top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-07

Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup

http://al3x.net/2010/09/07/startup-health.html

16 years ago

254 upvotes – 120 comments

Took me more than 2 years to get 200 paying customers for my Web App

http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1640/universitytutor-races-past-200-paying-customers/

16 years ago

236 upvotes – 83 comments

How a startup responds when a giant arrives

http://runkeeper.com/blog/uncategorized/welcome-nike-thanks-for-coming-part-two

16 years ago

235 upvotes – 30 comments

What is the Speed of Gravity?

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/08/what_is_the_speed_of_gravity.php

16 years ago

218 upvotes – 117 comments

Agile Ruined My Life

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/agile-ruined-my.php

16 years ago

203 upvotes – 131 comments

Living Efficiently

http://jonasgalvez.com.br/Writings/Living-Efficiently.html

16 years ago

179 upvotes – 21 comments

Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator

http://www.google.com

16 years ago

160 upvotes – 67 comments

How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea

http://harperlindsey.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/how-i-used-amazons-mechanical-turk-to-validate-my-startup-idea/

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 58 comments

As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/digg-struggles-vp-engineering-door/

16 years ago

143 upvotes – 117 comments

Scaling Disqus (YC S07)

http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus

16 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

htty, the HTTP TTY

http://blog.nilsjonsson.com/post/1076166313/introducing-htty-the-http-tty

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 29 comments

Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

http://scribe.googlelabs.com/

16 years ago

93 upvotes – 64 comments

Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty (ACTA): US promoting DRM

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/06/latest-leaked-draft.html

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 1 comments

Boost your productivity with Conkeror, Instapaper and a Kindle

http://ceondo.com/ecte/2010/09/productivity-conkeror-instapaper-kindle

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

Cardpool (YC W10) Introduces Instant Redemption, Attracts Super Angels

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/gift-card-marketplace-cardpool-plasticjungle/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 5 comments

Polyglot extension for Chrome - Learn a new language

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plpjkjplknknmhfhkjgcfgofclmlnine

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 35 comments

Oracle Hires Mark Hurd As Co-President

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/technology/07oracle.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 34 comments

"shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3" - a Chinese tongue twister

http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.php

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 52 comments

Aboard an Alcatel-Lucent undersea cable ship

http://news.cnet.com/2300-1035_3-10004733.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

Every app has a scary basement—dark old mysterious code vital to its operation

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2010/09/every-app-has-a-scary-basement.html

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Chris Dixon: Things I'd do if I ran a big VC firm

http://cdixon.posterous.com/things-id-do-if-i-ran-a-big-vc-firm

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

http://adangerousbusiness.com/2010/01/05/the-museum-of-soviet-video-games/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Why we don't need more women in tech... yet

http://jolieodell.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/women-in-tech/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Recreating Google's Bouncing Balls Logo In HTML5 Canvas

http://rawkes.com/blog/2010/09/07/recreating-googles-bouncing-balls-logo-in-html5-canvas

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 23 comments

Latent Dirichlet Allocation Surprisingly Well Correlated w/ Google Rankings

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lda-and-googles-rankings-well-correlated

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 25 comments

Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby

http://rubypond.com/blog/slaying-dragons-git-bash-ruby

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 17 comments

Codeplex donates $25,000 to Mercurial

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2010/09/06/codeplex-com-donates-25-000-to-mercurial-project.aspx

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 26 comments

Beyond vi - Towards a modern command mode

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2010/beyond-vi

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 13 comments

Rate our startup: Challenge.gov

http://challenge.gov

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 54 comments

Android First Impressions

http://www.mlindgren.ca/archives/151

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 55 comments

BackType (YC S08) is hiring product designers, engineers and interns

http://backtype.com/jobs

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?src=busln

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 62 comments

More GPL enforcement work again.. and a very surreal but important case

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/09/01/#20100901-gpl_enforcement

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 10 comments

Using hyphenation and justification on the web

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-look-that-says-book/

16 years ago

44 upvotes – 31 comments
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