top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-09-13

Today is Programmer's Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers_Day

16 years ago

240 upvotes – 38 comments

Giving up on Google

http://robsheldon.com/giving-up-on-google

16 years ago

231 upvotes – 184 comments

How two Pythonistas accidentally fell in love with Rails

http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/09/how-two-pythonistas-accidentally-fell.html

16 years ago

222 upvotes – 133 comments

Museopen to set classical music "free"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/musopen-raising-40000-to-set-classical-music-free.ars

16 years ago

172 upvotes – 62 comments

Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

http://steveblank.com/2010/09/13/job-titles-that-can-sink-your-startup/

16 years ago

166 upvotes – 38 comments

How I boosted my Vim

http://nvie.com/posts/how-i-boosted-my-vim/

16 years ago

164 upvotes – 65 comments

Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers

http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/09/dear-twitter/

16 years ago

152 upvotes – 41 comments

Biolab Disaster - an HTML5 Game (plus Making-Of Video)

http://www.phoboslab.org/biolab/

16 years ago

146 upvotes – 38 comments

HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com

http://insiderstalk.com

16 years ago

138 upvotes – 53 comments

How the opening scenes of Blade Runner were made (video)

http://douglastrumbull.com/key-fx-sequences-blade-runner-hades-landscape

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 28 comments

The Face of Facebook

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas

16 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

Acquisition condolences

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2565-acquisition-condolences

16 years ago

108 upvotes – 50 comments

Microsoft responds to NYT story on suppressing dissent in Russia

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/09/13/anti-piracy-enforcement-and-ngos.aspx

16 years ago

100 upvotes – 38 comments

Youtube Live Epic Failure (Plaintext DB Password Exposed)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685615

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 23 comments

The App Store is slow, so I built App Store Instant

http://appoftheday.com/instant

16 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

Emokit: Hacking the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface

http://github.com/daeken/Emokit/blob/master/Announcement.md

16 years ago

★ 171 Python
86 upvotes – 18 comments

Nobody Understands Probability

http://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/nobody-understands-probability/

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Password Reuse

http://www.xkcd.com/792/

16 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

The Jon Stewart Decade

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/68086/

16 years ago

80 upvotes – 75 comments

Autocomplete with Redis

http://antirez.com/post/autocomplete-with-redis.html

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

The future of R - pessimistic thoughts by R founder Ross Ihaka

http://www.r-bloggers.com/%E2%80%9Csimply-start-over-and-build-something-better%E2%80%9D/

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 75 comments

Many SSD Benchmark Reviews Contain Flaws

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=29

16 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments

Get started right with RVM

http://sirupsen.com/get-started-right-with-rvm/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

Move to SF and hate it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1686782

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 166 comments

Scott Adams: Your Next Gym

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/your_next_gym/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 76 comments

MacRuby: The Definitive Guide

http://macruby.labs.oreilly.com/index.html

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

AdoptAHacker invites you to visit NYC

http://adoptahacker.com/

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 35 comments

Ask HN: What makes a job posting attractive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685258

16 years ago

53 upvotes – 65 comments

Markets at Burning Man

http://transcapitalist.squarespace.com/transcapitalist/2010/9/13/markets-at-burning-man.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 15 comments

Concurrency, State, and Functional Programming

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/9/13/concurrency-state-and-functional-programming.html

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: anyone leave a high paying job to work at a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685300

16 years ago

52 upvotes – 57 comments

"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/magic-words-trump-user-rights-ninth-circuit-ruling

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 27 comments

Graph Your Inbox (clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail)

http://www.graphyourinbox.com/

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 10 comments

Mac OS X Public Beta

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/09/macos-x-beta.ars

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 47 comments

New Revealing paper on High Frequency Trading

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641387

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 34 comments

Duke Nukem Forever is here.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65442

16 years ago

47 upvotes – 30 comments

How Don Knuth's computer skills helped his college basketball team

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/09/13/the-electronic-coach/

16 years ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Oracle set to merge Java virtual machines

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/021810-oracle-set-to-merge-java.html

16 years ago

43 upvotes – 44 comments
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