top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-09-01

Bribing maitre d' to skip the line

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

16 years ago

529 upvotes – 177 comments

Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D.

http://matt.might.net/articles/ways-to-fail-a-phd

16 years ago

205 upvotes – 107 comments

Welcome Alexis

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-alexis

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 32 comments

Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels

http://uxmovement.com/design-articles/faster-with-top-aligned-labels

16 years ago

182 upvotes – 63 comments

Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2755/why-can-you-turn-clothing-right-side-out

16 years ago

177 upvotes – 37 comments

Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-to-join-y-combinator/

16 years ago

173 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1654164

16 years ago

131 upvotes – 61 comments

How to set up your own private Git server on Linux

http://tumblr.intranation.com/post/766290565/how-set-up-your-own-private-git-server-linux

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

William Gibson: "Google's Earth"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html

16 years ago

124 upvotes – 58 comments

Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool

http://closuretools.blogspot.com/2010/08/introducing-closure-linter.html

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 15 comments

Scalable ACID

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/problems-with-acid-and-how-to-fix-them.html

16 years ago

109 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App

http://thinkvitamin.com/web-apps/how-to-track-six-key-metrics-for-your-web-app/

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

Hacker Monthly - Issue #4 - September 2010

http://hackermonthly.com/?4

16 years ago

106 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/chrome-downforeveryoneorjustme/

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Hello, my name is Reginald and I am a Socialist

http://raganwald.posterous.com/hello-my-name-is-reginald-and-i-am-a-socialis

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 162 comments

Rely your web startup on Rackspace Cloud? Think again

http://bencheng.net/rely-your-web-startup-on-rackspace-cloud-thin

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 77 comments

Build An Opensource Dropbox Clone

http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Google Code University

http://code.google.com/edu/courses.html

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

Canadian Startups kick ass

http://rypple.com/blog/canada-kicks-enterprise-ass-eh/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Writer Neal Stephenson unveils his digital novel The Mongoliad

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/31/writer-neal-stephenson-unveils-his-digital-novel-the-mongoliad/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-publisher-main&utm_campaign=twitter

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 51 comments
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