top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-09-11

What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-answering.html

16 years ago

463 upvotes – 281 comments

This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes

http://codesketch.com/2010/09/this-is-engineering-army-jeep-torn-apart-and-reassembled-in-4-minutes/

16 years ago

280 upvotes – 103 comments

Texas Hold'em Experiment

http://www.benjoffe.com/holdem

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 34 comments

CPU vs. GPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGf0HaW7x4

16 years ago

121 upvotes – 22 comments

HN: Let's Try Something Cool - Add Your Spot On The Hacker News Map

http://jmarbach.com/hackernews

16 years ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/06/12/node-js/

16 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Google Maps Instant (inspired by Youtube Instant)

http://hartlabs.net/instant_maps/

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 59 comments

PhD or Not PhD: that is the question

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school.html

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments

What problems have you solved using genetic algorithms/genetic programming?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1538235/

16 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/exile-201002

16 years ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Structure Synth, an IDE for creating recursive 3D art

http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Google's Colossus Makes Search Real-Time By Dumping MapReduce

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/11/googles-colossus-makes-search-real-time-by-dumping-mapreduce.html

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

The YouTube Time Machine

http://yttm.tv/v/1934

16 years ago

63 upvotes – 16 comments

The Psychology of Loners and Introverts

http://mobilepaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=12&sectid=edid=&edlabel=TCRM&mydateHid=11-09-2010&pubname=Times+of+India+-+The+Crest+Mumbai&edname=&articleid=Ar01200&publabel=TOI

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 23 comments

A Very Basic Clojure Macro Tutorial

http://learnclojure.blogspot.com/2010/09/clojure-macro-tutorial-part-i-getting.html

16 years ago

55 upvotes – 0 comments

Announcing node.ocaml (OCaml + Libevent = Fast Fun)

http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/09/announcing-nodeocaml.html

16 years ago

51 upvotes – 2 comments

Startup Bootcamp at MIT: streaming live via Justin.TV

http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/?s2010

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: PHP for Python programmers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1682636

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 73 comments

Google Images Instant (inspired by Youtube Instant)

http://cdn.michaelhart.me/mh/instant_images/?5

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 32 comments

The Single Most Important Secret to Success

http://www.singlefounder.com/2010/03/16/the-single-most-important-secret-to-success/

16 years ago

40 upvotes – 12 comments
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