top 50% 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

Google Code University

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

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 5 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

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

Canadian Startups kick ass

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

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Load Balancers need static IPs

http://blog.pagerduty.com/2010/08/31/load-balancers-need-static-ips/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Darwins artificial ecosystem could be key to colonising Mars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

The Art of Engineering By David Kirkham

http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com/book-the-art-of-engineering-by-david-kirkham/

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/google-making-extraordinary-counteroffers-to-stop-flow-of-employees-to-facebook/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Adioso (YC W09), Flight Search For People Keeping Their Options Open

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/adioso/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 58 comments

Smiley: An app in 24 hours

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2550-smiley-an-app-in-24-hours#extended

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Rebranding Carrots as Junk Food

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/9/1/rebranding-carrots-as-junk-food.html

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 57 comments

PG Got Twitter So I Made Hacker News For Tweets

http://www.hackertweet.com/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Turn your Android Phone Into a Remote Spy Camera with Ruby in 15 Minutes

http://leone.panopticdev.com/2010/08/turn-your-android-phone-into-remote-spy.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 4 comments

Apple announces iTunes 10 with Ping Social Network

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/apple-announces-itunes-10/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 89 comments

Writing a Compiler in 24 Small Steps [pdf]

http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/#anincrementalapproachtocompilerconstruction

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 16 comments

New York's Water Filled With Invisible Shrimp

http://consumerist.com/2010/08/new-yorks-water-filled-with-invisible-shrimp.html

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 32 comments

Future Generations Steal from Themselves

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

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 25 comments

Ask YC: Have you ever ignored Paul Graham?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652028

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 38 comments

100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code

http://www.r-bloggers.com/100-prisoners-100-lines-of-code/

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 17 comments
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