inc…

Article Summary: Extreme commuters are the fastest growing group of work commuters in the country, who rarely see their homes in the daylight. People who spend a month of their liv…

Article Summary: The government bailed out Citigroup to the tune of $45 billion in 2008. $20 billion of that has been paid back by Citigroup to the Treasury and the remaining $25 b…

Article Summary: MSNBC and CNN are both lagging behind Fox News in the ratings. Fox is the second highest ranks cable network in prime time, while CNN ranks 21st and MSNBC is 25th.…

Article Summary: The real estate market is going from bad to worse. By the end of 2010 about half of all commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater. According to Elizabeth…

Article Summary: AdMob is an advertising network that specializes in showing ads for mobile phones. Their ads can be shown in web pages loaded in mobile web browsers, or the ads ca…

Article Summary: Buried inside of the new banking bill is a provision that will raise the requirements to be an accredited investor. The new bill is proposed by Chris Dodd, the sen…

Driving is a luxury not a right. Parking should get more expensive to curb demand, lessen traffic congestion on the streets and make it more friendly for other modes of transportat…

Video Summary: San Francisco recently counted all of their parking spaces in preparation for the SFPark system which will dynamically adjust prices based on demand. There are a tot…

Article Summary: “A group of House Energy and Commerce members are urging the FTC to investigate complaints that Google’s Buzz social networking service and some of its other servi…

Video summary: Jason Fried is one of the co-founders of the software as a service company 37 Signals and gives a good pep talk in this video that is sure to resonate with anyone th…

Article summary: Apple has released a new iPhone every June or July since 2007. “People” have been “briefed with the matter” and they say it will be available on Verizon’s network.…

Article summary: Michael Arrington hates reading his email and thinks you should pay him to read it. Enter a service called Attention Acution that gives you a special inbox and let…

"Looking to trade: American MBAs for Chinese hackers."

Article summary: Because it’s where the money is (supposedly). Each era of MBA graduates have their defining characteristics. The ’80s conquered Wall St, the late ’90s conquered Si…

If I get down voted consistently then I'll stop. Most of the value of HN is in the comments so I'll link back to the original HN post in each summary.

The power of social media isn’t lost on any of the visitors of HN but it’s still worth taking a moment to read about how Shoes Of Prey worked with 16 year old video blogger Blair F…