top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-10

Paypal is holding over 600,000 euros from the minecraft developer

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1096322756/working-on-a-friday-update-crying-over-paypal

16 years ago

418 upvotes – 169 comments

Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

http://feross.net/instant/

16 years ago

318 upvotes – 71 comments

Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/10/youtube-instant-job/

16 years ago

240 upvotes – 76 comments

We Built Interactive Seating Maps Using Raphael; Please Give Us Feedback

http://seatgeek.com/event/show/457589/green-bay-packers-at-atlanta-falcons-2010-11-28/

16 years ago

217 upvotes – 78 comments

Need a Job? Build Something Cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679845

16 years ago

154 upvotes – 63 comments

Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html

16 years ago

147 upvotes – 43 comments

Chunking & Gridding - Why parents can't do math today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11258175

16 years ago

123 upvotes – 91 comments

OpenSSL is written by monkeys

http://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 57 comments

Drawing you a horrible logo for only $5

http://imjustcreative.com/drawing-you-a-horrible-logo-for-only-5/2010/09/09/

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 26 comments

Create a DNS record for an IP address instantly

http://ipq.co

16 years ago

107 upvotes – 52 comments

The Man Who Makes Your iPhone

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

What parents worry about vs what they should worry about

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/30/129531631/5-worries-parents-should-drop-and-5-they-should?sc=fb&cc=fp

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 57 comments

Godaddy.com up for sale. Could fetch $1 Billion

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703597204575484153733196856.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

16 years ago

94 upvotes – 54 comments

IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/get-on-the-optical-bus/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090910

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 15 comments

The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written

http://vgable.com/blog/2010/08/19/the-most-useful-objective-c-code-ive-ever-written/comment-page-1/

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Google Weather for Emacs

http://julien.danjou.info/google-weather-el.html

16 years ago

85 upvotes – 10 comments

Want to up your consulting rate? Try overwhelming force.

http://30sleeps.com/blog/2010/09/10/playing-the-numbers-game/

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

Brooks: America’s brightest minds have been abandoning technical enterprise

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=1&hp

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 85 comments

The YC Experience Part I: The Importance of the Class

http://chart.io/?p=171

16 years ago

73 upvotes – 4 comments

AwesomenessReminders now has 750 paying subscribers

http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/#purchaseSubscription

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: What do you perceive as worth spending money on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677767

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 84 comments

Peak detection in a 2D array

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3684484/peak-detection-in-a-2d-array

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Apple Says "We Have Enough Fart Apps," Here's Why That's Wrong

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

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 47 comments

How do I become a self-sufficient old man in a shack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680391

16 years ago

58 upvotes – 84 comments

A Clojure "Scholarship": Let’s send Raynes to the Conj

http://cemerick.com/2010/09/10/a-clojure-scholarship-lets-send-raynes-to-the-conj/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 12 comments

Bloglines to close

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

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 37 comments

Is a bug RC relevant if it has an influence on the health of a person

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00207.html

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090903350.html?hpid=topnews

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 96 comments

Android Will Be Number 2 Mobile Operating System Worldwide by Year-End

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_will_be_number_2_mobile_operating_system_worldwide_by_2010.php

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 42 comments

Announcing Handlebars.js (A Mustache Superset)

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/09/09/announcing-handlebars-js/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

No End to DLL Hell

http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/227300037

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 52 comments

Microbes ate BP oil deep-water plume

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67N5CC20100824?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FscienceNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Science%29&utm_content=Twitter

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: How to setup a merchant account for a new startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680067

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 32 comments

IMVU: Detect failure with statistics

http://www.evanmiller.org/poisson.pdf

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 5 comments

ARM unveils next-gen, 2.5GHz Cortex-A15 processor

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ARM-CortexA15-MPCore/

16 years ago

45 upvotes – 30 comments
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