top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-03

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

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

16 years ago

375 upvotes – 212 comments

Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659409

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 236 comments

Timing Lessons

http://www.bizstone.com/2010/09/timing-lessons.html

16 years ago

165 upvotes – 37 comments

Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung

http://swizec.com/blog/apples-ping-is-a-big-pile-of-steaming-dung/swizec/1444

16 years ago

158 upvotes – 105 comments

Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"

http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleWaveDeveloperBlog+%28Google+Wave+Developer+Blog%29

16 years ago

153 upvotes – 26 comments

ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack

http://www.igvita.com/2010/09/03/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments

Simplicity Is Highly Overrated

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 101 comments

Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 75 comments

Duke Nukem Forever.. is back on.

http://blog.pikimal.com/geek/2010/09/03/piki-at-pax-the-duke-he-has-returned/

16 years ago

103 upvotes – 66 comments

Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1284712.html

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 60 comments

Quicklisp - The upcoming solution to Common Lisp's "library problem"

http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2010/09/quicklisp-upcoming-solution-to-common.html

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 44 comments

Startupcraft: a Starcraft tournament for startups in SF

http://www.startupcraftsf.com

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

Clojure conj registration open

http://clojure-conj.org/

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 6 comments

PicoC: a very small C interpreter for scripting

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

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

Scott Adams: Phone

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

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Node.js Knockout Winners are ...

http://nodeknockout.posterous.com/and-the-winners-are

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 10 comments

Which weight will lift first as the rope is pulled?

http://friendfeed.com/rahsheen/b7e00bb3/which-weight-will-lift-first-as-rope-is-pulled

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 55 comments

Scotch as a Diet Hack

http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/my-favorite-diet-hack/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 83 comments

Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apples_ping_overrun_with_spam.php

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 27 comments

How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/your-money/04money.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 80 comments

Death in Space

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/death-in-space.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 62 comments

Visual Website Optimizer: Run A/B Tests On Your Site

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/02/visual-website-optimizer-another-way-to-run-ab-tests-on-your-site/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 46 comments

Google's privacy policy changes happening in October

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy_changes_2010.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Who here struck out on their own without a plan?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658334

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 31 comments

Ask HN: Is Perl dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660360

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 134 comments

Clone software to start my own business. Is it ethical? (discussion)

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829048.17

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 26 comments

Node.js for Server Noobs

http://blog.dtrejo.com/nodejs-for-server-newbs

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 15 comments

Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/02/hawking.god.universe/index.html

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 71 comments

I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time

http://simplechatter.com/2010/09/i-think-twitters-oauth-only-access-is-a-waste-of-time/

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 31 comments

Job Description as runnable python UnitTest

http://github.com/praekelt/careers/blob/master/software_engineer.py

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 27 comments

About your f***ing website.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/61142/about-your-fing-website

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 10 comments

SSL in Plain English

http://alexle.net/archives/309

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 19 comments

This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/02/infographics-all-the-way-down/

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 9 comments

Ask HN: What is the oldest computer that you still use for production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660909

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 78 comments

Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/successful_atta.html

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 13 comments
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