| 1. | | Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers. (dadgum.com) |
| 399 points by ColinWright on Aug 26, 2011 | 77 comments |
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| 2. | | New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer (arstechnica.com) |
| 292 points by zeratul on Aug 26, 2011 | 180 comments |
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| 3. | | iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer |
| 292 points by bignoggins on Aug 26, 2011 | 91 comments |
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| 4. | | How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA (f-secure.com) |
| 277 points by Garbage on Aug 26, 2011 | 78 comments |
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| 5. | | What does $1265 of bugs look like? (daemonology.net) |
| 211 points by cperciva on Aug 26, 2011 | 31 comments |
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| 6. | | Online course: Build your own simulated computer, assembler, lang, OS, & game (diycomputerscience.com) |
| 190 points by adaptives on Aug 26, 2011 | 29 comments |
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| 7. | | Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down (allthingsd.com) |
| 148 points by jamesjyu on Aug 26, 2011 | 26 comments |
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| 8. | | Despite Y Combinator Growth, Paul Graham Still Coding (forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron) |
| 147 points by churp on Aug 26, 2011 | 51 comments |
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| 9. | | Why Clojure doesn't need invokedynamic (groups.google.com) |
| 148 points by apgwoz on Aug 26, 2011 | 53 comments |
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| 10. | | The economics of good looks (economist.com) |
| 137 points by martincmartin on Aug 26, 2011 | 75 comments |
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| 11. | | Flash: 99% Bad (useit.com) |
| 137 points by gorm on Aug 26, 2011 | 103 comments |
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| 12. | | Introducing Stasis: A new way to build static sites with Ruby (stasis.me) |
| 133 points by winton on Aug 26, 2011 | 32 comments |
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| 13. | | Backbone.js Screencast - Introduction and Views (joeybeninghove.com) |
| 131 points by joeybeninghove on Aug 26, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 14. | | Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months (soshable.com) |
| 132 points by vaf on Aug 26, 2011 | 101 comments |
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| 15. | | TinyVM 1.0 released; adds 16 lines of code, registers, a VM stack and more (github.com/gentiradentes) |
| 121 points by davedx on Aug 26, 2011 | 22 comments |
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| 16. | | Pics of old SF on a map (oldsf.org) |
| 116 points by sdizdar on Aug 26, 2011 | 8 comments |
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| 17. | | Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Stay Until 2021 (macrumors.com) |
| 107 points by sahillavingia on Aug 26, 2011 | 107 comments |
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| 18. | | Jig, the first product from Tasty Labs (jig.com) |
| 105 points by akent on Aug 26, 2011 | 95 comments |
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| 19. | | How To Get Covered In a Major Tech Blog (dshipper.posterous.com) |
| 103 points by dshipper on Aug 26, 2011 | 30 comments |
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| 20. | | Steve at NeXT (tbray.org) |
| 103 points by alexandros on Aug 26, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 21. | | MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence (singularityhub.com) |
| 95 points by hinto_ize on Aug 26, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 22. | | Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read (davidcancel.com) |
| 95 points by oliver_olsen on Aug 26, 2011 | 21 comments |
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| 23. | | Dorm Room Design and Construction (web.mit.edu) |
| 90 points by wyclif on Aug 26, 2011 | 32 comments |
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| 24. | | If you wouldn't pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless (tbbuck.com) |
| 89 points by mootothemax on Aug 26, 2011 | 43 comments |
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| 25. | | One More Thing… (techcrunch.com) |
| 82 points by emwa on Aug 26, 2011 | 14 comments |
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| 26. | | An XMPP server with Node.js (superfeedr.com) |
| 77 points by julien on Aug 26, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 27. | | Eric Schmidt criticises education in the UK (bbc.co.uk) |
| 77 points by pmjoyce on Aug 26, 2011 | 29 comments |
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| 29. | | Group Theory in the Bedroom (americanscientist.org) |
| 65 points by prtk on Aug 26, 2011 | 10 comments |
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| 30. | | Learning Erlang (20bits.com) |
| 65 points by llambda on Aug 26, 2011 | 11 comments |
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The most accurate results are visible at Google AdPlanner, because it's reporting actual Google Analytics data from a bug embedded on every reddit page:
https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...
Google Trends is also pretty good -- again, because they have access to actual, real search data which they're presenting raw and unvarnished:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+digg&ctab=0&...
To my eye, the hockey stick begins in Q1 2010, well before the mid-Q3 spike when Digg v4 was launched.
TLDR: Digg's implosion may have accelerated Reddit's traffic growth, but it was already doubling yearly, a trend which goes back to the site's launch in 2005.