top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-08-31

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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

16 years ago

280 upvotes – 112 comments

The first step is to start

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2538-the-first-step-is-to-start

16 years ago

212 upvotes – 26 comments

GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0

http://github.com/blog/712-pull-requests-2-0

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 38 comments

Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/greplin-ycombinator-personal-search/

16 years ago

195 upvotes – 89 comments

Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg

http://about.digg.com/blog/company-update

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 95 comments

The 99% Rule (nsfw)

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/08/the-99-rule-nsf.php

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 65 comments

How bathroom posture affects your health.

http://www.slate.com/id/2264657/

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 100 comments

New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648594

16 years ago

149 upvotes – 61 comments

Productive Programming

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/productive-programming.html

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 79 comments

Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/clojure-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-paren.html

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 84 comments

UberCab to disrupt the Taxi/Limo business

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/what-if-ubercab-pulls-an-airbnb-taxi-business-could-finally-get-some-disruption/

16 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

WebOS 2.0 will include node.js

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2109#services

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

Pomegranate: storing billions and billions of tiny little files

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/30/pomegranate-storing-billions-and-billions-of-tiny-little-fil.html

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 10 comments

AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html?_r=4&src=busln

16 years ago

97 upvotes – 73 comments

Who killed Prolog?

http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

How Our Professional Elites Are Hired

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/08/how-our-professional-elites-are-hired.html

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 31 comments

Reasonable Doubt: Innocence Project Co-Founder Peter Neufeld on Being Wrong

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/08/17/reasonable-doubt-innocence-project-co-founder-peter-neufeld-on-being-wrong.aspx

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 22 comments

A Story of O(racle)

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/08/31/A-Story-of-O

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 60 comments

Mastering Node: Open Source Node.js eBook

http://visionmedia.github.com/masteringnode/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 7 comments

AMA: My job was to game Digg using infographics

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for UX design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649065

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

5 foods it's cheaper to grow

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney/5FoodsItsCheaperToGrow.aspx

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 83 comments

Review our startup: Lanyrd, the social conference directory

http://lanyrd.com/?

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

http://piwik.org/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Should I fire half of my team because their performance is terrible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648869

16 years ago

67 upvotes – 92 comments

What is Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1648009

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 41 comments

Node.js used to mirror DOM across browsers

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stUE5XQEVMRFtXQ1xVXFlYVlZX/serrano_session_sharing

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 45 comments

Heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201433200

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Behind

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/technology/personaltech/26pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 61 comments

Rubinius wants to help you make Ruby better

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/rubinius-wants-to-help-you-make-ruby-better/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 4 comments

To avoid Indian ban, BlackBerry maker allows govt. access to encrypted messages

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/india/100831/blackberry-research-in-motion-ban

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: What does your development environment look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649551

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 83 comments

The Higher Education Bubble: It's About to Burst

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/06/higher-education-bubble-its-about-to.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 83 comments

How to telnet into an iOS app and get an interactive console.

http://probablyinteractive.com/2010/8/20/ios-interactive-console.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

Startup ideas are like kittens, I'm giving 'em away

http://almoststartup.com/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Where to sell your profitable company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1650651

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 22 comments

HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments

WebOS 2.0 Developer Beta

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2107

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 11 comments

A history of the Amiga

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/07/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-1.ars

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 24 comments

It’s Time To Disqus (YC S07) Our Community

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/30/techcrunch-disqus-community/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 34 comments
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