top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-08

Google Instant Search Released

http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy&

16 years ago

371 upvotes – 216 comments

Don't make your Android app free for 1 day

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/32ed272012555f90

16 years ago

287 upvotes – 83 comments

Why Django Sucks, and How we Can Fix it [slides]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37113340/Why-Django-Sucks-and-How-we-Can-Fix-it

16 years ago

208 upvotes – 105 comments

The Real ‘Stuff White People Like’

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 82 comments

The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits

http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/

16 years ago

191 upvotes – 71 comments

Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010?currentPage=all

16 years ago

157 upvotes – 86 comments

Are your pants lying to you? An investigation

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/pants-size-chart-090710

16 years ago

139 upvotes – 110 comments

Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/09/some-things-i-love-about-hacker-news-and-a-few-i-dont/

16 years ago

135 upvotes – 95 comments

"How hard can it be to implement?"

http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp/52-how-can-i-move-or-copy-to-do-lists-between-projects#reply_6986

16 years ago

134 upvotes – 97 comments

Why Tumblr Sucks

http://zachinglis.com/2010/why-tumblr-sucks/

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

Ask HN: How much do founders pay themselves?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672215

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 80 comments

Buy cots for the JS interns - programmer care

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579522

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

Humans are not automatically strategic

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_strategic/

16 years ago

92 upvotes – 35 comments

DHH Commissions his own Supercar - the Pagani Zonda HH

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/07/pagani-zonda-hh-commissioner-revealed-as-30-year-old-chicago-sof/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/wireless-explainer/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 35 comments

Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers

http://cdixon.posterous.com/some-tidbits-from-joel-spolskys-talk-last-nig

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 97 comments

HTML5 Microdata: Why isn't anyone talking about it?

http://briancray.com/2010/09/08/html5-microdata/

16 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Careful when hosting 3rd party apps on subdomains, or how I hacked Facebook

http://gdeglin.blogspot.com/2010/09/dont-host-3rd-party-applications-on.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

What an NFL Training Camp is Really Like

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/what-an-n-f-l-training-camp-is-really-like/

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 17 comments

Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

http://timharford.com/2010/09/why-is-a-bag-of-weed-always-10-man/

16 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

TwentySomething: How my generation works

http://rebekahmonson.com/2010/09/02/twentysomething-gen-y-work/

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 62 comments

Little known iTunes 10 benefit

http://www.9to5mac.com/24861/little-known-itunes-10-benefit

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 34 comments

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/sean-murphy-on-the-first-1-6-enterprise-customers.html

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Secure your code: OpenVPN in the cloud

http://code.mixpanel.com/openvpn-in-the-rackspace-cloud/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

How 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate

http://nymag.com/news/features/67966/

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUKQ1F7CM4.DTL

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 43 comments

Sentry, Disqus' near realtime logging app for Django

http://github.com/dcramer/django-sentry

16 years ago

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62 upvotes – 8 comments

CVS's problems resurface in Git

http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2010/08/cvss-problems-resurface-in-git.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

The .NET Micro Framework - Hardware for Software People

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheNETMicroFrameworkHardwareForSoftwarePeople.aspx

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 22 comments

Zed Shaw Audio Interview

http://thechangelog.com/post/1087757312/episode-0-3-4-mongrel2-guitar-and-more-with-zed-shaw

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments

Lessons Learned about Pitching Investors from a First-Time Entrepreneur

http://www.udemy.com/blog/udemy-fundraising/

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 10 comments

JDK 7 Release Date set for mid 2012 or mid 2011 depending on how it is defined

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/rethinking_jdk7

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: 9to5/Consulting/Startup, where are/were you most happy?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672951

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: The Price is Right.. or is it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671599

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 36 comments

What Craigslist's "Adult Services" Decision Means for Free Speech

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/craigslist-beyond-censored

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 31 comments

Is "Just Get Started" a Flawed Idea?

http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/06/27/dangerous-ideas-getting-started-is-overrated/

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 21 comments

Automatic Flushing: The Rails 3.1 Plan

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/09/07/automatic-flushing-the-rails-3-1-plan/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 30 comments

Factor's Visual REPL

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments
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