top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-08-30

Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines

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

16 years ago

353 upvotes – 133 comments

Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm

16 years ago

344 upvotes – 93 comments

Arcade Fire meets HTML5

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/arcade-fire-meets-html5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+(Official+Google+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

16 years ago

234 upvotes – 54 comments

The Illusion of Winning

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

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 47 comments

Python Visual Tutorial

http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 25 comments

Jason Fried: The Truth About Real Estate

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100901/the-truth-about-real-estate.html

16 years ago

155 upvotes – 73 comments

Clicking Facebook "Like" Buttons Gives Owner Permission To Spam You (w/ demo)

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/facebook-like-button-spam

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 52 comments

What A CEO Does

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html

16 years ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

The Tragic Death of Practically Everything

http://technologizer.com/2010/08/18/the-tragic-death-of-practically-everything/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 12 comments

Burning Man's open source cell phone system could help save the world

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/083010-open-source-voip-cell-phones-at-burning-man.html?hpg1=bn

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 15 comments

Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work

http://steveblank.com/2010/08/30/boys-rules-girls-lose-%e2%80%93-women-at-work/

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source

http://blog.cloudant.com/cloudant-core-is-open-source

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Digg freezes manual story submissions as user anger mounts

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/30/digg-freezes-manual-story-submissions-as-user-anger-mounts/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 60 comments

Dell's Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android

http://www.pcworld.com/article/204040/dells_aero_smartphone_an_embarrassment_to_android.html?tk=nl_wbx_h_crawl1

16 years ago

87 upvotes – 73 comments

Hacker builds working 1/10th scale Cray 1

http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/08/29/finally-finished/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Ageism in silicon valley: a foreign perspective

http://karaten.posterous.com/ageism-in-silicon-valley-a-foreign-perspectiv

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 24 comments

Email needs to be realtime

http://sachin.posterous.com/email-needs-to-be-realtime

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 52 comments

How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

http://blog.asmartbear.com/virtual-assistant-startup.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 25 comments

How Google Cost Me $4 Million

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100901/how-google-cost-me-$4-million.html

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 55 comments

Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month

http://hackaday.com/2010/08/29/seaswarm-we-can-clean-up-the-gulf-in-a-month/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck

http://github.com/resistor/BrainFTracing

16 years ago

★ 48 C++
64 upvotes – 54 comments

AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3878/farewell-to-ati-amd-to-retire-the-ati-brand-later-this-year

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

The Most Important Business Lessons I’ve Learned

http://www.ryanallis.com/most-important-business-lessons-learned/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

My Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/node-js-knockout-competition

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 5 comments

Net Neutrality is now law in Chile

http://archiver.mailfighter.net/nnsquad/2010/August/29/0002.html

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 7 comments

A chinese villager who sells more software daily than you do

http://maxkle.in/a-chinese-villager-who-sells-more-software-daily-than-you-do/

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646943

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask HN: How do people really test their code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645286

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 28 comments

HN voting ring improvement

http://twitter.com/paulg/status/22551773068

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 49 comments

Tell HN: My rule of thumb for initial estimation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646510

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 20 comments

The Right Kind of Ambition

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/29/the-right-kind-of-ambition-2/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

Community Standards (Clojure)

http://blog.fogus.me/2010/08/30/community-standards/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 13 comments

Microsoft Academic Search

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 13 comments

RubyDoc.info: Auto-generated RubyGems and GitHub library docs

http://rubydoc.info

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 3 comments

Appreciate Rails 3 with charity

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/30/appreciate-rails-3-with-charity

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 9 comments

Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703418004575455911922562120-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwNzEyNDcyWj.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 64 comments

I spent 29 years in solitary confinement | Robert King

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/29-years-solitary-confinement-robert-king

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 5 comments

CEDET 1.0 Released (Emacs tools)

http://cedet.sourceforge.net/

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 6 comments

I'm a Coors man

http://floodlite.tumblr.com/post/1035628039/im-a-coors-man

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 55 comments

Appreciate Rails 3 with Chaos

http://rubygems.org/gems/rials

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 9 comments
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