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 newsfeed for busy web developers
Breaking a WoW addiction

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2010/12/doing-my-dailies-why-i-quit-wow-and.html

282
193
Cambridge University refuses to censor student's thesis

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/25/cambridge-university-1.html

498
61
Sacked by a Google algorithm

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/columns/guest/winter/index.htm

685
283
Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1293530004.html

181
158
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/12/27/wired

230
110
Show HN: Radi, my HTML5 content creation app (Mac)

http://radiapp.com

297
38
Prof. Ross Anderson's response to a takedown request about security research

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf

336
54
Google Engineer bails out student in jail

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2010/12/23/

540
196
Merry Christmas HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2034624

283
113
The Simple Software That Could--But Probably Won't--Change the Face of Writing

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-simple-software-that-could-but-probably-wont-change-the-face-of-writing/68364/

226
69
Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/four-reasons-google-is-still-awesome.html

325
100
Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/using-flat-files-so-elections-dont-break-your-server/?src=tptw

253
49
Why I love math

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/eo4e1/respectful_question_you_guys_actually_like_this/c19lh2k

231
42
Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/17/bingo-card-creator-etc-year-in-review-2010/

288
88
Introducing Word Lens

http://questvisual.com/

1297
281
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/

486
293
If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming

http://www.dump.com/2010/12/13/the-vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-situations-video/

503
123
Today you, tomorrow me

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker/c18z0z2

1270
203
Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6034669/Gawkmedia_source_code___database_release_

365
188
The Day MAME Saved My Ass

http://www.ppl-pilot.com/mame.aspx

352
44
The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.

http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-mentor-me-is.html

328
42
What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.

http://garrysub.posterous.com/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid-an-anonym

521
149
How to detect a toxic customer

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

293
114
Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-heroku-for-212-million-in-cash/

717
198
Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

664
255
Nexus S

http://www.google.com/phone/detail/nexus-s

364
263
Captain Crunch needs your help

http://savingcaptaincrunch.com/

195
74
Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/

254
129
Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations

http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/

319
120
Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability

687
104
Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html

429
109
Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/11/6-startup-ideas-every-nerd-has.html

313
209
Google Beatbox

http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20bschk%20bschk%20pv%20kkkkkkkkkk%20bschk%0A%0A

1028
96
WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=1

341
254
The unbearable lameness of web 2.0

http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/2978-Die-unertraegliche-Lameness-des-Web-2.0.html#en

215
44
Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html

437
67
What I Learned From FarmVille - So You Don’t Have To Play It

https://docs1.google.com/document/d/1MDqR1MJHfa98ragj2NBp7JMEROKuo29fLJrgb_e702E/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMz61vMB#

251
50
How to build discipline and brainwash yourself

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/the-greatest-secret-in-the-world/

253
128
Hacker's Guide to Tea

http://worldoftea.org/hackers-guide-to-tea/

294
128
Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down

http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter

459
179
Goodbye, Google App Engine

http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719

362
95
Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/20/whoa-google-thats-a-pretty-big-security-hole/

260
33
PG on the cover of Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-disruptor.html

262
65
An Awesome Book

http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html

409
100
Open ID Is A Nightmare

http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened

311
109
When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.

http://blog.izs.me/post/1591805056/tsa-success-story

422
184
How Israel handles airport security

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

550
162
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the US Budget

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html

190
135
Reddit’s Astonishing Altruism

http://voltier.com/2010/11/12/reddits-astonishin-altruism/

372
127
The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

http://sivers.org/itunes

567
122
Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=283

443
354
Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

http://www.google.com/mail/help/contacts_export_confirm.html

470
169
The 18 things you must do when launching a new website

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/launching-a-new-website-18-steps

353
26
Implementing the auto-buying bot from xkcd #576

http://bieh.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/

333
82
The Myth of the Immortal Hamburger

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html

371
34
A hell of a time

http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/418/

171
328
Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/05/ubuntu-to-ditch-x-for-wayland/

369
154
S4

http://s4.io/

350
59
Google Engineering Management Mistakes

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ajfcdscjzbvp_976rt9cfw

296
135
Remind HN: Vote

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859796

454
382
The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket

http://www.wanderingearl.com/the-day-us-customs-found-a-bullet-in-my-pocket/

311
202
Use Vim Like A Pro

http://tottinge.blogsome.com/use-vim-like-a-pro

301
91
My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned

http://www.johannhari.com/2009/06/21/my-dalliance-with-smart-drugs-and-the-lesson-i-learned

221
140
The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/quest-for-freedom-and-safety-why-i.html

311
228
Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter.

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/cease-and-desist.html

192
18
Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143

461
31
WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/wepay-ice-paypal/

605
161
Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

714
341
Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/serendipity-finds-you.html

421
54
Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013215629_hero21m.html

383
70
What We Look for in Founders

http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

362
174
Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

479
137
Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible

http://yieldthought.com/post/1345897970/10-flaws-that-made-my-weekend-app-possible

279
66
The reverse job applicant

http://www.reversejobapplication.com/

518
302
PayPal robbed my bank account

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/PayPal+robbed+my+bank+account

378
185
Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801727

246
117
Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP

http://kottke.org/10/10/benoit-mandelbrot-rip

338
83
Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee

http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193

433
105
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/patent-troll-takes-over-the-web-can-it-be-stopped.ars

352
177
How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-an-iphone-application/3926493#3926493

252
105
Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1:latest-news&layout=news&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug&option=com_content&Itemid=18&ref=nf

314
140
How Hacker News ranking algorithm works

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

311
74
To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/30/AR2010013000031_pf.html

276
194
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html

436
205
Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772205

620
114
MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem

http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/thread/528a94f287e9d77e

329
174
Google responds aggressively to Oracle Java suit

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101005114201136

297
122
Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/microsoft-internet-explorer-browser-falls-below-50-perc-of-worldwide-market-for-first-time

319
67
How Fake Money Saved Brazil

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

377
131
Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage

http://alexisohanian.com/lets-get-salman-khan-on-the-ted-stage

225
42
Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim

http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/hit-and-run-victim-was-quiet-and-dependable-co-workers-say/1124721

271
111
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint

373
195
Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/30/130249425/thanks-for-paying-taxes-here-s-your-receipt?ft=1&f=93559255

331
181
Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35973/Minecraft-creator-banks-350k-a-day

317
239
Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

http://erkie.github.com/

684
74
What Happens At Y Combinator

http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

549
143
The sad truth about Facebook

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/24/the-sad-truth-about-the-facebook-movie.html

241
116
Products For People Who Make Products For People

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285436217.html

281
79
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/ron-conway-angel-email/

558
206
Leaving .net

http://whatupdave.tumblr.com/post/1170718843/leaving-net

355
213
Ask HN: Offer of Employment retracted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717733

271
158
So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-bar/

1098
232
Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/archives/2010/09/scribd_puts_my.html

294
104
The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120501092_pf.html

192
91
Why I stopped reading HN

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-i-stopped-reading-hn/

245
122
A tale of two cultures

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/tale-of-two-cultures.html

242
45
Diaspora Developer Release

http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/09/15/developer-release.html

308
196
Bill Gates, Hero

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/bill_gates_hero.html

351
227
IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight

http://eliainsider.com/2010/09/14/fighting-the-wrong-fight/

366
157
Today is Programmer's Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers_Day

240
38
What a fig is.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/edible-symbiosis.html

239
84
What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-answering.html

463
281
Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1096322756/working-on-a-friday-update-crying-over-paypal

418
169
Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html

464
229
Google Instant Search Released

http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy&

371
216
Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

http://al3x.net/2010/09/07/startup-health.html

254
120
DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need

http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp

211
20
The Four Levels of Social Entrapment

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-levels-of-social-entrapment.html

159
84
There is a Horse in the Apple Store

http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/1059696119/there-is-a-horse-in-the-apple-store

338
112
Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp

375
212
Craig Newmark: How Being a Geek Made it Hard to Respond to CNN's Ambush

http://thefastertimes.com/techlife/2010/09/02/craig-newmark-what-i-should-have-said-to-cnns-amber-lyon-when-she-ambushed-me/

187
72
Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2000/10/pocketful?printable=true

529
177
Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html

280
112
Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#

353
133
Rails 3.0: It's ready

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done

385
65
Ladies, look at your code. Now back to mine.

http://www.google.com/buzz/kevinb9n/Q3YnNiEC9jr/Ladies-Look-at-your-code-return-Iterables-filter

281
74
"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt&characters=Steve%20Jobs&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&detail=medium

262
110
Is There Anything Good About Men?

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

250
110
A letter to my students

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/08/24/a-letter-to-my-students/

462
169
Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY

335
75
Why GNU grep is Fast

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html

512
115
Buzz Kill

http://leoville.com/buzz-kill

290
82
Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Episode

http://www.geekosystem.com/futurama-prisoner-of-benda-theory/

242
31
The Start-up from Hell

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+start-up+from+hell

295
78
What different sorting algorithms sound like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA

231
39
Why Free Plans Don’t Work

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/08/18/why-free-plans-dont-work/

318
114
Wired's bullshit "The web is dead" graph

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html

394
73
My Thoughts on Oracle v Google

http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-google.html

606
82
Welcome to the new decade

http://twitter.com/phil_nash/status/21159419598

486
158
How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week

http://www.davincoburn.com/DavinCoburn.com/Fly.html#

180
58
Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-sues-google-for-patent-infringement-2010-08-12?reflink=MW_news_stmp

452
326
Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-hackers-why-you-dont-use-garamond-on-the-web/

224
65
What Happened to Yahoo

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

688
270
How to Take a Walk

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/09/how-to-take-a-walk/

273
185
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

319
42
P ≠ NP

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35539144/pnp12pt

740
208
The Graphing Calculator Story - a developer who refused to leave

http://www.nucalc.com/Story/

331
32
Islands in lakes in islands in lakes ...

http://www.elbruz.org/islands/Islands%20and%20Lakes.htm

199
56
The Future of Startup Funding

http://paulgraham.com/future.html

241
91
Google Kills Wave

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

712
237
Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story

http://alexisohanian.com/keep-calm-carry-on-what-you-didnt-know-about

776
83
Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1569559

208
161
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131

269
52
Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue3.pdf

185
49
Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator

http://www.resultsjunkies.com/blog/back-office-exposed-bingo-card-creator/

274
54
Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong

309
208
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-5000-open-source-java.html

487
126
Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry

http://www.limedaring.com/technical-co-founder-wanted-for-disrupting-the-wedding-industry/

224
143
The Acceleration of Addictiveness

http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

470
269
Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5

284
51
Developing and Deploying a Simple Clojure Web Application

http://mmcgrana.github.com/2010/07/develop-deploy-clojure-web-applications.html

158
40
Will it optimize?

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2010/07/23/will-it-optimize/

357
59
Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537461

441
202
The Top Idea in Your Mind

http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html

650
191
How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2006/07/18/photos

428
210
High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/high_ground_maneuver/

227
89
Makani Power, a Google funded wind energy startup, comes out of stealth

http://www.makanipower.com/

155
78
My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

http://www.johannhari.com/2008/05/06/my-experiment-with-smart-drugs

264
142
My Google Interview

http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/07/my-google-interview.html

228
133
A prescient footnote

http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/07/15/most-prescient-footnote-ever/

261
79
The Men Who Stare At Screens (why going to the gym might not be good enough)

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who-stare-at-screens/?hp

206
106
Ask PG & other successful folks: how did your life change after FU money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104

277
174
World War II was totally unrealistic

http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html

255
152
Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours

http://sale.sitepoint.com/

273
60
What were the key decisions that Page and Brin made in the early days of Google

http://www.quora.com/What-were-the-4-or-5-key-decisions-that-Larry-Page-and-Sergey-Brin-made-in-the-early-days-of-Google

157
50
The truth about cold water

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/cold_water?11198

244
57
Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm

http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/

429
147
* cures (or causes) cancer

http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/

178
57
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

611
127
The Most Important Algorithms

http://www.risc.jku.at/people/ckoutsch/stuff/e_algorithms.html

187
48
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?

http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents

268
168
My loss

http://sivers.org/loss

348
105
I assume I'm below average

http://sivers.org/below-average

340
106
Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html

316
121
Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474094

391
263
NY hotels trying to outlaw short-term home sublets (i.e. AirBnB)

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100628/0037599977.shtml

227
80
No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010)

http://tauday.com/

367
147
Clojure's n00b attraction problem

http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem

186
129
I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463425

151
218
Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4

http://www.antennasys.com/antennasys-blog/2010/6/24/apple-iphone-4-antennas.html

327
69
Xz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz

232
64
YouTube wins case against Viacom

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/youtube-wins-case-against-viacom.html

313
43
TI releases Launchpad, a $4.30 (shipping included) microproccessor dev kit

http://hackaday.com/2010/06/22/ti-makes-a-big-bid-for-the-hobby-market/

249
102
How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/how-to-become-a-millionaire-in-three-years/

322
73
Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447428

313
134
This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html

274
97
Introducing Google Command line Tool

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html

390
51
I laughed at Posterous, but they proved me wrong

http://blog.dustincurtis.com/i-dont-laugh-at-startup-ideas-anymore

186
78
Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-increase/

270
163
Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432107

330
118
Banana equivalent dose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

470
84
Rent a White Guy

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119

275
69
You're Doing It Wrong: CS in the real world

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327

273
56
Pixar films don't get finished, they just get released

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/pixar-films-dont-get-finished-they-just.html

221
32
Where can I fly for how much?

http://www.kayak.com/explore/?airport=YYC#/YYC?a=any&d=any&fb=200,2730&l=any&ll=0.175781,-0.175781&ns=n&s=0&t=0,100&z=3

668
106
"You Don't Understand Ordinary People" - Feynman Gives Advice to Wolfram

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ordinary-people.html

264
78
There Are No Famous Programmers

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275989245.html

303
196
Why I Sold Zappos

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/why-i-sold-zappos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29

526
88
How to make McDonalds french fries

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfect-mcdonalds-style-french-fries.html

396
93
The Buzzer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

227
55
The Value of Ideas

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_value_of_ideas/

285
98
Guy uploads, downloads, then re-uploads the same video to YouTube 1,000 times

http://slate.me/bNg1lh

209
133
To Paul Graham

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250

647
152
Hacker Monthly #1 is here

http://hackermonthly.com

641
177
Google ditches Windows on security concerns

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html

260
152
Go To University, Not For CS

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275258018.html

163
143
Top kill fails to plug leak

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30spill.html?hp

140
135
Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

357
113
I've Changed My Mind About The iPad

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/ive-changed-my-mind-about-the-ipad.html

249
163
How real-world corruption works

http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realworld_corruption_works/

316
72
A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attack/#

491
114
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours

http://blog.rescuetime.com/2010/05/24/the-tragic-cost-of-google-pac-man-4-82-million-hours/

169
59
The latest version of the LittleDog robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQsRPJ1dYw&feature=player_embedded

173
61
What are the lesser known but cool data structures?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500607/what-are-the-lesser-known-but-cool-data-structures

174
44
Play PacMan at google.com Now.

http://google.com?

298
91
'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm

280
92
Google Prediction API

http://code.google.com/apis/predict/

355
81
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

293
41
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/fashion/02love.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

325
115
PyPy is the Future of Python

http://alexgaynor.net/2010/may/15/pypy-future-python/

172
42
_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-post-modern-genius/

382
179
An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

279
53
Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/youre-welcome-you-bastards/

360
112
For loops help - comp.lang.c

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/e105e5d339edec01?pli=1

233
57
I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1336406

362
247
China drops Dropbox

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=19835

246
103
More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio

174
118
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/

250
103
Scribd in HTML

http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5

315
104
Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$INDU

310
263
Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/video-major-facebook-security-hole-lets-you-view-your-friends-live-chats/

301
61
Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/05/03

340
153
Solving the Alt-Tab Problem

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/solving-the-alt-tab-problem/

204
98
Your Office Chair Is Killing You

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm

188
85
Learning Advanced JavaScript

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

169
19
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html

286
77
Thoughts on Flash

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

962
505
HP Buying Palm For $1.2 Billion

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HP-to-Acquire-Palm-for-12-bw-3412218042.html?x=0&.v=1

313
143
Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw

http://learnpythonthehardway.com/

270
160
Not Even In South Park?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/opinion/26douthat.html

257
153
The case of the 500-mile email

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/humor/500_mile_email.txt

434
24
Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt]

http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-3836587

247
59
Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablippy.com+%2B%22from+card%22

231
159
Android – Now Ported On The iPhone

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

494
121
McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/538652366/hacker-attack

249
107
An apology...

http://furbo.org/2010/04/19/an-apology/

367
189
How Not to copy your SSH private key to your servers

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:pastebin.com+%22-----BEGIN+RSA+PRIVATE+KEY-----%22

309
72
The Ultimate Guide To Getting Nowhere In Life

http://garyharan.com/2010/04/18/the-ultimate-guide-to-getting-nowhere-in-life.html

184
86
HTML5 presentation

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html

316
57
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud

http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-59.htm

270
153
Booted out of Bootup Labs

http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-labs

345
158
We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.

http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034

293
195
HN Contractors: Add Yourself

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467

222
65
This link says it's from YouTube but it's not

http://www.youtube.com/redirect?username=digitalhook&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsecuritytube.net%2FSocial-Engineering-Attacks-using-Simple-Redirections-video.aspx&video_id=Vgc3NVVpb8c&event=url_redirect&url_redirect=True&usg=UE0DOmwjBRK-mgheFtW1hMTEvh4=

277
57
The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html

446
210
Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1

http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/

320
172
Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2010/04/steve-jobs-has-just-gone-mad.html

410
228
New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler

525
480
The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71.html

333
87
Best Writing Advice for Engineers I've Ever Seen.

http://engineerwriting.jottit.com/

318
73
Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik

439
278
News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles

https://secure.grepular.com/projects/yc_ignoreipad.user.js

152
41
Ask HN: got any food hacks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1237939

133
165
Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html

273
186
The Collapse of Complex Business Models

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/

278
64
A real person, a lot like you

http://sivers.org/real

624
139
Congratulations Patrick

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230156

400
61
My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html

224
65
NAT-to-NAT direct connections with no proxy/STUN needed

http://samy.pl/pwnat/

162
36
I need this at the office

http://nikf.org/post/463454182/i-need-this-at-the-office-thanks-tim

137
25
U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks - Details on intimidation attempts

http://wikileaks.org/#spying

304
113
China's instructions on reporting on Google

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032402511.html

275
164
Wikileaks: Something is up

http://morgue.isprettyawesome.com/?p=1361

407
116
Unix recovery legend

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

220
83
A new approach to China: an update

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html

286
122
Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw

219
59
Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-business-on-5-hours-a-week/

359
78
Google releases Skipfish, an open-source web security scanner

http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/

193
26
Solving turnover (unusual dailywtf)

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx?

276
96
If I Launched a Startup

http://thestartuplawyer.com/startup-issues/if-i-launched-a-startup

196
36
Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about

http://etudeapp.com

318
112
Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines

http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

318
120
Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems

http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

150
34
How to Win Friends and Influence People Summarized

http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html

164
48
Tell HN: Thank you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1188046

178
64
5 things I knew (or should have) before my startup, but didn't learn until now

http://blog.wepay.com/2010/03/11/5-things-i-“knew”-or-should-have-known-before-starting-a-company-but-didnt-fully-understand-until-now/

249
65
New IDE: code bubbles

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm

414
219
The Panic Status Board

http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

247
52
Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

244
36
Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore?skyline=true&s=i

261
175
Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1171520

304
127
Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-4-2010/tech-talch---chatroulette

171
65
Your high IQ will kill your startup

http://blog.cubeofm.com/your-high-iq-will-kill-your-startup

384
182
“It turns out”

http://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

257
63
I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air

http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who-came-forward.php

310
144
How I Made $6K With My eBook

http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/03/01/promote-cyopl/

160
69
How I reduced translation costs of 200 articles from $9000 to $46

http://blog.cubeofm.com/how-i-reduced-translation-costs-of-200-articl

90
47
Achievement Porn

http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/achievement-porn/

219
120
A Big Case of Oops

http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/rafal/archive/2010/02/25/a-big-case-of-oops.aspx

395
99
"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007

270
50
Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/23/nginx-the-little-russian-web-server-taking-on-the-giants/

318
109
Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/02/23/simplicity-is-hard-lets-go-shopping

282
99
There are good reasons for saying hello.

http://www.esmerel.com/circle/wordlore/hello.html

214
37
U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, with deadly consequences

http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/

128
50
I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139185

251
165
Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/newbie-fashion-tips-for-grown-up-men.html

294
171
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+(Boing+Boing)

275
157
The hell that is a restaurant website

http://venomousporridge.com/post/389785000/a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or-so#disqus_thread

292
92
Tumblr Stole My [Subdomain] At The Behest of A Corporation

http://dontplayitcool.tumblr.com/post/393088179/tumblr-stole-my-domain-at-the-behest-of-a-corporation

190
90
Ask YC/HN Archive

http://gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

254
29
Business School is a Joke

http://web.archive.org/web/20080402234209/insixitive.com/2006/12/03/business-school-is-a-joke/

223
69
Chatroulette Creator Is A 17-Year-Old Russian Kid

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits

193
96
Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/

549
275
Turn $5 steak to $50 steak with salt

http://steamykitchen.com/163-how-to-turn-cheap-choice-steaks-into-gucci-prime-steaks.html

188
142
Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

269
149
If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html

265
78
A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular.

http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/a-rant-about-php-compilers-in-general-and-hiphop-in-particular/

146
58
AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."

http://trn.n0t.net/post/374883143/i-wish-that-i-could-use-a-stronger-password-for

259
102
HTML5 Canvas based fast painting app

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

378
89
Ouch

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126530685015771&w=2

199
32
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?ref=opinion

342
235
No, you can't do that with H.264

http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/

222
78
Facebook makes HipHop for PHP open source

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358

315
190
I want privacy because I break the law

http://zachaysan.tumblr.com/post/364510410/i-want-privacy-because-i-break-the-law

320
117
How To Safely Store A Password

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

173
102
Black Perl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

124
40
Evolution of a Python programmer

http://gist.github.com/289467

366
90
Dan

http://blog.dislocatedday.com/dan-760

508
34
How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/

213
193
Pure CSS new 3D effect

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/pure-css-coke-can/

252
28
Adobe, Apple, and Flash

http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash

197
100
Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White

http://www.seobook.com/black-hat-seo-case-study

278
68
Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.

http://blog.fsck.com/2010/01/dont-buy-a-nook.html

178
59
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain

150
49
Realism in UI Design

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21/realism_in_ui_design/

324
57
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/

357
126
A successful Git branching model

http://nvie.com/archives/323

268
44
Why I Feel Like a Fraud

http://blog.asmartbear.com/self-doubt-fraud.html

197
38
Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.

http://www.khanacademy.org/#Linear%20Algebra

344
70
Personalized Porn [SFW]

http://gapingvoid.com/2010/01/04/10572/

238
62
Learning About Statistical Learning

http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-about-statistical-learning.html

208
43
Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMENqeWVGNVFxTXdnaDZBRkd0cUE&hl=en

230
133
Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon

246
97
A new approach to China

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

1145
368
Will single founders please stand up?

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/01/will-single-founders-please-stand-up.html

224
149
What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=704

262
97
Anic: Faster than C, safer than Java, simpler than *sh

http://code.google.com/p/anic/

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How Do You Look When Merging Fails

http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/

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Unladen Swallow: Python 3’S Best Feature

http://jessenoller.com/2010/01/06/unladen-swallow-python-3s-best-feature/

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Things UNIX can do atomically

http://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rcrowley+%28Richard+Crowley%27s+blog%29

148
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A geek meets the Ikea Lillabo Train Set

http://www.jgc.org/blog/2010/01/more-fun-with-toys-ikea-lillabo-train.html

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The software fixed the hardware

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/roomba.html

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Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2010/01/03/a-look-back-at-2009/

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How Not To Promote Your New Startup

http://groups.google.com/group/barcampla/browse_thread/thread/4b4091eaf6fb6743

174
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Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026296

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