top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-05

The Four Levels of Social Entrapment

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/four-levels-of-social-entrapment.html

16 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

Why the iPhone will fail (2007)

http://suckbusters2.blogspot.com/2007/06/apple-iphone-debut-to-flop-product-to.html

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 87 comments

Matt Cutts gives you a free startup idea

http://www.google.com/buzz/109412257237874861202/Tu7U17YACA8/Heres-another-start-up-idea-Jeff-Jarvis-recently

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 32 comments

Three locks for your SSH door

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-sshlocks/index.html

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 54 comments

The Deal Is Simple. Australia Gets Money, China Gets Australia

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_37/b4194044972388.htm

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 83 comments

"Hello, world" in Assembly.

http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/hello.html

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

Revolution OS [video]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409#

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 20 comments

The ad that uses YouTube brilliantly

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20015630-71.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 29 comments

Could Tiny Somaliland Become the First Cashless Society?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/05/guest-post-could-tiny-somaliland-become-the-first-cashless-society/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 6 comments

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle

http://arduiniana.org/projects/the-reverse-geo-cache-puzzle/

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Remind HN: Go to Noobstories, flag spam

http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Streak.ly tracks what you do daily and I'd love feedback on the concept

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665467

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: An academic web app idea, anyone interested?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664648

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 59 comments

Designing algorithms for Map Reduce

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/08/designing-algorithmis-for-map-reduce.html

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 1 comments

Ask HN: Heroku or Not?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664750

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 55 comments

Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/scaling_the_bbc_iplayer_to_han.html

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 21 comments

Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford (June 12, 2005)

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 15 comments

Python Datastructures Backed by Redis

http://lethain.com/entry/2010/sep/05/python-datastructures-backed-by-redis/

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Ask HN: Teaching programming to a 10 year old, and I'm kind of lost

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663784

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 50 comments

Alternative Objective-C object allocation for large arrays

http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/08/alternative-objective-c-object.html

16 years ago

42 upvotes – 10 comments

The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/science/05robots.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 7 comments

The virtual curmudgeon

http://www.economist.com/node/16909935?story_id=16909935

16 years ago

41 upvotes – 16 comments

Debugging the Linux kernel with JTAG

http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded/4207333/Debugging-the-Linux-kernel-with-JTAG

16 years ago

39 upvotes – 1 comments

Did Google Maps's "consistency" help it climb to #1 in maps?

http://www.41latitude.com/post/1059847167/consistency

16 years ago

38 upvotes – 27 comments

Higher education bubble poised to burst

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Higher-education-bubble-poised-to-burst-720594-102180809.html

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 62 comments

Motorola F3: The anti-iPhone? (2007)

http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2007/10/motorola_f3

16 years ago

37 upvotes – 24 comments

Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1912216/hubble_captures_supernova_1987a_trace_shock_wave/

16 years ago

36 upvotes – 7 comments

Any Novel’s Negative Twenty Questions

http://www.philipgraham.net/2010/02/any-novels-negative-twenty-questions/

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 5 comments

I Sold My Startup For Millions, Then Worked at McDonalds

http://www.businessinsider.com/meetup-ceo-scott-heiferman-mcdonalds-2010-7

16 years ago

35 upvotes – 14 comments
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